Dinner with Newt? Somehow I got on the Conservative Direct mail list and while...

most of them just go into the trash bin, once in a while something catches my eye.

A lottery with the prize being dinner with Gingrich and Rick Scott was in the email today. I didn't click the link, but I assume some donation is involved.

Times like this, I'm almost tempted to donate a dollar just to see what happens.

An unpopular thought about the filibuster...

So, the filibuster is racist, is it? It certainly was used by Dixiecrats in the 60s to try to derail civil rights law.

But, it was used in the Roman Senate and in the British Parliament. France, too. And some others. Racism there, too?

The tyranny of the majority was one of the things most feared by the founders, and our entire system is set up to mitigate its effect. The three independent branches of government and bicameral legislature were specifically set up to avoid one faction from taking over. The filibuster simply added to the original plan.

Now, politics is an ugly business, and no one seriously believes that the events of Mr. Smith goes to Washington could ever happen. But, just as the Senate is a defense against the House going crazy, the filibuster is one way, perhaps the only way, to stop the Senate from going crazy.

Do we need that one last step before a veto, or years before the courts look at it? I think we just may. Not the craven way it was used for the last 10 years, though. Bring back the days-long yakking on the Senate floor. Bring back the cots. This simply threatening filibuster to force cloture is the cheapest of cheap shots.

Besides Wikipedia and a few Federalist papers, I found this pretty good wrap-up of the whole thing. No doubt more are out there.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/20/politics/what-is-a-filibuster/index.html

had a silly thought about making coffee-- mix the sugar and powdered milk in the...

basket with the grounds when brewing it.

I plan on trying this sometime soon, but am curious if anyone else has.

I foresee several problems, but will give it a shot unless someone says they did it and spent some time in the hospital, or lost body parts.

Was the 2nd amendment to guard against slave revolts?

Discussion started earlier at:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215489361

with a short article linked.

However, today's Fresh Air (on your local NPR station) interviewed Carol Anderson and the truth of it all is even more disturbing. There had been a slave revolt or two by that time, and the perps were mass hanged. The Supreme court eventually ruled that the amendment gave the right to individually carry, unless you were black. And it got worse.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002107670/historian-uncovers-the-racist-roots-of-the-2nd-amendment

Christianity without Christ, an American specialty.

Now here's a headline you hope you don't see much more of..

Wanna quick look at the $28 million Rolls? Really. 28 mill for a secret buyer...

Sort of computer. It's my damn phone. How in bloody hell do...

I simply copy and paste on this damn phone?

Moto G7 w/android 10

One help site sez ctrl c and z, just like Linux and Windows. That would be fine if there was a control key. And It would work if there was an easy way to highlight text. Or any way to highlight text.

Be back on my laptop in an hour or so when I find working wifi.

Yes, I had posted that several of those pix of plastic gasoline bags were mislabeled, but...

but here's one from yesterday:



https://www.chronicleonline.com/news/local/hummer-destroyed-in-fire-one-person-hurt/article_b7d2ba02-b34f-11eb-a432-cb80308881fa.html

Seems the guy had 4 plastic jerrycans in the back seat, and something bad happened.

Not many remember Joe McCarthy, but the parallels to some things today are interesting...