It only goes to show that some people will take advantage no matter how horrifying the circumstances.
Every one of these people ought to be prosectuted to the fullest extent of the law. But the bank is letting some of them off easy. Cowards.
Clintonites caught out again
White House officials took umbrage at this week’s Time magazine article, which said that a Bush administration review of the [al-Qaeda] threat became bogged down in bureaucracy.
Indeed,
Officials said that action items given to the Bush administration [by the outgoing Clintonistas] were proposed to the Clinton administration in 1998. The Clinton White House had two years to come up with a plan encompassing the proposals but did not.
Shocking, simply shocking, that the Clinton camp would try to put a spin on this, what?
The myth of separation
The Washington Times has a front-page article today about new research into the Jeffersonian “wall of separation” between church and state. It turns out that it was not supposed to be as impermeable as our courts have made it out to be.
“What we have today is not really Jefferson’s wall, but Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black’s wall,” said American University professor Daniel Dreisbach, whose forthcoming book explores how Jefferson coined the “wall” metaphor.
Mr. Dreisbach’s arguments parallel those of University of Chicago law professor Philip Hamburger, whose new book also says Justice Black’s anti-Catholicism learned in the Ku Klux Klan influenced his 1947 ruling that the First Amendment created a “high and impregnable” wall between religion and government.
The two authors say the Founders did no such thing and that the “wall of separation” has become a “lazy slogan” for judges and politicians.
I do not understand the fear of people in this country who believe that posting the Ten Commandments on the courthouse square constitutes a state sponsorship of religion. My co-religionists protest too much when they make a Christian mountain out of an Old Testament molehill. If the Ten Words aren’t the basis of Western Law, then we are in serious trouble. And we all know that the eminent jurists of the past paid homage to ancient lawgivers, including Moshe Rabbeinu. What was it P.J. O’Rourke said in Parliament of Whores?
Above the doors [of the House chamber] are medallions bearing bas-relief profiles of mankind’s great and reasonably great lawgivers: Moses, Solomon, Alfonso X, Solon, Hammurabi, Pope Innocent III. No U.S. congressmen are included.
Parliament of Whores, p. 50
Kind of speaks for itself.
I can’t decide…
if this embodies all that is wrong with America, or if it embodies all that’s RIGHT about America…
I thought Hamas meant never having to say you’re sorry…
From Fox News, “Israeli Tanks, Troops, Enter Nablus; Hamas Regrets U.S. Deaths”:
The violent Islamic Hamas took responsibility for the bombing, saying it was retaliation for last week’s Israeli air strike in Gaza City that killed a top Hamas commander and 14 other people, including nine children.
Hamas spokesman Abdel Aziz Rantisi said Thursday that America should “advise its citizens not to go to areas of war.”
Hamas spokesman Adbel Aziz Rantisi should advise his compatriots not to fuck with Americans.
But on Friday, he expressed regret for the deaths of the Americans. “They are American citizens who just came here to visit,” he told The Associated Press. “Our battle is against the occupation.” However, he said he was referring only to “pure” American citizens, “not those who have dual (U.S.-Israeli) citizenship.”
Oh, OK, let’s be racist and split hairs.
One of the victims was a dual citizen, Dina Carter, 37, who was buried in Jerusalem Friday.
Guess she wasn’t pure, huh, Abdel?
Wish I could send a daisycutter bouquet to make him feel better.
Perversion of the justice system-R-US II
$13K an hour to fight Big Tobacco.
These lawyers ought to be ashamed of themselves. Moreover they should be so ashamed of themselves that they give all the money to charity and then commit suicide along with their wives, children, and any other decsendants, so as to do the world a favor.
“Lawyers are not entitled to grab as many chips off the table as they feel like,” [Manhattan Institute legal expert Walter] Olson said. “They take an oath as officers of the court, and that means sometimes leaving some of the money on the table.”
Money, some point out, that could’ve gone where the $25 billion settlement went: to the state’s Medicaid fund, which pays for health care for the poor.
Perversion of the justice system-R-US
From Fox:
Lashing out at the judge and the lawyers appointed to represent him, Zacarias Moussaoui said he is being set up for conviction as a Sept.11 conspirator by the very people duty-bound to protect his rights, according to court papers released Thursday.
Why is this guy even on trial? Why wasn’t he immediately handed over to the military for some serious grilling, and then left staked out in the high desert?
(Hmm…unintended bit of punnery, there…or would he bake in the desert rather than grill?)
BWAHAHAHAH!
A Google search on “congresscritters” brings up this as the #1 hit.
This, however, I can buy.
I am 36% Geek
You probably work in computers, or a history department at a college. You never really fit in with the “normal” crowd. But you have friends, and this is a good thing.
Take the Geek Test at fuali.com
[I have a bachelors in History, and I am a software engineer. Not only do I have friends, I happen to be happily married. Which is damn straight a good thing.]
(Link via Dawn.)