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Judges, Clowns and Whores
People
get all upset about guns. I like it that people have guns. I don't like
it that people have dogs. Dogs are like guns with brains of their own.
Not much brains, but brains nonetheless. No one should own a dog.
They should be banned. 600,000 children get mauled every year by dogs.
Usually by their own dog. Where is the media? And Obama makes a big
deal about how he owns a dog. But he shouldn't own one. They should all
be taken away and the species should be exterminated, because I was
once bit as a child on my paper route by one. It's hard to get over it.
The Constitution doesn't protect dogs. But we need laws that scoot these creatures back out into the wild where they belong.
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Obama was sworn to protect the Constitution, but he is trying to change it. He is trying to historicize it. It's not as if we can't all see what he's doing. He's claiming the second amendment only refers to muskets. Go ahead and have a musket, he sneers. But we have a right to own guns. I don't like the effect of guns on lunatics any more than anyone else. But let's make a law against the lunatics, not the guns. Guns are constitutional.
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People try similar tricks in the church with the Bible. They historicize. Well, that means that then. But now is now. So they think they can deny the eternal authority of the Bible.
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Communists with guns, such as Mao, said that law comes from the end of a gun. It does not. It comes from God.
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The left says that they got it right in the last election with the Hispanics by offering illegals sanction. If, however, the main reason that people want to come here is because we have laws that work, then coming here illegally to get in on our legal system, is a paradox at best. To become a criminal in order to sneak in under the wire and become legal, is just plain wrong on its face. I realize we are surrounded by the exploded remains of unfortunate feudal Catholic and Buddhist systems such as those left by the Spanish to bloat and fester like horses' heads across the Mexican landscape, or the remains of the Chinese government that has abandoned all legality and harvests organs from political prisoners. Still, we should stick to our guns. And to our legal traditions. And to capitalism. These are all Protestant notions first advanced by Martin Luther.
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I'm not saying we should shoot illegals down like dogs (Cain's idea of what to do about the border). This is itself a lapse into illegality. We need laws that are above-ground and can face severe criticism and yet remain fair. Then we need to enforce them without prejudice and without regard to who has broken them. If they have been here longer, they should still go home until we get to a solid and decent starting point and legality has been restored. We should not pander to illegals in order to garner votes from their homies. Two wrongs doesn't make a right. If we're going to be right, we should be right, even if we're the only ones left.
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I didn't understand Romney's "self-deportation" model. This was an attempt to make the lives of others uncomfortable. I deny the legality of this. We have to refine the laws, not let them go. And then we need a president who is willing to support the laws and the Constitution, instead of constantly finding loopholes, as he did with the OBL sanction, and Obamacare, and his method of appointing officials, and his model of throwing money at pet causes without letting us see what's in the sausage he's throwing to the dogs.
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Law is the reason our country is great. We need a president and a Congress who will understand this. We need judges who are neither clowns nor whores.
12 comments:
Priests, Comedians and Bores
People get all upset about whores. I don't like it that men want whores. Whores are like dogs without brains. Dogs screw mercilessly when left to their devices. No one should buy a woman. Where is indignation? Have we abandoned our senses? Communists like dogs, so that settles that. We need Communists to remind us of what we fear. Let them get back in the kitchen where they belong.
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The President isn't a Republican. The 3rd amendment is part of the Constitution, and rights belong to everyone. It says a soldier can't make it with another soldier in his first wife's commandment. Thou shalt fire at will. I do. Kiss the bride.
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Mao said that guns are good. It does. It comes right down the valley in a volley of buns. Bbbbbbb.
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Left, right, left, right. The streets of heaven, I've been told. Wetbacks carrying the word of Bob scrape barbed wire on their backs. Stand near the booth. Confess. Feudal Spanish dons rode for miles to reach the Rio Grande. It's just history, folks, you could look it up in the Encyclopedia Britanica. Real leather lanyards. It's a notion I heard.
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I'm understood to be so. I went to school, further and further away. I'm free to make two things that rub together feel strange. If we're marching, we should be in twos. It's just genetics, folks. Children should rule over dogs. Bob doesn't like you to get too specific. You have to be modest, and respectful.
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I'm going to rip off a couple of real zingers. The muscles around the neck tighten in anticipation. Tie a loop in the end and you can use it to hang a dog from the nearest tree.
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Everyone who isn't a Communist raise your hand. No, no, the other hand. Breathe deeply. This moment will pass.
Curtis,
Almost brilliant,
just a touch too coherent.
we need to re-establish divine right of kings we need a new monarchy in this land one that is willing to acknowledge how horribly flawed our interpretation of freedom really is...not a monarchy based on bloodlines but on interpretations of famous poets from around the world
i'd be willing to acknowledge a queen if she had read aristotle and aquinas and that she return to the practice of mikva but then and only then
whores and clowns are welcome in the kingdom of god i don't know what could be more obvious judges i don't know i think every judge should have to do some time in purgatory just to wipe clean the vanity and concupiscence of their role it's a terrible role one that no-one can by rights properly adminster they can come close to a good path of justice but somehow in the human sphere it is all laden with misapprehension and escargot...and people are hurt by the very system they depend on to help them it's slow buggery by the system and what seems to be the case is that now people are saying they like it and that's why we' have all this new marriage talk people think getting buggered is a good thing now i don't know it is all madness
the lockean experiment is a revised spiritualist plan and they got it all wrong it's an idealised mishmash of abstractions and impossibilities makes for good cartoons but that's about it
let's just say i hate my country and my culture more than i hate myself
and the colored girls go
doo dodoo dadoo dadoo ddoodoo doooooo.....
