And I still say prevent it by diversion programs that include mandatory bootcamp for dropouts/those who cannot behave. It would be a lot cheaper than the misery we have now, being preyed upon.

I’ve no idea what this would mean to you, in the context of your caricatures, but an old friend and neighbor of mine used to make it known that he had a singular ambition, to become one of NASA’s astrounauts. This ambition of his was more than farfetched, as, in that day: the astronauts were to a man former fighter jocks (my friend was pre-med)); they all were Anglo-Saxon, whereas he was a Chicano, a Mexican-American; and they all were big, stout individuals (like Jon Glenn), whereas he was relatively diminutive.

Still, he never gave up. To put it more positively, he persisted. He knew that NASA someday would have to account for the experiences, in Space, of such as him. And that they did do. He returned safely just last week.

Isn’t this wonderful?

Mr. Wooten, and most conservatives of his era, are the political equivalent of the old man who stands on his porch and shakes his fist at the poor, sick and uninsured, uneducated without funds, the robbed and foreclosed on, the losers in society’s race, etc. to “Get off my lawn!”

Now, most of the younger conservative breed is different. Raised like pit bull pups, weaned and teethed on Murdoch-media (NY Post, Fox News, WSJ) and trained for the fight ring by their Ayn Rand mythologizing, Young Americans for Freedom/Young Republicans mullahs – they’ll jump the porch railing to rip their targets limb from limb, whether they’re high achievers from poor families who need funds for education, an uninsured Girl Scout with a congenital pre-existing medical condition, or an elderly homeless vet, wounded for our country who needs benefits expanded.

So compared to this generation including Rush, Hannity, Beck, or the truly psychotic Coulter and Savage, Gentleman Jim is a paragon of civility, and for this, I do thank him.

Still, for sheer brevity on GOP philosophy, Jim’s headline today simply can’t be beat:
“Put education money in prisons.” Yep, that sums it up.
Wooten and Scrooge, separated at birth?
As in, “Have they no prisons?”

I bet you didn’t know that Obama’s federal appellate filings are to the right of Bushes and yesterday the most important state secrets case had oral argument before Judge Vaugn Walker in the ND California.

Which would bite you in the butt first, Jack? A moose or a Federal Reporter?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/22/AR2009092202424.html

If you’re here, odds are you helped propel JawJaw to its high of 47th in the SATs.