One if by land, two if by, uh, land.
 

Vigilante efforts to stop illegal immigration go way, way back in the history of this country.

Cheney on the Courts
 

Ahhhh, are Gatti's feelings hurt? Looks like someone can dish but not take.

Cheney on the Courts
 

Maybe he just wondered what the point was.

Cheney on the Courts
 

Yez. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

From WaPo:

• In a Senate floor speech in which he sharply criticized a recent Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty, Cornyn (R-Tex.) -- a former Texas Supreme Court justice and member of the Judiciary Committee -- said Americans are growing increasingly frustrated by what he describes as activist jurists.
  
  "It causes a lot of people, including me, great distress to see judges use the authority that they have been given to make raw political or ideological decisions," he said. Sometimes, he said, "the Supreme Court has taken on this role as a policymaker rather than an enforcer of political decisions made by elected representatives of the people."
  
  Cornyn continued: "I don't know if there is a cause-and-effect connection, but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country. . . . And I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in, engage in violence. Certainly without any justification, but a concern that I have."

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

So he's sympathizing with Brian Nichols, claiming to be a kindred spirit disgusted with the judiciary? Interesting...

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

Goddamn the GOP and their constant calls for constitutional amendments.

The overhauling of Article III is gonna take us months to get done.

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

I can't wait to see the wave of populist violence against activist judges when this hits the courts. So much for the R claim of being the party of limited gov't.

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

Do they still try to claim that with a straight face?

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

As I've said here recently, it's so hard to tell when they're joking nowadays.

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

"I'd prefer using the criminal process rather than the regulatory process," Sensenbrenner told the executives.

Uh, right. I would too, for, you know, all kinds of shit.

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

Yeah, it's bullshit of an idea.

But other than stupidity, let me suggest an alternate reason for the proposal: The House Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over criminal-law issues. The House Judiciary Committee does not have jurisdiction over regulatory agencies, in particular the FCC.

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

I don't think it's stupidity. I think it's assholosity.

I like your reason too. I didn't get to the part about the Judiciary Committee because I couldn't bring myself to read any of the headings, or past the sentence I quoted.

ETA Sessenenensnbrenner appears to be on whatever committee oversees the FCC. Obviously I am missing something (shocker).

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

the real preverts would probably like a little jail time.

Vigilante fuckups
 

Minutemen not exactly helping

If I were an enterprising coyote, I'd join the Minutemen in order to get a better lay of the land find out where, exactly, those sensors are. I don't think I could fake racisim for a month though.

Vigilante fuckups
 

Oh please. You'd spend all your time being dragged over to the border guards as an illegal. You'd never get close to the sensors.

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

The current leadership doesn't even give this lip service anymore. Hence, my contemplation of changing party affiliation.

Vigilante fuckups
 

Oscar hasn't called you in what, 3 months? Just make that a sterotype, and tap into your inner new anti-Mexican feelings.

show you our objectvivity? objectivity- we don't need no stinking objectivity
 

the AP photos from the pullitzer (Iraq) show the main steam press bias as this blogger notes:

• Analyzing the AP's Pulitzer-winning photos
  
  Michelle Malkin links to this page displaying the 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning photos for Breaking News Photography.
  
  This year, the prize went to the Associated Press staff for, as the Pulitzer organization's site says, "its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities."
  
  I looked at the twenty photographs and broke them into groups on the basis of content. Here are my results:
  
  • U.S. troops injured, dead, or mourning: 3
  (2, 3, 11)
  • Iraqi civillians harmed by the war: 7
  (4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13, 18)
  • Insurgents looking determined or deadly: 3
  (6, 15, 20)
  • US troops looking overwhelmed or uncertain: 3
  (7, 12, 14)
  • US troops controlling Iraqi prisoners: 2
  (16, 17)
  • Iraqis celebrating attacks on US forces: 2
  (1, 19)
  
  Equally telling is what the photos don't show:
  
  • US forces looking heroic: 0
  • US forces helping Iraqi civillians: 0
  • Iraqis expressing support for US forces: 0
  • Iraqis expressing opposition to insurgents: 0

here are the photos- http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2005/br...rks/index.html

here's the blogger- http://ridingsun.blogspot.com/2005/0...ng-photos.html

Why is it that the majority of americans see through this shit and vote intelligently, and Ty all his toadies don't see the bias?

