Cut and Paste
[turns away from Presidential Speech last night]...And that friends, is why God invented Microsoft Word...cut and paste baby, cut and paste...
In a mindblowing speech that lacked any resemblance of a fresh idea, the President outlined his outline of the outline of the Iraq post-war plannish...thing. In addition, he re-explained why he will not commit more troops to Iraq saying, "If my generals tell me they need more troops, I'll give them to them." That's easy to say after firing the generals who speak out now isn't it.
What pissed me off the most was this though, and I'm paraphrasing, "The terrorists in Iraq are of the same mentality of those that attacked us on 9/11." Yeah, I know, that
is true, but that wasn't what he was trying to do. He was trying to connect Sept. 11th with Iraq indirectly and discreetly...It was a very underhanded thing to do and I expect more from this or any President of the United States.
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Richard Rider for Mayor of San Diego
This is not a joke folks, a registered Libertarian is a serious candidate for the office of mayor in America's 4th largest city. If you live in San Diego, it is in your best interest to vote for Rider, do not be intimidated by that strange party next to his name. Rider stands for low taxes, limited gov't and personal and economic liberty. Many of San Diego's other mayoral candidates are pledging to take the city into bankruptcy, Rider is your alternative. Vote Richard Rider for Mayor.
http://www.richardrider.org/tbcm/CP
Supreme Court Rules Ilegal Seizure of Private Property is Legal
...nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
Pretty easy to understand right. You don't have to go to Yale Law to realize that that means just what it says, no gov't seizure of private land without just compensation, so long as the seized land is used as public property.
Well, the Supreme Court of these United States has decided that that particular clause is meaningless. They decided today 5-4 that local towns can seize PRIVATE land in order to make way for PRIVATE development. Call eight of your friends over to you house, ask them to read that last sentence. If they and you can't see the word public in it, tell them to raise there hands. Okay, good, nine hands up right? No, no, don't panic, you're not wrong, it's just that mind-numbingly easy. The Supreme Court has failed us again. It just goes to show you that when a Court is divided by political affiliation, justice will very seldomly be served.
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Cynical Yet?
Part I: Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson, Michael Fricken Jackson. Michael Jackson on Fox, Michael Jackson on CNN, Michael Jackson on MSNBC, Michael Jackson as the most popular news item on Yahoo. My God in heaven, and we wonder why we are an uninformed country...It's in our culture. We make God's out of freaks [sorry, but the man is a freak] and then follow their lives like sheep. This man evoked enough emotion out of a lot of people so that they would wait outside the courtroom releasing doves into the air after the verdict [what the Hell was that lady's plan if he was found guilty?]. Meanwhile: The PATRIOT ACT's renewal is being pushed by conservatives, the Senate is wasting it's time appologizing for anti-anti-lynching law past acts, the President's approval rating is approaching Stalin's and oh, by the way, we're still at war. Jesus, we've got our priorities straight.
Part II: Anyone watching the Discovery Channel's 100 Greatest Americans? How unthinkably depressing. If you haven't, the concept is, our fellow countrymen [countrypeople?] vote on who they think are the greatest Americans. I checked out the website, looked down the list which is ordered alphabetically...Hmmm, let's see here...Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, Marylin Monroe...Wait what? Oh yeah, down the line some more was Jacko, and that was before he was aquitted. We the people were willing to put a whore and a possible child molester on the list of greatest Americans along with the likes of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. When in the hell did the word "great" lose it's meaning?
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House Repubs to Dems: "La, la, la, la...We're not listening...We can't hear you."
House Judiciary Committee Republicans walked out of a meeting yesterday after Democrats began talking about Gitmo instead of the PATRIOT ACT. In an act that even a ninth grader would call "gay, dude", the Republicans immaturely cut the mics of dissenting Democrats who attempted to recommence the debate. Wow...Predicably enough, Fox News didn't mention this little indisgression on any of their shows last night...See no evil, hear no evil, say no evil right?
What pissed me off the most about this is the fact that the man who the Repubs shut up as they walked out just happened to be some guy who was elected by those dudes in that City in New York with the towers, you know what I'm talking about. He was the Congressmen from Lower Manhattan. Well gee whiz, I sure as hell would like to know his opinion on the PATRIOT ACT. But apparently the Repubs already knew, and well, they're just not going to put up with this "dissention" BS. If I were a Republican official sitting on a contested Congressional seat, I'd be worried come 2006. The Republicans are giving off the perception of being afraid of debate...And that perception is slowly becoming reality.
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Yay, My First Endorsement!
Well, the New Jersey GOP primary is over. Unfortunately, Pro-Liberty Candidate and former Jersey City Mayor Brett Schundler was defeated by a still fairly pro-liberty former mayor of West Windsor, Doug Forrester. Though I am unhappy with Schundler's defeat, as a former West Windsor resident, I can say with 100% certainty that Doug Forrester is a far safer choice than Senator Corzine to run the Great State of New Jersey. Accordingly, I hereby endorse Former Mayor Forrester as the next Governor of New Jersey. If you're a New Jersey resident who values civil and economic liberty, I suggest you hold your nose and vote Republican for Governor this year.
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R.I.P States Rights...1776-2005
Well, it was a hell of a run. We've had legitimate state's rights in this country for over 200 years, but ever since the Civil War, they've been eroded, little by little. The most recent example is this week's ruling by the Supreme Court against the usage of medicinal marijuana. By a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled against Diane Monson, a Californian who uses marijuana to ease pain caused by her numerous health issues, stating that allowing medicinal marijuana violates federal drug laws [which are inherenetly unConstitutional, but hey, they're the gov't, they can do anything]. What's really annoyed me about this whole thing are the "champions of civil rights", the liberals, and how they're handling this. They aren't angry, they're whiny. On the Alan Colmes radio show on Sirius Radio last night, a liberal whose name was not important enough for me to remember was saying that, well, as long as the women were using is medicinally, I don't see what the problem is...Actually, if these women were lighting up for the hell of it that'd be perfectly fine by me. Why is it extreme to support legalizing pot? Ask yourselves that. Don't just say wow, CP's nuts, he wants to legalize all drugs...Think about it! Why not? And if that doesn't work, ask yourself, is the drug war a right given to the government in the Constitution. When you arrive at the inevitable "no" answer, then ask yourself why you support it. Think!
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