Apportionment Counts are Coming!

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A decent Constitutional Lesson

I have to agree with the author, Ilya Shapiro. This is a correct reading of the commerce clause. The funny thing that strikes me is that it was a GOP push to have this in the damn healthcare bill, and I think they did it just so they could use it as a counterstrike to challenge it altogether. Which means to me Mr. Obama (or his counsel team) are not the clever lawyers as first believed... Yes I want a public option but no, I don't think it should be hinged on forcing people to buy health insurance from private companies. And that's exactly what I think happened here. GOP lobbied to get something bad put in so they could cry and get it thrown out altogether. It only scares me that these selfish bastards one-upped the President.

However, I think a blanket ruling will open up a whole new can of worms about things the government can't make you buy - I think the car insurance analogy mentioned in this article does have a faulty premise if the Supreme Court's eventual ruling is a blanket statement. I am going to look for more examples of what the government (state or federal) forces it's citizens to purchase to be legal. I'm sure there is something out there...

For the moment - CNN commenter on story of bodies found on the beach

Wonder land

ppl freeze to death. Ppl kill each other. Ppl r just cruel, mean n hateful. Most ppl r selfish. Dont put ur self in a situation to be killed. Evil exist in this world. Trust no one n u wont be disappointed!
December 14, 2010 at 3:23 am | Report abuse | Reply

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Havoth

hate to let ya down – but as long as you're here on Earth – and not immortal – you are in a position of dying at some point. Let the cruel nature of it go and enjoy the moment you are having right now – for it's wisdom, its humor, its poignancy or whatever this moment has to offer...Love

Madoff son found dead of apparent suicide

I guess you may have seen that the son of  Bernie Madoff (serving a 150 yr sentence), Mark Madoff killed himself yesterday.  That is sad. The sons pay for the sins of the fathers, don’t they?

 I feel the most for the 2 yr old boy Mark Madoff (named recently in several lawsuits as direct investors try to recoup their losses) left behind. That’s truly a shame. For some reason I can’t help but think Bernie, in prison, will only be able to show his humanity by promptly dying of grief himself  -if only to satisfy some angry people.  The whole thing is a shame.  But the pure viciousness of some readers just take my breath away:

• ·         batman13  -What would have made this a REALLY happy story would have been if when Bernie got the news, he had a heart attack and died. Oh well, I guess you can't have everything.
• ·         bbqbearII  - one can only hope it was a slow painful wretching death.. one he hadn't expected..
• ·         AzWildcat  - Too bad the rest of the Republican Party won't follow his lead

[nonsense, hateful vicious nonsense, Havoth says – even in wishing Repugnicans dead – I don’t like the hard core conservatives who work tirelessly for the rich bastards, bankers, and PACs who have screwed up our country, either, but I don’t wish them dead…I wish the populace was SMARTER in their chosen representatives – Stop voting for the guy you’d like to get drunk with or the Ice Queen you’d like to fuck – vote for someone who can explain shit and do something about it in the People’s favor – Like…uh…say…Bill Clinton!!!!]

However, one of the more positive and just commenters on a CNN article said: “The only mistake Bernie made was to steal from rich people. They [rich people/Republican hard core conservatives and the like] don't like that. ‘You steal from the poor like the rest of us!’ If you can't pay one mortgage you’re a deadbeat, If you can't pay a million mortgages, then your Bear Sterns and we bail you out.”

Now that’s a really sad but true thing to say. A very strange example of how our money system works in this country.