Comments on: Bush to judiciary: Fu*k off

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:31:35 +0000

Oops! Had the wrong Musharraf, I meant Pervez. I don’t expect there’s much difference between the two though.

By: Larkrise

Larkrise — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:30:56 +0000

Steve, I hope you are 100% correct. It would certainly lift my gloom. It would show that there is still some respect for the law. It would show that Dubya and Dick have to obey the law, even though they have spent 7 years disregarding it. It would show that judges actually have some integrity left, even if they are rightwingers. Unfortunately, I do not trust such a decent thing to happen in the current vile and poisonous atmosphere. But, do I hope for it? You bet.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:04:43 +0000

Please excuse the grammatical etc. errors on the above repentance story. I had a little argument with the table saw and it won, so I have to make do without the fore-finger on my typing hand for a while, so must use my middle finger.

Rather appropriate for the Bushies though. (The middle finger I mean.)

By: Weirdharold

Weirdharold — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:21:30 +0000

I hope you are correct also. Last year when Trent Lott became Minority #2 man in the Senate. I thought we would see some getting even. However it looks like somebody got to him first. I am boggled by the power Bush & Co. throw around. Here we have a 32 precenter doing anything they wish.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:11:24 +0000

As an act of repentance for my last diatribe, let me offer this completely unrelated story:

I used to live in Seattle. There is a place there called Harbor Island. Mostly ship-building and repairs at that time. I worked in a small shop a few mile south from there. One of my duties was to every Thursday go to a little Cafe on Harbor Island called “The O.K. Lunch”. to pick up a bunch of those delicious home-mad scones and take them to the headquarters’ group. So (one Thursday I was having a late breakfast/early lunch while I waited for the scones to come out of the oven.

“Why is this cafe called the ‘O.K.’ cafe when everything is excellent?”

Well, and this is the whole truth as I remember it, it was started in the early 1900’s when the ship-yards were booming by Annie Oakley and Anna Karenina. Annie had gotten over her affair with Bill Cody and moved on and ended up here. Anna got tired of the winter cold In Russia- and got over that Vronsky thing-and ended up here too. Somehow they met and decided to start the cafe. Well they decided Annie’s & Anna’s didn’t sound right , so they opted for the first initials of their last names. O and K.

They both married other men and now the cafe is run by there daughters and grand daughters.

(Well it was then, but that was 30 years ago. It’s gone now.)

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:14:16 +0000

This is an elected dictatorship! Why would anyone care about the supposedly other branches of government? Who is taking lessons from whom: Musharraf Sharif or Bush?

O.K., there’s my cynical side coming out again. Damn! I thought I had that locked in a closet somewhere.

By: alwayshope

alwayshope — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:20:20 +0000

Steve, I wish I shared your faith in the judiciary. I’m going to try to be more optimistic though because you are in a better position than I to know the mind of a judge. I know they are sworn to uphold the Constitution and, with all my heart, I hope they don’t take that lightly.
I just expect that bush and cheney will usurp powers and abuse justice at will and no one will stop them. What will stop them from ignoring court orders or congressional orders? I mean, who will enforce ANY decision made by any court of law that is contrary to the desires of bushco? Who?