Pryor’s in

Bush to again use recess appointment to put Democratic-opposed nominee on appeals court

Charles Schumer claims that Bush’s recess appointment of Bill Pryor is to bolster himself with Republican conservatives before the election. The money Republicans, maybe; the religious nutjobs are angry at Pryor for not supporting Roy Moore’s crusade.

Leaving aside Pryor’s conduct in the Moore matter — in which he realistically had no choice — he was and is still a terrible pick for a Federal Appeals seat. Pryor is a right-wing hack who has repeatedly attacked court decisions that aren’t sufficiently conservative for his taste. He is a resolutely political Attorney General who has flip-flopped opinions depending upon which party would benefit. (In 1998 he issued an opinion supporting appeal of a close race when a Republican narrowly lost; in the 2002 gubernatorial race he changed his mind and said the Democrat couldn’t appeal his close loss.) And despite how things wound up, until Moore started saying he didn’t have to obey the Federal courts Pryor resolutely supported the Granite Calf even though it was an obvious First Amendment violation.

He’s right up Bush’s alley. (Via Atrios.)

Dr. Demento

Ex-supporter says Dean is ‘nuts’

The president of AFSCME, the public employees union, says that shortly before he withdrew his union’s support of Howard Dean he’d reached the conclusion that the candidate was “nuts”. My question: Why couldn’t he figure that out before he endorsed Dean? Because this way, you look really stupid.

Oh, I say!

CNN.com - Piranha found in London’s Thames - Feb. 20, 2004

Look at it this way… It’s actually good news that there are piranha in the Thames! Thirty years ago, nothing lived there, and now it’s home to 119 types of fish.

The river, of course, is too cold for piranha to fully establish themselves. Well, for now. Give it a few decades.

Take one Mardi Gras…

And add sailors:

Navy’s in port for Carnival

Oh boy.

Well, that’s weird

Google Search: captain renault

I just got three identical Google searches for this in a row. And it wasn’t the same guy — it was from three wildly different IPs. Is Casablanca on?

Congratulations, Bob!

Riley administration changes rules on head scarves

It only took a month to change a policy which was made for no reason and which nobody will admit to creating. From now on, people will be allowed to wear head coverings in their driver’s license photos if it’s for a religious or health reason.

Raddish Rallies for Roy

Rally supports Moore

Rev. Frank Raddish managed to come up with “about two dozen men, women, and children” to march up to the Capitol steps. It was a nice day for once, and really he should have had a better turnout.

Rev-Rad is calling upon the governor to re-appoint St. Roy to the vacant chief justice’s seat when the appeal fails. (Well, he says “if” the appeals fail, but come on.) He says that the governor wouldn’t rule it out. The governor’s spokesman says that the governor said there was no decision to be made yet. Raddish is also opposed to Bill Pryor’s appointment to the Federal bench, because Pryor followed the law and we can’t have that.

No, don’t put it there!

Adult book placement still in dispute

Books-a-Million got rid of the Valentine’s display, but that’s apparently not enough for the sex police. State law says that “material harmful to minors” has to be hidden where the kiddies can’t see or access it. I think what we have here are busybodies.

Comments regarding Mel Gibson, his anti-semitic Family, & the growing problem of Anti-Semitism around the world

All I have to say is that if any of you have been reading Mel Gibson’s father Hutton Gibson’s comments of late, it should not be a great shock where Mel’s ideas about Jews come from.

I think it should be of little doubt to people that the Gibson family are clearly a bunch of Jew-hating anti-semites, this is not in question at this point. The only question becomes how long before Jaques Chirac gives Mel & his dad dual keys to the city in Paris.

The thing that’s being lost in this growing hoopla over this film is what Jews are going through around the world; from Rabbis being beaten in the streets of Paris, to Synagogues being burned in Tunisia, to anti-semitic U.N. councils condemning Israel on everything from a protective fence (something MANY countries enjoy) to how often Ariel Sharon blows his nose.

Jews receive a daily dose of anti-semitism, anti-zionism, and anti-Israel comments and proclamations almost DAILY. You should see the amount of articles on the subject I receive every morning from my father and others.

And now Jews get one of the biggest film stars in the world, Mel Gibson, to kick us when we are down. Thanks, mel. Thaks alot. I have spoken with many other Jews about their feelings regarding the way Jews are obviously being depicted in this film coming out and all everyone does is shake their head and smile knowingly.

THIS IS WHAT JEWS GO THROUGH EVERYDAY.

Muslims & the Islamic world spread lies upon lies everyday that Israel is evil and that Jews were behind 9-11 and every other defamatroy thing you can think of. They also help perpetuate the lies hutton Gibson and his types believe about people “exaggerating” the Holocaust. Yet somehow, many liberals in this country & all of Europe tries to protray the nearly billion population of Muslims, the perpetuators of EVERY SINGLE TERRORIST ATTACK EVER ON A SMALL OR BIG SCALE as the victims.

The point of this letter I am writing is that “Passion of the Christ” is merely one symptom in a much, much larger problem. Anti-Semitism.

People all over the world deny and deny again the exsistance of it yet it continues to grow and grow and grow. It’s a growing sickness and unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be enough support or sympathy for the Jewish & Israeli communities to truly stomp this out. It’s very scary stuff for me and a lot of people. Particularly, because hatred of Jews & Israel is so widespread and so mainstream.

Most illogical.

Langford, Vulcan officials to meet

If it’s true that history is first tragic, then repeats as farce, what happens when the first running is farce? Is it a positive/negative type deal, or does it just get more farcical?

Anyway, the reliably insane Larry Langford really wants a bust of Christ to be displayed at Vulcan Park, even though nobody else seems to and the state archives, which owns the piece, says it won’t give it up. Langford has backed down on his threat to cut off funds to the Park if he doesn’t get his way.