from the ridiculous to the disgusting
Apr. 20th, 2005 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonSome see Virgin Mary in underpass stain
Okay, I have to admit that when I first read the hed, I thought it said "underpants stain." Then again, how is that any less holy than some kind of chemical salt leaching into an expressway underpass and staining the concrete? I'm sure some theologian can explain it to me.
And this just makes me ill.
From the article:
Conservatives have been pushing to get the Senate to confirm President Bush's most conservative judicial nominees, which Senate Democrats are blocking. The House has no power over which judges are given lifetime appointments to the federal bench.
However, DeLay has called repeatedly for the House to find a way to hold the federal judiciary accountable for its decisions. "The judiciary has become so activist and so isolated from the American people that it's our job to do that," he said.
One way would be for the House Judiciary Committee to investigate the clause in the Constitution that says "judges can serve as long as they serve with good behavior," he said. "We want to define what good behavior means. And that's where you have to start."
Here comes the fascist revival. Here come the new McCarthy hearings. No longer will those of us not in lock-step with the Christian Right be branded "communists" or worse, "liberals." No, the new name for proper devotion to The Bible and Those in Charge, the kind of life to which all Right-thinking People should aspire is, "Good Behavior." DeLay and his folk greatly desire to define exactly what that means, and how it shall be enforced. The crime with which evil-doers will be charged, and under which we will all be punished, is... "Bad Behavior." You heard it here first.
"Good Behavior" is what you ask of children, not Supreme Court Justices. But to people like DeLay, and his sick, twisted version of God, we are all unruly, truant children, needing to be properly led, and when necessary, harshly punished to prevent sins like independent thought and the burning desire for justice -- obvious barriers to the implementation of a true NeoCon Christian State.
How did we get here? And how do we go someplace very, very different from where we are? I think DeLay has a point, it has to do with behavior, it has to do with what we do, not what we say, or what we think we believe. It has to do with our behavior, each and every one of us.
May we all behave very, very "badly" when it is right for us to do so.
Okay, I have to admit that when I first read the hed, I thought it said "underpants stain." Then again, how is that any less holy than some kind of chemical salt leaching into an expressway underpass and staining the concrete? I'm sure some theologian can explain it to me.
And this just makes me ill.
From the article:
Conservatives have been pushing to get the Senate to confirm President Bush's most conservative judicial nominees, which Senate Democrats are blocking. The House has no power over which judges are given lifetime appointments to the federal bench.
However, DeLay has called repeatedly for the House to find a way to hold the federal judiciary accountable for its decisions. "The judiciary has become so activist and so isolated from the American people that it's our job to do that," he said.
One way would be for the House Judiciary Committee to investigate the clause in the Constitution that says "judges can serve as long as they serve with good behavior," he said. "We want to define what good behavior means. And that's where you have to start."
Here comes the fascist revival. Here come the new McCarthy hearings. No longer will those of us not in lock-step with the Christian Right be branded "communists" or worse, "liberals." No, the new name for proper devotion to The Bible and Those in Charge, the kind of life to which all Right-thinking People should aspire is, "Good Behavior." DeLay and his folk greatly desire to define exactly what that means, and how it shall be enforced. The crime with which evil-doers will be charged, and under which we will all be punished, is... "Bad Behavior." You heard it here first.
"Good Behavior" is what you ask of children, not Supreme Court Justices. But to people like DeLay, and his sick, twisted version of God, we are all unruly, truant children, needing to be properly led, and when necessary, harshly punished to prevent sins like independent thought and the burning desire for justice -- obvious barriers to the implementation of a true NeoCon Christian State.
How did we get here? And how do we go someplace very, very different from where we are? I think DeLay has a point, it has to do with behavior, it has to do with what we do, not what we say, or what we think we believe. It has to do with our behavior, each and every one of us.
May we all behave very, very "badly" when it is right for us to do so.
