The babyjesuschristsuperstar on Board: filling the moral void of Clinton’s legacy

[c2ed]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
I have no fucking idea -- AT ALL -- what the fuck "Secretary of Interior" even means. There. I feel so much better.

But you know that Idaho is a state? I'm shocked.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
"If you hand out contraception to single women, we're saying promiscuity is OK as a state, and I am not in support of that..."

*sigh* Whenever I'm reading quotes like these I always cringe, knowing full well the next clause will have an "R" with a dash next to it. What's with my Republican boyz? Don't you likah the sex?

Reeee-laaaaax. Tomorrow my Shanon Brown Avatar goes up and stays up for, hopefully, weeks. You know you like that.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
I have no fucking idea -- AT ALL -- what the fuck "Secretary of Interior" even means. There. I feel so much better.

In other countries, the Interior Ministry is like the national police. Maybe he's confused and thinks he'll be able to stage a coup.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Why do you suppose someone would trade being the governor of a state for being one of the more insignificant cabinet secretaries?

Then, again, if he uses the office to its best advantage, he'll be treated like a king in that position.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by c2ed
But you know that Idaho is a state? I'm shocked.

I don't believe in Idaho.

[c2ed]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
In other countries, the Interior Ministry is like the national police. Maybe he's confused and thinks he'll be able to stage a coup.

Idaho got rid of its organized militias at least 10 years ago. Hmph.

Though he might stage an impressive ride up to the White House on his very environmentally-friendly Harley.

[c2ed]

Originally posted by baltassoc
I don't believe in Idaho.

It's a magic place ... with sun-kissed streams and where people live peacefully with wildlife (and where about 15% of the population is Mormon, but that's neither here nor there ... just a fun fact for you I throw in for free).

Until a wolf goes after their livestock, and then blam! It uses its power recently granted by the feds to manage the wolf population as it sees fit.

[Diane_Keaton]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
In other countries, the Interior Ministry is like the national police.

Oh, well then I could be Minister of that. Just not a Cabinet Post where you can't blow shit up, otherwise what's the appeal?

[Diane_Keaton]

Originally posted by c2ed
It's a magic place ... with sun-kissed streams and where people live peacefully with wildlife (and where about 15% of the population is Mormon, but that's neither here nor there.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by c2ed
It's a magic place ... with sun-kissed streams and where people live peacefully with wildlife (and where about 15% of the population is Mormon, but that's neither here nor there ... just a fun fact for you I throw in for free).

Until a wolf goes after their livestock, and then blam! It uses its power recently granted by the feds to manage the wolf population as it sees fit.

That's just what they want you to believe. I still don't think it actually exists. It's just a conspiracy between cartographers and potato growers.

[Replaced_Texan]

I'd like to not believe in South Dakota.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Why do you suppose someone would trade being the governor of a state for being one of the more insignificant cabinet secretaries?

Secretary of the Interior is insignificant?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
"If you hand out contraception to single women, we're saying promiscuity is OK as a state, and I am not in support of that..."

*sigh* Whenever I'm reading quotes like these I always cringe, knowing full well the next clause will have an "R" with a dash next to it. What's with my Republican boyz? Don't you likah the sex?

I think you need to respond to the ad. You know you want it.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I'd like to not believe in South Dakota.

Of course, to their credit, the SD House and Senate did vote unanimously for a resolution calling on the people of SD to vote against the Amendment.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I'd like to not believe in South Dakota.

• Retired Supreme Court Justice hits attacks on courts and warns of dictatorship
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  Published: March 10, 2006
  
  
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  Supreme Court justices keep many opinions private but Sandra Day O’Connor no longer faces that obligation. Yesterday, the retired justice criticized Republicans who criticized the courts. She said they challenge the independence of judges and the freedoms of all Americans. O’Connor’s speech at Georgetown University was not available for broadcast but NPR’s legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg was there.
  
  Nina Totenberg: In an unusually forceful and forthright speech, O’Connor said that attacks on the judiciary by some Republican leaders pose a direct threat to our constitutional freedoms. O’Connor began by conceding that courts do have the power to make presidents or the Congress or governors, as she put it “really, really angry.” But, she continued, if we don’t make them mad some of the time we probably aren’t doing our jobs as judges, and our effectiveness, she said, is premised on the notion that we won’t be subject to retaliation for our judicial acts. The nation’s founders wrote repeatedly, she said, that without an independent judiciary to protect individual rights from the other branches of government those rights and privileges would amount to nothing. But, said O’Connor, as the founding fathers knew statutes and constitutions don’t protect judicial independence, people do.
  
  And then she took aim at former House GOP leader Tom DeLay. She didn’t name him, but she quoted his attacks on the courts at a meeting of the conservative Christian group Justice Sunday last year when DeLay took out after the courts for rulings on abortions, prayer and the Terri Schiavo case. This, said O’Connor, was after the federal courts had applied Congress’ onetime only statute about Schiavo as it was written. Not, said O’Connor, as the congressman might have wished it were written. This response to this flagrant display of judicial restraint, said O’Connor, her voice dripping with sarcasm, was that the congressman blasted the courts.
  
  It gets worse, she said, noting that death threats against judges are increasing. It doesn’t help, she said, when a high-profile senator suggests there may be a connection between violence against judges and decisions that the senator disagrees with. She didn’t name him, but it was Texas senator John Cornyn who made that statement, after a Georgia judge was murdered in the courtroom and the family of a federal judge in Illinois murdered in the judge’s home. O’Connor observed that there have been a lot of suggestions lately for so-called judicial reforms, recommendations for the massive impeachment of judges, stripping the courts of jurisdiction and cutting judicial budgets to punish offending judges. Any of these might be debatable, she said, as long as they are not retaliation for decisions that political leaders disagree with.
  
  I, said O’Connor, am against judicial reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning. Pointing to the experiences of developing countries and former communist countries where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O’Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strongarm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings.
  
  Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.

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