Latest gun ruling a case of conservative judicial activism
Two years ago, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of ruling that the Second Amendment guarantee of the right to bear arms was an individual right rather than a right tied to a “well-regulated militia.” Today, in McDonald v. City of Chicago, it ruled 5-4 that state and local governments are as bound by that interpretation as the federal government, a step that greatly restricts their ability to legislate in that arena.
Symbolically, the ruling is a big victory for the gun lobby. But its practical effect is another matter. A decade or two ago, when hot political battles were still being fought over gun control, rulings such as these would have had significant impact. But the truth is that the single-minded passion of gun-rights advocates long routed their opponents in the political arena, making gun-control arguments in the political arena all but moot.
In that sense, the Supreme Court is merely following the election returns, as Mr. Dooley long ago noted.
But it will be interesting to see how the issue plays out. In Heller, the court wrote repeatedly of the constitutional right to self-defense and singled out handguns as “the most preferred firearm in the nation to ‘keep’ and use for protection of one’s home and family.” Heller also noted that the right to bear arms is NOT “a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”
In addition, Heller expressly did not apply to “laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”
As Justice Stephen Breyer notes in his dissent, the rulings in Heller and McDonald strip power from state and local governments and place it in the hands not just of the federal government, but of the federal courts. In its centralization of power, its rejection of precedent and and its investment of legislative power in the courts, the court has taken a decidedly activist role.
In fact, Breyer notes, it requires judges, not legislatures, to now address a variety of questions regarding the costs and benefits of various firearms restrictions:
“Does the right to possess weapons for self-defense extend outside the home? To the car? To work? What sort of guns are necessary for self-defense? Handguns? Rifles? Semiautomatic weapons? When is a gun semi-automatic? Where are different kinds of weapons likely needed? Does time of day matter? Does the presence of a child in the house matter? Does the presence of a convicted felon in the house matter? Do police need special rules permitting patdowns designed to find guns? When do registration requirements become severe to the point that they amount to an unconstitutional ban? Who can possess guns and of what kind? Aliens? Prior drug offenders? Prior alcohol abusers? How would the right (to self-defense) interact with a state or local government’s ability to take special measures during, say, national security emergencies?”
“Legislators,” Breyer notes, “are able to ‘amass the stuff of actual experience and cull conclusions from it.’ United States v. Gainey, 380 U. S. 63, 67 (1965). They are far better suited than judges to uncover facts and to understand their relevance. And legislators, unlike Article III judges, can be held democratically responsible for their empirically based and value-laden conclusions.”
The Supreme Court — the ostensibly conservative, anti-activist, pro-states’ rights Roberts court — has taken those decisions out of the hands of legislatures and city councils and placed them in the hands of its colleagues in the federal judiciary.
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josef nix
June 28th, 2010
8:33 pm
AmVet…
I am certainly a proponent of NOTA…it scares the sh*t out of the politicians and our chances of getting it are slim to none, but believe me, if it ever were, we’d see a lot of changes post haste…
The left is for chicks
June 28th, 2010
8:35 pm
Saw one lefty cryin bout kids-teens being shot. HEY STUPID- those numbers are inflated by young gang bangers killing each other for fun. Stupid. Three year old gets shot- front page news-cause it is RARE!
TaxPayer
June 28th, 2010
8:36 pm
Thou shalt not commit murder
As in intentional killing versus accidental killing.
Curious Observer
June 28th, 2010
8:36 pm
Just saw a movie-my research-haha- about armed jews hiding in the forest, and kicking some German butt. Defiance was the title. Claims to b true story.
The Jews were fierce fighters within German lines in Eastern Europe, jnix. For a fictitious account based on actual history, read Herman Wouk’s War and Remembrance, if you haven’t already. Jewish partisans lived in holes in the ground in the forests and inflicted great casualties and materiel losses on the Germans during their invasion of Russia. Wouk knew whereof he wrote. Nobody else in war history would have gone to the trouble of digging up the names of the downed torpedo plane pilots and their enlisted gunners at the Battle of Midway. The history of the Jewish resistance goes well beyond Warsaw. My hat’s off to Wouk for his meticulous research.
