I suggest that the Bush administration has just as much constitutional authority to give the court the finger, as the court does to "order" the administration as to how to proceed in its OWN business. The EPA is not the purview of the Judiciary.
I know that the Left is used to having it this way, but it's a new development, this depending upon a despotism inherent in yet another 5-4 decision to ignore the will of the people and their elected representatives.
I fully expect - and hope - that Pres. Bush will tell the Court to go mind its own business in regard to the Gitmo detainees, for instance, just as the Court told ITSELF to do in 1942 when the same sorts of habeas suits were brought on behalf of LEGITIMATE prisoners of war.
Just as an "activist court" has arrogated far too much power to itself, it's time for an "activist President" to take it back.
That is not what I said. The very act of standing up in a very public venue and crying about censorship, even "naming names" and specific allegations, and being freely allowed to do this - this doesn't seem even the slightest bit absurd to you?
And when you consider that you can easily point to REAL censorship going on, e.g., in Communist China, in Iran, in Zimbabwe, in Myanmar, and a thousand other places, and compare that to the "outrages" that people like Robbins claim, it just looks even more ludicrous.
Contains the room for all the telecommunications for that floor, just as you walk in the bathroom door, as well as the janitor's closet next to it.
Many's the time I've run into the bathroom having put off the inevitable for as long as possible, and passed a female janitor in the one closet, or female tech in the other, within full view of all our stall doors. Worse, within range of the other senses of sight and smell.
I know I've probably put more than one of those poor ladies off their feed when the ol' lower tract just wouldn't observe polite social convention.
Thomas Jefferson said: "The Constitution . . . meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch." [Letter of TJ to Abigail Adams, 1804, commenting on Marbury v. Madison]
For the past sixty years or more, judicial despotism has increased until now, you have governors and legislators of states waiting to see what some court will rule on an issue before they can proceed. This is NOT what the Framers intended, and unless we get things back to the balance of powers between the branches of government things are going to become more despotic.
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Well, not so much in the 1960s. By then, air travel was a standard mode of travel for any businessman, like my father who was a twenty-something salesman in the chemical business back then and flew constantly. We'd all get dressed up, us boys in our short pants and white shirts with bow ties, Mom in her dress, and go drop off or pick up Daddy at the Airport.
Of course, I'll now get modded down extensively, but the REAL reason for the problem today is that (a) in general we have a lower level of civility in society, and (b) this stems from a much lower level of RELIGION in family and individual life.
Since everyone's "out for number one" now, it follows that all those "number twos" better get the h*ll out of our way. There is no direct relation between general prosperity - and the U.S. as a whole is FAR more prosperous today than fifty years ago - and civil behavior. There IS a relationship between faith and values, however.
They contribute so much to our free economy! Why, they make sure that business wealth is spread around as much as possible, so that nobody gets too much!
But of course they're well-compensated for their service! They spread all that money around, socking 20, 30 or 40% of it away for themselves, ensuring that the health of their own profession remains robust so that they can continue in this vital function.
Like the Dean of the Duke Law School said several years ago in an interview, when asked "aren't we getting to a critical mass of lawyers?" He responded "oh, no! If anything, we need MORE attorneys for the future! This is truly a GROWTH industry, and will be for decades to come!"
As long as you don't actually KILL the goose, ringing eggs out of it should certainly benefit all concerned.
My first machine: A Kaypro II. My dad got a Kaypro 10, with the 10MB hard drive (which back in them days, we discribed as a "black hole to hold all the data you could ever want!"
My Kaypro bit the dust in 1985, and I had my dad's K-10 and used it up until about 1989. Those were good boxes.
Yeah, one of the funny, funny things about the Left in this country is how loudly and how often the scream about censorship, the very act of which disproves their claims.
Tim Robbins gives this talk to the National Association of Broadcasters about this "chill wind" of censorship blowing through the country, that gets covered by all the major media, then gets in his private jet and goes home. No "black maria" waiting for him at the airport to take him away, no darkened cell in the sub-basement of the Department of Justice.
It's because it has become a very mundane trade. Most folks in IT (and I'm not one) have less than a four-year diploma, and do less-than-exciting fetch-and-carry tasks all day long. Of course, there's much more to IT than that, but that's what people mostly see, including college kids who work summer jobs or internships.
It's similar to the practice of architecture. Architects have this "cachet," but in reality only a VERY few architects ever attain those high-rung jobs where they design dazzling buildings and have Hollywood celebs attend their ribbon-cutting ceremonies. The great majority of them work in mundane jobs "designing" cookie-cutter buildings for mass production (BSW Architects in Tulsa, Oklahoma does all the "architecture" for Wal-Mart, for instance. Big shiny office, the partners make lots of money, but the majority of the designers toil in relative obscurity turning out site-adapt plans for the handful of prototypes they use).
