Posted on 08/31/2023 8:00:39 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny
Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree
The Biden regime is so corrupt that the FAA had to hold strategy sessions on how to hide the fact that Buttigieg was spending hoards of taxpayer money to fly to election swing states on government jets from being disclosed in a FOIA request.
The cost of these flights is estimated at 5,000 dollars per hour.
Emails obtained showed the FAA spent months delaying the request to try to figure out how lie to the American people.
“In one email, David Wil Riggins, the vice president of the FAA Flight Program Operations office, suggests altering how costs for the flights are defined, in an apparent attempt to avoid sharing the information with Fox News.”
How’s that for transparency.
This is the most corrupt administration in American history.
9:14 PM · Sep 16, 2023
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
US Constitution is adopted
On this day in history, September 17, 1787, the US Constitution is adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The Constitution was made to replace the failed Articles of Confederation, America’s first governing document. Today the US Constitution is the oldest functioning constitution of any state in the world.

During the American Revolution the Continental Congress created the Articles of Confederation as the first governing document of the unified colonies. Over time the Articles proved to be too weak for the government to function. The Articles gave Congress authority over trade, foreign relations, and war, but it did not give Congress sufficient power to compel the states to comply.
Representatives from several states met at Annapolis, Maryland in 1786 to discuss some of the failed aspects of the Articles. They wrote a letter to Congress and the states requesting that a new convention be held to revise the Articles so the government would be strong enough to function.
Delegates converged on the Pennsylvania State House, now called Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, in May of 1787. This was the same place Congress had met during the Revolution and created the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. The delegates, including such people as Roger Sherman, Elbridge Gerry, Alexander Hamilton, Ben Franklin, James Madison and Gouverneur Morris, chose George Washington to serve as President of the Convention.

Right from the start the Philadelphia Convention did away with the idea of reforming the Articles of Confederation, instead choosing to write an altogether new constitution. The delegates debated the plan for four months, dealing with such questions as states’ rights vs. federal power, slavery, foreign affairs, the scope of presidential powers and the balance between the interests of small states and large states.
In the end a single executive, the President, was chosen to enforce the laws of Congress, which would be made up of a lower house, the House of Representatives, with delegates apportioned by population, and an upper house, the Senate, where each state was represented equally. A Supreme Court and federal judiciary would judge all matters of controversy.
On September 17, 1787, the Congress adopted its final version of the new Constitution and 39 delegates signed the document. Over the next two years, each state held its own ratification convention and debated the merits and weaknesses of the Constitution. The Constitution required that 9 of the 13 states ratify it in order for it to become law. On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the 9th state to ratify and the Constitution became the law of the land.
The first Congress and the new government began meeting on March 4, 1789. George Washington would be inaugurated President in April. By the fall of that year, a bill of rights containing protections for many basic rights, such as freedom of speech, religion, assembly, the right to bear arms, and many others, was proposed for addition to the Constitution. The first ten amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, were added to the Constitution and became law on December 15, 1791.
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Thanks to the wonderful site, https://revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com, for this essay
11:26 AM · Sep 17, 2023
You’re welcome.
It’s your very SPECIAL BACON DAY!
I feel with the exoneration of Paxton that things are indeed looking up.
Oh Happy Day!!
Since the demo guys were supposed to be bringing us more humidity sucking up machines this morning, we went to church last night.
Haven’t seen them yet though.
They better not offer that to my baby boy!
WTG exit, thank you for all you have contributed.
Stay Safe!!
Pure entitlement!
We are their personal piggybank.
Reminds me of the big jet Nasty insisted she needed to fly back and forth to San Fran.
Thank you so much for posting the APV.
How are things up your way?
Is it cooling off some?
How sick!!
That’s their “reimbursement” for their cyber attack hack???
Wow....90 years old....and, STILL a Senator.
They both look great, but, c’mon man (to quote another oldtimer).
Good ones, guys!!
