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 Editorial http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n16-rodriguez-editorial We are pleased to present the second volume of Artnodes in its new stage dedicated to new materialisms. In doing so, we continue to bring together the articles that were or could have been present at the congress held almost a year ago in Barcelona entitled Art Matters, from which the first volume originated, already published in 2015. Ana Rodríguez Granell 2015-12-21 2015-12-21 16 10.7238/a.v0i16.2863 Introduction http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n16-rodriguez-alsina
Once again, we have the opportunity to present a series of articles that propose theoretical approaches that reconfigure or enhance the visibility of the links that exist between material elements and their symbolic representations, underlining the nexus and networks that make up our world and our social, technological and artistic practices. The broad range of approaches and topics that comprise this second volume of Art Matters leads us to resume our criticism of the foundations of modern rationalism and its interference both in discourses and practices, through methodological reflections and object analysis.
 Ana Rodriguez Granell Pau Alsina 2015-12-21 2015-12-21 16 10.7238/a.v0i16.2864 The "liquid" genealogy of the interface http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n16-marzo
The interpretation of the interface in the Western positivist, expansionist, economic and deterministic genealogy of communication, has been greatly enhanced by the constant use of "fluid" and "liquid" metaphors – notions associated with the expansion, connectivity and transfluence. In this article we will discuss the various stages of this genealogy, the scholar and methodological positions of its interpretation, their mark on the contemporary discourse of the interfacial, the discussions associated with it, and its role in the order of the current communicational economy. We conclude that the underlying drives of this narrative are based on the prediction and control of randomness.
 Jorge Luis Marzo Perez 2015-12-21 2015-12-21 16 10.7238/a.v0i16.2784 Memory as Material – a visual arts research practice in neuroscientific laboratories http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n16-lopes
In order to critically explore memory as material for art practice, I take my experience of an artistic residency in a neuroscience laboratory as a starting point to consider artistic encounters with distinct fields of research and matter. I explore my practice-based projects developed progressively through a body of interrelated installation artworks intertwined with the theme of memory. The residencies at different laboratories were performed under research methods familiar to my practice and an ethnographic approach has been used, with studio work mirroring an evolving embedded research process from fieldwork. The sample PhD constructs connections between visual art practice and neuroscientific research studies in the field of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The aim was to explore the representational strategies of AD studies in the laboratory through art practice, alluding to the (dys) functioning of autobiographical memory. The practice explored concepts of the material and immaterial, matter and code, the real and the imaginable, body and metaphor. Debates on visuality and 'looking at', the institutional gaze and the technology within which the visual and science are rooted, are examined using Foucault's concept of panopticon and Latour's actor-network theory.

In creative terms, this exploration allowed the development of several novel and unique methods of research, the resulting artefacts, and the practical materialization of these via the agency of installation. This article suggests that, while exploring a space for art practice within the discourse of memory embedded in scientific laboratories and medical practices dealing with the network of people involved, I have gained a space within the discourse on mind, memory and matter.

 Maria Manuela Lopes 2015-12-21 2015-12-21 16 10.7238/a.v0i16.2787 Breaking the Navajo Code with Bill Toledo http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n16-burbano-garcia
This essay explores the connection between the parallel emergence of computing and the Navajo Code-Talking in the context of the Second World War. This parallel is explored through a set of methodologies and questions overlapping social and technological aspects of cryptography. To nurture the argumentation process, the authors interviewed a former Code-Talker and complemented this research with secondary sources to discuss new vocabularies of Media Archaeology.

 Andres E. Burbano Esteban García 2015-12-21 2015-12-21 16 10.7238/a.v0i16.2777 Proxemia: a sociotechnical analysis of an electronic artwork http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n16-messi
This article puts forward a sociotechnical analysis of the electronic artwork Proxemia, created by the Argentine artist Mariela Yeregui. In the course of this analysis, aspects of the creative process have been selected which highlight most significantly how this process is not restricted to the artist's original intention, but rather that it reshapes and expands in line with the agents involved in the various instances on which the piece is shown.

To this end, there will be an analysis of the artwork's progression through two of the galleries and institutions at which it has been installed and exhibited. From that point, it is our intention to highlight the conflicts and solutions that have affected the piece in each of these instances. This will encompass the flexibility that the concept of problem acquires during this process, its sociotechnical construction and the operating definitions constructed by the various agents involved with respect to the work of art.

Based on the unique case put forward by Proxemia, the objective of this article is to analyse how, in the production of robotic art, certain factors interfere, intertwine and complexify the process, such as institutionality, variables related to management policies, representations of the artistic scene, the crossover between different knowledge systems and even local considerations.

In this respect, we aim to argue that the aforementioned variables interfere with the process not only merely as conditioning factors, or as a framework or context, but rather that, on the contrary, they acquire agency over the final experience of the artwork, influencing the mode in which the piece configures a way of seeing the world.
 Victoria Messi 2015-12-21 2015-12-21 16 10.7238/a.v0i16.2747 The intangible material of interactive art: agency, behavior and emergence http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n16-soler
This paper presents a conceptual analysis of some of the basic notions for the practice of interactive art and the relations among them. A sound understanding of these notions is essential for the creation of the aesthetics of artistically behaving systems. Interactivity, agency, behavior and emergence are presented as the building blocks of this practice, understanding that they are at least as important as the materials that physically instantiate the pieces and installations that constitute the body of interactive art. Interactivity is defined and confronted to the metaphor of the conversation and to the idea of designing interactive systems with artistic purposes. The notions of agency, behavior and performativity are reviewed through the reading of Andrew Pickering's account for the ontology of Cybernetics and in relation to interactive art practices. Finally, the concept of emergence and Peter Cariani's emergence-relative-to-a-model are presented as a theoretical framework with which the analysis and creation of unexpected and non pre-designed behaviors in interactive systems can be based.
