Now dont get me wrong.  I love dogs and cats, and I would never consider eating them for any reason short of imminent death.  But I also know that some cultures do enjoy a 'hot dog' (literally) now and then, and it is common knowledge that cats are on the menu in several asian countries. That being said, I think that passing a law outlawing said epicurean dishes is stupid and it does infringe on some cultures.  After all, if we are to go whole hog (no pun intended), we should a...

While the above referenced story is about Georgia, the scenerio has been occurring in many states of late.  It happened 5 years ago in Virginia and just last year in Texas. It has happened in other states as well over the years. Simply put, it is called pay back.  Once the democrats ruled the south (thanks to Lincoln and those wascally republicans 150 years ago).  WHile they were mostly conservative, they did toe the party line in most matters procedural and so they carved up s...

By a 5-4 vote the Supreme Court ruled the execution of people who commit capital crimes before the age of 18, cannot be put to death.  While some may decry this as giving a free license to the perps, it still does not allow them to walk free after age 18 (Lee Malvo will spend his entire adult life in jail).  So while it is a good and needed step, it is just a small one. But the irony of the ruling is in how the court split.  Swing voter O'Connor voted with the Conservatives, an...

Far from subsiding into the backwaters of oblivion like most UN-o-philes would love, the Oil for Food Scandal keeps getting ranker and ranker.  NOw the number 2 man (woman) under Kofi Annan has been implicated and is going to go down. Who is this mysterious interloper? Louise Frechette.  A French Canadian!  2 birds just fell with that oil slick.  Yes, we knew of France's complicity, and while Madame Frechette is not French, now we see the levels in Canada this scandal is r...

I have been away from Joe User for several days.  Yes it was kind of a haitus, but not from any type of fatigue or need to refresh my batteries, altho my batteries sure were recharged! The Occassion was to work on my wife's family's annual fund raiser.  This is a fund raiser in memory of her nephew killed by a drunk driver on Dec 4, 1993.  He was only 19 at the time, and just starting college. The Parents, instead of channeling their rage and sorrow into suing everyone in th...

Moderate started it all.  He has a knack of doing it.  I followed up with how Blogdom is killing the mainstream media by just exposing the truth.  Dabe then went off and tried to debunk us, and then some others piled on. yet, in the debunking of the original 2 articles, what was quoted to debunk it? Well, a Liberal University professor that is left of Mao, a site that only knows how to spell fair and knows that it comes before Liberal as in what they are, and SHOCK!  The a...

It seems that the mainstream media is bleating again, bewailing the fact that the blogdom of the Internet has made low another of the mighty elite in mainstream media.  This time ti was Eason Jourdan, formerly of CNN who alleged that the US Military was targeting Journalist. NOw this is ironic on several levels.  First off, it clearly was an example of a comment Draginol made on another blog about the left, instead of arguing facts, uses comeback lines that add nothing to the di...

In a case just decided upon by a jury, a boy of 12 years was found guilty of murdering his grandparents as they slept.  He was given a 30 year sentence, the minimum for the crime. There is nothing really new there that would make this a case to be discussed.  It is unfortunate that these incidences occur with all too regularity. What sets this case apart is the defense attorney tried to gte himoff with a NGI due to the drug Zoloft, an Anti-depressant. What is even more outrage...

Recently, the President of harvard University was castigated, ostracized, blasted and called every demeaning name in the book.  Were the perpertartors of this some right wing nut jobs offended by the extreme liberalism in the halls of higher learning? No. Was he making offensive and bigotted statements demeaning a segment of the population? No. Was he criticizing some one or some group, rightly or wrongly? No. His crime?  To dare mention a fact of life.  That men...

This story caught my atttention because of the Terri Schiavo case in Florida.  While Doctors say there is no hope for Terry Schiavo, they also said that about this woman, and yet 20 years later, she can talk. I understand about the frustration of waiting for years or even decades, but Terri Schiavo is breathing on her own.  She only requires food to continue to live, not machines to keep her alive. Does this mean she will ever recover?  No.  But while there is life, the...

There is a practice in many rural areas where by parents send their children, during the school day, to churches for religious education.  This does not take away from the class time of the students, and it is not mandatory (I had a similar program when I was a child, and it was a Protestant class, and I am Catholic - but I did not mind). But like all hate filled zealots that cannot allow people to believe or act differently than they, some transplanted NY Parents are threatening to sue ...

In the last 24-48n hours Gideon MacLeish talk about the Purity of women and Texas Wahine talk about women and they are not going to stand down to any man. Both are correct.  Yet I offer a different view.  I plain dont understand them!  They drive me wild and drive me crazy!  They can be as soft as a butterfly, or as ferocious as a caged cat!  They are as strong as an ox, and as delicate as a flower! And they are as unfathomable as infinity!  I just plain will ...

I actually agree with Clinton on this issue.  I think he may be finally starting to support his party instead of himself.  yes, if the democrats follow his 4 points: 1: clear vision 2: a plan for the future 3: good campaign tactics 4: fight like the devil You have a chance.  kerry only had the latter.  Perhaps Phil Bedensen is your man?  Or Bill Richardson? I think conservatives and liberatarians would be glad to see either one as your nominee so ...

I had hoped to post a positive article for my 100, but then the jerk Lynne Stewart got in the way.  So I will just say, 100 after 5 months, and I thought I had run out of steam long ago. No, but it has been fun, and not all of mine gather responses, but when they do!  The heat would melt the fleas off a camel! That is ok.  I respect almost all Bloggers here at JU, but few of the anonymous posters.  That you, both liberal and conservative (And Thatoneguyinslc, I am a con...