Irrational judicial thinking
The Journal and other newspapers have reported that U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf has ordered “sex-reassignment” surgery for a convicted murderer in prison (“Judge grants sex change for inmate,” Sept. 5). And the cost of a sex-change operation can be up to $20,000.
The decision by that judge makes me think that he and others with similar thinking are lacking in common sense, much less wisdom.
Why should honest citizens be required to pay as much as $20,000 for a convicted criminal to have a sex change? Wouldn’t a much better use of that money be to help pay for law-abiding people who are economically disadvantaged to have real necessities such as adequate food, clothing and shelter?
Furthermore, our society is not required to pay for sex-change operations for people who obey the laws, so why should any criminal be given exclusive preference? I am not advocating that our society pay for such an operation for anyone, but certainly a convicted murderer should not get this type of a benefit when law-abiding citizens can’t.
Following the irrational thinking of the judge who ruled in this matter, anyone desperately wanting a sex change for free probably should qualify if they commit a crime and are sent to prison.
I agree with Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, who said that surgery for the inmate would be “an outrageous abuse of taxpayer dollars.”
What can the law-abiding citizens of our country do to overturn such irrational judicial thinking when it occurs?
HARVEY ARMOUR
Winston-Salem
On the trail
Help!
The employment percentage at the lowest level in over 30 years, an economy in the tank, a fiscal cliff that can lead to further lowering of our credit rating and a deep recession, a burning of our flag on the wall of our embassy in Egypt, the killing of our ambassador and three other Americans at our embassy in Libya, a continuing effort to enrich uranium for weapons of mass destruction by Iran, a rejection of an invitation to meet with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, who may be preparing to bomb Iran, an average of 19 murders each weekend and teachers walking the streets in Chicago.
All this and more, and where is our president and commander-in-chief? On the trail giving campaign speeches for re-election, where else?
Need I say more? Nero fiddles while Rome burns.
CORBY WOLFE
Bermuda Run
A national memorial
How does one contribute to the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pa.? The article (“Flight 93 memorial isn’t fully funded,” Sept. 9) did not give this information, only that Oct. 1 was the deadline for Alcoa Foundation’s matching program.
One can’t help but wonder how many (if any) of the congressional members and workers in the Capitol Building as well as the occupants and workers at the White House have contributed to this memorial. For surely that plane was heading for one of those destinations.
BARBARA FYNE WOOD
Winston-Salem
For information about donating to the memorial, go online to www.honorflight93.org/ or phone 202.354.6488. — the editor.
Finish the Thought
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“The 2012 presidential election will come down to ...”
“The 2012 presidential election will come down to ...”Do we still know to be Americans or do we just want to be immitators of the French or the Greeks? Either we rebuild the American Dream or descend into the Liberal "Utopia".
ReplyDeleteKnow How to be it should say
DeleteHelp! Welcome to the "new normal". It's just who we are now.
ReplyDeletePresidential Affirmative Action:
ReplyDeleteWhat else can you call it? We all know political candidates are chronic prevaricators, especially Democrats. But who really calls them on it? Not Rush. Oh, no. He's busy distorting every shred of detrimental facts that surface against any Democrat. If Obama makes a foreign policy boo boo, Romney has stumped his toe in some other way, BAD. Right, Rush?
Rush is just a small pig on the Democratic pig farm though.
The real problem is the liberal media, like the New York Times, New York Times, NBC New, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, and CBS, who systematically give Obama a pass on many things. Why? It has to be presidential affirmative action. What else could explain it? Do you think if George Bush would have been president that the story about the chaos that is going on in the Middle East, and the Muslim World would have been glossed over as it has? If you do, I've got a 'loft' in downtown Winston Salem, that's had its computer room only slightly used.
Obama has said over and over that 'Fast and Furious' was started under G. Bush, which is impossible, unless he was still president in 2009. The only news organization, that I'm aware of, that is reporting that the president is lying about the matter is FoxNews. If it weren't for FoxNews, we'd be living in an Obama Kingdom where we only hear what Obama, the King, wants us to hear.
