A Crazed Start
January 11th, 2010 by Grandpa OddballCopyright © GetOddNews and Grandpa Oddball January 11, 2010. All rights reserved.
2010 is upon us and it’s an exciting start to a new year. What will the year bring? Using history as our guide we’ll get a new beginning full of promise, hope and certainly the unexpected as well as the crazy, bizarre and demented behavior of those around us. In past years others have documented this type of behavior (e.g., the Darwin Awards) and, of course, you have to ask, “What were they thinking?”. The usual response?” It seemed like a good idea at the time!“
As they say,the more things change the more they stay the same. 2010 has started with the usual half-baked loony incidents and the year isn’t even a month old. On the insane personal front there’s:
- The man who shot a boy in the chest with a pellet gun “in order to teach him a lesson“. What????????????????
- Then there’s the man who put his daughter in a dryer and turned it on. A demented father of the year award contestant?
- How about getting your kicks by sneaking up on women and snipping off locks of hair or gluing their hair together. A member of weirdos united?
- When will it quit? Let’s sell our children for a bird!!!!!!!!!!!! Another stellar example of parental concern.
- You like pranks? How about faking kidnapping your daughter? Nothing like a good role model!
- Speaking of pranks obviously it’s hilarious to pretend your a terrorist. Just ask the German policeman who joked about explosives in his underwear.
But it’s not just individuals that are do nutty things. For some reason government officials want to get in on the act. For example, there’s the proposed French law that makes it illegal to shout at your spouse. Ah a return to civility is now assured, at least in France.
But so far the leading 2010 candidate for brainless official act of the year has to go to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which recently ruled that incarcerated felons should have their voting rights restored in order to end racial discrimination! Apparently the criminal justice system in Washington state is “infected” with racial discrimination. Silly me, I didn’t know racism was a disease. By the courts reasoning the ultimate solution is easy. Clearly all we need to do is fund a massive government program to develop an anti-racism vaccine. What could be simpler?
What’s next? Perhaps we should let terrorists write the terrorist laws and judge themselves because the system is infected with prejudice against terrorists!
This isn’t the first time that the 9th short Circuit Count of Appalling decisions has climbed out on the nutty limb. This court is the most overturned court in the country. Fully 30% of the Supreme Courts reversals apply to the 9th circuit court and a third of all unanimous reversals. In fact nearly half (45%) of all appellate court reversals resulted from the 9th district court. Not a very good record. Instead of the rule of law it seems like the decision is another case of political correctness or ideological fanatics run amuck. No wonder the court is losing credibility.
I could continue to criticize this unprecedented and bizarre decision but it’s so nutty that it’s almost like shooting ducks in a barrel. I won’t because others from all ends of the political spectrum have already done the job for me. For example.
- The News Tribune in Tacoma,WA points out the flaws in the studies used by the court in its rationale.
- As the TriCity Herald (in WA) notes the ninth court laid a huge buzzard’s egg on this one. Not that we’re surprised.
- In a more in depth analysis the forum Hot Air explores the consequences of this crazed convoluted decision.
Where will it end? Who knows? The general consensus seems to be that the decision will again be reversed by the supreme court but then again nobody knows for sure and whatever the outcome the decision well apply to all the states not just my home state of Washington. Stay tuned.
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