Friday, December 5, 2008

The Second World War is supposed to have “really” started in 1935, when the Fascists, opposed by the Nazis and virtually all the rest of the world, invaded the Christian Empire of Ethiopia, and conquered it with the aid of Moslem subjects who Mussolini was purporting to liberate under his title “Defender of Islam.”  Ethiopia was ultimately “freed” from the rule of Fascists, although it is hard to conceive how this freedom was an improvement on anything.  Ethiopia remains one of the worst places in the world.

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”—Benjamin Franklin -  The Posse Comitatus Act is a 130-year old federal law specifically designed to restrict role of the military in domestic law enforcement. It was wise to create the law . . . it is dangerous to abrogate it.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

The main functionality is done.  Things remain to do cosmetically and technically.

Apparently, the Service Employees International Union is worried about the state of California’s budget. The SEIU, one of the nation’s biggest employee unions for state workers, would like Sacramento to know they have a cure for the millions in the red state budget.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton is constitutionally ineligible to serve as President-elect Barack Obama’s secretary of state, a legal watchdog group said Tuesday.