Wednesday, November 02, 2005

You have got to be kidding me!

Can you believe this? And he could be a Supreme Court Justice.

In a lone dissenting opinion as a federal appeals court judge in 1996, Alito argued that the federal ban on possessing machine guns was unconstitutional -- a stand described by both admirers and detractors Tuesday as one of the most revealing cases in the lengthy judicial record of President Bush's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.

And don't get me started on the abortion issue ...

6 Comments:

Blogger JenC said...

don't you know, ann? machine guns are for hunting squirrels and personal protection these days. :-)

Wednesday, November 02, 2005 12:15:00 PM  
Blogger Erica Kern O'Neill said...

You know how I feel about all of this. Is he worse than Harriet? It is difficult to say...

Wednesday, November 02, 2005 9:13:00 PM  
Blogger Erica Kern O'Neill said...

From another favorite blog:

Kids and guns

When a colleague sent this to me - 8-year-old girl bags first bear of Maryland's hunting season - the other day, I admit my first reaction was to chuckle. I thought it was a joke.

Then I read into it and dug a little deeper. It was no joke. I guess the gun culture knows no bounds.

Kindly notice that I'm not drawing this discussion on national lines. It would be easy to say this is an American affliction, but that would be an overly simplistic view.

I'm not so naive as to believe that guns are the root of all evil. I'm also not so naive as to believe that gun violence would cease to exist if we added a layer of government bureaucracy to our lives under the guise of so-called gun control. The genie's out of the bottle, and she won't be returning to it any time soon.

But something's wrong with this. I look at my own eight-year-old daughter and wonder if I would ever be possessed to allow her to do the same. Short answer: no.

Wednesday, November 02, 2005 9:19:00 PM  
Blogger kate said...

so i'm making comment about your email about paying 2.72 for gas. i figured you are more likely to see it if i put it here. i paid..are you ready for this.... $2.32 two days ago. ha.ha.ha. finally the east coast is less expensive than something out west!!!

Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:22:00 AM  
Blogger JenC said...

i was so surprised to see the other day on my way to school that gas was 2.59. by the time i left (class + gym time), the price was down to 2.57. it's a little cheaper if we drive a little west of here, but i can't believe we consider that cheap anymore!

Thursday, November 03, 2005 3:55:00 PM  
Blogger JenC said...

by the way... some of those "word verifications" are enough to make a person dyslexic!

Thursday, November 03, 2005 3:56:00 PM  

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