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Re: Jose Padilla announces Presidential run; cites unassailable torture, POW qualifications

Off_Colfax — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:09:35 -0000

Minor adjustment to the satire:

The Constitution is silent about whether a foreign-born individual can run on a presidential ticket. What the Constitution forbids is a foreign-born individual being eligible to assume the office.

Just gives more fuel to the Cthulhu '08 campaign. VOTE FOR THE GREATER EVIL!

Re: Caption This Photo

Off_Colfax — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:10:20 -0000

No one ever wanted to argue with the line judge. Even John McEnroe.

Re: Tough Child Pornography Law Cracking Down On Child Porn Promotion Upheld By Supreme Court

Off_Colfax — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:41:26 -0000

naked babies being e-mailed to family members

This one is fairly easy to knock down. A photograph of this nature would fail the "prurient interest" standard as laid down by the Roth court and confirmed by the Miller Test regarding community standards. Sending a picture such as this in an e-mail to family and friends with a subject along the lines of "Look at what my kid can do!" is vastly different than the same content with the subject of "Free Lolita Pr0n Inside!" being sent to all and sundry.

The trouble is that, for this analysis to be confirmed, some poor family has to be dragged into court and accused of being child pornographers because they had the audacity to send their aunt Mabel a JPG of their daughter having her first big-girl bath. It would have been simpler to strike down this law under the Arthur/Roth/Miller guidelines and have them go back to the drawing board.

Re: Barack, It’s About What’s Best For America

Off_Colfax — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:27:20 -0000

::snark::
Sheeesh... Even Michelle Malkin can write a more persuasive post than that, and I haven't agreed with her since... Well, I'll stop there. It makes me feel old.
::/snark::

I have to agree with NordicAngst and Leebot here. There is very little in the previous posts by Holly that make me believe that she is an example of a Moderate Voice. (For another example of a non-moderate philosophical outlook, see Shawn Mullen's recent postings.) This post is yet another example of the same trend.

Yet we, as commenters and readers, are not exactly in a position of power to demand that those with posting privileges be cut from the roster. Instead, I would ask that more obviously conservative individuals be brought into the fold as a counter-balance to keep the general philosophical balance on the level.

Might I suggest Karl from Protein Wisdom as a start? His presence would definitely be enough to balance the scales.

Re: Disgusted Democrats

Off_Colfax — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:25:05 -0000

I recently touched on this exact same point over on Creative Destruction. (I should've crossposted it to my personal blog. I could use the click-through traffic.) For those that don't like clickthroughs, let me post the operable grafs.

Suddenly I am reminded of what was happening in the Connecticut Senate primary in 2006 between Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont, when the party really WAS hopelessly splintered. An incumbent Senator lost the primary, yet remained in the race and eventually recaptured his seat. So the question is: why did the party splinter in Connecticut?

Of course, the answer could never be that out-of-state activists like Duncan Black himself, as joined by Jane Hamsher, Markos Moulitsas, and their attendant casts of thousands simply loathed and despised Joe Lieberman and everything he did and said. The answer could never be that they would attempt anything in their power to influence the election of a Senator not in their state. The answer could never be that, without their constant and unwavering support, Ned Lamont would not have defeated Lieberman in the primaries in the first place. The answer could never be that they themselves designed the blueprint for the hopeless splintering of our party when they scribed a bright dividing line, between the moderate wing and the progressive wing, that none shall pass without suffering near-permanent damage to their political careers.

Initiate flaming in 3... 2... 1...

Re: For The Night Riders: Bloggers Across The World Who Write at Night

Off_Colfax — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:28:12 -0000

I know it does, Doc. It's the source of my nom de blog, after all.

Re: For The Night Riders: Bloggers Across The World Who Write at Night

Off_Colfax — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:35:58 -0000

Doc, to anyone who is not nocturnal, that post would have been almost incoherent.

Thank goodness I really am nocturnal.

Perhaps that is why I have been able to comprehend another significant nocturnalist: Hunter S. Thompson. Or George Carlin. Or anyone else that is forced to ride that fine line, between stream-of-consciousness writing and incomprehensible babble, that exists so prominently amongst those who sleep with the sun and rise with the stars.

And I wouldn't have it any other way.