Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Too bad it wouldn’t do any good to write your judge, like you can a congress critter. While national security is #1 in my book, any tin can (or bubblehead) sailor will tell you, SONAR hurts our ears. Imagine what it would do to something that makes a living by hearing underwater, like a whale. Seems like they would stay away.
When your friends, neighbors, family members start dying because we don’t remember how to counter the submarine threat, because activist judges like to legislate from the bench, then tell me how much you care about the whales hearing being harmed.
Gotta get your priorities straight…it’s a dangerous world, and it won’t get safer by slowly emasculating ourselves.
Kill all the lawyers….
Thank you, sir.
But me thinks that maybe in this case you should first aim your nukes at the judges. It might make more sense …
Byron, Whoa, slow down! Your last line, then what do you do? Take a post hole digger to dig a pilot hole, then screw them into the ground. If we bury them at sea, the sharks will just throw them back, with a sign, “Stop Polluting the Oceans, Don’t Dump TOXIC Waste in the Oceans! Don’t forget a politician is one step below a lawyer! What do we do?
Grumpy
Lawyers work[?] for money. Where are the ones paying the lawyers getting their money? Is there a trail here that can be followed?
We’ll never know where the bombs come from when they hit; ICBM’s, aircraft or submarines. One thing for sure is that if they are from subs, we’ll have handicapped ourselves and our ability to defend our PEOPLE, much less the whales.
Our civilization, as it is, has progressed to the point where we’re truly more at risk from within than from outside. It’s just too bad we can’t aim some of the well-intentioned liberals’ pointy heads at the “in-coming”!
Let me just point out the simple fact that Federal judges are appointed by the President for life. If anyone wonders whether, or not, the election is important, the next President will have jundreds of Federal judgeships open, and may have a numer of openings on the Supreme Court to fill.
Is this election important? You bet your future it is!
Michelle, I humbly submit that virtually all judges are lawyers first.
Grumpy, I was thinking just one more underground nuke would do it. I wouldn’t try to poison a shark that way, and certainly not a ‘Gator
Time to get off our butts, and salvage civilization. Just think how pissed off if the ghosts of Ben Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and even Dr. Martin Luther King could stand in front of the joint Congress. Oh what a sight that would be.
To paraphrase a certain English King: “Will no one rid me of these meddlesome judges?”
Personally, I suspect that if a few were dragged out of their courtrooms and hung from the nearest lamp-posts by their own intestines, that the incidents of this sort of tomfoolery would drop off rather quickly.
Not that I would advocate such a thing, mind you. Just sayin’
How long have we been doing this?
If you really want to eliminate the threats, then nuke all the bad guys. Ruin their hearing. Give them cancer. Test your biochemical weapons on them. “Test” super bombs on countries full of bad guys, not oceans and deserts full of wildlife. Stop harping on people for caring about the environment and more specifically, the whales.
People are the problem. Not the earth.
Very Respectfully,
Military Tree-hugger
The only way to remove a Federal judge is through the impeachment process. Lots of luck getting that through Congress by a 2/3rds majority. The Constitution notes that judges “shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.”
I note there is a distinct lack of language regarding mental ability, common sense, or for that matter even sanity. If the Son of Sam were appointed he’d be perfectly right to stay a judge until he’d at least been convicted of another felony. Even then, one would have to put their faith in Congress to remove him.
Which kind of makes the initial decision to appoint all the more important.
State and local judges often stand for re-election, so there’s a direct accountability to the public. Feds? Not so much. With more and more of our lives coming under Federal oversight and control, this is a weighty matter indeed.
Tim makes a perfectly valid point, though perhaps using a bit more Roman imagery than would be tolerated today. I think I have an alternative idea that is both unique and practical.
Unique because *you* haven’t thought of it and *you* haven’t even had three beers, and practical because, well, after three beers deriving solutions to problems suddenly gets easier.
Remember folks, don’t drink and derive.
Anyway, the thought of judicial revue got me to thinking, if a police officer gets placed on a leave-of-absence after a questionable action, if a citizen gets investigated by the DA after a questionable action, why not do the same to Congress and the Judges?
Think of it! If a decision is over-turned, the judge is released automatically and has to re-apply for their job, of course taking the mandatory Civil Service exam anew as well. The same for Congress. They pass laws all the time that do not survive constitutional scrutiny. Isn’t upholding the Constitution the oath they take for office? Pass an unconstitutional law, you lose your office and your constituents lose their vote in Congress until a replacement can be provided.
Since the States would be free to come up with their own method of replacing their Congressional delegation, this would restore some measure of power to the individual states. And it would finally provide a real performance evaluation on the two of the three branches of government that do not have term limits.
I’d come up with a plan to get this implemented, but I seem to have run out of beer.
– Max
Sounds like a plan to me, Max!
And Mil.Tree Hugger? One suspects that you are a REMF, and that your work place is no where near where Bad Things Happen to one side or the other. But please, feel free to save the whales hearing.
Hanging judges is only a momentary pleasure, and will get you talked about.
Yellow them.
Back in the Good Old Days, the Royal Navy disposed of ineffective Captains by promoting them to Rear Admiral…without specifying a squadron. Which meant that they got a rear-admiral’s half-pay and perks, but were taken out of the line of command and promotion. The term “Yellowing” came from the joke that they were being assigned to the nonexistent Yellow Squadron.
You simply take these judges and neglect to assign them any cases. Or a courtroom. Or offices. Or staff, either. Terribly Sorry.
Problem solved.