 Joan Soler-Adillon 2015-12-21 2015-12-21 16 10.7238/a.v0i16.2744 Big Bacteria for Micro-Humans. Bacteria as an archeological - ecological nexus for an integrative form of health and heritage research http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n16-kacunko
This article sketches out some aspects of an integrated mode of health and heritage research, in reference to the research network entitled Big Bacteria. Its aim is to establish an interdisciplinary research platform between the natural and the health sciences the arts and the humanities, in order to strengthen the latter in the light of rapid biotechnological advances and related worldviews. The text presents necessary methodological bridges and a model case with ambition to advance the "transitory" resort between the Arts and the Sciences entitled Micro-Humanities. Its minimal goal is to supplement the visual culture approach with the one based on material culture. Since bacterium as res vivens exhibits a form of organization that is responsible for interpreting and changing the processes it is involved in, it serves as central model for individuation, agency and selfhood, observing and interpreting systems. Being the oldest, smallest, most abundant and structurally simplest organisms, bacteria are ubiquitous, diverse and variant, as well as vital for all other life forms. They require to be treated not only as indispensable motives, metaphors and models of knowledge, but also as material, medium and methods for its acquiring as well. As their taxonomy unambiguously suggests, bacteria are the facts of the permanently changing and sensing living matter. The contribution focuses on an important case of the bacteria's agency to be systematized and related to the research on bioremediation and biodeterioration (breakdown of materials by microbial action).
 Slavko Kacunko 2015-12-21 2015-12-21 16 10.7238/a.v0i16.2637 The Everyday in Contemporary Art Practices: Towards a Speculative Poetic Regime. The Case of Nicolás Lamas http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n16-matelli
The aim of this article is to demonstrate —in regard to works made from everyday objects— the incipient materialist shift in contemporary art compared to the previous textual shift, and to put forward some recent conclusions about the encounter between "the everyday", materialism/speculative realism (Quentin Meillassoux; Levi Bryant; Graham Harman) and art practice, which will be approached specifically through the works of Nicolás Lamas: Boundary (2013), Ball (2013), Line (2013), What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? (2014) and Geometritation of the world (2013). Regarding the study of "the everyday" in the world of art, we have witnessed the promotion of art centred on the immaterial elements of the relationship between the subject and immediate reality. However, we have recently seen a shift in theoretical and artistic output determined by the encounter between art and theories linked to materialism or speculative realism, which conditions the interpretation of everyday "things" and fosters a redefinition, in an experimental sense, of such object art practices. We are witnessing a paradigm shift regarding the presence of elements of "the everyday" in contemporary art: from the textual and linguistic framework that interprets practices with everyday objects by resorting to semiology and semiotics, to the speculative poetic framework that contemplates the everyday in works of art based on new concepts of materiality established by the theories of materialism/speculative realism and, in general, of new materialism. Everyday material elements in works that fall within the second paradigm are not used as functional signs with a transcendent referent, that is, as metaphors, but are instead the object of speculation and experimentation that endeavours to delve into their physical identity. The works composed of everyday objects by the Peruvian artist Nicolás Lamas could be considered material speculations of reality based on artistic manipulation and the installation of everyday elements in a continuous dialogue with space and other objects immersed in it.
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This is a question that I have seriously always wondered. What makes the "F" word so much worse than any other curse word? It is not something I say, but I do wonder what makes it worse than every other word?


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Column - Hypocrites make an example of Monckton
Andrew Bolt
–, Saturday, June, 25, 2011, (8:51am)
WHAT hypocrites. What cowards. And, yes, I'm talking about the witch-hunters now vilifying sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton.
Beware. These people are trying to shut up not just Monckton, but you—and not just with "jokes" of having you tattooed and gassed.
True, Monckton, a British mathematician, has made a fool of himself and trouble for his allies by accusing the Gillard Government's global warming guru, Professor Ross Garnaut, of having "a fascist point of view".
His point was that Garnaut was telling Australians to simply trust the authorities—even when some of their key claims about man-made global warming had been proven false.
Remember Climate Change Minister Penny Wong wrongly blaming man-made warming for the drought in southern Australia that is now over?
Remember Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery wrongly claiming man-made warming had made the soil too hot, "so even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and river systems"?
Remember the ABC's chief science presenter, Adjunct Professor Robyn Williams, wrongly claiming man-made warming could cause the seas to rise this century by up to 100m?
Remember the warmists wrongly claiming the world's temperature would rise this past decade, the Barrier Reef would now bleach every second year and the seas would rise by two or three times the present rate?
Forget it all. Do not question the scientists! "The science is settled."
We must, says Garnaut, accept the "mainstream" science of climate change.
That argument-by-authority is what Monckton objected to at a meeting in California this month.
"That again is a fascist point of view, that you merely accept authority without question. Heil Hitler, on we go," he said.
That "Heil Hitler" was unwise. So was the slide Monckton showed of a big Nazi symbol over Garnaut's title. The jibe was extreme and very offensive. It cheapened an important point.
Monckton is prone to such hyperbole. But this time it came at precisely the right time for the warmists behind a hysterical campaign to shut up debate here.
I don't just mean the Government's cowardly policy to never debate sceptics, but the concerted effort to portray those "knuckledraggers"—as Science Minister Kim Carr calls them—as so prone to lunacy and violence that no civilised person could reason with them. Thus the exaggerated claims this month of scientists getting "death threats" of the kind the rest of us don't publicise.
Chief Scientist Ian Chubb has illustrated the tactic—and the agenda.
"These hurtful attacks are intended to intimidate scientists, to scare them off and stop them from participating in public discussions on climate change," he protested this week.
But in the past he's demanded sceptics not participate in those discussions, attacking the media for giving these "deniers" a stage. Now he has an even better excuse for no-talkies.
So when Monckton, a British viscount, told some Californian audience that Garnaut had fascist thoughts, this was gold to warmists in Australia. Here was proof that all sceptics were mad.
Never mind that Monckton had apologised. Since he was a speaker at a Perth mining conference that Tony Abbott was to open, the Opposition Leader could be smeared by association and shamed into silence.
So Greens leader Bob Brown demanded Abbott "reconsider" his attendance, while Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said it was "unbefitting (sic) of a political leader in this country to hold these views and these associations".
Journalists bayed accord.
Are these people really so frightened of free speech? So keen to shut people up?
And are they really such hypocrites?
None have said a word against far worse comments made by warmists—not British ones in California, but local ones right here.
Take Herald Sun columnist Jill Singer just this week: "I ... propose another stunt for climate sceptics—put your strong views to the test by exposing yourselves to high concentrations of either carbon dioxide or some other colourless, odourless gas—say, carbon monoxide.
"You wouldn't see or smell anything. Nor would your anti-science nonsense be heard of again. How very refreshing."
