Everybody always wondered when that would happen, right?
A few people at a Smithfield pork products plant got Covid, and now apparently that plant is gonna close.
This morning one of the company’s executives put the very sensible question:
Do you want us to go on producing food in America during the Covid outbreak?
Or not?
(This is a clear-Cut, yes or no inquiry. )
Gallons and gallons of milk are just being hosed oit into the ground right now. It don’t keep forever. Seems a shame to go through all that labor, all that expensive pasteurization. Dairy products companies won’t continue to do so.
We will end up with completely avoidable, artificial, shortages of food in this country.
But then: famine is nearly always a result of political machinations.
The next few weeks are going to be very difficult to watch.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
Since things here are relatively normal where I am, it tears me up even more to see America self-destructing and so few pushing back against what appears to me to be a completely unConstitutional ‘temporary’ suspension of the Bill of Rights.
Where are the 60s radicals? Why are there not peaceful demonstrators demanding their inalienable rights? When will are our rock-ribbed don’t tread on me types attend church services again without permission from our nanny state?
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It was the 60s radicals who were responsible for the forest of laws and regs we have now. The Left always “equalizes” downward. They’re the enforcers now: they don’t wanna hear any free speech they dont agree with—in fact they wanna criminalize it. Witness the WASHLITE suit against Fox News. The same for religious freedom. Freedom of assembly? Don’t make me 😂! Not if it means the entire country sees Trump fill every venue to overflowing with enthusiastic crowds, while 25 people show up for Hilary and now, abides. That’s First Amendment. NEXT! The Second Amendment, don’t even ask. The Third? Well at least Covid has put an end to the whole billeting thing, of which a version is the residential density trend. The 4th? They’d be happy to dispense with the entire warrant-probable cause requirement ; they’ve travestied it in connection with the FISA abuses. SHALL I go ON? cuz I can…
And yes: ST you are so right about religion in America. The Left casts it as conservative, but it has been behind ALL the revolutionary movements in our country, even arguably 1776, certainly abolition, temperance. I know you saw my piece in the Mischief on this, where The asshole tried to pillory me for using the word “race”…
There HAVE been some rebellions. And Barr has promised to make sure, at least, that religious gatherings are not restricted to a GREATER extent than secular contacts. But I still feel we need a third “Great Awakening”.
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SHALL I go ON? cuz I can…
I know you can and I wish you would. If nothing else I would l love to hear your thoughts on how and why we lost our 10th Amendment and if it has any chance whatsoever of being reborn.
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Top o’ head: 10th Amendment , “states’ rights” got a bad name for itself when Southern states tried to use it to keep,segregation. Now the Dems are all over it again, because Trump.
Moi, I prefer the 9th: powers reserved to THE PEOPLE!
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The 9th died a long time ago too, did it not? Okay, I will compromise and withdraw my request from the 10th in favor of something on the 9th. I am begging, not asking and please feel free to ignore me.
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ST, I think the 10th can and will be reborn. In gpfact I think our country might dissolve into UnUnited States or clusters thereof.
BTW today there’s a huge protest in Michigan over the stay-at-home orders. We gotta get more civil disobedience going.
I’ll research Am. 9 and get back to you. ( I AM restudying the Constitution by sitting in on the Harvard classes, but so far only amendments 1 and 4!)
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Thanks for the prompt response. It brings me cheer on many levels.
No rush on the 9th but whenever you get around to it I, for one, will certainly appreciate your both perspective and flair.
Later croc. I feel myself slipping into peaceful slumber.
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It is so cool that your daughter attends* Harvard Law. You and BMD must have done something right!
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Re Harvard: so much with progeny is…fortune. She has always been the kinda kid who doesn’t want to be unprepared; I never (thank god!) had to force her to do her homework. She was at a different law school for first year, got STRAIGHT As (I still can’t believe that!) and was able to transfer.
But of course now, all law students in the US are at “Zoom U School,of Law”. They even had T-shirts made!
I am very impressed with her professors. Of course I hate their politics, but: just like “you can’t fix stupid” I find you ALSO can’t deny smart…
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ST Unleashed! Comment of the Day: I find you ALSO can’t deny smart…
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Simon, when you wake: I found an article “Ninth AmendmentSupreme Court Cases”. (As you know, I can’t do anything fancy like linking, but maybe you can call it up.) But apparently there have only been two which even mention the 9th and neither of them relied on the 9th. What I remembered from law school was Griswold v. Connecticut, which legalized birth control. But the right to privacy therein was evidently based more on the 4th.
There is a principle in statutory construction that if the draftsmen enumerate certain powers or duties, they intended to EXclude any not specified. The 9th and 10th amendments, some have argued, are in there so that it will be clear that the draftsmen intended any powers and duties which they do not specifically assign to vest in the people or the states. Actually,,both the 9th and 10th(1791) make the people the ultimate default power.
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