Grumpy Old City to children GET OFF MY PARK!!.
Obama to Catholic institutions, “You’ll pay for abortions, contraceptives and sterilizations - or else”
Amazing, of all the things to go out of one’s way to be offended by, a 75 year-old cross in the middle of the Mojave desert on private land.
Obama’s FTC to bloggers: “Trust us.” [was it just me, or did you too feel a goose walk across your grave?]
More special moments in socialized medicine.
Phillie school principals to be graded on … how well students are learning? how teachers are teaching? Pffft…too pedestrian! As we know schools are supposed to be the new Center of The Community so principals should be graded on breakfast! You know, because parents are really not to be trusted.
Comment by Makewi on 10/8 @ 7:48 pm #
When the Catholic Church was going to be required to include gay homes in their search for adopting parents by the State of Massachusetts, they opted to simply get out of the business. I disagreed with the decision because I felt they should have simply disobeyed the law and forced the government to file the charges against them. Let it play out in the courts and in the papers. I suggest that they do just that on this issue. I have to wonder how long the issue would remain when we start seeing headlines like “Catholic doctors on trial for failing to provide abortion”.
In general you should be law abiding, but non violent civil disobedience can be a useful tool if you are willing to pay the price.
Comment by OCBill on 10/8 @ 7:49 pm #
I felt something, but it wasn’t a goose on my grave. It was something much more personal and immediate.
Comment by SBP on 10/8 @ 8:02 pm #
I wonder if Prof. Althouse is regretting that she voted for this “good man” now.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/8 @ 8:08 pm #
They really need to rethink the contraception thing I think. It’s very odd. They should at least have a meeting and talk about it. The Pope one and the other important ones. Just kick it around.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/8 @ 8:10 pm #
You almost have to wonder if the FTC is trying to distract blogs with blatantly fascist regulations while the little president man rams his dirty socialist health care prong up our little country’s ass.
Comment by Joe on 10/8 @ 8:14 pm #
You just walk down these decisions and wonder what in the hell they were thinking.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/8 @ 8:20 pm #
Drudge has…
The House voted Thursday to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation, significantly expanding the hate crimes law enacted in the days after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/8 @ 8:20 pm #
link
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/8 @ 8:20 pm #
Bishops and archbishops are already on record saying they’ll close their hospitals rather than dispense contraception (particularly abortafacients) and perform abortions as the punitive Left is doubtless going to demand of a Stalinized health care system. I can’t vouch for the figure, but I’ve read that this might mean closing something like 30% of the hospitals in America.
I wonder what effect that might have on American health care.
Comment by newrouter on 10/8 @ 8:22 pm #
“They really need to rethink the contraception thing I think. ”
yo ain’t got no rhythm
Comment by Spiny Norman on 10/8 @ 8:23 pm #
From the Overlawyered comments:
The Mainstream Media (aka Democratic Party Ministry of Truth) gets a pass? That has to be the most surprising thing I’ve learned all day.
::snork::
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 10/8 @ 8:23 pm #
More special moments in socialized medicine.
I think I remember a phrase from some novelist, about government officials whose souls do not extend beyond their uniforms.
Comment by newrouter on 10/8 @ 8:24 pm #
“The House voted Thursday to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation,”
open season on heterosexualists
Comment by ThomasD on 10/8 @ 8:37 pm #
There are Christian churches in Cades Cove, and other portions of Smoky Mountains NP. They have crosses, and even bibles inside.
The Park Service clearly states that part to of their mission is to preserve the historic nature of the parks, including the histories of the peoples who inhabited them prior to their designation as parks.
Buono, the former park ranger who initially brought suit, surely knows this, and surely knows that the Mohave Memorial Cross is as much historic as anything else.
He may call himself Catholic, but he is not a good man.
Comment by dr kill on 10/8 @ 8:38 pm #
All Americans should be required to stand next to a trash bin in an inner city elementary public school during lunch to see the pile of unopened milk cartons and other USDA bought foodstuffs get pitched. Pay the dairy farmer, pay the trucker and the distributor, and pay the trashhauler and the landfill. Pay them with my money.
It is sickening, and no one involved cares.
The Federal school meal program is an apt metaphor for our failed Government.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/8 @ 8:49 pm #
MILK!!
Comment by McGehee on 10/8 @ 9:19 pm #
When I was in the fifth grade recess was spent on school grounds, period, or there would be serious repercussions from the school and from our parents.
And there was, yes as a matter of fact, a park right across the street. Still a no-no.
Comment by McGehee on 10/8 @ 9:23 pm #
The CNN story at the link doesn’t say anything about private land, giving the distinct impression it’s on federally owned park land. A link to something setting that matter straight would be useful, I think.
