Via Right Wing Sparkle comes this tremendously fascinating blog, written by an independent journalist in Iraq.
Here is just a snippet from his latest essay:
The Libyan, like so many "jihadists" who come to Iraq itching for action in the holy war, found himself treated as exspendable bomb casing. He started confessing everything. In fact, he had no sooner sat down at the table in the detention facility here on base than he had filled three pages with detailed handwritten confessions. The Libyan had crossed the border from Syria into Iraq on foot, intent on fighting a holy war, as an infantryman engaged in direct combat with American soldiers. He did not want to be a martyr, merely a jihadist. He did not want to die in Iraq. His Iraqis "hosts" had threatened to kill him if he refused to wear and detonate the explosive vest while mingling into a crowd of Iraqi police. But the Libyan did not like that plan and was angry at the Iraqis who were trying to force a holy jihadist to become an unwilling bomb, and he was telling everything. Another cascade.
And the calm man, who appeared so clever and confident while standing there comforting a crying infant? How the picture changed when a young American solider stepped into the frame, reached for and gently took the child. Without his prop, the actor faltered, his illusion cracked and shattered as he shuddered before the soldier. This man who cowered behind a crying child was one of the top terrorist leaders in Mosul.
Referencing this post, I reread that piece by L. Ray Smith, and a couple of things jumped out at me in these verses:
You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year. You shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God, at the place where He chooses to establish His name, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
If the distance is so great for you that you are not able to bring the tithe, since the place where the LORD your God chooses to set His name is too far away from you when the LORD your God blesses you, then you shall exchange it for money, and bind the money in your hand and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses. You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household. Also you shall not neglect the Levite who is in your town, for he has no portion or inheritance among you.
At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year, and shall deposit it in your town. The Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance among you, and the alien, the orphan and the widow who are in your town, shall come and eat and be satisfied, in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do. Deutoronomy 14:22-29 NASB
Veddy interestink! First of all, one's tithe was for one's own enjoyment and the enjoyment of the Levites and the less fortunate. Second, if one could not transport the tithe itself to the place of worship, one could convert it to money which was to be used to repurchase food, wine, other alcohol, or "anything you wish" to be consumed in celebration before the Lord.
Yes indeed! I'm quite certain this gives the "dry preachers" a bit of heartburn to try to explain away!
"No! You just send ME a check for your 'tithe'! You will NOT have a feast with good food and booze of all sorts in MY church!!"
Another passage, this from Paul's second letter to the Corinthians:
I suggest that you finish what you started a year ago, for you were the first to propose this idea, and you were the first to begin doing something about it. Now you should carry this project through to completion just as enthusiastically as you began it. Give whatever you can according to what you have. If you are really eager to give, it isn't important how much you are able to give. God wants you to give what you have, not what you don't have. Of course, I don't mean you should give so much that you suffer from having too little. I only mean that there should be some equality. Right now you have plenty and can help them. Then at some other time they can share with you when you need it. In this way, everyone's needs will be met. II Corinthians 8:10-14, New Living Translation
Hmm! This was written to believers under the New Covenant. It sounds very different from modern teaching on "tithing"! It doesn't sound like he was encouraging them to give to a particular ministry either. He was encouraging them to reach out to fellow believers in need. Nor was he encouraging them to tithe to the temple in Jerusalem, which was still standing and operating at that time. If they were obligated to tithe under the New Covenant, that is where the tithe would properly be celebrated for it to be a tithe at all.
In fact, there is no record of the tithe being required of New Covenant Gentile believers in the Bible. At the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15), the Apostles considered what, if anything of the Old Covenant Law to recommend to Gentile believers. Some, called "Judaizers" were attempting to teach that new believers should be required to follow the Law of Moses. In response, the Apostles had only this to recommend:
For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials: that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell. Acts 15:28-29 NASB
BaneRants Speaking of 'shooting out', I just shit one that had them running for high ground at the sewage plant again, I bet.
The guy they hired to watch the radar since the influx of the 'mystery missles' began some years ago screams "INCOMING" and slams his palm down hard on the alarm button and men grab gas masks and bail out of the pond area as the aooga horns and warning claxons began to bray...(continue)
My second commitment is equally elementary. The foreign policy of a democracy should be determined only at election times or by votes in Congress or Parliament. It is one hundred per cent unacceptable even to imply, let alone to assert, that a suicide-murderer or his apologists can by these means acquire the right to any say in how matters are decided.
