tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post5903734478420279385..comments2024-03-28T11:35:15.457-05:00Comments on Althouse: "The hope that the next justice will be a check on the power of corporations is entirely appropriate."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61582741646054026662010-05-09T01:50:09.432-05:002010-05-09T01:50:09.432-05:00Ritmo Brasileiro said...
Contempt for reproductiv...<i>Ritmo Brasileiro said...<br /><br />Contempt for reproductive choice: Forced pregnancy on demand.</i><br /><br />To spread or not to spread? What is your excuse again?Methadrashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07828014989470539375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-7144073112380482552010-05-08T10:55:48.392-05:002010-05-08T10:55:48.392-05:00Contempt for history: being unaware that, even in ...Contempt for history: being unaware that, even in the most anti-abortion states, a D & C was commonly part of the post-rape procedure.Kirk Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05921711310191924997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-92209453812047365662010-05-08T10:33:57.302-05:002010-05-08T10:33:57.302-05:00Back to something in the general area of the threa...Back to something in the general area of the thread topic....<br /><br />Are you a Cafeteria Constitutionalist? Do you think the Supreme Court should selectively give some rights enjoyed by humans to corporations (as long as it helps the Republican Party, I guess?) <br /><br />Or do you believe in the Constitutional value of equal treatment before the law? <br /><br />If corporations are to be given extreme free speech rights, then why should every other right - and responsibility - follow?<br /><br />Death penalty for Massey Energy!AlphaLiberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08711124490821422066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-71104741735022500932010-05-08T10:27:42.421-05:002010-05-08T10:27:42.421-05:00Responding to JAL @ 4:46:
Teabagger Pride.
And ...Responding to JAL @ 4:46:<br /><br /><a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2010/04/tea-bagger-pride.html" rel="nofollow">Teabagger Pride</a>. <br /><br />And the link I previously posted show shows <a href="http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/05/04/todays-manufactured-outrage/" rel="nofollow">the warm embrace of the Teabagger label by the TPers</a>.AlphaLiberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08711124490821422066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-4478434417031541412010-05-07T23:15:19.958-05:002010-05-07T23:15:19.958-05:00We'll never have legal equality between indivi...We'll never have legal equality between individuals and corporations until we empower courts to liquidate individuals for failure to pay their bills.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44952790485737407712010-05-07T22:59:45.257-05:002010-05-07T22:59:45.257-05:00"Contempt for reproductive choice: Forced pre..."<i>Contempt for reproductive choice: Forced pregnancy on demand.</i>"<br /><br />Contempt for reason: Equating voluntary actions resulting in pregnancy with forced impregnation of women.Synovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311191981918160095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-86867645549549314172010-05-07T20:19:41.508-05:002010-05-07T20:19:41.508-05:00Indeed! What reasonable person who enjoys having h...<i>Indeed! What reasonable person who enjoys having his testicles sucked on would want to be compared to an uptight and psychopathic weirdo who protests the president with bizarre signs comparing him to Hitler and the Joker? What a disgusting way to demean that person!</i><br /><br />Smearing ALL tea partiers because of the actions of a few. Typical Alinskyite tactic.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11205752419540502278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-58585448158274007362010-05-07T19:56:46.345-05:002010-05-07T19:56:46.345-05:00Since at the time only idiot college students know...<i>Since at the time only idiot college students knows what "teabagging" means, it's intellectually dishonest to claim that tea-partiers who used that term initially knew what it meant. Now we all know what it means, it's a disgusting slur.