tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52939672011-04-21T12:37:40.230-07:00E Rocc's Random Ramblings and RavingsSorta libertarian, sorta conservative, never poltically correct either way, dedicated to sarcasm and a refusal to grow up. That would be me.Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980202390569870288noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293967.post-1137680367704672702006-01-19T05:53:00.000-08:002006-01-19T06:20:59.073-08:00What Cleveland REALLY NeedsNot that long ago, there was a story in the PD about how much longer it takes Cleveland residents who work in the suburbs to get to work if they take RTA instead of driving. There was only the obliquest reference to “industrial sprawl”, and none at all to its causes. Meanwhile, empty industrial properties abound. I live in Maple Heights, which lost 1,200+ Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980202390569870288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293967.post-1120930040322173232005-07-09T10:26:00.000-07:002005-07-09T10:28:20.433-07:00Separation ConsistencyAt the end of its most recent term, the United States Supreme Court made decisions in two cases involving the Ten Commandments. Many think these decisions were contradictory. They were not.In the Texas case, it was ruled that a monument containing the text of the Ten Commandments did not violate the Constitutionally mandated separation of church and state. This was a Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980202390569870288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293967.post-1120928120067258362005-07-09T09:54:00.000-07:002005-07-09T09:55:20.073-07:00In defense of Marbury v. Madison.A popular theme among some conservatives these days is to decry “judicial activism”. I think some basic premises are in error.Certainly there have been times in our history where judges abused their power. Nevertheless, judicial restraint of the powers of government is a fundamentally Constitutional, and dare I even say fundamentally conservative Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980202390569870288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293967.post-1102868923961322892004-12-12T08:16:00.000-08:002004-12-12T08:28:43.960-08:00Yes, I know it's morbid
I'm in my second year in an online Dead Pool. I suppose it's called the "Isfullofcrap" Dead Pool, it used to be called the Amish Tech Support Dead Pool (one of the all time great blog names IMO).
Check it out at The Dead Pool. If you enter, mention that your referral is "E Rocc".Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980202390569870288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293967.post-1099695957911184382004-11-05T15:04:00.000-08:002004-11-05T15:10:05.026-08:00Why The Democrats Lost
Okay, here’s why I think the Democrats lost. I’m going to try to keep ideology and any form of gloating out of this…even though I feel a big part of the reason Bush won is that his worldview is far closer to that of average Americans than Kerry’s is. Read if you like, accept what you want. Yes, in many ways these reflect the same mistakes the GOP made in 1996. Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980202390569870288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293967.post-1094980276812582012004-09-12T02:06:00.000-07:002004-09-12T02:11:16.813-07:00Creation Science Demands New Attention
The creation science community is in an uproar. They claimed to have found new and compelling evidence that the Universe was indeed created as written in Genesis. Their new find: this memo written by God himself, outlining the time frame for Creation
The memo has been authenticated by several authorities on Biblical documentation, including Brother Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980202390569870288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293967.post-1088969758965573552004-07-04T12:30:00.000-07:002004-07-05T06:04:12.700-07:00Thoughts On The Fourth Of July
Eleven score and eight years ago, our forefathers began the codification of a concept that would revolutionize not only this land, but this planet.
The Declaration of Independence was a radical document for its day. It decreed that all men possessed the same fundamental rights and prerogatives, that no man had a right, divinely or otherwise inspired, to Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980202390569870288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293967.post-1084735669735160192004-05-16T12:17:00.000-07:002004-05-16T12:34:01.946-07:00The Quintessential Democrat
May 15, 2004 | CINCINNATI (AP) -- Ohio Democrats have chosen talk-show host Jerry Springer to be an at-large delegate for the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
"He's made 50 appearances at Democratic events this year. He's been an outspoken advocate for the party," said Dan Trevas, spokesman for the Ohio Democratic Party.
Springer, who was the mayor of Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980202390569870288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293967.post-1080227160708659872004-03-25T07:06:00.000-08:002004-03-25T07:10:20.060-08:00Howard Stern, Mel Gibson, and the “Culture War”.
In an apparent effort to elect John Kerry to the Presidency, the Culture Warriors are out in force. Their latest target is one of their traditional ones: talk radio host Howard Stern. Stern is the most succesful of the “indecent” entertainers that have proliferated since Ronald Reagan appointed FCC commisioners who believed that every radio Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980202390569870288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293967.post-1079044324238011852004-03-11T14:32:00.000-08:002004-03-11T14:35:11.140-08:00What Is The Bush Administration Thinking?
James Carville, a man as shrewd about the practicalities of politics as he is dense about the ideologies, said in 1994: “Whenever I hear a campaign talk about a need to energize the base, that's a campaign that's going down the toilet. It's a pretty good indication that they're not eating up any territory, they can't get anybody in the center to supportErichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980202390569870288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293967.post-1074864511428672492004-01-23T05:28:00.000-08:002004-01-23T08:25:38.340-08:00Bush Isn't Perfect...but he's the only real option.
The “Patriot Act” needs to go away. As Grover Norquist once said, if it wasn’t a bad law no one would have felt the need to name it that.
The TSA’s version of airport security is expensive, ineffective, and nasty. It does nothing to enhance real security. What it does is allows fascist techniques to be tested on American citizens. This Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980202390569870288noreply@blogger.com