Judgement Day
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today ordered that well known malicious prosecutor and progressive liberal demoracist enforcer, Ronnie Earle, to go to trial on the Tom DeLay case within the week. Obviously they agree with the defendant's attorney (Dick DeGuerin)who stated in filings with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals,
"The state's appeal is intended to perpetuate legally baseless charges in order to deprive Congressman DeLay of his elected position as majority leader of the United States House of Representatives."
Ronnie Earle wants to prosecute Tom DeLay for an alleged violation of a law that was enacted after the alleged violation. Isn't that what they call ex post facto? You don't need to be a Clarence Darrow to figure this one out.
Tom DeLay is totally innocent of all charges brought by the demoracist enforcer, Ronnie Earle. It is just a question of when justice will be finally done.
"The state's appeal is intended to perpetuate legally baseless charges in order to deprive Congressman DeLay of his elected position as majority leader of the United States House of Representatives."
Ronnie Earle wants to prosecute Tom DeLay for an alleged violation of a law that was enacted after the alleged violation. Isn't that what they call ex post facto? You don't need to be a Clarence Darrow to figure this one out.
Tom DeLay is totally innocent of all charges brought by the demoracist enforcer, Ronnie Earle. It is just a question of when justice will be finally done.
posted by BigBubba at 1:27 PM
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I don't think that Ronnie Earles' the only thing Tom DeLay has to worry about... there's always someone waiting in the wings to take a powerful man down (I just keep the Trent Lott coup in mind).
-FJ
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Off topic...
mr ducky... Is it art? Unconditional Surrender
-FJ
Farmer, I am focused on Tom DeLay "beating" the soulless malicious prosecutor Ronnie Earle.
I am also concerned if Tom Campbell's candidacy is a party decision or his vanity.
I suspect that there is cadre of Republicans who would "move up" if Tom DeLay were to be removed from his leadership position for any great length of time, and who are doing everything in their power to shunt him aside. And so I too wonder whether this is Campbell's vanity or a "party" decision.
I remember all too vividly how many Republican members of the Senate turned on Trent Lott over his remarks at Jesse Helmes 100th BD party and got him "ousted" from his leadership position. Bill Frist is NO Trent Lott.
FJ
Ducky's type like show trials with screetching prosecutors and predetermined verdicts produced by real torture , not panties on the head.
Farmer, if it's not art there's not a cow in Texas. It brings to mind the eternal argument that if the masses adore the piece it must not be art. To be true art it must be something that about 3 per cent of the population approves. Heaven forbid that the public tax dollars go for art that the public actually likes.
Ducky, sorry, but I have had a full load of hyperbole and idle speculation for the year. Tom DeLay will walk. Has nothing to do with Clinton, the man in the moon, or the tooth fairy.
By the way, Duck, I stopped by FPM on Ann Coulter Day. I was certain that her Kwanzaa piece would bring out the loonies. I found Mr. (dis)Unite Us and a rather tame tete a tete going on. The place just doesn't blow up the ol' skirts anymore.
Happy New Year to All! Where is Norm Chompski? Big day today for all obsessive compulsives - All Day Monk Festival on USA Channenl!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Duck. Bless your little heart for wishful thinking, but, DeLay will walk, President Bush will be President until 2008, and the Republicans remain in charge.
I noticed this morning that the noted Massachusetts loser, Hanoi John, is prepping for a 2008 run for the Presidency. All Big Bubba has to say is, "man your boats." Hanoi John doesn't stand a chance until the Vietnam Vets are all gone. Problem is Hanoi John will also be gone when they go.
Hey Duck, am I the only one that has noticed the demoracists don't have much to say about the economy. Pity for the 2006 elections the economy has become so good that even the most blatant demoracist party hack propagandist has the lockjaw. You guys blamed him for an alleged bad economy.
Who ya gonna blame for an obviously good economy?
Careful what you allow mr. ducky. methinks it represents a very attractive and potentially massive cultural seduction AWAY from your preferred idealogy.
...and a belated Happy New Year to everyone to everyone here at the house that Bubba built.
-FJ
...and BB,
You're instincts for great art remains impeccable.
Too bad I couldn't resist joining the other loonies in conversation w/ mr. uu. Sometimes even the genealogy of symbols can fail to persuade.
-FJ
Happy New Year to all of you.
I'm back from the holidays and can't seem to interest myself in current politics. I did watch a very fair bio on Reagan last night on PBS. Anyone catch that?
Some good Christmas reading: I've picked up a couple books by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (which have only helped further alienate me from the political climate) from the library. Also, Allan Bloom's translation of Plato's Republic; and finally, the Collected Works of Emily Dickinson--my favorite American poet (probably favorite anything poet).
norm,
Be careful the neocons don't get you norm. Bloom and Plato in combination might prove to be fatally seductive.
