Thursday - August 11, 2005
Democrat Vs. Republican
We report, you decide.
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Permalink • Sunday - July 24, 2005
Alabama Legislators Seek To Castrate Sex Offenders
First off, let me state quite plainly that I am all for this kind of punishment. With that said, it appears the Alabama legislature is prepared to vote on a law that would force sex offenders who prey on children to undergo castration ....
(WPMI - MONTGOMERY, Ala.) (AP) - Some members of the Alabama House say that violent sex offenders who prey on children should be forced to undergo surgical castration to ensure that they do not hurt another child.
In an effort to strengthen a bill toughening the state’s laws against sex offenders, the House added an amendment Thursday by Rep. Steve Hurst, D-Munford, that would require those convicted of violent sex crimes against children under 12 to undergo the operation to remove their sex drive.
“Someone 12 or under can’t defend themselves. I don’t believe they should ever be back in society. But if they are going to be back in society, it should be in a reformed way where they can’t become a repeat offender,” Hurst said.
The amendment sparked a heated debate in the Legislature, with some lawmakers saying that no punishment is too tough if it protects children, while others said talk of extreme punishments like castration was political rhetoric aimed at helping legislators get re-elected next year.
At one point the discussion became so graphic that Speaker Seth Hammett, D-Andalusia, stopped the debate and reminded lawmakers that there were “citizens of all ages” observing in the House gallery.
The bill, as originally introduced in the Legislature, provides tougher sentences for sex offenders, removes the possibility of probation or parole from sex offenders and requires some to wear electronic monitoring devices after they are released from prison. The original bill is being supported by Gov. Bob Riley and Attorney General Troy King.
The Senate voted Thursday to approve the original bill and send it to the House to consider. The House, meanwhile, passed the amended version with castration and sent it to the Senate, where it has not been considered by a committee.
When the House Judiciary Committee took up the Senate-passed bill Friday, King told the committee that he feared the legislation would be unconstitutional if it included the castration provision, citing a 1940s Supreme Court ruling that said sterilization was an unconstitutional punishment.
“I would hate to see us invite a constitutional challenge that I feel we can’t win,” King said. The committee approved a Senate-passed version that does not include the castration amendment, but an attempt to add the language is expected when the bill comes up for final passage in the House Tuesday.
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This is always how war begins. One nation state gets pissed at another, imposes sanctions and the other nation state gets pissed and retaliates with a sneak attack causing full-scale war. Mark my words. The next thing you know the Aruban Air Force will be bombing Mobile Bay, sinking the USS Alabama and finally, the Alabama National Guard will be deployed in a massive invasion of Aruba forcing the island nation to unconditionally surrender. Then Alabama will be stuck occupying the island for the next fifty years ........ then again, maybe not ....
Alabama House asks residents to boycott Aruba
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama House passed a resolution Friday asking Alabama residents to boycott travel to Aruba, where a teenager has been missing for more than seven weeks. The resolution expresses concern that no one has been charged in the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway of Mountain Brook, Ala.
Holloway, who attended junior high school in Clinton, Miss., and whose father lives in Meridian, Miss., disappeared May 30. Her disappearance came hours before she was to catch a return flight to Alabama at the end of a high school graduation trip to the Dutch Caribbean island.
Since Holloway’s disappearance, authorities in Aruba have detained seven people in the case, but only Joran van der Sloot, the 17-year-old son of a judge in training, remains in custody. Holloway was last seen in public leaving a nightclub with van der Sloot.
The resolution was sponsored by Rep. Leslie Vance, D-Phenix City, who said he hopes the threat of losing tourist dollars will encourage officials in Aruba to speed up the investigation.
“This is a way to say to the authorities down there that you have to get serious about this,” Vance said. Rep. Jim Carns, R-Mountain Brook, whose district includes Holloway’s residence, said he supports the resolution. “I think we need to do something to get their attention,” Carns said. “One of our citizens went their as a tourist and apparently something terrible happened.”