Both of these observations, and indeed this very statement, would be redundant if it were not for the widespread cultural presence of a pseudo-Left, and an isolationist Right, both of whom have degenerated to the point where they regard jihadism as some form of 'liberation theology'. The old slogans are often the best, and 'Death to Fascism' is life-affirming in these conditions.
Click here for the rest, and to read the statements of other prominent British writers at the Unite Against Terror site.
Two articles published on the Web yesterday provided key insights into the mind set of the left. Bush hatred, opposition to the Global War On Terrorism in particular and opposition to liberal Western civilization in general are hallmarks of the left but why?
Victor Davis Hanson's article in The National Review Online entitled Our Wars Over the War offers three sacraments of postmodern thinking that leads to appeasement of aggressors against Western civilization. Those are enumerated as... (continue)
Battered but not destroyed. It looks like the worst damage is well to the south of Cancun, south of Cozumel. And even there the Yucatan coast was spared the worst of it when the storm weakened slightly before making landfall.
World news from The Times and the Sunday Times - Times Online
With Cancun's huge tourism industry taking a blow, probably the best thing to do is go and spend money to help prop up and rebuild the local economy.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is calling for a battle of hearts and minds against the 'evil ideology' of Muslim extremists as the death toll from the London transit system bombings rises to 55.
The prime minister said the four young men suspected in the attacks - who were all Britons - had fallen prey to propaganda, sincerely believed that they were doing God's work and thought they would be rewarded in heaven.
Blair warned that the West must start countering the ideology of al-Qaeda and other extremists before they turn more sincere young Muslim men into hate-filled fanatics.
'This is the battle that must be won, a battle not just against terrorist methods, but their views,' Blair said in a speech in London on Saturday.
'The greatest danger is that we fail to face up to the nature of the threat that we're dealing with. And what we are confronting here is an evil ideology. ...It is a battle of ideas, of hearts and of minds, both within Islam and outside it.'
Well?
Are we done with the sneering about the "War on a method" from certain quarters then?
This is, of course, good news that our leaders are willing to state publically that it is more than terrorist's methods that we are concerned about, but also the ideology that drives them. Maybe we'll see some more coherent action to shut down and deport the Imams and other ideologues who are the purveyors of hatred.
Think the left will permit the preaching of jihad to be classified as a hate crime?
CANCUN, Mexico, July 17 (Reuters) - Mexico was braced for one of its worst storms in years as violent Hurricane Emily howled toward popular Caribbean resorts around Cancun on Sunday, packing winds of up to 155 mph (250 kph).
As it tore westward through the Caribbean, forecasters said Emily was on the verge of blowing into a rare and deadly Category 5 hurricane on the five-step scale of intensity, a level of storm capable of destroying buildings.
Dang...
Is there going to be anything left when I get there in October?
The question, researchers say, is whether the benefits of marijuana outweigh the risks of its negative side effects, or whether the maladies can be better treated by other drugs. That's the very question the FDA used to evaluate Vioxx, Bextra and Celebrex, and one that researchers say the government won't let them answer about marijuana.
The reason is simple: Solid research into the medical benefits of marijuana would expose the decades of lies by the government. And the government just simply can't have that now...
The thing is, there's a virtual mandate out there for this research, and for permitting marijuana use for medical purposes. Even the older generation is highly supportive, based on this recent survey conducted by AARP: Poll: Most Older Americans Back Medical Pot.
Among the 1,706 adults polled in AARP's random telephone survey in November, opinions varied along regional and generational lines and among the 30 percent of respondents who said they have smoked pot. AARP members represented 37 percent of respondents.
Overall, 72 percent of respondents agreed "adults should be allowed to legally use marijuana for medical purposes if a physician recommends it." Those in the Northeast (79 percent) and West (82 percent) were more receptive to the idea than in the Midwest (67 percent) and Southwest (65 percent). In Southern states, 70 percent agreed with the statement.
