One rather gets the impression that this is going to be a stormy week. And I’m not talking about the weather. So let’s spend a moment together in the quiet before the storm:
- There’s a lot more info coming in on that Israeli raid on Syria over the nuclear installation there, a couple of weeks ago. Dave Schuler has a pretty good roundup of the information along with lots of reax.
- So, now that Rudy Giuliani has spoken in front of the national rifle association, can any of his supporters give us a concise and accurate description of Rudy’s position on the second amendment without lapsing into fits of laughter?
- In reading the back and forth over the invasion of New York by Ahmadinejad, I am once again confronted by the nonsense that is the ‘free speech argument as presented by Columbia… who forbids ROTC on campus who did little to prevent the violent confrontation of a spokesman for the MinuteMen, and so on. The right to Free speech, as Tom Jefferson and the boys thought of it, was with regards to citizens being able to speak their mind without legal action by the government, preventing it, or punishing such speech. Free speech had nothing to do with someone from a foreign government supporting genocide, without repercussions from the citizenry…. the latter of which is in reality what Colombia is pushing, here. The purpose for free speech was to allow us to defend ourselves… to fight against tyrants so as to prevent human atrocities, the like of which Ahmadinejad both represents, and urgently requires to achieve his goals… not to sit and politely applaud. that the muckties of Columbia, and their defenders, do not know the difference, suggests that the educational values of Columbia university and others with it went off the rails years ago. Not only have a broken faith with American values, but they have broken faith with humanity. Not all is lost; at least some people are exercising their right to free speech. it will be interesting to see what kind of reaction that draws. To say nothing of educational.
- According to the AP newswire, the Florida democratic party is going to be sticking to that January 29 presidential primary they’ve been fighting over even if it means losing all of its nominating convention delegates. One wonders what the democrats are going to do now. They’ve lost the bid to change the voting pattern, and Annoy and awful lot of Floridians in the process. Will they actually go through the process of denying Florida democrats the right to influence their primary? Given the age of most of Florida’s democrats, it would appear that part of the outcome of this is going to be that Hillary Clinton will receive a lot less opposition delegate wise man she would have otherwise.
- I see now that MoveOn will be paying the full price for that ad, after all… Which doesn’t solve the original problem, nor should it get anybody off the hook.
Tags: Nightly Ramble
