Now We’re Doing Your Thinking Sister Harriet, [The Media]

The media’s taken over the thinking for Harriet Miers. She’s yet to open her mouth and the world knows her every thought, thanks to an imaginative media, and a few of her friends who want their 15 minutes of her new found fame. The NASTIES haven’t surfaced yet, we can be assured they will. Nothing will go un- scrutinized. Every portion of her life from birth to her last day of privacy will be examined, and reexamined. These last few days we’re seeing her good side, we only have to wait a day or so until her other side [if there is one] begins to show up on the medias radar.

One good indication to Ms. Miers inner thoughts will be to read what The New Your Times has to report. Give it a 180-degree turn and you’ll have a good idea of her position on the given subject. The Times has been very creative in their artful commentary lately. The Times isn’t worried about getting it right, they’ve installed an Ombudsman to correct their errors. Like Rush Limbaugh’s Open-Line-Friday the Times has Corrections Friday. “We’re sorry if you misinterpreted what you think we said.” “We’re sorry and we won’t say it in a way you’ll misinterpret us again.” “Other wise we stand by our story fact, or fiction.”

The Times isn’t alone, hard-line conservatives and the evangelical right are concerned Ms. Miers may not be radical enough for their tastes. The extreme liberal left and the extreme conservative right loses sight of the un-extremes in Middle America, those of us who don’t need it our-way or no-way. Anyone who can’t be influenced by a good argument doesn’t know all the facts. How can we know a coin is counterfeit is we haven’t seen both sides?

There’ve been a few articles on the internet regarding Ms. Miers conversion to religion. Their not writing about it but there’s the insinuation it’s a-kin to to the KKK. To digress, I can’t understand this aversion to anything religious. Religion in one form or another is the mainstay of society. Religion isn’t an obeisance to Christianity, Islam, or a number of other beliefs. Religion is a belief in something greater than ourselves. If all we have to believe in is ourselves, we as a society are in big trouble.

How can any group be so presumptuous to believe they have a right to dictate to others? The founding fathers recognized not all men. [sans women] had religious inclinations. They left wiggle room in the founding documents assuring all beliefs and no beliefs would be allowed to exist, supposedly un-challenged. For some reason religion has become a benchmark for the left to reject candidates for public office. God has become a four-letter word to many of our public leaders and media elites. The founding fathers gave us documents that have served us well for over 200 years. They instilled mechanics in those documents that prevent altering without considerable time and effort. The constitution’s only been amended 27 times in 200 years. That speaks volumes for the brilliance of the founding fathers.

The constitution hass been distorted and perverted, [not amended as required by the constitution] by judicially activist’s judges for half a century. It isn’t the privy of judges to create law, their function is to interpret laws passed by legislative institutions. Let hope, [nay pray] the new Supreme Court Judges Roberts and Miers will have the influence and the will to return court opinions to it’s original purpose, the interpretation of law as established in the constitution.

I have faith in the President's choices, I have faith in the construction, I have faith in the Great State of Texas and it’s sons and daughters to do the right thing for America. God Bless Us.

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