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BHO's reaction to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

A bunch of truth in this comedic little video…

[By HALC.us staff]

Why the choice of Justices sitting on the bench is vitally important …and how since they’re human too, they can royally eff it up for about 300 million other people.

In this writer’s personal opinion, the following are the top five worst rulings by the U. S. Supreme Court.  This was quite a difficult task to undertake, as there has been so much from the Court that seems to fly in the face of what is “good,” “right” and Constitutional.

I will give a basic layman’s case breakdown, the Court’s decision and subsequent case history (as far as being contested further in the lower courts after being “reversed and remanded” or being overturned by subsequent U. S. Supreme Court cases.  I will also give my “gems of reasoning” as to Constitutional issues and arguments that have been or will be quoted by legal scholars for decades to come.

[In case you’re interested in other people’s take on this subject, check here, here and here for other folks’ opinions as to the top five or ten U. S. Supreme Court decisions.  My top five pretty much mirrored those reflected in these other instances.  I got the idea for this article in light of the recent clamor over the Elena Kagan nomination for U. S. Supreme Court.]

*Per curiam means “by the court.”  It’s a phrase used to distinguish the whole court’s opinion versus one judge’s opinion.  Sometimes it denotes an opinion written by the Chief Justice or Presiding Judge, or to a brief announcement of the disposition of a case by court not accompanied by a written opinion.

**Slip opinion is the second version of an opinion which is sent to the printer later in the day on which the bench opinion is released by the Court. Each slip opinion has the same elements as the bench opinion–majority or plurality opinion, concurrences or dissents and a syllabus–but contains corrections not appearing in the bench opinion. Slip opinions are posted on this Website within minutes after the bench opinions are issued and remain posted until the opinions are published in bound volumes of the United States Reports.

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I say if the City of Los Angeles really has a problem with the state of Arizona enforcing its borders, then, by all means, cancel the electrical grid service purchased from the state of Arizona.  Let’s see how tempers flare in that stifling Los Angeles heat with no air conditioners or fans; air, road and boat travel disrupted, perhaps even stopped; food preparation compromised; storm water and sewage pump stations not operational; and other vital services are affected by your holier-than-thou denial of Arizona’s right to do what the damn federal government should be doing.

I’d also suggest that since the state of California is so accepting of people who decide to bypass immigration (and possibly other laws, as well), the state of California should GLADLY take any illegal alien caught in the state of Arizona.  That would be the right thing to do, right??

Methinks those illegal aliens should have the choice of:  1) we ship, fly or walk your butt back from wherever you snuck in from; or 2) we put you on a train with well armed guards from local AZ law enforcement (or the local military base), drop you off five miles inside the border of CA, with the understanding that if you sneak back to AZ again, next time you won’t get option #2.

Talking about biting, maybe even taking off at the elbow, the hand that feeds you!!  California’s boycott of Arizona would be it.  It’s not like if you don’t like how HEB packages their apples, you can go to Kroger’s or the local farmer’s market and get what you want.  Maybe this is more like the belligerent, not forward-thinking, pre-teen that shouts, “I hate you, Mom!!  I never want to see or talk to you again!  You’re ruining my life!!!!“, then slams the bedroom door shut.  But then kiddo gets a call from a friend three minutes later, asks for a ride at 9:00 pm to the pizza parlor, and oh, by the way, “gimme $20, while you’re at it!!”

There are just not a ton of suppliers of surplus electricity grid producers that would be able to supply demand for a city the size of Los Angeles.  Not without the costs skyrocketing to the end residential and business consumers.
My advice to the Arizona Corporation Commission, not that I think they’d really take it but at least they know they’ve got some support from people from all over, is, go ahead, let Los Angeles cancel their contract.  They’ve probably eaten pizza too many times this month anyways!
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[From Media Research Center's Bias Alert for May 20, 2010, by Rich Noyes]

All three broadcast evening newscasts have repeatedly touted, as if it is a valid representation of national sentiment, the “boycott” of Arizona by liberal municipalities such as San Francisco and Los Angeles. But when the Arizona Corporation Commission Commissioner on Tuesday made a tongue-in-cheek offer to help Los Angeles out in its boycott by shutting off the electricity flow, CBS and NBC were silent.

