Libertarian governments do not work.
That’s why there aren’t any.
From foxnews.com…
“There is no reliable polling to gauge the state of the Maine election, which drew fewer than 5,500 voters from across the state four years ago.”
Maine….the “We Don’t Give A Shit” state.
Show of hands….anyone else not entirely comfortable with Ruth Bader Ginsberg saying, “I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012″ at the very same time that the Obama administration is involved in some legitimately questionable goings on regarding one of the most fundemental points of that very same length of parchment???
That was an incredibly unseemly concurrence of events, in my opinion.
And just a hunch….watch for an “out of context” from Ginsberg as early as tommorrow. Just sayin’…
Forked up couple of days/weeks. But I’m good now.
Got rid of a really, really bad one that was extremely unhealthy for me to be around. And brought back two who are incredibly good for me that I haven’t been around in a while. That’s a big win.
I know how cryptic that is. It’s ok. If you think you sorta get it, you probably do.
Congratulations to the NY Giants, my home town team. I’m nowhere near the fan I was years ago, but good for them.
Hope everybody’s good.
G
Random poster on the FOX message boards commenting on Leon Panetta publicly predicting that Israel will whack Iran this coming spring…..
“An ally the Obama administration is not to the nation of Israel, young padawan. Obama telegraphs Israels moves to her enemy, he does. The dark side is strong in Obama.”
Heh…home run. 
And since I’m here….
If I was writing the script to this, the next scene would be Netanyahu calling a press conference and saying, “Ok…since that Howard Cunnigham looking douche-bag Panetta blew this for us for the spring, I guess we’ll just have to do it now instead. (glancing off camera) Launch the bombers.”
I will be out of my chair pumping my fist if he makes that play. lol
Newt Gingrich completely, 100% blew his whole deal with that hare-brained ‘moon colony’ scheme of his. He was finished as a viable candidate the minute that hit the internet.
The man just stood there and told the greatest ‘paycheck-to-paycheck’ nation on the planet, “Hey, folks…here’s MY idea for how to waste a vagillion of your tax dollars on something that will benefit virtually none of you!”
Whoever of his staffers either came up with that gem or didn’t prevent it from happening should have their ass kicked. I mean that literally. Newt should get them in a room and beat them up.
So…unless he steps on his own wee-wee, which could be happening as I type this, don’t ever doubt the power….Willard Mitt Romney is your guy.
Now what???
(sorry…i just had to get this off my chest. hope everyones good. g)
It’s just changing.
And I need some time.
Nobody’s gonna die from staying subscribed or keeping me on twitter or what have you, and then you’ll know when something gets popping here.
But if you must go, then go. You’re always welcome back, and if the things in my head work out and happen, I won’t be very hard to find.
Also, thank you for all the well wishes. It never occured to me that my last post left it off in a way that my not being around might have looked like I died or something. Sorry about that. lol
I had a horrible head cold and I actually am still sniffing and coughing a little bit, but I’m mostly fine. Although someone that means the world to me isn’t feeling so well and that makes me sad. But we’ll all be ok.
And one last thing (for now)…
A Nation that might let the bitter ex-wife of a candidate potentially sway the direction of it’s future with an interview on a nationwide television network is at best, disconterting…and at worst, a Nation that perhaps isn’t even worth saving anymore. “Ratings-based Politics” will NEVER work.
Just if you were gonna maybe watch some TV tonight or something. 
Just give me a minute, my friends. I can do better than what I’ve given you thus far.
Glen
Hey, folks.
Hope everyones New Year is off to a better start than mine.
That shouldn’t be too hard as I’ve been stuck in bed with one of the worst head colds I’ve ever had in my life since New Years Day.
This is the first time I’ve been out of bed since then and I actually do feel a lot better.
Unfortunately, none of what I was working on for this week is done, or even close to being done, and I’m afraid I’m going to have to let the week go and come out full blast and healthy next week. We’ll have plenty to talk about by then.
Please forgive me and everyone have a great week.
Glen
One day some outraged citizen with a deep commitment to his or her Second Amendment rights is going to see someone burning a flag and put one in their head.