Though 69 percent of those age 70 and older said they support legal medical marijuana use, less than half agreed it has medical benefits. Seventy percent of respondents age 45-49 said they believe in the medical benefits of pot, as did 59 percent of those in the 50-69 age group.
And while 74 percent of all people surveyed said pot is addictive, older respondents were more likely to think so: 83 percent of those 70 and older, compared with 61 percent of those aged 45-49.
Generational lines also divided those who have smoked pot: Just 8 percent of those 70 and older admitted having lit up, compared with 58 percent of the 45-49 group, 37 percent of those between 50 and 59 and 15 percent of the 60-69 set.
National polls in recent years have found majority support for allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes.
As noted, these results are not an anomaly. This is consistent with poll after poll conducted over the last several years. So where are the politicians who ought to be ready to step up to the plate and listen to vox populi?
"Hey Ma! I got to shoot one o' them scumbag dope smoking hippies today on my first day on the job!"
Yes it's tragic. Another victim of the drug war.
My first reaction on reading the story in the link above, was that the kid got what he deserved, until I read more and realized it was probably a case of "suicide by cop". Reading further it becomes clear that much of the trouble he has been in is due to his use of marijuana and the alienation he felt from authority figures.
Yeah, that deserves a death sentence in some people's minds...
This happened no more than 1/4 mile from my house. I drive through that intersection every day. The way the lights are set up there is anomalous. Unlike the way the lights work in much of the rest of Tucson, the cycle starts with a green arrow at the left turn onto Miracle Mile, while the southbound traffic on Oracle Road still has a red light.
Did the police remember that fact?
And if his brother was out into the intersection a little way when the light turned yellow, he would have been perfectly within his rights to complete the U-turn. This smells to me like excessive zeal on the part of the police to make an unnecessary traffic stop in order to prod for further incriminating evidence. Without the War on (some) Drugs, that kind of stop would be considered absurd, and ordinary citizens would not long tolerate such heavy-handedness on the part of the police.
It was 4:30 a.m. Wednesday when police let Paul Albrecht go home after questioning. No charges were filed against him and they did not give him a ticket for running a red light, he said.
Telling...
Unfortunately in this case the police found what they hoped to find, and ended up killing a kid. As it turns out, Matthew was still using and selling marijuana and had an arrest warrant out on him. But it sounds to me that all he wanted was to be left alone so he could get his life together and move on into adulthood.
Think about it Moms and Dads. You don't want your kids to use marijuana, even though you used it when you were a kid and turned out just fine. But is it because of the purported harms of marijuana use itself?
Or is it because in today's social climate, your kid is all too likely to be staring down the barrel of a police revolver while the State pumps him full of hot death?
I'm seeing that usual tendency amongst some on the right, scrambling to crucify our own, lest we show the slightest shadow of being anything like "THEM". Frankly that's bullshit.
The only thing we know for sure is that the Democrats are hyperventilating in their eager zeal to "get" Rove. In the process a whole lot of very important details are being overlooked, not the least of which is that Karl Rove is not even the target of the current investigation.
Sorry Annika and others. It will take a lot more than the thin set of facts we currently have before I am willing to turn my guns on our own troops, particularly one as effective as Karl Rove. Standing firm in the face of this shitstorm does not in any way make this administration look like the Clinton administration.
Republicans have higher standards than Democrats. Fine. However it is not at all clear than any such standards have been violated at this point.
July 11 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush's administration will report this week that surging tax revenue is shrinking this year's budget deficit from the record 2004 level, possibly by as much as $90 billion, giving him a shot at fulfilling his deficit reduction promise three years early.
With tax revenue running $1 billion a day ahead of the 2004 pace in late April and May, the deficit will likely decline to about $325 billion from $412 billion last year, according to the Congressional Budget Office and private forecasters such as Stephen Stanley, chief economist at RBS Greenwich Capital in Greenwich, Connecticut.
"An expanding economy, creating more receipts, is putting us on a very good path to deal with our deficit," Treasury Secretary John Snow said at a press conference in Calgary on July 8.
Suh-prahz! Suh-prahz! Suh-prahz!
Didn't Bush CUT taxes?! Shouldn't that mean LOWER tax receipts?!
