What Maroons…
Maybe its the proximity of Disney World, but Central Florida is a breeding area for whackoes.
The Miami Herald reports that a Central Florida group seeks ouster of 2 high-court judges.
The Republican legislature passed 6 amendments for the November ballot, but three of them were rejected for failing to meet the requirements of the Florida constitution and/or laws. This group is upset because the Florida Supreme Court rejected Amendment 9, a thinly veiled attempt to block some provisions of Obama’s bogus health insurance corporations enrichment law.
Supreme Court justices in Florida are subject to periodic retention elections, and these two guys, both newly appointed, are up for their first one. What they did was refuse to usurp the power of the legislature and change the wording of the ballot summary.
Understand, everyone agreed that the wording that the legislature supplied for their amendment was inaccurate and misleading, but the proponents wanted the court to substitute new language. The court found that it has no power to do that, and just threw out the amendment, which is the standard procedure. Essentially these two justices are being attacked for not exceeding their authority.
The legislature should just stop trying to get “cute” on its summaries and just tell people what they are. They propose amendments for only three reasons: pandering to their base, pandering to campaign contributors, and/or negating amendments sponsored by outside groups. If they just label all of their amendments with one or more of those explanations, they would be cleared for the ballot every time.
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Wacko, Yacko and Dot (the cute one) are Warner Bros. characters, not Disney…
>_>
That’s something on television from the recent past [10 years?], right?
Never heard of them, so they must have come about since I left television behind.
I have a television and a VCR, but not a DVD player, and no connection to cable. The only time I see television is when I visit my Mother, so I’ll have to take your word for it.
I’m just as bad about movies. The last time I was in a theater was to see Lawrence of Arabia on a wide screen some time in the 1980s.
From Sept. 1993. Bryan, you should know Animaniacs, if for no other reason than that Pinky and the Brain was (were?) a spinoff.
A DVD player makes television worthwhile. Stella is something of a TV addict; she comes home from work and collapses, exhausted, in front of a truly awful sitcom. But sometimes I can persuade her to watch a classic movie, or an episode from PBS Mystery (Poirot, Miss Marple, Dalgleish [Dalgliesh? even PBS can’t spell the name consistently on its web site, so I don’t know if it’s “ie” or “ei”], Morse, etc.) instead. DVD improves my evening if not hers. 😆
Steve, I know about Pinky and the Brain from a blog post, and I did some research on it.
I read. I just don’t enjoy television. I grew up pretty much without it, and it wasn’t available in most places I lived in the military, so I just read.
The only reason I got cable after I got out of the military was for news, and we know that there currently isn’t any news on television. Even then I worked nights for a long time, and there isn’t much to watch during the day.
My family keeps trying to rope me in, but I simply don’t enjoy the medium.