Murmur, Instigate, CLAMOR!!

Gravatar A careful reading of Judge Jackson's statements at the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunals, when applied directly to the Bush Administration principals, would readily provide a complete legal basis for convictions of crimes against humanity and an unnecessary war of aggression.




Gravatar Exactly. So when is the UN going to demand that America hand the perps over to an international tribunal?




Gravatar Commission Finds President George W. Bush and His Administration Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

The Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration released its final verdict on Wednesday, September 13, 2006.


http://www.bushcommission.org/

http://www.bushcommission.org/?q=node/21




Gravatar Yeah. When?

Quite remarkable to consider that we convicted and executed the Nazis (who didn't commit suicide) for doing exactly what the Bush Administration has done.




Gravatar Glenn Greenwald's latest, The U.S. establishment media in a nutshell lists the most important news stories active over the last few days, then enumerates the attention they're getting in the Lamestream Media.

"
"Yoo and torture" - 102

"Mukasey and 9/11" -- 73

"Yoo and Fourth Amendment" -- 16

"Obama and bowling" -- 1,043

"Obama and Wright" -- More than 3,000 (too many to be counted)

"Obama and patriotism" - 1,607

"Clinton and Lewinsky" -- 1,079

And as Eric Boehlert documents, even Iraq -- that little five-year U.S. occupation with no end in sight -- has been virtually written out of the media narrative in favor of mindless, stupid, vapid chatter of the type referenced above. "The Clintons are Rich!!!!" will undoubtedly soon be at the top of this heap within a matter of a day or two.
"

There's your damned liberal bias in a nutshell. 4,000+ and counting dead (American military, plus countless more in other categories somehow unworthy of mention) hardly worth mentioning. Obama rolls a 37? Ohmigawd, the frickin' end of the world as we know it.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=V3...h? v=V3CmXGKXOmk




Gravatar We here in the USA have Republican war criminals crawling all over the place, fiercely guarded by their vicious palace guard, the war pig Democrats.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, Ralph Nader is really really horrible. No! Really!!!




Gravatar The President Ordered War Crimes
...And Congress Is Afraid to Investigate.

I don't think the term is "afraid". Mor like "unwilling" as they are complicit and in it up to their necks along with him.
Remember, War profiteering is a big racket in DC these days.




Gravatar Keep an eye on the 'business' of Washington:

http://warprofiteers.com/article...t=type& type=176

I read an article yesterday about the percentage of Dem/Rep who are invested in weapons mfg's.
The numbers of Reps exceeds the Dems, however the amount of money Dems have in it exceeds the Reps.

Maybe I can find the link again. Doesn't really matter. It's just a business game with them.
Don't forget to vote! hehe.




Gravatar Here we go....
Lawmakers Heavily Invested in Military Industrial Complex
http://www.blacklistednews.com/v...iew.asp? ID=6134


Figures, blacklisted news.....




Gravatar It's a beautiful day here in Chgo. Finally.
Going to go out and transplant some grapes.

Later folks.




Gravatar ^ me.




Gravatar Investigating war crimes is off the table.
--


i didn't do it
no!
i didn't do it

don't know who did it
no!
don't know who did it




Gravatar " I don't think the term is "afraid". Mor like "unwilling" as they are complicit and in it up to their necks along with him.
Remember, War profiteering is a big racket in DC these days.
"

[-Amerikagulag | 04.05.08 - 4:53 pm -]

You can parse it all you want. How 'bout assuming that I put the word 'afraid' in there meaning "afraid to investigate because they're unwilling to expose their own complicity."

While it conveys the more accurate impression that you seem to demand, it kind of loses the punch.




Gravatar OT:

The "free market for labor" myth is that unions and a minimum wage are interference in the free market. While this is superficially true, these are actually responses to the already prior and overriding interference in the economy by the Federal Reserve. The interference? Federal Reserve policy rigs demand to assure there are always more people who want jobs than there are jobs.

This understanding of how Federal Reserve Board policies affect employment and unemployment came to me as I worked to understand the dynamics of growth. I've come to realize that over the long run:

* regions have infrastructure backlogs for the same reason that so many people have low wages
* real unemployment is much greater than official statistics lead us to believe
* Federal Reserve policies drive wages at the bottom to somewhere between zero and subsistence level
* making up for the inequities caused by Fed policies is the reason there's a minimum wage
* the only way to overcome the inequities caused by Fed policies is for people to join unions.


