--The Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, would not acknowledge the existence of radical Islam at a hearing before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and refused to acknowledge it had something to with the plot in NYC. But he is gung ho to use his power to challenge Arizona's recent immigration law while admitting that he hasn't read the law.
AZ's law is unconstitutional. And Holder not acknowledging the existence of radical islam is silliness. his not treating all muslims like they're terrorists is appropriate and it was also appropriate to wait until there was actual evidence of links between the bomber and the taliban loons in pakistan.
so i'm not sure what the complaint is.
--The ACLU will not defend those who respect and demand enforcement of the law, but files suit against a state that presumes to do so.
It isn't the job of the ACLU to defend government. It's the job of the ACLU to defend the constitution from infringement when people have knee-jerk reactions to people/things and speech they don't like.
--The President has nominated to US Supreme Court a former Harvard Law School Dean, former college professor, a “softball player,” a woman who practically grovels at his feet, one with scant legal and zero judicial experience, one who wrote an ode to socialism, a woman who is hostile to guns, and a woman who kicked the military off campus which, in his words, was not to increase the stature and competency of the Court but rather to make the Court “look like America;”
Rhenquist and Warren weren't judges before they were on the court. And clarence thomas was 42 years old, a judge for one year and an idiot with no constitutional background whatsover and a proclivity for sexually harassing women.
as for the rest... sorry, i can't respond to repetition of rightwing talking points that lack basis in reality.
--A bunch of parents in Florida apparently believe it is ok to allow 7 year-old girls to dress up in skimpy outfits and dance provocatively, even suggestively in public.
Well, it wouldn't have been something i'd have been thrilled about, but i think the over-reaction was a bit much. i don't see it as much different from the nuts who put their kids in pageants. they're gross, too.
--An enormous mosque is apparently being built just blocks from ground zero in Manhattan, and taxpayer dollars are supporting a mosque in Virginia while the ACLU challenges any form of religious symbol on village or county seals.
maybe not getting our 'facts' from 'barenakedislam' would be a good place to start. it's my understanding that space is being rented in the falls church mosque for census workers. big deal. government rents space in churches all the time. when you complain about that, i'm sure i'll be happy to get concerned about this.
--The Space Shuttle program launched Atlantis for the last time leaving space travel to the Russians and Chinese while our entire economy and national defense relies ever more on satellites.
people complain about deficit spending and say we should cut agencies like the FDA, EPA, etc..., eviscerate social security, cut off our poorest and oldest, but you want to pay for this? really?
--Schools increasingly focus on boosting children's self esteem by creating illusions of success rather than achieving honest and real success.
I haven't seen that. Schools here are highly competative and kids know full well how they're doing compared to other kids. Too much so, in fact. But I do hate those 'every body should win an award' things. it's a bad lesson to teach kids.
--Parents increasingly leave the care, raising, and education of their children to hired services rather than seeing that as their solemn responsibility, duty, and a blessing.
do you mean mom's working? and? that isn't 'leaving yoru kid to hired services'.
[QUO?TE]--More and more we are seeing one segment of society forced to give up more freedoms and privileges lest another segment of society be offended.[/QUOTE]
freedoms like reproductive choice? perhaps you and i have a different idea of what freedoms are endangered.
--More and more we are seeing devoutly religious people who express their opinions as more of a threat than we do terrorists committed to destroy, kill, and maim anybody they can.
silliness... we see people who are terrorists as terrorists, regardless of what they want to kill.
I could go on and on, but I suspect some of you get my drift.
Is it just me? Or is the world upside down these days?
depends on how you look at it, i guess.
i find it more offensive that people think they can tell old people they have to say christian prayers to get fed. try to impose their morality on others; while at the same time trying to destroy the social safety net and pretending that its worse to tell a business it can't discriminate than for some woman not to be able to use a public bathroom because she's the wrong color.
i think some people's values are skewed. but i'm guessing we see the skew in different places.
