Reply #28: I think the executive & legislative branches of what used to be America have adicated...

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even what was left of their pretense-to-responsibility to civil governance & deliberation; they have frittered it away in the likes of Brownback with his frozen felt pen embryo's for one.

I think the fact that there are such creatures as left-wing & right-wing judges is a clear indication that the judicial branch has abdicated it's relationship to any reason itself as to why it ever studied law to begin with.

In Petronius Arbiter's, The Satyricon, he mentions a profession in the law as being one that the torments of hell would not be able to tear from an individual so inclined & studied...well,

We know quite well the circumstance' surrounding the fall of ancient Rome at the hands of one (fill in the blank face) man; and a great gaggle of flapping "et tu?" legislators hell-bent on property & station instead. What we're too willing to sit idly by and do nothing as regards; are the intrigues of a wall street shark made walking/smack-talking flesh in the final prick of a man forever known to be scribbling into the margins of his ledger with glances askew over *his* shoulder wondering just whom may be watching him and poof!

There comes she, America, waving hairs of amber grain; the embroidered, filigreed bag lady semblance of freedom & liberty, burned out husk of a smoldering Bastille a sunken Merrimack under rockets red glare and like the powder on a Whig she were all gone too ho hum