Lots of interesting stuff on this site.
http://www.exponentialimprovemen...cms/ labor.shtml




Gravatar How about "not morally courageous" enough?

That works for me.




Gravatar [when is the UN going to demand that America hand the perps over to an international tribunal?]

When pigs fly. As long as the United States controls the UN Security Council (among other UN units) anything could happen and no one has to worry about proscution.

And I don't think it's lack of courage that the Dems aren't pursuing action against these criminals. That's like asking Bonnie to press charges against Clyde.




Gravatar I will personally cheer when these criminals are travelling overseas amd are arrested. Now, how can we get the chimp to go overseas after his term is up?




Gravatar glenn greenwald is a god of truth.

margaret, maybe we need to make w think he's getting a prize?




Gravatar Margaret, we could tell him, "you get to dress up in a codpiece stuffed flight suit and have your photo taken with Chancellor Merkel. And then you get to do a little dance with some Africans while CNN films you. And then, right after you've kidded around looking for weapons of mass destruction, you can let the BBC get video tape of you being lead off in chains to the paddy wagon."




Gravatar "And you don't even have to give speech or press conference!"




Gravatar Spike TV is showing episodes I and II of the Star Wars epic. Man, I can't get over how Senator Palpatine is like Joe LIEberman. The look alike, they act alike it's just spooky. The only difference is that LIEberman doesn't wear a cowl.

The Station Agent pointed this out Over A Year Ago. And he wasn't the first.




Gravatar SBT-- don't give it all away-- I haven't seen the episodes covering the period leading up to the orginal Star Wars Trilogy yet. I've got it ordered on my Netflix queue, but I have to get through the entire Twilight Zone series first. That will take a couple of months, I think.




Gravatar Hi.
Can someone fill me in on the blog- status of Jump to the Left?
Since she got the PHD I haven't seen her much.

I'm curious as I liked her and she was always nice to me.

Hope she is ok.




Gravatar " SBT-- don't give it all away-- I haven't seen the episodes covering the period leading up to the orginal Star Wars Trilogy yet. "

[-Ellie | 04.05.08 - 7:34 pm -]

Well don't click on this then. Yahoo/geocities were making the comparison between LIEberman and the Senator from Naboo back when Joementum was still Al Gore's running mate.

The comparison is very apt.




Gravatar Jump has been kind of scarce lately, I have no idea why. I hope she didn't end up Jumping to the Texas Left in a fast-flowing stream or anything.




Gravatar Since she got the PHD I haven't seen her much.

I'm curious as I liked her and she was always nice to me.

Hope she is ok.

SINGING TROLL | 04.05.08 - 7:38 pm | #


Well you know those commie-pinko over-educated university elitists...

heh heh heh

Maybe that'll draw her out here.

She popped out the other night, posting a song video.




Gravatar BTW, did the font here change, or am I hallucinating, again?




Gravatar Way off the topic of war criminals and traitors, but I have to announce some very important news.

I just found out that I am a Dog- Ma !
Here's the new baby in our family:
http://thumbsnap.com/v/s9uzMnNW.jpg




Gravatar awwwwwwwwwwww! cute meter overload! boing!




Gravatar Actually this is the third doggie in our family. This little one was just adopted by my eldest son and his wife. My younger son has two crazy mutts, Duke and Daisy.

Here's that nut, Duke:

http://thumbsnap.com/v/fooR6KRI.jpg

He thinks he is a one of those tea cup pooches-- insists on sitting son's lap to watch t.v. and is prone to eating bananas WITH the peel.




Gravatar BTW, did the font here change, or am I hallucinating, again?

green libertarian | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 7:51 pm | #


Either I was hallucinating, or ya'll changed it back.

Cute dog pics Ellie!

I once had a German Shepard/Chow mix that thought it was a lap dog. No, you're not dammit, ya big lug, and get your constantly shedding hairy self off the couch!

Poor SOB had to live with 4 cantankerous cats, one a gigantic Maine Coon, who definitely took no shit from that dog, who had the scars to prove it.

Actually they got along pretty well, often cuddling up together and such. Unless one of the cats ran for whatever reason, then the dog just HAD to chase it.





Gravatar I think you were hallucinating, Green. Forget to take your meds? Just kidding.

