No worries. Have absolutely done the same in the past.

And I’ll take the moment to salute your reliance on fact and citation. Wish more people did the same.

Cheers

No.

I didn’t.

I’m not the one being slow. SCOTUS had 8 people while McConnell held up Garland.

Officially SCOTUS was and is nine people. But if the wheels of government turn slow enough, SCOTUS continues to do its job with whoever has made it through the process.

Officially 9, it functioned with 8. No one is credibly saying all those decisions must be thrown out or that SCOTUS cannot function during a shortage.

If that shortage was 4, people would be vocal. But legally, it would still be functional.

I not talking about changing the official number. I never did in this thread until you did.

It ran at 8 for quite a while. No one’s legitimately saying those decisions don’t count.

The official number can be whatever. Congress doesn’t get to nominate. And SCOTUS would keep deciding.

If there were 5 justices, they’d still be functional. As proven in the past, there’s no requirement for 9.

Esit: I’d - > If

Science. Threat analysis. Entertainment at our silly ways.

If they have abundant resources and energy, sending probes wouldn’t be a challenge.

I’d enjoy Katie Porter. Dunno if she’s ready for something like the presidency, but I’m ready for a president like her.

Threat of impeachment. Dems will vote for impeachment. Republicans will, too, if the president is a Democrat.

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We* should be free to own as many guns as we want.

*You know.

This is the same conversation my wife and I just had. Funerals are for the living. That’s not to dismiss them, I think they serve a purpose in helping the living reconcile to their new normal.

I want neither a religious leader nor some physicist with vague “energy” platitudes as a speaker at my funeral. But I think that’s the thing. Death is personal. We want different things. And that’s it’s own beauty.

For me… I want an atheist with an understanding of pain, suffering, delight and nothingness. Someone to, without lecturing, explain that in my view I was not here for eons. Then, for a brief period I lived. I stumbled, loved, and grew old. I relished my moment. I saw it for what it was and made what I could of it. And now I return to the nothing.

Selfless, selfish, nurturing and angry. I did it all. I stayed at home for vacation, I traveled. I was poor. I had a season of money. I lived my moment. I am at peace with that. It could have been far, far worse.

And while returning to the nothing may seem ghastly to some, to me it has beauty. Symmetry.

Even this happy life has struggle. One day, the struggle ends.

I mean yeah, but… No?

Their stories are different. It’s like saying that three fan fics by three different authors that use a select few “same characters” actually have the same characters… When they behave in ways that are incompatable with the other fan fics.

That’s kinda the problem. That and geography. They all think the same patch of land is super important. And the land around that is important, too.

This is one of the ways that those "same characters (gods) " were incompatible.

When you back away from it all, it’s the God of Abram/Abraham. But the details matter to adherents. And the details are quite different.

The us and them created by those stories is essential to understanding this. And the land grabs. And the killings. And the rationale.

He has to be part of an opinion in order for this to work. That opinion stands the test of time best if he can put forth a legal opinion that supports his preferred answer.

“Congress shall”… I wonder if that’s part of his thinking.

legally carry a gun

Watch states try to find ways to allow him within their borders.

Arby-tration

There’s a fast food restaurant called Arby’s that serves those sandwiches.

Republicans honor sacrifice by making sure it’s big. They’ll send you to war and complain about VA costs.

Law and order never meant what many heard.

Law and order keeps people in their place. It’s an argument for an old status quo.

It never meant following or enforcing the laws. It’s privilege saying it doesn’t want to budge.