Again: Your job does not free you from your primary obligation to determine right from wrong and to act accordingly.
Three recent items, all excellent examples of that fact:
See the binding principle?
My comment, just now, over at Real Muddy, er, Clear, Politics:
Ruthie: “In the real world…”
The nanosecond that phrase is used, it reveals that the user imagines that he (or Ruthie, in this case) is imbued with some special perception, which common folk, like everyone who disagrees with her, is not capable of understanding, but must simply comply because she said so.
Whenever you see anyone use the phrase, “in the real world”, be assured, that author is most certainly not aware of what it means to live in this world.
Obama, pretensively speaking about detainees in Guantanamo, but, in fact, speaking about you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVChNmN9y7E
Via Wendy.
John Walters, “drug czar”, was in Lansing, Michigan today to instill fear in the ignorant:
Walters said medical marijuana initiatives like the proposal before Michigan voters on Nov. 4 are the first step in “a clear strategy to … legalize drugs,” exploiting marijuana’s reputation as a less risky narcotic than cocaine and heroin
I heard a snippet of Walters speaking on the radio today. What’s missing from the article I linked is Walters’ equating marijuana use with using crack cocaine or meth-amphetamine, and claiming that medical marijuana users are simply trying to get intoxicated on marijuana.
Walters is trying to lump together all drugs to instill fear about a mostly harmless drug. That man is lying. Why trust anything he says?
A former home-owner in Phoenix quits paying her mortgage and blames everyone else:
A little more than a year ago, I bought a four-bedroom tract home with a pool, in a very nice subdivision in Scottsdale, Arizona, for $570,000.
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Suddenly, the house I bought for $570,000 is worth…$380,000?!?!
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What this means is that I, as a responsible homeowner, am now paying a mortgage of $450,000, on a house worth $380,000…
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I never thought I would be the type to end up in foreclosure, but last month I made the decision to stop paying my mortgage.
Alisa, you made a commitment. A promise. You signed a contract vowing you would pay what you promised.
You’re bailing out before you’ve honored your promise, and that makes you a liar and a thief, not to mention a colossal moron for imagining that a house is an investment. You allowed yourself to be consumed by tulip mania and you’re going to walk away from your obligation. Your actions prove you’re not a “responsible homeowner”. On the contrary, they prove that you can’t be trusted to keep your word.
This would have been a comment on Alisa’s blog, but she’s disabled comments on that entry.
Alisa’s bullshit via Billy.
Update: Alisa removed her original post, stating “Way too many crazy, ignorant people linking to this post from fascist sites. Not worth the gray hair”, revealing that she’s not only a liar and a thief, but a coward as well.
And, by the way, Alisa, “fascist” doesn’t mean what you imagine it means.
My comment, earlier today at Mark Perry’s blog:
“Globalization and technology and automation all weaken the position of workers,”
So the flipside is: subsistence farming with nothing but crude hand tools strengthens the ‘position’ of workers.
The Obaminator would have that “strong government hand” securely around your neck.
To a man, the commenters at that link are arguing about symptoms. The underlying idea they never question is that it is acceptable to use force to accomplish anything.
“my mandatory national alcohol interlock on all cars would have prevented this!”:
http://www.duiblog.com/2008/05/16/first-dui-west-point-expulsion-one-year-prison/#comment-1002
Executing everyone on the planet would have prevented it, too.
How many times do I have to say it?: the ends cannot justify the means.