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The United States Constitution is AUGUST'S GREAT BOOK OF THE MONTH.
Let's hope that the Supreme Court's judiciary takes a copy to the beach
and READS it. They will not find abortion anywhere within...
August's Great Book: THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
One of the greatest pieces of poetry ever penned upon these shores.
Concise, and yet all-encompassing; supremely elegant, and yet
classically rugged: THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.
Someting to note when ye read it: where's the only place the word
"right" is mentioned?
http://jollyrogerwest.com/showthread.php?p=1549#post1549
The Constitution of the United States
Preamble Note
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect
Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the
common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings
of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States of America.
Article I. - The Legislative Branch Note
Section 1 - The Legislature
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of
the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of
Representatives.
Section 2 - The House
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every
second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in
each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the
most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the
Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United
States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State
in which he shall be chosen.
(Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the
several States which may be included within this Union, according to
their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the
whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a
Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all
other Persons.) (The previous sentence in parentheses was superseded by
Amendment XIV, section 2.) The actual Enumeration shall be made within
three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United
States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner
as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not
exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at
Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the
State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts
eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five,
New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one,
Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five
and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the
Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such
Vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other
Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Section 3 - The Senate
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from
each State, (chosen by the Legislature thereof,) (The preceding words
in parentheses superseded by Amendment XVII, section 1.) for six Years;
and each Senator shall have one Vote.
Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first
Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three
Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated
at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the
Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration
of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year;
(and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the
Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make
temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which
shall then fill such Vacancies.) (The preceding words in parentheses
were superseded by Amendment XVII, section 2.)
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of
thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and
who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which
he shall be chosen.
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the
Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro
tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall
exercise the Office of President of the United States.
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When
sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When
the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall
preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of
two thirds of the Members present.
Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to
removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office
of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party
convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment,
Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
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The United States Constitution is AUGUST'S GREAT BOOK OF THE MONTH.
Let's hope that the Supreme Court's judiciary takes a copy to the beach
and READS it. They will not find abortion anywhere within...
Neither is murder, arson, fraud, theft, adultery, bigamy, kidnapping,
pedophile, manslaughter, assault, underage drinking or smoking, drugs, drunk
driving, terrorism, or jaywalking.
Should they all be legal just because the Constitution does not mention
them?
Nuki_Mouse
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"Defend free speech! Read a banned book today!" unknown.
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Abortion *is* illegal as murder is illegal.
The golden rule, common to all religions, is "Do onto others as you
would have them do onto you."
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<greatbooksclassics@yahoo.com> schreef in bericht
news:1122998660.690480.161060@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Abortion *is* illegal as murder is illegal.
The golden rule, common to all religions, is "Do onto others as you
would have them do onto you."
Does "separation of church and state" ring a bell...?
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"DB" <baecke_didier@_REMOVE_yahoo.com> writes:
<greatbooksclassics@yahoo.com> schreef in bericht
news:1122998660.690480.161060@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Abortion *is* illegal as murder is illegal.
The golden rule, common to all religions, is "Do onto others as you
would have them do onto you."
Does "separation of church and state" ring a bell...?
Apparently, he thinks that's illegal at UNC...
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chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2005-06 Houston Aeros)
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What're The Top Ten Conservative Rock & Country Bands/Performers of All
Time??
1. Toby Keith (we'll put a boot in their *****...)
2. Kid Rock (woudn't go see Farenheight 911 with Puff Daddy: Supports
the troops on USO tours!!!)
3. Elvis
4. Guns 'n' Roses
5. Metallica (Napster hearings)
6. Dixie Chicks (kidding!!!)
7. Quiet Riot
8. Snoop Dogg (with my mind on my money and my money on my mind)
9. Russel Crowe's Band
10. The Pretenders (Rush Limbaugh's theme song)
11. KISS (Geme Simmons is a huge Bush fan)
From: http://jollyrogerwest.com/showthread.php?p=1701#post1701
Support the troops!!!
http://jollyroger.com/penpals (SEMPER FI TO THE USMC! PENPALS!)
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Does "separation of church and state" ring a bell...?
* door slamb! *
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Abortion *is* illegal as murder is illegal.
Really? Take that to Raleigh and see how many laugh at you, son. You're
evidently not getting much support in Chapel Hill, either.
The golden rule, common to all religions, is "Do onto others as you
would have them do onto you."
Funny how you and some of your fetus fetishist comrades seem to think that
only applies when they're the ones doing to others.
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chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2005-06 Houston Aeros)
LAST GAME: Chicago 5, Houston 3 (April 26)
NEXT GAME: Date/opponent/site TBA in August 2005
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Bring Back The Great Books Renaissance!!
http://KILLDEVILHILL.COM
http://jollyrogerwest.com
On a bright blue, blustery February day, I'm standing on top of Kill
Devil Hill, looking out over towards Cape Point, Hatteras, witnessing
from afar the eternal battle being performed by two opposing oceans.
