Time to start off a new week. Let’s hope this week has less tragedy than last week.
Will Japan get their nuclear power plants under control? Will fighting in Libya stop? Will the Government keep running? Will we have a break from man-made and natural disasters?
And then there is that secret Leprechaun and pot o’ gold coming up on Thursday. Any good recipes or events? Where is the best place to drink green beer?
Your choice of conversation.
The new middle school at Silver Lake is named Ronald Wilson Reagan Middle School.
I guess the obvious would have been too…obvious.
I thought you would all enjoy this…considering the origins of this blog….
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/529122/kansas_legislator_virgil_peck_calls_for_gunning_down_undocumented_immigrants/#paragraph4
Kansas Legislator Virgil Peck Calls for Gunning Down Undocumented Immigrants
Enjoy!
I guess I am surprised because the Japanese are in the middle of handling a fairly severe emergency…and yet I hear conservatives saying it isn’t all that bad. 2 employees have vanished. That sounds sort of bad.
I understand that nuclear energy in general can be controversial. But in the middle of a catastrophic event? Good grief.
Glenn Beck called the president ‘stupid’ today. What a class act.
His analysis of the stock market took my breath away. What a horse hind.
@NTB, and if someone does as he suggested, he will be the fastest backpedaler on the block.
Hey Bubba, here’s another article you may be interested in. Kind of evens the score doesn’t it, only this is for real, and becoming far too common!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/crime-scene/post/fairfax-man-killed-in-alleged-drunk-driving-crash/2011/03/15/ABrMyCY_blog.html
Do we have the same concern for those killed by American drunks?
My question is, what is the real problem here? Illegal immigration or drunk driving?
@Moon-howler
Sooo, if the stock market is declining, what will you say then. I didn’t see him actually tell anybody to do anything. He just pointed out some trends and the similarity too historic trends.
And President Obama is stupid. Or, like those cops he insulted, acts “stupidly.” What else do you call someone that advocated raising the costs of energy during a recession, informs the enemy of a withdrawal date, lies constantly, has parties and goes golfing during GLOBAL emergencies, allows Sarkozy to act as the leader of the free world because of passivity, supports “freedom” in Egypt but ignores in Iran, has the government borrowing money and then printing money to pay for it, pushed a START treaty that did nothing to advance our security, does not reign in a politically motivated justice department, refused to acknowledge the enemy’s motivation in the war in terror, bans oil drilling in the Gulf and ignores a court stating said moratorium is illegal.
Obama is in over his head and has decided to vote “present.”
We are aware you don’t care for the president. You know, I wasn’t wild about George Bush but I never publically called him stupid. I feel it is disrespectful. He was the president.
Glenn Beck totally didn’t know what he was talking about. He was blowing smoke and he knew it. Emerging markets? Trend lines? The mouth was on and no one was home. The USA is NOT an emerging market.
There were no trends. He said nothing.
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/03/long-ongoing-journey
An interesting editorial. Doubt, though, if the Tea Party crowd has
much interest in passing the ERA.
Bullying fail: http://tv.gawker.com/#!5781804/bully-fail
@Moon-howler
I’m just calling it as I see it. The office of the Presidency is not sacred. And I’m not insulting the office. I’m describing the man that is failing that office.
My best case scenario that I’m hoping for now is a repeat of the Carter Presidency.
I guess it wasn’t such a hot sIdea to run MCain and Palin then. Calling a sitting president “stupid” seems disreectul to me. Additionally, when you do it,you aren’t on national TV.
Glenn Beck is in no position to be calling anyone stupid after the nonsense and crap I hear coming out of his mouth.
I don’t believe many elected politicians are stupid. Crooked, definitely. All of them. You have to be crooked to be a politician. And have an immense ego. That’s why our forefathers wanted us to have guns.
Mando – you really thing ALL of them are crooked, definitely? Really? Or would you be generalizing again?
Our forefathers wanted us to have guns to protect ourselves from the British who were trying keep US as a colony to make money. Colonization was the “big business” of the Brits.
@Juturna
Our forefathers wanted us to have guns to ensure the security of a free state. Their biggest fear in 1791 was not the British, but an over-reaching government.
Yeah, you can say that again. Can you say “declining market?”
Juturna – Yes. All of them. Public choice is fickle like that and politicians are driven by votes. The ones that aren’t crooked don’t stay in office very long.
Unless, of course, his name happens to be George W. Bush, THEN it’s OK.
@Slowpoke
Reading comprehension problems? I* said earlier this morning I never said that publically about George Bush. I considered it disrespectful.
Okay, Mando. I can’t take you too seriously then. Why do you live here? There are other countries that may not be run by crooks.
Oh boy another one. So you think our forefathers wanted us armed in 1791 to protect us from George Washington? Ha!
Actually, yes. Read the Federalist Papers. But more specifically, against future governments. Many of the Founders expected the Republic to last only a few decades before another revolution was needed. Remember, many of the Convention were worried that the Constitution gave too much power to the central government. Washington was one that supported a strong central government. He was, by no means, a tyrant, but compared to the Articles of the Confederation, the new government was akin in power to a monarchy.
Why the disparaging “Oh boy another one.”? Its historical fact.
The right to keep and bear arms predates its recognition by the 2nd Amendment and is independent of any government organization.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
As the militia was made up of the able bodied men at the time, the men were expected to supply their own arms. An organized band of armed citizens was seen as necessary to keep the security of a free state. The word “free” is in there to differentiate that from a state that had a monopoly on firearms and force.
Militias were double-edged swords as can be seen by Shay’s Rebellion and the Whiskey Insurrection. The militia of veterans in Shay’s rebellion, though they ultimately lost, caused the authorities to make concessions and was actually one of the main causes for the Convention. On one side, those for a strong central government wanted power to control the rebellious farmers AND to control the corrupt monied easterners. However, the right to keep and bear arms was specifically included in the Bill of Rights so that citizenry were not helpless against an overweening central government.
The Whiskey Insurrection was a reaction against Hamilton’s taxes. It was the first sin tax and affected only distillers. It was the first “targeted tax” because Hamilton wanted to use the crisis of the new federal government assuming the debts of the states to institute a central banking system. Many historians also believe that Hamilton wanted to provoke the rebellion to set a precedent of putting down resistance to direct taxation.
Read the bill of rights.
@Juturna
I did. What’s your point? In fact, I just listed the 2nd amendment.