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Friday night my home computer killed itself, BIG TIME. To the point
it can't even boot into windows.
Don't want to reformat, since I am a bad-role model of a computer techie
who doesn't back up stuff much.
(bad Tally! Bad Tally will add current hard drive into new system as
secondary so she can recover.)
BOOOOO!
So I have been a bit disconnected, as it were.
Brand new Dell on the way! Yippeee!
Santa Baby is coming early this year.
Hence I was forced to READ THE NEWSPAPER.
"NO!" You cry.
Yes it's true.
And more than just the Calendar section (there was a GREAT article
on that sexy hunk Willem Defoe),
sales circulars and the save my ass coupons. Having kept my subscription
to the Los Angeles Times
(Sunday only) in spite of the outcry by my fellow Union members during
the SAG/AFTRA strike to
cancel it since they refused to print any major information at all
let alone in the Main Section on the paper....
The day after it was semi-settled it made column ONE. bastards.
Anyway: There were some MAJOR jewels in the Opinion section.
The first: http://www.latimes.com/print/opinion/20001203/t000115703.html
The Demonization of Politics
By NEAL GABLER
(A small snippet:) "What opportunists discovered in Wilson's wake was
the dark side of moralism,
viewing politics not as a struggle between good ideas and bad ones
but between good and evil.
The enablers in this process were frustration and desperation. For
12 years, Republicans festered
under Franklin D. Roosevelt's enormous popularity. So deep and mad
was hostility toward Roosevelt
that some opponents launched a whispering campaign attributing his
paralysis not to polio but to syphilis.
But it wasn't until after his death, and after the beginning of the
Cold War, that demonization became
the guiding principle for a large faction of the Republican Party--and
Roosevelt became, posthumously,
the American satan, the man who undermined democracy at home by socializing
the state and who
facilitated communist domination abroad." (This is what reminded me
of The Crucible)
And
http://www.latimes.com/print/opinion/20001203/t000115705.html
Will Brethren Rule for Brethren to Protect All Courts?
By DION FARGANIS, GORDON SILVERSTEIN
(this had TWO great points, first:)
"When a defiant James A. Baker III declared that the Florida Supreme
Court's ruling was
"unacceptable," he may have unknowingly--and, for his side, perhaps
unfortunately--increased
the likelihood that the Bush campaign's appeal to the U.S. Supreme
Court would be granted.
Baker's threat to incite the Florida Legislature into ignoring the
court's ruling may be a far more
important challenge to the long-term legitimacy (and therefore power)
of all courts in the United States.
It is precisely this type of challenge that might alarm the court and
spur it to take action. …."
And
"If elected officials and their respected advisors defy the courts,
judicial authority and the
rule of law are in deep trouble. Baker's intemperate charge, echoed
on talk radio and in the
editorial pages of many of the nation's newspapers, wasn't dangerous
because he disagreed
with what the Florida Supreme Court said.
It was dangerous because it implied that one can simply refuse to abide
by a decision with which
one disagrees. There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with court rulings,
and there's nothing wrong
with working within the system to change those decisions through appeal,
persuasion, legislation and,
if need be, constitutional amendment. But simply refusing to abide
by a decision is a direct threat to
the judicial system in every state and at every level of the federal
judiciary. "
WOW! The things ya find you can’t get online!
I wonder if any of THE PLAYERS in this election soap opera read this
stuff?
Ya know.... as much as I hate Kat Harris, it would be very fun to play
her!
Of course, villians are always more fun to play.