Just off Cape Point the northbound Gulf Stream and the cold currents
hailing from the Arctic meet head on, sending white spray over
one-hundred feet into the air. Over the years these conflicting
currents have been depositing sand off Hatteras, and the resulting
diamond-shaped sand bar has come to be known as the Diamond Shoals,
it's fang-like shifting sand bars pushing seaward to snare the unwary
mariner. While the shoals are the largest and most formidable hazard,
the entire Carolina coast is marked by such eternally shifting,
submerged features, and thus long ago sailors were inspired to call it,
"The Graveyard of the Atlantic." And as I look out over the clashing
currents, which are indiscernible but for the mist they throw
one-hundred feet into the air, I am reminded of how it are those
invisible inner conflicts between the polar opposites of our souls from
which the visible art departs, aspiring towards the heavens. Art is the
eternal piece of us striving to be free, and thus all generations seek
a renaissance, so as to join Edmund Burke's community of eternal souls.
I found out about Cape Point from a book my girlfriend gave me for
Christmas entitled, THE GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC. The book narrates
the stories of the numerous shipwrecks off the Carolina coast. She'd
also given me a poetry anthology, which is a cool one, because it's
small and there aren't any of those tedious introductions to the
poems-- there're only the poet's words. In it I finally found that one
Robert Frost poem about making your avocation your vocation, and that's
exactly what the WWW's allowing us to do-- to make our passion our
profession... CONTINUED
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Bring Back The Great Books Renaissance!!
What does this have to do with anything but your spam?
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chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2005-06 Houston Aeros)
LAST GAME: Chicago 5, Houston 3 (April 26)
NEXT GAME: Friday, October 7 vs. San Antonio, 7:35
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THE US CONSTITUTION!!!
http://jollyrogerwest.com
http://jollyroger.com
For there is yet a war to be won within the greater culture, and the
spoils of victory are nothing less than the college campuses, the
romance in all deep, forsaken literature, the greater culture, the
hearts and minds of the Good People, the children's innocence, the
millenium's renaissance, and the correct continuity of a relatively
short, simple document-- the United States Constitution. Considering
the extent of the entrenched positions and annealed attitudes of the
Postmodern Elite, winning this war shall prove to be as formidable a
task as it is necessary. Their advantageous positions are well-funded
by our tax and tuition dollars as well as by their conscienceless
marketing of temptations of extensive reach to all ages. From their
well-fortified academic and cultural posts, they lead a relentless,
ubiquitious assault on behalf of ignorance in both education and
entertainment, all the while eroding the classical context of the Great
Books. But fear not, maties, for with God and the Greats on our side,
any sailor endowed with a soul shall emerge victorious. For nobody can
ever take from us the Honor gained by defending Truth and Beauty. And
what can be more beautiful than a girl reading a Great Book?
Literary wars, much like the definitive wars which this country fought
for freedom, are always inevitably won by those fighting for morality,
honor, and Truth. So it is that the noble United States has so far
defeated tyranny, slavery, communism, and fascism, all to defend the
basic precepts and principles of the U.S. Constitution. And in
defending this very same sublime piece of literature, America shall
defeat postmodernism. Though the former conflicts were all won by the
sword, which is protected by the Second Amendment, this contemporary
conflict shall be won by the pen, which is protected by the First
Amendment. So it is that those fundamental freedoms which the
Constitution protects remain free to protect the Constitution.
http://jollyrogerwest.com
http://jollyroger.com
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02 Aug 2005 12:04:06 PM |
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Abortion *is* illegal as murder is illegal.
Provably wrong. Abortion is legal in the USA and in many other
countries. And abortion has never been treated as murder in the USA.
The golden rule, common to all religions, is "Do onto others as you
would have them do onto you."
Again, wrong. There are religions that do not have that as their
"golden rule". For example, some Satanic religions, such as those
based on Alister Crowley's work, have as their creedo "Do as thou wilt
shall be the whole of the law".
Your only factual statement in your entire post was "murder is
illegal", and even that was contained in an erroneous comparison.
Since abortion is legal, your comparison means that murder is also
legal, when it is not by the very definition of murder.
Mark Sebree
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On 2 Aug 2005 09:04:20 -0700, in
alt.abortion with message-id
<1122998660.690480.161060@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> wrote:
Abortion *is* illegal as murder is illegal.
No abortion is legal and has never been considered murder.
The golden rule, common to all religions, is "Do onto others as you
would have them do onto you."
The only thing common to all religions is some god or other.
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02 Aug 2005 02:07:31 PM |
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There seems to be some confusion regarding right and wrong.
Perhaps we need a renaissance.
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02 Aug 2005 02:31:33 PM |
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There seems to be some confusion regarding right and wrong.
