LoneLaugher
Diamond Member
Fuck your values. Mine are better.
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Now we are only telling them what to parrot back and not teaching them how to think, for the last 40 years.
Cartoon made in 1959.
Cartoon predicts the future 50 years ago. This is amazing insight! - YouTube
Great post! So true. I'm old enough to remember the David and Goliath shows too....they taught values. Now they all seem to have these little black boxes they all stare into and communicate with. Soon the art of speaking might be gone.
What? Are you trying in your lame way to lob an insult?
You are an imbecile. A polite one....but still an imbecile. Would you like some attention? I'll try......but you are so boring that it isn't even fun to mock you.
Just stating facts. If you take them as insults, that's fine.
Fact is you can't run circles around someone in a discussion, I doubt your children can, though I hope for their sakes they learn.
Oh! You are brutal! Please stop! You are tearing me apart.
There are a few people here who can own me anytime they want. You ain't one of them. You are way, way down on the list. You should learn your place...it would lead to a more meaningful experience for you.
Hmmmm.
More taxes for ever-increasing budgets. To pay for ever-increasing government services. And yet, magically, government has not intruded into our lives more.
It's a Christmas miracle, Comrade!
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Saying that the Supreme Court should follow the Constitution as written is really stupid. That is not what they do. They interpret the fucking thing.
I am convinced that those who call for such a thing.......for "following the Constitution as it was written because the words mean exactly the same as they did in the 18th century"....are doing nothing but trying to mask their own ignorance.
Now we are only telling them what to parrot back and not teaching them how to think, for the last 40 years.
Cartoon made in 1959.
Cartoon predicts the future 50 years ago. This is amazing insight! - YouTube
Great post! So true. I'm old enough to remember the David and Goliath shows too....they taught values. Now they all seem to have these little black boxes they all stare into and communicate with. Soon the art of speaking might be gone.
Wait...you're talking about watching a TV show, while typing on one of those "little boxes"...or the typewriter with the TV on it for the geezers...and lamenting about "kids these days"?
Funny, when I was a kid we had these things called "parents" that taught the values. In our family we still do.
Oh, and we had these things called "books" too. Oh look, still do. In fact, that's what my kids use their little boxes" for quite a bit.
Great post! So true. I'm old enough to remember the David and Goliath shows too....they taught values. Now they all seem to have these little black boxes they all stare into and communicate with. Soon the art of speaking might be gone.
Wait...you're talking about watching a TV show, while typing on one of those "little boxes"...or the typewriter with the TV on it for the geezers...and lamenting about "kids these days"?
Funny, when I was a kid we had these things called "parents" that taught the values. In our family we still do.
Oh, and we had these things called "books" too. Oh look, still do. In fact, that's what my kids use their little boxes" for quite a bit.
Of course parents are the main source of values!! I'm only responding to the subject here which I took as being about what kids watch today......and I'm not watching TV right now, I'm at work doing this while monitoring the Plant computer. You dont see a problem with kids doing most of their communicating through a little black box instead of interacting personally? Well we'll see I guess.
Are you joking? Maybe TM or rdean can't own you. (Who knows, you guys agree on so much) But everyone else does and does so frequently. I'd love to see you contribute more substance one of these days.
TV isn't meant for imparting values, it's for entertainment. What is so horrible about what "kids are watching" today?
I wasn't implying you we're watching TV. You were talking about watching TV as a kid while implying kids are too into "little boxes". Seemed a little "kids these days".
Why aren't you talking with your co-workers instead of conversing here? Get the irony?
Fuck your values. Mine are better.
No you got me wrong on that, I could care less about the courts tenure, I want them to follow the constitution as written, not as they feel it should be applied. The concept is simple, the Constitution means exactly the same today as the day it was written, if folks don't like what it says, then apply article 5, that is the path to a living Constitution, constitutionally there is none other. I'm damned tried of all 3 branches ignoring the Constitution except to bolster a political arguement, it is the law, I say stick to it.
By deferring to amendment often you are negating the Constitutional duty of the SCOTUS to act as a check and balance of the other two. The SCOTUS prevents the Executive from overreach or enables extension of that power. They also make sure that the Congress doesn't impose unconstitutional measures on the states or the Executive...which groups of boneheads try to do from time to time.
If the states want a law their own legislatures enact it for review by their own Supreme Courts and it may or may not need SCOTUS review eventually.