Many kids planning careers in architecture get turned off once they experience the REAL WORLD of working in an architectural office. I think IT wannabes are pretty much in the same mindset once they've seen they're not going to be working on the next version of "DOOM" (even if they go to work for ID).
Agreed. The constant litany of lies about America and the war on terror from the Left has certainly made ME and my friends as angry as we've ever been.
...of the tenets of those who claim to fight against "censorship" is the notion that not only should you be able to SAY whatever you want to say, but everyone else should be compelled to listen, on penalty of having no alternative.
I really enjoyed Carlin's schtick for the most part, but his "preachiness" was in its way just as annoying as that of the "christians" he spent time and effort criticizing.
N.B. I happen to think Carlin's REAL legacy will be the millions of email jokes with his name erroneously attached as the source.
...exactly what the radical environmentalists have been hoping for? A universe rid of human beings, so that all the other planets can breathe easier, knowing they won't be exploited for profit now?
Is the Collider funded by George Soros, by any chance?
...a little bread-board kit (it might have been a Heathkit product) that had spring connectors to which you'd attach real live electronic components, including transistors (okay, this was back in the 60s) and what-not. And you'd build these projects step-by-step, and each one would have a circuit diagram with call-outs showing you which part in the real world it was, and would explain what it happened.
You'd make an audio amplifier, or an AM radio, or a Morse code generator, etc.
I was about 12 at the time, but fairly bright, and I got a LOT out of it. Too bad it didn't stick...
This is true for a good many businesses - although sometimes "luck" is in the eye of the beholder.
I used to provide engineering consulting services for a specialty repair contractor. Since there were a lot of "big boys" who were already well-established doing what he did, he opted (with my help) to take on more "risky" jobs that the established contractors wouldn't touch because they were, well, "too risky."
He soon got a reputation for being, not just a good contractor who got the work done on time and on budget, but a "go-to guy" who would succeed where others wouldn't even try. And soon, he was getting even the "bread-and-butter" jobs instead of the established firms because of "brand familiarity."
In the end, you gotta deliver. Microsoft might be the Great Satan, but they have a lot of satisfied customers you don't hear from, who got stuck on their stuff, and swore by it.
Like Harry Beckwith says in his book "Selling The Invisible": Your main competition isn't a company or a salesman or a technology, it's the "status quo."
You might be surprised. The obvious culprit is the government, but consider...
There have been numerous instances of "terrorist sympathizers" who hunt around online for people who say things they don't like, about their religion, their objectives, etc. They attempt to shut the blog down, even to discover the identity of the blogger to cause further trouble.
Can you imagine if this grew to further proportion, where you would be in danger of being "discovered" by some amateur terrorist or terrorists, who decided to make your life a living hell, or even to cut it short?
Sure, you had Theo van Gogh killed because he made a film that "they" didn't like, but what if they start aiming a bit "lower" on the food chain, start cyberstalking and tapping the phone lines of some guy who's an outspoking blogger or letter-to-the-editor afficianado?
How do you protect yourself at that level of obscurity?
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I know that the Left is used to having it this way, but it's a new development, this depending upon a despotism inherent in yet another 5-4 decision to ignore the will of the people and their elected representatives.
I fully expect - and hope - that Pres. Bush will tell the Court to go mind its own business in regard to the Gitmo detainees, for instance, just as the Court told ITSELF to do in 1942 when the same sorts of habeas suits were brought on behalf of LEGITIMATE prisoners of war.
Just as an "activist court" has arrogated far too much power to itself, it's time for an "activist President" to take it back.
And when you consider that you can easily point to REAL censorship going on, e.g., in Communist China, in Iran, in Zimbabwe, in Myanmar, and a thousand other places, and compare that to the "outrages" that people like Robbins claim, it just looks even more ludicrous.
I believe it was Mr. Spock, actually.
Many's the time I've run into the bathroom having put off the inevitable for as long as possible, and passed a female janitor in the one closet, or female tech in the other, within full view of all our stall doors. Worse, within range of the other senses of sight and smell.
I know I've probably put more than one of those poor ladies off their feed when the ol' lower tract just wouldn't observe polite social convention.
For the past sixty years or more, judicial despotism has increased until now, you have governors and legislators of states waiting to see what some court will rule on an issue before they can proceed. This is NOT what the Framers intended, and unless we get things back to the balance of powers between the branches of government things are going to become more despotic.
Of course, I'll now get modded down extensively, but the REAL reason for the problem today is that (a) in general we have a lower level of civility in society, and (b) this stems from a much lower level of RELIGION in family and individual life.
