The Off Topic Topic

[Savonarola]

Several years ago CB and I went to see "Swan Lake" at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.  I've never bothered to remove myself from their e-mail list.
More recently, I registered for the Kennedy Space Center e-mail list to keep track of launches.
This morning I didn't read the address line closely enough and momentarily thought NASA was launching Don Giovanni into outer space.

[Iormlund]

To put it in really blunt terms - I think it's really only a limited amount of time before we have senior politicians with leaked nudes and I don't know if we, as a society, are ready for this.

With the kind of access we have granted to certain organizations, I expect all future candidates to be owned by the powers that be.

We saw an early example in Spain some time ago when a video of a conservative politician suddenly surfaced while she was in the limelight. She had been recorded stealing, and the evidence had been sitting at someone's file cabinet for seven years, until it was useful.

[Admiral Yi]

Hey DGuller, 25 even the USSC overturns LA abortion law.

[DGuller]

Hey DGuller, 25 even the USSC overturns LA abortion law.

Overturning the law is pro-abortion or anti-abortion stance?  I can't imagine Roberts being dumb enough to galvanize the left for the election that could lead to his court being packed.

[crazy canuck]

Hey DGuller, 25 even the USSC overturns LA abortion law.

Overturning the law is pro-abortion or anti-abortion stance?  I can't imagine Roberts being dumb enough to galvanize the left for the election that could lead to his court being packed.

When is the next Conservative judge going to step down?

[Admiral Yi]

Overturning the law is pro-abortion or anti-abortion stance?  I can't imagine Roberts being dumb enough to galvanize the left for the election that could lead to his court being packed.

Overturning is pro.  Law says abortion providers have to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

[DGuller]

Overturning the law is pro-abortion or anti-abortion stance?  I can't imagine Roberts being dumb enough to galvanize the left for the election that could lead to his court being packed.

Overturning is pro.  Law says abortion providers have to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

If you're on the side of pro, then I'm on the same side.  I have no doubt that Roberts will contort himself to whatever he needs to when the time comes, his or others' precedents be damned, but I think he understand that this is a particularly bad time to pounce on the abortion.

[Admiral Yi]

If you're on the side of pro, then I'm on the same side.  I have no doubt that Roberts will contort himself to whatever he needs to when the time comes, his or others' precedents be damned, but I think he understand that this is a particularly bad time to pounce on the abortion.

Nice definite article Slav.

FYI, precedent is on the side of overturning, so no contortions needed (unlike Obamacare).

[Barrister]

Hey DGuller, 25 even the USSC overturns LA abortion law.

Overturning the law is pro-abortion or anti-abortion stance?  I can't imagine Roberts being dumb enough to galvanize the left for the election that could lead to his court being packed.

When is the next Conservative judge going to step down?

The oldest two justices are liberals: RBG 86yo, Breyer 81yo.  Next oldest would be Thomas 71 yo.

[DGuller]

If you're on the side of pro, then I'm on the same side.  I have no doubt that Roberts will contort himself to whatever he needs to when the time comes, his or others' precedents be damned, but I think he understand that this is a particularly bad time to pounce on the abortion.

Nice definite article Slav.

FYI, precedent is on the side of overturning, so no contortions needed (unlike Obamacare).

No, I get you, I'm saying that he'll contort himself one day, but that day won't be in 2020.

[grumbler]

If you're on the side of pro, then I'm on the same side.  I have no doubt that Roberts will contort himself to whatever he needs to when the time comes, his or others' precedents be damned, but I think he understand that this is a particularly bad time to pounce on the abortion.

Nice definite article Slav.

FYI, precedent is on the side of overturning, so no contortions needed (unlike Obamacare).

No, I get you, I'm saying that he'll contort himself one day, but that day won't be in 2020.

[merithyn]

Hey DGuller, 25 even the USSC overturns LA abortion law.

Overturning the law is pro-abortion or anti-abortion stance?  I can't imagine Roberts being dumb enough to galvanize the left for the election that could lead to his court being packed.

When is the next Conservative judge going to step down?

The oldest two justices are liberals: RBG 86yo, Breyer 81yo.  Next oldest would be Thomas 71 yo.

Thomas has a bad ticker.

[Liep]

There's been one or two cases of a Muslim refusing to shake the hand of a politician of the opposite sex at citizenship ceremonies, and that has sparked outrage resulting in a new law requiring any new citizen to shake the hand of the politician handing over the papers at the ceremony. Refusal means no citizenship.

Because of the coronovirus breakout they are now forced to cancel all new citizenship approvals.

[Syt]

From the Twitter account "Poorly Aged Things"





(The Independent article is online if you want to google for it)

[Valmy]

Happy international women's day to all of our wonderful women of Languish!