Thursday, May 28, 2009

Obama's Supreme Court Justice Nominee's Policy Opinion

Obama announced his first potential appointment to the U.S. Supreme court, Sonia Sotomayor. She will surely come to regret the day that she said that: "[The] court of appeals is where policy is made."
Now of course, she followed that up with: "[a]nd I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law." But, it's clear from the context of the entire quote from that session that she does know that although law is not made there, that she's sure that policy is made there.
The courts are not a place to make policy. I'm sorry, but they're not. The court should enforce the law. Sometimes in application of the law, even "Justice" does not get a fair shake. In those cases it is, under our current system of government, the role of the legislature to repeal the law or create new law to ensure that in application, justice can be served.
Policy has no place in the courts.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Two Plus Two Still Not Equal to Five

Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered "five," Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.

Warming? Um...no.

So, despite continual, solid, independently verifiable evidence of various sorts, the politicos with something to gain still harp away on the MMGW issue. (Man Made Global Warming). Funny thing, I think--since it's an easier sell to me if you just say you want to reduce pollution, NOT asserting any particular catastrophic consequence.

From an article by C. Booker:
the latest satellite information from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (passed on by the Watts Up With That blog) shows that, after the third slowest melt of April Arctic ice in 30 years, the world's polar sea ice is in fact slightly above its average extent for early May since satellite records began in 1979...[and]
a DC-3 carrying an international team of scientists, using the latest electro-magnetic induction equipment [discovered] rather more efficiently that the ice was in fact "twice as thick" as they had expected.

As usual, real evidence keeps making enviro-fascist freaks look ever more ignorant.