Then they get the right lawyer, the right jury and the right press agent…hit them with, “I was literally defending my Nation’s Flag…” and skip on out the courtroom as a new American hero.
That precedent might put a little kink in the whole, “Should I burn a flag or not…” decision making paradigm.
This was inspired by an article I read on Fox News about some OWS protenders, who apparently didn’t get the memo yet, burning a flag.
(DISCLAIMER: I do not condone the assassination of flag-burning scumbags, no matter how good of an idea it is.)
Everyone have a safe and happy New Year.
2012 is going to be an incredible, pivotal year for us and I’m looking forward to spending it with you all.
Glen
Two weeks ago, when I took my week off and reposted a few of my older pieces, I asked you folks to do something. I asked you all to go back and revisit these pieces and see what you thought now.
Had anything changed? Had anything occurred to foster change in you? Things like that.
I went and did so myself and found some of it sort of entertaining, some of it sort of lame and some of it pretty satisfactory. But one thing really hit me and that was the “The System Did Not Fail” piece about the Casey Anthony trial.
I surprised myself a little bit by having a pretty strong reaction to that reread and I sat down and wrote out about a 500 word comment that I was going to post. Then I said to myself, “What are you, stupid? You’re on vacation and you’re sitting here writing! You don’t even know how to take a proper vacation!”
I tucked what I wrote away in the extremely cluttered and crowded “Stuff Glen started and didn’t finish” folder and forgot about it.
Then today, I read something about how they’re getting ready to start pushing for a version of “Caylee’s Law” which would make it illegal to not report a child dead or missing in a timely fashion and that brought everything back to the forefront for me, so I decided to address this issue again and share where my head is on it.
At the time, I took what I thought was a fairly unpopular stance on this by saying that the jury was not wrong with their not guilty decision. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that I wasn’t as alone as I’d thought I’d be in my opinion, and that quite a few people ‘got it’ and agreed.
The truth is, the jury was not wrong in their decision. There is simply no way that this case should have been brought into a court of law in the form that it was. There is no possible way that the jury could’ve found Casey Anthony guilty of what she was charged with.
After several months gone by, I was a bit surprised to find myself even more adamantly thinking this same thing after reading the qarticle, and at the risk of being redundant, I’d like to add even a few more observations.
If I was the judge in this case and the jury brought back a verdict of guilty on the Murder One charge, I would have absolutely and without batting an eye overturned that guilty verdict.
I remember a case from when I was a kid where this Guatemalan immigrant was charged with 26 counts of murder for intentionally setting a fire in a local hotel near where I grew up. The whole case was built on circumstantial evidence and the judge overturned the jury’s guilty verdict (google for more if you want, interesting story). I had to go back and check the details, dates and some of the names on that, but even 30 years later I remembered this man’s name was Luis Marin and I remembered how courageous I thought this judge was in making that decision and just how right the whole concept of a judge being able to overturn a blatantly incorrect guilty verdict felt to me.
That would have 100% been applicable here if they came back guilty on Murder One. There is no way this jury could possibly have found this girl guilty of that charge because there was clearly reasonable doubt.
The bottom line for me is, they didn’t know how she died and they still don’t, so despite ‘expert witness’ testimony to the contrary, there simply isn’t any way to 100%, absolutely know she even was murdered, much less make an accusation against anyone for murdering her.
Call it putting the cart before the horse, call it rushing the case to trial, call it whatever you like, the prosecution team were complete, utter fuck-ups for even bringing this case to court as Murder One w/ death penalty. They had nothing to warrant that charge and should all be disbarred for wasting everyone’s time and tax dollars on pursuing this case in the form that they did.
If I was on that jury, as soon as I knew there was no known cause of death, she would’ve gotten a ‘not guilty’ from me. There is nothing the prosecution could’ve said to me after that that would’ve changed my mind.
And I think she did it.
If you don’t even know how this little girl died, how can you possibly know if she was actually murdered???
And if you don’t know that she was murdered, how can you possibly accuse someone of murdering her???
