The new busing
You youngsters probably don’t remember this, but in the 70′s and 80′s the courts and politicians imposed “busing” on some school districts, so that instead of kids going to their neighborhood school, they would be bused to a bad school on the other side of the city.
That kind of busing faded away when anybody with two nickels to rub together got the hell out of those school districts and moved to the suburbs. Read the history here for an excellent illustration of how nitwit do-gooder politicians and judges run into the Law of Unintended Consequences. And this is yet another excellent example of the General Theory of Liberalism: authoritarian judges think they can mandate precise racial quotas in each school, and cannot fathom the possibility that people might leave the district if the long commute is a burden or if the quality of the schools declines.
Anyway, what brings that to mind today really has nothing to do with this story other than that it involves buses and liberals: the new busing. Perhaps this transparent ploy will also prove counterproductive to the goals of the planners.
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August 30th, 2009 at 10:33 am
They use nice busses in NC. They just used school busses in Pennsylvania.
Varones, I guess you weren’t paying attention to Charles Gibson: the anti-ObamaCare protesters are “orchestrated.” Spontaneous demonstrations involve busses, professionally-made signs and SEIU or ACORN stickers and T-shirts.
August 30th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
McCain feuds with Cheney.
“In a strong pushback against claims made by former Vice President Dick Cheney, Sen. John McCain insisted on Sunday that the use of torture on terrorism suspects violated international law, didn’t work, and actually helped al Qaeda recruit additional members.
“I think the interrogations were in violation of the Geneva Conventions and the convention against torture that we ratified under President Reagan,” said the Arizona Republican. “I think these interrogations, once publicized, helped al Qaeda recruit. I got that from an al Qaeda operative in a prison camp in Iraq… I think that the ability of us to work with our allies was harmed. And I believe that information, according go the FBI and others, could have been gained through other members.””
August 30th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Cheney endorses the idea of CIA agents going beyond the legal authorizations that low level justice department lawyer John Yoo scratched on a napkin and made law. Hence he thinks there are no rules, but if Yoo can make some laws up why can’t Agent Whoever make some laws on the fly?
August 30th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Tell that crap to the 3000 that died on 9-11. McCain left his brains in hanoi.
August 30th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Invalid10:
“if Yoo can make some laws up why can’t Agent Whoever make some laws on the fly?”
In wartime, Agent whoever can make the rules to fit the circumstances.
In your case, if you had to save your own life by giving up the lives of several hundred soldiers, you wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice others. That’s who you are. Deal with it.
August 30th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Ken,
The CIA isn’t composed of soldiers though, and killing\torturing prisoner is pointless anyway especially when we need to end the war on terror.
August 30th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
O ya, Iraq and Afghanistan do not qualify as wars nor did we declare a war.
August 31st, 2009 at 4:30 am
McCain is still in mourning over Teddy. He knows without “the Lion” it will be much harder to pass amnesty.