Here's the big lug in the girlfriend's lap.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/vs6MYCLS.jpg




Gravatar Oh, and Ellie, here's a link and some articles to the Urban Farms project going on here. We are fortunate, in that we're not so densly developed as to have more than a few vacant lots around to use in various parts of the hood.

Riverfront Farm is an experiment in fostering at-risk youth employment through the building of a sustainable neighborhood garden program in historic West Central. Under the guidance of two part-time urban farmers, we envision engaging the services of teen youth to assist with the security, maintenance, watering and harvesting of crops. A multi-week summer “Seeds School” program is also being planned for 2008 for elementary age youth to learn more about gardening, plant science, the culinary arts, and land stewardship. Our sponsor is Project HOPE (a West Central based gang prevention and intervention initiative). We envision multiple lots throughout the West Central Community. Our goal will be not a single vacant lot unplanted!

http://www.spokanegardens.com/ri...tfarm/ index.htm

As you dig, no pun into it, you may see that they're affilliated with a religious organization, a Lutheran Church of the same type as Jenn, I think, but don't let that phase they're good people. I helped install a wind turbine and a solar thermal system at the Pastor's totally green friendly strawbale house.

Let me know if you can't get to this story:
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/l...y.asp? ID=216199


And this:

Local Farms - Healthy Kids (HB 2798 / SB 6483)

Local Farms – Healthy Kids establishes Washington as a national leader in promoting local food policy. Governor Gregoire signed it into law on March 27, 2008.

By increasing the amount of Washington-grown food consumed through our schools, food banks and farmers markets, this bill will help keep working farms working and promote new awareness of how our food choices affect our health, communities, and the environment. Increasing consumption of food that has been grown and produced locally reduces packaging, refrigeration, storage and transportation, requiring less energy and resulting in less waste.

A broad coalition of environmental, farming, school and public health interests worked together to push the effort through. Despite staunch opposition from the Processed Food Industry, the bill moved reached final passage largely intact. Through a series of changes to existing purchasing laws and creation of new programs, the Local Farms – Healthy Kids Act is one of the most comprehensive and far-reaching efforts in the country to promote state-level local food policy.


http://environmentalpriorities.o...org/local- farms

We all need to be sharing info, and particularly our successes and learning from failures, in this important area.




Gravatar Thanks, Green! Yes, sharing info and best practices/ lessons learned is our best hope for re-establishing and maintaining our food sovereignty.

I love the idea of your Project HOPE. I'm going to propose it to the Director of the community center. Perhaps we could get some AmeriCorps members to help staff the project.

BTW-- one of the pesticide safety programs I am running is also called Project HOPE. Health Outreach with Pesticide Education. There are two other Project HOPE's here in the DC area, but I don't know much about them.




Gravatar A friend of mine in Louisville, Kentucky is the President of his Neighborhood Association. He's leading the way to make his neighborhood a designated "Sustainable City" area. Community gardening and locavore lifestyles are a big part of that initiative.




Gravatar Knock knock...I'm thinking about defecting ...lots of familiar names here....




Gravatar Well hello, bumpkis! I was thinking of you yesterday. My International Policy prof is coming to town this week. He is a former Jesuit priest who was in Chile when the coup happened. A couple of his colleagues were disappeared during the weeks that followed. He was able to get to the US Embassy in time to take shelter there and eventually get back to the States.




Gravatar It's pretty quiet here for a even a Saturday night. Things will probably get really wound up when people get back from their various Saturday night social events.




Gravatar It's not defecting, bumpkis...

And I'm eating totally unsustainable grapes from Chile, again...




Gravatar Just thought I would stop by, been surfing the blogs for intelligent life forms lately....




Gravatar I signed up for a gravatar, must have screwed it up somehow since I don't see it.




Gravatar Gravatar Knock knock...I'm thinking about defecting ...lots of familiar names here....

bumpkis | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 9:43 pm | #


Hey.

An interesting collective here to be sure.





Gravatar NSA...why does this not surprise me...




Gravatar I don't post here.
I do read though and the lack of surprise is mutual.

Take care.




Gravatar Ellie | 04.05.08 - 9:56 pm |

Not much new down here Ellie...summer's ending, nights cooling off, no tremors lately....life is good.




Gravatar Warming up here, Bumpkis. The cherry blossoms have been outstanding this year, but we had really cold, rainy, blustery weather for most of the peak week. It was back up in the 70's today though.

Glad the ol' tectonic plates have settled down, down there.




