Adventures in My Mind
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Mar 22, 2005
The (im)Moral Majority Strikes Again!
That's right you screwhead Security Moms, NASCAR Dads, and Inbred Second Cousins your buddies in Congress go their knickers in such a twist about Terry Schiavo and her right to die as she and her husband saw fit that they put political gain and opportunism ahead of the rule of law, the Constitution, the Florida courts, Federalism, privacy, and just about everything else.
In case your wondering, they did not pass legislation - frantically calling a vote on Easter recess - to save Terry Schiavo's life from her uncaring husband or the dastardly ACLU. No. What they did when they crafted "Terry's Law" (Insert finger. Gag. Repeat if necessary.) was to completely reverse two hundred nineteen years of American legal precedent.
Never in the history of this country has a federal law been written for the exclusive benefit of just one person. NEVER! That is until our morally-impaired Republican thugs found a politically expedient way to pay back the helmet-haired bigots that re-elected them in '04.
For perspective outside of my own outrage try this OpEd from from the New York Times:This narrow focus is offensive. The founders believed in a nation in which, as Justice Robert Jackson once wrote, we would "submit ourselves to rulers only if under rules." There is no place in such a system for a special law creating rights for only one family. The White House insists that the law will not be a precedent. But that means that the right to bring such claims in federal court is reserved for people with enough political pull to get a law passed that names them in the text. Full Text (Free egristration required)Another NY Times editorial says:
Most Americans appreciate the complicated and sensitive concerns at stake here far better than the politicians. Whatever the range of opinion on the underlying issue, polls show that the public recoiled at the sight of elected officials racing to make hay of this family's private pain. Those findings only underline the hubris of the House majority leader, Tom DeLay, and the other G.O.P. leaders. Their egregious pandering was directed not at the bulk of the populace, but at their base vote among the evangelical and fundamentalist conservatives who have been demanding greater deference since working to deliver Republican victories last year. Full Text.Still not enough? Try this from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Tony Norman:
Pulling the plug on politics
And this only the political gamesmanship and foul play that I am objecting to here. It would take screed after screed to fully critique the profound issues of privacy that DeLay et al trampled in their own version of Passion Play. I guess we've all forgotten DeLay's ethical lapses that are still being investigated by several Congressional committees.
And finally, let us not forget the stand up performance of our Pastor-In-Chief. In interrupting his vacation and rushing back to the Whitehouse to sign Terry's Law, he positioned himself as the champion of a "culture of life." Would this be the same culture of life that is personally responsible for the deaths of over 150 Texas inmates, 1500+ U.S. service personnel, and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi children? I suppose I shouldn't get caught up in the details though. He is doing God's work afterall.
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Mar 19, 2005
Congress Suggests National Steroid Law
Well, thank f***ing god for that! I was beginning to wonder if they were ever going to get around to tackling the tough issues that face us as Americans and citizens of the world.
Combine this with the OKing of drilling in ANWR, the eviscerate of personal bankruptcy laws, the elevation of failed Iraq war architects Condi Rice and Paul Wolfowitz to positions of further prominence, and the current marketing campaign to dismantle Social Security and I know that I'll be sleeping a lot better at night.
No more will I worry about the direction this country is headed or about what type of world I've brought three innocents into. Never again shall I wonder about the dedication of our elected officials down in the Beltway. Congress wants to have a national steroid law Wow! That is a load off.
Said Senator Jim Bunning, an MLB Hall of Fame pitcher himself, "They are not bigger than the game and they are certainly not bigger than the law of the land."
No. We reserve that privilege for contributors to the RNC.
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Mar 4, 2005
Firday Fun!
Whack a Penguin (click on the Yeti)
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