DC – Moonbat Central (Both Sides)

Jeeez. We were doing a variety of family things this weekend so I guess I missed the Sheehanapalooza as Michelle Malkin calls it. If you’ll allow me to revert back twenty years for a moment, not only is Michelle downright babalicious, she’s intelligent to boot – a very worthwhile blogroll, hence the new listing to the right. She spent the day at Sheehanapalooza this Saturday and brought back some interesting photos. Seems even that varmint Howard Dean joined in the fun as well:



Photo from Malkin’s web album. However, I edited out the last three letters of the first word, this being a fambly website and all. And no, that’s not really Howard but I had you going for a second didn’t I?

San Diego's version of Sheehanapalooza wound up in the tiolet as well.

Listening to the Hoguester this am, he asked this am why the Sheehan crowd drew over 100k and MAF could only pull 400 people in DC this weekend. Why the difference?? Why so few conservatives showing up at MAF??

Because we have jobs, families to support and responsibilities to keep the nation going, - DUH!!!

Just kidding on the duh part, but these guys are such 5-percenters (as in the left-wing extrema on the Political Bell Curve), that I stopped paying attention awhile ago - well before Katrina the Cruel and Rita the Repulsive. That includes MAF, which I believe to be a cunning fraud. I won't even grant them the honor of placing them on the other 5-percent (the right-wing extrema). Most everyone else has lost interest as well except the MSM desperate to stop their now slippery slope into oblivion, and the most rabid, mouth-frothing Bush haters.

Why am I paying attention right now you may ask??? Because seeing the nuttiness on display gives me comfort that not all is lost in this nation. If the anti-Bush, anti-Iraqi people, anti-military crowd has become this debased, the nation will survive this period in its history so I will “Stop Worrying!”

"Fully, schmully, the stupid...."

"... public will never know the difference! Oh shoot. They did?" - conversation at Beast HQ

As heard on Hogue this am, Cathy in Carmichael caught Sacramento Beast reporter James Rosen telling a bit of a fib. Below are the after-the-fact copy edits:



Ouch. Looks like ole Jim won't be passing Journalism 101 this semester!!

Huh? What?

UPDATE: From Reuters. Someone order a blood test on Roberts for No Doze during Biden's questioning!!! This photo is hysterical!


The following is text of John Roberts’ confirmation hearing. It’s an opening statement from Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware). I’ve read it a couple times and can’t figure it out. Perhaps you can and will enlighten me as to where the good Senator is heading!

Senator Biden?

BIDEN: Thank you very much.

Hey, Judge, how are you?

ROBERTS: Fine, thank you.

BIDEN: You know, to continue your baseball analogy, I'd much rather be pitching to Arthur Branch, sitting behind you there, on Law and Order, than you. It's like pitching to Ken Griffey. I mean, you know, I'm a little concerned here that -- I'd like you to switch places with Thompson. I know I know as much as he does. I don't know about you.

(LAUGHTER)

Judge, look, I want to try to cut through some stuff here, if I can. I said yesterday this shouldn't be a game of Gotcha, you know. We shouldn't be playing a game. The folks have a right to know what you think. You're there for life. They don't get to -- this is the democratic moment. They don't get a chance to say, You know, I wish I'd known that about that guy. I would have picked up the phone and called my senator sand said, 'Vote no,' or, 'vote yes.' Whichever.

And so what I'd like to do is stick with your analogy a little bit, because everybody's used it: baseball. By the way, to continue that metaphor, you hit a home run yesterday. I mean, everybody -- I got home and I got on the train and people saying, Oh, he likes baseball, huh? Seriously. The conductors, people on the train. And it's an apt metaphor, because you just call balls and strikes, call them as you see them, straight up.

But as you well know, I'd like to explore that philosophy a little bit, because you got asked that question by Senator Hatch about what is your philosophy, and the baseball metaphor is used again.

As you know, in major league baseball, they have a rule. Rule two defines the strike zone. It basically says from the shoulders to the knees. And the only question about judges (ph) is: Do they have good eyesight or not? They don't get to change the strike zone. They don't get to say, That was down around the ankles and I think it was a strike. They don't get to do that.

But you are in a very different position as a Supreme Court justice. As you pointed out, some places of the Constitution defines the strike zone. Two-thirds of the senators must vote. You must be an American citizen, to the chagrin of Arnold Schwarzenegger, to be president of the United States -- I mean born in America to be a president of the United States. The strike zone is set out. But as you pointed out in the question to Senator Hatch, I think, you said unreasonable search and seizure. What constitutes unreasonable?

So, as much as I respect your metaphor, it's not very apt, because you get to determine the strike zone. What's unreasonable?

Your strike zone on reasonable/unreasonable may be very different than another judge's view of what is reasonable or unreasonable search and seizure.

And the same thing prevails for a lot of other parts of the Constitution. The one that we're all talking about -- and everybody here, it wouldn't matter what we said, from left, right and center -- is concerned about the liberty clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

It doesn't define it. All of the things that we debate about here and the court debates that deserve 5-4 decisions, they're almost all on issues that are ennobling phrases in the Constitution, that the founders never set a strike zone for.