Gravatar Hey GreenLib - if you're hallucinating, I'll have some of what you're smoking. The font has definitely NOT changed. It appears quite different on different browsers though.

Don't bother responding - I see we have someone from alphabet soup land dropping by. Enn Ess Aye, you know. They might just pass on the information to the Dee Ee Aye

(they'll never crack that code, hee hee)




Gravatar Hi NSA! Fuck off!




Gravatar 183 women, children taken from Texas compound
By BILL HANNA
Star-Telegram staff writer


ELDORADO, Texas -- Texas officials have removed 183 women and children from a polygamist sect’s remote ranch and were going building-to-building Saturday in search of more children.

Of those taken from the 1,691-acre YFZ Ranch, 137 were children and about 40 are boys, Child Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner said Saturday afternoon. The 46 women taken from the ranch are parents to some of the children, she said.

CPS officials said they received a complaint on Monday from a 16-year-old girl inside the compound alleging physical abuse.


http://www.star-telegram.com/804...ory/ 565176.html


Texas officials 'preparing for the worst'
By Wendy Leonard
Deseret Morning News
Published: Saturday, April 5, 2008 8:56 p.m. MDT
Texas officials said Saturday that 183 individuals — including 137 infants and children — have been removed from the YFZ polygamist ranch in Eldorado.

In addition, ambulances were sent to the West Texas ranch as authorities said sect leaders refused to let them search for a 16-year-old member who reported being abused.

Law enforcement is "preparing for the worst" said prosecutor Allison Palmer, saying ambulances were being sent "in case this were to go in a way that no one wants."


http://deseretnews.com/article/ 1...5267866,00.html

I flew off the handle about these fundie Mormons, when I learned about this compound they were building in Texas, almost three years ago, and their sick abuse in the name of "god". Am glad it wasn't another Waco, (yet) but no surprise this eventually happened.

I posted twice about these fundamentalist Mormon sickos, who are building a gigantic compound in Texas, and who have a sect comprising hundreds of members, right in here in northern Idaho, an offshoot of their compound of over a thousand crazies in Bountiful, BC, just across the border.

Not one comment.

You have racist, misogynist sickos who are abusing women and children, EVERY day, right in our midst, and choose to ignore this problem. This is far worse than the Aryan Nations, heck, they at least had the guts to march in parades and openly tout there heinous racist views, right in everyone's face. And the media picked up on that, of course, and made the area look like a laughing stock, until the Southern Poverty Law Center shut them down. And the tourists that support the economy could feel comfortable spending their dollars in the area, once again.

These sicko funda-Mormons are smart, they operate under the radar, but the chickens are coming home to roost; their leader, who is rumored to be hiding in this area, has been indicted for sexual abuse, and sooner or later the feds will have to try and capture him, which could very well result in another Ruby Ridge, Jonestown, or Waco type tragedy.

Yet, apparently, under the guise of religious freedom, hardy anyone wants to speak out against these sickos who rape children in the name of God. It is the ultimate hate crime. Yet we'll go on and on about the Groenig case.

And that, ladies and gentleman, is the real tragedy. All it takes for evil to flourish is for good people to ignore it.
Posted by green libertarian | 30 Jul 10:14 PM 2005





Gravatar Greenlib, that is a very serious deal. This is related to the freak who's currently serving time for forcing a 14 year old girl into marrying her cousin isn't it? Warren Jeffs. And didn't the guy run to Canada to hide out for a while?

" hardy anyone wants to speak out against these sickos who rape children in the name of God "

What do you even say about something as insane as that? You don't speak out about it because you just assume that everyone will know that you're against it without your having to say so.




Gravatar Oh, and I watched some of Saturday Night Live tonight. For the most part it was pretty dry. The opening was about how much Bill and Hillary made in the last six years. Christopher Walken's standup was so-so. But after that the first sketch, a fake commercial for a pharmaceutical product called annuale was freaking hilarious. I'll bet anything it was written by Tina Fey.

And now, it's hay hitting time.

http://thumbsnap.com/v/Fq9qkoHS.jpg




Gravatar
" hardy anyone wants to speak out against these sickos who rape children in the name of God "

What do you even say about something as insane as that? You don't speak out about it because you just assume that everyone will know that you're against it without your having to say so.

SadButTrue | Homepage | 04.06.08 - 12:41 am | #


SBT, this was on a fairly conservative blog, lots of Mormons too.

