You
only have the inalienable rights your government grants you.
Sham
Shamed:
The Supremes told the
Texas legislature that they weren't fooling anyone with their
ridiculous “for
the safety of the ladies” anti-abortion law. Now we get to see
the Republicans in in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin try to find
yet another way to deprive American women of their constitutional
rights.
Practical
Illusion:
Technically the UK's vote to leave the European Union is not legally
binding. Either the Prime Minister or the Parliament could chose to
ignore the outcome and continue business as usual. But that would
take more political guts than are on display in London these days.
Anyway, the EU can't unilaterally kick them out, but must await
notification under Article 50 of the EU charter. The vote and
associated hemming and hawing in England,
Scotland and Northern Ireland does not bode well for the
stability of the continental EU. Europe is a depressed economy
desperately in need of more demand. The problem is made much worse
by the constant demand from Brussels and Berlin for smaller
government budgets and “structural reform” - which is code-talk
for cutting worker wages and pensions and healthcare and selling off
the public's properties and services to the highest bidder. The
Eurozone and the European Union were two marvelous
but unworkable concepts at conception, and they still are.
The
Show Must Go On:
Seats
for Hamilton! staring
Hillary
Clinton are
on sale now. Tickets range fro $2,700 to $100,000, popcorn extra.
Sorry, headliner Lin-Manuel Miranda will not be appearing.
Ambulance
Chasers:
In Texas a county or town can farm out collection of
fines to lawyers on a
contingency basis, which can and does lead to the lawyers
dragging out the process to increase their fee recovery while seeking
millions and even billions for such trivia as “illegal dumping”
or code violations. It's
more or less legal.
Most
of the things
money-grubbing lawyers
can think up are legal
in Texas.
Try,
Try Again:
Michigan's pilot program of drug-testing welfare recipients has
failed to identify a single positive result, so Governor Snyder is
now undertaking a pilot program which enables cops to pull over and
administer a road-side
drug test to those suspected to be black
or poor under
the influence of a drug other than good old alcohol.
A
Parting Shot:
3 comments:
While the theory of a 'united europe' is a sound one, economic penury is still an onus to whoever it is inflicted upon. Sort of returns us to the age old question 'At what price peace?'
Greedy monarchs throughout the ages have waged war on the continent in attempts to literally 'plunder' their neighbor's treasuries or resources...not for the common good but for the personal enrichment of whoever had the authority to declare war!
Again, if we don't put a stop to this insanity we risk extinction at our own hands.
And if we fail to reign in the 'greedy few' it's no less than we deserve.
You speak as though falling under the rule of the greedy few were either a new thing or optional, when it is, if you will, the rule.
We are a poorly yclept species.
True that, it is without pretention that I point out we are neck deep in stupid around here and (after a mad scramble for my trusty Funk & Wagnalls) I'd have to concur, it would be humorous if it weren't so tragic!
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