Shanktified!

Here’s a good thing to do. Go to this site and enter your address and then find your child’s school and click on that. You get a list of all sex offenders and how far they are from your school.

http://www.familywatchdog.us

The site doesn’t work as well as it should in Firefox, but it’s pretty new and they appear to be off to a good start.

Speaking of sex offenders – Did anyone catch Dateline NBC last Friday? I missed it, but saw some of the highlights on MSNBC. I’ll blog more on that later.

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Here’s a possible red flag for those who think that Alito might be the key to overturning Roe v. Wade

Senators Praise Nominee’s Candor

On the issue of privacy, the legal underpinning for the Roe v. Wade abortion-rights ruling, [Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.)] said: “He satisfied me that he recognized this to be one of the unenumerated rights in the Constitution, and he led me to believe that he felt that it was an established right.”

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I’m just now seeing this.

Well, appellate judges are not obligated to follow the precedent of the Supreme Court. They take an oath only to uphold the Constitution. There’s no oath, no rule, no nothing [that mandates they must follow precedent].

It’s from the pre-confirmation hype about Judge Roberts, but it makes a point that too many folks forget. Justices only take an oath to the Constitution. There is no mandate they follow precedence.

The rest of the transcript is just funny. I wish there had been audio.

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Dear Vance and Ashley: We are praying for you (and little Walker)!

Walker’s Website: Eight Pounds and Breech! C-Section Imminent!

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As happens from time to time, comments take on a life (or post) of their own.

Here is a post and my replies from Angry Dissenter:

I always like talking theology.
The short answer is yes, I believe that if there’s a heaven and I get hit by a bus today, that I get in.

What do you base this on?

However, your question and my answer are based on philosophical assumptions and conclusions which, I think, are more important than either the question or the answer.
1) First, I can’t believe in hell. It’s not a concept that is logically compatible with my conception of God, or even the popular Christian concept of God. If you believe that God is infinite (or at least larger than all things in existence), hell becomes extremely problematic.

It wasn’t problematic for the author’s of Scripture or Christ, Himself:
“Hell” in Scripture:

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Note to Conservative groups: This is why you should never jump out the same day and in support of the President’s position with out letting the dust clear.

While liberal special interest groups are castigating President Bush’s latest Supreme Court nominee as a far-right extremist, details are beginning to emerge that may indicate otherwise.

Read more at FPN’s Website

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