</i><br /><br />Indeed! What reasonable person who enjoys having his testicles sucked on would want to be compared to an uptight and psychopathic weirdo who protests the president with bizarre signs comparing him to Hitler and the Joker? What a disgusting way to demean that person!Ritmo Re-Animatedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15912086218531198114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-40290709477223117412010-05-07T19:52:24.713-05:002010-05-07T19:52:24.713-05:00"reproductive choice" - abortion on dema...<i>"reproductive choice" - abortion on demand.</i><br /><br />Contempt for reproductive choice: Forced pregnancy on demand.Ritmo Re-Animatedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15912086218531198114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72716300638366227532010-05-07T19:50:05.159-05:002010-05-07T19:50:05.159-05:00Althouse blogs these topics as if political briber...Althouse blogs these topics as if political bribery isn't a powerful impediment to democracy itself, or at least worthy of keeping in check. <br /><br />Other than that, thanks for the nice long flatulent post about some supposed right claimed by "the minority" to bribe and extort your way into office!Ritmo Re-Animatedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15912086218531198114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-51360730274984427732010-05-07T19:48:53.045-05:002010-05-07T19:48:53.045-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ritmo Re-Animatedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15912086218531198114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61559353884907784482010-05-07T18:40:36.705-05:002010-05-07T18:40:36.705-05:00The only people working for economic justice are t...The only people working for economic justice are the Tea Partiers.Synovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311191981918160095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-92188427538638995652010-05-07T16:46:22.336-05:002010-05-07T16:46:22.336-05:00@AL Second, they were told what it meant and said ...@AL <i>Second, they were told what it meant and said they didn't care.</i><br /><br />Show me.<br /> <br />And not one or two scatorical individuals who made the news after the MSM ignored the thousands of Tea Partiers multiple times.<br /><br />I was never "told." I had to look it up. I care.<br /><br />Newsflash AL; It is DIGUSTING the the vast majority of Tea Partiers.<br /><br />And -- WHY, if there really is nothing distateful and disrespctful, about it, does the left and the POTUS take such smug glee in using it to refer to a very large group of Americans?JALhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15503869597362866878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-36414631849927959372010-05-07T16:45:27.034-05:002010-05-07T16:45:27.034-05:00Why is putting corporations to death "dumb?&q...Why is putting corporations to death "dumb?" they can't be electrocuted but they can be terminated, dissolved. <br /><br />Seriously, just for a moment, corporations kill. If you believe in the death penalty for humans who kill why let off corporations? <br /><br />And why simultaneously grant select human rights to corporations? <br /><br />It seems like a fair question.AlphaLiberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08711124490821422066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-39095263129950646002010-05-07T16:40:15.397-05:002010-05-07T16:40:15.397-05:00@AL
A) They can also be subject to the death penal...@AL<br /><i>A) They can also be subject to the death penalty (see: Massey Energy)</i><br /><br />Unions too?<br /><br /><i>B) They can vote.</i><br /><br />Unions try to seriously influence elections and politics (SIEU anybody? Andy Boy at the WH how many times?)<br /><br /><i>C) They must pay taxes at the same rate as human citizens.</i><br /><br />This I don't know, really -- what are the tax obligations of unions? [They trumped the bond holders in the auto buy out, didn't they?] <br /><br /><i>D) They can't marry corporations of the same sex.</i><br /><br />Yeah there used to be anti-trust rulings -- but does that apply to unions?<br /><br />McCain-Feingold was unconstitutional from the get go. It put limits on individuals as well as corporations.JALhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15503869597362866878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-32587066219197728112010-05-07T16:37:14.140-05:002010-05-07T16:37:14.140-05:00A) They can also be subject to the death penalty.
