{"id":17688,"date":"2015-11-22T11:08:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T19:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17688"},"modified":"2015-11-22T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T19:08:28","slug":"on-the-edge11222015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/22\/on-the-edge11222015\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge–11\/22\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I was cleared to take a real human shower, with assistance and supervision.  The drive in shower is in another unit, presenting scheduling difficulties, but I\u2019m hoping to take one today.  Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  My Broncos\u2019 service is with the Bears.  I will not be able to see it, because the damn SeaChickewns are playing at the same time.  My the Holy Orb bless your team, unless they shit in the woods.<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Just days after withdrawing from the 2016 Presidential race, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal said that he would return the seventy dollars raised by his campaign.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters in Baton Rouge, Jindal said he was proud that his campaign war chest \u201ccame entirely from small donors.\u201d <\/p>\n

Dang, Andy!! Booby Butthead actually raised THAT MUCH?!!?<\/font> <\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Since William Rehnquist<\/a> joined the Supreme Court, it has made several rulings that have knocked the U.S. Constitution out of whack. Retired Justice John Paul Stevens<\/a>, who deliberated on most of those rulings, has written six amendments to fix the damage and tune-up the Constitution. Stevens published his proposed amendments last year in the book “Six Amendments<\/a>: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution.” The amendments are terse, surgical fixes, which seem to fit the Constitution’s style of saying much with few words. The book gives a good history and description of each problem. Here is a brief rundown with the text of each amendment: <\/p>\n

1. The “Anti-Commandeering” Rule:<\/strong> In 1997, by a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court, created an “anti-commandeering” rule<\/a>, which bans Congress from ordering state officials to carry out federal duties. The case was brought by two county sheriffs, who did not want to do background checks for firearm sales as ordered by the Brady Act. The new rule led to holes in the database that would allow persons prone to violence, like the killer in the 2007 Virginia Tech mass shooting, to get firearms. Stevens notes that the “anti-commandeering” rule could also cripple other Congressional acts, from routine administration of federal programs to emergency responses to national catastrophes or acts of terror. His fix adds four words (in bold below) to the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause: <\/p>\n

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This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges and other public officials in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I agree with virtually everything Justice Srevens has to say. I have shared one of six of his proposed Constitutional amendments. Click through for the other five.<\/font> <\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Outside her two-story tract home in this working-class town, Debbie Alberts, a part-time food service worker, has torn out most of the lawn. She has given up daily showers and cut her family\u2019s water use nearly in half, to just 178 gallons per person each day. <\/p>\n

A little more than 100 miles west, a resident of the fashionable Los Angeles hills has been labeled \u201cthe Wet Prince of Bel Air\u201d after drinking up more than 30,000 gallons of water each day \u2014 the equivalent of 400 toilet flushes each hour with two showers running constantly, with enough water left over to keep the lawn perfectly green. <\/p>\n

Only one of them has been fined for excessive water use: Ms. Alberts. <\/p>\n

Four years into the worst drought in California\u2019s recorded history, the contrast between the strict enforcement on Californians struggling to conserve and the unchecked profligacy in places like Bel Air has unleashed anger and indignation \u2014 among both the recipients of the fines, who feel helpless to avoid them, and other Californians who see the biggest water hogs getting off scot-free. <\/p>\n

What an Outrage! This injustice could not be more Californicated!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font> <\/p>\n

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Yesterday I was cleared to take a real human shower, with assistance and supervision.  The drive in shower is in another unit, presenting scheduling difficulties, but I\u2019m hoping to take one today.  Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  My Broncos\u2019 service is with the Bears.  I will not be […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}