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His point is that the victorious Right must not compromise with the left, because:
Because of course the courts are there to rubberstamp majority rule, right?
With the righteous fury of Theodosius the Great, who closed universities and banned the Olympics because they were un-Christian he inveighs these centers of free thought:
Quite a dismissal, nay, a damnation of 49 percent of the voters.
Wow. Just wow.
And:
Um, isn’t he fighting “contempt” with contempt? I so seriously don’t understand how this kind of circular logic keeps working.
Oh, and throw in a healthy dash of xenophobia too.
“We are exceptional.” Yes, yes we are, but I don’t think you and everyone else has the same idea as to why that is.
“And we are the greatest force for good in the world…” Wow, that doesn’t even need to be pointed out for how arrogant it is. Just wow again. :eek:
“It is for these reasons that we remain the last great hope in the world for freedom.” If we don’t care, why should this matter either? Aren’t those heathers then responsible for themselves? This all makes my head ache from utter despair.
And one last question. When did the UN become the bastion of all that is evil, unwanted and irrelavent? Isn’t it a good thing to have a system of checks and balances in place rather than letting people in positions of power to run amok with their own agendas that may not reflect the good of their constituants or may be wholly inappropriate (as is with the failure of SoCaS)?
Gah, I want outside input. We are NOT an island unto ourselves.
No, of course that’s not what the courts are supposed to be doing. On the other hand, there are a number of issues where the courts seem to have left common sense behind in pursuit of some adgenda that seems inexplicable to a large part of the electorate.
Perhaps the most famous of these is the whole Death Penalty issue, where the population was, if not happy, at least content to let the death penalty pass from US law, until it became clear that the courts did not believe that any offender was too violent to be released from jail. Court ordered releases of offenderes such as Arthur Shawcross did more to form support for the death penalty than anything else I can imagine.
And even now, there have been some recent decisions which seemed based on nothing more than a rejection of the idea of a death penalty. The question that comes up, even for someone who does want a higher standard held to when juries consider a death penalty, is that how long before these courts will start releasing other prisoners who were supposed to live out their lives in prison?
I’m not saying that the tenor of the article you’d linked, Spectre of Pithecanthropus is something that I agree with. Just that even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Is that the same Frank Pastore who used to pitch for the Reds and then became a fundie preacher?
This is exactly what the Christian Right should do! Don’t compromise with anyone! Insist on making America a theocracy! Push their version of morality down everyone’s throats! Nothing will make them irrelevant faster than showing their ass like this.
Vive la hubris!
To understand people like Pastore, it helps to know the meaning of the word fundament.
Shit like this makes the Baby Jesus puke His little guts out.
Well, I only do that because I’m trying to lose weight.
Ahh, yes. The Gag-kins diet.
[Homer Simpson]
I’m Homer Simpson, the most powerful food critic in town, who will never get his comeuppance! You hear me? No comeuppance!
Stay tuned, folks!
[/Homer Simpson]
I knew that name sounded familiar. He once ate The Big Texan’s 72 ounce (yes, 4.5 pounds) steak, complete with all the trimming, in a reported 11 minutes.
Not that this is in the least bit relevant to the discussion.
He’s “exceptional,” alright. They have a special bus for guys like that.
Oh, I don’t know. I know I’d be vomiting all over God, family and country if I ate 4 1/2 pounds of beef in less than a quarter-hour.
I stand corrupted… 9 1/2 minutes.
Makes childplay of our recent gnashing of teeth.
It seems the “morals, values, and traditions we hold sacred” include hatred of those who disagree with you, casting the first stone, the hubris to believe you know the mind of God well enough to cast judgment, and an absolutely stunning lack of humility.
Are these also the people that liberals supposedly misunderstand? Are these the people we are supposed to reach out to, in the hope that we’re obsequious enough they’ll meet us halfway?
Pull the other one.
Finger, or leg?
Eww…leg! Pull the other leg!
(Mental note: never underestimate the ability of fart-joke references to appear when they’re least expected.)
Why, whatever do you mean?
(Batting big, brown innocent eyes…)
This must be the new version 2.0 of Compassionate Conservatism, I’d wager.
I understand Mickey Rourke will occasionally accept a role as a less-than-savory character.
Quite apart from that, 9 1/2 minutes would be a kick-ass movie title featuring Kim Basinger as the 72 oz. piece of meat.