It isn't constitutional to use the power to accept or reject Amendments as a replacement for the duty of the SCOTUS to check and balance. It is a usurpation of Constitutionally protected powers.
Amemding the Constitution was made difficult in order to protect from rule by force of numbers rather than force of law.
The same gridlock as in Congress purposely imposed on our Courts serves no one. Americans deserve the laws they want that pass Constitutional muster.
Regards from Rosie
What!!!!!!!
Your going in directions that haven't thus far entered in this conversation. I'm saying that the SCOTUS is bound to follow the Constitution as written. It is SCOTUS that is userping powers by giving themselves and the other two branches powers that are NOT enumerated in the Constitution. What SCOTUS thinks does not alter what is written, yet they have on numerous occasions expanded the powers of government with only imagined authority. Moabamacare was just the latest one, direct taxiation is forbidden by article 1, section 9, the 16 admendment created an exception for income, nothing else. Now SCOTUS says a direct tax can be levied for doing nothing, that authority does not exist I don't care who wrote it, who passed it or who signed it. On top of everything Roberts took it upon himself to redefine the language in the legislation which he does not have the authority to do. He should have sent it back to congress with a note, that as written, it was unconstitutional.
Moabamacare
By deferring to amendment often you are negating the Constitutional duty of the SCOTUS to act as a check and balance of the other two. The SCOTUS prevents the Executive from overreach or enables extension of that power. They also make sure that the Congress doesn't impose unconstitutional measures on the states or the Executive...which groups of boneheads try to do from time to time.
If the states want a law their own legislatures enact it for review by their own Supreme Courts and it may or may not need SCOTUS review eventually.
It isn't constitutional to use the power to accept or reject Amendments as a replacement for the duty of the SCOTUS to check and balance. It is a usurpation of Constitutionally protected powers.
Amemding the Constitution was made difficult in order to protect from rule by force of numbers rather than force of law.
The same gridlock as in Congress purposely imposed on our Courts serves no one. Americans deserve the laws they want that pass Constitutional muster.
Regards from Rosie
What!!!!!!!
Your going in directions that haven't thus far entered in this conversation. I'm saying that the SCOTUS is bound to follow the Constitution as written. It is SCOTUS that is userping powers by giving themselves and the other two branches powers that are NOT enumerated in the Constitution. What SCOTUS thinks does not alter what is written, yet they have on numerous occasions expanded the powers of government with only imagined authority. Moabamacare was just the latest one, direct taxiation is forbidden by article 1, section 9, the 16 admendment created an exception for income, nothing else. Now SCOTUS says a direct tax can be levied for doing nothing, that authority does not exist I don't care who wrote it, who passed it or who signed it. On top of everything Roberts took it upon himself to redefine the language in the legislation which he does not have the authority to do. He should have sent it back to congress with a note, that as written, it was unconstitutional.
The Constitution affords Congress powers both enumerated and implied – the Framers understood the doctrine of judicial review and fully expected the courts to examine the constitutionality of measures both Federal and local.
Indeed, judicial review was commonplace in Colonial courts for well over a generation prior to and during the Foundation Era.
The Framers also understood and expected the courts to interpret the Constitution and determine its meaning, establishing case law to guide future generations of jurists.
Moabamacare
This would indicate your opposition to the ACA is subjective and partisan, not legal; or otherwise not predicated on a rational analysis of the ruling.
Fuck your values. Mine are better.
Wait...you're talking about watching a TV show, while typing on one of those "little boxes"...or the typewriter with the TV on it for the geezers...and lamenting about "kids these days"?
Funny, when I was a kid we had these things called "parents" that taught the values. In our family we still do.
Oh, and we had these things called "books" too. Oh look, still do. In fact, that's what my kids use their "little boxes" for quite a bit.
Just stating facts. If you take them as insults, that's fine.
Fact is you can't run circles around someone in a discussion, I doubt your children can, though I hope for their sakes they learn.
Oh! You are brutal! Please stop! You are tearing me apart.
There are a few people here who can own me anytime they want. You ain't one of them. You are way, way down on the list. You should learn your place...it would lead to a more meaningful experience for you.
Are you joking? Maybe TM or rdean can't own you. (Who knows, you guys agree on so much) But everyone else does and does so frequently. I'd love to see you contribute more substance one of these days.