This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
- No food fights.
- No running with scissors.
- If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
First on Day Two.
Where’s my prize/trophy?
All you get is fool’s gold my friend.
This is looking promising.
David Clements
@theprofsrecord
Apr 1
Wrong.
The Elections Clause gives states the initial role to set time, place and manner, but expressly authorizes Congress to enact nationwide rules for federal elections (House and Senate races), including voter registration, list maintenance, fraud prevention, and ballot procedures.
The Supreme Court has interpreted “manner” broadly to include “notices, registration, supervision of voting, protection of voters, prevention of fraud and corrupt practices,” etc.
The Help America Vote Act imposes mandatory minimum federal standards on states (e.g., statewide computerized voter registration lists, provisional ballots, and election administration improvements) and provides federal grants (“requirements payments”) explicitly conditioned on compliance. States must submit plans showing how they meet these standards to receive funding.
The National Voter Registration was also enacted under the Elections Clause. It mandates that states maintain accurate voter rolls (“list maintenance”), offer registration at certain agencies, and accept a federal mail-registration form. Courts have upheld NVRA provisions as valid under the Elections Clause precisely because they target voter eligibility verification and roll accuracy.
Trump’s EO explicitly cites both HAVA and NVRA as authority. It does not create new substantive rules from scratch; it directs federal agencies to implement and enhance existing federal statutory requirements using federal databases (SSA records, DHS’s SAVE program).
Moreover, Congress’s power under Article I, Section 8 to tax and spend for the general welfare includes the ability to attach conditions to federal grants to states. This is classic conditional spending, upheld in South Dakota v. Dole (1987): conditions must be unambiguous, related to the federal interest (here, integrity of federal elections), and not coercive.
– HAVA already does exactly this—grants are withheld or conditioned on states meeting federal election-administration standards.
– The EO (Section 5) authorizes withholding “federal funds from noncompliant states/localities where authorized by law.” This is not a new commandeering of state legislatures; states can decline the funds (and the attached conditions) if they wish. Precedent confirms Congress (and the executive administering congressional appropriations) can use the purse to encourage compliance without directly dictating state election codes.
Finally, Trump’s EO’s core mechanisms operate through federal entities like the post office, not state legislatures:
– USPS rulemaking directs the Postmaster General to require barcoded, trackable “Official Election Mail” envelopes and to transmit ballots only to voters on the federal/state-verified Mail-In/Absentee Participation Lists. USPS is a federal agency; the President may direct its operations via executive order. States are not forced to change their own mailing processes—they simply cannot use federal postal service for non-compliant ballots if they want the service.
This avoids the anti-commandeering doctrine (Printz v. United States, 1997), which prohibits the federal government from forcing state officials to enforce federal law. Here, the federal government is regulating its own property (mail) and funds.
Once Congress has acted (via HAVA/NVRA), federal requirements preempt conflicting state practices for federal elections.
The democrats are toast.
All mail going via USPS has been tracked. Photos of the outside of the envelopes, etc. Up until 2020 when the records were somehow dumped. Am I remembering that right?
Don’t remember the exceptions, but certainly most mail is being photographed and has been for a while.
I would guess since anthrax.
Castle Anthrax?
Katherine Clark, SCHOOLED again! 😂
New Schlichter —
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/04/02/our-own-ruling-class-desperately-wants-to-lose-this-war-n2673789
VERY COOL!!!
And now for something completely different!
Interesting. Since English is a Germanic language and not a Romance language, and since I want to keep what I’m familiar with (“that with which I’m familiar”), I’ll keep it as is, thank you very much. 😂
People around the world seem able to learn English as is. I wonder if it would be much easier in the guise of a Romance language.
English is the language you get when you let one lure other languages into dark alleys, cosh them over the head, and riffle through their clothes for valuable vocabulary…..
And Welsh is what you get when the Finns and Icelanders come over in the dark of night and nick all of your vowels to feed their insatiable need for double-umlauted vowels and other constructions of a devious nature 🙂
From a travel blog:
Making Englisch into a Romance language would take all the romance out of it 🙂
Plus, it would allow folks to talk more through their now-elevated noses, becoming what the English call “toffs”, i.e. toffee-nosed-snots… Sacre Bleu!
