Fair Warning and Fin Fang Foom

[filkertom]

I really, really go off on the blog today. I fully expect to get a lot of shit, and to perhaps lose some friends. If you read it -- which, please, you do not have to, especially if you consider yourself a Republican -- you will very possibly get enraged at me, no matter what your political persuasion.

Tough noogies.

However, in a gesture of peace, friendship, and understanding, here is a completely non-political link to remind you how goofy our universe is, a throwback to the inspiration for Sis Boom Ba on the new album: Behold! The Power of FIN FANG FOOM!

Comments

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

This is not new law, as you can find if you read the Court's decision (http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-108.ZO.html), so people's homes are at no more risk than they were before the decision. Had the decision gone with Kelo et al., people would have protection against the very unusual situation of the plaintiffs, but no protection against the gummint taking their homes to build a freeway. It appears that the main result of a decision in favor of Kelo, would have been protection of slumlords against urban renewal. This appears likely to have been the goal of the right-wing Institute for Justice, which brought the case, and its repugnant sponsors, David and Charles Koch. Brrr. Brrr. Nor have we seen the end of this, I think. We may get sold new federal law on the subject, and then homeowners will wonder what difference it made, while the slumlords laugh all the way to the bank.

I would prefer to see rights inhering in personally dwelling in a place legislated, myself.