tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post637404523236650443..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Trump vs. the 9th CircuitStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-42189382143659056742017-02-12T15:21:33.951-08:002017-02-12T15:21:33.951-08:00Ares, what did you just say? I can't make sen...Ares, what did you just say? I can't make sense of it.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-10208877268493763582017-02-12T01:50:12.945-08:002017-02-12T01:50:12.945-08:00IAC: Minnesota originates 14 Islamic State suspect...IAC: Minnesota originates 14 Islamic State suspects under indictment in the United States, for a state with 5.5 million people.<br /><br />The internet is a blessing and a curse - allowing access to wide information, but also a perfect tool for youth radicalization from any cause - from White Supremacy to Radical Terrorist Muslims. You can "catch" radicalization viruses now, even if your community rejects it. And parents of all backgrounds can miss the signs when their teens are looking for something greater than themselves to connect to, and fall into groups that promote power through hatred.<br /><br />If there is a small or large terrorist attack here, from refugees certainly that will change the conversation, and refugees will have to accept limitations on their freedom, but for the moment, it is all largely imaginary. It's prejudging a group of people for actions that have not been done, and punishing the entire group for the worst of their community.<br /><br />Thoughtful people put danger into perspective, and devote attention to the problem, and try many different things and see what works.<br />http://www.npr.org/2016/04/03/472844122/whether-it-works-or-not-u-s-anti-radicalization-plan-can-benefit-communities<br /><br />I do fear that any violence by a single refugee will provoke every stronger responses against Muslims, and in the very least every Muslim person knows this. They know the actions of a single one of them represents all of them, and they are ALL in danger.<br /><br />Minneapolis actually just elected its first Somali state representative. And there are a lot of Somali in parts of Minneapolis, but not close to enough to win an election, so Omar won also support among long time residents. What she does with this new status is her choice, but more widely it'll show Somalis here have a voice in their government.<br />http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/11/08/first-us-somali-lawmaker-ilhan-omar-elected-mn-house<br /><br />I can't guess what will come out of Trump's travel ban. It does seem like if they were a little less impatient, they could have gotten it right, or closer to right. But instead Trump and Crew choose politics over justice and fairness, and we paid for their secrecy and incompetence with unnecessary fear and chaos.<br /><br />It is a difficult question how to consider the consequences of any execution of power. And I can see modern global "neoliberalism" may be an exception to history rather than the rule of the future. And any refugee policy would seem to be flawed, being a drop in the bucket compared to demand, and a demand that can only increase as our world population continues to approach 9 billion by 2050, and most of the growth will be in poorer and less stable countries with high birth rates.<br /><br />So in my mind, the real issue should be helping poor countries reduce their birth rates, at minimum to the level of "family planning" so every married couple has no more children than they can afford to keep. And yet we continue to play this political football on abortion, and so NGOs have to promise to not discuss abortion to have access to funding. This is senseless and evil to me.<br /><br />But I admit everything we do seems so unsustainable, and when we live in a country that half the people are too poor to comfortably pay their deductibles to see a doctor, we are doing something wrong at home that needs addressing, and something that can't be solved by EOs.<br /><br />Economic growth has been the only answer to all our problems, and unless we can find a way to keep it going on diminishing returns of taking the easiest resources first, our future is troubled whatever we do with refugees.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-29251402868450838232017-02-11T21:42:51.269-08:002017-02-11T21:42:51.269-08:00First they ignore you,
Then they laugh at you,
The...First they ignore you,<br />Then they laugh at you,<br />Then they fight you,<br />Then you win.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-36890166140591574582017-02-11T20:45:13.579-08:002017-02-11T20:45:13.579-08:00Golly geez, I wonder what John McCain and Lindsay ...Golly geez, I wonder what John McCain and Lindsay Graham think of all this. I bet they're upset, too.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-56925570466297503172017-02-11T20:42:11.097-08:002017-02-11T20:42:11.097-08:00But Dennis, the Democrats are upset. I mean, they&...But Dennis, the Democrats are upset. I mean, they're really, really upset. Isn't that enough for you? Why are you so MEAN?<br /><br />This whole Ninth Circuit thing is a farce. Reading your CTH reference brings me great joy. My Facebook feed is delightful... all this upset.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-57606526837295013072017-02-11T16:27:38.432-08:002017-02-11T16:27:38.432-08:00Enjoy: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/0...Enjoy: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/02/10/ninth-circuit-court-now-demands-it-be-protected-from-itself/<br /><br />Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-31636781530085383172017-02-11T15:52:05.178-08:002017-02-11T15:52:05.178-08:00Yes, TW, the judiciary's 14th Amendment overre...Yes, TW, the judiciary's 14th Amendment overreach has led to a states' rights do-over. Hopefully without blood, but the Leftist insurgency leads us to leave that option on the table if we fear for our physical safety. By the courts' current standard, the 14th Amendment is sanction, redress and authority for virtually any American citizen's (or alien's or illegal's) claim, no matter how peripheral or obtuse. It just depends on which judge you get, and how elastic their view of the Constitution and how creative their writing. If that's the case, we have a government of judges, not elected officials. Why become a Congressperson when you can be a judge? It's much easier... you get to write your own laws!Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-80496275499931683342017-02-11T13:52:10.012-08:002017-02-11T13:52:10.012-08:00Read the actual Constitution? Of course they will...Read the actual Constitution? Of course they will - but just so they know what clauses to selectively edit and/or misinterpret....<br /><br />I'd say bring on the popcorn, but this is too important.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-5687899859722039412017-02-11T09:22:31.122-08:002017-02-11T09:22:31.122-08:00I love this idea that Minnesota was granted standi...I love this idea that Minnesota was granted standing "because their universities would have been harmed by the Trump administration order." <br /><br />Minnesota originates 14 Islamic State suspects under indictment in the United States, for a state with 5.5 million people.<br /><br />https://cchs.gwu.edu/sites/cchs.gwu.edu/files/downloads/Jan.%202017%20Snapshot_0.pdf<br /><br />Yes, the state of Gov. Mark Dayton, Sen. Al Franken and Rep. Keith Ellison. Hurrah! <br /><br />So the reasoning is that we protect foreign "faculty and students" over national security interests in protecting U.S. citizens. You have to go to college to believe this crap, and a law degree to promulgate it. <br /><br />It's endearing that Lefties have rediscovered the Constitution. Now they might actually want to read it and find out what it says.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-57728456378293881912017-02-11T08:15:47.654-08:002017-02-11T08:15:47.654-08:00It would seem that there are cooler heads in the N...It would seem that there are cooler heads in the Ninth Circuit. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/02/somebody-get-me-out-of-here.php "en blanc" anyone?Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-30740756576891321292017-02-11T07:02:27.574-08:002017-02-11T07:02:27.574-08:00Well, like Reid's nuclear option, the 9thC may...Well, like Reid's nuclear option, the 9thC may have done the country a favor. The opinion appears to give states authority to reject Constitutionally-derived Federal authority. If this works out over the next four years to include marijuana legalization and sanctuary cities/states, it is certainly a boost to states' rights. Americans fought a war over that once and the states' rights side lost. Maybe the leftists just gave it back. I hope so. I'd personally like to see the Federal government hobbled, being a big fan of subsidarity.trigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.com