For your enjoyment…

“Some concerned parents have contacted the Mattel toy company with allegations that one of its dolls utters words which promote Islam.

The Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n Coo dolls are manufactured by Fisher-Price, which is part of the Mattel toy empire. However, a number of parents contacted the company when they heard the doll say these words: “Islam is the light.”

For the full story, see this link:

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=296382

What is most disturbing though is the acceptance of a clearly disturbed Mr. Martin as a viable information source, by a major news network. While we all of course understand that FOX is a Right Wing Propaganda source, it does vaguely meet the definition of mainstream media. Mr. Martin and Mr. Corsi before him were initially treated as scholars by the MSM, although both had easily discernible history’s that destroyed their credibility.

While the facts of Pat Buchanan’s bigotry are clear and proven, he nonetheless can be vaguely defined as a pundit, as much as I can’t stand him. With Martin and Corsi all this goes out the window and their expositions become accepted discourse. However, perfectly reasonable people like Dennis Kucinich and even Reverend Wright are defined as wild eyed zealots, whose ideas are then declared beyond the pale. The greatest threat to American democracy is this constriction of political discourse.

Man JT you said a mouthful there–and really more about Fox News.

Thanks to Lord Scalia, I now deem Political Elections to fall within the category of ‘Commercial Expectations.’

Remember “His Election?”

Vincent Bugliosi:

“Under Supreme Court rules, a stay is supposed to be granted to an applicant (here, Bush) only if he makes a substantial showing that in the absence of a stay, there is a likelihood of “irreparable harm” to him. With the haste of a criminal, Justice Scalia, in trying to justify the Court’s shutting down of the vote counting, wrote, unbelievably, that counting these votes would “threaten irreparable harm to petitioner [Bush]…by casting a cloud upon what he claims to be the legitimacy of HIS ELECTION.” [Emphasis added.] In other words, although the election had not yet been decided, the absolutely incredible Scalia was presupposing that Bush had won the election–indeed, had a right to win it–and any recount that showed Gore got more votes in Florida than Bush could “cloud” Bush’s presidency. Only a criminal on the run, rushed for time and acting in desperation, could possibly write the embarrassing words Scalia did, language showing that he knew he had no legal basis for what he was doing, but that getting something down in writing, even as intellectually flabby and fatuous as it was, was better than nothing at all. (Rehnquist, Thomas, O’Connor and Kennedy, naturally, joined Scalia in the stay order.)”

And while a tad non-sequitorial, I just love this quote:

“In yet another piece of incriminating circumstantial evidence, Scalia, in granting Bush’s application for the stay, wrote that “the issuance of the stay suggests that a majority of the Court, while not deciding the issues presented, believe that the petitioner [Bush] has a substantial probability of success.” But Antonin, why would you believe this when neither side had submitted written briefs yet (they were due the following day, Sunday, by 4 pm), nor had there even been oral arguments (set for 11 am on Monday)? It wouldn’t be because you had already made up your mind on what you were determined to do, come hell or high water, would it? Antonin, take it from an experienced prosecutor–you’re as guilty as sin. In my prosecutorial days, I’ve had some worthy opponents. You wouldn’t be one of them. Your guilt is so obvious that if I thought more of you I’d feel constrained to blush for you.”

I just heard Andy Martin is a Muslim.

Which one of you Tort mavens out there will explain how the torts of

‘Commercial Disparagement’ & ‘Tortious Interference with Business Relationships’ are completely inapplicable here?