Affirmative Action is clearly illegal under the constitution. But it's still present, both in the workplace, in education, and now in the news media.
there have been several ATF gunwalking operations. They started in 2006 as Operation Gunrunner. Duh, Bucky, if you know the story about the chaos in the Middle East, then it's not being hidden. I realize Romney is perhaps the worst R candidate in a century, but no need to become desperate and grabbing for straws. Obama inching ahead in NC must really sting. http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/08/obama-slightly-ahead-in-nc.html
ReplyDeletehttp://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/248381-polls-obama-holds-lead-in-north-carolina-ohio
http://www.examiner.com/article/new-polls-show-obama-ahead-ohio-north-carolina-and-new-mexico
http://www.hpe.com/view/full_story/20224154/article-Obama-edges-ahead-in-NC-in-poll?instance=homesecondleft
I suppose they've been calling all those voters I registered.:) We Democrats are always up to something. You gotta love us.
DeleteAll of the gunwalking operations, which, as Phargo points out, were begun under Cheney/Rumsfeld, are linked and have been carried out by the same team based in Arizona. The leader of that group finally was canned by the Obamites.
DeleteNow we are getting the poll results from Mitty's foolish attacks re embassy incidents and his blabbermouth moments in Boca Raton. Seriously bad news for the Mitt Man.
ReplyDeleteEight remaining toss-up states, all of which were almost dead even when this outbreak of Tourette syndrome began. First, three FOX only results:
Ohio (18 votes) Obama up 7
Virginia (13 votes) Obama up 7
Florida (29 votes) Obama up 5
NBC/Wall Street Journal:
Iowa (6 votes) Obama up 8 (from 0.2 two weeks ago)
The rest:
Colorado (9 votes) Obama up 2
Nevada (6 votes) Obama up 2.5
New Hampshire (4 votes) Obama up 2.3
And finally:
North Carolina (15 votes) Romney has had a small lead from day one. In the two polls since the outbreak of foot in mouth disease, Obama up 2 and up 4.
These states represent 100 electoral votes. Mitt Boy must have at least 79 of them to have a chance. Obama needs 23 to win. My guess is Obama 347, Mitt Man 191. Might be more. Anyone care to place bets?
Ironic that Boca might be Mitt's Waterloo. Just south of Palm Beach and one of the richest towns in America. Fittingly, the name means "Rat's mouth" because of the map shape of the harbor.
The Boca Raton Club, designed by famous architect Addison Mizner, opened in 1926 and was a sister of the amazing Biltmore in Palm Beach. Back in the day, the New York Yankees took spring training in Ft. Lauderdale, and many of the stars stayed at the Boca Raton Club.
In the 1980s, we were doing a project for a local client, who arranged for us to stay in the penthouse suite, which then cost about $3,700 per night and included two servants. What a trip. A brief glimpse into Mitty's world. No telling what it costs today.
Two great things about Boca for me -- 1. The video was obtained by Jack Carter. After all the shit Romney talked about his grandfather, revenge is sweet.
Delete2. On the old Journal site, all of the righties would endlessly repeat the 47% trope, usually with the smug assumption that they were "THE MAJORITY".
I guess we're about to find out if they were right.
If Bill Clinton is the Secretary of Explaining Things, Mitt Romney could be the Secretary of Insulting people. He does only insults two kinds of people though, foreign and domestic.
DeleteSebelius breaks Hatch Act.
Deletehttp://washingtonexaminer.com/sebelius-breaks-the-hatch-act-will-there-be-consequences/article/2508147
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Here's some good reading for you Arthur. Hee Hee.
Better hope your man hangs on Rush. Things could change quickly with the world in turmoil as it is.
DeleteIf we get involved in a war, we sure don't need a high school class president in charge.
I'm a less restricted employee, this has nothing to do with my job, and I'm not on company time right now dumbass.
DeleteIt was just some suggested reading Arthur. You liberals get testy real quick.