Take Sydney ABC presenter Richard Glover this month: "Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies ... Just something along their arm."
Tattooing and gassing sceptics? Does a historic analogy suggest itself, after all?
In fact, Greens candidate Clive Hamilton, a professor of public ethics, seems to have something of that authoritarian strain Monckton warned of, writing that if the world warmed, we must "look to any possible scenario to head it off, including the canvassing of 'emergency' responses such as the suspension of democratic processes."
Where were the demands then for Brown to disown this extremist?
Where was the public shaming of Emeritus Professor David Shearman, an IPCC assessor and honorary secretary of Doctors for the Environment Australia, when he suggested a green "government in the future will be based upon ... a supreme office of the biosphere", comprising "specially trained philosopher/ecologists" who "will either rule themselves or advise an authoritarian government of policies based on their ecological training and philosophical sensitivities"?
When Monckton warns of "eco-fascism", he might not be so wrong.
Yet he's damned, while green extremists are ushered into the ABC.
Dr John Reid, a former Swinburne University academic, even gave a lecture on the ABC's Ockham's Razor, proposing we "put something in the water, a virus that would be specific to the human reproductive system, and would make a substantial proportion of the population infertile".
No shut-ups then.
But when a sceptic speaks out of turn, then the closet totalitarians reveal themselves, and prove a Monckton may be right to worry.
Have Your Say
AGW is nothing but a new vehicle for the old communists. I get tired of any discussion about science. It simply isn't about that. It is about one group of people who can't adapt, who can't fit in and thus want to make all else forcibly change.
AGW, Islam and other hazards are all results of a new age ... of fundamenatlism. Mind dead, do-as-your-told control. Riven with envy for the do-ers.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:15am)
Sat 25 Jun 11 (12:14pm)
Paul, fanaticism not fundamentalism. My agenda no matter what is the truth, is all they care about.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (12:15pm)
Agreed, there is nothing environmental about modern environmentalists. They use it as nothing but cover for their true goals, a world dominated socialists.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (12:30pm)
And again Paul, thank you for confirming what I have written many times.
Denialists are not realy interested in the science at all. Which is why their scientific arguments are so poor and take second place to attacks on science itself, not just the science of AGW, and personal attacks on scientists and the worlds leading scintific organisations and institutions. They show no skepticism whatsoever when it comes to thewir own position.
They see this as a proxy war in an idealogical struggle, and their arguments are indeed ideaological, not scientific ones.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (12:37pm)
Yep....AGW, islam, and the Left. I feel that they are somehow linked.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (01:02pm)
This is the fundamental problem with our democracy, socialism in the public service.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (01:22pm)
I get tired of any discussion about science.
Why would that be Paul? Is it because you don't understand it or because it conflicts with your political beliefs?
Sat 25 Jun 11 (02:36pm)
Brian S replied to PaulC
And again Paul, thank you for confirming what I have written many times.
That's where I stopped reading Brian. Why is it that those of the AGW faith such as yourself, are unable to have a rational conversation about global warming, and must resort to smears?
Sat 25 Jun 11 (03:08pm)
Brian S says:
Denialists are not realy interested in the science at all. Which is why their scientific arguments are so poor and take second place to attacks on science itself, not just the science of AGW, and personal attacks on scientists and the worlds leading scintific organisations and institutions. They show no skepticism whatsoever when it comes to thewir own position.
Complete and utter baloney. The ONLY reason we are skeptical is because we look at the scientific evidence warmists have presented, then looked at the counter argument and have concluded that the counter argument is far stronger (because it is). The counter argument is that warmists evidence is weak at best, fraudulent at worst.
We have posted countless links to studies, presentations, articles and more that comprehensively destroys your position yet you come back here, day after day, and make moronic statements like you have just made.
Nobody smears like a warmist, nobody does hypocrisy like a warmist.
They see this as a proxy war in an idealogical struggle, and their arguments are indeed ideaological, not scientific ones.
That's because this is what it is. The scientific argument is essentially over for now. There is absolutely no evidence to support the absurd notion of catastrophic AGW. None whatsoever, zip, zilch, absolutely nothing. Yet you people have not given up the fight. You haven't faded away like a good scientist would.
The ONLY reason for this is because your views are based on your religious and political beliefs. You are fighting to change our society, not to 'save the world'.
I'll repeat: if this was about science, warmists would have shut up years ago.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (03:30pm)
AGW is nothing but a new vehicle for the old communists.
Right...So Margaret Thatcher was a communists was she?
Recently three changes in atmospheric chemistry have become familiar subjects of concern. The first is the increase in the greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane, and chlorofluorocarbons—which has led some[fo 4] to fear that we are creating a global heat trap which could lead to climatic instability. We are told that a warming effect of 1°C per decade would greatly exceed the capacity of our natural habitat to cope. Such warming could cause accelerated melting of glacial ice and a consequent increase in the sea level of several feet over the next century. This was brought home to me at the Commonwealth Conference in Vancouver last year when the President of the Maldive Islands reminded us that the highest part of the Maldives is only six feet above sea level. The population is 177,000. It is noteworthy that the five warmest years in a century of records have all been in the 1980s—though we may not have seen much evidence in Britain!
The second matter under discussion is the discovery by the British Antarctic Survey of a large hole in the ozone layer which protects life from ultra-violet radiation. We don't know the full implications of the ozone hole nor how it may interact with the greenhouse effect. Nevertheless it was common sense to support a worldwide agreement in Montreal last year to halve world consumption of chlorofluorocarbons by the end of the century. As the sole measure to limit ozone depletion, this may be insufficient but it is a start in reducing the pace of change while we continue the detailed study of the problem on which our (the British) Stratospheric Ozone Review Group is about to report.
And here part of the speech she gave at the 2nd World Climate Conference in 1990.
The danger of global warming is as yet unseen, but real enough for us to make changes and sacrifices, so that we do not live at the expense of future generations.
To accomplish these tasks, we must not waste time and energy disputing the IPCC's report or debating the right machinery for making progress. The International Panel's work should be taken as our sign post: and the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organisation as the principal vehicles for reaching our destination.[/quote
Sat 25 Jun 11 (04:42pm)
It is a reaction to the "don't care, my house is not burning" attitude of those on the conservative side of politics.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (04:43pm)
Australia's total contribution to the atmosphere of man made co2 is 0.00000021%-Could you let us know exactly what climate changes or temperature changes we can expect to see in Australia if we reduce that by 20% ? A straight answer would be nice-not an ALP waffle that specifically DOESN'T answer the question.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (05:02pm)
And as I've written before Brian S, where is your evidence. Prove the connection or shut up. You and other pro-AGWers have been asked repeatedly by myself and others.
