RETIRED The Vviles world of ARCHERMANIA Thread

Supposed to be 100 here the next couple days.

A guy was arrested and imprisoned for eating the food he grew on his own property because it interfered with the profits of farmers and grocery stores.

Yay! More mommy-daddy stuff between two supervisors today! This is gonna be interesting. Another guy is here temporarily and is trying to go around my "actual" boss to get us to do his taskings. Our boss is out today, so I imagine that's partially why this was put out this morning. The officer over my section (LTC) just said that's not gonna happen.

i heard the wings at hooters are occasionally hairy

that's farking disgusting

i heard the wings at hooters are occasionally hairy

that's farking disgusting

if i say "chicken wings" enough, you will want chicken wings.

chicken wings.

A guy was arrested and imprisoned for eating the food he grew on his own property because it interfered with the profits of farmers and grocery stores.

Hahaha...do they actually run around in short plaid skirts, knee-high white socks and pigtails? Somehow I doubt that....

if i say "chicken wings" enough, you will want chicken wings.

chicken wings.

That's not a "just" type of job\

Mine isn't the pretty flowy waviness...it's more of a kinked awkwardness...because my hair is sooooo fine....

For serious...where's that link?

Commerce clause power was not much used by Congress until the New Deal and the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). During that administration, Roosevelt attempted to assert a lot of federal power that had not been previously asserted by the federal government. However, a number of such laws pressed through Congress were found by the U.S. Supreme Court to lack constitutional authority. For many of these pet endeavors, FDR claimed commerce clause authority.

Upon being rebuffed by the Supreme Court, Roosevelt threatened to expand the number of justices on the Court in order to be able to pack the Court with sympathizers and thereby gain court approval of his threatened New Deal programs. That created something of a standoff between Roosevelt and the Supreme Court.

It was into this politically-charged situation that the legal case of Wickard v. Filburn came to the Supreme Court. Because of the real threat of Court-packing by Roosevelt, the Supreme Court blinked on Wickard.

Wickard was a wheat farmer in Illinois and Filburn was the Secretary of Agriculture. In order to maintain wheat prices, Congress had instituted price supports for Wheat markets, along with quotas for growing wheat. Wickard was not only growing wheat for market, but he also grew an extra acre of wheat to harvest to give to his wife to grind into flour to make bread for the Wickard family. The Department of Agriculture, tasked to enforce the wheat quotas, asserted that the acre of wheat Wickard grew for his family was a violation of the quotas.

Wickard sued. The Department of Agriculture claimed that Congress had commerce clause authority under the Constitution to prohibit Wickard's practice of growing wheat for his family. Even though it was admitted that the wheat Wickard grew for his family never left the farm, the Department of Agriculture claimed that this practice affected interstate commerce. If Wickard had not given this wheat to his wife, the government argued, it might have traveled across a state line and could have affected interstate commerce. Further, the government argued, if Wickard had not given farm-grown wheat to his wife to feed the family, his wife would have bought bread at the store – bread that might have crossed a state line and might have affected interstate commerce.

i heard the wings at hooters are occasionally hairy

if i say "chicken wings" enough, you will want chicken wings.

chicken wings.

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(Apologies, but I just can't be coherent today.)