And you seem to be the one that is confused.
Mark Sebree
Perhaps we need a renaissance.
Given that the Renaissance was a time of great exploration and
learning, which is the antithesis of most religions, don't expect it to
turn out as you hope.
More likely, you want a return to the Dark Ages.
Mark Sebree
http://jollyrogerwest.com
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty--that is all Ye know on earth, and all Ye
need to know. --John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
Truth is the new black. It's the fall fashion. Everything old is new
again, the classics are cool, the past is prologue, and the truth is
being rolled out and paraded on down runways in Paris and LA as
winter's, spring's, and summer's hip look. A recent New York
Times headline read, "Truth To Replace Buzz and Hype as Eternity's
Fashion."
The truth is simple. It is beautiful. It is simply beautiful. The truth
is free and it will set you free.
Truth will save the Hollywood Box Office and NY Publishing. Truth will
power tomorrow's video games and bring the renaissance's novels to life
with characters governed by principles and plots lead by character.
Truth will revive academia and lend the US Constitution its proper
interpretation. Truth will ignite a renaissance in physics and
philosophy, burning away the postmodern propaganda. Truth will save
your soul and light the way to your dreams.
Truth is beauty and that is all ye need to know.
And nothing will bring you closer to eternity's truths than the
classics. This fall it will matter not what ye wear, but what ye harbor
in yer heart.
Instead of the popular hype-driven postmodern neon novels that
disregard all deeper Truths and Beauty, read Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Instead of the crass, fleeting blogs of buzz marketing hipsters, lend
your soul to a contemporary classic like Autumn Rangers. Instead of the
pop-sci physics books that are burying the subject alive, read
Einstein's, Bohr's, and Newton's original papers-they have not
been improved upon. Instead of shelling out hundreds of dollars for
fake torn jeans, buy some old levis and tear them yourself if you must.
And instead of going with the latest manufactured ambertrendy fad, buy
a permanent marker, a bag of t-shirts, and make yourself a week's
wardrobe. Save your money for Dante's Inferno, Plato's Phaedrus,
Jefferson's Bible, and Melville's Moby *****. Sail on by
JollyRogerWest.com to discuss the noble tomes, and engage in the deeper
Socratic dialogue by which all education is ever known.
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THE US CONSTITUTION!!!
http://jollyrogerwest.com
http://jollyroger.com
For there is yet a war to be won within the greater culture, and the
spoils of victory are nothing less than the college campuses, the
romance in all deep, forsaken literature, the greater culture, the
hearts and minds of the Good People, the children's innocence, the
millenium's renaissance, and the correct continuity of a relatively
short, simple document-- the United States Constitution. Considering
the extent of the entrenched positions and annealed attitudes of the
Postmodern Elite, winning this war shall prove to be as formidable a
task as it is necessary. Their advantageous positions are well-funded
by our tax and tuition dollars as well as by their conscienceless
marketing of temptations of extensive reach to all ages. From their
well-fortified academic and cultural posts, they lead a relentless,
ubiquitious assault on behalf of ignorance in both education and
entertainment, all the while eroding the classical context of the Great
Books. But fear not, maties, for with God and the Greats on our side,
any sailor endowed with a soul shall emerge victorious. For nobody can
ever take from us the Honor gained by defending Truth and Beauty. And
what can be more beautiful than a girl reading a Great Book?
Literary wars, much like the definitive wars which this country fought
for freedom, are always inevitably won by those fighting for morality,
honor, and Truth. So it is that the noble United States has so far
defeated tyranny, slavery, communism, and fascism, all to defend the
basic precepts and principles of the U.S. Constitution. And in
defending this very same sublime piece of literature, America shall
defeat postmodernism. Though the former conflicts were all won by the
sword, which is protected by the Second Amendment, this contemporary
conflict shall be won by the pen, which is protected by the First
Amendment. So it is that those fundamental freedoms which the
Constitution protects remain free to protect the Constitution.
http://jollyrogerwest.com
http://jollyroger.com
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"Captain Ranger McCoy" <mobydickmovie@yahoo.com> writes:
THE US CONSTITUTION!!!
In other words, spam. Don't you have anything better to do up there in North
Carolina?
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chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2005-06 Houston Aeros)
LAST GAME: Chicago 5, Houston 3 (April 26)
NEXT GAME: Friday, October 7 vs. San Antonio, 7:35
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What're The Top Ten Conservative Rock & Country Bands/Performers of All
Time??