Comment by cranky-d on 10/8 @ 9:31 pm #
The cross has to look better in the Mojave than all those stupid wind turbines, which are to me the religious symbols of the gaia-worshipping left. In fact, if they want the cross removed, I want the wind turbines out of there as well.
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Comment by newrouter on 10/8 @ 9:49 pm #
There are Christian churches in Cades Cove, and other portions of Smoky Mountains NP
why do the feds own land in a state?
Comment by newrouter on 10/8 @ 9:52 pm #
“The cross has to look better in the Mojave”
why do the feds own any land? check your us constitution
Comment by newrouter on 10/8 @ 9:55 pm #
really you want pelosi, reid, schumer, obama overseeing fed land? snort!
Comment by cranky-d on 10/8 @ 10:08 pm #
The feds own land because they said they own it. No citizen owns any property in any case. If you don’t pay property taxes, they can and will take it away. That means there is no personal property. It was legislated out of existence.
Comment by Darleen on 10/8 @ 11:19 pm #
McGehee
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/07/high-court-takes-case-cross-public-land/
The 9th circuit invalidated the land swap where private land was traded for the public land under the cross.
In other words, the 9th circuit said people would be “confused” to see a cross on private land surrounded by public land. 9th circuit is a joke. and a bad one.
Comment by LTC John on 10/8 @ 11:29 pm #
Darleen, considering the reversal rate by the SCTOUS, they agree with you re; joke status of the 9th CIR.
Comment by dicentra on 10/8 @ 11:43 pm #
FYI, there’s a cathartic topic over on Twitter, #truthsleftieshate, if you’re interested.
Comment by dicentra on 10/8 @ 11:46 pm #
In general you should be law abiding, but non violent civil disobedience can be a useful tool if you are willing to pay the price.
I’m thinking it’s about time to reread Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience for some good ideas. Forget Alinsky, at least Thoreau had a soul.
“I aim to do mischief!”
Comment by louchette, outlaw shufu on 10/8 @ 11:57 pm #
GRRRRRRRRRRRR… i know that cross very well. as does anyone from southern california who ever enjoyed driving out that way, out to joshua tree, out to barstow even when it really was a dusty little nearly ghost town like something out of an altman film and not yet a real city. the thing is a landmark. and part of the history of that area. and, like ‘jesus land made of sand’ (IIRC the name, and i may not) seeing it was a sign that you were finally getting close to the end of civilization and the beginning of the desert. it should be preserved in it’s place, sited as it has been since i was just a dumbass teenager stoner slut making that drive.
the general horribleness of what’s being done to our nice little country is so big for me now, compounded by new anger inducing fuckwittery daily, anyway it’s so big now that i almost can’t comprehend it. like the deficit numbers. but this cross thing irks me personally. one of those things that’s a touchstone to all of the memories of the adventures what were had in that place, and on the journey there. and darleen i am sending you a bill for the botox. (j/k) but if i keep making this face, it is going to stick.
Comment by Makewi on 10/9 @ 12:57 am #
Jeffersonian
I understand the desire the Church has to operate within the law of the land in which they are performing their services, but at some point I have to wonder if their mandate to act as a beacon of good to those most in need must trump this desire. I would imagine it is not an easy position for them to be in. That said, abolitionists, underground railroad workers and civil rights advocates were often of just this religous sort and they found a way to reconcile these difficulties
Dicentra
It was Thoreau, King and Ghandi that I was thinking of when I wrote that.
Comment by B Moe on 10/9 @ 4:30 am #
Words fail me.
Comment by donald on 10/9 @ 4:38 am #
BMOE, Some people are just better. Don’t ever forget that…or your place whitey.
Comment by donald on 10/9 @ 4:46 am #
I used to think that the ACLU was there to protect my civil liberties. Really, I did.
Comment by donald on 10/9 @ 4:46 am #
I was 17.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/9 @ 5:03 am #
This just in:
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO — President Obama on Friday won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
AP via Lucianne.
Well, that thing will be worthless from now on, won’t it?
Comment by Rusty on 10/9 @ 5:08 am #
#31
You didn’t get the Olympics, but here, here’s a very nice plaque, and some money. Our president is third place, assistant loser.
Comment by Joe on 10/9 @ 5:27 am #
We could really get tough on all crime if we make them all hate crimes. Double the penalties, double the impact.
Speeding? You are being hateful sir, that ticket has just doubled.
Comment by Joe on 10/9 @ 5:32 am #
But hey, Obama won the Noble Peace Prize. So he is all good.
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 5:36 am #
Well, that thing will be worthless from now on, won’t it?
Two words: Yasser Arafat.
Comment by meya on 10/9 @ 6:02 am #
“Amazing, of all the things to go out of one’s way to be offended by, a 75 year-old cross in the middle of the Mojave desert on private land.”
