I mean, the only way to be even handed is to do unto them as we have done unto the others who were guilty of the same thing.

Regards

We have no king.

It’s been like this for so long we forgot what tyranny is.

Liberals love the idea of a sovereign decision maker. It’s why they love the Supreme Court.

They like the ring of even the name. “Supreme.” Closest thing to a king we have. They speak. It’s law. End of conversation.

The Constitution is, as Obama says, a constraining impediment filled with “negative” rights that restrict government.

Only a king would see the Bill of Rights as “negative.”

well, I am always “provocative”, umm, actually it’s our nature, the poor ol Anglo-Saxons would get bored if we didn’t exist :mrgreen:

now, #70, is a true anecdote, and I am wondering why that no intelligent brain investigated why “communism” was imagined in our christian countries first, and not in India, China, Japan…

It’s a cute story about Wall-e the robot, the last Waste Allocation Load Lifter (Earth Class) still working to clean up the planet—hundreds of years after humankind had destroyed it. Wall-e is the little robot who could; though all the other load lifters had long since broken down, he ‘awakened’ each morning with only his pet cockroach for company and spent the day dutifully cleaning.

The humans, meanwhile, have all gone to live on a giant spaceship called the Axiom—waiting for the day they can return to a cleaned-up and inhabitable earth. Axiom is like a cruise ship on steroids—all your needs catered to and limitless leisurely activities to fill your days. It’s an endless holiday for the human race while they float through the heavens with no responsibilities.

As you might imagine, this new environment did nothing to abate the rampant consumerism, laziness and lack of personal responsibility that caused the earth’s destruction. In fact, humans had become utterly dependent on BuyNLarge (the company that runs the ship) to meet all their needs. On the surface it was working out okay, but the cost of that dependence was pervasive obesity and physical inability. No one could walk, so they cruised around on hover crafts going from one leisurely activity to the next … and in the end, they had no choice but to allow BuyNLarge to address their every need.

Lest you accuse me of ignoring the central storyline of Wall-e to suit my purposes, I should tell you a sleek new robot model is sent to earth as a scout. Wall-e falls in love with Eve and together they endeavor to make it known that the earth may indeed have become hospitable to life once again—an unwelcome message to those in power on Axiom. The romantic drama plays out from there; I will avoid spoiling the ending.

I very much enjoyed the film but as I left the theater I couldn’t get over the image of humanity it portrayed: universally obese, all with the same stupid look on their fat faces and unable to get up from the chairs they sat in as they were fed and clothed by the ship that carried them.

It’s an image of an advanced welfare state and in many ways, I think our post-modern infatuation with “fairness” and/or “substantive equality” puts America on a path that leads down this familiar road.

…full post at http://inklingz.net/?p=132

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