1. Toby Keith
2. Kid Rock (woudn't go see Farenheight 911 with Puff Daddy)
3. Elvis
4. Guns 'n' Roses
5. Metallica (Napster hearings)
6. Dixie Chicks (kidding!!!)
7. Quiet Riot
8. Snoop Dogg (with my mind on my money and my money on my mind)
9. Russel Crowe's Band
10. The Pretenders (Rush Limbaugh's theme song)
11. KISS
From: http://jollyrogerwest.com/showthread.php?p=1701#post1701
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On 2 Aug 2005 12:07:31 -0700, in alt.abortion
with message-id <1123009651.550924.59440@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
wrote:
There seems to be some confusion regarding right and wrong.
Perhaps we need a renaissance.
Right and wrong have no intrinsic values and will change from person
to person and over time.
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A New Haven For Conservative Writers & Artists:
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http://autumnrangersmovie.com
http://autumnrangersnovel.com
Autumn Rangers is where NASCAR meets Moby *****, where the Founding
Fathers hang with Kid Rock, where poetry collides with physics, and
where Classic-American-Country-Hiphop-Lit burns through the pomo fog to
exalt America's heart and soul. Autumn Rangers is the American
Renaissance that's been a long time coming, where the Man with No Name
rides again with John Wayne.
The Great American Novel roars 'cross the Rugged American Terrain in a
Jeep and thunders down Dante's Lost Highway in Autumn's Corvette, with
Ranger riding shotgun, packing the Constitution and Declaration of
Independence, chasing down that classic American Dream that makes
Outlaws out of Romantics these days.
Autumn Rangers is a book, movie, video game, magazine, and philosophy
for packing up and heading west, for hiding out and laying low on the
run, for taking a chance with that one life you've been given--taking a
chance on living it from the inside out for those higher ideals,
standing up for what's right, defending eternity against all odds,
facing down irony's evil Sheriff and his Deputies at high noon with a
couple Colt .45 Peacemakers loaded with poetry, and becoming an Autumn
Ranger. But first and foremost, from the Alpha to the Omega, Autumn
Rangers is a story. . .
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Our laws would be nothing without brave men and women willing to defend
them.
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God Bless & Thanks for Fighting!
Forward this to a Marine!!
IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM
The night fell fast, I found myself alone,
A DC summer storm was blowing in,
I stood at the tomb, these soldiers unknown,
and knelt and prayed for the rain to begin.
Not for the monuments nor any money,
nor pomp, circumstance, nor the pedant's pride,
the politician's smile, nor lawyer's fee,
for these present treasures, none of them died.
I ran to Jefferson to read the wall,
to make sure that God was still written there,
then to Washington, and across the Mall,
where Lincoln invoked his immortal prayer,
Winded and ragged, lightning everywhere,
I slowed to a walk, pondered what would be,
if God's great Enlightenment weren't there,
we could still be brave but never be free.
I found comfort in the Mall's mud and rain,
without mines nor cannons nor raining shells,
so free from fear, iniquity, and pain,
because thousands had endured a thousand hells.
And I found myself back before the tomb,
humbled by the humbled, with naught for name,
shivering, though they had the colder room,
sans light, nor sound, nor tomorrow, nor fame.
I thought for a moment, what it could be,
the center and circumference of their dreaming,
it must have been the prophet's poetry,
that granted their souls eternal meaning.
So judges and Congressmen, please don't forget,
the reason these patriots picked up swords,
not for perks nor power were their deaths met,
but for honor and duty-- for mere words.
So do take pause before telling a lie,
for there's one more thing I saw on that night,
as the wind and the rain began to die,
I walked away, turned, and beheld a light.
Wil'O'wisp, reddish light, sailor's delight,
It hovered there-- just above the tomb's stone,
As fading thunder whispered to the night,
"Freedom's the name of all soldiers unknown."
Semper Fi!!
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On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:18:38 -0400, "Nuki Mouse" <Nuki_mouse@NoSpam.com> wrote:
<jollyrogership@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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The United States Constitution is AUGUST'S GREAT BOOK OF THE MONTH.
Let's hope that the Supreme Court's judiciary takes a copy to the beach
and READS it. They will not find abortion anywhere within...
Neither is murder, arson, fraud, theft, adultery, bigamy, kidnapping,
pedophile, manslaughter, assault, underage drinking or smoking, drugs, drunk
driving, terrorism, or jaywalking.
Should they all be legal just because the Constitution does not mention
them?
IIRC, all of the activites you've mentioned (minus terrorism**) are considered
state, not federal issues...unless said activities involve crossing state lines
or against the federal government (examples:, murder/manslaughter of FBI
agent(s) during an offical investigation, arson on a federal building, fraud
against the IRS, theft of federal assets).
OTOH, all states have considered said activities illegal, as the majority of
them (in one form or another) involve one party* violating the rights of another
party* per the state's constitution and subsequent state laws. From this
perspective, Articles IX and X should be the legal perspective of the federal
government when these activites only occur within state boundaries (minus
terrorism and crimes against those mentioned above).
*party may be considered one or more individuals
**Terrorism is a recent concern and may be considered a national, not just a
state nor federal issue.
