Basic right and wrong

British man exposes himself to
Greek woman, who pours alcoholic
drink on him and sets him on fire.

Bubblehead: I knew I could count on you to demand absolute evidence for any statement no matter what. Of course I don’t know absolutely if Sotomayor is the most qualified candidate in 100 years. No one knows that. But this is certainly an idea with a pretty broad circulation: “Would bring more judicial experience to the Supreme Court in 100 years, more overall judicial experience than anyone confirmed in 70 years.” (The White House Blog). “No one on the Court has that complete package of experience” (Lawyer and Supreme Court expert, Tom Goldstein). “She is the most qualified and experienced nominee in 100 years” (Capital Briefing). “Most qualified in a century” (Al Franken). “She has more trial experience as judge than any sitting member of the Court” (The Daily Review). “If confirmed she would bring more federal judicial experience than any Justice in 100 years, and more overall judicial experience than anyone in 70 years” (Huffington Post). “One of the most qualified in decades” (Lindsay Graham). “More judicial experience than anyone in the past 70 years” (Tim Kaine). I could go on but what is the point. Obviously some people believe she is the most qualified and others don’t, and for the most part those that do are Democrats and those that don’t are Republicans. Equally obvious is the fact that some of these people are just repeating what they heard from others, like me. The fact is, she is eminently qualified, certainly more qualified than anyone currently on the Court, and the Republican votes against her were simply nonsensical and petty. I don’t know if she was the most qualified in 100 years or not, nor do I intend to spend a lot of time trying to answer that question absolutely one way or the other. Relax, Morialekafa is a blog, not a scientific tome or a definitive history of the world. But it is nice to know you are just as alert and on your toes as ever.

It seems, unfortunately, that there are always people who simply do not understand the basic rules of right and wrong (why do they usually seem to be Republicans?). People in the United States clearly have the right of free speech. No one disputes that. But when one person’s free speech is designed to prevent others from exercising their right to free speech that is wrong. And when plans are made to deliberately deprive people of their right to free speech that is not only wrong, it is criminal. And there is no doubt that these disruptions we are witnessing are not genuinely grass roots protests, but are being stimulated, directed, and financed by corporate interests who do not want to see any form of health reform. That is not to say there may not be some people who are genuinely opposed to health care reform for one reason or another. But to claim it is going to kill old people and mandate sex change operations and such is just nothing but dishonest fearmongering. The people who are promoting these Fascist tactics obviously are not concerned with right and wrong. They just want to get their way and block everyone else’s way. Ultimately it is not in anyone’s best interest to interfere with honest discussions of the pro’s and con’s of health care reform, but these short-sighted idiots apparently don’t have the brain power to either care or understand. The frustrating and disgusting thing about this is that those who would oppose these Fascists will be the ones accused of Fascism, and there is a minority of morons who will believe it, just as they believe Obama wants to kill old people.

Remember that the average I.Q. is said to be 100, and intelligence is supposedly represented by a bell shaped image. This means that half the population has an I.Q. of below 100, and the other half above 100. I hate to say it, and to appear such an elitist, but what we seem to have going here, and I bet this is demonstrable, is a basic conflict between those with at least a semblance of intelligence and those lacking a semblance of it. You will notice that Universities and Colleges for the most part are more liberal than other communities, northern states are more likely to be liberal than southern ones, those with High School educations are generally more liberal than those without, and so on. You might say this is a contest between the Know-somethings and the Know-Nothings, or between the educated and the non-educated, and between the wealthy and the poor, the upper and lower classes, the white collars and the blue collars, or between the informed and the willfully ignorant. This is in large part due to the ethos of anti-intellectualism that has been allowed to infiltrate American culture, and, I think, has been deliberately encouraged by powerful vested corporate interests and their Republican flunkies. The anti-education attitudes in the U.S., while you might find them funny, unfortunately, are not at all funny operating over time.

LKBIQ:
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar

TILT:
When a blind mole rat closes its mouth its incisors are on the outside.