[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '
')Kind of an odd choice. She has type I diabetes, smokes like a chiminy.....Odd choice because of the medical history, odds are she won't live long.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')Oh come on Plant,,.. it's our turn now.

[Schmuto]

This is my quote -

How can you pick out who to help with affirmative action if you're "color blind"?

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')Oh come on Plant,,.. it's our turn now.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schmuto', 'T')his is my quote -

How can you pick out who to help with affirmative action if you're "color blind"?

[efarmer]

The founders were some exceptional people. Washington
could have followed the natural path of history at the end
of the revolutionary war and simply installed himself as
a strong man for life. The balance of these men, could
have taken advantage of being landed, well connected,
and wealthy and fashioned documents that made the
the head of the new American aristocracy, and peers
therefore with their European counterparts, but of course
they did not.


Instead they set up the framework for a lean federal government
and for strong and as highly individual and varied states as those
states wished to allow free elections to define them, with the caveat
that they did not violate the basic constructs of the Constitution as
decided when required by the Supreme Judiciary branch of the
federal government, or amended in the direction of perfection
by the Congress.

The forces that have bent this lean federal government of volunteers
as wielded by "volunteer for life" federal Congress persons and
Presidents who are unduly empowered by family name recognition
in an astounding bow to mimic the European monarch and aristocracy
would, I firmly believe, have made the founders puke if they had
lived to see it. This would be followed by sheer elation that their
work had carried so far and long in spite of the rampant abuse.

The forces that made the federal government into what it is now
are many, but they were all looking for a strong central hub that
they could influence to deliver them something they wanted.
Money, power, property, fame, or an aristocrat lifestyle.

In summary, I don't think partisan bickering fixes these things,
it just decides which way the gravy pours at the table in most
cases. Rats don't leave until the ship sinks. I think our founders
realized this and many other basic facts of human nature and
attempted, even beyond their own place in society and personal
gain, to build a system of small state ships with a lean federal
ship, knowing full well the rats would seek passage, but in the
hope their numbers would be limited by the size of the vessel.

Impossible long shot? Gradually moving our system back to it's
intended design plus the proven augmentations to the original
documents.

If I had to pretend to have the command of human nature the
founders quite obviously wielded in singular and group fashion?

Things this big and rotten consume all their power and sink in
storms. Use the original documents and fashion a new boat if
possible after allowing as many rats to drown as possible.

Very few of us want calamity, uncertainty, or indiscriminate
suffering of the populace, and we bump along, pick the
best of the worst for the very most we can obtain of the
least objectionable. This is how this big ship of fools was
wrought, incrementally, but it was not designed nor intended
to be that way.

May God Bless us all, and may we be as civil and fair to each
other as we possibly can. We are going to need it badly.

Lastly, I feel if you told the founders that we were locked
into a government that often mimics the demographics and
limitations of their age instead of following the demographics
and challenges of our own, (in essence as they designed
it to dynamically do in the first place) at least old Ben would
lift his leg and kick us right in our Constitutional ass.

I am tired of so called patriots who only are equipped with
wedges, they then decide if their course is to split things
apart to their advantage, or to stop as many wheels from
rolling as they can while hoping to obtain ransom for the
cargo those wheels convey. They even have the gall to
split apart was is functioning or could be made functional,
and blame the wreckage on others for income from the
tale told after the fact. I wish they would learn from their
wedges and split.

[Cloud9]

Well written. If I were sober, I would comment, but I am not so I won't.

[wisconsin_cur]

WSJ Video: Have the Dems given up on the gun control debate?

5 minutes long. Basically argues that the Dems have folded. Other position proffered is that the evolution of the debate will be "nit picking" by the dems to harass gun owners. One person observes that one reason is that the dems lost is that we have less crime. It is also suggested that Americans have just realized that the law kept firearms out of the hands of law abiding citizens but did nothing to deter criminals.

[wisconsin_cur]

"WSJ: The empathy nomoniee"

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')his isn't a jurisprudence that the Founders would recognize, but it is the creative view that has dominated the law schools since the 1970s and from which both the President and Judge Sotomayor emerged. In the President's now-famous word, judging should be shaped by "empathy" as much or more than by reason. In this sense, Judge Sotomayor would be a thoroughly modern Justice, one for whom the law is a voyage of personal identity.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')Oh come on Plant,,.. it's our turn now.

[AlexdeLarge]

So Barry "the Bigot" selects another Bigot............... and this is somehow a surprise???

HopeNchange baby!!

[Schmuto]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schmuto', 'T')his is my quote -

How can you pick out who to help with affirmative action if you're "color blind"?

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schmuto', 'I')f you read Roe v. Wade and the constitutional amendment on which it was based, you'll have no doubt that they are, really, just creating law.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')Oh come on Plant,,.. it's our turn now.

[smallpoxgirl]

This is the only reason we can come up with to hate the woman? She's going to pick on white people? Poor things are having such a tough time in racist America and all. Maybe whites should start having sit ins at lunch counters or something so they can at least get lunch.

[efarmer]

<sarcasm>

I think white discrimination has toned down a bunch over the
last few decades, but back in the day, there were restrooms,
and restaurants, and many other places that were actually
marked "Whites Only", and all the other people were free
to come and visit all the other ones as they wished. This
created a lot of panic among the whites I imagine, in fact
even now, when out in public, many white women I know will
ask one or more other white women to go to the restroom
with them instead of going alone, which proves how long
fear can linger after the threat is removed.

<back to standard rag chewing>

Progress in such matters is a slow process and takes
generations since most of us carry our prejudices to
the grave, although it often gets feebler along with
our other faculties. If our prejudices weren't such
dependable sources of free energy, politicians
would have to actually work for votes instead of
scare them up.

What I most lament about the prospect of energy abuse
and waste defaulting into possible chaos and hard labor
is that women get the raw end of reality at an increased
rate during such times and conditions. I would like to see
women take their place in our form of government in time
to see what their contribution is capable of, before we
get to the point where we scrotum toters game the thing
so bad it is back to the law of the jungle, and we will of
course by nature be in the drivers seat to trash the
jungle as well. If women hadn't learned that thing where
they sternly call you by your first , middle, and last name,
when calling you out, they might have not even made it
to this place in time.

We have to attempt to do better than we have done and build
on from what we have gotten right to date, not attempt to pick our
favorite "golden age" of the past and make the sequel.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '.'). She's going to pick on white people...

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')Oh come on Plant,,.. it's our turn now.

[Cloud9]

SPG here in lays the concern. This judge makes no pretense of following the law. For her, there are no bright line rules. Her decisions are based on her emotions rather than her reasoning. She does not like guns therefore; she has decided that none of us have the right to own a firearm. Personal likes and dislikes cannot be the bases for the rule of law. This young lady is dangerous to the republic. I can say that because I am a Latino.

We have an innate sense of fairness. When governments stray too far from that fairness, revolutions are born.

In Dred Scott, the court refused to secure the rights of Blacks. That failure ushered in the Civil War. Gutting the second amendment may do the same thing.

http://www.infowars.com/sotomayor-on-th ... come-true/

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'S')he does not like guns therefore; she has decided that none of us have the right to own a firearm.