06.30.08

A few minor little things.

Posted in Family, Music, Personal at 2:56 am by qkslvrwolf

Ok, this song is amazing and the video gives me chills.

(morons don’t the get internet..they won’t let me embed, but I can link? WTF?)

Anyway, I was also having a conversation with my dad a day or two ago.

We were talking about the second amendment and all the one line constitution conservatives, and he was laying out depth and context of the common law background of the amendment itself, when he had a slight issue with attention span…

Paraphrased:

“So, if you look back at the english common law, there is precedent for BOTH interpretati…OOO, a HUMMINGBIRD! NEAT!”

I fell down laughing. Especially for anyone familiar with Ctrl-alt-del, xkcd, or 8-bit theatre (and surely other geek webcomics), it was too prefectly comicesque.

Also, it’s 3 am, and I’m feeling very mellow and sad because I’m packing.

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06.27.08

What is with conservatives and not caring about any part of the constitution but amendment 2?

Posted in People, Personal, Politics/The media at 9:47 am by qkslvrwolf

You would think, with 27 amendments, 7 sections + a preamble, and god knows how many clauses, that conservatives could find another part of the constitution that they give a shit about besides the 2nd amendment.

In a conversation I had yesterday, I pointed out to the guys in my office that the supreme court struck down DC’s gun law, that the argument that they made was reasonable, even if I don’t agree with it, and look! lots of liberals are saying the same thing…ergo trying to convince them that they won the whole gun battle, we don’t much care anymore (we have bigger fish to fry), so can they please stop not voting for democrats solely because “they wanna take our guns.”

Seriously, What. The. Fuck.

This turned into a major argument, where I had to repeat over and over again that I had no interest in gun control laws because they don’t work, but that I personally believe that the 2nd amendment only protects the right to form (and arm) well-regulated militias. But I’m not interested in taking away guns, because the cats out of the bag.

And all they can hear is “you want to take our guns! most important supreme court decision ever! you can’t pick and choose from the constitution!”

You can’t pick and choose from the constitution.

From the same people who are ok with getting rid of habeas corpus. From the same people who are ok with dropping with protections from unreasonable search and seizure. From the same folks who don’t understand that the judiciary’s constitutional job is to block the will of the people, expressed through the legislature, and prevent the majority from trampling on the constitution. From the same people who believe in the “unitary executive”. From the same folks who think that all of a sudden, the president has the right to make the budget and to make treaties and declare war.

These same people are telling me that I can’t pick and choose from the constitution because I think their argument that the constitution protects their individual right to bear arms is, while valid, not correct, that I, not they, cannot pick and choose from the constitution.

I am so mad I could spit.

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06.25.08

Senator Dodd is my hero

Posted in LINKSPAM, Link Spam, Politics/The media at 4:39 pm by qkslvrwolf

Seriously.

Go. Read. It’s a long read, but it’s essential.

He lays out very clearly (though not terribly concisely) why this FISA fight is such a big deal.

This speech ought to be in front of every American. And every goddamn sell-out in congress, including Barack Obama, needs to hear it. In it’s entirety.

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