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It's Not Judgmental To Quote The Law

K T Cat
1/19/2025 7:17:05 AM

Let's say you were fairly well-versed in the Federal and state criminal code. If you had a close friend who you knew was embezzling from his company, would it be judgmental to go to him and let him know his actions were illegal and when he was caught, he was going to face some serious penalties? Of course not. It would be an act of affection, an act of love for the guy.Did you invent the law or simply report on it to your friend?From a Catholic point of view, the moral law is the same thing. People do not invent it, they discover it just like we discovered physics, chemistry and math. Through scripture, revelation and logical deductions, we've discovered the moral law that was written, not by man through a legislative[...]

A Surreal Exit

K T Cat
1/18/2025 6:52:44 AM

This might be the weirdest thing I've ever seen come out of any White House.        There was a Democrat senator who posted something similar as well. Community Notes whacked all three of them with something on the order of this:The Archivist of the United States, charged with officially publishing ratified amendments, has confirmed that the ERA was not ratified and based that analysis on binding legal precedent. There is no 28th Amendment. What is going on here? The president, vice president and some senators are talking absolute nonsense about the constitution and ... crickets? I've seen a couple of stories about it, but the story is not the amendment, it's the gibbering.They're going out the[...]

CANTO TALK podcasts from last week

Silvio Canto, Jr.
1/19/2025 7:00:00 AM

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El coco Trump

Silvio Canto, Jr.
1/19/2025 5:00:00 AM
El coco Trump: As a kid in a Spanish-speaking household, I remember all of those folk stories about el coco. He is like the Spanish version of the Boogeyman, or the monster you are afraid of when you are a kid.Down in Mexico, el coco..  .click to read:              El coco Trump - American Thinker https://t.co/dK3tupzBWU Silvio Canto. Jr. (silvio_canto) January 19, 2025 As a kid in a Spanish-speaking household, I remember all of those folk stories about el coco. He is like the Spanish version of the Boogeyman, or the monster you are afraid of when you are a kid.Down in Mexico, el coco is President Trump.  The left is going crazy and preparing for an invasion of[...]

Who made who?

W.C. Varones
12/14/2024 7:42:37 PM

ChatGPT caught lying to developers to save itself from being shut down.       All is proceeding as Stephen King, AC/DC, and Emilio Estevez have foretold:           UPDATE: The Google Bot Overlords do not like this post.   

Nailed it

W.C. Varones
11/7/2024 9:00:03 AM

July 5:   

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Defunding Minneapolis

B-Daddy
6/8/2020 10:05:46 PM

Which would be the result of actually implementing this whole #DefundThePolice nonsense.  To catch you up:From The Guardian:The Minneapolis city council has pledged to disband the citys police department and replace it with a new system of public safety, a historic move that comes as calls to defund law enforcement are sweeping the US.  Speaking at a community rally on Sunday, a veto-proof majority of council members declared their intent to dismantle and abolish the embattled police agency responsible for George Floyds death and build an alternative model of community-led safety. The decision is a direct response to the massive protests that have taken over American cities in the last two weeks, and is a[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Firefighters Continue Containing LA Wildfires as Region Now Faces Serious Mudslide Risks 

Leslie Eastman

Given the new mudslide risks, hopefully area officials will begin preparing to prevent something that poses a real "climate crisis".The post Firefighters Continue Containing LA Wildfires as Region Now Faces Serious Mudslide Risks first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Massive Fire Burns at Worlds Largest Lithium Battery Plant Near Monterey, CA 

Leslie Eastman

Moss Landing Power Plant was an important part of state's Net Zero Utopia; there were plans to significantly expand its storage capacity (which just went up in smoke).The post Massive Fire Burns at Worlds Largest Lithium Battery Plant Near Monterey, CA first appeared on Legal Insurrection.