ivan Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 verbal diarrhea you could just use "logorrhoea" and appear a more formidable scrabble player to boot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_b Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 What's below the academic threshold is pretending that us talking about spending cuts all day is going to force politicians to do their job, ... Â ...as opposed to your incessant spew of verbal diarrhea effecting any change in government. Â I do believe that national discourse is affected by social media. You probably do too or you wouldn't be obfuscating incessantly (like you just did) on this board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 What's below the academic threshold is pretending that us talking about spending cuts all day is going to force politicians to do their job, ... Â ...as opposed to your incessant spew of verbal diarrhea effecting any change in government. Â Oh, like your verbal diarrhea effects change.... hypocrisy at its best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted December 1, 2011 Author Share Posted December 1, 2011 It's helpful to take historical context into consideration with SCOTUS decisions. 1942...hmmmm...that rings a bell.... Â -The law the guy was breaking didn't have it's genesis in WWII - it was the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. The case didn't arise because of WWII any more than Gonzales vs Raich arose because of the Iraq War. Â -Even if it had, it's puzzling to see a civil libertarian and legal scholar ignore the question of whether or not the constitution actually grants Federal government has the legal authority to forbid people from growing food on their own property for their own use under any circumstances, let alone either not understanding or appreciating the role of precedent. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 No, WWII had no bearing on the SCOTUS decision, which occurred in the middle of the war. How could it possibly? Why would such a minor event effect their thinking? Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 (edited) As I stated before, Wheat is Murder. Â Hint: If you've got enough extra time on your hands to debate the moral/ethical/legal question of growing your own wheat...I'm not really sure I'm your guy. If you're out hypocrisy hunting, there's another poster here you might team up with. He's got an awesome database full of the stuff. Edited December 1, 2011 by tvashtarkatena Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 BTW, I've grown my own wheat for personal consumption. Have you? Â Birds ate it, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I grow my own coffee. I got enough beans this year for ONE CUP! Â I grew my own tobacco once. It was nasty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 BTW, I've grown my own wheat for personal consumption. Have you?  Birds ate it, though. I grow my own greens, veggies, and herbs. No, Pat, not that herb... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 i got a fierce crop of radishes right about now - don't know who planted'em, but there they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 At one time I had the smallest wheat field in WA. 1' x 1' of Black Knight Winter. I was going to make a shot of vodka out of it at the time. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted December 1, 2011 Author Share Posted December 1, 2011 As I stated before, Wheat is Murder. Â Hint: If you've got enough extra time on your hands to debate the moral/ethical/legal question of growing your own wheat...I'm not really sure I'm your guy. If you're out hypocrisy hunting, there's another poster here you might team up with. He's got an awesome database full of the stuff. Â Who's my guy if I want to make an exchange with someone takes a rhetorical position that's wildly inconsistent with his oft stated ideological commitments to civil liberties, and has to choose between admitting as much or A) pretending to be unaware how the precedents established concerning the scope of the Commerce Clause have systematically undermined them and/or B)insisting that the SCOTUS actually heard a case and issued a ruling on a narrowly technical matter concerning wheat production that had zero larger significance?* Â *Which is why it hasn't been cited in any other SCOTUS decisions that pertain to matters other than wheat cultivation? Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Was that your attempt at 'stream of consciousness'? Â Look, you've got your strawman (get it?). What do you need me for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Not that homegrown wheat isn't an important issue, mind you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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