It's those liars again!

I frequently fall asleep with the TV on, and then wake up listening to something I would not normally want to hear. Why my local channel--owned by a very progressive reform Jewish woman--would run wrong-wing xian broadcasting is beyond me, but there was Pastor Arnold Murray one day telling us that he and his ilk were going to vote out all of these liberal judges and put conservative ones in their places!

Arnold, of course, has no idea that the Court System was included in our government specifically to enforce the rights of minorities, and to overrule the tyranny of the majority! That is why we have a tripartite system of government. This country is not, and was never intended to be, a pure democracy!The legislative, executive, and judicial branches serve as a system of checks and balances against each other, per the intentions of our founding fathers!!!! Not to mention, of course, that all of that hyperbole about judges legislating from the bench, works both ways! When you have a justice--overruled by every other member of his court, who tries to rule that Congress does not have the right to regulate the sale of machine guns, that is precisely legislating from the bench! It is the very definition of that term.

Then another day, I awoke to the 700 Club intoning that the people of Spain had the right idea when they instituted the Siesta! Those idiots don't even realize that the siesta originated in Mexico, where virtually everyone is infected with mononucleosis, aka the sleeping disease. That causes people to fall asleep, particularly in bright sunshine and extreme heat. That is why they have the siesta. With more vitamin B-12 in their diet, they would not need a siesta! This refusal to check their supposed facts is also common with wrong-wing conservatives, and so their listeners go along thinking that things are established fact, when they are not, which then becomes part of the whole darned problem!!!!

The FCC ought to regulate statements made as fact which are not true, just as they regulate the statements of people who use banned words, and for much the same reason.