Chinks in the Armor of Liberal Credibility

You know It's one thing to use a phrase or slogan as part of some campaign promotion or something.  But it's quite another to actually believe your own stuff.  Take this idea about the use of the phrase in the Constitution of 'A well regulated Militia being necessary for a free people - - - .  Randy Rhodes is now making it official and claiming that there have been Court decisions that stated that if a certain armlement is not on the official list of weapons in the US armery or something - - or slated for use by a duly Authorized national guard, than that weapon is not protected under the Second amendment.  Were Randy Rhodes up before congress for a Justice position on the Supreme Court I would scratch her right off my list immediately because this "ruling" of hers flies in the face of 250 years of Case Law.  The Court, much as that conservative pointed out- - has stated time and time again that a Militia is like the 'minute men" of old, that could be ready at a moment's notice and were not a part of any organized military unit but were in fact civilians, who loved their country and wanted to defend liberty.  She made reference to some law passed under George Washington as she put it "establishing" the militia.  That's not how it works.  She spoke of divisions and batalions and companies.  I guess the two lowest military units would be the platoon, which comtains about four squads doesn't it, and each squad is composed of about six or seven fighting men.  That's my understanding of how it works.  There is a line on "Copper Kettle" that Dylan song about "We ain't paid no Whiskey tax since 1792, which is when Washington signed the bill instituting the tax.  But the Bill of Rights were considered part and parcel of the Constitution and many states would not ratify the Constitution without an explicit guarentee that a Bill of Rights would be passed right off.   So far as I know you won't find a shread of case law stating that the 'Militia' referred to by the second amendment is at all the same as the "National guard" or that Bill that George Washington signed in 1792.

I think there is some mental abberation going on among the gun lobby, however.  The idea of buying up all the ammunition they can and selling out store after store so that the cops can't even get the ammunition they need to practice, is a little strange.  It would seem as if they were entertaining some fantasy that in even their sober moments they must realize could never take place.  I definitely think these people need to get over the idea that Barock Obama is somehow not a Legitimate President.  That either the vote was rigged in the bit cities, which they are claiming, or he wasn't really born in the United States, or that he has some secret socialist agenda and is loyal to some secretive group that only the tea party people seem to Know about.  They raised the specter of Obama's conthiscating all US weapons in one scenario or another- even last year before one bit of legleslation was proposed by this President.  Of course they fight him on any and all Cabinet appointments, which used to be unprecedented.  They will not accord the President the respect his office has deserved these 250 years.  They don't even want him speaking before Congress at a date and time of his choosing.  Obviously the numerous racial slurs are intollerable.  Nobody in their wildest imagination would have proposed the idea that the first Black man to attain to the job, would be subject to the ammount of unprecedented racism and racial slurs as this President.  It almost seems now that the Tea Party is shall we say "exposed in their motives" for all Americans to see.  Hopefully there will be a major party realignment in the Congressional election next year.  Perhaps once the health care bill takes full effect it will be as unthinkable to repeal this bill as it would have been to repeal the Medicare act in the 1968 election.

Today was another accromonious episode in soap land on "Days".  But the one individual whom I look in an entirely different light now is Samantha Brady.  She was "going off" on a crushed bride in tears, on her own hypocritical moral moral soap box, and Raphael was watching her the whole time.  She just may have blown any possiblity of a renewed relation with Raphael because of that little temper display.  Raphael has a very key point.  Far from being the "Victim" in all of this, it was Will who drove Gabriel to the abortion clinic and if he'd had his way the baby would be GONE now.  Sonny can't be thinking very highly of Will right now.  I mean even if your Gay, honesty suddenly doesn't cease to be a virtue.  The problem has always been with Samantha is that she never looks at herself in the mirror to gauge what a jackass she is in public.   Of course now Julie is saying, like some doting Aunt that, "If only I had been here and not on that cruise of a lifetime, none of this would have happened".  Lucas is myffed by Will's attitude, stressing the inherent nature of fatherhood and it's not something that  man can just kiss off lightly.  The trouble with Lucas is, he's the only normal traditionalist on that believes in the values you and me actually grew up with.
 
In the past twenty years we have veered away alarmingly from the classic Sirius A proper spellings of various words.  So here is the list of "classic" spellings of words.

Accademy, Ecconomic, Searies
Regester, Securety. Purety
Shaddow, Chappel. Calibre
Fibre, Behaviour, Saviour
Streach, Crecent, Oviously
Sergury, Marithon, Theripist
Victum, Defence. Offence
Endource, Fource Richi Vallenz
Gennifer, Obliverate, Opperation
Accademy, Vaccume, Matress
Salery, Celler, Chayanne
Salade, Wronchy, Junkey
Phoney, Flakey, Shakey
Scarey, Judgement, Ecconomic
Accidently, Intrest, Apaulling
Crouded, Fiddeler, Spacey
Jinxy, Witchy, Moused
Collapse, Sise, Despise
Finalise, Prise, Energise
Euthanise, Realise, Criticise
Wiener, Burry, Isrial
Qadafi, Al Qaida, Spinich
Calender, Intransigent