CITIZEN OPEN THREAD.

Kennedy Center Honorees

https://x.com/annamlulis/status/1997142709333856348?s=20

In honor of my 2 uncles that were on Hickam Field Army Air Base in Pearl Harbor the day the Japanese attacked. They both survived the war and told me all about that day and the days that followed.

Misunderstanding Originalism [The more that I’m exposed to scholarly original-ism, the more I agree with it…]
John Yoo, December 05, 2025

Merriam and other critics are correct to observe that originalism does not advance a “new constitutional morality.” It does not promote “good” or “bad” outcomes—it simply enforces the constitutional rights and structures established in the constitutional text as understood by those who ratified it.

For example, originalism does not ask whether a right to bear arms makes sense in terms of a natural right of self-defense, a social contract theory of government by consent, a traditional state provision of public safety, or a utilitarian calculus weighing the benefits of gun control in reducing violence. It simply asks whether those who ratified the Constitution would have understood the language of the Second Amendment to protect an individual right to possess firearms. In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and McDonald v. City of Chicago (2012), Justice Antonin Scalia in the former case and Justice Samuel Alito in the latter one may have looked to natural rights theory, but they did so only to understand the historical context that gives meaning to words such as “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms.”

Calls for a “new constitutional morality” rest on a mistaken view of the courts and their role in constitutional interpretation. When originalism fails to produce the moral outcomes Merriam and other critics prefer, they treat this as a defect in the method. But originalism does not supply a moral philosophy—it is a method of interpretation. It keeps judges within the boundaries of the proper judicial role set out in the Constitution.

Presidents and Congress, no less than governors and state legislators, play the primary role in identifying public morals and implementing them through statutes, regulations, and executive orders. As Alexander Hamilton argued in Federalist 78, the “proper and peculiar province of the courts” is “the interpretation of the laws,” not pronouncing or enforcing a specific morality. Judicial review arises only because a court, confronted by “an irreconcilable variance between” an act of Congress and the Constitution, must enforce the law with “superior obligation and validity,” in other words, the Constitution. As Hamilton concluded, “[T]he constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents.”
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/misunderstanding-originalism/

Some music for the boss tonight

IU game – holy smokes

The dastardly NJ Dems are at it again. Committee sneaked in a quick vote on S4360 (anti-outside gun ranges) while they thought the good guys weren’t around. Well, the good guys were (NJ Rifle & Pistol and NRA) and word has gotten out via all the clubs and ranges. Any NJ citizens here, it’d be nice if you could contact your NJ state senator and tell them “NO”. Thanks.

Somali pissin’ pirate desecrates Trump’s Hollywood star.

Kane – I did a little digging and those McDonald’s full page pop up ads seemingly affect Mac’s, and the Edge browser. It is also likely to be a rogue extension or malware. I myself have not seen these ads on any CFP pages. Put another way, it’s alomost sure to be JLHightower device and not related to CFP.

Right in the mangina. 😂😂

https://x.com/TheRicanMemes/status/1997448413668167988?s=20

By-Tor & The Snow Dog
Rush
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lL1zl-K8fF8&pp=ygUacnVzaCBieXRvciBhbmQgdGhlIHNub3dkb2fSBwkJJQoBhyohjO8%3D

Calling it a night…

For those feeming a Flashback…

Pink Floyd & Frank Zappa – Interstellar Overdrive (Live)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zBBHk_zNOFE&pp=ygUWZnJhbmsgemFwcGEgcGluayBmbG95ZNIHCQklCgGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

Frank is the only one not tripping…

Bridge Of Sighs (2024 Remaster)
Robin Trower

Eye of the Beholder (Remastered)
Metallica
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pEBp9ulELLA

Just imagine the retirement homes when my g g g generation gets there…

Christopher Landau @DeputySecState
In connection with my trip to Europe this week, I asked the @StateDept whether the nations of Europe had provided more money to (a) Russia or (b) Ukraine between the invasion in February 2022 and President Trump’s return to office in January 2025. I was surprised that the answer was Russia, and by a long shot! I knew many of these countries had tied their energy fortunes to Russia, but I had no idea of the extent of it, or how (collectively) it dwarfed their aid to Ukraine. Please see the chart below. The money sent to Russia is in blue; the money sent to Ukraine is in orange.

https://x.com/DeputySecState/status/1997372113053692396

If you know, you know. Brian, 82, is still hunting deer with a Remington BDL in 25-06 that he bought new for $121 in 1986…
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/12/06/hunter-82-still-slaying-wyoming-big-game-with-the-rifle-he-bought-in-1968/

Happy Caturday All! 🐱

Happy Caturday!

I’m starting to think Googlebot’s A.I. is a DEI hire ?

I think I figured out how to post a picture. Thanks to some of the CFPeeps for instructions. I wanted to post some stuff from RB as a tribute, and our friend GG was always right there. Thanks for the laughs ❤️

Great CR last night. I crashed about 9 but listened this morning. Sweet Home is a Fav, the metal version was really good though.
My Bro said to check out James Woods Tombstone Opera.
Pretty good

https://youtu.be/SVgioHuHsTo

The French JAMA-published study uses statistical simulations and assumptions even in generating the source data. Since France does not allow even anonymized record-level data access, direct record-comparisons are not possible.

(CFP should know JAMA is bought and paid for.)

For a contrasting study, see this report from about 1 month earlier, “Classification bias and impact of COVID-19 vaccination on all-cause mortality: the case of the Italian region Emilia-Romagna”.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08916934.2025.2562972

Basically, the study authors use official data to attempt to correct for the fact that people who had received at least *one* injection but had not yet reached two or three weeks past their *second* injection were often or even always counted as unvaccinated in official statistics, obscuring potential harm in the weeks following initial injection by categorizing people as uninjected who actually weren’t.

The study compares the relative incidence of death of any cause (all-cause mortality) between two groups in the Emilia-Romagna region: those injected with any Covid vaccine dose and those not, during the time windows of initial vaccination ramp-up periods, stratified by age as follows: 15 March to 24 May 2021 ramp-up for ages 70-79; 18 April to 23 June 2021 ramp-up for ages 60-69; 7 May to 12 July 2021 ramp-up for ages 50-59.

Summary of the findings: the incidence of all cause death during ramp-up was 3.023 times greater among the vaccinated aged 50-59, 3.866 times greater among the vaccinated aged 60-69, and 4.731 times greater among the vaccinated aged 70-79, at a significance level of p < .0001 in each case.

The authors did not look at lower age groups because there was no obvious decrease in the health status of the *unvaccinated* during vaccine ramp-ups in those age groups, while there was an anomalous increase in deaths in the *unvaccinated* during ramp-ups for ages 50-59, 60-69, and 70-79.

Thanks for the MRNA JAMA report. It was focused on individuals aged 18 to 59 years. Guess where the majority of deaths from Covid were in 60+yrs. This study is skewed towards the age bracket that had the least impact to Covid and possibly MRNA vaccine.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305

“Frank Gehry, world renowned architect, dies at 96 — 10 iconic Gehry buildings.”

Gehry’s buildings SUCK!!! He was an agent of chaos!

Commies taking their turn for the camera.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37552827/cops-swoop-tower-london-crown-jewels-vandalised/

Hope you have a wonderful Saturday!