Fish in a barrel 5
October 21, 2009 – 8:26 pm by JohnA Texas jury decided to sentence a murderer to death after consulting their Bibles during deliberation. People who lack a solid grasp of important socio-political issues (Statists) will use this revelation to distract from the real issue. The issue they will harp on is whether this represents some violation of the separation between religion and the State. It does not. The issue is irrelevant anyway. The more important fact is that no government has any authority to decide whether to take a person’s life, regardless of the crimes he really has committed. I don’t know how a freed Texas would handle murderers, and I don’t know what the best way to handle them would be, but a State that lacks all legitimacy and validity to begin with certainly has no prerogative to decide a man’s fate.
Sign of the times, I suppose: there’s a new gold rush in Californee. Sorry to burst your bubbles, guys, but Gus Chiggins already beat you to it.
The founder of the airline passenger advocacy group FlyersRights.org had her computer and email account hacked by Delta Airlines. How despicable. A woman wants to prevent airlines from endangering people’s health by imprisoning them on cramped airplanes for hours on end, so instead of getting off of their fat, lazy asses to serve their fucking customers for a change, Delta instead resorts to hacking into her account to…to what? Extort her? Blackmail her? Scare her? Currently I am presuming Delta guilty until proven innocent. As a reminder, there is no way in hell most of the large airlines would exist in their current form without State interference on their behalf. Corporate-State socialism FAIL.
The Canadian copyright-advocacy group Access Copyright wants the Canadian government to ban free format-shifting and time-shifting. As far as I can tell, format-shifting means burning, ripping, or copying anything from one location, medium, or file type to another, and time-shifting means fast-forwarding through commercials with your DVR. This group wants to threaten murder against people for format-shifting or time-shifting without paying for permission to do so. As Voltaire said, “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.”
Absent from most commentary on the strength of the American (and world) economy and especially from the reassurances that the American economy is recovering is an analysis of whether the trends that harmed the economy in the first place are continuing or ceasing. They are continuing, says Peter Schiff, and it’s only making the inevitable correction (depression) worse.
Target gave in to political-correctness hysteria and agreed to stop selling a pair of “illegal alien” Halloween costumes which consisted of a green extraterrestrial alien mask and an orange prison jumpsuit with “illegal alien” stamped on the front. If Target had any sense, guts, or character, it would have taken advantage of the free publicity and stood up to these crybabies. It was a nice surprise to read that several other stores have not and will not give in to the political correctness bellowing blowhard bully brigade. The costume was a complete non-issue, until some PC-obsessed morans made it into one. It’s a hilarious pun! Now I have a good Halloween costume idea for the future!
The latest from the “It IS happening here” files: Cops take DNA sample from boy for throwing ketchup at McDonald’s. (Actually, it’s happening there, as it’s the UK, but that doesn’t make it any better.)
One Response to “Fish in a barrel 5”
I’m wondering why anyone protested against the “Illegal Alien” costumes. They didn’t seem at all partisan, or offensive in the least.
By Matty on Oct 22, 2009