Secularist lawyers want only their religion recognized by corporations and law.
I was completely nonplussed when I saw this brief filed by 44 law professors in the appeal now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., Case No. 13-354. I was shocked because the brief constitutes a frontal assault on corporate social responsibility.
For example, the law professors make the following apocalyptic claim:
If this Court were to agree that, as a matter of federal law, shareholders holding a control bloc of shares in a corporation may essentially transfer their [social responsibility] beliefs to the corporation, the results could be overwhelming.
Ok, I substituted “social responsibility” for “religious”. However, if the transfer of stockholder religious beliefs to the corporation would be “overwhelming”, why wouldn’t the same be true of beliefs regarding climate change, the environment, or other beliefs animating the corporate social responsibility movement?
Here are some more examples of how simply substituting “social responsibility” in the law professors’ brief converts the brief into an apology for eschewing corporate social responsibility:
State courts, too, could become clogged with business disputes between shareholders who disagree over what [social responsibility] identity, if any, their corporation should adopt.
Rather than embracing a rule that says that shareholders claiming control of a corporation can impose their personal [social responsibility] beliefs on minority (or even majority) shareholders and employees, the Court should reject the values pass-through theory.
Of course, the law and the real world belie the professors’ assertions. As I’ve pointed out, California has explicitly permitted the formation of nonprofit religious corporations for decades. […]
If corporations can’t have religious beliefs, then it follows that they can’t believe in climate change, sustainable investment or any other beliefs embraced by the corporate social responsibility movement.
The radical secularist/anti-theist religion is the only one to be allowed the public square.
No wonder Leftists are sympathetic to Islamism … the dedication to eradicating any dissent or opposition is rampant in both ideologies.
Like recognizes like.
h/t Ann Althouse
Oof. Well, you know, there it is again! How ’bout them Cowboys!?
44? Must be getting harder to get people to sign on to the tripe of the day. Bill Clinton regularly got an nice round 100 of something or other to proclaim whatever he thought was to be the
themeexcrement of that day/week.Walmart whored for obamacare like a horny little bitch
it makes shopping there a whole lot less fun
i haven’t been yet this whole year come to think of it
Lawyers are Dicks!
News at Eleven.
meanwhile … … … …
Corporations have only one responsibility: to provide a positive cash flow to investors and shareholders.
That is all.
****“If I was Vladimir Putin today at the end of the Olympics, I’d be a little nervous,” said Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican. “The people of Russia have watched this transpire, and they’re tired of the crony capitalism and kleptocracy that governs Russia today.”****
Indeed.
Man, I really hate twitter. It’s like a forum bred with a mailing list and we are stuck with the useless hybrid of the two as a shouty quasi-linked mess that read like memos taken down from a drunk angry loony on the toilet and the transcriber was sedated.
Man, I really hate twitter. It’s like a forum or news group bred with a mailing list and now we are stuck with a useless hybrid of the two. It’s a shouty quasi-linked mess that reads like a sedated person with short term memory problems was transcribing memos dictated by some drunk angry loony siting on the toilet. Ugggh. Horrible.
Oh, it DID post. Great.
Oh come on — my tweets aren’t that bad.
Quite.
Oh! Speaking of Law Professors, a Very Special Law Professor Known to All and Worshiped by Bloggers All made a subtle statement today…
“Ruling class”, Glenn? Where’d you find that turn of phrase ?
Hmmph. Next thing you know he’ll be on some English professor’s shit list.
term limits news
Rep. John Dingell Is Latest Democrat to Announce Retirement
“Ruling class-lessness”
Usenet never had a gulag, just a kill-file.
The problem is that judges, the executive branch and congress, can and have decided what exactly ‘social justice” is and what corporations need to do about it in order to keep in business.
how’s the borscht in the gulag?
TEA PARTY PROFESSOR IN ‘EPIC’ FIGHT TO UNSEAT MAJORITY LEADER ERIC CANTOR
Obama’s HHS: We Need to Monitor All Social Media Traffic In Order to Detect Outbreaks of Diseases
The latest rhetoric from the Chavistas is instructive:
“We revolutionaries want peace and we’ve had incredible patience, but they’re abusing it.”
The graphic caption: Y tú loco loco pero yo tranquilo. “You’re all crazy but I am tranquil.”
“Peace” in this case means “STFU and take it, you ingrates. Chávez gave you cheap gasoline and free education, but let a little toilet paper run out and you wreck the whole country.”
The Chavistas, you see, only want peace and happiness and tranquility, whereas these brats are throwing a temper tantrum. “The people want peace and the people guarantee peace.”
These are from #DesconectateDelOdio “Disconnect yourself from hatred.”