You run "scientific" up the flagpole and everyone is supposed to salute. If you knew anything about science, you'd know it doesn't work that way.
On the contrary your frequent invocation of "scientific" is your feeble attempt to build yourself a flimsy little pedestal upon which you perch to denigrate and condemn others.
Denigration and condemnation - the default behaviour of the left.
No argument, no discussion, just more and more feeble name-calling and sneering for you zero-evidence and failing position. AGW has been given the benefit of the doubt for at least 20 years. Don't you think some of the projections based on the best climate models money can buy would have been supported by the observations by now ? Come on, be honest for once. Otherwise, join the chorus of other howler monkeys in the BigTed, AS, polyaux, etc conga line.
Your choice of course.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (05:55pm)
If you had an honest understanding of climate modelling and how successful it actually is,Keith,you wouldn't offer the silly challenges you think are so potent.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (06:07pm)
MattR: Thank you for providing further confirmation of my point. Your statements do not even faintly resemble a skeptical viewpoint and demonstrate the denialist view of this as an ideological clash not a scientific issue.
If doug z has read any of my posts before, or had continued on reading, he would know that I respect genuine skeptics but denialists such as Paul C, MattR and Keith, who cannot help but have seen the countless links to evidence for AGW but do not contest the evidence in a meaningful way, just deny that it is evidence.
I do not care about saving the world. I will be dead by the time the worst effects of AGW are felt, and frankly don't give a damn about what happens after.
I do care about the pathetic and scurrilous attacks on science and scientists by the denialists.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (06:07pm)
Brian S, As an Eco-fascist, do you think that the USSC should be excluded from sitting in judgement on this issue?
Shame, Andrew. You misspelt hyperbowl and you've left me in the high dungeon!
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:18am)
Sat 25 Jun 11 (11:54am)
How 'contemptful' of Andrew!
Morning Andrew,
You are right about the unwiseness of the "Heil Hitler" comment, but the sentiment is correct. How dare Jill Singer decide that I should die for simply disagreeing with her and demanding proof? Gee, gassing people who disagree with you. Wherever did that thought come from? Or forcibly tattooing those that are different from you. Next they will be opening the concentration camps so that they can work us to death and gain some more from us before we die. Gore, Flannery, Gillard, Brown, Combet, Wong, Milne, Rhiannon, plus the corrupt portion of the media who cheer them on are the real danger to our environment. We could actually be fixing problems with our environment if they were not wasting precious dollars on their carbon schemes.
Mark my words, these are the liars, the hypocrites, the carpet baggers and thieves that we should be watching out for. Hold them to account every time they are caught out in a false hood, everytime they try to steal from us. And may history consign them to the same rubbish bin that all such totalitarian regimes end up in.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:24am)
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:52am)
Here here
We also shudder at the thought of what kind of republic these
liars, hypocrites, carpet baggers incurable incompetents and thieves are determined to foist on Australia at their first
A government of buffoons and their ditto accomplices have
reduced this country to a costly farce at home and on the world stage.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:55am)
Could not agree more. unwise but totally understandable when all opposition is ridiculed and written off in deluge of lies, deceit and duplicity.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (11:40am)
Agreed AM, but how do you get the mind-numbing collective that is the media to actually report news as it happens? How do you stop them being the Labor propaganda machine they are? How do you get reason from journalists who are either so of the Left themselves or beholden to editors beholden to Rudd? I despair about the media in this country. The thread AB ran re that Carnista Matthews fiasco got, I think over 200 comments here, but was not mentioned once on any commercial TV news program.
I've said it before but the fifth columnists in the media are as guilty of treason as was Benedict Arnold.
Excellent article Andrew. Cuts right to the heart of the matter. Also let me reiterate what I wrote yesterday…
It is clear that this fight is not on a level playing field. The rules apply only to us, and not to them. It is unfair beyond words. We are fighting with not only one hand tied behind our back, but also with a ref holding the Queensbury Rule Book. Our opponent has no such complications, they fight dirty, fists and feet, wielding a long shard of glass in their hands instead of boxing gloves, a brawler from the stinking back alleys of pubs.
You would hope that people like Singer, Glover, Reid, Shearman and Hamilton, plus the leftwing legions who use the repugnant 'denier' label upon anyone who doesn't agree with them, would feel a twinge of guilt, a flush of embarrassment. Yet they don't seem to. Perhaps they feel immune from shame because they believe themselves to be right and on the moral high ground. So any tactic, any weapon is justified to teach the plebs and the sceptics what for. To bring them into line. To get them thinking and parrotting appropriately conformist thoughts and language…
Wow. Now that is getting disturbingly familiar.
Perhaps Monckton might be right after all?
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:26am)
One of the primary pioneering theorists on apocalyptic global warming is Gunther Schwab (1902-2006), an Austrian Nazi. In 1958, Schwab wrote a fictional novel built off of Goethe's(1749-1832) Faustian religious play Dance with the Devil. While a few scientists since the late 1800's had contemplated the possibility of global warming coming from industrial pollution, Schwab used Goethe's dramatic approach to convert the theory into an apocalyptic crisis. The book outlines many looming environmental emergencies, including anthropogenic global warming. Guenther Schwab's very popular novel was an apocalyptic game changer. By the early 1970's, it had been translated into several languages and had sold over a million copies.
At one point in his novel, Schwab opines on the fragile relationship between oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Assuming the planet has only about 100 years remaining, Schwab frets over the continuing rise of carbon dioxide that "will absorb and hold fast the warmth given out by the earth. This will cause the climate to become milder and the Polar ice will begin to thaw. As a result, there will be a rise in the level of the ocean and whole continents will be flooded."
Sounds familiar? A lot of Eco-loons or Eco-Nazis took Schwabs views and incorporated the pseudo-science into the new Global Warming religion.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:26am)
Sat 25 Jun 11 (05:52pm)
What a load of bollocks. Every second old Nazi nature worshipper wrote a book like that. Therefore AGW is bunk,and Monckton is right? Schwab contributed nothing to the physics and chemistry that informs climate science,so he cannot be called a 'theorist',let alone a 'pioneering' one,of AGW of any kind.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:28am)
Sat 25 Jun 11 (06:38pm)
You'll have to re-think energy demands supposed 'inelasticity'....concentrated energy is in finite supply.