You get to go back and decide. You get to go back and decide like in the Michael H. case: Do you look at a narrow or a broad right that has been respected? That's a strike zone.

So, as Chris Matthews said, Lets play baseball here. And it's a little dangerous to play baseball with you, like I said. But really and truly, it seems to me maybe we can get at this a different way.

The explicit references in the Constitution are -- you know, there's nothing anyone would expect you or any other judge would do anything about. You wouldn't say, you know, that's a really bad treaty they're voting on, so we've got to make it require 75 votes in the Senate.

You can't do that.

But again, as Justice Marshall said -- and I quoted him yesterday -- he said that Marshall's prescription that the Constitution endure through the ages -- I might add, without having to be amended over and over and over and over again -- after the first 10 amendments, we haven't done this very much in the last 230 years.

So many of the Constitution's most important provisions aren't the precise rules that I've referenced earlier.

And sometimes the principles everyone agrees are part of the Constitution or as the late chief justice -- your mentor -- said, quote, tacit postulates. He used that, as you know, in a case just before you got there, in Nevada v. Hall.

He used the phrase tacit postulates. He said that these tacit postulates are as much ingrained in the fabric of the document as its express provisions. And he went on to conclude that -- this case was about -- the case is not particularly relevant, but the point is, I think -- Chief Justice Rehnquist made this vital point and it was about state's right and language that didn't speak directly to them in the Constitution.

And he concluded that the answer was a rule he was able to infer from the overall constitutional plan.

So, Judge, you're going to be an inferrer, not an umpire. Umpires don't infer. They don't get to infer. Every justice has to infer.

So I want to try to figure out how you infer. I want to figure out how you go about this. And so let me get right to it. And I want to use the Ginsburg rule. I notice Ginsburg is quoted. I'm quoted all the time about Ginsburg: Judge, you don't have to answer that question.

I might point out that Justice Ginsburg, and I submit this for the record, commented specifically on 27 cases, 27 specific cases.

I will just speak to a couple of them here.

SPECTER: Without objection, it will be made part of the record.

You Can Act Like a MAN!

(slap) Wazza matter wit chu?!?!?!

My favorite Brando line from The Godfather, and now it seems an anthem for America these daze. Ralph, the LA refugee (as the Hoguester has been kind enough to provide the English lesson on), has a most excellent post on what's wrong with America nowadays. I swear to God I was at the Bradshaw & Old Placerville Starbucks with his co-worker on Thursday. Unbelievable attitudes in this country right now. But Ralph and Bill Whittle have deftly explained much of it. I'm proud to count myself as a member of the Greys, but knowledge that the Pinks seem to have us outnumbered is troubling to say the least.

America has transformed from a nation of men (The Founders, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Unconditional Surrender Grant, Roosevelt [both of them], Kennedy [the sober if not monogamous one], Reagan, Bush [both of them]) to a nation of sheep. Feel free to fill in the names to the sheep. Sheep that expect the shepherd (guv-mint) to tilt nipple to every whim and need. I remember my dad talking about "picking oneself up by one's bootstraps." Most people don't have a clue about what that means anymore, so ingrained has the guv-mint nipple become in our society. Watching the national reaction to the most brutal natural disaster to strike these shores in nearly a century is enough to make me want to move to Anartica. Well, Alaska anyway since I'd rather be in the Home of the Free while it's still free. What we've been seeing in recent days seems to be a desire for the Federal guv-mint to be all knowing and all powerful and absolute frothing, seething, hatred overflowing anger upon realization that it ain't. Do I seek to pin the Narlens debacle on the Honorable Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana? Or Ray Nagin? Or Michael Brown? Putting myself in their shoes, would I have reacted better to the shocking cruelty of Katrina? Probably not. This country is in shock and we see the symptoms of that shock in the lip-spittle soaked rage of our national leaders of all people. Incredibly stupid statements being made in the wake of this national calamity. One of its most charming (if corrupt) cities was utterly destroyed. Katrina's don't happen here. This is America dammit! But do I whine that the Feds should have done more?

No.

I'm not there, and neither are you. We can sit in our armchairs and cluck away at the scenes we see on CNN, PMSNBC, etc, and comfort ourselves that we would know and do better by doing nothing. But never have I feared for this country's future as much as I do now. Men who act like men are a rare commodity anymore. This nation formerly of men and now populated by sheep appears to seek a nipple to suckle rather than scythe to swing. I can't stand it anymore. Stand up straight! Chin up! Chest Out! Swear allegiance to the Lord and "Act Like a Man!" before someone slaps you.

Secretary Imelda Marcos?

I was in Starbuck's yesterday morning and heard a very well dressed woman talking smack about Condelezza Rice buying shoes after Katrina the Cruel leveled the Gulf Coast. I've heard this rumor a couple times before. The Starbuck's woman was "disgusted" with Madame Secretary for engaging in such an activity but I couldn't help but think:

A. What had she done for the people of the Gulf Coast (or is that the guv-mint's job) other than talk smack about the Federal guv-mint?