And I never read much Dickinson. I wonder if she is any respect related to John. Hmmmm...
-FJ
Norm, I was watching the Reagan bio until I finally had to change. I believe that it was rife with mainstream progressive liberal misunderstanding and misinterpretation of Ronald Reagan. A common affliction of progressive liberal public broadcasting.
I sat there watching, thinking, I wish that a broadcast was like the written (historical) word with proper citations and bibliography. I am not hinting at a lack of truthfulness. I am alluding to the deceit of biased interpretation of sources.
Mainstream progressive liberal secular humanists always fail to properly understand religion and religious motives. They certainly missed the mark on one of Ronald Reagans most important religious oriented beliefs,
"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. ...After 200 years, two
centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom,
for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home." --Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004
More Big Bubba favorites with glimpses of Ronald Reagan's religious beliefs,
"A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up working in his father's shop. He has no formal education. He owns no property of any kind. One day he puts down his tools and walks out of his father's shop. He starts preaching on street corners and in the nearby countryside. Walking from place to place preaching all the while even though he is in no way an ordained minister he never gets farther than an area perhaps 100 miles wide at the most. He does this for three years. Then he is arrested, tried and convicted. There is no court of appeal so he is executed at age 33 along with two common thieves. Those in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing – the only possessions he has. His family cannot afford a burial
place so he is interred in a borrowed tomb. End of story? No, this uneducated, propertyless young man who preached on street corners for only three years who left no written word has for 2000 years had a greater effect on the entire world than all the rulers, kings and emperors, all the conquerors, the generals and admirals, all the scholars, scientists and philosophers who ever lived – all put together. How do we explain that? ...Unless he really was what he said he was." --Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004
"Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive." --Ronald Reagan
"Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom. ...The second vision believes that religion is opium for the masses. It believes that eternal principles like truth, liberty, and democracy have no meaning beyond the whim of the state." --Ronald Reagan
"While never willing to bow to a tyrant, our forefathers were always willing to get to their knees before God. When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance. When the harvest was bountiful, the first thought was thanksgiving to God. Prayer is today as powerful a force in our nation as it has ever been. We as a nation should never forget this source of strength." --Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004
"In the fourth century, a monk thought he heard God telling him to go to Rome... He followed a crowd into the Colosseum and saw the gladiators. He realized they were going to fight to the death. He cried out, 'In the Name of Christ, stop!'... made his way through the crowd and climbed the wall into the arena...As he was pleading with the gladiators... one of them plunged his sword into his body... his last words were, 'In the Name of Christ, stop!' Suddenly the gladiators stood looking at this tiny form...In dead silence, everyone left. That was the last battle in the Colosseum. One tiny voice... 'In the Name of Christ, stop!' We could be saying that today." --Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004
"American's solemn duty is to constantly renew its covenant with humanity to complete the grand work of human freedom that began two hundred years ago. This work, in its grandness and nobility, is not unlike the building of a magnificent cathedral. In the beginning, progress is slow and painstaking. The laying of the foundations and the raising of the walls is measured in decades rather than years. But as the arches and spires begin to emerge in the air, others join in, adding their faith and dedication and love, to speed the work to its completion. My friends, the world is that cathedral. And our children, if not we ourselves, will see the completed work -- the worldwide triumph of human freedom, the triumph of human freedom under God." –(1991) Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004,
"When the Lord calls me home ... I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead." --Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004, letter, Nov. 5, 1994, announcing that he had Alzheimer’s Disease.
Sorry, I only wanted one of my favorite quotes (first one above) and was carried away. These quotes could form the core of a Ronald Reagan catechism.
Norm, Emily Dickinson is one of my favorite poets. I want to visit Amherst someday.
Farmer John, I was disappointed to see ZinLA posting there because I have not seen her here in a long time.
Good art will find a good patron to support it. Alas, oft times, bad art finds that a government will happily be a patron/publicist for that art spurned by more sensible patrons.
Economy?
I would agree that "Unconditional Surrender" is done in the "realistic" style of Carravagio but that his modern critics (the so-called experts) reject this form of populist "realism" in favour of a "Poussinic" political agenda of a slightly different nature...
The elitism inherent in the "new" High Art is exposed by those who exercise the language of populism to great effect yet secretly disdain real and/or traditional democractic and populist sentiments. If Poussin were alive today and aware of the political environment, I think that this is one Carravagio-like "statue" (not sculpture) of which he might approve.
I'm sure a modern progressive critic would be delighted with the work and call it sculpture and "high art" had the sexes in the "statue" simply been reversed and perhaps "uniforms" dispensed with.
