Mississippi Scalloped Pig Feet - A Recipe

(This is a parody, no actual pigs were harmed during the writing of this article)

The Secret Recipe


This here is a real treat 'specially if ya'll are looking for a low fat type meal for everyone in the family from the kids on up to grandma. It's a real "kin pleaser" and kissing cousin on the couch comfort food companion.

Prepration

First, you take your pig* and cut his feet right clean off. Now, if you're one of them animal lover types you can spare the pig and lame him a bit - just take off one foot per pig. This will take time though, so you might as well make a day of it cause between cutting off just one foot and bandaging up that crippled little pig you done spared, you are not gonna have much daylight left. And, what with making a little bitty crutch for that cute little fellow, well, you can see where this is leading.

Proportions

Figure on 1 pig for every 2 guests. Now sometimes your fat people, like my wife's Aunt Dot, want to eat a whole bunch more. Dot could eat the drippings off a shoe polish brush. So you best figure on them real fatties on eating more. You got to know your guests with this dish or you gonna wind up not getting nun youself.

Warning

*Now, if ya don't got some pigs handy you can substitute deer. Deer ain't bad. For deer, clean that hide off real good or ya gonna get a whole lot of hair in the dish and that's not good for eating, no sir. Makes y'or guests spit the whole time. Not good at all. Reminds me of an old girl in DeLisle, Mississippi, but that's another story.

There's a lot of them Bambi lovers and Porky the Pig fans out there who are just-a-gonna have a fit about now, but listen there just ain't no way a'tall to make this stuff veg-I-tarian. I done tried. You cain't do it and I don't want to hear nothing else about it.

By the way, young pigs work out best. If you can get your hands on one of them pot belly pigs that some family got as a pet but don't want no more, get you one of them. They been fed real good and man are they tasty. (Hint - don't look them little fellers in the eye when you cut them legs off. They is pitiful.)

Hey, what ever you do, leave the hooves on that rascal. This is important ! Because you eat them pigs feet with your hands and you pick 'em up by the hoofs. Get it ? So leave them on, see. This ain't no time to go all Miss Manners.

Back to Preparation

So now, you wash them feet (the pigs, not yours) real good. If you got some lye soap, that would't hurt not one bit either. You wash them pig feet cause they wallow in all kinds of crap and stuff. That ain't good and if you don't get it all off the meat tastes kinda strange. Like chicken.

Tie off the top part of the pig feet with a shoe lace or something. Be sure to keep most of the blood in. This makes the sauce.

Put on a big pot of water and set it up to boil.

Throw in all this stuff:

4 cups of salt - more if your heart can stand it
some cayenne pepper - about 2 heaps from your hand
put in 14 or 15 cloves of garlic - more if you are I'talian
drop in 6 or maybe 10 lemons
pitch in some hot peppers - a couple of bunches
If you have it - 1 Luden's cough drop
1 big bottle of Burbon (pour it out of the bottle first)
1 big bottle of Rum (pour it out of the bottle first)
1 swig of beer

oh, yeah, fill 'er up the rest of the way with tap water

Cookin'

Bring to a boil for 4 hours or until smell gets real bad - whichever is first. Then cut off that heat and let cool until grease gets so thick you gotta put a knife in it to chop it out. Give grease to cat for hair balls. For God's sake, let cat out of house !

Do not let dog drink the liquid whatever you do. You will regret it ! Throw it out somewhere off your property. Preferably downwind.

Next, take pig feet and place on baking pan. Cover with cooking oil - man soak 'em a whole lot. Use lard if you have to. Now salt to taste and put pepper and jalapinos on 'em for good measure to bring out flavor. Bake at 350 degrees for 2 hours or until the smoke alarm goes off - whichever is first. Take 'em out and let 'em cool.

Now you take them feet and roll 'em in some beat up eggs and some corn meal and fry them up in some hot grease. Good and hot. So hot the hair on your arm gets all crinkly when you get up close to the fry pot. Don't let them kids up close to the try pot no matter how much beer you been drinking. Make 'em go play in the ditch or something. And, watch that dog. That thing will get underfoot just smelling the batch.

Almost ready.

> Let cool off. Them babies are some kind of warm.