None of these three factors is directly mensurable. For this and other reasons, it is not possible to obtain climate sensitivity numerically using general-circulation models: for, as Akasofu (2008) has pointed out, climate sensitivity must be an input to any such model, not an output from it.
Inconsistent and Nonsense: Monckton is correct that neither the forcing, the no-feedback response, or the feedback factor are directly measurable from observations. But each of them is determined by physical constraints on the system. Both forcing and the no-feedback response are determined by the spectroscopic properties of atmospheric constituents and the distribution of temperature profiles through the atmosphere.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:28am)
I'm still waiting for you to post the Abbott word cloud from the ABC earlier this week before you can ever use the word 'hypocrite', or even 'bias', ever again.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:30am)
Sat 25 Jun 11 (04:29pm)
Tim, how do you link the two? I would really like to know because as it stands it makes no sense at all.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (04:48pm)
When Abbott becomes PM, Tim.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (09:54pm)
Ok now I am telling you for the third time!!!!! the Gillard cloud is the ABCs doing-- so why do you nag here-- I have been watching the drum for you to demand it there-- but have not seen it. So what IS your point?/
While I don't condone LM's words, there is very much a totalitarian "we want to control you" attitude prevalent in a lot of current psuedoscience/political thought.
The people making such comments MUST be held to account, and in the long run, if it comes down to calling a spade, a spade.. so be it.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:32am)
Political correctness - that terrible insistence that some things
must remain unsayable even if they are patently true
.Political correctness - the system of censorship which has settled over Australia like a dense cloud of phosgene gas.
Australias freedom and peace loving free speech democracy is clearly under threat over various issues which are of great concern to the powerful skeptics and our skepitical and cynical man in the street voters who are now fully aware they are being led up the garden path with a view to another attack on their already depleted hip pocket with worse much worse to come.
"socialism eventually runs out of other peoples money" -
Margaret Thatcher.
The commonsense and lucid among our great and good must
not allow this government and its accomplices to lower the iron curtain on our right to voice and debate our concerns and to hear from those who have every right in our democracy to challenge the "done deal" scientists and to present their findings to the public.
Anyway what's to hide why unless its another great big costly scam funded by a great big new tax from this government
of incurable incompetents.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:36am)
While I heartily agree with the substance of this column, I'm somewhat disillusioned with Andrew's reflex first post on the Monckton episode. He is so intent sometimes on trying to improve his image with the politically correct educated (sic) idiots of the inner suburbs that he joins them in their rubbish before he puts on his thinking cap. Maybe Monckton shouldn't have shown that slide, But we don't have to join the baying mob to prove our "virtue". Andrew made a fool of himself in his immediate reaction to the destruction of the cattle industry.
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Sat 25 Jun 11 (04:03pm)
Agree, well said.
Poor Gillard and Bob Brown. Their hysteria is going to be shown for what it is on The Bolt Report tomorrow… no wonder Monkton compared this crowd to Nazis, because that's exactly how they are behaving…
And does Labor really think the public is dumb enough that they can't see the correlations between their scientists and behaviour of Gillard in forcing a carbon tax on us and the behaviour of the Nazis?
Oh Dear… the Bolt Report really is going to kill Gillard with mainstream Australians laughing at Gillard's hysterical crowd of followers beating their global warming drum and bleating about something that's pretty funny when presented on National TV.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:40am)
Its a very sad thing to see this level of hypocrisy, but as humans we never learn from the past. Combet stood up in Parliament the other day and it was pure hatred - guilt by association, McArthyism, communism, all the hallmarks of extremism - the culmination of a very sad series of events.
Are you or have you ever been a sceptic?
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:40am)
This government of incurable incompetents is a deadman walking
only interested in retaining power for the next two years.
Average Australia's are hoping against hope the trashing
and fleecing of the nation by Labor and its accomplices can somehow be slowed down until Tony Abbott and the coalition
take government and set about the mammoth and unenviable task of redressing, repairing and retiring what is going to be sure and certain disgraceful and even shocking legacy to the nation from Gillard Rudd Labor Greens.
And pigs might fly of course as Gillard refuses even to rein
in Rudd as he congalines around the world throwing taxpayers
money around with gay abandon anywhere and everywhere
except where he should be ... in our region adressing the
very very concerning matter of the flood of illegals who are forcing their way into Australia thanks to the tacit invitation
of his and Gillards government .
Average Australians are far from impressed as evidenced
by the polls and the demand for an election on the carbon tax
just for starters.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:47am)
Of course the warmists have said far worse about those who are not beholden to their views. This Monkton business is all humbug designed to intimidate and silence. He is as entitled to his views as they are to theirs. I'm just sorry he apologised.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:48am)
Stop promoting this fraud,Andrew.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (10:55am)
Sat 25 Jun 11 (03:57pm)
Stifling the debate again Polyaulax?
Sat 25 Jun 11 (04:08pm)
You are confused, poly. AB has been exposing the fraud of AGW for a long time, not promoting it.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (05:58pm)
No,Brian,Monckton's fraudulent schtick is not 'debate'.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (07:28pm)
Wow, Distant Scot, you really nailed him with that one.
The 'climate change' debate is confusing due to language issues.
The Greens have moved from 'global warming' to 'climate change' apparently because Sam on the tram would be aware of recent frightening 'climate changes' such as floods, tsunamis, cyclones, drought, earthquakes etc. So being a 'climate change denier' makes a person look bad/stupid/ignorant/pig headed. Whereas questioning global warming is more sensible.
As I see it the questions are
1) Is our global climate changing? (Do you agree with that Andrew?)
2) Is it due to man made emissions/CO2? (Let's leave 'global warming out of it since that now seems questionable). Or is it due to more natural phenomenon? (I saw Shirley McLaine on Oprah saying the changes were due to unusual/rare planetary alignments - maybe she's right!)
3) Is a carbon tax going to change/reverse supposed climate changes (if the answer to 1 and 2 is yes)?
4) To what extent does a carbon tax need to be charged (if ans to 3 is yes) and what countries need to be on board for it to work?