And then, to bring charges of Murder One with a possible injection???
That is totally unacceptable, because that injection is for keeps, Mr. Prosecutor.
The medical examiner said they knew she was murdered even though they don’t know how she died. This was a prosecution witness and she was doing her job.
I say I think it’s reasonable to doubt that and I’m not having this young woman’s life or death on my conscience unless I have zero doubt about what happened. That’s my job as a juror.
There was so much reasonable doubt in this courtroom I’m surprised people weren’t tripping over it.
This prosecution team was completely incompetent and they made it a cakewalk for the defense, whose biggest challenge was just getting everyone to stick to their story and keeping Casey off the witness stand. I’ve never spent an hour in law school in my life, but I absolutely would’ve gotten Casey Anthony a ‘not guilty’ on these charges if I was representing her. There’s no doubt of this whatsoever in my mind.
But would you like to know what, in retrospect, bothers me the most???
If this jury had brought back a guilty verdict, this country would’ve cheered it.
We’d have thrown all respect for and faith in our legal system right out the window and reveled in that guilty verdict. The vast majority of this country would’ve celebrated the fact that we figuratively threw this girl to the lion’s and that, in and of itself, is not a healthy place for us to be.
Because what if we were wrong?
What if at some point, after the monster Casey Anthony had gotten her shot and had long since gone to dirt, we found out that she was, in fact, innocent of this crime?
What then? What are we then???
Because that injection is for keeps, Mr. & Mrs. Public.
Hindsight is damn well 20/20, of that there is no doubt….
But I don’t like how we the people acted during this trial. It was unseemly and beneath how we should conduct ourselves.
Now the state of Florida is preparing to begin the debate over enacting “Caylee’s Law”. This law would make it illegal to not report a child as dead or missing within a pre-determined period of time.
This isn’t a bad idea or potentially bad legislation. It causes no harm to anyone and doesn’t even really require all too much debate.
But it’s a paper tiger. It’s not really going to change anything.
The overwhelming majority of parents will frantically call the police the minute they even suspect that their child is missing, and I daresay that nearly the same number of them would do so if they believed that their child was dead.
And…for the few unwell individuals that are pre-disposed to not do these things, no law is going to make a difference to them anyway.
Is this law to be Caylee Anthony’s legacy? Is it going to bring her justice?
No. That little girl doesn’t care about any legacy at all anymore, and I don’t suspect that her mother or the rest of the Anthony family do either.
And any chance there was for bringing justice to little Caylee Anthony got left in a Florida courtroom by incredibly skilled liars and horribly, horribly incompetent lawyers that shot for the moon with spitballs.
The jury got it right… but it still needs to get tucked away in our minds as one of the most hurtful and embarrassing chapters in the history of the American legal system.
You know who’s a real tech genius?
The one person that just went totally off the hook and fixed everything?
It’s not who you think.
Forget about Bill Gates and forget about Steve Jobs. They brought us incredibly cool toys and changed the way we live our lives. But it wasn’t them. It wasn’t someone working for them either.
Forget about Mark Zuckerberg and his gazillion Facebook customers.
Forget everything you even know about tech.
You know who’s a real tech hero? A real ‘life changer’?
The guy who invented the ‘QWERTY’ keyboard.
How about…. everyone reading this has one with them right now. How’s that for “You Need This Thing!!!”?
No matter what tech toys they come with next. No matter the format. Whatever it is and wherever it goes, it’s nothing but a pile of metal and plastic without the QWERTY keyboard.
Be it plastic keys on a desktop, light under a sheet of strong glass or just letters and numbers floating freely in the air in front of your eyes someday, that particular arrangement of keys is an integral part of most everyone’s life.
Keyboard technology has gone from the typewriter to the word processor to computers to laptops to smartphones and tablets. That’s six generations of technological advance and the QWERTY arrangement has been in every one of them.
There isn’t even something ‘like’ it. It has no competition and there is none on the horizon. Nothing else does what it does and there is no need for improvement upon it.
We need the QWERTY keyboard system.
That’s where genius lives.
