A Letter to Republicans

• Stop supporting the Bigots within your party. Unless you want to run on that in the next election. I know I will be more active politically now that this has happened.

• Work with the President to pass the cuts for a majority of the populace already, it's been 2 years, get over the fact that you no longer have a majority. Also, anyone who makes 1 million+ can take a small increase in their taxes.

• You have officially become the party of NO. You have illustrated that by deciding not to compromise with the President to give relief to families that need it. You are like that kid who loses at the game, but declares they won. Stop saying the Stimulus was not successful, all economists on both sides are saying it was, own up to your mistakes, and quit being cry babies.

• A little side note to the leader of the Republicans. John Boehner, seriously, you can't say we need to reduce the deficit, and then turn around and say we need to keep tax cuts for the extremely wealthy in place. (Tax cuts must be paid for as well.) And don't say we have to cut services, if you had it your way we would all live in anarchy living in our own feces while everyone hid their money under mattresses because they didn't want to pay taxes. The Obama administration has made it a point to make the government more transparent in their operations.

- Evil Monkey

Breyer v. Scalia

Last week, a Discussion between Justice Breyer and Justice Scalia took place revolving around their interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. Breyer sees the Constitution as an immortal living creature genetically engineered and forever nurtured and educated by a forever evolving Democratic Society while Scalia sees it as an automaton containing only the knowledge that our founding fathers put into it on September 17, 1787 upon it's construction.

I have the following scenario for the 2 Justices.

In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Episode 35, the character Data's rights as a sentient being are being questioned. If he loses the case, a scientist will be able to take him apart killing him to create an army of sentient beings just like him. If he wins, he is free. Since the constitution does not explicitly give artificially sentient beings the same rights as biologically sentient beings, and prior to that point there exists no precedence either in law or in previous court cases pertaining to the rights of sentient beings, would you deny Data the right to live?

Now I could ask this question of Justice Scalia, but I don't have to. Justice Scalia's rigid view of the U.S. Constitution allows me to predict his exact response. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it say anything about artificially sentient beings, just a lot about humans. Therefore, to the chopping block with you Data, where you can be turned into a slave race of sentient beings. (If only Picard had declared Data a corporation, the recent case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission would give him as a corporation the rights of a human.)

So Justice Scalia, if the U.S. Constitution is to be taken literally and not amended, how do we incorporate into our Constitution things we discover as a society to be as important as the separation of powers, the separation of church and state, and other fundamentals of our Constitution? How do we remove fundamentals placed in our constitution that contradict itself (Slavery for example)?

Justice Scalia will say legislation should be the primary mechanism of dealing with things not addressed in the U.S. Constitution, but legislation is a much too volatile mechanism of storage for newly discovered inalienable rights. Changes to the Constitution and in the interpretation of it allow us to place newly discovered inalienable rights into a more robust storage mechanism not subject to the 2-4 year terms of politicians. This is the same reason we give Supreme Court Justices appointment for life, they are not swayed by politics which allows them to hold strong our inalienable rights and the judicial process itself which allows us to have peaceful transitions of power.

I am predicting that in the absence of Constitutional mention or Judicial precedence, Justice Breyer would use his education, experience, and power as an objective viewer to stand up for the unrepresented minority, in this case one single artificially sentient being.

In my opinion, making an ultimate decision based on Context in the absence of the definition of law is the job of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. A Supreme Court Justice is not just a life long appointed guardian of a dogmatic unchanging 200+ year old document, he/she is an intelligent objective interpreter of that document and all the truths as a nation we hold to be self evident.

"Your Honor, a courtroom is a crucible; in it we burn away irrelevancies until we are left with a purer product: the truth, for all time." - Picard

Sincerely,

-Immortal Monkey

author of episode reference above: http://www.melindasnodgrass.com/

The Day Freedom Died

March 23rd, 2010, A day that will live in infamy.

Yes ladies and gents, it appears Freedom has died.

• No longer can a person experience the joy of losing health insurance coverage because they get sick.
• No longer can a sick girl celebrate the bankruptcy of her parents after losing her health insurance coverage.
• No longer can a parent take comfort in knowing that as they die, their life savings can be used to pay their medical bills because they lost their health insurance coverage due to a Preexisting condition.
• No longer can a person put off buying health insurance so that people who do have health insurance have to foot the bill when he/she can't pay for it.

These Freedoms are as American as Apple Pie being served up by a Slave Child considered to be 3/5 human.

Those who voted against the death of these Freedoms (the current Republicans in Congress) are heroes and will be remembered as such when their party transforms into the Right-Wing-Nut Tea Party.

Until then however, the current Republicans in Congress are going to fight for these freedoms.

Good luck, and God Speed you unsung heroes.

Sincerely,

-Immortal Monkey

Letter to the Senators

Political expediency should take second place to the well being of our country.
I know you republicans don't like science, but you can't ignore it in this case.
The numbers indicate that if we don't reduce the cost of Health care as Obama is attempting to do, then as a country we will go bankrupt.

Republicans, stop using National Security as a political tool, Using our Judicial System to try the underwear bomber shows we have faith in it and that we do not view Terrorists as evil supermen bent on world domination who we can't stop, but as Humans who grew from circumstances (poverty,extremism,brain washing,etc..) and can be handled with our Judicial System (I mean come on, his pants were literally on fire).

Also, stop trying to paint Obama and the Democrats as evil socialists. It's obvious Obama is a Centrist.
Stop saying No to everything. I saw that lunch the other day that you had with Obama, and he clearly stated he wants to get Shit done and work with you guys.
So Work With Him.

Also Blue dog Democrats, stop doing what the republicans are doing by only representing your base, the American people are more nuanced than that and you know it. Take a chance and do what's best for the United States of America.

Sincerely,
-Bryon Fitzgerald Bowers

world a little colder.

it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder

the fox news paradox

I know this has been said and is widely known by many, but I felt the recent win in Massachusetts is a indication that there are a large amount of individuals in Massachusetts that would actually watch fox news. So if you think Glen Beck is a voice of reason, please read the following.

fox news is a Joke, it distorts news to the point where you can't tell if it is a fake or real.
They are clearly biased and are using Ignorance, Fear, and Bigotry to increase ratings.

And the recent 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court doesn't make sense. A corporation does not equal a human being, it should not be able to use large amounts of money that an individual who is voting can not use. This decision is like fox news, it distorts our Democracy and provides a political arm to a party which puts corporate interests ahead of the time honored tradition of intelligent political discourse via debating of the facts and a survey of all the stake holders equally.

Also, it seems as though fox news thinks Obama is doing nothing and is doing everything at the same time. Come on guys, is he destroying America by changing everything we hold dear and near to us? Or is he Dithering? I realize logic and reason are not necessary in fox news reporting, but it would be nice if fox news at least lie consistently.

In conclusion, fox news sucks,
-immortal monkey out