The resolution is not a law. Vance said it is just a recommendation asking Alabama tourists to avoid Aruba until the Holloway case is resolved.
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Permalink • Friday - July 22, 2005
The Founding Fathers & The Supreme Court, Part II
This is the second of a two-part series. Part I was posted this morning.
“Advice and Consent”. We hear a lot about that whenever an opening comes up for the Supreme Court, however it also applies to ambassadors and Cabinet members too. The framers of the Constitution gave a lot of thought as to how to appoint non-elected officers to positions of power within the Federal government. As noted in the Federalist Papers, they decided against giving Congress the power to do it by themselves for the simple reason that committees of men rarely agree and partisan bickering would probably result in compromises that would not put the best qualified people in those positions.
For that reason, they decided to give the power to nominate people to these positions to the Executive branch. The key word here is “nominate”. This allows the President to choose who, in his best judgement, is the best qualified to serve. At the same time, the Founding Fathers decided to throw in a check on this power by making it a process where the President was advised by the Senate as to possible choices and the President’s nominee had to have the consent of the Senate. This was done, as explained by Alexander Hamilton, to keep the President from appointing political hacks, friends, relatives, et. who were unqualified. Here is the text of Article II, Section II of the Consitution relating to this process ....
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
There you go. Notice there is one word missing from that text that you have heard a lot of lately .... filibuster. To put it bluntly, a “filibuster” is an invention by partisan political hacks whereby the Senate never actually gives its consent but simply avoids voting on the issue of consent by talking each other to death. The Founding Fathers never foresaw this devious tactic whereby one group of Senators could postpone a vote on consent indefinitely by simply talking and talking and talking. The Founding Fathers evidently had faith in the American people such that they would never elect any idiots stupid enough to be this venal and partisan in their appointed duties. That is because the Founding Fathers were all good men of solid character and ethics. They could never imagine any group of maggots ever gaining enough power within the Senate to bastardize the process in this manner. I’ll let Alexander Hamilton explain their views on the appointment of Supreme Court judges to give you a little insight into their thinking ....
On why the appointment should be done by one man, the President ....
The sole and undivided responsibility of one man will naturally beget a livelier sense of duty and a more exact regard to reputation. He will, on this account, feel himself under stronger obligations, and more interested to investigate with care the qualities requisite to the stations to be filled, and to prefer with impartiality the persons who may have the fairest pretensions to them. He will have FEWER personal attachments to gratify, than a body of men who may each be supposed to have an equal number; and will be so much the less liable to be misled by the sentiments of friendship and of affection. A single well-directed man, by a single understanding, cannot be distracted and warped by that diversity of views, feelings, and interests, which frequently distract and warp the resolutions of a collective body. There is nothing so apt to agitate the passions of mankind as personal considerations whether they relate to ourselves or to others, who are to be the objects of our choice or preference. Hence, in every exercise of the power of appointing to offices, by an assembly of men, we must expect to see a full display of all the private and party likings and dislikes, partialities and antipathies, attachments and animosities, which are felt by those who compose the assembly. The choice which may at any time happen to be made under such circumstances, will of course be the result either of a victory gained by one party over the other, or of a compromise between the parties. In either case, the intrinsic merit of the candidate will be too often out of sight. In the first, the qualifications best adapted to uniting the suffrages of the party, will be more considered than those which fit the person for the station. In the last, the coalition will commonly turn upon some interested equivalent: ``Give us the man we wish for this office, and you shall have the one you wish for that.’’ This will be the usual condition of the bargain. And it will rarely happen that the advancement of the public service will be the primary object either of party victories or of party negotiations.
On the reasoning behind requiring the consent of the Senate ....
To what purpose then require the co-operation of the Senate? I answer, that the necessity of their concurrence would have a powerful, though, in general, a silent operation. It would be an excellent check upon a spirit of favoritism in the President, and would tend greatly to prevent the appointment of unfit characters from State prejudice, from family connection, from personal attachment, or from a view to popularity. In addition to this, it would be an efficacious source of stability in the administration.
