Supreme Court and John Roberts

[stormkitten.livejournal.com]

John Roberts confirmed by Judiciary Committee 13-5

Sadly, the article is all hung up on abortion rights and whether Roberts will be an activist judge. I think way too many are disappointed that he apparently won't be (if the hearings are any judge).

*sigh* Whatever happened to Congress making the laws and the judges deciding whether it's constitutional or not?

AmericanLife TV

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I hope y'all are all aware of this TV station. It used to be called "GoodLife TV", and billed itself as "Television for Baby Boomers", but what it really is, is TV for Republicans.

A lot of the shows on it are reruns of such fannish favorites as "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", "Maverick" and "Combat!" I stumbled across it one night channel-surfing and saw my first episode of "Combat!" and my first of "Gallant Men". At the commercial breaks on these shows, they'll have veterans telling brief stories of their combat experiences. Here's one everyone here will appreciate: A Viet Nam veteran in a wheelchair told the story of how, in the first couple of years after he returned from Viet Nam, when Democrats people found out he'd been crippled in combat they'd say things like "Well, you got what you deserved!" So one night in a bar someone suspiciously asked him how he'd gotten injured, and as a joke, he said he'd been shot through the spine while holding up a bank.

To his shock, for the first time he actually got some sympathy.

Naturally, I was instantly hooked on this channel and have been plundering it ever since. That very first night I told a good (Libertarian) friend about it and announced that I was getting a TiVo so I could record all the awesome shows that were offered. She was very amused: "It only took one Republican station for you to go from 'I don't watch TV' to 'Dude, I need a TiVo'."

I nicknamed it "GOP TV" until they changed their name. ^-^

Programable Moonbattery

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

From Sean Gleeson's site thanks to Least Loved Bedtime Stories

Try the "vociferous" "doctoral thesis" mode for laughs.