Scalia wasn’t happy with the uppity jews whining about this:
http://www.slate.com/id/2231805/
“The cross doesn’t honor non-Christians who fought in the war?” Scalia asks, stunned.
“A cross is the predominant symbol of Christianity, and it signifies that Jesus is the son of God and died to redeem mankind for our sins,” replies Eliasberg, whose father and grandfather are both Jewish war veterans.
“It’s erected as a war memorial!” replies Scalia. “I assume it is erected in honor of all of the war dead. The cross is the most common symbol of … of … of the resting place of the dead.”
Eliasberg dares to correct him: “The cross is the most common symbol of the resting place of Christians. I have been in Jewish cemeteries. There is never a cross on a tombstone of a Jew.”
“I don’t think you can leap from that to the conclusion that the only war dead the cross honors are the Christian war dead,” thunders Scalia. “I think that’s an outrageous conclusion!”
Comment by meya on 10/9 @ 6:03 am #
“Speeding? You are being hateful sir, that ticket has just doubled.”
People hate those work zones.
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 6:04 am #
Nice editorializing and out-of-context quoting in that “article”, SFAG.
You could have written it.
Comment by SDN on 10/9 @ 6:08 am #
Thoreau, King, and Gandhi weren’t operating in a modern totalitarian state. Even Gandhi admitted that his tactics wouldn’t have worked if he hadn’t been operating against a fundamentally decent British government.
And the quote is “I aim to misbehave”, spoken by a gentleman who wasn’t really interested in nonviolence.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/9 @ 6:08 am #
Just remember that in leftspeak “peace” doesn’t mean what it means to real people.
Comment by meya on 10/9 @ 6:09 am #
“You could have written it.”
Oh how I wish I could be Dahlia Lithwick.
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 6:09 am #
Oh. Dahlia Lithwick.
Seems like she should be focusing her “talents” on free expression issues in her own country, rather than worrying about a cross out in the middle of the desert.
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 6:10 am #
Oh how I wish I could be Dahlia Lithwick.
Easy. Move to Canada, then start lecturing them on how they should run their government.
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 6:10 am #
Better still, SFAG, why don’t you move to Cuba or Afghanistan?
Comment by meya on 10/9 @ 6:14 am #
You liked those scalia lines did you? Got you mad at those uppity foreign types huh?
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 6:15 am #
Translation: you have no response.
Comment by Pablo on 10/9 @ 6:19 am #
There’s also the Mt. Soledad cross in their pipeline.
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 6:19 am #
Why IS Ms. Lithwick here, by the way? She hates us, and surely she knows that she’d get “free health care” back home.
Comment by DarthRove on 10/9 @ 6:28 am #
At least we know the Nobel Prize Committee isn’t racist.
Comment by meya on 10/9 @ 6:35 am #
“Translation: you have no response.”
All this discussion needs is an accusation of anti-semitism. Shall I go, or do you want to take a stab at it?
“Why IS Ms. Lithwick here, by the way? She hates us, and surely she knows that she’d get “free health care” back home.”
Besides her having degrees from here; a rather awesome job and a partner here? Who knows what those mystical peoples are up to. Whining, that’s what.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 10/9 @ 6:38 am #
Grrrr! Cross!
I is scared of cross! Cross hurts me, wounds me in the soul!
I HATE CROSS!
Comment by Alec Leamas on 10/9 @ 6:42 am #
It would seem that she’s taken what she wanted - since she can’t skate backwards or tend goal, I’d just as soon have her scurry back to Canuckistan and defame the United States from her ‘home and native land.’
Comment by DarthRove on 10/9 @ 6:49 am #
All this discussion needs is an accusation of anti-semitism
I assumed that was axiomatic ;)
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 6:50 am #
#54:
Translation: you still have no response.
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 6:52 am #
BTW, don’t they have “free education” in Canada, SFAG?
Why would she want to get “degrees from here”?
Something stopping her “partner” from getting Canadian citizenship?
And why aren’t there any “awesome jobs” in Canada, SFAG?
Comment by Squid on 10/9 @ 7:57 am #
A Canadian friend of mine, after getting her law degree, moved to NYC to practice corporate law for four or five years. After biting my tongue through several dozen iterations of “how Canada is so much better,” I finally broke down and asked her why it was she had to come to New York to get a good job.
To her credit, she actually listened to my arguments, and agreed that perhaps her precious social safety net came at some real cost. Didn’t really slow her down much in the long run, though.
Nowadays she’s working for a pittance and freezing her ass off in Nunavut as a prosecutor. I guess she’s grown up some, because I don’t often hear her complain about her role as part of the precious social safety net.
I like a happy ending.
Comment by Rusty on 10/11 @ 12:58 pm #
Maybe when congress plants a cross I’ll get upset. Until then it’s not hurting anybody, except the ACLU. And they get paid to be upset.