It will readily be comprehended, that a man who had himself the sole disposition of offices, would be governed much more by his private inclinations and interests, than when he was bound to submit the propriety of his choice to the discussion and determination of a different and independent body, and that body an entire branch of the legislature. The possibility of rejection would be a strong motive to care in proposing. The danger to his own reputation, and, in the case of an elective magistrate, to his political existence, from betraying a spirit of favoritism, or an unbecoming pursuit of popularity, to the observation of a body whose opinion would have great weight in forming that of the public, could not fail to operate as a barrier to the one and to the other. He would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure.
So you see, the whole idea was to give the President power to appoint but the Senate has the power to vote up or down to confirm the appointment. This keeps the President honest and allows for a more dynamic process that would reasonably put the best people in the offices where they were needed, such as the Supreme Court. Refusing to vote on the President’s choice by holding the appointment up in committee or blocking a vote in the Senate by reading from Dr. Seuss books is outside the pale. The act of filibuster is a travesty and an affront to the original intent of the Constitution and its authors.
Personally, I like most the way Hamilton concludes his treatise on the appointment process by discussing the better nature of man ....
To this reasoning it has been objected that the President, by the influence of the power of nomination, may secure the complaisance of the Senate to his views. This supposition of universal venality in human nature is little less an error in political reasoning, than the supposition of universal rectitude. The institution of delegated power implies, that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind, which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence; and experience justifies the theory. It has been found to exist in the most corrupt periods of the most corrupt governments.
Though it might therefore be allowable to suppose that the Executive might occasionally influence some individuals in the Senate, yet the supposition, that he could in general purchase the integrity of the whole body, would be forced and improbable. A man disposed to view human nature as it is, without either flattering its virtues or exaggerating its vices, will see sufficient ground of confidence in the probity of the Senate, to rest satisfied, not only that it will be impracticable to the Executive to corrupt or seduce a majority of its members, but that the necessity of its co-operation, in the business of appointments, will be a considerable and salutary restraint upon the conduct of that magistrate.
Source: The Federalist Papers, No. 76 - The Appointing Power of the Executive, From the New York Packet. Tuesday, April 1, 1788.
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Permalink • Wednesday - July 06, 2005
Happy Birthday
U.S. President George W. Bush (L) jokingly prepares to blow out all the candles on his birthday cake, presented to him by Denmark’s Queen Margrethe (R) at the Fredensborg Palace in Fredensborg, Denmark, July 6, 2005. Bush spent his 59th birthday around the Danish capital Copenhagen before preparing to fly later in the day to Scotland for the G8 Summit. REUTERS/Jason Reed
Meanshile, in Scotland, the protestors are already lining up and destroying property. Police there have cancelled one protest march and have already arrested several of these lunatics ....
GLENEAGLES, Scotland (Reuters) - Anti-G8 protesters clashed with police on Wednesday and disrupted traffic near the heavily fortified hotel where Group of Eight leaders are to meet. Hooded protesters broke car windows, threw bricks and clashed with riot police in pre-dawn violence in nearby Stirling as they left camps to head to the Gleneagles hotel, which is protected by 10,000 police and a 5 mile steel fence.
Protesters put up impromptu barricades and threw obstacles on the roads around Gleneagles, blocking parts of the main highway in central Scotland for more than four hours. Cutting gear was needed to remove some activists who chained themselves together across the north-south highway. Police said they had made 60 arrests and eight officers needed hospital treatment for injuries suffered in the clashes.
They canceled the day’s main anti-G8 march by 5,000 protesters planned for Auchterarder, which borders Gleneagles, because of “serious public disorder” and the need to close roads to ensure the summit’s safety. Tayside Police Chief Superintendent Iain Macleod said a violent minority of protesters had been “completely hellbent on disrupting a peaceful demonstration.”
