Well, thanks to another roving band of black-robed, tyrannical jackals, CBS got away with showing us Janet Jackson’s tit.
A federal appeals court on Monday threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp. for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson’s breast-baring “wardrobe malfunction.”
The three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Federal Communications Commission “acted arbitrarily and capriciously” in issuing the fine for the fleeting image of nudity.
Yeah, just like Justin Timberjerk “acted arbitrarily and capriciously” in doing his part to try and “bring sexy back”?
The 90 million people watching the Super Bowl, many of them children, heard Justin Timberlake sing, “Gonna have you naked by the end of this song,” as he reached for Jackson’s bustier.
The court found that the FCC deviated from its nearly 30-year practice of fining indecent broadcast programming only when it was so “pervasive as to amount to ‘shock treatment’ for the audience.”
I dunno about you, but I’d think showing 90 million people, a damned good portion of which were kids, for Cthulu’s sake, was sufficiently “pervasive” as to comprise “shock value”.  I don’t see any deviation from the FCC’s practice there.
Then again, I’ve never sat in a star chamber like these three fuckwits have, so my brain hasn’t ever had that glorious opportunity to rot.
In a statement Monday, CBS said it hoped the decision “will lead the FCC to return to the policy of restrained indecency enforcement it followed for decades.”
“This is an important win for the entire broadcasting industry because it recognizes that there are rare instances, particularly during live programming, when it may not be possible to block unfortunate fleeting material, despite best efforts,” the network said.
Oh, hell, See-BS, why don’t we just turn every  broadcast network into the Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler channels, eh?  Maybe we can have a channel for stoners & faggots too, huh?
MERLIN:  We already have Bravo  and MTV.
LSIK&T:  Oh.  Yeah, we do, don’t we?
Black-robed shitheels. 
Those of you who’ve been under rocks recently and missed the Heller  decision – score one for our side:  The Soprano Court struck down the DC gun ban.
Misha pretty much said it here.  I’ll have more to say tonight.
UPDATE:  As I said this morning, Misha pretty much hit the nail on the head.
I’m convinced that, had the tin-horned, tyrannical blackrobe Toni Kennedy voted with the liberal bloc on the Soprano Court (as he usually does), cities far & wide would have begun drafting all manner of gun bans – handheld, rifles, shotguns and the so-called “assault” weapons.  This, in turn, would very likely have triggered those of us who own guns and think with our noggins instead of our asses, to take said guns and take to the streets.  The Second US Civil War would have ensued shortly thereafter.
You may think I’m embellishing things a tad.  I’d hope that it wouldn’t come to that – but if the rest of America’s gun-owners are anything like me (and I think this likely), we’re not giving up our guns, regardless of what any  court says.  In such a scenario, we’d likely die – but we’d have an honor guard, as Misha likes to say.
So the Soprano Court dodged a bullet (pun intended).  But only for now, and their decision is not a perfect one.  Moreover, if Hopey “Flopears” McChangetude prevails in November (not out of the question, given how McZhamnesty has a predilection for shooting himself in the foot), this issue will return with a vengeance.  And the scenario we just avoided might be inevitable next time.
And if it should  come to that – I’ll tell you this right now, you leftist fucktards…you don’t stand a chance.  And after we’re done with you, you’re gonna wish  you still had a Constitution on which to fall back.  We’ll win that particular struggle, and it’ll get ugly for you bastards from there.
Don’t say you wern’t warned.
Denizens, the Red Curtain o’ Blood™ oozes particularly thick this evening.  And the culprits are the usual suspects – IOW, the Supreme Imperial Soprano Court.  Specifically, the five liberal thugs who constitute the majority, led by the assclown who should be suing his law school for not giving him even a halfway-decent education in law, (*hackspit*) Anthony Kennedy (*hackspit*).
I mean, it’s not bad enough that the son-of-a-bitch let a 17-year-old murderer damn near get off scot-free because Kennedy thinks international law is more important than our Constitution.  It wasn’t bad enough that this bastard then allowed Terri Schiavo to die a horrible, long and painful death.
Oh, no.  Oh, hell no.