"...every person must be his own watchman for truth... -Justice Jackson
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Autumn Rangers is where NASCAR meets Moby *****, where the Founding
Fathers hang with Kid Rock, where poetry collides with physics, and
where Classic-American-Country-Hiphop-Lit burns through the pomo fog to
exalt America's heart and soul. Autumn Rangers is the American
Renaissance that's been a long time coming, where the Man with No Name
rides again with John Wayne.
The Great American Novel roars 'cross the Rugged American Terrain in a
Jeep and thunders down Dante's Lost Highway in Autumn's Corvette, with
Ranger riding shotgun, packing the Constitution and Declaration of
Independence, chasing down that classic American Dream that makes
Outlaws out of Romantics these days.
Autumn Rangers is a book, movie, video game, magazine, and philosophy
for packing up and heading west, for hiding out and laying low on the
run, for taking a chance with that one life you've been given--taking a
chance on living it from the inside out for those higher ideals,
standing up for what's right, defending eternity against all odds,
facing down irony's evil Sheriff and his Deputies at high noon with a
couple Colt .45 Peacemakers loaded with poetry, and becoming an Autumn
Ranger. But first and foremost, from the Alpha to the Omega, Autumn
Rangers is a story. . .
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http://autumnrangers.com
http://autumnrangersmovie.com
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07 Aug 2005 07:41:39 AM |
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The U. S. Supreme Court justices have forgotten more about the Constitution
than you'll ever know. And they haven't forgotten much.
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jls wrote:
The U. S. Supreme Court justices have forgotten more about the Constitution
than you'll ever know. And they haven't forgotten much.
Unfortunately, they seem to have forgotten Article III -- which was
supposed to preclude them from writing law in the guise of interpreting it.
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"Ken Smith" <forget@it.com> wrote in message news:42F61881.4080202@it.com...
jls wrote:
The U. S. Supreme Court justices have forgotten more about the
Constitution
than you'll ever know. And they haven't forgotten much.
Unfortunately, they seem to have forgotten Article III -- which was
supposed to preclude them from writing law in the guise of interpreting
it.
Ken, give us three of the most glaring cases.
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jls wrote:
"Ken Smith" <forget@it.com> wrote in message news:42F61881.4080202@it.com...
jls wrote:
The U. S. Supreme Court justices have forgotten more about the Constitution
than you'll ever know. And they haven't forgotten much.
Unfortunately, they seem to have forgotten Article III -- which was
supposed to preclude them from writing law in the guise of interpreting
it.
Ken, give us three of the most glaring cases.
As you know, I'm not the kind of person to scream from an appalling
ignorance of jurisprudence that Roe v. Wade was the most blatant act of
judicial activism that has ever been contemplated. I'll start with the
one that really matters -- Pierson v. Ray -- and go on from there. And
as I have written extensively on this specific case, I'll quote myself:
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On April 11, 1967, eight Supreme Court justices -- led by the ultra-
liberal activist Chief Justice Earl Warren -- staged what history could
fairly call a judicial coup d’êtat. In brazen defiance of the clearly
expressed will of Congress and every canon of judicial interpretation
then known to law, they seized power from the people -- in the simple
act of declaring that “every person” really meant “every person except
us judges.”69
Suddenly, it no longer mattered what Congress said, or even what
Congress intended. In an instant, our law is transformed into an
Alice-in-Wonderland world, where words only mean what a judge needs them
to mean on that day, at that time. To disregard the plain meaning and
intent of a statute without a compelling reason to do so would be, as
Justice Sutherland observed a generation before, “to enact a law under
the pretense of construing one, [and thereby, pronounce that court]
guilty of a flagrant perversion of the judicial power.”70
For all of Professor Dershowitz’ whining, Bush v. Gore pales by
comparison.71
To appreciate the irredeemably treasonous nature of Pierson, one must
understand the rules courts have used since the dawn of the Republic to
interpret statutes enacted by Congress. First among them is the “plain
meaning” rule -- the presumption that Congress meant what it said and
said what it meant in the text of the statute.72 And when the terms of a
statute are unambiguous, judicial inquiry is presumptively complete.73
Justice Cardozo adds that courts may not “pause to consider” whether a
better statute might have been written, but are compelled to “take the
statute as we find it.”74
In pertinent part, Section 1983 is as clear and unambiguous as any
statute you could hope to write: “Every person [who does X to Y is
liable to Y in tort].” Had Congress intended to exempt state judges from
this section, it would have said something to the effect that “This
section shall not apply to judges.” After all, a quick search of the
House of Representatives’ data base reveals that the magic words, “shall
not apply,” appears in 457 separate statutes in Title 42 alone!75 As
Justice Frankfurter observed, the judge’s only legitimate task is “to
ascertain the meaning of the words used by the legislature,” for to go
beyond it, and rewrite a statute to his or her liking, is to “usurp a
power our democracy has lodged in its elected legislature.”76
Where there are legitimate doubts as to what Congress intended, a
court examines the legislative history of a statute, to determine
whether the statutory language conveyed that intent. But as Justice
Douglas observed in his Pierson dissent, Congress clearly intended to
abolish the common law rule of absolute judicial immunity in civil
rights cases:
Many members of Congress objected to the statute because it imposed
liability on members of the judiciary. Mr. Arthur of Kentucky opposed
the measure because:
“Hitherto . . . No judge or court has ever been liable, civilly
or criminally, for judicial acts …. Under the provisions of [sec-
tion 1] every judge in the State court … will enter upon and pur-
sue the call of official duty with the sword of Damocles suspended
over him….” …
Mr. Lewis of Kentucky expressed the fear that:
“By the first section, in certain cases, the judge of a State court,
though acting under oath of office, is made liable to a suit in the
Federal court and subject to damages for his decision against a
suitor….”
