My Rants Issue 4 -- 14 FEB 2011 This represents a periodic (every so often) statement of my rants, my observations, and my wisdom. The views expressed are mine, and do not represent the views of any organization or association of which I may be a part. For now. Read and embrace.
True story: A fellow I know is looking into getting a concealed-carry permit. So he's preparing to spend at least $80 for the training, around $35 for the permit itself where he is, and $300 at least for the carry weapon. Approximate total: $415. Yet this same fellow complains when he gets approached by the NRA for a $20 donation to help secure the validity of his permit. Another case of selfishness hurting the selfish one. Ironically, the fellow is now facing a possible legal issue in his background affecting his gun rights. It seems that some relatively recent changes in federal gun laws might, due to an event long ago in his life, prevent him from even possessing a weapon. How ironic. I hope that, if the fellow comes out of the legal matter with his gun rights, this situation will show him the importance of supporting the gun rights movement. But I have my doubts. Perhaps gun rights should be limited to members of legitimate gun rights groups--gun shop dealer to customer: "I'll need to see your photo ID and NRA membership card." FOLLOWUP: I have advised the individual in question to seek legal counsel on the matter, as his past record might impact on any present possession, even a borrowed weapon. However, he won't shell out the money to talk to a lawyer. Again ironic. He will spend $415 to do it, but not $100 to avoid serious legal problems.
Elementary and secondary education students who suffer bullying should be allowed to club their assailants repeatedly with no disciplinary consequences. If the bullies then attempt to fight back, they should be held guilty of assault and thrown into juvie hall when they can experience all sorts of neat and wondrous things. Our society must end its enforcement of false egalitarianism. Equating the innocent an the guilty is part of the Leftist agenda toward moral equivication and the destruction of natural/traditional distinctions and order. A society is said to be judged in part by how it treats its criminals. If that's the case, then our society is to be judged harshly, as it treats them far too well.
"Ghost Whisperer" is on SyFy. Dayam! Jennifer Love Hewitt's hot. That's all.
| Some suggest a "loser pays" approach to law suits--wherein the loser pays everybody's legal fees--as a way of preventing frivilous litigation. This won't work, as no doubt there will be a "pauper" exception for the indigent, and after a few horror stories of oh-so-wronged individuals afraid to sue for fear of losing their legitimate case (and maybe a few miscarriages of justice leading to the bankrupting of innocent people), the whole plan would be scrapped. On the other hand, imposing corporal punishment on losers--the more one sues/gets sued for and loses, the more lashes--is something which could be imposed on all but the most medically disabled. In that latter case, the penalty would be placed on their nearest healthy kin. A similar approach could be taken with the attorneys involved. Suddenly, there would be a rush of settling out of court. A truly fun answer is to go after the judges. The Judiciary represents the most dangerous part of our democratic governance, having all of the incompetence of the American people and little or none of the restraint of the system. Since they act unencumbered by the Constitution, perhaps constitutional protections should not apply to them. No less a libertarian than Neal Boortz has noted that the Founders erred in not including a provision for a periodic "benevolent dictator" to set things right, then relinquish power. Of course, he fails to explain why, if such a dictatorship is necessary or advisable, The real answer, of course, is to establish--actually recognize the natural existence of--a higher class of people who are above the law. This class of people could act as needed to impose justice without the encumbrance of due process. To those who object, think of it this way: Even the Republic of the "Star Wars" universe--which is supposedly so much more righteous than the Empire--has the Jedi Order, a recognized class that can apparently operate outside of and above the civil system. Same principle.
The situation in Egypt should teach so many conservatives in this country some lessons: 1. Don't elect a Muslim as the American pResident. 2. Democracy doesn't work. 3. Maybe think twice before condemning American aid to an imperfect regime--consider the alternative to that regime. 4. "Politics makes strange bedfellows"--simply because a number of ideological movements or their adherents seem to work together in some given situations, does not mean they are basically the same thing or on the same end of the political spectrum (this is directed at the ignorance of the Right-Left distinction common among uneducated elements of grassroots conservatism--in other words, 99 percent of them). 5. Sometimes there is more going on behind the scenes than the typical conservatives knows or could possibly understand--they need to support America "right or wrong," as Commodore Stephen Decatur put it, and thus tell Ron Paul and his co-delusionists to shut up their sedition. 6. Put the above facts and other objective factors ahead of, "WEE-ll, I jes' kinda think..." in deciding what position to hold--in other words, let us educated and experienced on the conservative/Right decide what you should believe. If you don't know what you're talking about, then stop talking about it! | 