The left is for chicks
June 28th, 2010
8:45 pm
Thanks Nix. I will read up. Had a science teacher @ c gwinnett in1980- skipped all his classes tho. Also thanks to curious.
The left is for chicks
June 28th, 2010
8:46 pm
teacher named nix I mean. I am drunk-heh heh
An Inconvenient Constitution
June 28th, 2010
8:46 pm
Turn it. Twist it. Deflect it.
Don’t answer.
Liberals hate information.
#1 – Constitutional Amendment requiring Term Limits for all members of Congress
#2 – Constitutional Amendment requiring a Balanced Federal Budget every year, no excuses.
#3 – Seal the US borders in the next 6 months. Those who are here can stay if they agree to the border closure in terms.
#4 – Repeal the 16th Amendment (Income Tax) and replace it with a Flat Tax or Fair Tax, a National Lottery and massive consumption taxes on alcohol, tobacco and marijuana.
#5 – Congress must repeal The War Powers Act. This law allows the POTUS to start wars without an official declaration by Congress. Congress granted it and they can take it back. Get it done.
#6 — 15% Across Every Board, Spending Cuts, Starting Next Congressional Term. ALL OF IT !
Start there.
Scout
June 28th, 2010
8:47 pm
josef:
1) Your hero might have been one of those in the photo I saw !
2) Thanks for clarifying the original Hebrew word for TaxPayer. I didn’t have the heart.
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
8:48 pm
The Hebrew text uses the verb “ratsah, to murder” and not “harag, to kill.”
Ratsah…
Murder: O.E. morðor (pl. morþras) “secret killing of a person, unlawful killing,” also “mortal sin, crime, punishment, torment, misery,” from P.Gmc. *murthran (cf. Goth maurþr, O.Fris. morth, O.N. morð, M.Du. moort, Ger. Mord “murder”). from PIE *mrtro-, from base *mor-/*mr- “to die” (cf. L. mors, gen. mortis “death;” mori “to die;” see mortal). The spelling with -d- probably reflects influence of Anglo-Fr. murdre, from O.Fr. mordre, from M.L. murdrum, from the W.Gmc. root. Viking custom, typical of Gmc., distinguished morð (O.N.) “secret slaughter,” from vig (O.N.) “slaying.” The former involved concealment, or slaying a man by night or when asleep, and was a heinous crime.
Harag–kill
Kill–1200, “to strike, hit, beat, knock.” Sense of “to deprive of life” first recorded early 14c. Perhaps from an unrecorded variant of O.E. cwellan “to kill” (see quell).
To kill someone is acceptable given the conditions of the stuation. To murder someone is never so.
Scout
June 28th, 2010
8:50 pm
Does everyone remember what actually “sparked” our Revolution? Hint – it wasn’t taxes.
TaxPayer
June 28th, 2010
8:52 pm
Scout,
I think even you understand what I mean when I post, Thou Shalt not Kill, in the context of our exchange regarding wars. Grow up.
The left is for chicks
June 28th, 2010
8:53 pm
Bookman looks gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Leftys r like that. Course rightys have chickenhawks, so there u go.
An Inconvenient Constitution
June 28th, 2010
8:54 pm
The Obamunists want you to take another nap.
Please don’t question their methods or positions.
Anyone who dares to speak out should be sent to a Haitian Gulag.
Tea Party people are dangerous and should be isolated and interned.
Shut down all free speech in America.
This is good for us.
Scout
June 28th, 2010
8:55 pm
TaxPayer:
You sir are always very selective in your use of scripture. Remember, a text taken out of context is no text.
Regarding war, God commanded the Israelites to “slay” those in their way quite often so I suggest you take it up with Him.
He’s the editor. I’m just the newspaper boy.
P.S. I’m 63. How about you?
Scout
June 28th, 2010
8:57 pm
The left is for chicks:
Depends on what you mean by “Chickenhawk”. Did you ever read the book? A great read!
By that author’s definition, a “Chickenhawk” was someone who was chicken to go into battle but once they were forced to become engaged with the enemy they became hawks!!
