Liberty Reborn

Blessed are the peacemakers, especially those that did not return. Memorial Day is the day we honor those that died in battle fighting not just for Americans, but for all people who yearn to have the blessings of liberty.

Seven hundred and some odd pages of legislative gobbledygook later, the Senate has decided to bang its head against the wall again. Like an insane person, some of our elected officials need to be given special helmets and placed in a rubberized cell to avoid causing any permanent damage to themselves. On second thought, forget the helmet and the rubberized cell. I’ll take my chances that any damage Senators like Teddy Kennedy or John McCain do to themselves would be an actual improvement.

To this day I firmly believe that there are those who think they live in a Stalinist paradise where they can control information. I do not come to that conclusion without having actually witnessed actions that support this claim mind you. And every now and again I get further supporting evidence to bolster this assertion.

The 2008 GOP presidential nominees seem to be not inspiring much support among conservatives. Oh sure, among the center-right Republicans candidates like Mitt “Damn I Look Good” Romney, Rudy “I’m The Anti-pro-anti-abortion Candidate” Giuliani and John “Say Good-bye To Your First Amendment” McCain look great. But for the conservatives? We basically grimace every time we look at the crowd of hopefuls.

Did you know that non-humans are supposed to have “human rights”? Talk about losing the language, but that is exactly what some are trying to establish. The test subject for redefining “human” is a 26-year old chimpanzee named Hiasl which certain animal rights activists are trying to get legally declared a “person”. This all of course ignores the fact that Hiasl is not a person. But hey, what’s a obvious discrepancy like that among friends ad political activists right?

Are we now to assume that the anti-religious left is giving up its crusade against the promotion of religion on public property with public monies? I ask this question with all seriousness since it appears to be the case based on an astonishing lack of legal challenges to the addition of special foot washing stations at the Kansas City International Airport to allow Muslim cab drivers to clean themselves before praying.

When Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and the White House liberals used to complain that Congress was simply being a “rubber stamp” for President George Bush and his right wing agenda. They wailed and they moaned about how it was such a terrible thing and used procedural measures and phony filibusters to stop anything that they could from coming up for a vote. But now things have apparently changed. Apparently now that liberals are in power they are upset that there isn’t a “rubber stamp” on their policies.