I think the debate (which is actually a number of debates, its not one question) has been over simplified and blurred by the left/Greens. It is becoming like a religion. 'Just have faith in the scientists' - right, which scientists? Which ones actually practice 'science'? Where are the numbers/scientifically undeniable results? Where are the holes/assumptions?
Sat 25 Jun 11 (11:02am)
Sat 25 Jun 11 (03:56pm)
To what extent does a carbon tax need to be charged (if ans to 3 is yes) and what countries need to be on board for it to work?
I don't think 20% of the world's emitters, including Australia, are going to be enough.
Calm Down Bolt. There's no conspiracy. There is no secret agenda. The simple fact is that the overwhelming scientific evidence points towards man made climate change. We know this because of peer reviewed scientific papers across a vast range of subjects. Monkton has never published a peer reviewed paper. He is driven by ideology, not science.
The fact that yourself and the majority of readers are willing to discount the evidence by scientists in favour "common sense" is appalling. I say that if you are unwilling to listen to the scientists you should give up the modern conveniences that they have provided. Time to throw away your fridge, TV, computer, microwave and car.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (11:19am)
Sat 25 Jun 11 (02:38pm)
Well done - you've manage to squeeze every talking point and calming mantra into the one post.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (02:58pm)
Kilgore, shouldn't you have already thrown away those things to "prevent the apocalypse" predicted by those scientists? I find it appalling that you are willing to discount the evidence by scientists in favour of a more convenient lifestyle. I bet you're even connected to that big dirty fossil fuel web of pollution we call the grid! /gasp
Sat 25 Jun 11 (04:06pm)
The fact that ..... the majority of readers are willing to discount the evidence by scientists in favour "common sense" is appalling.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (04:38pm)
Time to throw away your fridge, TV, computer, microwave and car.
Isn't that what you should be doing if you are believer.
Could you tell me why you chose to believe one scientist over another?
I do believe you are making a choice because quite obviously the science is not settled. Listen the scientists, all of them.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (04:50pm)
The simple fact is that the overwhelming scientific evidence points towards man made climate change.
No, it does not.
AB's small list of failed catastrophic fortune tellers and climate change deceivers Wong, Flannery et al are further exposed as gold standard frauds by our dynamic and un controllable changing climate.
First the rains came, then the birds
ACROSS the great Lake Eyre Basin, an environmental boom not seen in decades is occurring.
These rare times are the basin's ''boom cycle'', which can be followed by dry periods lasting decades,
''And what we seem to understand about these systems is that it will tide them over for those really long dry spells.'' Professor Kingsford says..
''We are going to get to see this country as it was 100-200 years ago, not as it has been in the last 50 years.'' **( My Q: What were the cO2 levels 50-100-200 years ago & was a carbon tax used?)
CSIRO's Mark Stafford-Smith says…
Whoa! The CSIRO?
The same CSIRO that said on 31 Mar 2006: [ 3 w's(dot)csiro(dot)au/resources/pfbg(dot)html ]
The declines in precipitation projected over much of Australia will exacerbate existing challenges to water availability and quality for agriculture as well as for commercial and residential uses.
Or the same CSIRO who said on January 17, 2004:
This is the worst-case scenario for global warming, as forecast by the CSIRO and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The IPCC (and CSIRO) relied heavily on the Mann paper in coming to their global warming conclusions.
Recent weather has been ominously supportive of it.
(weather=climate debate anyone? I digress.)
But last year, two Canadians, statistics expert Stephen McIntyre and economics professor Ross McKitrick, reexamined Mann's original paper and claimed it was riddled with error.
These errors are now acknowledged. (google hockeystick/mann)
It is no wonder Prof Ian Chubb of the CSIRO denies open debate at any opportunity.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (11:21am)
I get offended by the hypocracy too. Being a denier these days is a badge of courage. We are probably the last line of defence between common sense and authoritarian rule. Be proud.
OTOH I do write to these smearers such as Combet and I ask for an apology to myself along the lines of those he demands for Garnaut. I also ask Windsor to explain the goodness in an NBN monopoly. Similarly with Fielding and his non support of a plebiscite or Oakeshotts support for a CO2 tax.
Whinging here lets me know that others think as I do. But to be effective all who have complaint with this government have to make their voices heard where it counts, in a parliamentarian's office. Writing to newspapers used to be effective, but since they are now run by the government cheer squad, not so much. Equally it is important to let members who are doing the right thing know you agree.
Sat 25 Jun 11 (11:23am)
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While not a substitute to the paths to legitimacy described in this article, there are a couple of others I believe to be important: the leverage that can be provided by automation, and the influence of a powerful ally that stands to profit from making that automation available. I'm referring to the agricultural equipment industry, which, if it were to embrace the full potential of robotics to enable better agricultural practices, could both accelerate the adoption of those practices and profit handsomely from doing so.
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We passed the 1 year mark today! I cannot believe it's been 12 mos since he's been home...and that he is 13 mos (he should only be 10.5 mos).
Thinking about the last 24 hrs in NICU and rooming in. I cannot believe how much he has grown and developed.
I blamed a snow storm for starting up my labor after 7 days on bedrest w/PROM. As we left the hosptial - it flurried! In April! The sad part of our going home day is DH didn't get enough warning for us to room in (we have a dog & he had to work) and he got stuck in meetings and couldn't come meet us to go home :(
I remember crying as I pulled out of the hosptial parking lot! And I was greatful for the preemie breathing/grunting b/c I knew he was ok in the backseat!
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Since Wisconsin seems to be a complete dead zone for 3G service I kept track in notes my mental tweets from the 6 hour drive to Chicago from Minnesota. I was accompanied only by my 4.5 year old, so it proved to be an entertaining drive.
9a-10:30 Pouring rain. No visibility. May die. #soloishroadtrip
10:45 I wish I was a boy and could pee while driving. #soloishroadtrip #chicagobound
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12:20 it's tough to eat a big Mac while driving. #soloishroadtrip
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12:44 "Um.. with the primary colors. Mmmm.. blue and red I think. Let's call daddy." #kindergartenfailure
1:15 Oh god why did I drink so much coke and smoothie?
1:28 Raining again. Good thing I don't have to pee terribly. #sarcasm
1:48 (Ixonia) Petting zoo. Bathroom. Rain. No petting.