DeleteJust another of Dunce's crackpot websites.
DeleteIllegal immigrants, realizing that Obama is weak on illegal immigration, take to the streets to defy authorities.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012/09/22/undocumented-immigrants-take-cause-to-defiant-new-level/57824880/1
It's just story after story about how our country is coming unhinged under Obama.
DeleteNever thought I'd see people, that came to the U.S. illegally, protesting in the streets of America. I might have known it would happen under a Democrat.
DeleteI think that's just a little bit of a hint that we've lost control of our borders.
Thanks Obama.
I guess the Dunce was born sometime after the spring of 2006, when several million "illegal aliens" took to the streets all across the country to protest HR 4437.
DeleteThat was during the Cheney administration, I do believe.
Since this means that Dunce cannot be more than 6 years old, I guess we should cut him some slack on his lack of language and reading skills, which seem to be about average for a first grader.
:=D
DeleteI didn't say it happened 'first' under a Democrat, did I Rush?
DeleteYou never can resist making a fool of yourself, can you Rush?
I really can't resist. It's just so much fun watching Dunce twist and turn and dig each hole deeper and deeper. Similar to Romney watching.
DeleteI'll let people decide who's twisting and turning. Hee Hee...you gotta love it.
DeleteLet's hear your Romney and George Wallace comparison. I need a bedtime 'story'.
I see that we still have one stubborn fool who wants to natter on about the "liberal media"
ReplyDeleteJust a few weeks ago, the Pew Research Center released their latest report on media coverage of the Presidential election. The report is based on a study of the top 50 media outlets in the US.
It shows that coverage of the 2012 campaign is the most negative since such reports began being issued.
72% of the coverage of the President has been negative. 71% of the coverage of his challenger has been negative.
In their earlier report issued this spring, the President had about the same negatives whilw Romney's coverage was more favorable, but he has caught up.
Pew Report
You knew it was going to happen, didn't you?
ReplyDeleteMitt Romney released his tax returns the other day, and what happened? Yep, Democrats and the liberal media started whining like five newly born pups, looking for their mother's tits.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/21/news/economy/romney-tax-history/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
They wanted what? MORE!
DeleteRomney's tone deaf mouth seems to be helping a number of Senatorial candidates in toss-up states as well as the President.
ReplyDeleteIn what has up to now been a very tight seesaw race, Tim Caine has taken a lead over George Allen in Virginia, with the latest FOX poll at +4 and CBS/NYT at +7.
Dean Heller was one of the first Republican candidates to attempt to distance himself from Motormouth, but his comfortable 5 point lead has dropped to a single digit in Nevada.
Elizabeth Warren is showing a 2.6 point lead over Scott Brown in Massachusetts.
The only post-mouth attack poll taken in Connecticut shows Chris Murphy retaking the lead that he had lost just a few weeks ago to Linda McMahon. He's now +4.
And in Wisconsin, Tammy Baldwin has surged ahead of former governor Tommy Thompson, averaging +3.6 in four polls.
No word yet from ND, Montana, or Indiana.
If those five go on to win, the Democrats would control 53 seats in the Senate, still not enough to shut off filibusters, but...
Senator John McCain (R) reported that the Iranian military were making over-flights of Iraq en route to Syria with military arms. What is Obama doing about it? Twiddling his fingers as usual.
ReplyDeleteWe don't want to OFFEND anybody, do we Mr. President?
Another of Dunce's frequent failings…he doesn't find out about things until weeks later when they pop up in the crackpot world. And then he pops off about them when he has no idea of what is actually going on.
DeleteIraq is a sovereign nation and is responsible for control of its own air space. Of course, when the Cheney/Rumsfeld administration was mucking around over there, they neglected to help Iraq build an air force because they were afraid that an Iraqi air force might bomb them, I guess.
So Iraq has no way to control its own air space. And it really doesn't want to, because it might cause them problems down the road, because if the current Syrian regime falls, they would be caught between two hostile nations…so they don't want to piss the Iranians off.
