This and That

First off and no news to anyone is the fact that much of the country is suffering with a massive heat wave, so:
Drink plenty of water and/or natural fruit juices.
Wear loose fitting clothing. (Cotton is best)
Avoid alcoholic beverages.
Use sun screen.
Eat frequent small meals.

Lot’s of stuff going on today. Tragically the Muslim Scum Club has struck again, this time in Egypt. It seems at least four car bombs detonated near a hotel in one of their busier resort cities. Twenty five people are dead and one hundred and ten are wounded. The number of dead will probably go up since many of the wounded are in critical condition. Officials say it is associated with the Palestinian Israel violence, but that’s just a franchise of the world wide Muslim Scum Club organization.
John G. Roberts, President Bush’s nominee for the Supreme Court was making visits to Capital Hill paving the way for his confirmation hearings. While he was in the office of Senator Charles Schumer gave him a list of sixty questions he plans to ask during those hearings. One of them is “Do you believe Roe v. Wade was correctly decided?” I sure glad that the Dumbocrats aren’t using a one issue litmus test to determine a persons qualifications to be a member of the highest court in the country.
Remember that statement from the legal brief filed with the Supreme Court everyone is making so much of? Well, I managed to get a copy and I have found just where that small excerpt comes from. The brief argues that laws stating that organizations receiving federal funds (under Title X)cannot offer, counsel for, or refer for abortions do not restrict that organizations free speech. The point is made that if Roe v. Wade were overturned, the whole issue would be mute. If the writers of this brief are guilty of anything it is of stating the painfully obvious.
The World Health Organization is concerned that the bird flu will combine with a human strand and cause a pandemic that will kill millions world wide. You thought the lines were long last year for flu shots? Just wait. If this news gets out the recent vaccine shortage will seem like a cake walk. This issue will need to watched carefully in case the WHO’s fears become reality.
A lot of liberal weenies are all upset because London police shot and killed a bombing suspect. They can’t seem to figure out what made the police want to talk to the gentleman. Aside from the fact he was wearing heavy padded coat in July and took off as soon as the police approached him were two pretty good reasons to begin with. Then it seems at least one person saw what appeared to be a gun in the mans hand. Put another way they did the job they are getting paid to do. Let’s not condemn them, let’s pray that what they were forced to do will not haunt them in years to come. They have done nothing wrong.
The mother of one of the bombing suspects says he was a sweet son and she can’t figure out how this happened. She says he was a good son, brother, husband and father. Sure he was. He loved his family so much that he’d rather blow himself up than support his wife and son. He’d rather blow himself into people schmort than raise his son with proper values and morals. I truly feel sorry for his mother, sister, wife and his young son. As for him he made a choice and died because of it. So what?
The leaders in the Muslim community of London are nervous since the shooting. Seems they fear they may be harmed. Why? Are they going to murder people too? They’re nervous because they know they are directly linked to a group of low life murderers, but lack the back bone to point to these scum and say “That man is a killer!”
Believe it or not, there are people still complaining about John Kerry’s loss last November. I know, it was almost nine months ago and any reasonable person has since moved on. However, while visiting with Teddy Kennedy today Mel Watt (D. North Carolina) said he wondered what the Supreme Court nominee would look like if “the junior Senator from Massachusetts” had made it. Come on Mel, grow up. Kerry lost and it’s time to get over it! This attitude has won Mel the very first PeeDee award. He’s an absolute Political Dunce!
This last bit of news is presented for no other reason than to send you on your way with a good laugh. A school teacher who repeatedly seduced a fourteen year old student is about to go on trial. Her lawyer says he will argue that she was insane at the time from stress over her divorce and therefore not responsible for her actions. In addition (this is for real) he states she is too pretty to go to jail. Obviously another fine graduate of Joe’s Bait Shop and Law School.