Now  this fucking waste-of-oxygen and his four shit-for-brains tyrannical cohorts have come down on the side of child rapists.  To hell with the will of the people of Louisiana, Texas and whatever other states had similar provisions – no, once again these five Jizz-gobbling Jurist Jackals™ have decided that they know better than the millions of people who voted, through their representatives, for these provisions to be enacted.
NAMBLA would be proud of these five sacks of putrid bullshit.  I can almost hear their parties in honor of these assholes even now.
At this point, my question is not why these five motherfuckers are still on the Supreme Soprano Court.
It’s not why they remain on any court at all.
It’s not why they remain firmly ensconced & employed by the United States government.
It’s not why they remain in the practice of law.
At this point – it’s why they remain.  Period.
Why the Hell™ do these five gutless bastards continue to waste our oxygen tonight?
Where are the good people with brass ones who will stand up to these smarmy little black-robed pissants and say “ENOUGH!!!!!” ???
Ropes, trees, flamethrowers, whips, spiked balls, blackjacks, AK-47s, bayonets…you know the drill.
ARDMORE, OK – The RCOB has once again draped over my eyes.
Once again – so much for the will of the fucking people.
You know – the ones who actually drive  this representative republic of ours?
But no – not when it comes to pendejos  who aren’t even supposed to fucking be  here in the first fucking place!!!!
Sammi Lindsey, you are nothing but an assclownish, limp-wristed son-of-a-crack-whore-bitch.  It wouldn’t surprise me if you and those faggots Bickel & Brewer celebrated this piece-of-shit ruling in some bathhouse somewhere.
In case you’d forgotten, Lindsey, this law you just overturned with your black-robed, tyrannical temper-tantrum WAS APPROVED BY 70 PERCENT OF THE FUCKING POPULATION OF FARMERS BRANCH!!!!!  I realize, Sammi, you dumb-assed twat, that math isn’t your strong suit, but that’s MORE THAN TWO PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR IT FOR EVERY ONE WHO DID NOT.
But I guess that doesn’t matter to a ham-fisted, overbearing, jackbooted, thug-assed pisswad with delusions of adequacy like yourself, does it, Sammi, you fucking moronic little shitheel?
Rope, tree, black-robed tyrannical bench jockey.  You know the routine.
So much for the will of the people.
I’m going to reserve my nuke-the-bastards rant until November, when an expected vote on a Californication constitutional amendment is expected to overwhelmingly tell these four black-robed tyrant douchebags what they can go do with themselves.
But this paragraph is what has lowered the RCOB™ over my eyes this evening:
It’s about human dignity. It’s about human rights. It’s about time in California,” San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom told a roaring crowd at City Hall after the ruling was issued. “As California goes, so goes the rest of the nation. It’s inevitable. This door’s wide open now. It’s going to happen, whether you like it or not.”
That so, you dickless little faggot-humping pussy?  Why don’t you bring your little Limp-wristed Lame-assed Lambda Lickspittles™ to Texas and we’ll see about that, hm???  Let’s see how much of your personal little Bathhouse Blade Brigade™ is left after you’ve tried to force this bullshit on us, eh, Newsom, you son-of-a-crack-whore-bitch?
C’mon, Gavi baby.  Let’s see those papier-machés  of yours, chickenshit!!!
Asscrust. 
Misha reports that the Inbred Phucktard, Phred “Phaggot” Phelps, has attempted to file bankruptcy to escape a civil judgment and had it thrown back in his face.
Normally, we’d be dancing a over this.  That son-of-a-crack-whore-bitch has had this coming for a while now, and I for one am pleased to see him get it in the shorts.
While Misha & the Rotties are dancing in the streets, though, I see one small, almost insignificant problem with this procedure:
If they can do it to Phred Phelps…they can do it to you.
Denizens, I put that in the block for a reason.  I can’t put too fine a point on this.  Anything, anything  that happens to Westboro Baptist Church can happen to your church or my church.  Or you and me – if we suddenly become enemies of the state.  And all that has to happen is for the government to decide that some religion…say, Christianity…has become a liiiiiiittle too extreme  for its tastes.