Feeding up:

> Serve with gravy, catsup, butter, and mayonnaise dips.

> Grab by hoof and place in mouth and chew for all you are worth, man. Some good, yeah. Suck if dentures go to hurting you bad. Suck time varies.

Enjoy. Mmmmmmmm good.

Good Tips: Be sure to have plenty of paper plates at each setting for guests to put the remainder of hoofs on.

Leftover hoofs can be used for teething babies or to scrape off boots after coming in from fields or after hunting.

The Realist

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Humbled by the Natchez Blog

HUMBLED

I have been humbled by the support that I have discovered is out there for me. One such person is Casey Ann Hughes. She writes the Natchez Blog. I have learned she is an ardent environmentalist. What is known by some as a "tree hugger".

The Tree Hugger

To some people the term "tree hugger" is meant as a derogatory expletive spit out by the cruel curled lips of Rush Limbaugh types in an attempt to belittle those who actually believe there is something about out earth that is in terrible danger from pollution. Personally, I believe that much of what comes out of Limbaugh's mouth is the very definition of pollution itself.

It is amazing how Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and others of that ilk will sell their souls to the devil himself so long as they can continue to spout their particular form of anti-environmental venom. What can't they see that the rest of us do see ? Why are they so blind ? The truth is they are not blind. They have an agenda sponsored by the polluters.

Yes. Paid for and sponsored by the polluters and is about time we faced this. Honest people, good people who sincerely consider themselves conservatives and good Americans listen to the mind pollution coming from the likes of Limbaugh and Hannity. They are taken in by their alleged stances on "hot button" issues such as abortion and gay marriage. These rock solid Americans do not realize that these commentators are worse that Hitler's propaganda master Goebbels and they are being subtly used and manipulated.

While we may honestly disagree about many topics and fairly disagree, this does not mean that those who are in the opposite camp are necessarily evil. That is the real problem with hate mongers as I have described. They cannot put forth a valid argument on their positions without a personal attack. Not only are their opponets wrong, but they are labled "morally wrong". Thus, all Democrats are evil and all Republicans are anointed with the oil of "Truth, Justice and the American Way !" Fertilizer !

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936.

Honest conservatives are often taken in by all of this garbage. Modern life with all of its time crunch - we have to get to our jobs, pick up the kids, get supper, and with luck have a few minutes to rest - leaves us with lettle feee time. Most of us do not have the time to do independent research on topics of interest. It's just too complex. Thus, unfortunately, we are suckered into relying on fast talking pundits who seem to espouse positions we are easily fooled into accepting. They use catch words that fly past us so quickly we are unable to absorb the meanings of the spoken words they spout.

Rush denigrates global warming. I suppose when the ocean swallows up his cabinet full of pain killers down by the waters of his estate in Florida he'll be still be blaming poor old Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton, or better yet the illegal immigrants for causing the flooding.

Ear Mites

Have you ever listened to one of these guys ? Really listened. They tolerate no debate. Callers who disagree are quickly cut off the line and are not allowed to fully discuss their views. Their shows purport to be an open discussion of issues but the truth is they are nothing but a big ego trip for the host. It is sickening. They are ear mites in the public auditory canal.

"Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think." Luther Burbank

Clarity

Casey Ann Hughes see through this muck. She has clarity. She knows how to take a stand too, and that takes a measure of courage. Good for you Casey Ann. Good for you.

Thanks Casey Ann. Thanks for your clarity of vision. I am humbled by your dedication, by your strong ethic, and your courage. Humbled.

Catch her blog at http://natchezsms.blogsopt.com/

The Realist

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The Ring

THE RING

The Wedding


My son, Adam, recently got married to a wonderful girl, Amanda. The wedding was just perfect despite the fact that the bride’s dress was not properly cleaned by the cleaners and she had to go out and buy a brand new wedding gown on the morning of the nuptials. Added to the normal nervousness on such days, the so called "friend" who was going to provide the music for the reception decided he had better things do and went to a football game without bothering to tell anyone.

Amanda looked like the proverbial "deer caught in the headlights" cautiously meandering down the aisle (grazing for a husband). Adam was so nervous his right leg was shaking and he took more deep breaths than a new mother in a lamaze class.