the judges should be poets
the whores should take baths
and be granted retirement benefits
the clowns well the clowns the clowns have a tough time theirs is a sad existence they have little to wake up to everyday except well juggling and wearing big floppy shoes so i don't know about the clowns bring 'em in entre' le jongleurs we can make room they can take care of court matters outside the courts they can help people feel better about the sentences brought down upon their innocent heads by tyrannical poets and the whores need to learn how to cook and keep house properly
now it seems whoredom is fashionable they even make it look culturally virtuous lindsey is famous so is courtney love if you can appreciate the abyss
i don't know what's become of the women they've run off the cliff of good sense and their floundering in make-believe notions of propriety...not all of them mind you i know one or two who are just gems absolute gems one is a nun the other is a rock hound
i am elated that you give some pictoral cred to rouault now that guy could paint nobody not picasso not rothko not marcel duchampes d'ilse ee zay not georgia o'keefe none of these people have come close to matching the pathos in every brush stroke of rouault
there needs be a requirement for presidency the incoming president will have to paint a picture of christ and depending on how the poets like it he will be informed of the limits of his powers if he paints a good picture he can extend his reach into foreign affairs if it's mediocre he doesn't get much say beyond the american borders and if it's a lousszy picture he is merely mayor of DC yeah that soundszzzzzzzzz s fair i'm a fair guy
we don't need more laws we need more people who understand that law is a stopgap at best and be willing to excercise their roles of justice with practice in ascetical humility...i suggest flagellation before entering the chambers...lawyers particularly must learn to flagellate as a practice of good sense when it comes to handling law
we've tended to deify law
like we've deified money
time to cultivate ultra-utilitarian norms founded on virtues ( elizabeth anscombe...now my favorite 20th century thinker )
i know it's a fart in a windstorm
but that's my gas for now
jh
I'm with you on Rouault!
Go to Google Maps. Punch in Brownsville TX. Hit the minus button once or twice for a little wider angle. Brownsville and Matamoros are really all one city, just like Windsor and Detroit. Look at the population density in Matamoros. Compare it with the population density in Brownsville. The auto industry moved from Detroit to Matamoros a decade or two ago. Once the cars are manufactured, for one sixth of the labor cost, they cross the river to a ship canal that goes to the Gulf of Mexico a few miles north of the border. On which side of the river does America's Protestant work ethic reside?
I thought Curtis' initial foray was impressive, and laughed out loud at the parody. It's nice work, although it's ultimately a skewering of my method, rather than offering an alternative viewpoint of his own that might pass any test of legitimacy. I do think that the legality issue is what needs to be carefully considered. We need to fight for the laws as if they are our walls. Obama has completely abandoned this and instead made a naked appeal to individual wants outside of any appeal whatsoever to law or to universal decency.
This is where he needed to be argued with, but the lack of a philosophical training of any kind in Romney showed through at that crucial point.
He just didn't have the mental resources to face Obama down in the third debate. Romney knew business, but he didn't know about the humanities, and the notion of arguing for a legitimate position against very well-trained communist intellectual combatants.
I think the fact that Romney had been sheltered from the universities and has never argued with such people showed in that final debate.
Probably at that juncture the only Republican of those still standing who could have done this was Santorum. He could have done it, I think.
Gingrich could have done it on an intellectual basis, but he had the baggage of his dead first wife, and his apparently callous attitude toward her.
Santorum was the only hope.
I liked Ron Paul, and believe he MAY have been able to do it, but he is completely open borders, like many of the libertarian Austrians. when they mean a free economy, they mean a free economy.
Which is for the birds, but not for people, who must have laws and cultures.
We are not Spanish. Not yet, at least. Our laws come out of the English and American traditions.
"A good fence makes a good neighbor."
A good judge or politician can lay down a line and defend it intellectually as good for both sides.
An idiot like Romney turned out to be can't.
Kirby,
It's nice work, although it's ultimately a skewering of my method, rather than offering an alternative viewpoint of his own that might pass any test of legitimacy.
Have I missed something here? There's a test of legitimacy that your viewpoint passes?
Yes, obviously there is.
Yes, obviously there is.
Kirby,
Yes, obviously there is.
I suppose you're right. I tend to restrict myself to viewpoints in which facts have a privileged place, so I'm sure you can understand my confusion.
Facts like.figues can be manipulated to fit Procrustean frameworks. What matters for the left are frameworks in which the right are framed in a certain way that resembles lynching. Facts are used in kangaroo courts and were used by Hitler Stalin and Dworkin too. Inconvenient facts were conveniently denied.
W. has taken up painting. A veery good paintong of his dog appeared yesterday at Althouse. I deny the beauty of dogs. And he painted a wonderful dog. It's a fact.
You and Curtis strike me as completely credulous when it comes to sorting right from wrong with regard to Democratic policy makers, or the various "truths" they problematically pronounce.
You sign on to virtually anything BHO tells you to sign on to. The idea that NO actionable intelligence was produced through enhanced interrogation is something you want to believe, so you won't even listen to contrary information. They had thousands of detainees go through those programs, and produced information enough to have to house it in a CostCo sized building.
And yet because BHO says none of it was actionable, you believe it.
You really believe that BHO knows NOTHING about Benghazi that he hasn't told us.
You literally believe that global warming has one cause, and that we need global oversight to prevent it from making things worse.
The list goes all the way down to the "fact" that you never deviate from the president's agenda in any way at all.
And you never think outside of that Democratic agenda.
It's odd.
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