Both Cuomos are ethically untethered
May 28, 2021 § Leave a comment
one politically and morally
the other journalistically
Man the killer
May 12, 2021 § Leave a comment
““Humans are the only species that treat the dead with the same consideration, respect and delicacy, and if we even say tenderness, that we dedicate to the living,” she said.”
Yes Pollyana and since we are having a kumbaya moment it is in order to note that humans are the only species whose members travel the world turning the living into the dead with such “considerations” as gas chambers, concentration camps, genocide, carpet bombing, agent orange, and other forms of mass murder.
Which makes it an aberrant and dangerous species which one would not make a mistake avoiding.
Honesty and competence lacking in the political class that “governs” in Hawaii
May 12, 2021 § Leave a comment
And it is to always be kept in mind that Blangiardi thought voting for Trump in 2016 was the best idea.
The absence of competence and honesty in the gang members that govern Hawaii is always an issue.
If it isn’t one it is the other.
It is almost always both and almost never neither.
Resolved: Not all legislative enactments are entitled to a ‘presumption’ of constitutionality… None where interests are protected.
May 9, 2021 § Leave a comment
In the law of the United States, the presumption of constitutionality presumes that all statutes are drafted in accordance with Federal and state constitutional requirements. The party challenging the constitutionality of a statute bears the burden of proof, and any doubts are resolved against that party. If there are two reasonable interpretations of a statute, one of which is constitutional and the other not, the courts choose the path that permits upholding the statute.[16]
This global universal rule which is premised upon something false when interests of the individual legislators are involved such as districting.
NO presumptions regarding districting or almost all regulations of voting which lessen the chances of a citizen voting.
Liar-ing, a settled Trump character trait
May 9, 2021 § Leave a comment
Donald Trump, we know, is a liar—not just in the sense that he has told lies (which most of us do sometimes), but in the sense of being an inveterate lie-teller, thousands upon thousands of lies, a man whose propensity to falsehood is one of the leading hallmarks of his character. Here too, terminology is interesting: the transition from particular wrongdoing—telling this or that lie—to “liar” as a settled character trait.7
Source: DAMNED LIES Jeremy Waldron
7 Augustine’s discussion, mentioned in Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit (Princeton, 2005), 58.
Resolved: If the government of a country creates refugees, the country has a moral duty to provide relief for those refugees including allowing them in.
May 8, 2021 § Leave a comment
Resolved: the only proper role for government, laws, and the legal order is to increase the security of the individuals it governs. Any political party opposing security for the least powerful in society enemies itself to the entire society.
May 7, 2021 § Leave a comment
precarious priˈkɛriəs
precarity priˈkɛrɪti
security sɪˈkjʊrəti
charity ˈʧɛrɪti
noun: precarity;
plural noun: precarities
- the state of being precarious or uncertain.”the precarity of the housing market”
- a state of persistent insecurity with regard to employment or income.”growing economic precarity”
Origin
early 20th century: from precarious + -ity.
Resolved: A nation that permits its government to create refugees owes a moral duty to those refugees to alleviate the suffering of the refugees so caused by its government.
May 7, 2021 § Leave a comment
Resolved: No taxation without representation
May 7, 2021 § Leave a comment
A tax strike by those who favor free and fair elections is warranted in the following jurisdictions which have enacted laws thwartive of representative democracy.
Individuals in these states should suspend the payment of their state taxes just as the political enemies of democracy are suspending open, free, and fair elections
Arizona,
Florida
Georgia
Texas
Wednesday in the Age of Reason-Munchausen (1988) 