Much to the relief of all of us, and especially Amanda’s mother, who was tranquilized on an assortment of medication the likes of which a street dealer would envy, the gentle blessing of the minister concluded a mercifully short and sweet service.


Thinking back, however, the engagement almost never happened.


The Proposal


With planning that rivaled the invasion of foreign soil, Adam plotted his proposal. I went with him to pick out the ring, and a beautiful ring it was. We had no idea he had such good taste !

Adam inquired of his friends - mostly single guys - about the best way to propose. As if they knew. Finally, he asked my advice. Ah, the old pro, fatherly advice, the "old man", my chance to offer him some insight into being a man. So, with all that in mind, I said, "Son, I don’t know what to tell you. Why don’t you get down on your hands and knees and just beg !"


He apparently took my wise counsel because the next thing I heard was a few days later when a frantic Amanda called me on the cell phone screaming, "Help, Mr. Wes (the Mr. Wes thing is her southern politeness coming out), Adam’s stuck in the mud." Well, what does one think? Stuck in the mud, this must mean he got his car stuck in the mud. "Help us please. He’s stuck real bad and I don’t know what to do." But, nooooo. Not the car.


"Where did he get the car stuck ? Where are you ?"


"It’s not the car, Mr. Wes. It’s Adam. He’s stuck in the mud. He was giving me my engagement ring and he dropped it. Just out and dropped it right out of his hand. We were on a bridge over some kind of water or swamp or something, and I guess he was nervous and it just flew out of his hand - right down into the mud." About now I can hear Adam yelling in the background, "Tell dad to hurry. There are snakes in here. I’m gonna die." "He says to hurry, he’s gonna die", Amanda chimes in. Oh, yes, he picked out a real romantic spot to propose in the middle of a swamp no less.


By the time I arrived on the scene, I found Adam stuck in five feet of the most evil looking dark green brown oozing primordial slime I have ever seen. And, of course he was yelling, "I’m gonna die." My appearance and his panic prompted his fiancé to begin shouting, "He’s gonna die." This in turn caused the two guys who were fishing on the bayou to rush up and see just exactly who was "gonna die".


About now, and so help me I could not stop it, with Adam’s cussing, Amanda’s pleas to "Save Adam, save Adam", the fisherman’s puzzled looks, and the thought that no self-respecting snake would slither (or whatever snakes do) through that smelly gunk just to get a bite of Adam, I simply lost it and broke down in a fit of uncontrollable laughter. I lost the ability to speak. Air pockets in my lungs collapsed and snot poured out from my now fully loosened sinuses ! To the background of "Dad, I’m gonna die" and "Mr. Wes, Adam’s gonna die", I rolled over and over on the bridge. More about that bridge later. Upon dropping the engagement ring Adam flung himself - all two hundred and fifty pounds of himself - over the railing and went after that ring. I supposed his life flashed before his eyes when he dropped it.


In our rescue effort we threw down a large garbage can for Adam to stand on to make it up to the bottom of the bridge. It immediately sank in the mud to the chorus of, you guessed it, "I’m gonna die". We pulled on his slimy arms to lift him up. Nope, we couldn’t get a grip. Too much goop. "He’s gonna die", the fiancé moaned. Finally, angler Bob and I managed to get Adam to balance one muddy foot on a piling and as we pulled him up somehow he slipped and his feet went under the bottom rail. It would be impossible to duplicate.


Imaging this picture. Adam is partially lying on the deck with his feet on the floor and his upper body hanging in space. The fisherman guy and I are pulling with all our might on his legs but Adam’s stomach will not fit under the railing. Our hands are slipping on the primordial ooze. He is yelling, "I see snakes down there. Dad, just break the railing and pull me out". And, you guessed out, Amanda is joining in, "He’s gonna die". With only your bear hands you can’t break a two inch thick pine wood railing bolted down with heavy metal screws. Trust me, I have tried.

Somehow, by some means, angler Bob and I were able to pop Adam’s overextended belly under the top rung of the rail. Plopp and he was freed - full of mud and stinking slime, but free.

The Finale


Oh, the ring, you were probably wondering. He found it in the muck. There really are miracles.

Just then I turned to Amanda and asked her, "By the way, you did say yes, didn’t you ? Because if you said no, over the rail you go !" Yes it was, and we have a new and terrific daughter-in-law.