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
8:57 pm
Scout
He probably was. I was taught about him as a child.
left..
Got a bit of the vino taking hold myself! Nix, eh? Teaching is a family tradition on that side, too. And we’re all related…inbred as all get out! We’re related to ourselves…
Curious
Wouk is good, no doubt…I think one of the reasons “we” feel so strongly about this subject in my and my children’s generation is that the image of us going peacefully to the slaughter is not the case and, if we admit there was a resistance, then we have to deal with a “new Jew” and that unsettles those who have trouble dealing with the Hebrew Tarzan…nice to have friends, but don’t count on them…
Scout
June 28th, 2010
9:00 pm
josef:
NEVER AGAIN !!!
TaxPayer
June 28th, 2010
9:02 pm
Scout,
If you intentionally kill another, you have committed murder in God’s eyes. You spin that any way you want. You pull that trigger on a gun with it aimed at another human and that human dies as a result of your action, then you committed murder. Take that up with God if you like.
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
9:04 pm
left chick
While you’re at it, you might want to look into the gay resistance in Holland! The Gerret van der Veen group is a good place to start and especially this fellow
http://www.bookrags.com/tandf/arondeus-willem-tf/
In his last statement…
“Tell the people that we gays are no cowards!”
David Scott (D) Ga 13th District ----
June 28th, 2010
9:08 pm
Please support Dr. Deborah Honeycutt for Congress in November 2010.
David Scott must be removed.
http://www.honeycuttforcongress.com/
If you want to change things in metro ATL then start with this candidate. Send $5 or $10 bux.
Pay Attention. Watch ‘em.
NO MORE DAVID SCOTT !!!!!!!
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
9:09 pm
Scout
And the Hebrew is most often “harag” for “slay” as well…Cain did not “slay” or “kill” his brother, he “murdered” him. Yael “slew” or “killed” Sisera.
SPQR(laissez Faire)
June 28th, 2010
9:15 pm
“Why would hitler have archeological teams scouring west hollywood, Dr Jones?”
“An army that carries Judy Garland’s ruby slippers before it..is invincible…”
The left is for chicks
June 28th, 2010
9:17 pm
Just taking a shot nix- nuthun wrong w/ gay. Im wearing panties as we speak, looks funny on a 50 yr old. man -Playin sir- thanks for historic info- To tired and buzzed to hit ur link tonite-but my sister an first cuz r gay- people r what they r. I am turned on by rabbits- what u gonna do-
Kidding. good nite all.
SPQR(laissez Faire)
June 28th, 2010
9:17 pm
alternately….
“My president, where are the jobs you promised if we passed the stimulus?”
“we uh have uh uh Top men working on it”
“who?”
“top uh men! Persons! I uh mean Persons!
TaxPayer
June 28th, 2010
9:19 pm
A paper delivery boy at 63. Good for you Scout. It’s good to stay active. Try to avoid windows and lawn sprinklers. K. As for my age, what do you need to know for. Please tell me what you would do with that knowledge. If I said I was 103, would you accuse me of being too old and senile to discuss matters intelligibly. If I said I was 23, would you tell me that I’m just a naive little one that could not possibly understand your life’s experiences. And if I said that I am 63… What, Scout. By the way, you never did go back yesterday to that exchange between NIF and myself and tell me what concerned you in that exchange. Was it getting too late for you.
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
9:21 pm
laissez
Alexander the Great. General Patrick Cleburne…just to name two…
Del
June 28th, 2010
9:22 pm
josef,
Are you becoming a conservative? Welcome to the right side.
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
9:23 pm
left chicks
no offense taken whatsoever…. i assumed you’d be open-minded on the subject…it wasn’t for “education,” but for interest…
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
9:24 pm
Del
What brought THAT on?
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
9:25 pm
Too late for SCOUT???? Oy, he outlasts ME around here…
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 28th, 2010
9:26 pm
Josef (sometime a long time back)
About the Southern colonies fighting the British for philosophical reasons, that’s true but a lot of ‘em were Scots-Irish and they just philosophically hated the British. Any reason to fight ‘em was a good one to them.
Dinner being done, we went out on the porch to talk.