2:38 "Knock knock. Whose there? Refrigerator. Refrigerator who? Banana Peel"
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3:13 Toll edens 24. Note to self: pay later.
3:22 Exit at Old Orchard!!
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Meanwhile, help is being sought from the public in locating relatives of a fourth victim of the fire, who was injured. Officials say Willie Mitchell remains in critical condition at a burn center in Georgia.
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Skip to comments.Liberal Supreme Court Justice Talks Candidly about Rewriting the Constitution
Posted on 04/29/2014 5:26:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
Editor's Note: Column was coauthored by Ken Klukowski.
Justice John Paul Stevens doesnt believe anyone has the right to own a gun, and admits that you would need to rewrite the Constitution to make his preference a legal reality. And thats exactly what he thinks should happen.
Throughout his 35-year tenure on the Supreme Court, Justice Stevens was a lion of the Legal Left. He was an unapologetic advocate of the Living Constitution that judges should continually reinterpret the words of the Constitution in accordance with what they, and other elite members of society, decide is the evolving enlightenment of modern society.
Justice Stevens retired in 2010 at the end of the second-longest tenure in Supreme Court history. (The only justice to serve longer is the one he replaced in 1975, William Douglas, with 36 years). Now Justice Stevens has written a book on the Constitution called Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution. The title says it all.
One of the amendments Justice Stevens would like to change is the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment reads, A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Justice Stevens believes five words should be added. He would like to add when serving in the militia, so the last part would read, the right of the people to keep and bear arms when serving in the militia shall not be infringed.
This is extraordinarily revealing. It shows that Justice Stevens believes the Constitution should say what he would say if he were writing it, not what the American people decided it would say when they wrote it.
In its 2008 case D.C. v. Heller, the Supreme Court held after 60 pages of analysis poring through the congressional record, state ratification conventions, dictionaries, speeches, letters, and other sources from the writing of the Bill of Rights that the Second Amendment secures the rights of law-abiding and peaceable adult citizens to keep and bear firearms unconnected from any type of government service. In doing so, the Court struck down a D.C. law that made it illegal to have handguns at home, among other restrictions.
Then in its 2010 case McDonald v. Chicago, a majority of the Supreme Court again spent dozens of pages exploring the original meaning of both the Second Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment to hold that the right to bear arms is a fundamental right that applies as strongly against state and local governments as it does the federal government. In doing so, the Court struck down Chicagos ban on having handguns in the home.
Justice Stevens dissented from both decisions, and would add these words about the militia to create the opposite result. But what is the militia anyways? The Second Amendment was ratified in 1791. What did the American people think it referred to regarding the militia?
According to the Militia Act of 1792passed the very next yeardefines the militia as all able-bodied men ages 18 through 45, except those with a religious objection to using deadly weapons. Thats why when Americas population was 3 million when the Constitution was adopted, James Madison wrote that any president who became a tyrant would face an armed militia of 500,000. That was the estimated number of grown men in the American population.
It doesnt matter if the meaning of militia has changed since then, because the Constitutions meaning does not change. Thats why its a written documentthe first written Constitution in world history. It was specifically written so that everyone would know what its words say, which necessarily includes that those words could never change.
When the Constitution needs to be changed (and it sometimes does, such as to end slavery and ensure equal rights for all racial groups), then the American people do so only by adopting an amendment. An amendment adds new words to the Constitution that supersedes anything already there that is inconsistent. But even amending the Constitution does not actually remove any of the words previously there, it just overrides them.
But it turns out theres no need to change anything regarding militia anyway, for two reasons. First, current federal law, 10 U.S.C. § 311, defines the militia of the United States as every able-bodied adult male ages 17-45including younger people than its original definition of 18-45 (and again, except those with a religious objection to carrying weapons)plus all women in the National Guard. The definition of militia under federal law is actually broader now than it was when the Second Amendment became part of the Supreme Law of the Land.
However, the second reason makes the first irrelevant. As the Supreme Court explained in Heller, the reference to a militia is called a prefatory clause, which helps explain the meaning of what comes later (called the operative clause), but never narrows the reach of the later clause. The operative clause in the Second Amendment is the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
So the militia reference does not narrow the scope of the right to bear arms. Not only that, but the Supreme Court also explored all the other terms, explaining that this clause refers to the ability of an armed citizenry able to protect the nation against both foreign invaders and a tyrannical federal government, if any president would attempt to use the military to take over the whole nation. Well regulated in 1791 meant well-armed and proficient. The militia was the full body of law-abiding citizens. And necessary to the security of a free state meant that having such a well-armed citizenry was necessary to keep America free.
None of that would restrict gun rights in any event. But even if the prefatory clause did mean something more narrow, it would still not alter the guarantee that the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Thats why Justice Stevens wants to add new words into the operative clause, to narrow it to only apply to men and women when they are serving in the government as part of the National Guard. It would abolish any right to private gun ownership in the United States.
None of this is exclusively confined to the Second Amendment. Advocates of the Living Constitutionmost of whom in legal circles would actually be called consequentialists or purposivistswould make all sorts of changes to the Constitution.
They believe that the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment does not protect organizations like the National Rifle Association from making campaign messages about where candidates standing during election season. They believe the Free Exercise Clause does not protect the ability of a church or the Little Sisters of the Poora Catholic charity of nunsnot to cover birth control or abortion in their healthcare plans.
On the flip-side, they argue for all sorts of rights that are not found anywhere in the text of the Constitution. They argue for fundamental rights to abortion, gay marriage, and other issues about which the Constitution does not say a single word, while ignoring words that are there in black and white.
Justice Stevens wants to make other changes as well, as his title Six Amendments suggests. Among other things, he would change the First Amendment to limit political speech, change the Eighth Amendment to forbid the death penalty, change the Tenth and Eleventh Amendments to end sovereign immunity for the states and absolute immunity to state and local elected officials when they dont follow a federal law.
Just like with the Second Amendment in Heller and McDonald, these are all issues where he argued in dissenting opinions that the Constitution already does all these things the way its written. He lost on all those issues, so now he is taking what everyone can acknowledge is the only legitimate way to make those changes, by changing the words of the Constitution itself.
The interesting twist to this story is that Justice Stevens told NPR, I think in time that what I have to say about each of these six issues will be accepted as being consistent with what the Framers really intended in the first place, referring to those who wrote the Constitution.
That is a remarkable claim. In each of these issues when he lost, the majority opinion spent many pages exploring the original meaning of those constitutional provisions, and the justices ruled the way they did because it was clearly what the Framers meant. For example, private gun ownership was clearly regarded as a fundamental right in 1791, and organizations had unlimited rights to speak out on candidates and issues during elections.
But that aside, Justice Stevens book is revealing about the liberal mindset, a worldview that rejects the principle that the Bill of Rightsincluding the Second Amendmentis premised on a mistrust of government power. Its designed to protect the American people from their own government.
This book is a reminder of how much of that government power is wielded by federal judges, and especially the nine justices of the Supreme Court. And is should heavily factor into whom Americans vote for in 2016 for president, in terms of the kind of justices that new president will give us. Heller and McDonald were both 5-4 decisions. The fate of the Second Amendmentand other fundamental rightshangs in the balance.
Stevens would have fit right in with the old Soviet Union or Third Reich.
Stevens is an old fool. He should have ran for office to write laws instead of taking a job that was supposed to interpret them narrowly. He is an excellent example of how activist judges are eroding confidence in the value of a participatory democracy.
> ustice John Paul Stevens doesnt believe anyone has the
> right to own a gun
Would that include the jackbooted thugs of the Feral Gummint alphabet agencies?
Didn't think so.
Stevens has proven himself to be yet another elitist, genocide-enabling moron.
We need term limits for the SC, too.
Why would libs bother?
A couple more wise Latino's on the court and what the US constitution says won't mean beans.
Does it matter to Obama what the laws says?
Living Constitution (without amendment) == bastardized rulings
Wonder if his keepers arrange play dates with Jimmy Carter.
Couple things to keep in mind here.
First, Stevens' suggestions are an outright admission that the Constitution is indeed restrictive of Federal powers and permissive of individual rights/liberties. Otherwise there wouldn't be a need to rewrite it, right?
Second, it's just as easy to interpret the 2nd Amendment as requiring individual firearms ownership. Consider that the healthcare "right" in Obamacare comes with the mandate that one have coverage, or pay a tax.
Applying this same logic to firearms, ownership could be mandated under the same terms. Forcing Liberals to either own firearms, or pay a tax to help subsidize ownership by those who can't afford to on their own ...
Democrat Presidents would hardly nominate any other kind.
"Stevens would have fit right in with the old Soviet Union or Third Reich."
Yeah, briefly. Once he served his purpose he would have been sent to a gulag or hanged with piano wire.
and other sources from the writing of the Bill of Rights that the Second Amendment secures the rights of law-abiding and peaceable adult citizens to keep and bear firearms unconnected from any type of government service. In doing so, the Court struck down a D.C. law that made it illegal to have handguns at home, among other restrictions.
The statement "the second amendment secures the rights of law abiding and peaceable adult citizens" clearly shows the author to be of like mind with the esteemed Justice Stevens with little or no understanding of the phrase "shall not be infringed".
"We need term limits for the SC, too."
The assumption was that life long appointments would isolate judges from political influence. Hey, the founders were not perfect.
A good example of why the members of SCOTUS should not be appointed for life!
This is what you could end up with if a constitution convention is convened. The power brokers will fight like crazy to seize control of that convention.
That doesn't mean the states have to approve of any amendments coming out of the convention, but the reach of the liberal power brokers is into every niche in our society.
Maybe he will have a heart attack and croak before he can get his paws on re-writing the Constitution. Same goes for all others with a leftist brain.
(Ya, I know, I know........)
Elections have consequences. We are a death away from the looney left dominating the SCOTUS.
Elections have consequences. We are a death away from the looney left dominating the SCOTUS.
Dream on, you old Liberal. Your idea is a sure fire way to abolish the United States. There is no way we could agree on a new Constitution, with some wanting Big Government to rule so they could plan their Lefitst Utopia, and others wanting freedom from these central planners.
Do it Stevens' way & soon we would have an all new Constitution,totally unrecognizable in comparison to the original,& maybe a new civil war to go with it.
Once a dope always a dope.
The best thing those of us who support original intent with respect to the second amendment could do is put the revised amendment Stevens is suggesting to a vote, with exactly the wording he has proposed. The revision to the amendment will not pass Congress (either house) with the 2/3 majority required by the Constitution. Even if it did pass Congress it would not pass 3/4 of the states as required to become part of the Constitution.
Putting the Stevens amendment through the ratification process, with the outcome being a losing vote, will be a very clear and powerful signal to the Supreme Court that the modern progressive interpretation of the 2nd Amendment is not shared by Congress or the people. In addition, it will force a number of Democrat Senators and Congresspeople to go on record with respect to the right to bear arms. Constituents will be screaming loudly so many progressive Democrats will have to choose between their progressive ideology or the loud voices of their constituents with respect to an issue that could easily mobilize opposition the next time they face the voters.
For too long we have allowed the progressives to amend the Constitution via Supreme Court interpretation instead of forcing them to subject their revisions to the ratification process. In this case, conservatives should be proactive and force the issue while we have the votes in Congress, and the voices of the American people, to put the issue to rest. If we don't do it now, we'll continue to see the courts and Congress continue to nibble away at the Amendment until the right no longer exists.
Ford nominated this fool. Now you know why Carter was elected.
The Left has effectively amended the constitution dozens of times these past eighty years without the hassle of formal amendments.
Why would they bother now?
Conservatives continue to think the written constitution is the law of the land. It isn't. The Leftist amended Frankenstein Constitution is the supreme law.
That's a truism. What else would they carry, really?
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Has anyone run into COPPA compliance issues on a wordpress site? I'm helping a friend set up a site to market his album of children's music. COPPA is Child Online Privacy Protection Act and regulates the collection of personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.
At a minimum, I think I need to add a check box to the registration page that asks if you are 12 or under and a link to the privacy policy of the site that clearly spells out how information about child users is used by the site. Additionally, posts by users that are children should not be personally identifiable (eg. WordPress should change their comments to say "posted by a young fan" or something).
A little more advanced usage would be to collect the parent's email address to ask for permission to create the user account and/or send marketing info (upcoming concerts, new album, etc.) to their kids. If my friend wants to rent his marketing database, it would be nice to be able to easily remove the child users from that list.
Any thoughts?
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