Funny how cutting taxes in the form of accelerated depreciation on new capital investment (for the benefit of those e-evil rich Republicans, no less!) has this "ironic" effect...
Two years ago I predicted this to a statist Democrat co-worker. Two years ago I told him that a tax cut of this nature *cannot fail* to stimulate new economic growth. I told him that there is not a capitalist alive worth his salt who will fail to find a productive way to take advantage of such a plum opportunity. Funny though, when you distrust or hate capitalists, you just simply cannot believe that they would make wise choices that end up benefitting us all.
The big surprise has been in tax revenue, which is running nearly 15 percent higher than in 2004. Corporate tax revenue has soared about 40 percent, after languishing for four years, and individual tax revenue is up as well.
Most of the increase in individual tax receipts appears to have come from higher stock market gains and the business income of relatively wealthy taxpayers. The biggest jump was not from taxes withheld from salaries but from quarterly payments on investment gains and business earnings, which were up 20 percent this year.
NO!! How can that be?! Cut the taxes on the rich so they pay more tax??
The link is to the NYT, so there is also the usual hand-wringing, irrelevant doom and gloom comparisons, and warnings against "irrational exuberance".
Do you want to change society? The answer is changed hearts, not changed laws. Utopians have been trying to create the perfect society for centuries, by imposing rigid standards of behavior and thought, from above and from the outside. They have been failing for centuries as well, frequently with spectacularly disastrous results for the millions of individuals caught in the utopian insanity.
This country was founded on the novel concept that the individual is the sovereign. Yes, that's right! That is what it means to be "endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights". We believe that our essential rights are not granted to us by any State, nor even by the Constitution. The Constitution merely enumerates these rights and prohibits the State from infringing upon them. Our rights are "natural" or "endowed by our Creator". That is what the phrase "under God" really means, and why it is so important. This is quite a different concept from the monarchial and authoritarian systems that came before and since!
If we are to continue under a system of government that recognizes this radically different order of things, then any "solutions" proposed for any "problem" in society must take this into account. Any proposed policy absolutely must acknowledge the fact that the individual is sovereign, and all powers of government are merely delegated sovereignty. That is why we have "representatives" and "public servants", not "lords" and "masters".
The city of Cali, Colombia was transformed, not because of some new infusion of money and troops from the War on (some) Drugs, nor by a new harsh crackdown by government forces, but because believing followers of Christ gathered together in earnest, fervent prayer, and the Spirit of God began to move in that city, transforming hearts and minds and lives.
The first part is our heritage as Americans. The second is our inheritance as Christ-followers. Let us never look to the State for answers!
Are "liberals" no longer liberal? This liberal thinks so, as he muses on his reasons for leaving the political left. This is well worth reading, both for Democrats and liberals increasingly frustrated with the looniness that seems to be gripping their party, and for conservatives to get an inside picture of the transformation that is underway on the American left.
Ironically, in many ways, today's "conservatives" are becoming the new liberals as the left slides inexorably into various forms of statism and totalitarianism.
This is a long read, but it was well-worth reading to me. Something of an eye-opener too. I really need to learn to trust what the Spirit tells me, because I have not tithed for the last couple of years, and have not felt compelled to do so. I have, however, felt vaguely guilty about it, due to the previous false teaching I received on the subject of tithing.
Guilt and condemnation are part of the Old Covenant, the law which leads to death. The "curses" of Malachi are most emphatically not applied to the New Covenant believer, and more importantly, L. Ray Smith makes clear how those particular verses are misinterpreted in the first place.
If you've ever sat through a sermon admonishing you to tithe ten percent of all your income, lest various curses befall you, then click, read, and be made free in Him Who sets you free.
...liberal dogma insists that the public always has a static response to modifications in tax law and asserts that individuals simply do not change their behavior in reaction to changes in their taxes even if those changes will affect their economic well-being. This is why the liberal-dominated legacy media is always taken by surprise when tax increases fail to bring in the expected amount of revenue, as their faith in static tax models inevitably outweighs their willingness to remember what happened the last 10 times that taxes were increased.
Suh-prahz suh-prahz! Kind of amazing when you think about it. And in the same camp are those who still stubbornly refuse to see that cutting taxes stimulates economic growth, which in turn increases tax revenue.
