tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post2516089514592744330..comments2024-03-28T12:45:00.292-05:00Comments on Althouse: "Attorney General Jeff Sessions is being lambasted as the uncool parent in Washington, and maybe the universe..."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-56402710943739063602018-01-08T09:41:17.955-06:002018-01-08T09:41:17.955-06:00Apologies if this has already been mentioned here ...Apologies if this has already been mentioned here (I’ve read through half but not all of the comments), but wasn’t the original “cooling” effect of the Senate a direct result of the various State Legislatures appointing them? Once senators began being elected directly by the people, all bets of the Senate being a “cooling” body were off. Or am I remembering wrongly?<br /><br />Bruce Geehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14163580152645651761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-76194828354809023952018-01-07T22:27:43.496-06:002018-01-07T22:27:43.496-06:00This not a lot different than allowing state-A to ...This not a lot different than allowing state-A to set the rules for state -B without B having any voice at all in the matter, even if not terribly biased. e.g. 1 senator A vice the other 49, as long as there is one voice repesenting a few of us, given the system we've contracted to live by, they can lay on the railroad tracks and say not until I give consent or you compromise and meet one of my demands. Similar to the SLT deduction, that one lone holdout would represent the rest of the country. If there wasn't a hold-out, they could pass the law in the congress using the normal give and take. I'll trade you an airforce base for your buying of AMZN's new headquarters, assuming part of the public purse is used. Though perhaps I can loan you the money, but at least the hole you left in budget books because of the SLT can eventually be covered. Ditto policy give and take. If you can't get the majority of the representatives to trade for it.I'll Trade you the Hetch Hetchy for opening Gary Iron Mills, until at least the majority of U.S. repesentives agree, and the Senate never did matter for anything except for slowing things down. Pretty uncoth thing to observe. Yes it is. But I lost my Couth ages ago.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07118137149784776765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-22496790766556169352018-01-07T17:50:35.206-06:002018-01-07T17:50:35.206-06:00Jeepers. Why should it be so hard to convince the ...<i>Jeepers. Why should it be so hard to convince the Senate that some states want legalized marijuana, maybe some don't - so there shouldn't be a federal law about it! Let the states sort it out.</i><br /><br />I don't know. Why should it be so hard to convince the Senate that some states want a statutory minimum wage, maybe some don't - so there shouldn't be a federal law about it! Let the states sort it out.Stevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05138730966226244399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38884216294667814172018-01-07T16:41:35.119-06:002018-01-07T16:41:35.119-06:00"He has a bizarre obsession with marijuana, w..."He has a bizarre obsession with marijuana, which is okay for a Senator from Alabama but a stupid distraction for an AG."<br /><br />My son's best friend has an obsession with marijuana, in that it has robbed him of motivation and the desire to do anything other than get high. <br /><br />Sessions is doing his job in the way it's supposed to be done. You just don't like him. TDPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04304429560076224035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67358503116275716832018-01-07T16:38:03.012-06:002018-01-07T16:38:03.012-06:00"ADDED: Who the hell pours their tea into a s..."ADDED: Who the hell pours their tea into a saucer to cool it anymore? Speaking of uncool... We're drinking coffee. We like it hot. It comes in a mug. You don't get a saucer. And if you did, and you poured your hot beverage into the saucer and drank from the saucer, people would regard you as a lout."<br /><br />Geez, where did this come from? <br /><br />My grandparents and my parents would always serve both coffee and tea (when we were using the "good" china) in cups with saucers. It was customary and good manners to do so. Occasionally, the saucer was used to cool the coffee or tea. But I never saw anyone drink from the saucer, rather the cooled coffee/tea was poured back into the cup to cool down the entire cup. <br /><br />Quite an intelligent solution IMO. Plus the fact that many/most of our ancestor's behaviors were born of necessity and innovation given that they did not have the luxuries of our age of amazing materials science, engineering and manufacturing capabilities. TDPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04304429560076224035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-39183948885876538932018-01-07T16:33:46.900-06:002018-01-07T16:33:46.900-06:00As if any Federal Prosecutor in Nevada would bring...As if any Federal Prosecutor in Nevada would bring a case against the very lucrative legal Pot industry, and expect to win it with a Nevada jury. tcrossehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13861315905142017219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-53156013517742318802018-01-07T15:27:34.242-06:002018-01-07T15:27:34.242-06:00"He has a bizarre obsession with marijuana, w..."He has a bizarre obsession with marijuana, which is okay for a Senator from Alabama but a stupid distraction for an AG."