Our US Supreme Court recently ruled that those who wish to kill us, who wish to eradicate this nation completely, who do not comply with any aspect of the Geneva Convention, who purposely target civilians, are due their day in civilian courts — that they are not enemy combatants. They deserve the same consideration as a person in Traffic Court.

At its heart, the 70-page ruling says that the detainees have the same rights as anyone else in custody in the United States to contest their detention before a judge. Kennedy also said the system the administration has put in place to classify detainees as enemy combatants and review those decisions is not an adequate substitute for the right to go before a civilian judge.

This is precisely why I continuously emphasize the critical importance of Conservatives controlling SCOTUS and American education.

Based purely on the ages of the current justices, the nation’s 44th president can reasonably expect to fill at least one vacancy.

Of the five justices who created a majority in the case of the Guantanamo detainees, Justice John Paul Stevens is 88, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 75, and David Souter and Stephen Breyer are each 69. Kennedy is 71.

Please note these very important pull quotes from The Associated Press:

Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter and John Paul Stevens — the court’s more liberal members — joined (Justice Anthony) Kennedy to form the majority.

In a blistering dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia said the decision “will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.”

Chief Justice John Roberts in his own dissent to Thursday’s ruling, criticized the majority for striking down what he called “the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants.”

Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas also dissented.

Trust me when I tell you that, as a result of this ruling, there will be a major media “show trial” (or several) on the order of the OJ Simpson trial and, having that trial and the freedoms of the American judicial system pushed into the faces of the American Electorate and, with liberal attorneys queued up for miles to represent those “oppressed persons” (read: “I’ll make a public name for myself!”), taking advantage of and exploiting every fatal flaw, nook, cranny and chink in the American legal armour — two things will happen:

Those politicians and administrators controlling America are clearly taking this country down a prognosticated path whose destination seems to be headed towards a conflagration of dissent, storms and fiery violence.

But, of course, more about this later as things progress or — more appropriately under a complete Demorat Rule with Obama and a like-controlled House and Senate: deteriorate.

P.S.

The photo is that of the average Guantanamo cell. This is cleaner than anything any detainee has ever encountered in their life.

This is getting beyond ridiculous, beyond any point of rationality, beyond any acceptable sense of reason. From PowerLine (and please read the entire link):

Today (Wednesday) Congressman John Peterson offered an amendment in the Appropriations Committee to ease federal restrictions on exploration of the outer continental shelf, which contains enormous reserves of both oil and natural gas. The Democrats defeated the Peterson amendment on a 9-6 party line vote, demonstrating, as Minority Leader John Boehner said, “cold indifference toward the problems of typical families and businesses in their congressional districts and across the country.” House Republicans intend to continue forcing votes on proposals to liberate our economy by developing our domestic oil and gas resources.

That means the ability of the US to drill for oil from 50 to 200 miles from our sovereign coasts was DEFEATED along a strict party line on Wednesday — EVERY Demorat voted against the amendment.

Further, FoxNews wrote:

He (Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.) continued: “Whether it’s shutting down domestic exploration in large areas both onshore and offshore, instituting a moratorium on oil shale development, increasing the gas tax, or refusing to pursue coal to liquids, Democrats long ago implemented a ‘gradual adjustment’ on gas prices that’s reflected today in the $4.05 Americans are paying for a gallon of gas.”

That means the Demorats couldn’t care less about your “pain at the pumps.”

Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin says, about ANWR: http://www.anwr.org/content/view/96/

They couldn’t care less about you.

They couldn’t care less about me.

They couldn’t care less about the single mother with the 1989 Pontiac who has to drive 35 miles to work. Who can’t afford to relocate 30 miles closer to work. Who is currently paying $4.28 per gallon for gas in Fornicalia. And works 5 or 6 days a week, 8 to 10 hours per day, who spends an hour commuting every day. Not because SHE created the circumstance — but because she is simply dealing with what is.

They couldn’t care less about the individual entrepreneur, such as my ex-girlfriend, who drives a Subaru Outback thousands and thousands of miles in order to service her extended districts because she is a factory rep of numerous kitchen and bath manufacturers, and the job requires her physical presence in many showrooms, and her success depends upon serving these accounts, many miles apart, in a timely fashion.

They couldn’t care less about the independent truckers, those who pay a minimum of $100,000+ for a tractor and, at current local Fornicalia rates, $5.20 per gallon for diesel fuel. An average 150-gallon aluminum saddle tank, times 2, at $5.20 = $1,560 per fill.

Everything is brought by truck to a final point, ultimately.

And by rail. The average EMD SD-70M locomotive possesses a 4,000-gallon fuel tank per loco and, to fill this at $5.20 per gallon, would = $20,800.00 It is not uncommon for the average train to have three to four locomotives. So a lashup of, for example, 3 older EMD SD40 locomotives would = a consumption of 40′ per gallon.

I paid 25-cents a gallon in 1971, for my 1966 Ford Fairlane 4-door 289. And trust me: GAS WILL BE THE POLITICAL ISSUE COME NOVEMBER.

John McCain had best realize that right now.

Because the Demorats want to force you.

But please allow me to state this unequivocally:

The oil exists. There are massive amounts of fields that we have 1. Not yet found and 2. Not yet exploited or 3. Could not render due to lack-of-technological ease.

But the technology and the emphasis now exists to tap resources heretofore thought to be without our access.

We CAN DO.

Politically, we have CHOSEN NOT to do. Including McCain — who has CHOSEN NOT to tap oil reserves in ANWR — the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, completely verboten per the Left.

It is as simple as that.

I hated the 2008 Toyota Prius.

I had to rent one when my 2007 Toyota RAV-4 Limited V6 went down.

Here is now the 2009 Toyota Prius model:

. . .but still funny and truthful. Now substitute Barack Hussein Obama’s gesicht.

An opinion writer for Beirut, Lebanon’s newspaper “The Daily Star,” former foreign minister and vice chancellor to Germany from 1998 to 2005, Joschka Fischer, recently wrote:

As things look, Israel may well attack Iran soon
By Joschka Fischer Commentary on Friday, May 30, 2008
As a result of misguided American policy, the threat of another military confrontation hangs like a dark cloud over the Middle East. The United States’ enemies have been strengthened, and Iran – despite being branded as a member of the so-called “axis of evil” – has been catapulted into regional hegemony.

Although it is acknowledged in Israel that an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would involve grave and hard-to-assess risks, the choice between acceptance of an Iranian bomb and an attempt at its military destruction, with all the attendant consequences, is clear. Israel won’t stand by and wait for matters to take their course.

Iran must understand that without a diplomatic solution in the coming months, a dangerous military conflict is very likely to erupt. It is high time for serious negotiations to begin.

If this is indeed correct, you can expect the lid to be blown off the Middle East box.

Yoni Tidi, a regular on Hugh Hewitt, posts:

(IsraelNN.com) A diplomatic-security source in Israel said that “in the end, Israel will have to attack Iran in order to prevent it from achieving nuclear capability,” Maariv-NRG reported Friday. The source is “well versed in materials connected with Iran’s nuclear development, contacts between Israel and the U.S. and timetables.”

The source and other senior officials think that the chance of a U.S. strike against Iran is growing slimmer as time goes by.

You can expect $200+ a barrel oil, $10+ a gallon gas — if you can get it at all. Not because of a necessary diminishment of supply, but because of the “perceived trauma.” Though wanted by many, attacking and/or bombing Iran could have some very serious consequences for the US, the region and the world. There will be a clear cost.

That is not to indicate that Iran’s nuclear grasp shouldn’t be stopped.