Jon Stewart had a segment on the open gun carry movement in Texas. (I won’t be traveling there very soon.)

I don’t think Jon Stewart made the point clearly enough. We have the situation where is is legal in Texas to openly carry a gun into a situation where some reasonable people will feel threatened with bodily harm. The stand your ground law (of Florida) says that if a reasonable person in your situation would feel threatened with bodily harm, then you may legally shoot the person you feel is threatening you.

Isn’t it nice to know that you have a Constitutional right to carry a gun into a situation where another person would have the Constitutional right to kill you for asserting your Constitutional right.

On the Wiki page explaining the case Terminiello v. Chicago, it says:

Jackson’s dissent in this case is most famous for its final paragraph:

This Court has gone far toward accepting the doctrine that civil liberty means the removal of all restraints from these crowds and that all local attempts to maintain order are impairments of the liberty of the citizen. The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

No wonder this was a dissenting opinion. The other justices knew that our Constitution actually was a suicide pact.

So here is a sign you might want to post at the front door of your commercial establishment.

I stumbled across this link to an interesting video Neil deGrasse Tyson: Aliens & UFOs explained by astrophysicist.

UFOs from the perspective of a world-renowned astrophysicist.

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History, explains his thoughts on reports of unidentified flying objects, extraterrestial life on Earth, and the Roswell aliens.

If this offends you, then chances are you are thinking he said something that he did not say. The lesson being that no matter how hard you try, at least some are bound to misinterpret what you say. That’s life, and there is only so much time worth worrying about it.

In a reversal of principle, I have decided to comment on this topic.  Mashable has the article Politicians Delete Digital Praise of Bowe Bergdahl Release.

Now, aren’t you glad we didn’t elect Stephen Lynch as our Senator?  What kind of person, let alone Democrat, is this guy?

With people like this in our Congress, is it any wonder that the President decided to carry out this operation before telling Congress?  It wouldn’t have surprised me if some idiot Congressman would have gotten some people killed if the President had consulted with them first.  Even so, most of them probably would have been for the operation before they were against it.

This is not an endorsement of everything that Bergdahl has done in his life.

The Daily Kos has the article McCain, other Republicans called for Obama to get Bergdahl’s release, then condemned it.

We rescue our soldiers first and ask questions later. If action by justice system is needed, I prefer American justice over Taliban justice.— @SenatorReid

I prefer Harry Reid’s way of looking at the situation.

McCain, ought to be careful with his remarks. Some really crass individual might start asking, “Would the world have been a better place if we had left Crash McCain in North Vietnam?”