I agree that’s a clumsy sentence. If it had said “Supper being done, we went out on the porch to talk”, it would have made perfect sense to me. You see if it’s summer time, and you’ve got no TV or radio, and supper is done, you go to the porch to talk. It’s understood.
I just hit a button and saw something on my screen I’ve never seen before. I wonder if that was the Bruin sneaking around in my puter.
The left is for chicks
June 28th, 2010
9:26 pm
Nix- did read ur link- thank u sir-no jokes- it is good 2 no thr truth.good nite.
The left is for chicks
June 28th, 2010
9:27 pm
damn, i am drunk-hahahhaha
Scout
June 28th, 2010
9:29 pm
Taxpayer:
You have “serious issues” and I think you would argue that water wasn’t wet.
Isn’t it great to live in a free (so far) country ?
Scout
June 28th, 2010
9:30 pm
Hillbilly Deluxe:
Have you read “Born Fighting” by Senator James Webb ?
David Scott (D) Ga 13th District ----
June 28th, 2010
9:30 pm
“I represent Clayton, Douglas, and Cobb County.”
I’ve been EFFING you.
Please vote for http://www.honeycuttforcongress.com/
Scout
June 28th, 2010
9:31 pm
I guess Jay just did this thread this morning and went home mad.
Del
June 28th, 2010
9:31 pm
Guns, guns, guns…what’s is this crazed hatred for an object that can do absolutely nothing unless it’s misused in the hands of a human being. Come on folks, there are more accidents and fatalities associated with vehicles on the road driven by drunk drivers. Probably, although I admit to not having statistical information, more accidents caused by riding lawn mowers than with guns in the home.
SPQR(laissez Faire)
June 28th, 2010
9:33 pm
josef, True…
Ernst Röhm also.. I am for lifting DADT..just like the imagery of Indian Jones and the slippers of doom.
almost forgot… TO HELL with Hugo lula jong il obama and his smartass sidekick, bite me
Del
June 28th, 2010
9:34 pm
josef,
Oh hell I don’t know, just late in the thread and had to post something. I was pretty sure you wouldn’t get P.O.’d over it.
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 28th, 2010
9:35 pm
Have you read “Born Fighting” by Senator James Webb ?
It’s on the book shelf behind me. Read it on your recommendation, actually, and enjoyed it immensely.
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
9:36 pm
Scout
That Webb book is an a33 kicker, ain’t it? Don’t always agree with him (DADT) but insofar as knowing who he is and where he came from, oh, yeah! And a burr under the saddle of his fellow Democrats…
Hootinanny Yum Yum
June 28th, 2010
9:37 pm
In less than a week, 10 people have been killed and more than 60 others wounded by gunfire in Chicago–despite the city’s decades-old gun ban.
Del
June 28th, 2010
9:38 pm
Hillbilly Deluxe,
Don’t always agree with what Webb says and does but he was one helluva Marine in the Nam.
David Scott (D) Ga 13th District ----
June 28th, 2010
9:38 pm
Please support Alvin Greene for Senate in South Carolina.
Move The Progressive Agenda Forward By Any Means Necessary.
Anybody who disagrees is stupid or rebellious.
Flip the Internet Kill Switch…..
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
9:41 pm
laissez
oops! My jerking knee got in the way…I had forgotten your ourspoken opposition to DADT…my apologies…and Roehm? Well, yeah, him too. Gotta take the bad with the good…as I say, equality? Ain’t it grand…
Del..
Me? Get p’od? Now when have I ever done that?
Scout
June 28th, 2010
9:42 pm
Hillbilly, Del & josef (now there’s a threesome !)
Yep …………… Webb is a “wood’s colt” ………………
Laird Bean
June 28th, 2010
9:42 pm
The position of the four dissenting judges in this ruling, as well as the position of the Left is abjectly silly as well as being wrong! Anyone who can read and understand plain English can see that the simple words of the 2nd. Amendment in the Bill of Rights guarantee the right to keep and bear arms to “the people”. Not the National Guard, not the Army, not the police, or any other extension of the government, but to “the people”!! Can it really be any more simple than that??