Since July the Obama administration has been pressuring Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to do something about the situation, but al-Maliki will not take the problem to the UN, which is the logical approach.
As always, simple minded people make simple minded comments about very complicated issues that they know nothing about.
"As always, simple minded people make simple minded comments about very complicated issues that they know nothing about."
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I guess that's why you said that a portable nuclear device was incapable of killing 30 million people.
And then when their latest bullshit is exposed, they insist on reminding us of their past foolishness as well.
DeleteLe Bec-fin
A portable nuclear device IS incapable of killing 30MM people. You just can't cram enough fissile and fusible material plus initiators into a package that is small and light i enough to be that destructible.
DeleteMake that "destructive."
DeleteThe most comprehensive study of the affects of an all-out nuclear attack on the US was made by the Office of Technology Assessment in 1979. The scenario assumed attacks on 250 US cities using MIRVed missiles carrying a total yield of 7,800 megatons, each warhead averaging 2-3 megatons.
DeleteEstimated deaths nationwide from all causes: 100-165 million, an average of about 67,500 per warhead.
Of even more concern would be an extremely high altitude detonation intended to trigger an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) which could result in a range of damage from temporary interruption of operation of electrical equipment to the total destruction of such equipment, including large power grids, any and all of which would shut down an entire country and destroy its economic system.
The range of the destruction is determined by the altitude of the blast. A blast at 500 kilometers would cover the entire continental US, all of Canada's major cities and most of Mexico.
In 1962, a high altitude test at Johnston Island in the south Pacific, detonated at an altitude of 250 miles (402 kilometers) turned off 300 streetlights in Honolulu, 740 miles away.
You can read the entire report here...fascinating reading.
OTA Report, 1979
Keep it Rush....you're only helping my position. Hee Hee....you don't have to verbally hang liberals, they usually do it for you.
DeleteBucky, I did not see where OT's stats showed that a missile warhead would kill 30MM.
DeleteI give up. This is way above my pay grade. I simply cannot compete with Dunce's encyclopedic knowledge of nuclear weapons.
DeleteThe Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Information Analysis Center, an adjunct of the Department of Defense, is tasked with studying and analyzing CBRN defense strategies. I would suggest that you write them at CBRNIAC, 1204 Technology Drive, Aberdeen, MD 21001-1228 or call them at 410-676-9030.
I'm sure that they would be thrilled to have access to your vast understanding of nuclear warfare. They are probably doing many things wrong, but there is little doubt that you can set them right. I guarantee that they are not aware, as you are, that a single suitcase bomb could kill 30 million people.
That makes this an emergency, so don't write or call the number that I gave…call 911…they can patch you through directly to the Pentagon.
“I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein
1800 sexual deviants banded from the Boy Scouts for sexual misconduct, and homosexuals wants to let the foxes into the hen house?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2012/09/20/opinion/boyle-boy-scouts-abuse-scandal/index.htm
They were "banded"? Did they affix bands to their arms and legs or around their middles? Or did they just paint bands around their bodies, sort of like tar and feathering? Or did they parade them before a band, as in drumming them out of the corps?
DeleteVery confusing. Please try to bring your urgent news reports up to at least the standards of the Examiner website...I know that is minimal, but you've got to start somewhere.
banned...I'll admit I'm not much of a typist. You produce so much BS it's hard to type fast enough to keep it at bay.
DeleteI stick to the little box provided, I don't cut and paste. Plus throw in my smartphone's tiny keyboard, and I have problems at times.
I'm on the move, not on my fat, liberal buttocks like you are Rush.
My, my, excuses, excuses, with a touch here and there of pants on fire.
DeleteMaybe you should get a big boys computer...you know, the kind that isn't made by Hasbro.
Chick-fil-A CEO Denies Giving ‘Concessions’ to Open Chicago Restaurant
ReplyDeletehttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/chick-fil-a-ceo-denies-giving-concessions-to-open-chicago-restaurant/
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Gotta keep 'Wordly' up to date.