“Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.“—Dr. Thomas Fuller UK pet shop owner Joan Higgins, 66, was hauled to court, fined £1,000, placed under curfew, and forced to wear an electronic tag for two months for the crime of selling a goldfish to a 14-year-old boy taking part in an uncover sting operation. The great-grandmother almost [...]
Archive for March, 2010
WE WILL NOT HESITATE TO USE OUR STATUTORY POWERS
Posted in The Diary of I.M. Kane on March 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS RUN AMOK
Posted in The Diary of I.M. Kane on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other”— Alexis de Tocqueville While visiting Turkey last year, Brother O told the audience that Americans no longer consider their country a “a Christian nation … but a nation [...]
THIN SKINS AND MELANIN
Posted in The Diary of I.M. Kane on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“[W]hat if we simply decide not to be offended. What if we just take the sting out of these words and use them as terms of affection. … What if we all just agreed that words can’t hurt?”—Lenny Bruce “Now we can’t even say nigger to condemn its use. We have to call it the [...]
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: BEFORE AND AFTER
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
HIGH SCHOOL – 1960 vs. 2010 (H-T Dr. L) Scenario 1 Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck’s gun rack: 1960 – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack. 2010 [...]
THE INTOLERANT LEFT AND FREE SPEECH
Posted in The Musings of I.M. Kane on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“I may disagree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”—Voltaire/Ewelyn Beatrice Hall? “Remember when the Left was all in favor of free speech, no matter how offensive, in the belief that clarity emerged from conflict, that sunlight was the best disinfectant, and that brotherhood was possible only [...]
OBAMACARE GIVES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UNLIMITED POWER
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The time of reckoning is at hand … Obamacare is the last breath of the liberal order – and it’s time to take America back from the party of thieves and looters. Today, it is abundantly clear that either we will live in Obama’s America or in America that our Founding Father envisioned. You cannot [...]
THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS FOR THE RAVING ATROCITY OF OBAMACARE
Posted in The Diary of I.M. Kane on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“[P]assage of Obamacare makes a mockery of the idea that this is government of and by the people. … This was an abuse of the democratic process so flagrant as to be Putin-esque. These tactics are quite literally a threat to the republic, and they must be condemned, reversed, and punished. … [T]he raving atrocity [...]
DETROIT: A POSTER CHILD FOR LEFTIST POLICIES
Posted in The Diary of I.M. Kane on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“If there is one way to describe the aura of Detroit, it would be that of hopelessness.”—Steve Crowder The video below is an example of a state-dependent society after free market principles have been removed. Steve Crowder blames government bureaucracies and powerful unions for bringing this once great city to its knees. According to Crowder, the [...]
MANAGEMENT BY CRISIS
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Marxists will manufacture a crisis and use it as an excuse to control the civilian population. Note also that health care has been previously used by the Democrats as a rationale for abrogating the Second Amendment, a strategy that has direct bearing on this effort. With the declaration of a national emergency, Obama has given [...]
TOUGH NOOGIES
Posted in The Diary of I.M. Kane on March 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms By David Hogberg … The sections described below are taken from HR 3590 as agreed to by the Senate and from the reconciliation bill as displayed by the Rules Committee: You are young and don’t want health insurance? You are starting up a small business and need [...]