Alito? No!
Bush nominates Alito to Supreme Court – to get the Reich off his back and change the subject from the exposure of classified information to reporters by members of his staff.
We don’t need another probable member of Opus Dei on the Supreme Court. We don’t need someone who has ruled that there are few if any limits on the actions of law enforcement. We don’t need someone who has ruled that discrimination is perfectly acceptable. We don’t need someone who can’t see the right to privacy in the Constitution.
If you read Planned Parenthood v. Casey you see Justice O’Connor specifically disagree that the number of people affected is a determinate, as argued by Alito, but it is the effect of a law on any individual that is determinate. Alito doesn’t seem to believe in minority rights.
Having used Dred Scott as a code for Roe v Wade, the Shrubbery has found a modern version of Roger Taney.
October 31, 2005 Comments Off on Alito? No!
Happy Halloween
Whether you celebrate Celtic New Year’s Eve [Samhain], the evening before All Saints Day [Halloween], or the posting of Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses in 1517 [Reformation Day], have a happy one.
Wikipedia does its normally thorough job of covering all of the bases on the holidays that share October 31st.
It is tiresome that some groups are pushing to have the celebration banned at the schoolhouse door
…Buckling to wishes of a minority, says Eric Dietrich, a Binghamton University philosophy professor, is not necessarily what should happen in a democracy. “Halloween is a flare-up of huge social problems we’re facing,” he says. “If you show me a United States with no holiday where you can be creatively weird, I will show you a United States with no hope.”
Some people just don’t want anyone to have a good time. These “harvest festivals” aren’t fooling anyone.
October 31, 2005 Comments Off on Happy Halloween
