<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Crank it up for . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Just Two Men Who Do Si Do"</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Do_Si_Do.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Do_Si_Do.mp3</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sing along . . .</span></div><div><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="text-align: start; 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margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nothing to make you squawk or crow</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just two men who do si do</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Making a home for our pet</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eating dinner off chinette</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sharing air miles for the jet,</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Even merged our god damn debt</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ceremony we underwent</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nice small family friends event</span></p><p style="text-align: start; 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margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Settled the land and made it clear</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All men are created equal here</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They never said unless your queer</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Next year maybe buy that farm</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Walkin around arm in arm</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Be good neighbors do no harm</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Givin’ our town some new charm</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Times are changing left and right</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Holding my man close and tight</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still makes folks wanna fight</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But more and more are quite polite</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Life’s just like a rodeo</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We aint putting on a show</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nothing to make you squawk or crow</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just two men who do si do</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Life’s just like a rodeo</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We aint putting on a show</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nothing to make you squawk or crow</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just two men who do si do</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just two men who do si do</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just two men who do si do</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just two men who do si do"</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------------------------</span></p></div><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Mar 21, 2015, at 6:27 AM, Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Is this what we have been reduced to?</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of today's (March 21, 2015) Lewiston Tribune.</div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 id="blox-asset-title" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 400; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 34px; font-size: 30px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="blox-headline entry-title" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); line-height: 38px; font-family: TiresiasInfofontRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Memorial would impeach federal judges</span></h1><p class="sub-headline" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; background-image: url(http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/lmtribune.com/content/tncms/live/components/core_base_library/resources/images/dingbat.gif); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Sponsor Rep. Paul Shepherd, R-Riggins, says judges who are making law, not upholding it, should be outed</p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">BOISE - A joint memorial calling for federal judges to be impeached if their rulings go beyond the "original intent" of the Constitution passed the Idaho House Friday on a 44-25 vote.</span></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The measure, sponsored by Rep. Paul Shepherd, R-Riggins, was prompted in part by last year's appellate court decision that overturned Idaho's ban on same-sex marriage.</span></p><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I bring this joint memorial because so many issues have come up across the country and with my constituents, that whatever comes down from the court - even if it's unconstitutional when applied to the commonly understood, original intent - it just goes on anyway and we have to live under it, even if it's not constitutional," Shepherd said. "So somehow, someday, we have to take a stand. I think that's in compliance with our oath of office."</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The memorial urges Congress to support the principle that judges should "uphold the law and not make or change the law," and calls for judges to be impeached if they stray from original intent.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Original intent doesn't mean the Constitution can never change, Shepherd said, "but change can only happen through an amendment, not through a judge ... I think it's important we send that message - and I think it's important we are one nation under God and that we uphold Christian morals. As an example, how about fornication and adultery?"</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rep. John McCrostie of Boise, who is gay, said he found this legislation personally hurtful.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Is my marriage so despicable that a federal judge should be impeached?" he asked. "All this bill really does is this: If you vote for it, you get to go home and tell your constituents you voted against gay marriage. If you vote against it, you get to say you supported marriage equality. In the end, all we've done is campaign on company time; we failed to use our time here to improve education, create livable wage jobs or fix a broken transportation system ... You need to vote your heart, but I ask with as much graciousness as I can muster, please don't bring any more discriminatory legislation like this."</span></p><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rep. Mark Nye, D-Pocatello, wondered which judges Shepherd wanted to impeach.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Does that include (former Supreme Court Chief Justice) Earl Warren?" he asked.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Shepherd said it did, given that the Warren court stopped school prayers. He said prayers should be allowed, as long as they're nondenominational.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Our freedom of religion thing was to deal with denominations of religion, not whether we're Christian or not," Shepherd said. "So if this (impeaching judges) had started with him, we wouldn't have judges out of control today. I wish it had started with him."</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nye, an attorney and past president of the Idaho State Bar Association, noted the Warren court decided "Brown v. Board of Education," which led to school desegregation.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I'm sure no one today thinks he should be impeached," he said. "I applaud (Shepherd's) frustration and his disdain for specific rulings ... but to attack our institutions doesn't advance the necessary respect that binds us all together."</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rep. Linden Bateman, R-Idaho Falls, spoke in support of the bill, saying it expresses the feelings of many Idahoans about judges who override state prerogatives and shift power to the federal government.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Essentially this memorial is sending a message, and that message needs to be heard," he said. "Even a casual reading of the Constitution tells us the authors of that venerable document were fearful of the centralization of power."</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rep. Ilana Rubel, D-Boise, said the Constitution is amazing not merely because it promotes democracy, but because it provides protections for minority views.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"That's where the judiciary comes in," she said. "They're the guardians against the tyranny of the majority ... That's why the Constitution provides for lifetime appointments - so they don't have to be beholden to the majority, so they can stand for the 2 percent and not be run over in the next election. This (memorial) is tearing at the very fabric that makes the country work."</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">House Minority Leader John Rusche, D-Lewiston, said the 1803 decision in "Marbury v. Madison" made it clear that the judiciary is responsible for interpreting the Constitution.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"So I would submit that 'original intent' was to let the courts interpret what the Constitution permits," he said. "All this memorial says is that we're so against gay marriage, not only will we refuse to recognize the rights of those individuals, we'll try to impeach any judge who doesn't see things our way. That is distinctly different from any legal understanding of the role of the courts in America. I think this makes us headed for the evening news once again."</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In north central Idaho, Shepherd and Rep. Shannon McMillan, R-Silverton, voted in favor of the legislation. Rusche and Reps. Dan Rudolph, D-Lewiston; Caroline Troy, R-Genesee; and Paulette Jordan, D-Plummer, all voted in opposition.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The memorial now goes to the Senate for further action.</span></p></div></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"></div></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" </span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>