Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
The General would like bin Laden alive.
“The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden,’’ Mr. Holder said, responding to hypothetical questions from Republicans about whether the Obama administration would try Mr. bin Laden in a civilian or military court.
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General McChrystal was subsequently asked during a Pentagon briefing by telephone from Afghanistan on Wednesday if the military had given up on catching an alive Mr. bin Laden, who is believed to be hiding in Pakistan. The general expressed surprise at the question.“Wow, no,’’ General McChrystal responded. “If Osama bin Laden comes inside Afghanistan, we would certainly go after trying to capture him alive and bring him to justice.’’
Holder is just whacked out on this thing. He must be smoking something.
Times get good and times get bad, people become more concerned with freedom and then they become more concerned with security. They trust conservatives more in one year and then they trust the liberals more in another year.
But this is something about liberals that I think always makes people queasy. Most people, anyway.
It is this notion that you have what I would call “swollen” rights. Rights brought to you by the evil sticky black slimy stuff. Any dispute that arises from you having these rights, shall be adjudicated in your favor. Every single doubt shall be resolved to your benefit. And if anyone utters a peep of protest their career shall be ended, to make an example out of them for others.
But that the rights are situational. Yeah, I’m making a reference here to abortion…you have the right to have your vote “counted” even though you are too stupid to know what’s going on or to get to the polling place by yourself…womb-to-tomb healthcare…to work at Hooter’s even if you’re a man. To send the cop packing even though it’s known you have a stash, because you happen to have gotten it all flushed before he broke the door down. To an electric scooter if you’re fat and lazy. To join a union and get the same six weeks of paid vacation someone else has. But only if you cross that finish line. If you’re still in your momma’s belly, then that means you don’t even exist yet. Then, you can forget about even the most fundamental human rights…nevermind your six weeks of vacation. Forget about all of it. It’s situational.
This is where Holder’s going with UBL. The terrorist mastermind, according to Holder doctrine as I understand it, would have a great big ol’ smorgasbord of rights. If he made it back here. But it ain’t gonna happen.
Holder sees our primary enemy, it seems to me, as an unborn fetus. Osama has all these “rights” that are all to be arbitrated in his favor…that are swollen. But situational. He is entitled to the creme de la creme, but can be deprived of just the basics. If certain events do not happen. It all depends on that. Complete extremism on one side if the events do not happen, complete extremism on the other side if they do. It changes the class of the person we are talking about.
I don’t see this as an American ideal, and I think most people agree with me about that. At least, more people agree with me than with our Attorney General; rights, along with privileges, are determined at any given time by what a person has done as well as by what a person is.
According to that, then, his trial and sentencing would be about as quick as that scene in TimeCop. You know…Jean-Claude saves that guy from falling in 1929 by taking him back to the present, they find him guilty, he’s sent back into mid-fall to go crashy crashy and be just another fallen despondent investor. About that quick.
There’s something in the Eighth Amendment that makes that unconstitutional? Point out the passage, please. Word for word, letter for letter.
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