Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot

Here's the TV spot.

Here's Rush's take. (Who happens to be a big fat idiot oxycotton druggie fuck show freak.)

Post-Election Gas Prices

Habeas Corpse [Rebate]

Habeas Corpus (The Great Writ) has been tarnished and broken, as a bill passed by Congress and signed into law by Shrub. And almost no one cares. Ben Franklin is reported to have said:

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety.

I'm not the first to write about this, nor will I be the last. I even stole the quote from somewhere, because I'm just not current on my Franklin quotes. I just feel compelled to put something down in words, even if some of it is a cheap rip-off.

As a part of Constitutional Law, the right to know why you are imprisoned and what evidence there is against you is fundamental. Without that right, you really have little else; just hope they don't come for you. Under the new law, any "unlawful" detainee labeled by the executive has no recourse - no right to appear in court, no right to a lawyer, not even the right to see evidence piled against you.

My ancestor fought along side of Washington and the many other patriots in the first Revolution (do we need another?) against the red-coat Brits back in the day. Many of our families go back that far. Many more do not, but that in no way lessens their inheritance. That check, written in blood and signed by sacrifice, was the great gift given by the revolutionaries to all that would follow them. The new bill (err, law) written with lies on the paper of deceit and signed by a shameless fool, is a big red 'void' stamped on that inheritance. At best disrespectful, at worst treasonous, against the ideals of the founders and those who stood with them.

There is no check, no balance on this new law. Nothing to stop my name, or your names, from being on the list. There only need be the assertion that you have provided "material support" to the enemy. And when you're on that list, who is going to get you off?

TABORstupidity

One final thought:

Passing TABOR will permanently tie the funding of health care, education, and other essential services to the cost of a loaf of bread. That's fucked up.

Habeas Corpse (Or There Goes the Country)

Olbermann on why I want to be a lawyer.

[Talk about shit that is under the radar...this is a must watch.]

Analysis

Thanks to Visco et al for getting me to actually pay attention to voting issues before day-of cramming.

First thoughts on the Tax Payer Bill of Rights. (Having applied my Law of BS.)

TABOR is neither a Bill, nor does it include any Rights.

1. A Bill is either a piece of legislation passed by congress and not yet singed by the governor or a piece of paper that described in detail how someone bent you over and screwed you for money. TABOR is neither of these, and is certainly not modeled after the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, that from which it borrows its name.

2. TABOR doesn't deal with Rights at all, unless you consider a town's inability to create and fund a budget that it sees fit as a Right.

More to come.

In the Not So News

More Olbermann, this time on the Death of Habeas Corpus.

Rule of BS

The following list is a small excerpt from my list of test conditions that I use when deciding if something in the political spectrum is bullshit.
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1. When activists borrow wording from popularly understood concepts to forward their agenda, they are trying to screw you. [See USA PATRIOT Act]

2. When groups chose verbiage with positive connotations in order to forward their agenda, they are trying to screw you. [See Pro-Life literature]

3. You are in the group referred to by you if you are middle class.

4. Number 3 applies doubly if you are not white.

5. Number 4 applies doubly if you are poor or a woman. Extra points for being old.

6. Based on current trends, most groups and activists either have, are, or will screw you.

7. "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb."