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20 Jul 07

Lets not become 'Them' | hell's handmaiden

  • I try to argue tolerance for everyone not actively harming someone else. I try to press the point that we’ve got to get along or we’ll all go down in flames together. I try to stress that tolerance means co-existing with people you don’t like. Choose otherwise and you start to fragment the society upon which we all depend. Choose otherwise and cliquish factions start to coagulate and start to war.
04 Jul 07

G.W. loses another supporter | hell's handmaiden

  • I hope our next President will have the balls to squelch free speech– well, I mean, non party line and/or unpopular free speech. I hope our next President will drag this country, kicking and screaming, into the next century by getting into some good old fashion thought policing and just telling the citizens what religion they ought to accept and by kicking out the renegades who won’t listen to the truth.
06 Jun 07

Worrying about a nannie state | hell's handmaiden

  • Of course, providing that protection means restricting freedom. Living in a group of any kind means sacrificing absolute freedom. There isn’t really any way around that. Practically, and necessarily, freedoms are restricted because doing so prevents ‘worrying’– whether that worry is about danger from outside or inside. So what we are left with is a cost/benefit analysis. We are left with balancing what is gained against what is lost.
02 Jun 07

The jerk on the plane | hell's handmaiden

  • That point is this: reasonably ordinary, reasonably average, tolerably well educated, financially sound people bearing all the hallmarks of respectability and upstanding citizenship act like irrational, damned selfish pr*cks sometimes.
29 May 07

We Hold These Truths | hell's handmaiden

  • But I like the document. Idealogically, it is the founding stone of the Nation, not to dismiss the Constitution. The Constitution is the blueprint for the machinery of government, but the Declaration is the nation’s conceptual backbone, its heart, its spirit. I guess this is why it annoys me so to see a primary concept in the document perverted in the name of attacking the lib’rals.
22 May 07

Human Rights and Matthew Shepard | hell's handmaiden

  • What this means in no uncertain terms is that prosecution of a crime is at least partially dependent upon the opinions, the convictions, and the beliefs, of the person who committed the crime. There is no way to reasonably spin this as anything other than prosecution for ‘thought crime’.
08 May 07

hell’s handmaiden » Blog Archive » Manly Manly Men Full of Manliness

  • Apparently, we as a society “contributed to the slaughter of the Virginia Tech students and teachers who were there”. We contributed to the slaughter by being wusses. We helped the killing by being weenies, momma’s boys, and swishy waisted pansies. Ouch.
04 May 07

hell’s handmaiden » Blog Archive » More Argument for More of the Same

  • Logic like that might make sense if you were, say, Great Britain trying to stand alone against the Nazi war machine. It might make sense if you were defending your homeland. It might even make sense to hold to such stubborn resolve long after your homeland has been effectively overrun.


    But what if you are the aggressor?

09 Mar 07

hell’s handmaiden » Blog Archive » Blogs for Never Having Heard of “Innocent until Proven Guilty”

  • Oooooo… I hope little Johnie gets to play with the killers! Maybe they can teach him to make a roadside bomb for those days when he hopes the school bus will be just a little later than normal.
03 Mar 07

hell’s handmaiden » Blog Archive » Double Jeopardy?

  • The tricky parts involve, first, the issue of double jeopardy, and second, the issue of fair punishment for a crime.
21 Feb 07

hell’s handmaiden » Blog Archive » Bush Fights to Limits Rights

  • The Courts should act to preserve, or to restore, all rights– all freedoms– not removed by the Constitution. One of the founding idea of our government is the idea that the people, the individual citizens, grant powers to the government, and any power not specifically granted is retained. Nowhere in the Constitution is marriage even mentioned. Consequently, US citizens ought to be free to do as they please in this regard.
15 Feb 07

hell’s handmaiden » Blog Archive » The Christian Knack for Irony

  • The irony is in the name, which means “free” as in freedom. Does the name fit? In this case, perhaps not. Or perhaps it means “free” as in “free of self determination”, “free of choice”, “free of original thought”, “free of freedom”…
06 Feb 07

Evolution News & Yet Another Academic Freedom Bill

  • A bill like this one would allow any of this tripe into the public school system. In fact, I see no other reason for such a bill. Teachers do not need protection for teaching something that 99% of the world’s scientific community advocates. Such a lawsuit would be doomed. The only teachers that need protection are the ones trying to teach that fringe 1%.
26 Jan 07

Tolerance

  • I am not going to burn any churches, or lynch congregants. Nor will I egg the cars in the parking lots, or organize protests out front on Sunday morning. I won’t paint pentagrams on the alter. I’m not going to try to ban Bibles, or outlaw preachers. I’m not going to force Christians to wear scarlet letters or impose heavy taxes on Christian owned businesses. In short, I don’t intend the religious any harm. That is tolerance.

Blogs for Democracy?

  • Mark, so it seems, waxes poetic about theocracy– Christian theocracy of course, but theocracy nonetheless. He longs for it. He paints theocracy as a guarantor of justice, mercy, and charity.
22 Jan 07

hell’s handmaiden » Blog Archive » Diversity, Trust, Putnam and Survival

  • But ideology aside, there are simply too many of us on this planet, and our weapons are too powerful, for us to play these isolationist games. We make this work together, as a species, or we kill each other.

Blogs for Economic Tyranny

  • It would be foolish, if not suicidal, for a population to allow critical resources to fall under the complete and unregulated control of a small segment of that population. The population itself, for its own good, has to maintain control over vital resources so that such cannot be used by one group to dominate another. Free market fantasies be damned
19 Jan 07

hell’s handmaiden » Blog Archive » Message from The American Center for Law and Paranoia

  • Religion is under assault. Christianity is under attack. The nation is collapsing. The Lib’rals are guttin our values, stomping on our Bible-based Constitution, educating our children, putting condoms on our men and shoes on our women.
18 Jan 07

hell’s handmaiden » Blog Archive » Blogs for Fairness?

  • What he’s got there is a slippery slope fallacy, and a misrepresentation to boot. If we let X happen then something really ridiculous will inexorably follow. Therefore we shouldn’t let X happen. “If gay people get married, then we’d have to legalize human/goose marriages.” The one does not necessarily lead to the other. Besides, doesn’t ‘debate’ mean allowing the opposition to respond?
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