B. What exactly is the Secretary of State supposed to be doing on the relief effort above and beyond the activities of (in descending order of responsibility) the City of New Orleans, the State of Louisiana, and FEMA?

C. This story is "Undetermined" according to one of my favorite sites - Snopes. Besides, the "shopper" who chastised Rice for buying shoes (if it happened), what was she spending her money on? Not the Gulf Coast relief effort apparently.

Like I said in the last post, think before you open that hole under your nose my friends!

Committing Nationicide

I've been reading the various accounts of Katrina the Cruel. She has brought out the cruelest in people even those in the highest seats of power. The MSM has been simply despicable in their coverage. More people stand to die from the hatred, self-loathing, and irrational anger that spews forth daily now.

This nation stands at the brink of self-immolation. Stop, count to 10, take a deep breath, and think before you open that hole under your nose folks.

When the Levee Breaks

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay. – Led Zeppelin

So knows Narlens. That city has essentially been destroyed. “No jobs, no food, no water, no services, no nothing,” said the NO police chief in encouraging stragglers to leave. What we’ve seen going on the past week in that hell hole, does indeed expose how tenuous and fragile civilization is. The fingers have started pointing, of course, but let’s not forget the history of this disaster as we seek to heap blame.

Elections have consequences. Consider that fact the next time you pull the curtain in the booth to cast your vote. If nothing else, the aftermath of this tragedy reminds us of that, then perhaps something worthwhile will have been learned. – Rick Moran (Rightwing Nuthouse)

Truer words may have never been spoken (or written) even if Rick was speaking about Katrina the Cruel. But his words apply to us as well. Hier ins Cullyforjna, we have other levees breaking – moral levees as the Hoguester called them. Do you know what your elected representatives did yesterday??? In “The Best Damn Argument for Redistricting, Period!” your legislators voted to make same sex marriage legal yesterday. Do any of you remember Proposition 22? I do – so to speak. If our legislators do, they could care less. Your opinion of what marriage "is," (there's that "WORD" again!) downright has them shaking in their boots it does. And the good Govinator thinks the courts should decide this issue. Great. Hopefully that implies a veto. Leadership just abounds in this state. “Elections have consequences.” Damn right. As elected guv-mint leaders in Louisiana and on up frittered away precious time both before (waaaayyy before in some cases) and after Katrina the Cruel, our guv-mint leaders chip away at a moral decision we made just a few years ago. Your legislator has no fear of you my friends. He/she is safe in their padded districts, parts of which will deliver them a safe majority to keep them in office to engage in whatever they want to do with no fear of consequence from you come election day. Check out the California Legislature web site. The State Senate offers the following for a district map:




Easy enough to decipher, but what gives with Senate District 5, or the Los Angeles area Senate Districts? They make sense to politicians, but few else. The Assembly offers the following followed by a link with just a county map of California and a zipcode control box to find your assembly rep.




How about a map so we can see how these districts relate to each other like the Senate is courteous enough to do? What does that idiot box mean anyway? The districts are so convoluted and screwed up that not even the Assembly staff can figure them out? Here's an idea:

Redistrict Now!

“My City of Ruins”

Through tear stained eyes I write this post after seeing the latest from the brave if battered, the wounded but not beaten – people of New Orleans.

If nothing else “The Boss” knows how to pray. Sing along as you follow the links:

Now the sweet bells of mercy
Drift through the evening trees
Young men on the corner like scattered leaves,
The boarded up windows,
The empty streets.
While my brother’s down on his knees.
My City of Ruins
My City of Ruins

Now with these hands
With these hands, with these hands
With these hands, I pray Lord
With these hands, with these hands
I pray for the strength Lord!
With these hands, with these hands
I pray for the faith Lord!
With these hands, with these hands
I pray for Your love Lord!
With these hands, with these hands
I pray for the strength Lord!
With these hands, with these hands
I pray for Your love Lord!
With these hands, with these hands
I pray for Your faith Lord!
With these hands, with these hands
I pray for the strength Lord!
With these hands, with these hands

Come on, rise up, COME ON, RISE UP
Come on, rise up, COME ON, RISE UP
Come on, rise up, COME ON, RISE UP
Come on, rise up, COME ON, RISE UP
Come on, rise up, COME ON, RISE UP

God save the people of New Orleans. God save the people of the Gulf Coast. Lord, we plead, we beg You now to place Your comforting arms around our brothers and sisters in New Orleans and all of the Gulf Coast that Katrina the Cruel was so merciless to. We know we choose to toil in this land and give up Your gift of Eden, but save us now from our sorrow, from our grief, from our pain and deliver us from the evil of this place of our choosing. Deliver us Oh Lord, to a place where grief is no more and You wipe away every tear. We ask these things for our suffering brothers and sisters in the loving name of Your Son, the Christ Jesus, Amen.

Katrina. Bad, Worse, WORST

My God. Okay, her new name is Katrina the Cruel. Want to help? This has a pretty good list of places to open your wallet to. Walmart has also stepped up to the plate. Don’t forget to pray.