<br /><br />I'd rather have an AG who enforces the law as written, and doesn't take orders from a former president, than a senator who writes bad laws.Char Char Binks, Esq.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10649888089413308406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78563675631604948242018-01-07T14:59:06.326-06:002018-01-07T14:59:06.326-06:00Puff, the hallucinating dragon, lived by the sea, ...Puff, the hallucinating dragon, lived by the sea, and atop the mile-high city.<br /><br />Also, there is cause to decarbonize your joints.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-80217788434995840692018-01-07T14:20:56.436-06:002018-01-07T14:20:56.436-06:00I place the saucer atop the mug to promote steepin...I place the saucer atop the mug to promote steeping.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-79982850822474564452018-01-07T13:27:05.029-06:002018-01-07T13:27:05.029-06:00Sessions needs to be discredited now as a racist a...Sessions needs to be discredited now as a racist and out of touch old man on drug law enforcement. Then when he indicts Point Shaver Strzok, Comey, Huma and Hillary, he is softened up as a tool of Trump. The refrain is already there. We don’t indict defeated political opponents.David Begleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553331226126840029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-56885245288125459152018-01-07T12:44:07.769-06:002018-01-07T12:44:07.769-06:00I stand corrected on one point.
But having the un...I stand corrected on one point.<br /><br />But having the unhinged Joy Reid on air is inexcusable. The only conservative was a woman with wildly distracting earrings.<br /><br />CHUCK TODD:But to defend the attorney general here, as the spokesperson said, they don't make law. They enforce law. If Congress wants to change the law, they should do it. Congress, they beat their chests, some of them, but I don't see anybody offering up a bill here yet.<br /><br />MARK LEIBOVICH:Well, yeah. Offering up a bill would require a fight. I mean, it would require actually going on the record about this. I mean, look, as far as what Jeff Sessions is doing, I mean, this is all going to be executed by prosecutors. And what will be interesting is just to watch the prosecutors who want to sort of selectively find the marijuana user in Denver.David Begleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553331226126840029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-43231312858410251032018-01-07T12:23:03.916-06:002018-01-07T12:23:03.916-06:00Today on MTP constitutional scholar Chuck Todd gav...Today on MTP constitutional scholar Chuck Todd gave us public opinion polls on the legalization of pot. Not a word on existing federal law. Or the need to change it.<br /><br />Just another attack on Sessions.<br /><br />And, of course, AM Joy made it all about race.David Begleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553331226126840029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13053444402975952322018-01-07T11:46:25.411-06:002018-01-07T11:46:25.411-06:00Let's see some leadership in Congress,
Oh, Pr...<i>Let's see some leadership in Congress,</i><br /><br />Oh, Professor A., you are such a pistol! Thanks for the afternoon (EST) laugh!<br /><br />"Leadership in Congress". Oh, my stars & garters, what next? Rhhardin in a pussy hat?YoungHegelianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02723316130501823658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-77974854537819206842018-01-07T11:40:08.730-06:002018-01-07T11:40:08.730-06:00"The left:
Ban tobacco as a public health haz..."The left:<br />Ban tobacco as a public health hazard."<br /><br />The political left has NO desire to ban tobacco. They just want to tax the bejeezus out of it. Curious Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440726941494085334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83269287664015052232018-01-07T11:25:57.731-06:002018-01-07T11:25:57.731-06:00As the administration expands this stupid regulati...<i>As the administration expands this stupid regulation, what set of double the regulations will they remove as promised.</i><br /><br />@bagoh20, the administration is emphatically <b>not</b> "expanding" any regulation; they are choosing to enforce existing laws. The previous administration chose not to enforce laws, but left them on the books. I think that this is the wrong way to operate. I think the federal laws should prohibit transporting marijuana across state lines for purposes of selling it, and let states establish their own laws regarding intrastate marijuana use. But that's not the position of Kamela Harris. She likes things the way Obama had them. The closer we can tie her to Obama the less viable she is as a candidate in 2020.