The Sicatoka

Point of order -- 38 States would be a reference to how many it takes to amendment the Constitution, and a Constitutional amendment is what it would take to eliminate the Electoral College.

US Constitution Article II, Section 1, paragraph 2: That says the State Legislature has final say on Electors (i.e. who casts the state's votes in the Electoral College). The Legislature can say by popular vote results. They can say by their own decision and vote. They could say the Governor picks. They could say the head football coach of the largest HS in the state picks electors. It's the Legislature's call ultimately. (We're just used to the Legislature using popular vote as the mechanism.) The beauty? Those legislators face re-election after their actions.

Is this the same "The Atlantic" that last week claimed Trump berated veterans who died in war?

PINCH-OFF!

You're supposed to add a "BAY-BEE!" on the end of that.

When we're all either: (A) beaten into psychological submission that we'd blindly wear an onion on our belt if told do do so, or (B) dead.

Two movies, one screen.

If I set the season Vikings win total at 5.5 right now, over or under?

Rocco and the Twins are channeling their inner Earl Weaver '70s/'80s Orioles: Bomba-no-steal.

Lincoln

Butbutbut ... I sawer it on the interwebs so its gotzta be trues fur reals!

"Excess deaths". In the CDC link it's defined as: "... the difference between the observed numbers of deaths in specific time periods and expected numbers of deaths in the same time periods." So it's the "more than the expected" in that time period and expected would be based on history. But COVID-19 (a novel coronavirus; novel as in new) is a completely new player in the game, above and beyond everything from the expected. We'd expect what we had the year before. COVID-19 is by definition novel, an adder, to that expected. It's like fundraising*: We expect our usual annual donors to contribute X. Oh. Wait. What's this? A new donor contributing. "Excess" funds! Calling these "excess deaths" fails to admit COVID-19 is new (aka novel coronavirus) that will become part of baseline "expected numbers". COVID-19 is just part of a new baseline that we're now getting first year stats on. As they say, the new normal. Virus gonna virus. *Yes, using fundraising as a parallel is crass (and I humbly admit as much).

These two are false: ADAM SHIFF'S SISTER IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS’ SON HILLARY'S DAUGHTER CHELSEA IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS' NEPHEW. It took maybe 30 seconds each to find that out.

A couple of those are patently false.

We have a series.

No, AOC did it in-party first. She "primaried*" a person who as at the time the House Majority Whip**. That's a pretty good trick, and overtly signaled where the D party was headed politically. *defeated in the party primary, before the general election **at the time the #3 D in the House, behind the Speaker and Majority Leader

I'm going to sent Baretta after you.

If Omaha used the formerly known as CenturyLink they'd have an attached Hilton hotel.

Can I get the over on that?

That's like throwing snowballs at Santa Claus ... nevermind ...

Coming in to start an inning, with a four-run lead, Romo just had to bring the tying run to the plate last night. < shakes head >

Personal anecdote: I almost stayed home in 1992 (Clinton/Bush/Perot) as I was living in upstate NY and knew where NY was going. But then I realized the neighbor down the street (a real jerk) was on the town council. I went to vote.

Allow me to put this out there: How many conservatives in CA or NY don't go to the polls because they know they aren't majority in that state? If it became straight national popular vote, it would incentivize CA and NY conservatives to come out. I'm saying in 2016 Hillary would've still won CA, but by 8,753,788 vs 4,483,810? Just imagine 1 or 2 million more CA conservatives deciding it's worth going to the polls and that national impact. The folks winning popular vote but losing EC today want to go to popular vote. But would such a rules change keep the outcome the same? We don't know.

You've heard the story of democracy where two wolves and a lamb vote on what's for lunch, yes? That's why the Electoral College. Without the EC, well, a national candidate would only have to go here.

As the resident libertar-conservative at USCHO (haven't haunted there in months) I said that and was heckled that only Rs do that.