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 28th, 2010
9:44 pm
Scout
What is your definition of “wood’s colt”? Just curious.
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
9:44 pm
SCOUT
“I guess Jay just did this thread this morning and went home mad.”
Nyanh…he works on his dead tree column on Mondays and given recent events, he’s no doubt twirling…
popeye
June 28th, 2010
9:45 pm
Del
June 28th, 2010
9:22 pm
josef,
Are you becoming a conservative? Welcome to the right side.
Del….Josef has always been a right winger. He proclaims his liberal mindset but that only
applies when the Repeal of DADT is on the docket or any other gay issue.
Otherwise he is totally a republiconned!
Hootinanny Yum Yum
June 28th, 2010
9:46 pm
TaxPayer states, “If you intentionally kill another, you have committed murder in God’s eyes. You spin that any way you want. You pull that trigger on a gun with it aimed at another human and that human dies as a result of your action, then you committed murder. Take that up with God if you like.”
So, if in the act of protecting my property, my family or myself I kill another I have committed murder in God’s eyes. In essence a sin. Whether it be Old Testament or New Testament. Sin is sin.
Best I understand it, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Yeah, I’ll have to look the Big Guy in the eye one day, but I think I’ll be okay on this one.
Wow, God and Guns on the same blog. CT would be moderating the pi$$ out of this.
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
9:47 pm
Hillbilly
You didn’t grow up using “wood’s colt?” Think about it. It’s a colt who’s daddy came from the woods…doesn’t have the “right papers…”
Del
June 28th, 2010
9:49 pm
I think Webb was a company commander in the Que Son valley during operation Union One or Two 1967.
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 28th, 2010
9:51 pm
Josef
I always heard it used to refer to an illegitimate child. That’s why I asked.
Del
June 28th, 2010
9:51 pm
popeye,
I don’t think josef votes Republican but I can always be wrong.
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
9:53 pm
popeye
You wish! I’m for free universal health care, I’m for decolonization and a dismantling of the imperialist regimes, I’m for restitution for slavery, I’m decidedly for separation of church and state up to and including the inaguguration of our secular president, I’m against the class antipathies of those who categorize by race, creed, color, national origin and housing, I’m for regularization of the status of the so-called “illegals…” need I continue?
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
9:54 pm
DEl
If I ever voted for the Party of Diocletian of the Potomac my Granny would rise from the grave and smite me! Really…
Steve
June 28th, 2010
9:54 pm
Democrat Mayor Dayley says he will continue to obstruct the expressed decison of the court by passing laws around gun ownership…sort of like Jim Crow laws that did not actually prevent voting, just made it impossibly hard.
Bet Jay and the liberals will support Daley all the way
Del
June 28th, 2010
9:55 pm
popeye,
oh the pain in my heart…josef@9:53pm is indeed a liberal.
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
9:59 pm
DEL/SCOUT
Smite? She’d use “harag!”
Scout
June 28th, 2010
10:00 pm
Hillbilly & josef:
I thought it had to do with a horse that couldn’t be tamed ?
AmVet
June 28th, 2010
10:00 pm
Haven’t read Webb’s book, but was very interested in his candidacy.
There is more times than not, not very much to cheer about in politics.
But watching Webb beat that repulsive George “Macaca” Allen in Virginia was pretty righteous…
Scout
June 28th, 2010
10:01 pm
Headline: “International Space Station sex ban”
“Commanders do not allow sexual intercourse on the International Space Station, it has been disclosed.”
Well, there you go ……….. no “100 mile” clubs !
TaxPayer
June 28th, 2010
10:01 pm
Scout,
Now you attack me by claiming that I have serious issues even after your little retort yesterday. A matter that you still refuse to deal with even though I have asked you to do so several times now. Go back, Scout, and review the exchange between NIF and myself yesterday and tell me what I said that concerns you in that exchange. Then again, perhaps you simply need to “lighten” up. Isn’t that how you put it to me yesterday, Scout.
Scout
June 28th, 2010
10:02 pm
Smite thee hip & thigh !
Del
June 28th, 2010
10:03 pm
Smite them down, smite and smite, now I’m afraid to turn in for the evening for fear I’ll be smited.
