Ever notice how leftards always see it fit to make 3+ consecutive posts in response to some perceived slight? I suspect it’s akin to a skunk readying its anal scent glands in preparation for battle, as the aftermath is usually the same.

I read the Founders and Framers extensively. And read the same authors and thinkers they read, (Locke, Smith, Montesquieu, Rousseau) as well as the ancient Greeks and Romans that they in turn read.

So, if your swell head is so full of it. Why is it that you want to still up the rabble here?
To really appreciate your intellectual superiority. (and Googleing skills) why don’t go hang at the Daily Kos? They would tremble at your moral omniscient and nuanced humor!

**Gadzooks! Do all these LLLs follow The Book of Meme™ or some such.
Yadda, yadda…you’re all idiots…yadda, yadda, yadda…oh yeah, well nana-nana-boo-boo, I’m better then you…yadda, yadda…you’re not capable of grasping the whole picture…yadda, yadda…if you only knew what I know…
Ho-Hum…what can one do but bat at it serendipitously, hoping for a useful morsel or two.

For those of you staying in tonight, a link to live EMS/Fire/LEO scanner feeds in your area

Happy New Year, y’all.

Uh-huh.

I wonder if that ‘de-classification’ of documents will include the updated report of post Gitmo terrorist recidivism…

You know – the only the WH is currently keeping classified, rather than releasing to the public, the way that eeeevil ol’ George Bush did?

– MD

Here’s a dog biscuit I think y’all will like:

Federal judge laughs prosecution’s case against Blackwater guards right out of his courtroom!

Also, we have two competing values in our Criminal Justice system: The “due process model” and the “crime control model”. Guess which one is most dominant today?

well whatever the model, it needs to be overhauled. the current model of giving criminals multiple chances has cost us six law enforcement officers gunned down in 8 weeks up here in Washington state.

P.S.–That’s what they were talkin’ ’bout.

I’m glad you read the Founders

I read the Founders and Framers extensively. And read the same authors and thinkers they read, (Locke, Smith, Montesquieu, Rousseau) as well as the ancient Greeks and Romans that they in turn read.

“As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.”

- George Washington

“I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the same coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”
Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1810

As always, one must find the meaning of any quotations in their original context. It has been my experience that few men have contradicted themselves more than Thomas Jefferson. I do not find this particularly problematic as his thoughts and opinions developed and changed over his lifetime. He was a complex human being.

LC PrimEvil,

Also, we have two competing values in our Criminal Justice system: The “due process model” and the “crime control model”. Guess which one is most dominant today?

Herbert Packer

Wow – okay…

Well, on a more upbeat note, here she is in all her smokin’-hotness!

– MD

“The New World Odor” is making us all live in a “Police State!”

LC PrimEviL says: As a matter of fact, we are. One cannot step outside without being subject to Police scrutiny, and possibly,
action. “Probable cause” has devolved to mean an Officer doesn’t like the way you walk, (what you got in
your shorts?

I don’t disagree with your perceptions but I still find the term “national surveillance state” more apt. Defining “police state” can run into all the same difficulties of definition any other problematic term does, but in most “police states” more people are trying to sneak out than sneak in and wouldn’t you agree that hardly sounds like America today?