Friday, January 29, 2010

Thought of the Day

Bob Burnett: The Conservative War on Democracy: The Puppet Supreme Court: "'In every major case since he became the nation's seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts [and his conservative allies] has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative, and the corporate defendant over the individual plaintiff.'"

4 comments:

  1. I wasn't making any personal comment other than the fact of the fact thus the Huffpost comment. If I were trying to explain my personal thoughts I would have written a personal post. As often, you're half right about conservatives vs libs. From the Reagan administration the conservatives have made it one of their planks, their pillars, their raison d'etre that judges were activist. If you see that as both sides again you've got blinders on. Libs are guilty of plenty of insane thoughts over the years but have not made their mantra about the courts like the conservs. To be fair they have warned that they feel the court is becoming too conservative.
    But every single republican president, person in congress, mayor, and town council person has been REQUIRED since the 80's to say that they want to get rid of "activist judges".

    Do you disagree with that last statement? Or are you trying to rewrite history. Sheila, fair is fair. I certainly have been honest in this comment, you too. Admit that it has been the republicans that historically for the last 30 years made it their cause to change the court. And they have often described rulings that they didn't like as judicial activism.

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  2. My oh my the huffington post digs now. OK, good one. Have you read http://dailycaller.com ? It's Tucker Carlson's new website competing with Huffingtons. You ought to check it out. I read it more or less every day to get a little different slant than Ariana. I have commented a little there but as at the daily journal, you can imagine I don't get too far.:)

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  3. I called you cold several months ago because of your seeming non-caring for people without health care. I didn't go as far as I wanted to because I was still getting to know you and also because I didn't want to come on too strong. Today you made a comment at TDJ about paying for paupers funerals and how we just can't afford to pay for everything. So now on this little comment page which is hardly read by anyone but you and I, I want to tell you that I think you are indeed cold, nay freezing. I wonder if you have ice water flowing through your veins. Would you go back to the dark ages and just throw the bodies in the sewers? Perhaps they should be donated to science if they can't afford a burial.

    I guess I would not even think of reaching you with all this but for the fact that you SURROUND yourself in your faith. Your main blog is all about your faith, the first thing at TDJ describes you as a pro-life Catholic. And then the fact that you're a nurse. I hold nurses in higher esteem that other occupations. We've discussed before that I think it takes a special, compassionatte person to be a nurse.
    With you I see no compassion, only hatred. You talk a good game but at least from your writing's you don't walk the walk. I know you said you paid for the food for the person in front of you one time at the grocery store.

    What does the Catholic church want you to do when a person doesn't have money to be buried? Please let me know. Then please announce that when commenting that "we just can't afford everything" bull crap that you write.

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  4. With all due respect, please don't lecture me again about the defecit.

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