Now that the Supreme Court has struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, what stands between me, an unprotected straight man, and gay marriage?
I guess I will just have to go ahead and marry a man, since my last line of defense against the inevitability of this has been swept away.
The gentleman of the Texas State Legislature didn’t treat this little lady very well, did they? Indeed they behaved towards her like craven eunuchs.
Oh, men of Texas, you who once fought the merciless Comanche, tamed a wilderness and treated women with gallantry — your strain grows weaker.
It appears that Edward Snowden may not be in Russia, but if he is Putin should respond to America’s arrogant and self-righteous demands for extradition by proposing the following — if Obama will ensure that James Clapper is prosecuted for lying to Congress, Russia will return Snowden to America so he can be prosecuted for exposing Clapper’s lies. That seems fair doesn’t it?
The present whereabouts of James Clapper (above) are not known — and the Obama administration isn’t offering any hints — but he’s believed to be hiding out in a government office building in McLean, Virginia hoping to avoid prosecution for lying to Congress, a crime that could land Clapper in jail for as much as five years. Both China and Russia have urged Obama to turn Clapper over to the DOJ for immediate indictment, to demonstrate to the world America’s commitment to the rule of law.
The U. S. government needs to stop whining to foreign governments about not following the rule of law with respect to Edward Snowden — it just throws into starker relief the practices of an administration which sees the “law” as an inconvenience it can disregard at will. Our spokesmen, like John Kerry, might as well wear red rubber noses and floppy clown shoes when they lecture other governments on the rule of law.
Don’t they realize the world is laughing at them?
Barack Obama is clearly, on the face of it, guilty of violating his oath of office to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”. Violating an oath of office is, for a federal official, a federal crime. However, although the law is not settled on this point, there’s a general consensus that a sitting President cannot be indicted in a regular court of law, because of the issues this raises about the separation of powers.
The best way to get Obama into jail is thus for the House to impeach him and the Senate to convict him on the articles of impeachment, removing him from office. Then it will be possible to prosecute him criminally and send him to prison.
We need to get on this right away!
Barack Obama and his intelligence director James Clapper have both apparently opened secret negotiations with Kim Jong-un about the possibility of seeking asylum in North Korea in case they are prosecuted in the United States for their joint role in subverting the U. S. Constitution and, in Mr. Clapper’s case, lying to Congress. The State Department needs to revoke their passports immediately to insure they don’t avoid justice here at home.
On 17 June 1940 Marshal Pétain, the most celebrated military figure in France, told the French people that they were defeated, that they must accept an armistice with Germany and submit to occupation by Hitler’s army. The next day, a junior French general who had escaped to London and was living under the protection of a foreign government, Charles de Gaulle (above), with no troops under his command, broadcast a speech urging the French people to resist occupation, saying that Germany would be defeated in the end. It sounded like madness to many in France, but de Gaulle turned out to be right.
We are living in such times again. Barack Obama is our Marshal Pétain (pictured above), telling us we must surrender our democracy and our liberty in order to be safe. Other voices, like Edward Snowden’s, who has escaped to Russia and is living under the protection of a foreign government, are telling us that the fight is just beginning and can be won.
I personally think that Snowden will turn out to be right.
. . . this single was released.
Peter Stone Brown writes:
It was at the time the fastest selling single in the history of Warner Brothers Records, selling 320,000 copies in eight days, and eventually reached #2 on the charts. It was also the first time Peter, Paul & Mary recorded a song with the specific intent to be a single. All their previous singles were album tracks. There is no doubt that this recording more than anything propelled the career of Bob Dylan, who it had recorded the song a little less than 11 months earlier.
It was my first encounter with the music of Bob Dylan. All the older hip teenagers I knew were talking about it — not about the song so much as about its composer. “He’s only 20!” they said. “He sings like an old man! He’s already written a thousand songs!” Stuff like that.
The Dylan legend was beginning. Fifty years ago and it seems like yesterday . . .
Some brief thoughts I set down in the early days of the OWS movement have just been published by the The Chiseler, an online journal you should check out:
This is not sustainable.
. . . is not negotiable. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America cannot be suspended by the ruling of any court or by the executive order of any President, however much you love the taste of his ass when you lick it.
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
— Thomas Paine, 1776
I Barack Hussein Obama do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God.
Fail.