...A) They can also be subject to the death penalty.<br /><br />Aren't you guys the reality based community? This is just dumb.<br /><br /><br />D) They can't marry corporations of the same sex. <br /><br />You think corporations are currently getting married? And are a particular sex?<br /><br /><br />Re:citizens united....Are you for the 1st amendment, except when you disagree with the speech? <br /><br />"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech......"<br /><br />You somehow see a "unless this speech is from a group of people rather than an individual person"?<br /><br />You're really off your game these last few days.jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01892213227811281098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81082245245599000552010-05-07T16:18:57.627-05:002010-05-07T16:18:57.627-05:00So, corporations can kill and not face the same pe...So, corporations can kill and not face the same penalties under the law as individuals? <br /><br />That's very clearly an admission that corporations are not the same as individual human beings. Therefore, they should not be accorded Constitutional protections given individual human beings. <br /><br />Or aren't you and this Republican Supreme Court cherrypicking the rights you would give corporations?AlphaLiberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08711124490821422066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19093325803189818272010-05-07T16:18:10.770-05:002010-05-07T16:18:10.770-05:00How about a justice who will be a check on the pow...<i>How about a justice who will be a check on the powers of corporations, instead of a handmaiden?</i><br /><br />corporations hold no power over me except GM and Chrysler and health insurers who want to tax me to death and aren't really corporations anymore. if corporations hold power over you might try stiffening your spine.Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12133279828547003387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78549508308932381732010-05-07T15:57:27.550-05:002010-05-07T15:57:27.550-05:00Anyway, back to the topic of the thread. Alex, do ...<i>Anyway, back to the topic of the thread. Alex, do you think that, if corporations are to have the same rights as humans and citizens, they should also be subject to the death penalty? <br /><br />How about Massey Energy fighting safety improvements in a mine that killed nearly 30 people?</i><br /><br />You're fucking nuts.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11205752419540502278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-89920283096312511072010-05-07T15:47:22.877-05:002010-05-07T15:47:22.877-05:00Frau Professor Althouse,
You know well, as a lega...Frau Professor Althouse,<br /><br />You know well, as a legal academic that the modern post-marxist lefty follows critical law theory and doesn't believe in anything as naive as legal "neutrality". For them, all legal analysis is driven by societal power structures, whether the legal actors involved know it or not.<br /><br />Since there is no neutrality, there is either hegemony of their views or the opposition. They prefer their views.<br /><br />Do I buy these arguments? No, but I realize that if we seek either to understand or to stymy the modern left, we must chop at the base of the ideological tree and not at the branches.YoungHegelianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02723316130501823658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-26469261795109372872010-05-07T15:40:05.218-05:002010-05-07T15:40:05.218-05:00We have checks on the power of government in Ameri...We have checks on the power of government in America. It's called the "separation of powers." <br /><br />But modern corporations were not invented then and had not been granted the rights of individuals. So there is little check on the powers of corporations. <br /><br />How about a justice who will be a check on the powers of corporations, instead of a handmaiden?AlphaLiberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08711124490821422066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-20364782006338011302010-05-07T15:38:13.442-05:002010-05-07T15:38:13.442-05:00Prof. Althouse,
Don't you think Rosen should k...Prof. Althouse,<br />Don't you think Rosen should know that the "anti-corporate crusader" William O. Douglas penned the dissent in <i>United States v. Auto. Workers</i> (1957) wherein he would have found the ban on corporate independent expenditures unconstitutional? <br /><br />Douglas' dissent, joined by Warren and Black, was cited glowingly and pretty much followed by the <i>Citizens United</i> majority (See slip op. pp. 27-28).Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08079643569015127248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-76008888170765502010-05-07T15:36:41.801-05:002010-05-07T15:36:41.801-05:00How about a justice that will be a check on the po...How about a justice that will be a check on the power of Government?LilyBarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10110177069779312696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-66048313579824331902010-05-07T15:31:32.016-05:002010-05-07T15:31:32.016-05:00Anyway, back to the topic of the thread. Alex, do ...Anyway, back to the topic of the thread. Alex, do you think that, if corporations are to have the same rights as humans and citizens, they should also be subject to the death penalty? <br /><br />How about Massey Energy fighting safety improvements in a mine that killed nearly 30 people?AlphaLiberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08711124490821422066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27509891806704593792010-05-07T15:29:10.855-05:002010-05-07T15:29:10.855-05:00Ha ha. Youse guys are funny.
Since at the time o...Ha ha. Youse guys are funny. <br /><br /><i>Since at the time only idiot college students knows what "teabagging" means, it's intellectually dishonest to claim that tea-partiers who used that term initially knew what it meant. Now we all know what it means, it's a disgusting slur. I guarantee that every time Obama says it he loses one point in approval rating.</i> . <br /><br />First, bad grammar. <br /><br />Second, they were told what it meant and said they didn't care. Some continue to claim the label for themselves. Remember that Teabagger youtube a few weeks ago?AlphaLiberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08711124490821422066noreply@blogger.com