Just some kid from the Chicago suburbs that moved to the southwest, went to law school, and ended up confronted with shifting ideals. My thoughts...boring and unedited.

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

the gays attack, activist judges, the estate tax, and proving dui...

beware all you married peoples, that unholy union of john and jimmy down the street and jill and jane across the way will spell the end of your marriage! civilisation itself will follow! wait...what's that you say? your marriage is crumbling on it's own accord, because of financial problems which somehow managed to continue to mount as a stock market continued to climb...and because of infidelity (and not even of the homosexual kind)...and your children actually saw john, jimmy, jill and jane together and haven't become raving, sex-crazed maniacal homosexuals? how can that be? gay marriage has been around for all of a few years now. surely by now it would have decayed your marriage. i mean look how society in canada has fallen apart, or massachussetts for that matter. oh...it hasn't. damn. well...we republicans dreadfully need a vote or two, and seeing as how our record on the economy, the wars, health care, jobs, well pretty much anything people tend to care about over the long term, has been miserable as of late, we figured this bullshit christian army shit would pull out the god-fearing folk and give us one last hoorah before we go out in a blaze of nonglory.

really, you must understand, those godless heathen activist judges are out to destroy america...a few want to force us all to perform unspeakable acts on animals (the obvious and natural progression from gay marriage). but seriously...i am sick of this "activist" judge talk...it only makes you seem ignorant and devoid of any knowledge of how our legal system works. that is their goddamn job...see, about two centuries ago we chose to follow the british model of common law rather than the continental civil tradition (along with a brilliant move by marshal might i add). and so we get judges that fashion the law over time. that is what they do...that is how the system works...that is how it has always worked. hell, "activist" judges struck down the new deal left and right...but then if socialistic programs were struck down today it would mean those judges were "following the letter of the law"...same old bullshit, different era.

repealing the estate tax (or as gw likes to call it, "the death tax"...du du du du) will be yet another nail in the coffin. it is bad enough that the list of the richest of the rich has basically remained the same in this country for the better part of it's history (with an occassional addition), but now we will try and make sure that ridiculously and uselessly large family fortunes continue to grow exponentially over time while at the same time depriving the government of badly needed funds. so we get even more stratification of wealth and even larger deficits...an all but guarantee that your country is about to drop to second-rate. i would be willing to bet that the tiny share of estates that are actually seriously effected by this are in the hands of a group of about 100-200 families. and guess what, they happen to be the richest of the rich...so yea...let's help them out...seriously, their kids worked hard at sitting around throwing food at the help for 20 some years, they deserve the money. and no, it is not being reinvested in jobs in america...stop lying about that.

not that it matters, the entire system will collapse soon anyhow. see, the only thing keeping the dollar afloat now is a handful of eastern economies that still think they need the united states to thrive...mostly what we once thought of as satelitte states (although we wouldn't admit that). that and the fact that for some messed up reason, oil producing countries agreed to price their product in dollars. except they are doing that less and less these days...and when the dollar falls off the oil standard, or when the world maxes out on oil production (a lot closer than you think)...watch out. but in the meantime, keep driving your gas guzzling oversized wannabe truck to the grocery store...really.

prosecutors here in new mexico are declaring the end of the world because they actually have to prove someone was intoxicated while they were driving when they charge an offense named...you guessed it...driving while intoxicated. what a concept...to be convicted of "driving while intoxicated" you must be intoxicated while driving. who would've thunk it? the new mexico court of appeals dropped a conviction recently because the BAC test was administered over an hour after the person was driving and the state offered no evidence to scientifically link that to the time the person was actually behind the wheel. and since anyone who has ever slammed a beer knows...your BAC increases over time when you just quit drinking, one would think that it may be higher an hour later. but god forbid the state have to prove an element of the crime...how are we supposed to fix the rampant dwi problem if we actually have to show dwi before putting people in prison? god knows we aren't going to spend money on public transportation (even though it would be a hell of a lot less than the money we throw at "fighting" dwi)...so how about we just lock up anyone with red eyes who doesn't come to a complete stop...even if we get a bunch of folks with seasonal allergies, at least the roads will be safe for our children again.

your blame is at the cause...

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