Only 5 states sent representatives to Annapolis, so no quorum was reached. Madison was upset, and Hamilton was furious. The goal of the Annapolis Convention was to end the interstate trade war that had broken out when New York found a way to leverage its port to tax the inhabitants of neighboring states by levying customs duties.
The Philadelphia Convention would also have failed, but Shays' Rebellion in western Massachusetts changed the political climate. That rebellion was triggered by Gov. James Bowdoin's decision to refuse recognition of the worthless Continental Dollar for payment of taxes. The farmers of western Massachusetts, who were veterans paid in Continental dollars, tried peaceful protest but got nowhere, so they resorted to force of arms. They thought the Massachusetts Militia, made up of former veterans, would not fire on them. They lost that bet.
Had Shays' Rebellion succeeded, the French Revolution would have come to America two years before it came to France. It scared the hell out of the country's business class.
George Washington let his state's legislators know he was available to serve again, and he became one of Virginia's delegates. Once word got out that Washington was coming to Philadelphia, most other states decided to send delegates to the convention. Delegates understood that with Washington present, they had to use the correct fork, and there would be neither belching nor farting at table.
Alexander Hamilton had a mischievous sense of humor. At a dinner at a local tavern, Gouveneur Morris approached Hamilton and asked if he could approach Washington and say hello. Hamilton knew well of Morris' involvement in the attempted military coup at the Newburgh encampment in 1783 and knew Washington's attitude toward the man. Hamilton told Morris to go ahead. Morris came up to the seated Washington, clapped him on the shoulder and thanked him for coming to Philadelphia. Washington slowly turned to Morris and gave him a look that would have frozen molten lava. Morris beat a hasty retreat as Hamilton tried vainly to stifle his laughter.
Right from the start the Philadelphia Convention did away with the idea of reforming the Articles of Confederation, instead choosing to write an altogether new constitution.
Mostly true. About 80% of the Articles of Confederation made it into the Constitution with the Committee of Design renumbering the articles. The new material came from Hamilton and Madison concerning the Executive and the Judiciary.
By the fall of that year, a bill of rights containing protections for many basic rights, such as freedom of speech, religion, assembly, the right to bear arms, and many others, was proposed for addition to the Constitution.
Several states ratified with the proviso that a bill of rights be added later. Madison was quick to point out that under English Common Law, ratification was an up-or-down act to which such provisos could not be attached. Hamilton opposed a bill of rights for fear that the bill would forget some rights, and that could come back later to bite the body politic.
Madison was elected Speaker. Shortly thereafter, two states sent applications for a Convention of the States with no subject attached, i.e., a general convention open to all subjects. This was all about a bill of rights. Madison feared that such a convention would undo the hard work of the Philadelphia Convention, so he sat down and wrote 17 amendment proposals. In doing so, he reached back to the Report of the Pennsylvania Minority, written by lawyer Samuel Bryan, which contained proposals for a bill of rights.
The House reduced the 17 to 12, passed them by the required two thirds majority and sent them to the Senate, which also passed them. Off to the state legislatures for ratification!
Ten of the proposed 12 were slam-dunked into the Constitution by the required three fourths of the states. The 11th, pertaining to the size of the House if it got too large, still sits out there unratified because Congress handled it by legislation. The 12th, Madison's "salary grab" amendment, was finally ratified in 1992 as the 27th Amendment thanks to the hard work of Gregory Watson, a sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin, who went all over the country meeting with state legislators to encourage ratification.
The big news is we’re going to PRESIDENT TRUMP’S rally in Iowa this Wednesday. Her friend knew a friend who had tickets. Looks like we won’t have to wait in line either.
Thanks for the history lesson.
Not sure this is still taught in government schools.
After all, the National Archives have put a warning label on the Constitution and Declaration of Independance.
You would never guess that Grassley is 90.
He has really kept himself in good shape by exercising and eating well.
He is the exception to the rule with all the old demented geezers in Congress and in the WH.
“The big news is we’re going to PRESIDENT TRUMP’S rally in Iowa this Wednesday.”
How wonderful!!!
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