I didn’t hear much talk on the right about reining in overreach by the SCOTUS when they expanded on the crack-brained notion that corporations essentially have the same constitutionally guaranteed rights as individual citizens. Nor have I heard much complaining about constitutionality as the religious right tries to empower the government to exercise control over women’s reproductive function.

Basically, constitutional principles are sacred to some only to the extent that they’re useful for imposing their will on other citizens.

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You know, even being a felon, I’m kind of hard on criminals even. I’ve seen their personalities from the inside and not just a newspaper article, so I can tell you some of them are just a little bit of crazy, a little bit of ruthless, and a little bit of stupid.

If you have a criminal that is indeed a criminal and he’s really intelligent, that’s indeed a scary formula, but it’s not very common. This idea that we can just use cookie cutters in life and put everyone in the same box is never going to work. You can make all the laws to protect yourself as you want to, but you’re still going to have to make a decision about people in life with the old eye test eventually.

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pookie 18
thank you for the laugh

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Wordsmith
thank you, they are viciously bad

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@johngalt: #1
Reminds you of the frog in a pan of water, doesn’t it?

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@GaffaUK:

Yet calling someone a chink is offensive and should be avoided or do we become relaxed with all the rascist words of years gone by and start punning on those?

Should we really allow certain words to hold such power over our emotions? What about symbols? A swastika? How about historically in Buddhism? What’s the proper emotional response? Does intent matter, or just the way people react, regardless of the motive of the one using a word or a symbol?

An interesting book that comes to mind is this one. (I remember catching an episode of Boston Public that made mention of this book).

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Hard Right I’m with the strong Conserv. and former Palin supporter retireo5 on this.Sarah is out strictly for herself.
She does look FABULOUS with that iridescent tan.
Far as strong intelligent women I’ll take Condi or Hillary.

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Well, that’s the Founders’ plan anyway, Randy. I’d say the toughest one to rein in is the Judicial branch, and most especially the SCOTUS. I’m less worried about the Congress and WH. They both have equally big egos, and Congress has a lot more egos to foist upon a sitting POTUS.

I’m not sure civics is Greg’s only problem. Seems he’s got a block with basic math too.

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@MataHarley: Over reach by any of the three branches of government can be reined in by the other two. Forget your 9th grade civics classes Greg!

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