Selective Memory

So here’s this….

The crisis isn’t the only scary thing going on. Something very ugly is taking shape on the political scene: as McCain’s chances fade, the crowds at his rallies are, by all accounts, increasingly gripped by insane rage. It’s not just a mob phenomenon — it’s visible in the right-wing media, and to some extent in the speeches of McCain and Palin.

We’ve seen this before. One thing that has been sort of written out of the mainstream history of politics is the sheer insanity of the attacks on the Clintons — they were drug smugglers, they murdered Vince Foster (and lots of other people), they were in league with foreign powers. And this stuff didn’t just show up in fringe publications — it was discussed in Congress, given props by the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, and so on.

What it came down to was that a significant fraction of the American population, backed by a lot of money and political influence, simply does not consider government by liberals (even very moderate liberals) legitimate. Ronald Reagan was supposed to have settled that once and for all.

What happens when Obama is elected? It will be even worse than it was in the Clinton years. For sure there will be crazy accusations, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see some violence.

The next few years are going to be very, very tough.

Wet Farts

You now, the kind that everyone knows about, that you can’t hide from and that make you have to change your shorts……

“Keep in mind House Democrats and Senate Democrats and me and the leadership are all pretty burned up about this thing,” Obama said at a news conference after the TV interviews. “This wasn’t happening on our watch. We weren’t preventing some of the regulatory reforms that might have prevented us from getting here.”

“Obama said jobs, economic growth, retirement accounts, small businesses and financial markets will all be at risk without a bailout plan. “There are no good options at this point. There are bad options and worse options. Sounds familiar from our discussions of Iraq,” Obama said.”

Well, well, well,  wasn’t happening on our watch senator?  Is that what Hillary meant by “willing suspension of disbelief”?

Who the hell do you think you are trying to fool you idiot, all roads point to you, the committee chairmen and your party. You don’t even have the brains to know when not to lie, to just keep your mouth shut.  Instead you expect us to believe this verbal flatulance?

WHO’S WATCH WAS IT SENATOR? Who had oversight responsibilities? Who stalled reforms designed to prevent this? Or were you just not “present”? The republicans are clean on this one your o-liness regardless what kind of crap you smear on it.

And what about this BS……”Sounds familiar from our discussions of Iraq”.  hey BUD, in case you hadn’t noticed, we had a good option that YOU VOTED AGAINST and WE ARE WINNING because of it, no thanks to you.

A walking, talking rectal cranial inversion, he

Librarians 1, Little Girl 0

Neptunus Lex is one of my favorite blogs. He posts often and I read him several times a day. Well, Lex has an interesting post about librarians, an abducted little girl and the Constitution.

I am sure that the brave librarians feel that they did the right thing in protecting the nation and all of our Constitutional rights in the face of the bully policemen   “…… Sorry ’bout the girl but, well, there are priorities……..”

I tend to agree with the first commenter who says:

IMHO, public access computers are just that – public access. There should be no implied amount of privacy – the computers belong to the city, and therefore the city (or its appointed officials) have every right to take them back and/or pull them as they see fit.

 But I have a couple of questions ratt’lin around inside there….

1) in this day and age where even my mother (and I am old, remember…) uses a computer at home, who uses a computer at the library except for legit research like, I dunno, a term paper or something like that where the computer just happens to be convenient. Except maybe for people who know that they can use public computers for ill doing because they know that brave, little, female librarians will protect them.

2) Who’s civil rights trump who’s here. I mean, do the rights of those students doing research for their term paper on the public computers trump the police efforts to save the little girl’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?  I am guessing that if you had asked everyone using the computers at the time, the students would have said, go for it.  I would wonder about the ones who didn’t

3) Who the hell appointed librarians as Constitutional watchdogs for the general public anyway.  Seems to me that they have, for the most part, an over inflated sense of self importance over the past few years.  I’ll bet you that if you checked into it, Judith and Amy are far left and belong to at least one group who is against the patriot Act (not that the PA mattered in this case).  Sounds like a possibly political stand vs. a principled one.

I have no idea why the police could not have had a warrant before they showed up.  That’s another question. But why in the hell couldn’t the librarian have said “have at it, we’ll sort out the details later” and helped try to save the girl’s life. I mean, isn’t that what the courts are for?  I am sure the only people who would have objected are the ones with something to hide and they would probably be hard pressed to take any action.

Frankly, if I lived in that county I would press to have all computers removed from all the libraries.  That might help to solve more than one problem.

The librarian didn’t stand on principle, she may have inadvertently helped in the killing of an innocent child by making it more difficult for the police to find her, for what amounts to a political stand.  I hope she chokes on it. 

What ever happened to commom sense and common decency?