“NO LE SIGAS EL JUEGO DISCUTIENDO POR ACA, Q SE CONSUMAN EN SU ODIO ENTRE ELLOS, SOMOS AMOR Y PAZ ”
“Don’t play their game, disputing all over. Let them be consumed in their hatred among themselves. We are love and peace.”
DISQUALIFY THAT OPINION: Subcategory, YOU SOUND ANGRY.
Damme, if these people aren’t cut from exactly the came cloth.
Even the lefty Guardian can’t manage to cover over the mess that is Chavez’s Venezuela.
FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST! THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, I’M FREE AT LAST!
Both accounts just got sprung from the gulag.
DAMN if this wasn’t the worst time to be sidelined.
– Selling your vote just isn’t that easy anymore. You simply never know what you’re going to get. Anyone who trusts the Left deserves what they get:
Last year’s deportations were down 10 percent from 2012. Still, there were 1.93 million forced departures during Obama’s first five years in office, almost as many as the eight-year total under former President George W. Bush.
….and it looks like those that did are getting it but good.
“If you like your mother you can keep your mother.”
– I’ve decided that Ronstadts “Lies” would be perfect for Bumblefucks theme song, which is irony at its best owing to her very Conservative upbringing, versus her full stop Lefty pandering for commercial success, which she never had to do with her native talent. Pity that.
It is sad.
It is sad GOOGLE chrome can’t do audio. too lazy to switch to firefox
AMERICAN MASTERS | Neil Young Helpless | PBS imperialist bastards
Twitter is retarded. I got suspended for making up humorous hashtags like #FattiesForNickSearcy. They thought it was spam. I had to promise not to do it again to get unsuspended. But I’m going to voluntarily resuspend myself out of not wanting more stupid in my future than I already have.
Twitter is yet another post .com bubble billion dollar fad driven half assed mess that encourages people to act like drunk warthogs in a lightbulb factory.
OT, but seemingly a bombshell.
The Conspiracy Theory Is True: Agents Infiltrate Websites Intending To “Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy Reputations”.
‘Splains many we’ve seen come and go ’round here?
Here’s the Scribd .pdf file. Worth downloading for closer review.
for ukraine
The Clash – Clampdown
As could be expected, they immediately
brought into play against the Charter a whole set of slanders,
distortions, abuse, half-truths and absolute falsehoods which all
represent the dismal range of their capacity. Ispeak from experience
as one who has been a favourite target for their sort of behaviour for
the past thirty years, and who could well lay claim to the laurels of
seniority and worthy service. Though the powers that be may not
know it, or rather, would sooner not know it, nay, cannot afford to
know it (for where else would they find more obedient, unscrupulous
and servile creatures), the media are the principal, albeit
unintentional, creators and encouragers of opposition, since they
are totaJIy suspect and nobody believes them. People almost automatically
take for gospel the opposite of what the papers say. Once
all-powerful, the media were capable of pointing the finger that
condemned people to death. @127 potpless
Twitter is the first time in my life I was absolutely sure that I was too smart for the room. And I ain’t that smart.
What are we gonna do now?
Taking off his turban, they said, is this man a Jew?
‘Cause they’re working for the clampdown
They put up a poster saying we earn more than you!
When we’re working for the clampdown
We will teach our twisted speech
To the young believers
We will train our blue-eyed men
To be young believers
The judge said five to ten, but I say double that again
I’m not working for the clampdown
No man born with a living soul
Can be working for the clampdown
Kick over the wall ’cause government’s to fall
How can you refuse it?
Let fury have the hour, anger can be power
D’you know that you can use it?
The voices in your head are calling
Stop wasting your time, there’s nothing coming
Only a fool would think someone could save you
The men at the factory are old and cunning
You don’t owe nothing, so boy get running
It’s the best years of your life they want to steal
You grow up and you calm down
You’re working for the clampdown
You start wearing the blue and brown
You’re working for the clampdown
So you got someone to boss around
It makes you feel big now
You drift until you brutalize
You made your first kill now
In these days of evil presidentes
Working for the clampdown
But lately one or two has fully paid their due
For working for the clampdown
Ha! Gitalong! Gitalong!
Working for the clampdown
Ha! Gitalong! Gitalong!
Working for the clampdown
Ray Charles – America,The Beautiful (LIVE) HD
Talking Heads – Life During Wartime
They thought it was spam.
Twitter treats most new accounts like spam, which is why they give you the captcha to prove you’re human.
Twitter’s not for everyone, but the Revolution Has Been Tweeted in the Ukraine and Venezuela.
Also, wit aggregation.
Twitter in a nutshell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzgi-Evu7Fk
C’mon, palaeomerus. Where else can you have this sort of fun?
https://twitter.com/serr8d/status/438307890583961600
http://redalertpolitics.com/2014/02/25/things-that-piers-morgan-actually-said-and-did/#.Uw0MYsTRU2c.twitter