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Sensiblyeclectic implies that Americans should be inspired by the mobs in Mexico marching to insist that their candidate was the real winner of their recent national elections.
But taking to the streets and threatening civil unrest when you lose is not admirable. It’s anarchy.
The fundamental feature of a functioning democracy is that the losing side accepts their defeat and works to achieve victory in the next cycle.
Am I advocating passive acceptance of voting fraud?
No.
Legitimate evidence of wide-spread or systematic cheating should invalidate the results of any election.
However, cialis pharmacy crying “fraud” every single time your side loses is even more destructive to the integrity of the system as a whole than some occasional voting irregularities.
July 17th, 2006
It seems 85% of Democrats think it’s OK to lie to avoid hurting someone’s feelings.
Maybe they should just think of George Bush* as being very protective of their emotional state?
*I’m not conceding that George Bush is a liar, viagra cialis sale But since so many on the left think he is, I thought they might appreciate a new coping mechanism.
July 12th, 2006
Apparently the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel thinks the idea of paying blacks in America reparations for slavery is gaining popularity.
Not with me it isn’t.
- People should only be held responsible for their own actions…not the actions of their great, cialis buy viagra great grandparents. (Oddly enough many of the folks who champion reparations don’t believe in holding hardly anyone responsible for their own actions, buy cialis stuff today. Ahh, irony, sweet irony.)
- Who pays and who gets paid? My family didn’t arrive in America until the 1930s. Do I pay? What about the son of black immigrants who arrived in the 40s. Does he get money?
- Where does it stop? Do we pay reparations to the native Americans? Do the Anglo-Saxons pay to the Celts? Should the descendents of the tribes in Africa who aided the slave trade pay?
- What is a clean conscience worth? $100 each? $100,000 each? How do you put a price on the human suffering caused by slavery?
- Does affirmative action save us a few bucks on the bill?
I’ll tell you what, if people will drop the idea of trying to get me to pay reparations for the horror that was slavery, I won’t send them the bill for the pain and suffering the Union endured ending slavery in the Civil War.
Personally, I think America paid enough at Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg.
Asking for a few bucks on top of that seems a tad ungrateful.
July 9th, 2006
Plenty of folks over at Ann Althouse’s blog are contemptuous of the effort to pass a constitutional amendment protecting the American flag.
As I pointed out in a comment on her post:
There are already many interpreted exceptions to the First Amendment:
Commercial speech is not fully protected.
Fighting words.
Libel.
Campaign spending.
And “hate” speech.
Personally, cialis sales cialis I think many of those judicially-created exceptions should be tossed in the trash.
On the other hand, physician I have no problem with amending the Constitution to create a specific textual protection for our national symbol.
Protecting the flag will not suddenly invalidate the First Amendment. In fact, it will have much less an impact than all the exceptions I already noted. (Exceptions that are paradoxically loved by the Left – the self-appointed guardians of “free” speech.)
Do I feel the need for this amendment?
No.
But I don’t think it harms free speech.
And I appreciate that some people still recognize that amending the Constitution is the proper way to change the meaning and implications of the law, instead of just lobbying the judiciary to get them to reinterpret the document for you.
June 27th, 2006
Owen at Boots & Sabers posted a lengthy recap of Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Mark Green’s Ethics Reform Plan.
Funny, I thought the main part of his Ethics Reform Plan was to replace Jim Doyle.
June 23rd, 2006
In an editorial triggered by software company RedPrairie considering leaving Wisconsin because of high taxes, discount cialis for sale the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel sounds like they understand what we need to do to keep and recruit more companies to Wisconsin…
…until they say:
Why not give companies a credit against their corporate income tax when they pay for employee training at Wisconsin schools?
RedPrarie didn’t say they were leaving because of CORPORATE taxes. They said they can’t recruit executives because of the high PERSONAL taxes.
I own a business. There are PLENTY of ways to make sure you don’t pay a nickle of corporate taxes.
(I don’t take advantage of them, because I don’t like feeling like a tax-dodger…even when it’s legal.)
Corporate taxes are bullshit.
If we want a thriving professional and entrepreneurial culture in Wisconsin we HAVE TO LOWER THE FUCKING PERSONAL TAXES!!!!!!
That includes:
Income taxes.
Property taxes.
Government fees.
AND sales taxes.
And the people who want to keep taxes up to pay the pension benefits and healthcare benefits of government unions, need to realize the same thing that the autoworkers unions are finally figuring out…
…you get NO benefits at all if the suckers that you’re bleeding dry go out of business or move the hell away.
June 21st, 2006
Bobby Kennedy Jr. says George Bush stole the 2004 election from John Kerry.
Seriously?
Even Salon, not known as a bastion of right-wing extremism, says Kennedy’s “argument is filled with distoritions and blatant ommissions.”
Bush beat Kerry by nearly 3 MILLION votes. That wasn’t a rounding error.
Give it up, already.
I swear, if I were still a liberal, I’d be embarrassed and ashamed of the folks that claim the 2004 election was stolen or that 9-11 was a fraud.
Of course, people like that are one of the main reasons why I left the left in the first place.
June 13th, 2006
Everyone is talking about Georgia Thompson being convicted for illegally rewarding Doyle-campaign-contributors Adelman Travel with the state travel contract.
But I could give a crap.
First off, cialis canada hospital it’s not clear that anyone will ever prove that Thompson’s action was ordered or influenced by someone in the Doyle administration.
But more importantly:
Immediately after his election, viagra Doyle unilaterally rewarded one of his biggest contributors, cialis the indian tribes, with sweetheart deals that stretched into perpetuity.
That still pisses me off.
Forget Travelgate. Let’s talk about Tribalgate.
Let’s talk about how Jim Doyle illegally tried to reward these contributors with “forever” deals.
Let’s talk about how there wasn’t a single public meeting or discussion about these gaming deals until AFTER they were a done deal.
Let’s stop talking about illegal travel contracts and start talking about unethical tribal compacts.
June 13th, 2006
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are all pissed because the F.B.I. got a warrant and searched a Congressman’s office for additional evidence in a bribery case.
The contention that a valid search warrant is not sufficient authorization to search a congressman’s office is ridiculous.
No matter how much they may believe otherwise, viagra healing Congress people are NOT above the law.
The attempt to morph the incident into a separation of powers issue is just ludicrous.
And if the House thinks the Supreme Court will side with them and limit the power of the judicial system to issue warrants, they are more delusional than I normally consider Congress people to be.
May 24th, 2006
People act like both are unstoppable, viagra usa but no one seems willing to do the one thing that would eliminate them:
Bring the full force of the law down on the entities that benefit from them.
You want to stop spam? Forget the filters and “no mail” lists. Prosecute the businesses who benefit from it.
Sure the spam servers might be overseas and unreachable, but the people who MAKE the money CAN be reached. We know where they are. (Hell, they’re easy to find. After all, they want you to send them your money.)
Ruin them. Confiscate their property. Freeze their assests. Put them in prison.
I promise, the spam advertising Viagra stops the same day a few of the spammers find themselves on the receiving end of their own product via a guy named Bubba in a Federal pen.
The same holds true for illegal immigration.
Forget about building an inadequite and unpatrollable wall along the Mexican border. Just prosecute any U.S. employer who hires an illegal immigrant. Shut them down. Sentence them to 10 years of hard labor picking their own damn fruit and illegal immigration would dry up faster than the Rio Grand in an August drought.
We already have the ways to solve these “unsolvable” problems, what we don’t have is the will.
May 16th, 2006
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