The protesters were from a range of anti-capitalist, anti-globalization and anarchist groups. “We are here to stop the G8. Putting profit over people is destroying our planet,” said Sophie Reynolds, 39, an environmentalist from London, as she dragged branches across the highway.
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Permalink • Tuesday - July 05, 2005
Government Research Database Opens To Public
Some of the most coveted research on Capitol Hill has long been available only to members of Congress. But now, thanks to a project led by the Center for Democracy and Technology, reports on anything you might be interested in are now accessible to all with a click of a mouse.
The new Web site supplies a searchable database of more than 8000 reports produced by the Congressional Research Service. The CRS, also known as the public-policy “think tank” of Congress, was created in 1914 to provide “nonpartisan, objective analysis and research on all legislative issues.” Congressional members and their staffs utilize this resource to learn more about political issues of interest and to develop legislation.
Go browse around and see what you think. These are the same research reports that Congress and Cabinet members use to make policy decisions. There are extensive reports (all in PDF format) on subjects ranging from the Patriot Act to Illegal Immmigration to the Iraq War to Afghanistan to North Korea. Maybe you can fingure out why our government acts so squirrely at times. I gave up on those rascals a long time ago.
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Permalink • Saturday - July 02, 2005
Occasional Cooperation
Steve Kelley, The New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Permalink • Friday - July 01, 2005
One Down, Forty-Nine To Go
We regret to inform you that if you live in Minnesota, you have no state government for the next ten days. It appears the State ran out of money and the legislature couldn’t pass a temporary spending bill before the holiday recess. All citizens of Minnesota are hereby encouraged to pretend you are being governed lest lawlessness break out ....
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota’s government shut down Friday for the first time in state history after lawmakers failed to pass a temporary spending plan and left 9,000 employees jobless and highway rest stops unattended for the July Fourth weekend.
The shutdown came at midnight after lawmakers failed late Thursday to pass a temporary spending plan to keep the government up and running. The Senate adjourned 20 minutes after Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty said he hoped the two sides could agree on a stopgap measure to keep the state’s doors open for 10 more days.
“I’d like to say I’m sorry to the people of Minnesota,” said Republican state Rep. Rod Hamilton of Mountain Lake. “This is disgusting.”
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Permalink • Monday - June 27, 2005
A Present For Senator Frist
Dear Senator Frist,
Please find the articles below for your use in the upcoming battles with Demoncrats. I regret that in the past several years, you and your fellow Republicans in Washington seem to be missing any anatomical parts that even closely resemble what I am holding here. Please take these, strap them on between your legs and act like you got a pair, OK? I’m sick and tired of you “girlie-men” caving in to the liberals and Democrats (I know, redundant) in DC. Since you fellows can’t seem to grow a pair, please take the pair I am offering you here. God only knows you boys sure as hell do need them.
Sincerely,
The Skipper
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Permalink • Wednesday - June 22, 2005
Open Forum
For those who haven’t been keeping up with current events, ever since my oldest son went out to Albuquerque to work on his Masters degree in Music at the University Of New Mexico, he has fallen under the spell of the Dark Side. Yes .... the fruit of my loins has become a Barking Moonbat. The liberal professors and students out there have brainwashed him to the point where he believes Michael Moore is the incarnation of truth and George Bush is Hitler reborn.
I am shamed.
He had this to say to me in his Father’s Day e-mail ....
Yes, I still believe that Bush is the worst president of our times and deserves to be impeached based on the proof exhibited in the “Downing Street Memos.”
Yes, I truly believe that anyone who still supports that man and his gangsters is seriously suffering from intelligence gaps and has completely lost their grasp on reality.
If only I could go back in time to 1970 (when he was conceived) and tell my youthful self, “USE A RUBBER, DAMMIT!”
