The US Constitution is a Suicide Pact

The US Constitution is a suicide pact.  It did not start out as one, but it turned into one with unnecessary amendments giving the federal government more power than was ever intended.  To be fair, a litany of bad court decisions furthered this.

i could understand including the Bill of rights, but all of the amendments after the 10th could have been decided congressionally without weaking the foundation of the Constitution.  Yes, adding more amendments does weaken the whole.  Some of these actually went against the intentions of the founders.  The 18th and 21st Amendments show that the process was abused.

The language and intent of many amendments were weakened by compromise-based phrasing and word usage that does not reflect the current lexicon.  Ideally, the US Constitution would be rewritten taking out any ambiguities present in the current version, modernizing certain key terms, making it more concrete, and eliminating most of the amendments (which were never really necessary).

The most destructive amendment might have been the 16th Amendment (authorizing income taxes).  That accelerated the increase in the size and scope of the US government.  The awful Helvering v Davis decision (authorizing unnecessary programs outside the scope of government in the guise of "general welfare" ignoring the prevailing exigent circumstance) and 16th Amendment enabled the New Deal (better to call it the "raw deal") which extended the Great Depression.

More revenue equals more irresponsible spending.  More spending leads to more debt.  Debt begets debt.  Destruction of the US through government largess - i'm starting to think maybe that was the intent.

Happy Easter

Another Easter is upon us.

For me it was one of the two major candy holidays (Easter and Halloween).  Xmas had candy too, but it wasn't the primary focus.  My alleged father would hide candy around the house.  Yes, i dyed a few eggs this year with Paas.  Hiding eggs?  Why would people do that?  What is the point of egg rolling?

My easter was a secular holiday.  The whole Christian Resurrection story never made any sense to me (i've never believed the concept of an afterlife was anything more than a sucker bet).  Was Rankin and Bass even trying (there was Here Comes Peter Cottontail and The Easter Bunny is Coming to Town)?  Though, the Cadbury mini egg commercial with the lion is still decent after all these years.

Should have staged this a little better, but i didn't have that annoying fake green grass that got all over the place.  This is a small LEGO set (40523, 288 pieces) my alleged sister got me a few years ago placed in one of my two clearance Easter baskets.  It is not the blue denim-ish homemade Easter basket that i grew up with.