More on Roberts

Today is a day that will go down in history. After watching our nations fine political leaders our editorial staff (that’s me) has decided that we will shortly a announce the first recipient of the “PeeDee” award. These awards will be given out periodically as our political leaders earn them. The name PeeDee is a takeoff on the initials PD which other than Pirates Den also stands for “Political Dunce.” With all of the rhetoric and political posturing over the nomination of John G. Roberts there is no doubt that someone will distinguish themselves and take home the first of these prestigious awards.
NOW(W) is already speaking out against the presidents pick for the Supreme Court. Not surprisingly, the National Organization of Witless Wonders seems a little less than accurate in their assessment of the situation. In order to point out how “unqualified” Judge Roberts is, they begin by griping about he goals of the Reagan Administration. What Ronald Reagan’s policies have to do with John Roberts qualifications today are beyond my understanding. Granted, Mensa isn’t busting down my door to beg me to join but I am intelligent enough to know that what a man out of office for seventeen years and dead for one are not dictating the views of a Appeals Court judge today. Hopefully the leaders of NOW will come out of their coma soon and make an intelligent statement on the issue.
One of the lesser known but most bizarre groups speaking out against John Roberts is the Progressive Action Network for American Progress. This group is working hard to earn the record or the largest number of loopy statement on one website. They say that Judge Roberts views are “extremely extreme.” This sounds like they saying a person is tiredly tired or in this case stupidly stupid. They follow this by stating they are in favor of stem cell research and that they fear that Roberts will use the Patriot Act to “extend the draft to their unwanted fetuses.” I know our military is stretched thin right now, that recruitment quotas are not being met but I don’t think anyone is in favor of drafting anyone at such a young age. If this isn’t weird enough they also worry about someone raising “a Rush Limbaugh Jesus Army.” They don’t explain this fear but I am in hopes they will do so in a day or so. Who knows, maybe they had to quit posting to their web site because it was time for their medication.
Even the FindLaw web page is getting into the act. They carried an AP article today that claims that because Judge Roberts (rightly) decided that the constitution does not apply to non-Americans, arrested in another country and held in yet another country he is going “against 200 years of constitutional law.” I don’t recall a single passage in the constitution that gives rights the same rights of our citizens to our foreign enemies. Before it is said, no, the terrorist are not entitled to the Geneva Convention protection since they are not signatory’s of the document. Also, I’d be willing to bet the farm that the Geneva treaty does not include beheading as an acceptable practice.
Much of what I have spoken of the last few days is opinion, mine and others. The reality is that Judge Roberts is not a well known figure and there is more we don’t know that what we do at this point. All we can say right now with absolute certainty is that he does not seek the limelight, a strange quality for someone who has been in Washington for so long. What we all must do is wait and learn who Judge Roberts really is, what he really believes, how he understands his duties and responsibilities under the constitution. The only purpose this raucous hyperbole can do at this point is cloud the issue and make for the real possibility of missing the facts needed to make an informed decision.

