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Bubba fears Goreacle’s endorsement of Obama

Story here.  I’m not sure why he’s sweating it, though.  I mean, Al Bore endorsed Howard “the Scream” Dean in 2004, and look what kind of mileage that endorsement got.

February 11, 2008 Posted by | Bill Clinton, Gore, Obama | 6 Comments

Courts: You have to be polite to blind people

This is an outrage on so many levels.  From the NY Daily News:

Alice Camarillo, who is legally blind, says she was ridiculed when she asked for help reading the menu at fast-food restaurants like Burger King, McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Wendy’s.

She sued. A federal judge in Albany threw it out, saying the law doesn’t require restaurant workers to be polite.

Yesterday, a Manhattan federal appeals court overruled the lower court, and Camarillo can sue the restaurants under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

“I feel good about it,” Camarillo, who lives in upstate Hudson, told the Daily News. “I’m just sorry it took so long. Quite a few things that they did were humiliating.”
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During a visit to Burger King, employees “laughed and stared” and pointed her in the direction of the men’s room when she asked for a bathroom, she claims.

At Taco Bell, a cashier told her to wait until the rest of the customers had ordered.

“Put simply, Camarillo cannot experience full and equal enjoyment of defendants’ services if she is unable to access the list of the services available to her,” the appeals court said.

Last year, Albany Federal Court Judge Gary Sharpe dismissed the suit, saying Camarillo was never denied service at the restaurants. Sharpe said ADA laws don’t regulate “rudeness or insensitivity” of workers.

The appeals judges’ disagreed. 

On the one hand, the #ssh0le employees ought to be fired for being rude to a customer, regardless of her disability.  Factor in her disability, and they should be fired in a publicly humiliating way.  “Freedom of speech” doesn’t mean that there are no ramifications for saying things.  It just means that you can’t go to jail for it.

On the other hand, the appeals court stepped way over the line when it ruled that restaurants must be polite to customers.  It’s good business to be polite, and bad business to be impolite.  If the blind woman wants to sue for emotional distress suffered in the restaurant, I don’t blame her.  But for the court to mandate manners?  Gimme a freakin’ break!

February 11, 2008 Posted by | judiciary, shameful | 12 Comments

ACLU: Drivers licenses are a right

Yet another in a long line of moonbattery from the ACLU:

Many of the cases already have been resolved, but the ACLU of Indiana filed suit Friday in Marion Superior Court and plans to seek an injunction to make sure no licenses are revoked without hearings, the group’s legal director said.

“What the BMV is doing is taking legally an entitlement from thousands of people,” the ACLU’s Ken Falk said. “You’re entitled to have a driver’s license and the state can’t come and take it away from you.“

I don’t know how to break it to you rocket scientists at the ACLU, but the state can “come and take it away from you”!  If you’re convicted of a DUI, you can lose your license.  If you try to buy alcohol or cigarettes and you’re underage, you can lose your license.  If you go to get it renewed and you fail the driving exam, you can lose your license. If you obtained a drivers license under false pretense, you can lose your license.

Morons.

February 11, 2008 Posted by | ACLU | 5 Comments

Finally, a journo from the NYT to answer for classified leaks

One down, so many, many more to go!  From Ace:

Risen will have to testify before a federal grand jury about the contents of State of War and the apparent leaks at CIA who slipped him the information.

…a federal grand jury in Alexandria issued a subpoena to James Risen of the New York Times, seeking information about who in the U.S. government provided him with classified information that he published in his book, State of War…

February 11, 2008 Posted by | media bias | 2 Comments

Global “warming” nuts are all about authoritarianism

Then again, most of you knew that, didn’t you?  It’s just nice to hear the greenies finally admit it.  From Coyote Blog:

Fortunately, after years of skeptics trying to warn folks about this, the global warming folks are doing us the favor of being honest about their goals.  From the catalog description for the book “The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy.“

In this provocative book, Shearman and Smith present evidence that the fundamental problem causing environmental destruction–and climate change in particular–is the operation of liberal democracy. Its flaws and contradictions bestow upon government–and its institutions, laws, and the markets and corporations that provide its sustenance–an inability to make decisions that could provide a sustainable society. Having argued that democracy has failed humanity, the authors go even further and demonstrate that this failure can easily lead to authoritarianism without our even noticing. Even more provocatively, they assert that there is merit in preparing for this eventuality if we want to survive climate change. They are not suggesting that existing authoritarian regimes are more successful in mitigating greenhouse emissions, for to be successful economically they have adopted the market system with alacrity. Nevertheless, the authors conclude that an authoritarian form of government is necessary, but this will be governance by experts and not by those who seek power. There are in existence highly successful authoritarian structures–for example, in medicine and in corporate empires–that are capable of implementing urgent decisions impossible under liberal democracy. Society is verging on a philosophical choice between “liberty” or “life.”

By the way, for a description of why this technocratic fascism by the experts never works, read here.  By the way, when you see this…

Nevertheless, the authors conclude that an authoritarian form of government is necessary, but this will be governance by experts and not by those who seek power.

…it means “We support fascism as long as we are the fuhrer.” 

Such elitism and snobbery are staples of all leftist ideologies.  As H.L. Mencken once said:

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.

February 11, 2008 Posted by | big government, environuts, global warming, moonbats | 11 Comments

   

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