A Good Monday Morning

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North Korea Claims Lead In Energy Conservation

MFNS - Pyongyang - A spokesman for the government of North Korea has responded to the release of NASA photos taken from the International Space Station showing a nearly dark North Korea by claiming the lead in global energy conservation.

“Once again, the United States and Europe are far behind The Democratic People's Republic of Korea. First, we vanquished the imperialist running dog militaristic war mongering ambitions of the United States and it oppressive allies with our threat of superior military technology, and now we have set the global standard in energy conservation. Our Dear Leader’s efforts to save the planet from destruction are at the forefront as usual. We are number one!

Your own spy satellite pictures show the proof of how so many North Korean citizens have voluntarily chosen to turn off their many cutting edge electrical appliances such as 4D television watching machines. All North Koreans live a life of splendor but voluntarily conserve, unlike the rest of the wasteful west and worst Korea. Praise to our Dear Leader Kim Jong Un!”

North Korean per capita power consumption is indeed about 7% that of South Korea, and that figure is reduced to 0.84% when Kim Jung-un’s microwave is excluded.

NASA spy satellite International Space Station Photo of North Korea At Night 

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Fishnet Friday

What Republicans Should Have Said (But Won’t) About Obama’s SCOTUS Nomination

Ricochet:

In politics, providing a reason for doing what you do is almost as important as doing the thing. Instead of the lame, inside-baseball “We just don’t confirm Supreme Court Justices in an election year” justification Republicans have offered, here’s how they should have clarified their opposition:

We cannot, and will not, confirm any justice to the Supreme Court whose vote would imperil important constitutional rights such as the right to bear arms and the right to freely practice and exercise religion.

This would have clarified why Obama’s nominees need to be opposed in a manner that reaffirms commitment to constitutional principles and resonates with key constituencies of the Republican base. And if Judge Merrick Garland passes this test, then maybe there’s something worth talking about.

But, instead, they will probably just stick with the original line that makes them look like a bunch of yammering, out-of-touch, politicians.

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Chief Judge Merrick Garland 

In 2007, Judge Garland voted to undo a D.C. Circuit court decision striking down one of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. The liberal District of Columbia government had passed a ban on individual handgun possession, which even prohibited guns kept in one’s own house for self-defense. He also voted to uphold an illegal Clinton-era regulation that created an improvised gun registration requirement.

Garland has a long record and it leads to the conclusion that he would vote to reverse one of Justice Scalia’s most important opinions, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to keep and bear arms.

Buried in a questionnaire Garland submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1995 is his disclosure of volunteer work for Democratic politicians that stretched from his years as a college student up to Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in 1992.

So here you have a left-wing Jewish Judge who believes you have no right of self protection. You'd think after what's happened to his people in the past, he'd be a bit more reasonable.