Since everyone's "out for number one" now, it follows that all those "number twos" better get the h*ll out of our way. There is no direct relation between general prosperity - and the U.S. as a whole is FAR more prosperous today than fifty years ago - and civil behavior. There IS a relationship between faith and values, however.
But of course they're well-compensated for their service! They spread all that money around, socking 20, 30 or 40% of it away for themselves, ensuring that the health of their own profession remains robust so that they can continue in this vital function.
Like the Dean of the Duke Law School said several years ago in an interview, when asked "aren't we getting to a critical mass of lawyers?" He responded "oh, no! If anything, we need MORE attorneys for the future! This is truly a GROWTH industry, and will be for decades to come!"
As long as you don't actually KILL the goose, ringing eggs out of it should certainly benefit all concerned.
My Kaypro bit the dust in 1985, and I had my dad's K-10 and used it up until about 1989. Those were good boxes.
...They were only able to snag two of them.
...it's not anywhere close to where a member of the Kennedy clan can see it.
Tim Robbins gives this talk to the National Association of Broadcasters about this "chill wind" of censorship blowing through the country, that gets covered by all the major media, then gets in his private jet and goes home. No "black maria" waiting for him at the airport to take him away, no darkened cell in the sub-basement of the Department of Justice.
Just amazing.
And maybe even a spouse!
It's because it has become a very mundane trade. Most folks in IT (and I'm not one) have less than a four-year diploma, and do less-than-exciting fetch-and-carry tasks all day long. Of course, there's much more to IT than that, but that's what people mostly see, including college kids who work summer jobs or internships.
It's similar to the practice of architecture. Architects have this "cachet," but in reality only a VERY few architects ever attain those high-rung jobs where they design dazzling buildings and have Hollywood celebs attend their ribbon-cutting ceremonies. The great majority of them work in mundane jobs "designing" cookie-cutter buildings for mass production (BSW Architects in Tulsa, Oklahoma does all the "architecture" for Wal-Mart, for instance. Big shiny office, the partners make lots of money, but the majority of the designers toil in relative obscurity turning out site-adapt plans for the handful of prototypes they use).
Many kids planning careers in architecture get turned off once they experience the REAL WORLD of working in an architectural office. I think IT wannabes are pretty much in the same mindset once they've seen they're not going to be working on the next version of "DOOM" (even if they go to work for ID).
Er...and $300K in cash. There is that.
P.S. Don't get mugged.
Present for the reunion was office manager Miriam Lubow
Sounds a LOT like my finances.
Agreed. The constant litany of lies about America and the war on terror from the Left has certainly made ME and my friends as angry as we've ever been.
I really enjoyed Carlin's schtick for the most part, but his "preachiness" was in its way just as annoying as that of the "christians" he spent time and effort criticizing.
N.B. I happen to think Carlin's REAL legacy will be the millions of email jokes with his name erroneously attached as the source.
...exactly what the radical environmentalists have been hoping for? A universe rid of human beings, so that all the other planets can breathe easier, knowing they won't be exploited for profit now? Is the Collider funded by George Soros, by any chance?
You'd make an audio amplifier, or an AM radio, or a Morse code generator, etc.
I was about 12 at the time, but fairly bright, and I got a LOT out of it. Too bad it didn't stick...
I used to provide engineering consulting services for a specialty repair contractor. Since there were a lot of "big boys" who were already well-established doing what he did, he opted (with my help) to take on more "risky" jobs that the established contractors wouldn't touch because they were, well, "too risky."
He soon got a reputation for being, not just a good contractor who got the work done on time and on budget, but a "go-to guy" who would succeed where others wouldn't even try. And soon, he was getting even the "bread-and-butter" jobs instead of the established firms because of "brand familiarity."
In the end, you gotta deliver. Microsoft might be the Great Satan, but they have a lot of satisfied customers you don't hear from, who got stuck on their stuff, and swore by it.
Like Harry Beckwith says in his book "Selling The Invisible": Your main competition isn't a company or a salesman or a technology, it's the "status quo."
Mitch Kapor: 'I'd like to smoke what he's smoking.' Okay, I guess not.
..."Jolt" Cola after all.
This way, the government can make sure you're spending your money the "right way."
There have been numerous instances of "terrorist sympathizers" who hunt around online for people who say things they don't like, about their religion, their objectives, etc. They attempt to shut the blog down, even to discover the identity of the blogger to cause further trouble.
Can you imagine if this grew to further proportion, where you would be in danger of being "discovered" by some amateur terrorist or terrorists, who decided to make your life a living hell, or even to cut it short?
Sure, you had Theo van Gogh killed because he made a film that "they" didn't like, but what if they start aiming a bit "lower" on the food chain, start cyberstalking and tapping the phone lines of some guy who's an outspoking blogger or letter-to-the-editor afficianado?
How do you protect yourself at that level of obscurity?