Yet despite the repeated fears of its opponents, and the explicit
recognition that the section would subject judges to suit, the section
remained as it was proposed: it applied to “any person.” There was no
exception for members of the judiciary.77 ...
Mr. Rainey of South Carolina noted that “[T]he courts are in many
instances under the control of those who are wholly inimical to the
impartial administration of law and equity. Congressman Beatty of Ohio
claimed that it was the duty of Congress to listen to the appeals of
those who “by reason of popular sentiment or secret organizations or
prejudiced juries or bribed judges, [cannot] obtain the rights and
privileges due an American citizen….”67
Impeachment and criminal prosecution are remedies only available to
the majority -- and if the judge and the local district attorney are
Grand Dragons of the Ku Klux Klan, an uppity ***** has no hope of
redress. And that is why Congress enacted what is now simply referred to
as Section 1983 -- which states, in pertinent part, that “every person
who, [under color of law, subjects another to deprivation of rights]
secured by the Constitution and laws,” he is liable in tort.68 ...
Moreover, this was a remedial statute, which “should be liberally
construed to accomplish the purposes of [its] enactment.”78 And if
“bribed judges” were part of the problem (and indeed, there wouldn’t
even be a problem if the judges were all honest), exempting them from
civil liability would defeat the purpose of the statute. Accordingly,
Section 1983 meant what Congress said and said what Congress meant --
and if state judges didn’t like the outcome, their only legal recourse
was to petition the legislature.79
Chief Justice Warren justified his decision by proclaiming that “The
legislative record gives no clear indication that Congress meant to
abolish wholesale all common-law immunities.”80 In turn, this begs the
question of why Congress would need to make such an indication, as any
law made “under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme
Law of the Land.”81 After all, the drafters of our present-day Section
1983 lived at a time when Congress actually wrote the laws -- and judges
dutifully interpreted them.82 The statute was clear, served a remedial
purpose, was consistent with the legislative history, and directly
addresses the matter of “bribed judges” in the Reconstruction South. To
require a more explicit statement of intent from a 19th-century
legislature is an adventure in absurdity.
[http://home.earthlink.net/~19ranger57/corruption2.htm]
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The effect of Pierson is that judges have written themselves a
special exemption from liability for intentional misconduct on the
bench, which cannot legitimately be derived from the statute as written.
The second case, which we have also discussed extensively, is Smith
v. Mullarkey. When a lower court defies Supreme Court and Circuit
precedent directly on-point in an unpublished opinion, it is writing
designer law, applicable to one and only one set of litigants. How much
more glaring can you get, Larry?
Let's start with the first two, because I am prepared to discuss them
both in excruciating detail. I can cite others, and borderline cases to
varying degrees (e.g., Roper v. Simmons, Kelo), but these two cases are
so clean that it's hard to dispute the charge.
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Drop by the girl who works at the Nibset Inn, and pen a poem for her if
she's still there, and if you should miss her by a few years, wait a
few more, and by then someone as fair shall have replaced her, for that
is the way of things on Nantucket. And I'll pray for ye that she's as
honest and subtle as she is pretty. Or if you're lucky enough to find
yourself missing someone yet even more serene, write them a poem.
Capture the crisp, clear, carefree, colonial afternoon's sentiments on
Main Street, and preserve them with a paper and pen-- write yer own
ticket to eternity. To set your feelings down in ink is to think in a
most profound manner, and thinking can only bring you closer to that
second Nantucket. And more likely than not, any poem composed under
such cherished conditions shall converge upon the sharp contrast
between the two Nantuckets:
Compasses, weathervanes, and cobblestones,
I paused to rest against a great Oak tree,
Weathervane crowned the church, church crowned the stones,
The compass I held out in front of me,
The wind rose, the golden weathervane showed,
A Nantucket Northeaster blowing in,
The thunder roared while the horizon glowed,
I sat there, 'til I was soaked to my skin.
