Letters to the Editor
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@hrh
geez...while i do not disagree with your sentiments, generally, your tone is in fact over the top and just a wee bit about your self...but hey i responded didn't ?
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The Silent Treatment
Patg... Did you notice the deafening crickets, after my making such an intemperate statement?
I had read, with increasing fury, the reasonable and legally based arguments attempting to enlighten that character, (h/t, y'all) which rolled like water off a duck's back, and decided to cut to the quick.
I simply can no longer tolerate those who abhor gay rights and reproductive rights, for supposedly different reasons. It's the same reason. Jealousy.
I would rather they all just had sex lives of their own, but I for one am unable, and in fact, too nauseated, to help out in this regard.
Let them stew in their own unreleased juices.
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Margalis
Yes Margalis- thanks for injecting the oh so sophisticated argument that all those who disagree with you are secretly "gay".
If you were around when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball I am sure you would be calling those who oppossed his entrance into the white major leagues to be secret "n*gger lovers".
Thanks for reminding us all of the high road John Edwards took when he said how alright he was with Dick Cheney's daughter being a lesbian- 5 times in one debate.
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Reilly
Most of this goes over my head.
Angelonia angustifolio is a pretty plant.
A new kid on the garden block can mess up a garden.
It's also known as angel flower or snapdragon. A person does not need to be a horticulturist .
www.uga.edu/ugatrial) The plant can have lanky growth. A beautiful field can mature with some basic instructions. Who knows everything? Listen and experiment. Experience.
The quest for breeders is to grow stout stems. The flowers should not need to be deadheaded.
It's a beautiful lavender plant. If the grouping of flowers is too close, not fertilized properly, the plot can be a eyesore flop.
If grown properly they are a bee magnet and help in the diversity ideal: Pollination etc., If too many flowers are crammed into one area the plants fall over, are weak, limp, and the garden where they are planted the plot will look like a bloodbath. The gardener will feel a lack of pride in showing that section plot. Analogy?
A small garden, a familiar insight into blog-sites~ may be similar ~?~
A garden blog atmosphere and bloodbath appearance can ensue? Don't sue flowers.
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cocktailhag....
and you are no doubt as intemperate as your comments, and that's a good thing.
speaking out about this nonsense about gays is the only way to rise above the bigoted RW chatter. it is a sorry ass political diversion that affects real lives every day.
gad...
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I suspected as much
Thank you, Chris. A more egregious misinterpretation of my point would be hard to imagine, were you not around to provide it for me.
Let me phrase it more simply. What you call judicial activism is an attempt at harmony in the body politic by interpreting the law not only only on the basis of the text of the law, which may be ambiguous in particular circumstances, but on the basis of precedent as well. When the Supreme Court is interpreting constitutional law, it must also keep in mind that an interpretation is always fraught if it violates the understanding of a majority of the people.
For example, whether or not extending to same-sex couples the legal protections of marriage depends on how we define marriage. Since that definition is -- or was -- traditional rather than statutory, there should be some leeway in determining what an equal right under the law actually is in such cases. Yes, legislatures could settle this, and may yet do so to a majority's satisfaction, but a prudent judge reviewing these cases might well consider that today's putative majority against such a definition is already in the process of becoming a minority, and that there is wisdom in considering this before coming to a decision.
That, whether you like it or not, is the sort of thing we appoint judges to do, and why we traditionally have required that they be highly qualified, experienced, and as open-minded as possible.
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Margalis
Oops sorry- That post was meant for Cocktailhag. Sorry bout that.
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Intemperance League
Patg....
My intemperance doesn't extend, fortunately, to misattributing quotes to others and then making an ass of myself slamming innocents. (sorry, Margalis, you know not what you didn't do...)
Call me the proudly, but note-taking, intemperate.
I wear that badge with honor.
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William
Yes, legislatures could settle this, and may yet do so to a majority's satisfaction, but a prudent judge reviewing these cases might well consider that today's putative majority against such a definition is already in the process of becoming a minority, and that there is wisdom in considering this before coming to a decision.
That's great. Some Judges might think that the "putative majority" is on the verge of wanting or demanding an all powerful president whose word is law and can do anything he wants- - - that we are already in the process of moving in this direction- they may even cite precedents based upon equally specious reasoning and say that suddenly- the Presidency is a "more equal" branch of government. Oh- you disagree with that? Law is suppossed to have meaning? Such subjective opinions have no place in a judge's decisions? Too bad.
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@HRH
“That is exactly what makes me think that "the rule of law" is not all it is cracked up to be.
If two courts given the same laws and set of circumstances can come to two polar opposite decisions then we really have a rule of men, not of law.”
How about this interpretation. MSNBC dropped Kucinich from a contract that didn’t provided clear warning that it could do that so breach of contract was the overriding reason to rule in favor of Kucinich. A higher court decided that MSNBC was not an over the air broadcast network so fair coverage did not apply to the current law and as Lawyers for NBC had argued it had a right, as a privately owned network, to determine who to invite to the debate.
There are legal arguments that have sound, logical reasoning on both sides that do require that men and women up to the highest court have to make a difficult decision about. It is usually not about politics and most often politics do not rule.