There are thousands upon thousands of fundamentalist Mormons within 150 miles of me. Freaks.
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Sweet dreams.




Gravatar [Now, how can we get the chimp to go overseas after his term is up?]

Another Mexican bordello?




Gravatar OT, but we can go pry Charleton Heston's guns out of his hands now.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ar...15D85.DTL& tsp=1




Gravatar Hey folks.... everyone sleepin'?




Gravatar Well, 2 visitors online.... Me and someone else.....

Well, heres some pleasant listenin' for the morning.
Dirait-on from "la rose complete"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6LQQ7giqusE

Morten Lauridsen has a way with choral melody that goes right into you. Don't know what inspires him, but it certainly is deep.




Gravatar Nevertheless, Hello.




Gravatar Is it Friday yet?




Gravatar Almost, chef. Hang in there. (always the optimist!)




Gravatar Friday would be bad, as it could bring me much closer to my jail term for failing to file my taxes on time.

Tick, tock. . .




Gravatar Apparently, the MSM is going where the Congress is not willing to go.

[The Chris Matthews Show: Andrew Sullivan Calls Rumsfeld, Addington & Yoo War Criminals] http://www.crooksandliars.com/20...-war-criminals/




Gravatar Somebody start inviting John Yoo to present a paper at an international legal conference, please!




Gravatar McCain stupidly publicizes the question of whether or not he's a "warmonger."

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/a.../05/ 863058.aspx




Gravatar I guess McCain can't handle the truth.




Gravatar Lazy Mobsters, sleeping in.




Gravatar Friday would be bad, as it could bring me much closer to my jail term for failing to file my taxes on time.

Tick, tock. . .

tireiron chef | Homepage | 04.06.08 - 11:51 am

Taxes? You pay taxes?

Taxes are for people too poor or too stupid to hire crooked accountants.

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes. And you can quote me on that.




Gravatar {McCain stupidly publicizes the question of whether or not he's a "warmonger."}

I don't have a big wart with a hair growing out of it on the end of my nose.




Gravatar Oh sweet Jesus! Isn't it bad enough that most of the Supreme Court are partisan Republican appointees whose mission is not to uphold but to destroy the Constitution? And isn't it enough that most US Attorneys were appointed to protect their Repug and corporate bosses while hounding Democrats over trumped up charges? Turns out the so-called justice system is even worse than you ever imagined.

From Jonathan Turley's blog: The $5 Million Judge: Wisconsin Race Sets Record in Money and Meanness

" This week, Michael Gableman celebrated a considerable victory: the first defeat of an incumbent judge in 40 years for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. His opponent Louis Butler was also the first African American on the Court. Yet, the $5 million race shows the steady trend toward high-priced campaigns to change the make-up of courts by legal and corporate interests. "






Gravatar Fascism is about corporate control of government, including the Executive, Legislature and the Courts.




Gravatar Peace and Bitterness
By Mark Hosenball, John Barry and Daniel Stone | NEWSWEEK
Apr 14, 2008 Issue

The Clintons are resisting the disclosure of a document that could help clarify the New York senator's claims that she was "instrumental" in Northern Ireland peacemaking. The document's unlikely author: Chelsea Clinton. As a Stanford University senior in 2001, the former First Daughter wrote a 150-page thesis on the subject. Her faculty adviser, Prof. Jack Rakove, has said that Chelsea spoke with her father "at some length" about the negotiations. But the Clinton camp has declined to make it public. Through Clinton aides, Chelsea has directed reporters to ask Stanford for the document. But Stanford says it doesn't have a copy in its library, and Rakove, who does have one, says that only Chelsea can give the green light. The thesis, says Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines, "was written to satisfy an academic requirement—not media curiosity."