Expected Drivel

Big news! It seems that the liberals are less than satisfied with the nomination of John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court. When I heard that you could have knocked me over with a feather! OK, maybe I wasn’t quite that surprised. It seems that the Dumbocrats feel that the friend of their enemy is their enemy. It’s not exactly how the old adage goes but it is as close as the Dumbocrats can get without activating their second brain cell. I know, none of this is news but when people are so narrow minded that their behavior can be predicted so accurately, it doesn’t leave much to talk about.
John Kerry, the Senator from Massachusetts and former presidential candidate come through with his typical linguistic panache. In other words he missed the target by a country mile. Apparently he fears that John Roberts on the Supreme Court will threaten Americans right to privacy, especially as it pertains to Roe v. Wade. How is he wrong, let me count the ways. First off, he is totally ignoring what the man has said on that very topic. He made it clear in 2003 that he accepts the Roe v Wade decision as the “settled law of the land.” This makes it clear that he has n plans or desires to overturn the precedent, but Kerry seems to have missed this fact. Also, Roe v. Wade has noting to do with privacy. It never has. If a women’s pregnancy is a matter of privacy why is it a common practice to print the names of mothers and fathers of all the new borns in a local news paper? If it is acceptable to announce Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Smith’s latest bundle of joy, then how is killing that child a matter of privacy? If anyone can come up with an intelligent answer to this variation in thinking let me know.
Many people believe that there will not be any attempt at a filibuster as there has been with all of the other Bush judicial nominees. The head of the Senate judiciary said that this doesn’t seem to be a filibuster creating nominee and even Feinstein of California, who is so far to the left she has to communicate with fellow liberals by cell phone, claims there will be no filibuster. What strikes me as curious is that Leahy is quoted as stating “It will take sufficient time and a great deal of hard work for the committee to prepare for these hearings.” Hmmmmm perhaps long enough to keep him off the bench at the start of the new session in October? A filibuster by any other name . . .
Some are even griping about the fact that just days ago Judge Roberts was in agreement with an Appeals Court decision allowing military tribunals for the terrorists suspects being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. What do they expect to do with them? A new set of clothes, fifty dollars in their pocket and then a nice little bungalow in the suburbs? These are enemy combatants, dressed in civilian clothing plotting and carrying out ways to kill Americans. They are not American citizens, they were arrested outside of American borders and currently reside outside of this country. The constitution does not apply. They are enemy agents and should, no MUST treated accordingly. John Roberts has the intelligence to know this and the back bone to say so. He deservers our respect, not the contempt of a few left wing malcontents.
Chuck Schumer of New York isn’t happy either but is on even less solid ground that most liberals. He claims that Judge Roberts is not qualified because he “told” the Supreme Court they were wrong in the Roe v Wade decision. As I mentioned yesterday, Judge Roberts was co-author of a brief that stated in part that Roe v Wade was “wrongly decided” and should be overturned. This was an expression of his legal opinion at that time and was not, nor can the intelligent mind construe it as telling the court anything. (This is not the last time we will hear of this document I’m sure so I am going to attempt to get a copy of it for a full quotation in a day or two so stay tuned).
The Alliance for Justice far and away takes the prize for stupid reasons too oppose this nomination. They are against Mr. Roberts not because of his record on case law, not for opinions expressed in written form or in speeches. They are against him for no other reason than George Bush nominated him. That’s right, it doesn’t matter who the man is, it doesn’t matter what he has or hasn’t done, the only thing that matters is who says he should be on the bench. After a few more days of checking his background I’m sure the Alliance for Justice will realize he is totally unqualified for the Supreme Court because his third grade teacher wore tennis shoes every other Friday. Stand by for up to the minute updates on this critical issue.

Supreme Court Nominee

President George Bush has nominated Appeals Court Judge John G. Roberts to the supreme court to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O’conner. Although there is nothing in Judge Roberts background that makes him stand out in either a good or a bad way (which is a good thing in and of itself in my humble opinion), the pro abortion minority of our population will now proceed to have apoplectic seizures every time the media is within five hundred feet. Why you ask? Simple. Judge Roberts was a co-author of a brief which contained the statement “we continue to believe that roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled.” They will of course forget to mention and quite probably make a concerted effort to keep hidden the fact that during his 2003 confirmation hearings for his present position he stated “Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land, . . . . there’s nothing in my personal views that would prevent me from fully and faithfully applying that precedent.” After all, if the dumbocrats admitted he took this position, they would have to confirm with little argument, and just the thought of that would make them blow chow all over the Senate chambers.

What will rankle the Dumbocrats more than anything else is that Judge Roberts has been low key, staying below the radar during his legal career. This gives them little to gripe about and that in itself will give them all the more incentive to gripe. Since the party as a whole hasn’t had a good idea since 1962 they would much more prefer someone who has tried to legislate from the bench like the vast majority of Dumbocrat judges try and do. I can just picture them crying into their champagne and caviar because they can’t find anything in Judge Roberts past to whine about. Really, how dare President Bush nominate a man that pays attention to what the constitution and the law says, rather than bending it to meet his own warped and self serving desires and standards? Doesn’t he realize that it is his duty to give them something to whine about, something to keep their limited attention span from drifting towards other matters such as remembering to fire their car detailer since he took the roach that was stashed in the ashtray of their BMW.

What will be of particular interest will be what Queen Hilary has to say when she graciously descends from on high to speak to all of us common folk. She and Judge Roberts are absolute opposites. He has had a career of noteworthy accomplishments but makes no fuss about it while she has done nothing of value in her life and makes much ado about that nothing. Yes, the next couple of weeks of political hyperbole should be quite interesting indeed.