I think all philosophy was summed up by Don Cornelius with the line “peace, love and soul,” which is remarkably like what you have just said.

Mind reading would most likely be covered at a website dedicated to parapsychology.

For further info on the nexus between “getting a buzz” and parapsychology, click here:

http://tinyurl.com/5ku58k

Regards,

Bob

“Give that man a kewpie doll!”

What movie?

(Hint: William Holden played the starring role)

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Uh, yes, that would definitely have me confused as well. Your brief rewrite of the original statement was enough clarification, and thanks.

I agree with your statements and apology accepted. Please accept my rewrite:

Given the current culture of corruption, the Judge’s actions seem appropriate to her.

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Can’t elaborate as my brain has turned to mush grappling with the knowledge that the SciFi channel is airing…WRESTLING!

Short but sweet.

Very funny.

Could you elaborate on that a little more? I hope you’re NOT saying that Judge Gardiner’s actions of improper conduct (to say the LEAST), should they be found to be absolutely true, are in any way justified. If I misunderstood this statement, my apologies for the error.

There can be no excuse or justification for deliberately shredding parts of our Constitution and Bill of Rights in the name of the “War on Crime,” and that applies just as equally to judges and prosecutors as it does to Presidents and their White House officials.

Kant or won’t? (I know, I know, but I love 3rd grade jokes, it’s a weakness.)

Jill

I Kant tell!

One guess who wrote this:

“Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will. Intelligence, wit, judgement, and the other talents of the mind, however they may be named, or courage, resolution, perseverance, as qualities of temperament, are undoubtedly good and desirable in many respects; but these gifts of nature may also become extremely bad and mischievous if the will which is to make use of them, and which, therefore, constitutes what is called character, is not good. It is the same with the gifts of fortune. Power, riches, honour, even health, and the general well-being and contentment with one’s condition which is called happiness, inspire pride, and often presumption, if there is not a good will to correct the influence of these on the mind, and with this also to rectify the whole principle of acting and adapt it to its end. The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition even of being worthy of happiness.”

So true…a little song to honor the great ones…

Iraq,
Iran,
Afganistan.

Katrina,
Not eatin’,
we’re billionaries and,

we just don’t care!
WE JUST DON’T CARE!!! (SCREAM LOUDLY)
(Done in lite heavy metal please.)

Jill

Considering changing values and morals, and reaching the apex of political corruption, this judge’s actions seem spot on.

Jill,

To quote the great ones (Bush/Cheney) “If you knew what we knew.”

But bad men are rarely great men (see cheney, bush and minions)!
(Although I believe they see themselves as great men and women.)

Forgive the typo. Make that “Acton” not “Actor”.

“I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way, against the holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

– Lord John Dalberg-Actor (letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, dated April 1887)

The last line is as instructive as its predecessor. That’s why I quote it at length.