2005-10-14
blips + updates
• If you can Convert the Athiest it could be worth a thousand dollars. See if you are up to the challenge.
• Conservative pundit William Kristol [whose had a 40 year career promoting the NeoCon / ReThuglican "stop-taxing-the-rich-but-spend-everybody-else's-money" ethos] expresses shock and surprise that so many conservatives are crooks.
• Maybe you don't have to be a "born again" to get a job but it seems to be a qualification. Here's how easy it is to get hired by the Bush Administration. I sent in the application entering nothing! and I start work at the White House on Monday. You might try this too! [NOTE: Not applicable in some states of mind]
• With that out of the way, it helps to reflect on Charlie Reese's "We're Revolutionaries" ...or at least we ought to be. He starts:
• Conservative pundit William Kristol [whose had a 40 year career promoting the NeoCon / ReThuglican "stop-taxing-the-rich-but-spend-everybody-else's-money" ethos] expresses shock and surprise that so many conservatives are crooks.
• Maybe you don't have to be a "born again" to get a job but it seems to be a qualification. Here's how easy it is to get hired by the Bush Administration. I sent in the application entering nothing! and I start work at the White House on Monday. You might try this too! [NOTE: Not applicable in some states of mind]
• With that out of the way, it helps to reflect on Charlie Reese's "We're Revolutionaries" ...or at least we ought to be. He starts:
Some people seem to be under the erroneous belief that the Constitution grants us our rights. It does no such thing. To understand the Constitution, you have to remember the Declaration of Independence, which preceded it by several years. It is the Declaration that contains the philosophy of the American Revolution. The Constitution merely implements that philosophy.• Find a zip code's district. Want to know what your zip zode area's boudaries are? Trying to find your cousin's zip code in East Jabroo? This site will help you with that.
The philosophy of the American Revolution contains three basic premises. One is that rights come from God and are unalienable. Two is that men create governments to protect those rights. Three is that when government fails to protect those rights and becomes abusive of those rights, men have a right and even a duty to overthrow that government and create a new one.
Some Americans have so neglected their study of American history that the idea of violently overthrowing a government strikes them as, well, communist or some such. Of course, if the Founding Fathers had not violently overthrown the colonial government of Great Britain in North America, we would not be an independent nation.
If you read the Constitution with those three premises in mind (and both documents were written to be read by ordinary folks, not legal scholars), it makes perfect sense. The main part of the Constitution simply establishes the framework for the federal government and its three parts, defines their respective duties and establishes what the federal government can do and what the states can do. None of that has anything at all to do with individual rights or with social issues. read the whole story
CARTOON CREDIT: The New Yorker | Thanks to Crooked Timber for the Kristol comment, Bob Crook for "We are Revolutionaries" and Dahi for the Job application at the White House.
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