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

He's the chair of the judiciary committee, though. In the house, all that matters is being the chair.

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

Just give your money to Snowe, Collins, Chaffee, Shays, and McCain. (and maybe a couple of others.)

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

Ah.

show you our objectvivity? objectivity- we don't need no stinking objectivity
 

You raise a good point. Similarly, the Pulitzer committee gave the award for fiction to Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, the story of a 76-year-old preacher from Gilead, Iowa. What about the rest of us who aren't old and don't live in Iowa?

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

Because they'll give it that lip service?

show you our objectvivity? objectivity- we don't need no stinking objectivity
 

I'll give you "don't live in Iowa."

show you our objectvivity? objectivity- we don't need no stinking objectivity
 

You guys want to find liberal bias hiding under every bed. There is a reason none of the photos in those catergories won Pulitzers.

• US forces looking heroic: - forgot to take the lens cap off

• US forces helping Iraqi civillians: - batteries in the digital camera died,l didn't get the shot

• Iraqis expressing support for US forces: - got the picture, but one of the Iraqis was making bunny ears over the head of a soldier

• Iraqis expressing opposition to insurgents: - bad lighting

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

The era of small government is over (did it ever begin?)

show you our objectvivity? objectivity- we don't need no stinking objectivity
 

Were there any young characters in the novel?

You can't be that dense- can you?

AP submits 20 (that's 20) photos- they win! the 20 had the mentioned breakdown. You think your little fiction story means anything? Keep your head in the sand, but unless you change your outlook you may have to pull it out someday soon so you can dob at Mecca 3 times a day.

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

Certainly never did on y'all's watch.

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

Flipping parties is a better solution?

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

You were smoking what between 1981 and 1989?

show you our objectvivity? objectivity- we don't need no stinking objectivity
 

I don't know; I haven't read it. But I gave it to my mother, and she loved it. It made her cry.

No, but thanks for asking.

Maybe they picked photos with a theme, instead of trying to pick 20 photos that in the aggregate reflected the scope and diversity of our Middle East policy ("OK, let's find one of our embassy staff in Bahrein now."). Maybe the Pulitzer committee then compared those 20 to the sets of 20 photos submitted by other people and thought the AP's photos were the bestest, photographically speaking. I don't know -- I'm just sayin'.

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

For whom?

Them moderate Republicans don't ever seem to do much of anything. Like a wheelbarrow, they just keep getting rolled.

show you our objectvivity? objectivity- we don't need no stinking objectivity
 

Nice! An informed electorate is really important to a functioning democracy. Bush lied!!!!

show you our objectvivity? objectivity- we don't need no stinking objectivity
 

On the plus side, recent legislative developments may make this incredibly biased selection of photos "indecent" and subject to criminal prosecution. God knows that'll produce an informed electorate. Regards!

show you our objectvivity? objectivity- we don't need no stinking objectivity
 

I'm thinking the electorate informed itself by reading newspapers over the course of the year, rather than waiting to look only at the 20 pictures in the Pulitzer-winning portfolio. Not least because they wouldn't know which pictures to look at until five months after the election. But your theory has some real promise. Put some more work into it, and I bet you can find a rich conservative -- a Scaife, say -- to back you with some $$$.

show you our objectvivity? objectivity- we don't need no stinking objectivity
 

Well, once the government controls the media, at least we won't have to worry about that pesky liberal bias.

show you our objectvivity? objectivity- we don't need no stinking objectivity
 

Oh, i'm sorry. You thought I was troubled by the "win" awarded by a leftist organization, for an orginazation i contend is biased. That wasn't my point, that would be similar to arguing about whether the Academy awards to Mike mean that the Academy has some liberal leaning. No my point was that the AP can't come up with 1 photo that was not anti-american. You say maybe it was a theme- I guess i agree, maybe where we differ is on what the theme is.

GOP Senator on the Courts
 

Only since the dems lost 4 seats last fall. Before that they put some check on the wanton tax cuts.

show you our objectvivity? objectivity- we don't need no stinking objectivity
 

Some of the photos from the conservatives were actually pretty good.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/malecorpsxx.jpg