Another mystery befuddling believers in paradise by politicians is the methamphetamine explosion. Why, one might ask, are drug users today so interested in smoking home-cooked battery acid that will rot their teeth faster than hot sauce from Taco Bell soaked in Pepsi when previous generations of druggies were content with natural opium and coca derivatives?
The answer, of course, lies in the application of the dynamic reaction, in this case to the federal government's War on Drugs. You may not be able to buy a tin of Guatemalan Snoose at Walgreen's these days, but no one's going to ask any questions about what you're doing with a jug of antifreeze in the trunk of your car.
Right. Thanks, Drug Warriors. The harder you press, the worse it gets. Wouldn't it be nice to go back to 1972 when the drug "problem" consisted mostly of kids getting high on low-grade ditchweed? All this recent attention on the meth problem does is illustrates the abyssmal failure that is the War on (some) Drugs.
In the midst of the ongoing caterwauling about the uneven room temperatures at Gitmo, it is useful to wonder why there was and is such an eerie silence on the topic of the very real abuses--including rape and gruesome murder by UN troops--that were uncovered and then swept under the rug.
In Plame case, Michael Kinsley comes out in favor of the rule of law.
Right Principle, Wrong Context The Times's Thursday editorial asserts that this is a matter of 'civil disobedience.' In societies that are not democracies or lack a legitimate judicial system, nonviolent civil disobedience is an admirably restrained method of attempting political change. In societies where laws are democratically enacted and fairly enforced, for the most part, purposely breaking them needs to be justified by some enormous injustice.
The New York Times is an influential newspaper owned by a large corporation. It is claiming an exemption from one of the duties of citizenship. It has hired some of America's best lawyers to pursue this claim. And then, when the claim has been rejected, it encourages its employees to defy the courts and break the law. If that is civil disobedience, then almost any law anyone does not care for is up for grabs.
As the jobless rate fell to 5 percent, employers added 146,000 new jobs in June--40,000 more than in May, the Labor Department reported.
On Wall Street, those numbers added up to a 'Goldilocks economy'--not too hot, not too cold, but just right for sustainable, inflation-free economic growth.
This adds up to more than 3.7 million jobs created since May 2003, with more than one million of those jobs gained in the past six months. It's amazing how Democrats and the Partisan Media continue to spin this economy negatively.
In my case, it will mean marginally higher interest payments again next month. I have a commercial loan on my real estate endeavor, and every time Greenspan hiccups my payment goes up. (Confound it! Give the man a glass of water!) So personally I wouldn't mind a little recession about now. But this is great news for everyone else.
Tim Davies who manages Cycle Surgery near Holborn said, "the shop is so close to where the bus got hit that we thought we'd be evacuated. But by 11 o'clock we were running around like crazy. We'd normally sell five to 10 bikes a day, but we sold at least double that in a few hours.
"We had people who hadn't ridden for over 10 years asking for refresher lessons--we even had a judge."
Others, who had walked home, dug long-forgotten bikes from sheds and garages for Friday morning's commute. Fernando Gandioli said he noticed "a lot of rusty bikes and squeaky chains" as he cycled in to work at accountancy firm KPMG. ... "People who didn't want to waste money on a hotel and said: 'sod it, I'll buy a bike.'"
WorldNetDaily: Court sources: Rehnquist retiring Following on the heels of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist will announce his retirement before the end of the week, according to court sources cited by columnist Robert Novak.
O'Connor surprised many court watchers when she gave President Bush a resignation letter last Friday while all eyes were on the ailing Rehnquist.
These hellhounds have the nerve to blow up London today. They think they're so clever with their numerology, claiming thereby to be acting in the name of God.
They are, in fact, the spawn of hell and are doing the bidding of the enemy of God and mankind.
For my part, I've decided that if you truly believe that the most vociferous anti-war protesters are hurting the war effort--and if you truly believe in the strategic righteousness of the Iraq campaign--then strapping on a rifle and shooting dissenters where they stand (or, failing that, strafing the local Starbucks) is the only legitimate way to show your commitment to the war!
I AM PART OF THE REALITY BASED COMMUNITY! SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND, HIPPIE!