Anyway, I present to you here the notorious “Downing Street Memo” and toss it out to you to chew over. You may feel free to cuss it or discuss it, whichever suits your fancy. Personally, I don’t see a so-called “smoking gun” as my son and his Moonbat friends see. You tell me. In the meantime, I’m going to go bang that snot-nosed little brat up side of his pointy little head. What else can I do? After all, he is his mother’s son ....
Note: the person speaking here who is identified only as “C” is Sir Richard Dearlove, the current head of MI6. I have underlined the sentence the Liberals believe is the “smoking gun”.
MEMO
SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL - UK EYES ONLYDAVID MANNING
From: Matthew Rycroft
Date: 23 July 2002
S 195 /02cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson, John Scarlett, Francis Richards, CDS, C, Jonathan Powell, Sally Morgan, Alastair Campbell
IRAQ: PRIME MINISTER’S MEETING, 23 JULY
Copy addressees and you met the Prime Minister on 23 July to discuss Iraq.
This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. It should be shown only to those with a genuine need to know its contents.
John Scarlett summarised the intelligence and latest JIC assessment. Saddam’s regime was tough and based on extreme fear. The only way to overthrow it was likely to be by massive military action. Saddam was worried and expected an attack, probably by air and land, but he was not convinced that it would be immediate or overwhelming. His regime expected their neighbours to line up with the US. Saddam knew that regular army morale was poor. Real support for Saddam among the public was probably narrowly based.
C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime’s record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.
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Permalink • Tuesday - May 31, 2005
Deep Throat Unmasked …. For The Money
The man who was Woodward & Bernstein’s “anonymous source” for their Watergate investigation has been unmasked. It was W. Mark Felt, the former Number 2 man at the FBI (FOX News) ....
WASHINGTON — The Washington Post confirmed Tuesday that W. Mark Felt, the former No. 2 at the FBI, is “Deep Throat,” the famous source credited with helping blow open secrets about President Nixon’s Watergate cover-up.
Ben Bradlee, the Post’s top editor during the Watergate scandal, said in an interview with his old paper that he wouldn’t recognize Felt if he had seen him, but he knew all along that “Deep Throat” was a high-ranking FBI official and learned his name within a couple of weeks after Nixon’s resignation.
According to the Vanity Fair article, Felt only allowed his secret to be revealed after prodding from his children, who argued his legacy should be established while he was still alive and that the family should reap some monetary rewards from his newly established place in history. (emphasis mine)
(-- tip o’ the hat to Quidni for pointing this out to me)
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Permalink • Thursday - May 19, 2005
Bart Simpson Elected Mayor
Well eat my shorts! Northridge, California has a new mayor.
Nancy Cartwright provides the unmistakeable voice of Bart in the iconic The Simpsons animated series and admits her day job could help her as mayor.
“Everyone finds it funny that Bart is the new mayor. I can influence people because I’m Bart Simpson,” she said.
“I live in a nice neighbourhood. But down the road there’s drugs and gangs, stealing and illiteracy.”
I am sure that Chief Wiggam can clean up those mean streets, in no time at all.
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Permalink • Tuesday - May 17, 2005
Gunfight At The OK Corral
Talks in the Senate on filibustering have broken down ....
Senate Minority Leader
Harry M. ReidIke Clanton (D-Nev.) announced yesterday that he and Majority LeaderBill FristDoc Holliday (R-Tenn.) had broken off negotiations aimed at averting a showdown overPresident Bush’sWyatt Earp’s judicial nominees, movingthe SenateTombstone to the brink of aconstitutional confrontationgun fight and a battle that holds peril for both political parties andthe White HouseMarshall Earp.
ReidClanton, emerging from an afternoon meeting withFristHolliday, declared that the two leaders had reached an impasse after weeks of talks. “Negotiations are over,” he said. “It’ll have to be decidedon the Senate floorat the OK Corral.”
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Permalink • Monday - May 16, 2005
Double Trouble
Steve Kelley, The New Orleans Times-Picayune
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