Letters to the Editor
L.W.M.
Published Letters: 6163 Editor's Choice: 5
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I suggest we do refer to him as the Zodiac Killer.
He recommends this speech delivered by Prof. David Marsland to the Springbok Club in July 2004:
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~springbk/speech5.html
Bartholomew's notes on religion has this to say about Professor Marsland:
UPDATE: I've also just noticed that Anglicans For Israel's patrons include Prof. David Marsland, a man who favours summary executions and imprisoning journalists as the means to winning the "War on Terror". He gave his thoughts at the Springbok Club, a network for disaffected white South Africans and Rhodesians living in the UK. A fuller account is given in my blog entry for today.
http://blogs.salon.com/0003494/2006/02/15.html
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More Shoots His Mouth Off
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You won't want to miss this...
Sexual Perversion And Modern Conservatism: Joined At The Hip?
Via Atrios, I learned about the arrest of S.D. Republican Ted Klaudt on rape charges. The charges are revolting: He duped foster children in his care into letting him perform "exams" on them to see if they qualified as egg donors.
A little googling turns up this list of bills sponsored and you could predict that among them would be things like:
establish certain legislative findings pertaining to the health and rights of women, to revise the physician disclosure requirements to be made to a woman contemplating submitting to an abortion, and to provide for certain causes of action for professional negligence if an abortion is performed without informed consent.
clarify the application of certain provisions pertaining to the sale of pistols.
provide for recognition of certain valid nonresident permits to carry a concealed pistol.
provide for limited confidentiality of certain firearms information.
establish a task force to study abortion and to provide for its composition, scope, and administration.
prohibit the performance of abortions, except to save the life of the mother, and to provide a penalty therefor and to provide for a delayed effective date.
In support of free religious expression in public schools.
Proposing and submitting to the electors at the next general election an amendment to Article XXI of the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, relating to the definition of marriage. [The proposed amendment:: "Only marriage between a man and a woman shall be valid or recognized in South Dakota. The uniting of two or more persons in a civil union, domestic partnership, or other quasi-marital relationship shall not be valid or recognized in South Dakota."]
revise certain provisions regarding the performance of abortions on unemancipated minors and those found to be incompetent. [The bill required a 48 hour delay after notification of a parent befor an abortion could be performed, with certain exceptions noted.]
prohibit the performance of abortions, except to save the life of the mother, and to provide a penalty therefor and to provide for a delayed effective date.
One of the problems with sex scandals is that they are often excuses for prudes to behave like prigs and pricks, as if there's something uniquely immoral about sexual intimacy and the many different varieties of pleasures experienced.
But I think we can all agree that what is alleged against Klaudt is so disgusting that it clearly is the work of a deeply disordered mind who really shouldn't be out in the general public. But this scandal brings up loads of questions, (like how he could live with himself as probably the most obvious). But the most puzzling of all is how he could persistently seek legislative office (and he tried for the Senate but failed) and not only that but go out of his way to sponsor this legislation, given his propensities.
And I think it may be fair to raise a more general question, whether an obsessive concern with regulating abortion and defining marriage has more than just a casual association with sexual perversion. By "obsessive concern," I'm not talking about some decent schnook who's been fed christianist propaganda,. I'm talking about someone who, like Klaudt, gets all proactive about it, deliberately trying to legislate morality, trying to build a career on it.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/sexual-perversion-and-modern.html
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"It's the weather, Stupid!"
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's the weekend and the seasonal weather.
It always slows up on the weekend but moreso as the spring and summer weather arrives. Memorial day weekend will be dead around the blogosphere.
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Try charting
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]DoJ scandal
Attorney General Gonzalez
Gonzalez
at techorati, insted of Comey
You will see the same weekend drop off but hardly a 4 day story.
It's got legs and all the stonewalling only leads to a slow drip of new revelations daily and weekly.
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WT: Impeachment and timing
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]They can start with Abu Gonzalez if he hasn't already resigned.
I'm not sure impeachment of Bush and Cheney will be worth it at this late stage of the game. It will largely be a symbolic gesture. No way is Pelosi going to become the president.
It is far more important to sweep the House and Senate in 2008 and take back the WH with a suitable candidate.
http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/05/meaning-of-2008-partisan-entrenchment.html
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More like this... maybe
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reid’s plan to block Bush’s recess appointments.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a little trick up his sleeve that could spell an end to President Bush’s devilish recess appointments of controversial figures like former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton.” U.S. News reports:
We hear that over the long August vacation, when those types of summer hires are made, Reid will call the Senate into session just long enough to force the prez to send his nominees who need confirmation to the chamber. The talk is he will hold a quickie “pro forma” session every 10 days, tapping a local senator to run the hall. Senate workers and Republicans are miffed, but Reid is proving that he’s the new sheriff in town.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/20/reids-plan-to-block-bushs-recess-appointments/