And They're Totally Off...

I for one am a bit thrilled by the recent mediocre Court ruling that the government cannot regulate power plant emissions.

It is the first news we can see that there are some of our fellow human beings who do not live on this planet.  Clearly, it is not in our best interests to regulate emissions if we have another place to live, and so I'm happy that this group of nutbars has decided that the emissions coming out of power plants aren't subject to government control.

You see, when I was a kid, the basic idea of having a government was to do those things jointly that individually, we cannot do.  I mean, things like build roads, because if I go and build my own road, then it's mine, only I can use it, so that will get rid of the traffic problem - for me.  For the rest of you, well, build your own damned road.  So long as it doesn't interfere with mine, we're fine.  

And there's the whole regulation thing.  I don't mean like what you can or can't do in the bedroom, but what you can or can't do with stuff that, well, it's just too bloody expensive.  Stuff like poop and blood.  Because, ya know, that stuff can get everywhere.  And then people start screaming about evidence and germs and all that other stuff.  

All right - looks like the ink in the sarcasm pen is revolting, not choosing to cooperate.  

So let's take a small step back, here.  From the fucking brink - and point out what the three most recent Jackasses added to the Mediocre Court (before today's addition) have managed to do.

They've told every person in this country that no, they don't have any right to safety.  Because, you know, safety and privacy aren't in the Constitution.  Owning guns is.  And so is the fact that our founding fathers considered some people only 3/5 of a person.  When it comes to medical science, you are more than welcome to your daily bleeding, and all the leeches you can afford.  If you want any of these modernish inventions, you know, like pills you can take to fight of diseases, well, nope, you don't get those.  

Besides, you're not going to live that long, because the power plants and other manufacturers are permitted to do whatever it is they need to do to get the electricity to you as cheaply as possible.  Which brings me to the ultimate conclusion that the only way we're going to see some of these coal-fired power plants cleaned up is if someone goes all McVeigh on them and parks a truck full of fertilizer in front of them and says "see ya, forgot my phone at home" and takes off running.  

Because that, my friends, is what the mediocre court is asking us to do.  If we aren't allowed to reduce the emissions from these filthy power plants because, well, the Constitution doesn't allow it, I would then submit that the generation of electricity is not mentioned in the Constitution either, so there goes that 19th Century invention.  Yes, I know, Ben Franklin discovered it and all that, but because he didn't patent the damned thing, just about anyone can fiddle around with it, so to hell with you.  If you want electricity, you get to choose between having electricity for your modern home, or you can just screw off and go back to where they want us - the dark ages.

I suppose I should probably say somewhere in here that I do not condone violence - though it sure seems like, the farther this crap goes, the less we're a land governed by the rule of law, and far more a land governed by the most backward thinking anyone seems to have been able to come up with.  What fuckwit decided that regulation of firearms wasn't the government's job?  What jackass decided that women do not have the right to manage their own bodies, and control what happens to them, especially after terrible crimes have been committed upon them?  What slack-jawed, half-witted crotch-scratching chimp reject decided that the government can't regulate businesses that are destroying the planet?  Oh, yeah, that's right, the extreme conservative brains on the mediocre court.  

When the court took a balanced look at law, procedure, process, and society, that was one thing.  When it was about making sure that each and every one of us had a fair shake in anything, yes, it was Supreme.  When it decided to poke it's nose in places where it very literally has no expertise or right to belong, well, then they can just go to hell.  

Because they're sure as hell sending the rest of us there.