Fascinating thread – worth a look if you can.
Wow!
How many Ayatollahs are left? How many IRGC? How many Basij?
We have no quarrel with the people of Iran and wish them well, but they have already suffered tens of thousands of casualties this year at the hands of the evil regime. At some point, the people of Iran will have to clean up the remnant — but we don’t want to blow the whistle too soon and bring on a terrible slaughter.
They have to get guns.
They can’t fight AK-47s with their fists. This is exactly why practically every nation on earth takes firearms away from the People.
They also need the skill of having one gun and getting two, or having two guns and getting five. Once that happens, it’s off to the races.
Much of the army (not the IRGC, who are separate) has defected. There are reports of 70% and even up to 90%. This has been actually going on since the 12 Day war last year. Many have registered with Transition Team under Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and were vetted
How many weapons these defectors managed to bring their weapons is unclear, but I guess there are probably also many smuggled into Iran, since the first defections
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The plan from the beging was to use these defectors as protection for the protestors on the ground, with Isreal and US drones as protection from the sky, once the regime is so weekend so that the people could come out.
I’m not worried about the army. The IRGC and Basij are pure corruption and should probably be liquidated.
Actually, this is not an isolated assessment.
There are many indications of the collapse of the regime.
Recently one of the contributors from inside Iran to ‘Iran Revolution Live’ talked about this.
He, was arrested by the regime, and he noticed that the Basij did not have the manpower for prosecting the people, which was completely different from his previous arrest. They didn’t even have any information about that, which helped him.
During the court hearing the judges where extremely nervous and scattered once they heard any bombing by Isreal.
He does not say how he escaped, because that would reveal his identity.
He, also notice that many of the official were pretending to help the prisoners so that they will have favorable testimony once the regime falls.
This is the testimony of his experience, after he managed to contact Goldie Ghamarie of ‘Iran Revolution Live’ a few days ago (set up the at 3:19 of the live stream)
Neuralink is really coming along!
Incredible, and touching.
POTATUS ERROR…..
Time to remove that judge. And all of his communist, traitorous ilk.
We had to memorize that in 7th grade English class.
Couldn’t understand hardly a word of it.
If you speak it aloud, it almost makes sense on first reading.
When that April with its showers soothe,
The drought of March that hath pierced to the root,
And bathed every vein in such liquor
Of which virtue engendered is the flower;
When Zephyrs make with its sweet breath
Inspiration in every hold and heath
The tender crops, and the young sun
Has in the Ram [Aries] his half-course run,
And small fowls make melody,
That sleep all the night with open eye,
So pricketh them Nature in their courage,
For various folk to go on pilgrimage,
And Palmers for to seek strange strands,
To verdant halls in sundry lands;
And specially, from every shire’s end
To England, to Canterbury they wend,
The holy blissful martyr for to seek,
That may help them for what they seek.
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Mind you, there is a whole lot of associated information that helps to set this up…..as an example, the association of the Palmers with beaches (strands) and seashells — or perhaps the marking of the seasons by signs of the zodiac.
But that was the intended lesson back in the day, wasn’t it? We were speaking mostly the same language, and the Tales were a gateway into an older world with a slightly different worldview.
Reminds me of watching all the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo launches when I were a wee bairn (OK, not so wee, but much younger than now 🙂 )…..
Those were the “gee, whiz” days… Also interesting is that books, etc., up to Apollo 11 always spoke about travel to the moon as being in the future…. Boomers are the last generation that saw and read that…
On KTVU Channel 2 in the SF Bay Area we had a childrens’ cartoon show called “Captain Satellite”… space and science, etc., was all the rage… looking upward and forward as opposed to sitting around and bitching and complaining…
When NASA gets to the moon, they’ll be able to commute from Muskburgh to Musk City through the Musk Transit Tube.
And in the Musk Lunar Port, spaceships will land on tailfins like God and Robert A. Heinlein meant them to.
I think we just had a minor earthquake.
Probably this one
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75337442/executive
A 4.9 pretty close. Power didn’t go off.
A nothingburger if the state wasn’t such a pain in so many other ways.