My thoughts turned towards a girl down in DC,
and how I'd once been like the weathervane,
But now I felt a compass within me,
where she was some force beyond wind and rain.
For though wind I feel, and the sun I see,
The wind shifts, and the sun sets everyday,
But governed by an unseen entity,
The iron needle shall point the same way.
I stayed 'til the storm broke with red at night,
And golden rays shot 'cross the deep blue sea,
And I'll say, beyond this sailor's delight,
The greater things are those we never see.
For politicians on pulpits shall twist,
Point where vice and vanity's winds command,
And if ye follow weathervanes in mist,
In this postmodern fog, ye shall be damned.
But instead mate, if ye should navigate,
by Faith, ye'll steer clear of temptation's shoal,
It's not the golden crown that makes men great,
But it's the iron deep within their soul.
Perhaps it was on a similar tempestuous afternoon, while passing
through Nantucket on a whaling voyage, that Herman Melville also began
to differentiate between the sincere and superficial Nantuckets:
But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and
robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture. Thou
shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike;
that democratic dignity which, on all hands, radiates without end from
God; Himself! The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of
all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!
--Chapter 26, Knights and Squires, MOBY *****
And as all poets and philosophers wander this same earth, it's no
mystery that their prophetic souls are often inspired to record the
same entities. Emerson alluded to the deeper Nantucket with:
O poet! a new nobility is conferred in groves and pastures, and not
in castles or by the sword-blade any longer. --Ralph Waldo Emerson's
Poetry
This second Nantucket is that far rarer, haunted Nantucket known best
by the young and young at heart. It is more a feeling than a place, and
its ubiquity in the human soul is better captured in sentences than
postcards. A mozaic of the resplendent Autumn colors highlighted by the
blood-red October cranberry bogs, the blanketing ocean mists which can
suddenly cast a pale grey shroud across the bright blue sky and a damp
chill upon your skin, only to dissipate with the same immediacy, and
leave the rolling moors as vividly green as the skies are immaculately
blue. This definitive clarity belies the nature of that deeper
Nantucket which so unexpectedly became so that one summer, as it gained
an immutable permanence, now forever cemented in hindsight, and within
A Nantucket Ghost Story. It all left me breathless as I returned to
Hyannisport on the 6:30 AM ferry, as the sun rose before me, and my
teenage years and Nantucket set behind me, joining the great leveling
blue of Noah's lingering flood, which yet covers a good two-thirds of
the earth.
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By LIZ STEVENS
STAR-TELEGRAM staff writer
.. - At younger ages than ever before, girls are dressing provocatively,
wooing boys aggressively and initiating sex. Parents complain that
their sons are the victims. But, psychologists say, so are your
daughters.
Girls in short skirts purposely showing off their thong underwear -- or
their lack of underwear.
Girls hiking up their skirts to straddle stair banisters.
Girls catcalling after guys, groping them in hallways, sitting on their
laps and even propositioning them for sex.
Sounds like "Girls Gone Wild Visits the Playboy Mansion," right?
Wrong.
It's an average day at your local high school.
And many girls are leading the wanton way.
What was once considered the province of hormone-raging teen boys --
chasing the opposite sex -- is now just as much the territory of many
teen and pre-teen girls. These girls aren't just batting their
mascara-laden lashes at the boys; they're dressing like hookers,
talking like sailors and partaking in sexual behaviors that make the
old-fashioned back-seat petting session seem as quaint as a tea party.
Jason, a recent Trimble Tech High School graduate, says girls would
regularly grab his backside in the hallways, "telling me they would do
things [sexual favors] to me." In relationships, it's the girl who
usually presses for sexual intercourse first, he and his friend David
agree.
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"I have seen a definite and sort of disturbing trend toward more
aggressive sexual behavior in adolescent females," says David Welsh, a
Fort Worth psychologist in private practice. Welsh consults for school
districts across Fort Worth-Dallas and says that society has promoted
the idea that "that's one way you demonstrate your maturity and your
sophistication as a young female, [is to] initiate sexual activity.
"That's what the guys would brag about in the locker room," Welsh says.
Now, he says, he sees "the same phenomenon among adolescent females."
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"They don't want a relationship or anything, they just want to see if
they can get the guy," and then they move on to their next conquest, he
says. Sure, plenty of guys do the same, he adds, but "it's kind of
switching roles now, it seems like."
Girls in primary school are following the lead of their big sisters. As
a teacher in a Dallas elementary school this year, Feyi Obamehinti, a
parent in Euless, watched two fourth-grade girls skirmishing over a
third-grade boy in the lunchroom. And Pam says that even when her boys
were in kindergarten, they would come home in tears, reporting "how
recess was ruined because little girls chased them the whole time
trying to catch them and kiss them."