<br /><br />Yeah, Trump is stupid and insane.Big Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15831645119853118904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59629860137197107182018-01-07T11:09:47.792-06:002018-01-07T11:09:47.792-06:00I just add a little cold water to the cup. I must...I just add a little cold water to the cup. I must be a genius. You can all use that idea until I get my patent. Shark Tank, get your checkbooks out.bagoh20https://www.blogger.com/profile/10915174575358413637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-91233178007813884832018-01-07T11:04:59.976-06:002018-01-07T11:04:59.976-06:00While I understand AG Sessions position on the MJ ...While I understand AG Sessions position on the MJ laws, I would prefer he would with great vigor enforce public corruption laws and welfare and federal contracting fraud laws.cubanbobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03746305669005611456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27003827162133147382018-01-07T10:54:21.852-06:002018-01-07T10:54:21.852-06:00I want to know how you pour coffee from your cup i...I want to know how you pour coffee from your cup into a saucer without spilling it right down the side of the cup.<br /><br />As an aside, I have vague memories of my coal mining, training hopping, hobo grandfather of Irish descent, a member of the deep South when he wasn't train hopping, doing this at the breakfast table when we were visiting during the summer oh-so-many years ago (the 60s). <br /><br />I don't remember him spilling a drop.Karen of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06550857626567831228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-45840608592549286482018-01-07T10:54:12.922-06:002018-01-07T10:54:12.922-06:00It would be interesting if liberals discovered fed...It would be interesting if liberals discovered federalism and abandoned their idea of centralizing all power in Washington. Saint Croixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17876368500159112781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11256976755239447052018-01-07T10:42:21.408-06:002018-01-07T10:42:21.408-06:00"AG Sessions may just be cracking down to get...<i>"AG Sessions may just be cracking down to get changes in the law."</i><br /><br />I think you give Sessioons too much credit.Original Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714345479248980398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60575447146661598532018-01-07T10:38:15.824-06:002018-01-07T10:38:15.824-06:00When you saucer your coffee, you pour some in the ...When you saucer your coffee, you pour some in the saucer so it cools quickly. Then you pour it back into the cup and drink out of the cup now that it's cool enough to drink. Perhaps you've never seen anyone saucer their coffee before? It was very common in many parts of the country back when coffee usually came out of a percolator at about 210 degrees F.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-71901380208125387892018-01-07T10:33:04.635-06:002018-01-07T10:33:04.635-06:00ADDED: Who the hell pours their tea into a saucer ...ADDED: Who the hell pours their tea into a saucer to cool it anymore? Speaking of uncool...<br /><br /><br />Speaking of uncool, is it just not in you, to express such an idea without sounding like a yob? I find it curious too, but am not filled with an urge to verbally defecate on a custom I don't understand or know about. These gentlemen also often wore powdered wigs. " Who the hell wears powdered wigs anymore?" In the modern parlance: Duh! They don't do it ANYMORE. But from those times we still have colorful expressions like "to flip one's wig," e.g. "Ol' Althouse really flipped her wig over that saucer reference!"<br /><br />But never mind our hostess' limitations. This is an interesting notion, of a role for the saucer besides catching spills. How did this actually work? Did one sup or slurp from the saucer itself, or pour its contents back into the cup...<br /><br />or what the hell, man?!?!? WHAT THE HELL DID THOSE OLD FUCKS DO WITH IT?!? THEY'RE NOT JUST LIKE ME I CANT STAND IT AAAAAAAAGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!Bad Lieutenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18091901464339059169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-88973474553292137542018-01-07T10:23:40.318-06:002018-01-07T10:23:40.318-06:00Being someone who has indulged in nearly every vic...Being someone who has indulged in nearly every vice at one time or another and who smoked a lot of pot back in the day, but who no longer enjoys it, I can say with authority that the only real problem with pot is that it wastes a lot to your time and money and thus sucks away opportunity. That is no small thing, but we all do that in a variety of ways that are legal, and pot should not be illegal just because some do not choose that flavor of idleness.bagoh20https://www.blogger.com/profile/10915174575358413637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-10506967426185518462018-01-07T10:14:47.532-06:002018-01-07T10:14:47.532-06:00Imagine if there were a group of people from all o...Imagine if there were a group of people from all over the country who had the power to change the Federal law. It isn't hard to do. tcrossehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13861315905142017219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-53633936736265344452018-01-07T10:12:18.035-06:002018-01-07T10:12:18.035-06:00As the administration expands this stupid regulati...As the administration expands this stupid regulation, what set of double the regulations will they remove as promised.bagoh20https://www.blogger.com/profile/10915174575358413637noreply@blogger.com