Tyler (Hos’s Son) meets anti-censorship icon Jello Biafro
l3wis 
My favorite Dead Kennedy’s song. A Neo-Cons wet dream.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgpa7wEAz7I[/youtube]
1st Amendment
SD AG Jackboots has a very skewed view of the First Amendment
AG Marty Jackboots once again proves he has a neo-conservative agenda when it comes to law and the constitution;
The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that speech can be restricted but not barred, Attorney General Marty Jackley said, and he thinks the law passes that test.
“You can’t regulate it out of existence, but you can regulate time and place,” Jackley said.
Well isn’t that regulating it out of existence? This isn’t about dildos and naughty underware, this is about our First Amendment rights. Neo-Cons, like Jackboots, don’t like speech rights because someone might do or say something that offends his beliefs. It isn’t your job as AG to worry about your personal political beliefs, your job is to defend the US Constitution, and sometimes that means defending some really sticky issues. Marty needs to spend some time with Chris Nelson, who put his personal beliefs aside when going after Roger Hunt. Because it wasn’t about abortion, it was about money laundering and breaking campaign finance laws.
Marty scares me more everyday, and like I have said before, if IM13 passes – watch his office. I have a feeling he will do everything in his power to stop the implementation of the measure.
People say some really f’ing crazy shit
In the lastest issue of Censorship News from the National Coalition Against Censorship I just about crapped my pants after reading these quotes from members of the Texas State board of education;
“I reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and state.” (David Bradley)
“… Americans fail to realize the socialistic, and even communistic, world views so inculcated into every area of our society.” (Cynthia Dunbar)
“…we are a Christian nation founded on Christian principles. The way I evaluate history textbooks is first I see how they cover Christianity and Israel. Then I see how they treat Ronald Reagan – he needs to get credit for saving the world from communism and for the good economy over the last 20 years…” (Don McLeroy )
And I thought the fundies in South Dakota were bad . . .
Mayor Huether; Only transparent when it is convenient?
Let’s go for a kayak ride Mike
Oh trust me, Mike isn’t the only politician guilty of this practice. Most politicians LOVE transparent government, when it benefits their agenda. Like I said a few days ago and throughout the mayoral campaign, TRANSPARENCY will be a tough concept for Mike to embrace, simply because he worked in such a secretive industry;
But it’s quite another thing to have quasi-official, unnamed transition team members whom you regularly consult to help you decide who fills those positions.
That’s exactly what it seems like Huether is doing, and it’s starting his tenure at City Hall off on the wrong foot.
Here’s where the ED Board (in all of their great knowledge) doesn’t get it. I don’t think Mike understands the entire concept of OPEN GOVERNMENT. I’m not saying he is stupid, just ignorant to what it means.
The new mayor has said he’s protecting those advisers from taking heat for their suggestions.
I can understand this concept in the corporate world, but not in the public sector. The taxpayer’s of this city are your board of directors and we have a right to know what kind of marketing schemes you are cooking up for this great city, and we have a right to the cook’s names and their recipes.
No one is helped by this lack of transparency, and Huether actually is undermining his own position by unnecessarily breeding suspicion that there’s something to hide.
This is where I disagree with the ED Board. Mike doesn’t think he is breeding suspicion, because this is how they operated in private industry, something he said he would bring to government (something I thought was a bad idea all along because private industry doesn’t have to deal with that pesky US Constitution).
Now that Huether is mayor, everything he does that affects the city ought to be as open and transparent as possible, and that includes the identities of the people on his transition team.
Making their names public would be a step in the right direction.
This was a guy who wigged out when the Gargoyle Leader published the name of his campaign consultant, do you really think he will give you the names of his transition team? Good luck with that. But you would think that at least one member would have enough integrity to reveal themselves . . .
Some of our jackass state legislators FAIL again
Who cares about Ben Franklin, he was a nobody
Good news from Pierre, again. I’m starting to like the 2o10 legislative session more and more everyday.
Maybe they shouldn’t have asked a lawyer that has had trouble in the past interpreting the 1st Amendment to write legislation for them . . . I’m just saying.
A House committee killed a bill that would have required those who operate Internet sites to keep records so they could identify people who anonymously contribute defamatory comments.
One of our greatest founding fathers, Franklin, often railed against England in anonymous letters to newspapers. Just imagine if Franklin feared anon dissent and did nothing? Where would our country be today. Do modern day lawmakers have any clue about history? Apparently not.