Regardless of what Chelsea's thesis may reveal about her mother's role in the accord, some British officials remain sore at her father for one of his earliest decisions in the negotiating process. In 1994, Bill Clinton granted a U.S. visa to nationalist leader Gerry Adams at a time when the Provisional IRA, the clandestine affiliate of Adams's Sinn Fein movement, was still conducting a terrorist campaign. A source close to Britain's former prime minister Sir John Major, who asked for anonymity when discussing a sensitive matter, says Major believes that Clinton's decision "set back the peace process," though Clinton was helpful later on. Indeed, two years later, U.S. officials were red-faced when the IRA broke a truce and set off a massive bomb near London's Canary Wharf. Nancy Soderberg, a senior adviser on Ireland to Bill Clinton, said the State and Justice Departments and FBI all urged Clinton not to grant the visa because it would look like the U.S. was rewarding terrorism. But Soderberg, who initially opposed the visa, later concluded that it would hasten IRA involvement in the peace process—a judgment that she says history has vindicated.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/130612




Gravatar Clinton and Obama Fight for N.D. Votes -- Again
Clinton Asks Obama's Pledged Delegates to Switch
April 5, 2008

Sen. Hillary Clinton made a blunt appeal to North Dakota delegates to switch their support to her, despite the fact that Sen. Barack Obama handily defeated her in the state's caucus in February.

(AP Photo)

In an indication of how tense the battle has become for each Democratic delegate, Obama abandoned the campaign trail in Pennsylvania and scooted to North Dakota for the state party's annual dinner last night, despite the fact that he's already won 14 of the state's 21 delegates as well as six of the state's seven superdelegates.

The two candidates also will battle for votes tonight in Butte, Mont., when Democrats there hold their annual dinner. The Montana primary, which offers only a handful of delegates, is scheduled for June.

Clinton made it clear to North Dakota Democrats last night that she believes there is no such thing as a pledged delegate and highlighted that stubborn streak in her appeal for delegates to switch from Obama to her when the Democratic national party holds its nominating convention this August.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/s...=4596305& page=1




Gravatar Clinton's problem is that no one's ever said NO to her. She's been pampered all her life. Hell hath no fury...




Gravatar Drug Makers Near Old Goal: A Legal Shield
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/0...gin& oref=slogin

Only the FDA knows anything. Courts cannot know anything. They are only courts.




Gravatar The terrorists are, in fact, the peacemakers:
http://therealnews.com/web/index...& thisview=item#




Gravatar God damn, that's a phony assignment--you talk to your dad and write about what he says!




Gravatar This week, Michael Gableman celebrated a considerable victory: the first defeat of an incumbent judge in 40 years for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. His opponent Louis Butler was also the first African American on the Court. Yet, the $5 million race shows the steady trend toward high-priced campaigns to change the make-up of courts by legal and corporate interests. "



SadButTrue | Homepage | 04.06.08 - 12:35 pm | #


Yeah, I saw that, and it's getting worse, but it's nothing new. I watched the Repukes and business interests viciously smear CA Supreme Court Chief Justice Rose Bird in the 80's, succeeding in getting she and a couple other "liberal" Justices voted out of office.

She was removed in the November 4, 1986 election after a high-profile, highly partisan campaign that cited her categorical opposition to the death penalty.[4] She had voted against the death penalty in all 61 cases that came before her.[5] This led Bird's opponents to claim that she was substituting her own opinions and ideas for the laws and precedents upon which judicial decisions are supposed to be made. The anti-Bird campaign ran television commercials featuring the children of the victims of the murderers whose sentences Bird and her allies Cruz Reynoso and Joseph Grodin had voted to reverse. In addition to Bird, Reynoso and Grodin were also voted off the bench. Justice Stanley Mosk, who regularly joined Bird, Reynoso, and Grodin, was not challenged and remained on the court.

As a result of the 1986 election, Governor George Deukmejian was able to appoint several conservative justices (including new Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas) and move the court to a more right-leaning, pro-business (and pro-death penalty) judicial philosophy.[6]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bird




Gravatar And there this ultra-rich asshole, top of the pyramid of the GIGANTIC Melaleuca "wellness" scam... and notorious anti-gay bigot.

What should raise warning flags to Idahoans in this news is VanderSloot's history of last-minute smears of candidates in election campaigns.

In 2000, newspaper ads warned readers that if Idaho Supreme Court Justice Cathy Silak were re-elected to her seat, same-sex marriage and "partial-birth abortion" could become legal in the state. The ads said they were financed by "Concerned Citizens for Family Values," which turned out to be one citizen -- VanderSloot himself.

Although the court on which Silak sat had not heard a single case on either homosexual marriage or late-term abortions, and Silak had not stated a position on either issue during the campaign, VanderSloot's ad said its charge was based on national positions of the American Civil Liberties Union. Silak, who had been affiliated with the state ACLU from 1985 through 1987, was defeated at the polls.


http://www.idahoptv.org/idreport...m? StoryID=19167




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