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I didn’t know that Leroy had a son.

He was once known as Leroy Jones, author of a play titled “The Toilet.”

I would say, “Thank you, Mr. President, for all you’ve done.”

January 6 certainly scared the hell out of Congress.

I thought the “scare event” was January 6.

It cannot be reconvened.

Actually, it can.

In 1961 President Kennedy asked the NSC to war-game a scenario in which the Soviet Union launched a nuclear Pearl Harbor and successfully decapitated the federal government. The NSC lawyers reported that the state governors, for the most part, could reconstitute the Senate under the terms of the 17th Amendment. The House could only be reconstituted via special elections.

However, concerning the president and vice president, the only body that could elect them was the Electoral College chosen in the last presidential election. This body could be reconvened to make the choice.

Apparently not.

24th Amendment.

After the Ken Starr fiasco was over, a FReeper based in Connecticut, who was former military and is now deceased, took the train from New Haven to Washington to have lunch with Quidam. He reported back that Quidam was a real person who worked on Starr's investigation. Quidam was as shocked as we were that Starr had been bought and paid for, and that the investigation was a sham.

Quidam and Q are not related.

Everybody here wears a mask, both in buildings and on the street. It wasn’t so bad down in Arroyo Grande, but here I’m surrounded by chads and karens. It’s annoying.

Well, my housemate and I have settled into Monterey, and it was a hectic move. I travel light, but she hauled enough stuff to fill the garage with loaded boxes. We put our cars in the parking lot across the way.

In order for my machine to access the complex's WiFi, I had to move it out of its nook in the computer desk and put it on top of the desk.

The highs here have been in the low 60s and down in the upper 40s at night. Monterey Bay is cold, and that keeps the temps down.

It's a beautiful city but tricky to get around.

100% at 2:22. Child’s play. I’ve driven thru most of them.

Twentieth Century Motor Company ping.

...we have electric trains but they get their electric from the tracks.

Electric trains get their juice from an overhead catenary wire.

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You belong in the 1980s.

I disagree.

Once more I will post the analysis of Article V which I had vetted by a retired professor of constitutional law.

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THE ARTICLE V AMENDATORY PROCESS

The amendatory process under Article V consists of three steps:

1. Proposal;
2. Direction;
3. Ratification.

Proposal:

There are two ways to propose an amendment to the Constitution.

• The Congressional method requires the House and Senate to pass an amendment by a two thirds majority of each house.
• The amendments convention method requires the legislatures of two thirds of the states to pass resolutions directing Congress to call a convention for proposing amendments. These resolutions are called applications. Once the two thirds threshold is reached, Congress is required to set a time and place for the convention.

Article V gives Congress and an amendments convention exactly the same power to propose amendments, except that a convention is limited to proposing amendments specified in the application and there is no such limit on Congress.

Direction:

Once Congress, or an amendments convention, proposes amendments, Congress must decide whether the states will ratify by the:

• State legislature method, or the
• State ratifying convention method.

The state ratifying convention method has only been used once: to ratify the 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition. A similar procedure was used to ratify the Constitution itself.

Ratification:

Depending upon which ratification method is chosen by Congress, either the state legislatures vote up-or-down on the proposed amendment, or the voters elect a state ratifying convention to vote up-or-down. If three fourths of the states vote to ratify, the amendment becomes part of the Constitution.

Forbidden Subjects:

Article V contains two explicitly forbidden subjects and two implicitly forbidden subjects.

Explicitly forbidden:

1. No amendment may be added to the Constitution concerning the slave trade or direct taxes until 1808. We’re well past that deadline.
2. No amendment may be added to the Constitution to change the principle of equal representation in the Senate unless every state deprived of that right approves. If California wants five senators, every state must have five senators. To permit violation of this principle, every state would have to ratify the amendment, not just three fourths.

Implicitly forbidden:

1. The Constitution of 1787 may not be abrogated and replaced with a new document. Article V only authorizes “a convention for proposing amendments to this Constitution;” so the Constitution of 1787 is locked in place.
2. A convention for proposing amendments is limited to the topics authorized by state applications.

Reference works:

Proposing Constitutional Amendments by a Convention of the States: A Handbook for State Lawmakers

There is a move afoot to get Ohio to apply for a convention using Georgia’s application language.

Maze is the last person you’d think would be the next God. It would be a total shock.

With God ready to retire, I suspect Mazikeen is being groomed as his replacement.