tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post8131260079771183032..comments2023-10-17T08:04:08.714-04:00Comments on The Examined Life: Justice Really Needs to Take Off That BlindfoldAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04614116686638969278noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-17210418731085076812009-08-14T20:45:44.683-04:002009-08-14T20:45:44.683-04:00With all our laws I truly believe people like Madi...With all our laws I truly believe people like Madison and Jefferson expected Americans to use common sense and act like they had a working brain between their ears. Just because something is legal doesn't afford a person carte blanche to light a fuse and see if the law works or blows up in everyone's faces. Certain things you should just know not to fool with, I say.Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-36996319826010541822009-08-14T11:02:43.781-04:002009-08-14T11:02:43.781-04:00I found that very disturbing that this Kostric wou...I found that very disturbing that this Kostric would be able to bring a gun and openly display it to a townhall meeting with the president. I have found that the democrat in me has surfaced when I have to read extremists on the right trying to find fault with everything Obama has done, and I think that he has done a great deal that is right, which predictably none of them can admit. That gets old. It is the sort of thing that goes on on talk radio all the time too with them losing their tempers and responding to anything they disagree with in the most repelling ways. Which is why I decided to re-commit myself to the democrat party as a Christian believer in right to life and fight it that way. I have always found too much in the republican party line I can't abide.Gerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00771917880182186281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-25367527987771536582009-08-14T01:45:31.126-04:002009-08-14T01:45:31.126-04:00Of course it's ridiculous. Patently ridiculous...Of course it's ridiculous. Patently ridiculous on every level. It's ridiculous that being able to shoot another human being is considered a "right" at all, and obscene there's people who call themselves Christian and see no contradiction between the two.<br />What make me apoplectic is that if it was a leftie outside of a Bush rally, he would have been thrown in the slammer in a NY minute. If it was outside a Cheney rally, he never would have been seen from again.<br />Obama is too damn tolerant.<br />As for Sybil's comment, I don't mean to dismiss the nice sentiment, but who ever said we're "supposed" to have love for one another? Human beings are primates, with just as much capacity for violence and agression as an other animal, in fact more than most. Lamenting a lack of kindess we have toward one another is understandable, but thinking it the natural state of affairs that is somehow our due rather ignores 30,000 years of bloody human history. Americans in particular have a most racist and violent past. And clearly, a black President--even the nicest one imaginable--is scaring the bejeezus out of these ignorant haters. I don't love them. I want them all to shoot themselves dead while cleaning their guns.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17173711110500689117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-27278950344059669982009-08-13T13:19:03.449-04:002009-08-13T13:19:03.449-04:00This is all so upsetting! I'm ready for a &qu...This is all so upsetting! I'm ready for a "nutcase cleansing" which makes me sound as bad as they are. It's really scary out there now. <br /><br />Good idea, Beth, about the town hall meetings.Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15718724697267800263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-85348703662777298432009-08-12T20:50:09.967-04:002009-08-12T20:50:09.967-04:00Yeah. Isn't there precedent for exceptions to ...Yeah. Isn't there precedent for exceptions to some of our basic rights? Freedom of speech is not extended to yelling fire in a crowded theater, to give the classic example, or freedom of the press to journalists who would publish troop movements. <br /><br />I'm quite certain the Secret Service had many eyes on this guy. I like your idea of surrounding him with blacks and Hispanics who also have permits to carry; my friend Raquel had a brilliant idea to allow town hall meetings about health care open only to those who <i>do not have health care</i>. I'm guessing that would change the discussion somewhate. ;) Hugs, BethBethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149068921334726430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-25416020782561485532009-08-12T19:52:19.647-04:002009-08-12T19:52:19.647-04:00I would bet that there was a sniper with his scope...I would bet that there was a sniper with his scope dedicated to that assbag with the weapon strapped on.Ken Richeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09425810816600512504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-69131128162176255472009-08-12T14:07:23.973-04:002009-08-12T14:07:23.973-04:00Oh my dear Sheria, whatever is our poor old world ...Oh my dear Sheria, whatever is our poor old world comming to...<br />where is all the love we are supposed to have one for another ?<br />LOve Sybil xSybilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02516012178494813281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-63055417982583981142009-08-12T11:08:43.133-04:002009-08-12T11:08:43.133-04:00Wow, Sheria. I hadn't heard of either of these...Wow, Sheria. I hadn't heard of either of these stories because I quit watching the news because it made me so damn mad and depressed.<br /><br />I'm extra glad I quit watching after hearing about this crap.<br /><br />Sending love,<br /><br />SBSarcastic Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17116577711704241625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-59149560631599436872009-08-12T08:11:57.430-04:002009-08-12T08:11:57.430-04:00Scary- very scaryScary- very scaryDannellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06639710965918070214noreply@blogger.com