On Carravagio and Poussin
-FJ
I suppose that "realism" in art is fundamentally opposed to any "status quo" regime that takes its' idealogy too seriously, be it modern, post-modern, OR classical.
Cause let's face it... the truth ain't always "beautiful". For beauty generally requires form, measure, symmetry, and only the proper "proportion" of truth that "justice" might allow.
And the classical vision of "individual" justice is often both conflicted and opposed to the modern progressive vision of "social justice", for their "heroes" are sworn enemies.
-FJ
I wonder if the artist was influenced by the famous end of WWII picture of the sailor kissing the lady in Times Square?
Yes BB, I think you correctly identify the genealogy and original "sculptor" of this particular piece of "statuary". It's too bad that his politics are no longer in vogue or found to be "just" with the purveyors of today's so-called "expert" opinion.
-FJ
What specifically bugged you about that Reagan bio, Big Bubba? Was it that one talking head with the glasses & beard? I mean, it wasn't a hagiography, but I thought it presented Reagan extremely favorably, considering the stigma of Iran/Contra and his handling (or lack of) of that.
As a lib I found two conservative-tweaking things interesting: the very same people who now give Reagan credit for speeding the demise of the USSR were calling him a "useful idiot for the Soviets" when he was negotiating with Gorby.
Also, the parallels between Reagan and our current president's management style with regard to Iran/Contra/Iraq.
I know you guys don't like to be reminded of that debacle.
"useful idiot for the Soviets"
Please prove your premise.
"Also, the parallels between Reagan and our current president's management style with regard to Iran/Contra/Iraq."
This statement says nothing, proves nothing and I am not sure about the intent.
Segment one (approximately four minutes into the program) of the documentary proposes that young Reagan adopted his mother’s fundamentalist religious beliefs. His mother was a Disciple of Christ follower. The implication is that Reagan remained a “fundamentalist” for the rest of his life. Reagan attended church sporadically as a young adult. Reagan became a Presbyterian in 1963 and remained one for the rest of his life. Presbyterians are not considered to be “fundamentalists.”
The point is that the term “fundamentalist” has become a strongly pejorative term in this day and age. Fundamentalism was defined early in the Twentieth Century with the publication of The Fundamentals. The work by many different authors emphasized substitutionary death of Christ on the cross, the reality of eternal punishment, and the need for personal conversion. These are principles that modern Evangelicals would quickly accept. They would not, however, accept the label “fundamentalist” since it has become a modern code word for religious practitioners who are intolerant, unyielding, and backward.
The American Experience attempted to distort who Ronald Reagan was by libeling him with the label “fundamentalist.” This is merely one piece in the attempt to demonize Ronald Reagan, his Presidency and the conservative movement.
Bubba, back then some conservaguy named Howard Phillips denounced Reagan as a "useful idiot for Kremlin propaganda." This is not a "premise;" this was in that documentary and it's on the web. There's always going to be a cadre of doofuses who thinks Reagan was "too soft" on the Soviets. Just as there are always going to be FPM doofuses who think Bush is a dhimmi (who knows, a certain case could be made re: his Saudi friends) or that the US isn't doing enough for Israel.
Considering the cariacture of Reagan as unbending and inflexible, the bio showed him to be idealistic and forward-thinking. This is bad?
The Bush/Reagan parallel is simple: they have similar management styles. They don't micromanage. That's just fine--but Iran/Contra showed the downside to this. It's still far too early to pass judgement on what Bush has wrought in Iraq but I would think the implications were obvious.
Norm: the very same people who now give Reagan credit for speeding the demise of the USSR were calling him a "useful idiot for the Soviets"
Big Bubba: Telling me about Howard Phillips, malcontent who left the Republican Party in 1974 (six years prior to the Reagan Presidency), is a long way from coming up with enough individuals to comprise the implied numbers of “same people.”
Norm: Considering the cariacture of Reagan as unbending and inflexible, the bio showed him to be idealistic and forward-thinking. This is bad?
Big Bubba: Norm, understand that I am not researching/documenting this remark like I did above. This is off the top of my head. Agreed that the program depicted Reagan as idealistic and forward thinking, but, there was an undercurrent of implication that it was based on some weird, fundamentalist religious beliefs outside of the mainstream.
Norm: The Bush/Reagan parallel is simple: they have similar management styles. They don't micromanage.
Big Bubba: Again, Norm, understand that I am not researching/documenting this remark like I did above. This is off the top of my head. This is also basically true, however, the progressive liberal pseudo intellectual take, and this was implied in the program, is that the similarity is disengaged nap takers who delegate the heavy lifting to underlings who are far more intelligent.
And, Mr. Ducky, your point would be?
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