Letters to the Editor
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Heh.
Are you kidding? I'm so ready for it, as soon as I get my wife's permission!
-- Derbig Mooser
Yeah, right. That's what they all say.
I suppose it is bound to happen at some point but it probably won't be based on religious freedom. The Utah Supreme ruled that "government could ban behavior that some considered religious practices like polygamy as long as the law applied to the conduct of all citizens and not just believers. Polygamy is expressly outlawed by the Utah constitution. They could amend the state constitution. The last time the SCOTUS took up the issue as a religious freedoms case in 1904 it went something like this:
Can a man excuse his practices…because of his religious belief? To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land.
—Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite
Reynolds v. United States
Personally, I don't really care but I think it is a stupid idea. Honestly, I don't really give a damn.
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The powers that the state inherited from the church
let's start from the oldest : the recognition of children as members of the tribe. It may be unfortunate that Engels's Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884) was so much influenced by Lewis H. Morgan's Ancient Society (1877) and Bachofen’s Mother Right (1861), because his theory of primal matriarchy became part of the mythology of left feminism, and eventually of leftism as a whole. Freud went in the other direction, with his fantasy of the primal horde and the murder of the fathers by the sons. All this is merely representation of aspects of universal and common childhood fantasy, I suppose, but it led to a system of religions, one of whose primary functions was to police reproduction, and eventually to declare children of unknown paternity "illegitimate." The modern state inherited this function, quite naively, during the period of enlightenment secularisation, which has led to the modern state being judged by the rigor with which it polices reproduction and sexual behavior in general. The problem lies in the naive, i.e. unexamined, manner in which the modern state assumed these functions, which constantly traps it in anachronism and inferiority vis-a-vis an imagined ancient purity of race which I imagine never actually existed anyway. And all this underlies 'the Law.'
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Derbig
Are you arguing that Scalia and Thomas have the same "principles" as Ginsberg and Breyer? And how does using the term "principles" affect my argument? States rights v. Stronger roll of central government or Strict Constructionist/Textualist v. the more liberal approach of justices like Ginsburg... those seem like principles which purport to play a role in Court decisions.
And if ideology/principles didn't play at least some role in SCOTUS decisions, why is everyone so concerned about the ideological makeup of the Court as well as that of the nominated justices? If it was just Constitutional language and precedent that affected decisions, why would anyone care what a nominee's position is on a particular issue?
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--All
Some housekeeping...
Please consider allowing yourself sufficient time to come down from any meth induced highs before posting (this includes you, Derbig).
Today is the first day of the Ron Paul Challenge. If we can go the entire day without mentioning He Who Shall Not Be Named, Pedinska, Mona and I will perform the Hully Gully in the buff for your viewing pleasure (well, maybe pleasure is too strong a word but anyway...).
Have a Great Day!
Yawl.
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@ Jebbie
My mom used to threaten to wash out my mouth with soap if I said a bad word. I like your remedy better, especially since the first person to name the nameless one today was yourself. Should we line the streets in anticipation of the upcoming festivities? Will Mona really show up?
(And the sun is barely up, at least in my neck of the desert.)
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I got deleted two times yesterday. I admit. I have no idea what's being discussed. Vengeance.
When I think out loud, I'll embarrass myself. I thank Joe Galloway at the other post. The V.A. says GG has no PTSD.... He's Adjustment disordered. That's a lawyer joke in the VA shrinks mind. It's on a free You-Rub ice cream video.
The DVD shows Joe Lieberman at a petting zoo.
Joe G. is running full blast to see a psychoanalyst.
Glenn deletes silly comments. That's saying 'hush'...
Greenwald is nice? Glenn lays on a beach in Brazil...
The tourist report you'll see the but crack of GOPS?
Or,
When, where, and quote a faxed scripture KJV text! Go to a petting zoo. Pick up the barnyard animals tails. Please delete this. The more I try to wean myself from the creamy goat milk, the more goat milk gets gulped. I remember one day running along the beach. Who knows if a Lady was a libertarian, a Methodist, a Moslem, a Pagan... or who? A Lady had my attention. I ask : You want some of my ice cream cone? hush up. okay.
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... "in my neck of the desert"....
You mean dessert? Jebbie. hi!
I had posums in my mind yesterday.
A cat ate a chipmunk it found. Dessert.
You'd have to read WayLay. GG deletes.
Who eats a chipmunk? I love ice cream.
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Good Celery
I got deleted two times yesterday.
No, you didn't. At least not by me, and there is nobody else who would have.
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-- William Timberman
I, as the owner of this game, am allowed to mention He Who Shall Not Be Named a maximum of one (1) time during the 24-hour period beginning whenever I say it begins.
Mona will definately show, but due to her advancing years, I hesitate to promise that she will show 'up'. Pedinska has promised to more than compensate for any gravity induced limitations in that regard and has also promised to model her new 'More Patriotic' line of Butt Floss.
Let us hope that the posters here at UT are up to the challenge.
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@theNose et al
You're probably aware of this, but over @ Balkinization http://balkin.blogspot.com/ they discuss stuff like "judicial theology" all the time. They're mostly lawyers.
Here, less lawyerly, as far as I can tell.
'bop!, you got deleted, really? Jeezuz, Glenn IS a freakin' machine - how could he possibly keep up!? 8')
The other day, somebody (don't remember who) posted something along the lines of
"I forgot what I was going to say". Maybe it was my mood, but man, I laughed at that one.
I'll send a cup of morel soup to whomever correctly predicts the topic of the new post today.