It happened to the Branch Davidians.  It’s happening to Focus on the Family right now in Canada.
“But Spats”, I almost hear you saying, “Algore would have to visit Hell and cause it to freeze over before that has a snowball’s chance of happening to the churches here.  They wouldn’t dare  do that to us.”
Phaggot Phreddy Phelps thought that, too.  Which is exactly why he filed for bankruptcy.
Think about it.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the Noo Joisey Sorprano Court must really  love the Ninth Circus.  For they keep rendering shitty, fuckheaded decisions like this one.
New Jersey’s highest court opened the door Wednesday to making the state the second in the nation to allow gay marriage, ruling that lawmakers must offer same-sex couples either marriage or something like it, such as civil unions.
We’ll refrain from pointing out, once again,  how so-called “same sex couples” already have the same exact rights as heterosexual couples do.  Neither person in a “heterosexual couple” can marry someone of the same gender, either.  Same rights that every limp-wristed heterophobe has in conjunction to every heterosexual.
(Oops, guess I did, in fact, point that out, didn’t I?  Ah, well, sue me. (snicker))
Denizens, I’d love to pontificate at length about how piss-poor of a judge Anna Diggs Taylor is, or how her half-baked decision that a sitting Commander-in-Chief has to be hand-held by a FISA court in order to prosecute a war – a FISA court, I might add, that can’t get out of the way of its own ass half the time.  I’d love to tell you about how this bitch is a Peanuthead appointee, and about how it’s yet more proof that nothing good came out of that half-assed excuse-for-a-Presidency except its end.
Happily, Patterico’s already beaten me to it – here, here, and with further mocking of the crock o’ shit decision here and here.
I will, though, say this:  If this decision, either directly or indirectly, leads to another attack on the United States of America – certain folks had best run & find a damned  good hiding place.
And that’s all I’ll say about that.
Yeah, I know that there’ll probably be no serious repercussions in Texas state government from the latest power grab by the Supreme tinhorns.  Yes, I know that the GOP will keep most of the districts they created back in 2002.
But what pisses me off most about this – besides the fact that the Demoscum got rewarded (even if in part) over the temper tantrums they threw after being booted from power – is something that asshatted fool Anthony “18-year-old murderers can walk” Kennedy said about the Republican-drawn districts:
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, said Hispanics do not have a chance to elect a candidate of their choosing under the plan.
At issue was the shifting of 100,000 Hispanics out of a district represented by a Republican incumbent and into a new, oddly shaped district. Justices had been told that was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander under the Voting Rights Act, which protects minority voting rights.
Five’ll get you ten that a solid majority of that 100,000 are illegals – and now the Soprano Court seems more concerned about votes they probably can’t legally cast than they are about the Republican majority  in Texas whose representatives drew those boundaries in the first place.
Then again, these black-robed tyrants have already demonstrated that they only wanna enforce laws they give a shit about, so WTF?
Rope, tree…you know the drill.
Mheh.  Someone up in southern Kentucky must be reading me. (No, I don’t really  think so, but it’s fun to imagine they do.)
If you’ll recall, an ACLU-dick sucking, black-robed, tinhorned excuse-for-a-judge had forbidden a member of the senior class of Russell County “Hah Skrewl” (a little Rush lingo, there) to pray.  And, if you’ll recall, I advised those seniors to ignore the pointy-headed bench-jockey.
And lo & behold – they did.  Boy, did they ever:
Another year, another graduation ceremony…another black-robed tinhorned son-of-a-crack-whore-bitch pseudo-tyrant with delusions of mere sexual inadequacy thinking he can tell free Americans when they can pray and not pray:
A federal judge on Friday blocked a southern Kentucky high school from including prayers in its graduation ceremony Friday evening.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit this week seeking a restraining order on behalf of an unidentified student at Russell County High School in Russell Springs, 90 miles south of Louisville.
Memo to those Kentucky kids:  Ignore it.  Those shitheels at the Allah-humping Caliphate Lickspittle’s Union can’t enforce this, no matter how many stormtroopers they send up there.