Even now, well after dark, it's 101 degrees. I wanted to sit in my garden to watch the fountain trickle in the floodlight and listen to the geckos crrk!ing in the trees up amidst the miniature white lights. But it still felt like midday.
So I stripped to my skivvies and hosed everything down with water--trees, bushes, flowers, patio. That dropped it easily twenty degrees to a very comfortable level.
"ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- A fuel tanker crashed and sprung a small leak early Tuesday after the driver was hit by a bottle rocket as he drove past a group of youths, authorities said.
The driver was seriously injured, and two or three nearby apartment buildings were evacuated as a precaution, they said.
The truck struck a curb and a fire hydrant before tumbling down an embankment into a parking lot.
A small amount of fuel leaked from a valve but firefighters quickly contained it, police Sgt. J.L. Hensal said. 'The truck stayed pretty much intact,' he said.
Police Sgt. Kevin Iosty said no arrests had been made."
Tribal leaders in Husaybah are attacking followers of Abu Musab Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born terrorist who established the town as an entry point for al-Qa'eda jihadists being smuggled into the country.
The reason, the US military believes, is frustration at the heavy-handed approach of the foreigners, who have kidnapped and assassinated local leaders and imposed a strict Islamic code.
Fighting, which could be clearly heard at night over the weekend, first broke out in May when as many as 50 mortar rounds were fired across the city. But, to the surprise of the American garrison, this time it was not the target.
If a shell landed near the US base, 'they'd adjust their fire and not shoot at us', Lt Col Tim Mundy said. 'They shot at each other.'"
Hah!
Report THAT, MSM! And tell us *who* it is exactly who's floundering in a "quagmire"?
Here's more on why: Following al-Qa'eda's seizure of the main buildings a number of residents fled. Arkan Salim, 56, who left with his wife and four children, said: "We thought they were patriotic. Now we discovered that they are sick and crazy.
"They interfered in everything, even how we raise our children. They turned the city into hell, and we cannot live in it anymore."
It will require twin solutions - one at the supply end of the pipeline, the other at the demand end.
Let's look at the demand problem this week. That's the easy one because it can be solved by government decree: Just get Congress to pass a law legalizing drugs and setting up super-discount outlets for heroin, pot, and other flavors of dunce drugs, and - poof! - the game is 90 percent over. ... Think back to the 1920s. Marijuana could often be found growing wild down by the river in most states, and all the kids knew what it would do if you smoked it, but no child with any social standing would have anything to do with a loser who was brainless and pathetic enough to try it more than once. That, I suggest, would soon become the prevailing attitude again if we demystified drugs by putting them where they'd be readily available - albeit, perhaps, attached to a sermonette. ... Drug dabbling is going to be with us for awhile. But that doesn't mean regular drug use will continue to be a problem. In any other country of the world, drugs are hardly more than a blip on the national consciousness - regardless of how lax their laws are. As Yale law professor Steven Duke says, "Neither cocaine nor heroin is habitually consumed by more than a small fraction of the residents of any country in the world. There is no reason to suppose that Americans would be the single exception."
The author of this article is also the author of the book "Megashift," a book about the phenomenal growth of Christianity around the world through the house church movement. Now I can't wait to see the second half of his article next week.
Just when the dithering twit was starting to come down on the correct side of some of the most recent SC decisions, she up an' quits!
I'm sure you know what this means now--war!
Cats and Dogs!
Donkeys and Elephants!
It could get ugly, oh yes.
I for one am not so interested in seeing Bush put up a conservative SC nominee so much as I am interested in seeing a strict constructionist, a constitutional libertarian if you will. Someone who takes very seriously their job protecting the personal liberties and limits on the intrusion of government into the lives of it's sovereign citizens.
Dreamer? Ah...don't know. Janice Rodgers Brown sounded awfully good, so there are such judges out there. I'll be waiting with bated breath...
If we end up getting a justice who will help overturn Roe v. Wade too, that's fine by me (and I don't see that as a contradiction either). It was a lousy decision to begin with, and if the states want to keep abortion safe, legal, yadda, etc., I'm convinced they will anyway. But the faulty reasoning, the stretched logic, and the outright voodoo jurisprudence, including the infamous "emanations from the penumbra", justifies it being tossed out.
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