MudhammedCJ

Demonstrate how this is actually "for the common good" and you might have a leg to stand on. Hear that train? It's coming.

rickair7777

Careful with that one. Politicians with no term limits is a horrible thing. In fact there's only one thing worse: unchecked, un-elected, and unaccountable bureaucrats.

Our government is so complex that with short term limits, elected officials would be locked out before they served enough time to have any experience, ie barely got their seat belts fastened. Then the bureaucrats would run amuck, even more than they already do.

I've worked enough in the beltway to know it for what it is. Career politicians are annoying and distasteful. Unchecked bureaucrats are scary... on the FBI side alone you could get a police state.

flyguy81

4 terms in the House, 2 in the Senate. Then you have Cabinet and other govt positions (VP, Pres), state or local positions that would allow someone to be a professional grifter for life. US Congress needs term limits.

flyguy81

That was also 1 state. Not the entire country. You can’t say with a straight face that what NY decrees as good is the same as what FL decrees as good….considering NY has killed more Rona patients than FL and was locked down vs FL being completely open.

YellowSnowman

The US Supreme Court said it t. Not me. And they presumably said it with a straight face.

AFAIK, US Supreme Court precedent applies nationally. State courts routinely cite US Supreme Court decisions. Roe v Wade, for example, was a US Supreme Court decision that struck down (generally) abortion laws nationwide. Various states have been trying to enact anti-abortion laws since then that attempt to circumvent or challenge Roe because the US Supreme Court precedent applies nationally. Roe has been the law of the land for almost 50 years. I personally hope that changes but it would require a new US Supreme Court decision overturning Roe or a new Constitutional amendment.

Supreme Court decisions don’t become stale beyond a certain expiration date. Besides, wasn’t the date of that decision regarding vaccines - 1905 - back when America was “great”? Aren’t we trying to get back to times like that?

Zard

Plessy V. Ferguson was a Supreme Court decision. so was Dred Scott.

Buck v. Bell affirmed the right of the state to sterilize imbeciles. Is that one still a good precedent?

Supreme doesn't mean infallible.

ZapBrannigan

Slightly off topic, the family doctor suggested I get the booster, so I did so yesterday. She suggested it due to working in close quarters, without being able to wear a mask, and with colleagues of varying levels of adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions or vaccination it would be a good idea given the transmissibility of the Delta variant.

Made the appointment at CVS for 10am. My wife got one too. By about 8pm we had the familiar arm pain and kind of run down feeling. Slept ok, but this morning hurting a bit. Feels a little bit like I overdid it in a full body workout. Compared to the other two shots where I just had a headache and some fatigue for a day or so, side effects from this one are a little worse, but not debilitating.

Just figured I'd throw it out there in case anybody else is considering the 3rd dose.

BoilerUP

Zap,

Perhaps I’m remembering wrong…but you already had COVID, right?

When did you get your second Pfizer shot?

RJSAviator76

Eeyore, so let me make sure I got this right.

You’ve had Covid earlier this year, subsequently got two shots and now a booster shot?!

ZapBrannigan

Yeah you are both right.

Second shot was March 21. Doc said there was no way to know whether natural immunity from the ancestral strain would provide adequate protection from the Delta variant. She asked me some questions about the environment at work right now, and based on my answers she felt it was a good idea to get the third shot.

I know it sounds a little crazy but having Covid and being out for a while scared me and I didn't want to take a chance at getting it again. Wife got it due to a couple comorbidities. (Plus taking the kiddo to Disney in a few weeks and I'm sure they'll be tons of people there)