The student had appealed to principal Darren Gossage to drop the prayer from the Friday evening ceremony, but the principal refused, ACLU attorney Lili Lutgens said.
Hmmmmm.  Might be because the school official, as an extension of government, has to stay neutral in such matters, y’think?
Of course, the Asshatted Crackheads Leprosy Union is well known for its hatred of all things religious.  Unless that religion is the one featuring the Pedophile Prophet (bees pee upon him), of course.
Lutgens argued that any prayer would be unconstitutional because it would endorse a specific religion and religious views. U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley granted the temporary restraining order Friday morning, prohibiting the school district from having even a student representative say a prayer during the ceremony.
And if there were any justice in the world, he’d find the view from the lamppost most enligtening the next day.
Just sayin’, is all.
The U.S. Supreme Court has held that clergy-led prayer in public school graduations and sporting events is prohibited. Lutgens said earlier this week that student-initiated prayer before or after the ceremony would be OK.
“Heavenly Father, as we’re about to make this sacrifice of the traitorous skank, we ask that You ignore the stench coming from her piehole.
We tried to plug it, but little Lili was just a bit too flatulent, y’know?”
What was it Voltaire said?  “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”?
Funny thing about becoming a Soprano Supreme Soprano Court justice – you tend to let it go to your head.  Lifetime appointments to the bench seem to be shortly followed by delusions of grandeur.
Witness, for example, the Mostest Firstest Female-type Bimbo™ ever to serve on the Court – Sandy Ditz O’Bint.  Now that she’s off the bench, she’s wasting no time showing us all what a slut of a tyrant-ette she was on  it.
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has warned that the U.S. is in danger of moving toward “dictatorship” if Republican leaders continue to attack the judiciary for liberal bias.
You mean, Sandy baby, as opposed to the dictatorship you and those other four bastards – Stevens, Souter, Ginsberg and Kennedy – tried to establish while you were there?
And now for something completely different…Good News!™
The Department of Up Your Ass, Baby Butchers! brings us this heartwarming tale of the bastiches at NOW getting their fat asses handed back to them by the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court dealt a setback Tuesday to abortion clinics in a two-decade-old legal fight over abortion protests, ruling that federal extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used to ban demonstrations.
I can hear it from the pro-aborts now:  “Oh, noooooooooooooo!!!!  What ever  are we gonna doooooooooooooooooooo?????  WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!
The 8-0 decision ends a case that the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had kept alive despite a 2003 ruling by the high court that lifted a nationwide injunction on anti-abortion groups led by Joseph Scheidler and others.
Which tends to make one wonder just what the Hell™ the 7th Circus has been smoking recently.
Feel free to go read the rest.  It’s a great day for the pro-life movement in America.
Freedom of speech.  What a novel concept.
In yet another glaring example of why some black robes ought to come equipped with the logo of a well-known retail chain, a tin-horned bench jockey has infringed upon the free-speech rights of a school board.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – In one of the biggest courtroom clashes between faith and evolution since the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, a federal judge barred a Pennsylvania public school district Tuesday from teaching “intelligent design” in biology class, saying the concept is creationism in disguise.
And who would know better about disguises than a black-robed tyrant pretending to be a fair-minded, knowledgeable-in-the-law judge, hm?
Denizens, as we head into our last regularly-scheduled Perfect Football Weekend of the year, I was going  to talk about how Donna McNumnuts was gonna have a lot more time to scarf Chunky Soup©, now that he was likely going to have season-ending surgery to fix that sports hernia of his.  He’s out of the game against the New York Football Giants this week, and even if he doesn’t have the surgery, next week ain’t looking too good either.
Then, I read about this.  A pothead who just happens to play football for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets has sued to get his spot back on the team.
A Fulton County judge ordered Georgia Tech to reinstate defensive back Reuben Houston to the team Tuesday even though Houston is facing felony drug charges and has been suspended from the team all season.
So yet another tin-horned fucknozzled tyrant sitting in an ivory tower on a bench in a courtroom knows better than school officials about whom should play for them and whom shouldn’t.  Yet another example of a black-robed fascist skank sticking his nose where it clearly doesn’t belong.