Del
June 28th, 2010
10:05 pm
Can anyone imagine getting it on in zero gravity.
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
10:07 pm
Scout
Sex is space and weightlessness and all that…I really do think that’s deserving of some serious scientific inquiry if we’re planning on colonizing out there…
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
10:07 pm
Del
Well, it would lend a whole new meaning to light in the loafers…
TaxPayer
June 28th, 2010
10:08 pm
So, if in the act of protecting my property, my family or myself I kill another I have committed murder in God’s eyes. In essence a sin. Whether it be Old Testament or New Testament. Sin is sin.
If you intentionally kill another, it is murder. That’s what “Thou Shalt Not Kill” means (substitute “murder” for “kill” if needed for clarity).
Del
June 28th, 2010
10:09 pm
josef,
LOL
popeye
June 28th, 2010
10:09 pm
OK Josef nice talkin’ points. Then why do you refer to Barbara Boxer as a cow, when she is one senator out of 50 some who supports totally all those aforementioned policies…especially the repeal of DADT.
Would you rather Carly Fiorina replace her?
Why do you refer to Obama as I’m a gonna? When he declares his support for your pet projects, but all the right wingers pitch hissy fits, and a few demos (Ben Nelson) etal shoot him down.
You can only hide so much, but the more you blog the more you reveal!
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
10:10 pm
AmVet
Read Webb…a curmudgeon’s curmudgeon!
Scout
June 28th, 2010
10:11 pm
TaxPayer:
I think we should just ignore each other. Oil & water.
Yawn ………………
Scout
June 28th, 2010
10:11 pm
Well, I see “Lady Kaga” got grilled pretty good today but …………….
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 28th, 2010
10:12 pm
I thought it had to do with a horse that couldn’t be tamed ?
That’s not what it meant in my area but I don’t know about other places. Maybe it has different meanings in different places?
Del
June 28th, 2010
10:14 pm
Taxpayer,
Sorry, but when you’re protecting yourself or your family it’s not intentional murder or killing in the Lords eyes.. When you’re tying to quote from God’s word you really need to read it all and not take snippets.
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 28th, 2010
10:15 pm
On Born Fighting
Been a while since I read it but as I remember, there wasn’t much political stuff in it. Or not as it applies to current politics. Is that y’all’s impression or is my memory fuzzy?
Another book I’d recommend that has very little political stuff in it is “One Soldier’s Story” by Bob Dole. I was never a big supporter of his but he’s one remarkable man.
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
10:15 pm
popeye
Boxer? The manners of a yard dog. Correcting a military man for using ma’am…oy!
Why do I call him Ima Gonna…? Because so far that’s all I’ve seen or heard from the “fierce advocate” And. like so many others, you seem to miss when I come out swinging on his behalf…
The more I “reveal?” I have no “secrets.” Unlike you, I yam what I yam…
You, evidently, have some personal issues with me, but that’s fine by me…I’m not out to impress you or anyone else…
AmVet
June 28th, 2010
10:16 pm
josef, for me, that race, more than any other single race, epitomized the gigantic problem with the tough talking, but never-served, swift-boating neo-cons and chickenhawks.
And I think it explains why they lost a jaw-dropping 93% of the contested seats in national races in back to back elections. Including the reverse Joe DiMaggio-like zero for 36 in 2006. A record that will likely never be touched.
But how in the world that slimy, gutless POS Suxbee Chambless ever got re-elected, I’ll never know …
Alvin Greene for Senate in SC
June 28th, 2010
10:17 pm
Cynthia Tucker is on vacation in Florida and Jay has accumulated our bogging dbags.
Jay — Does this gun decision mean this is racism?
Del
June 28th, 2010
10:20 pm
Well now it sounds like this thread may be fixin to become nasty, so I’ll just say it’s Taps. Y’all have a great evening and fight fare.
popeye
June 28th, 2010
10:23 pm
Josef, You are not important enough for me to have personal issues with you!
I could care less what you think, or who you are.
I do know you spend 24/7 blogging by going through previous blogs.
Sorry for you life is such a beach!
