The world’s largest meerkat:
One hour plus until the Chuck season finale.
Silver and gold
In a sad story about a mentally ill “sovereign citizen” who killed two police officers, there was this detail:
This is where Mr. Kane made a show of cutting his long grass with a pair of scissors when police officers came to his property to enforce city codes, a neighbor recalled. This is where he demanded to be paid $100,000 a day in gold or silver, “the only legal form of payment in the Constitution,” when he was sentenced to community service for traffic violations. This is where Mr. Kane’s brother has a plaque on his porch with a fake gun affixed to it. “We ain’t dialin’ 911,” it says.
And this is where Mr. Kane drew his son, who the authorities said participated in the shooting, into his web of conspiracy theories and suspicion of authority. By age 9, Joseph, who was home-schooled, could recite the Bill of Rights from memory and carried a realistic toy gun everywhere he went, Sheriff Gene A. Kelly of Clark County said.
I couldn’t find any reference to gold and silver in the constitution except this:
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
(bold mine)
What does this mean exactly?
Update. Atrios explains:
It just means that states can’t declare that debts can be paid in seashells or ReaganDollars, though they can, if they want, declare that debts can be paid in gold or silver.
I suppose that “Thing” here means something other than regular federal currency.
A Dog From the Uncanny Valley
You dog lovers might enjoy a view of your pet, circa 2025. I find this video compelling, impressive and somewhat disturbing.
My storehouse of outrage is depleted early this morning, so here’s an open thread.
Lost Open Thread
Some of you have been grumbling for this, so here ya go. I have no idea when the show is, so I thought I would get this thread up now.
I will be icing my shoulder.
Master of My Domain
Garden planted and watered, tomatoes staked and hay spread.
Weeds pulled in the landscaping.
Grass cut, dog pooped from several walks and cheering me on barking her ass off at everything while I worked.
Now off to buy a new weed-eater and then to edge the sidewalks.
Figured we could use an open thread.
I’m sure I’d feel much worse if I weren’t under such heavy sedation
Give Michael Steele a fake British accent and this could be a scene from Spinal Tap:
TAPPER: [D]o you condemn that point of view? I mean, where would African-Americans be if the federal government hadn’t come in and said, hotels, you have to–
STEELE: Exactly. That’s very much a part of the debate back in the ’60s, as it is going forward. But the reality of it is, our party has stood four-square behind, you know–
TAPPER: But do you condemn that view?
STEELE: I can’t condemn a person’s view. That’s like, you know, you believe something and I’m going to say, “Well, you know, I’m going to condemn your view of it.”
Why the hell can’t he just say that he condemns the point of view that Jim Crow laws should be legal? I realize that all of this is bad for Republicans and therefore good for the country, but it just makes my head hurt.
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Will Rand’s Slide Bring Him Down?
Will time make him bolder? And what will this mean for those who have built their lives around him?
I invite you to consider these important questions, and any others, in this open thread.