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New Arizona Law is “Most Reprehensible Thing Since the Japanese Internment”

Arizona Senate Bill 1070 sure has been in the news a lot lately.  To read some accounts, you’d have thought Arizona Governor Jan Brewer had stolen a few pages from Adolph Hitler’s playbook, crossing out “Jews” wherever she found it and penciling in “Hispanics”.  So, what’s really going on with Arizona’s new laws, and should anyone whose last name ends with a “z” leave the state now before the authorities can finish building the concentration camps?

Should anyone whose last name ends with a “z” leave Arizona before the concentration camps are complete?

The first thing to know about Senate Bill (SB) 1070 is that it’s already been changed by House Bill 2162, which was intended to head off any legal challenges to SB 1070.  HB 2162 has already been signed by Governor Brewer.  In this article, whenever I talk about SB 1070, I’m referring to the version that was modified by HB 2162, since the two bills taken together are the law of the land in Arizona.

So, let’s go through it and see what it says.  There’s a lot to this, so I’m going to have to break it up into a least two parts.
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[From Prison Planet.com, story here.]

Claims on behalf of authorities that naked body scanner images are immediately destroyed after passengers pass through new x-ray backscatter devices have been proven fraudulent after it was revealed that naked images of Indian film star Shahrukh Khan were printed out and circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London.

UK Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said last week that the images produced by the scanners were deleted “immediately” and airport staff carrying out the procedure are fully trained and supervised.

“It is very important to stress that the images which are captured by body scanners are immediately deleted after the passenger has gone through the body scanner,” Adonis told the London Evening Standard.

Adonis was forced to address privacy concerns following reports that the images produced by the  scanners broke child pornography laws in the UK.  When the scanners were first introduced, it was also speculated that images of famous people would be ripe for abuse as the pictures produced by the devices make genitals “eerily visible” according to journalists who have investigated trials of the technology.

However, the Transport Secretary’s assurances were demolished after it was revealed on the BBC’s Jonathan Ross show Friday that Indian actor Shahrukh Khan had passed through a body scan and later had the image of his naked body printed out and circulated by Heathrow security staff.

Indian film star Shahrukh Khan

“I was in London recently going through the airport and these new machines have come up, the body scans. You’ve got to see them. It makes you embarrassed – if you’re not well endowed,” said Khan, referring to how the scans produce clear images of a person’s genitals.

“You walk into the machine and everything – the whole outline of your body – comes out,” he said.

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The Backlash has Started!

Chicago on Thursday just as B.O. was arriving and got into a terrible traffic jam.

I haven’t seen this on the nightly news on any of the networks. Right in Obama’s back yard!! I’m more proud of the folks in the windy city, than I thought was ever possible! By the way, I didn’t see the ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC covering this – did you? Wonder why…

Those who have visited Chicago will recognize the downtown area.

Yeah, but pirates usually only steal from the uber-rich, not everyday folks!!

Why, yes “THE CHANGE” does suck!!

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Well, in case you hadn’t heard, one Nick Morris, a Klein Collins High School student in Klein ISD,  was suspended for three days.  His egregious offense  was removing a Mexican flag from the balcony of Klein Collins’ atrium last week.  Maybe Mr. Morris should not have thrown it away, as the principal charged he had.

The political correctness atmosphere of public schools nowadays is absolutely disgusting.  This is still the United States of America. Well, it is at least as I and many other conservatives draw breath enough to try to stop the NWO/NAFTA.  Or the formation of whatever country that scheme will concoct… CanAmeXico or AmerCanIco or MexiCanIca… wait, I’d better stop before I give them the right catchy name they were just looking for!

Anyhow, the morons in administration at Klein ISD should be ashamed of themselves.  So Mr. DICK and Mr. Cain will know better if this happens again, THIS FLAG and THIS FLAG are the only flags that should be prominently displayed on the interior and exterior grounds of public schools.  By the way, if you didn’t know it already, any state can fly its state flag at the same level as the United States flag but the United States flag must be displayed on the right side of that state’s flag when looking at it in proper position. Here is some additional flag etiquette.

[See a related story here about San Francisco CA students who were also sent home for wearing t-shirts with American Flags on them.]