TaxPayer
June 28th, 2010
10:24 pm
Sorry, but when you’re protecting yourself or your family it’s not intentional murder or killing in the Lords eyes.. When you’re tying to quote from God’s word you really need to read it all and not take snippets.
There are only two types of killing in God’s eyes, intentional or accidental. If you want to call it an “Oops, my finger slipped, go for it.”
As for you, Scout, if you do not want to deal with the matter that you brought up yesterday, fine, I understand. I tried.
Scout
June 28th, 2010
10:25 pm
Anyone seen Al Gore lately ?
TaxPayer
June 28th, 2010
10:27 pm
I see AmVet has invoked the name of Saxby Chambliss. Now I know why Del said things were gonna get nasty. When you bring up such scum of the earth as Saxby, it can’t be sugar-coated.
AmVet
June 28th, 2010
10:31 pm
“When you bring up such scum of the earth as Saxby, it can’t be sugar-coated.”
TaxPayer, this why I love my fellow non-Republicans.
Witty, interesting and deft with a double-entendre.
Not My Real Name
June 28th, 2010
10:33 pm
#1 – Constitutional Amendment requiring Term Limits for all members of Congress
#2 – Constitutional Amendment requiring a Balanced Federal Budget every year, no excuses.
#3 – Seal the US borders in the next 6 months. Those who are here can stay if they agree to the border closure in terms.
#4 – Repeal the 16th Amendment (Income Tax) and replace it with a Flat Tax or Fair Tax, a National Lottery and massive consumption taxes on alcohol, tobacco and marijuana.
#5 – Congress must repeal The War Powers Act. This law allows the POTUS to start wars without an official declaration by Congress. Congress granted it and they can take it back. Get it done.
#6 — 15% Across Every Board, Spending Cuts, Starting Next Congressional Term. ALL OF IT !
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
10:34 pm
AmVet
Read some of his fiction…talk about a wood’s colt!
popeye…
24/7? Not really…depends on the day, what’s on the other screen for work, whether or not school is in session and whatever else I have on my plate…
I don’t go through other blogs…this one is it and only when I’m here, don’t bother going back to read over those I wasn’t present for unless somebody asks me to…
Life a beach? I’m a happy person…I am blessed to be able to do pretty much what I want to when I want to…
Me? Important? G-d, I hope not. I’d hate to think anybody took me seriously, since I don’t take myself so…try it, though, it’s really quite liberating…
Not My Real Name
June 28th, 2010
10:36 pm
I know you regulars hate FACTS but I plan to continue.
Your whimpy arguments are on……
Nada Mas.
TaxPayer
June 28th, 2010
10:38 pm
Not My Real Name,
Do you have any proof of that.
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
10:38 pm
DEl
That’s right, come in here, stir up a stink and then disappear…you trying to take over the Bruin’s job…? G’night anyway…
TaxPayer
June 28th, 2010
10:42 pm
I once tried some margarine that said it tasted like butter but it did not. In short, butter or even “tastes like butter” was not its real name. “Salt” would have been more descriptive.
Not My Real Name
June 28th, 2010
10:48 pm
Jay — Please don’t let anybody at the AJC change our blogs and they way they work..
Our speech is still open and unrestricted in this blog……….
Don’t change anything.
Get more legitimate and active Blog Hosts…….
TaxPayer
June 28th, 2010
10:51 pm
By the way, TaxPayer is Not My Real Name. Tis true. With that, I say good night.
josef nix
June 28th, 2010
10:52 pm
Real Name
He’s about to top 600, that tells you something about how he does things…I hope his handler’s are paying attention. He’s a valuable asset.
Scout
June 28th, 2010
10:55 pm
Boys, here’s a good one to sign off with from an old brakeman on the Nikel Plate Railroad (1966) !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrj5Kxdzouc&feature=related
Not My Real Name
June 28th, 2010
10:56 pm
AJC blogging is excellent.
Please don’t change the blogs.
Not My Real Name
June 28th, 2010
11:04 pm
Haters, Haters, Haters….
Nobody wants to dispute my platform.
Does anybody in the ATL have a brain?