Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Friday, November 10, 2006 6:48:41 PM
to get me to look at your blog is to comment on mine. That is doubly true if you say something that I want to comment on. Rich Boomaker of The Bald Eagle pulled off a double today:
First, he made the following comment on my I Don't Hate Teachers post:
You are right to think that school district help determine home values and desirably. I am a realtor with school districts that are widely different in desirably. It trumps location even in this example. A school district that is flakey is a hard sell for those with kids. I know people that live in the "better school district" because they have kids. They otherwise don't like the place they live, they are there for the school. I think thats the other community home values are lower because the common belief that the local schools are bad.
Public Schools need a lot of reform, but you are right that the way it happens is not great. It puts folks that would be on your side on their side just because they feel threatened. My mom is retired public school teacher and I know it put her on the school district side on issues that she didn't support or should have not supported.
I provided the above for information purposes, since I won't be commenting on the issue again.
When I went to his blog, I was very impressed that the top post on his blog had the following paragraph:
The Supreme Court is the biggest roadblock to ending the horrid practice of abortion. It has killed millions over the almost forty years (imagine had the Nazis lasted that long, its just as bad). Pro-Life laws can passed, elections won (by big margins to boot) and it takes only 5 black robed liberal dimwits to put good stuff into dry-dock forever. It is frightening that a few think that they know better then the rest of us. Plus the check and balances of government are being destroyed by these people.
It is my view that the worst way to sell judicial reform is to sell it on the basis of Roe v. Wade. To do so would put too many people on the defensive and give the lawyers and judges the ammunition to demagogue my efforts. I am one of those very strange people who believe that Roe was a lawless Constitutional decision but at the same time has no objection to abortion.
There will doubtless be some townhall readers who will never look at this blog again based on the above admission. Those who give the situation some thought should quickly come to the realization that my position gives me much more moral authority to oppose Roe than most as I am doing so on purely Constitutional grounds and have no Religious axe to grind. Even so, I think that Roe's demise will be a byproduct of my efforts to make the legal profession ethically responsible. An ethically responsible legal profession could not support a Constitution printed on rubber, and that is what we have.