Politicians Plead: The Fifth Amendment Does Not Apply to Suspected Terrorists

A CNN talking head just looked out at me from the flat screen TV above the fireplace at Dunkin Donuts and said, “Terrorists? Do you think they have the right to remain silent? I don’t.”

Before I address her question a quick aside: How did Journalism become Editorialism? G’damn fucking assholes. Don’t tell me your uneducated and ill-considered opinion Kyra Phillips. You are a reporter. Report.

…And don’t tell me how you want this guy to burn in purgatory either. First off your imagery is wrong you ignoramus. Second? Leave God out of it you posturing fake.

On to her question…

The whole point of affording everyone in our justice system the same rights we would like afforded to us and our loved ones is to make sure that those rights continue to exist. If they cease to exist for some it is only a matter of time until they cease to exist for less and less people. Once you move that line it is no longer permanent. Our justice sytem is set up to protect the individual – every individual – so that those individuals who deserve the benefit of the doubt get it. Mess with the system and you remove that promise of innocent until proven guilty.

We need to give terror suspects their 5th amendment rights because the Constitution applies to all of us. That is what makes us better than the terrorists. We treat them better than they would treat us. If we lower ourselves to their level of spite and hatred it is a slippery slope from there.

We are Americans, not Soviet Communists or Fascists. We are better than those who would attack us. Part of the way we prove that is the way we value and follow our Constitution to the absolute letter of the law.

Stupid ignorant short-sighted bitch.

Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with "rent boy" – Page 1 – News – Miami – Miami New Times

Is anyone else to the point where they assume that any old rich white guy who claims to have “Traditional Conservative Christian Family Values” is gay? Or am I alone in that logic?!

Usually I don’t want to know about other people’s sex lives but if it turns out that you practice the very same acts that you so publicly condemn I have less compassion. Personally I think justice would be to have guys like this placed in stocks in a public place with a sign around their neck explaining what a hypocritical douche-bag they are so passers-by can huck rotten fruit at their heads.

Maybe that’s just me.

The Associated Press: Mass. boil water order ends; investigation planned

In the face of catastrophe and man-made disaster some of the most important hallmarks of civilization persevere.

I cannot describe the feeling of reassurance stemming from this knowledge:

In spite of the fact that the entire metro area is hobbled by contaminated water, beer service at Fenway is not affected.

Phew!

Yes, I’m serious.

The city already took away my ability to stand outside on the street and smoke a cigarette. God knows what they will mess up next.

Breyer Dissents as Supreme Court Limits Use of Front Doors – Washington Wire – WSJ

A more literal example of how our progress towards a Nanny State prioritizes safety at the expense of the individual’s access to justice.

Climate bill could be harmed by Gulf spill – Yahoo! News

Ironic.

It might even be funny if it wasn’t so tragic.

Peanut Gallery says they should have killed the bill rather than agree to that in the first place.

Corporate shill cowards.

I still think the D’s are better than the alternative but I can’t help but wish they were, well, better.

YouTube – Theres no one as Irish as Barack OBama- Corrigan Brothers

Just trying to psyche myself up so I can enthusiastically support this guy in time for the midterms elections.

All watching this makes think is…

You were supposed to bring us together mofo, what happened to that???

Dancing Soldiers on YouTube: A Civilian's Guide to the Brave New Meme – Soldier lady gaga – Gawker

Among the frequent reactions to modern media/society I regularly try to avoid letting exit my mouth is annoyance at the Puritanical-disguised-as-politically-correct impulse everyone seems to have to label absolutely fucking everything.

Yes, it is very important for society to be inclusive but jeezus-fucking-king-of-the-jews maybe one way to make sure minorities are more smoothly integrated into the society the majority shares with them is too stop fucking looking for them everywhere.

Scholars trying to decide if letters written hundreds of years ago mean historical figures were gay is no less futile than trying to prove that the same historical figures were Christians, or atheists, in favor of a free market wall street or against illegal immigration. Get over it people. Every generation sees things in the context of the society they live in so we’ll never be able to know.

The same little reflex flinches at a lot of shit. Like the tone of this Gawker post. Oh Christ? Really, we’re going to watch a bunch of young guys dancing and try and decide if they are gay? Upon examination all of the videos Gawker highlights for us end up looking just like what they actually are.

What is that you ask?

Footage of a bunch of young guys doing what young guys do best: entertain themselves by being seriously, seriously goofy. Why read into it more than that? We can’t possibly be as bored as they are, can we? That’s just sad.

Why can’t we just be happy to learn that yes, when they are bored enough, white guys can dance too? Now that’s progressive!

Apple Rejects Gay-Sightseeing App Over Gay Sights – Apple – Gawker

A slight tarnish appears on Apple’s glossy finish.

As a hardcore PC devotee I want more. Please give me something to justify why I don’t like Apple. Feed me. More. More!!!!!

May Day Madness: Reportedly Over a Million Take the Immigration Battle to the Streets – Arizona – Gawker

That’s a lot of people to ask for their papers…

Study: A Dose of Oxytocin Increases the Cuddles – TIME

Does your man avoid post-coitus cuddling? Drug him!

Yes, I am puking in my mouth right now. Besides, who the hell in their right mind wants to watch chick flicks????

Just in from facebook, a friend from college’s daughter Clem asks, ‘Mama- if you think while you have food in your mouth, can you choke on your thoughts?”

Op-Ed Columnist – If Only Arizona Were the Real Problem – NYTimes.com

Show me your papers!

My heart breaks for the Nanny/Police State we are becoming. I don’t have the words for how not-OK, not-OK, very-bad this state of affairs had become.

British Judge: Christian Beliefs Have No Legal Standing

In England the crown is the head of the Church. Heck my Christian denomination, Episcopalians, came about because after the US won the revolutionary war Anglicans were suspected of treason through the affirmation of this. In order to prove their loyalty to their new nation they had to form a new Anglican religion, one where Church stayed separate from state.

It’s a little ironic that this ruling came down across the pond instead of here.

The thing I never get about the secular vs. religious battle is why these religious people spend so much time taking on secular law and trying to have their own religion’s law become the encoded in state law as well is that if one’s God is omnipotent, wouldn’t the religious law supersede any laws the state can pass anyways?

I would think it that is unnecessary and almost an insult to say that one’s God’s law isn’t law unless the state makes it a law as well. Maybe that’s just me.