"It was hilarious in some ways," she adds. "But on the other hand,
wow."
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Peruse the table of sexually suggestive T-shirts at popular teen
clothier Abercrombie & Fitch, and it becomes clear just how brazen teen
culture has become. Among the winking choices are shirts that read
"Cunning linguist" and "Join me in the missionary."
(An Abercrombie T-shirt that says "Friend with privileges" might not
appear to mean anything lewd but actually refers to "an interesting
phenomenon ... ," notes Welsh, the Fort Worth psychologist: "Friends
with favors, in which sexual behavior which usually stops short of
intercourse is OK ... because we're just friends, and if it's not
really intercourse, it's not really sex." One of Anna's three sexual
partners, she says, was a boy who has been a friend since she was 7
years old.)
Parents can be a big part of the problem, too.
"I see a disturbing trend amongst a lot of parents where they actually
encourage precocious sexual behavior in their daughters," says Welsh,
"and I don't know that they realize that they're doing it."
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http://jollyrogerwest.com (THE NEW FASHION IS ETERNITY)
As all noble actions are preceded by thoughts, and all thoughts
reside in words, so it is that our freedom, character, and divine sense
of meaning derive from language and literature. The Gospel of John
presents a brief history of God's aspect and language, which are
forever wedded:
In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was With God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
And having stated thus, I cannot forget that the truest definition
of poetry is poetry herself, which remains the ungraspable phantom of
life-- the White Whale itself, immortal, immutable, and superior to
both the artist and critic, ultimately inaccessible, even to those who
created it:
Against long, dark clouds like a lonely torch,
A misty light, a late May misty night,
We hopped the fence, had a seat on the porch,
The windswept spray haloed the sweeping light,
She told me stories from the years before,
When they saw ghosts dancing within the waves,
Some friends on a blanket, down on the shore,
Watched the phantoms rise from their watery graves.
How beautiful she was, for I could see,
A sense of that profound romantic high,
We shared the wild mystery of the sea,
Knowing deep down all else would someday die.
The storm blew in upon the wicked wind,
Elements had never been more alive,
On nights like those are forged the ties that bind,
When in the black ye see a light yet strive.
Against long dark clouds like a lonely torch,
I found myself ten years on down the road,
In a culture with little left to scorch,
And I recalled how the thunder did explode,
I remembered the way the wind did howl,
How the sea roared with all inequities,
And yet the beacon gave no avowal,
A solemn sentinel above capricious seas.
A misty light, a late May misty night,
I find myself there, holding Misty tight.
It turned out the Corolla Light was locked, so what we did instead
was we sat in some old rocking chairs on the front porch of this quaint
little house beside the lighthouse. It was the gift shop, I could tell,
for I could see all the racks with the postcards and miniature
lighthouses and books on Blackbeard. They'd just found Blackbeard's
ship about eighty miles on down the coast, just off of Wilmington. And
there, on the windowsill, somebody had left a copy of Moby *****. It was
a big old hardback edition, and as the gusts of wind swirled in under
the awning, they flipped the pages back and forth, back and forth, as
if some ghost was searching for the one portentious passage that alone
contained the words which so beautifully expressed the moment's somber
sentiments-- the humble, profound feeling that precedes a spring storm
blowing in off the Atlantic.
Now I'd never been all that good at small talk, and it didn't
help too much that this was sort of a first date. So in a way Herman
Melville came to my rescue on that night, just as he would, time and
again, with words that filled a contemporary void, echoing the subtler,
unheralded beauty, providing a literary beacon by which to navigate
through life as aspiring classical poets. Moby ***** became a literary
bible for Drake, Elliot, and I, as we saw ourselves as the captain of
the Pequod, being called upon to avenge the deposed Greats and the
honor, nobility, and pride of Generation X.
Moby ***** was a tragic record of the harshness and indifference
of the baser natural and human elements, which are utterly immune
towards the greater glory of all rhyming contemplations, just like
David Geffen and Time Warner. And we took it to be a motif for the
modern reality of young artists coming of age in this postmodern fog,
surrounded by the intellectually indifferent, amoral, ambitious
university presidents, editors, publishers, and professors. The
classical traits, such as honor, honesty, humility, prudence, and
integrity had been cast overboard along with the classical literature.
The abstract structure of the culture and the old, traditional,
time-honored rules had been deemed an obstacle by the rising
resentniks, for the Truth contained therein got in the way of their
politics. Forever be it known that there is a difference between Truth
and Politics, and that good Politics is that which humbles itself
before the Truth. Thus the postmodern liberals performed a most wicked
crime upon the culture and future generations. They deconstructed the
Western heritage, removed God from the center and circumference of the
universe, and replaced Him with fringe feminists, economic indicators,
multiculturalists, and marketing executives, just to make sure the
transition looked cool.
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