We are lucky and my son is lucky. And, guess what, "He’s gonna live" !

The Realist

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An Under Reported Revolution

US ATTORNEYS SCANDAL - AN UNDER REPORTED REVOLUTION

The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has voted this past week to hold former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and White House Counsel Joshua Bolton in contempt of Congress for not providing memos, documents, and testimony to the committee investigating allegations of selective prosecution and political motivation for firing of the lawyers. If you want to see the entire report go to http://judiciary.house.gov/ and look for the Miers Bolton Contempt Report.

Mrs. Miers, Bush's confident and failed Supreme Court nominee, was the author of many of the letters and memos regarding the firings of the US Attorneys. The Bush Administration has stalled and balked at providing crucial documents to the committee regarding this topic. what do they have to hide? Citing executive privilege the administration has refused to provide the Judiciary committee with the requested information. Mrs. Miers in the committee's view insulted them by not even showing up in response to the subpoena issued to her.

In the committee's report there are four crucial findings which are cited:

1. There is evidence of politically biased prosecutions and removal of US attorneys

2. Current and former Justice Department officials may have made false or misleading statements to Congress, many of which served to obscure or downplay the role of white House personnel in the firings

3. Civil service requirements and the Presidential Records Act may have been violated

4. Serious questions about the US Attorneys firings remain unanswered

WOW !

The Committee states that it has "Uncovered Significant Evidence of Wrongdoing", Chairman Conyers and Subcommittee Chair Sanchez Report, page 1. The idea to all or some of the US Attorneys originated with presidential advisor Karl Rove who was at the time himself being investigated by a US Attorney. This idea was taken up by Harriet Miers. Over two years twenty-five attorneys were considered for firing [Realist's note - including Dunn Lampton who prosecuted Paul Minor, John Whitfield, and Wes Teel].

Dunn Lampton was once on the "Hit List" and later somehow got off the list. Interesting isn't it. What does the committee report have to say on the subject of politically based prosecutions and the firing list? "The Committee's investigation suggests U.S. Attorneys may have been placed on or removed from the firing list based on their actions in bringing or not bringing politically sensitive prosecutions." Additionally, the report states, "As the venerable and nonpartisan American Judicature Society explained, the firing of these U.S. Attorneys "raises issues of prosecutorial fairness, the permissible roles of policy and politics, ad the maintenance of citizen trust in the rule of law." Report, page 3.

Equally troubling is the testimony of White House liaison Monica Gooding admitting that she had "crossed the line" in considering inappropriate political factors when hiring career prosecutors and immigration judges and in detailing persons into Justice Department leadership positions. She admits this violated Civil Service regulation. Report, page 21.

What does this mean ? Simple, the purpose was to salt the ranks of career federal prosecutors with partisan political operatives who were loyal to Republican politics - not loyal to the impartial dictates of the law. Thus, when evaluating a potential case for prosecution the public prosecutor would look it at not with the unbiased eyes of a disinterested independent "minister of justice" as the Cannons of Ethics require of a prosecutor, but with an eye possibly to how this case can help or hurt his political party.

For some reason the mainstream media has not diligently reported the committee's decision to cite Miers and Bolton for Contempt of Congress. This is a big story and will grow in importance as the months pass. I suppose there are more interesting news items, the war goes on, oil prices are spiral higher and the never ending presidential campaign drones on and on and on. Yet, there is a revolution taking place, an under reported revolution. The House Judiciary Committee has decided in its wisdom not to tolerate any more stonewalling from the administration. They are determined to get to the bottom of a scandal that has shaken the faith in the Department of Justice's ability to independently evaluate and decide (free of political considerations) which cases and who should be prosecuted by the federal government.

Why is this important?

Good question.

Answer: Because no matter which political party controls the White House the incredible power of a federal indictment should not be used against the other party's political opponents.

Those issues should be decided at the ballot box !

Remember: The power to indict is the power to destroy.

The under reported revolution won't be under reported forever.



The Realist

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My Nuts Are My Two Best Friends

ON FRIENDSHIP

Well, that didn't exactly come out quite like I intended. Let me rephrase the statement, "My two best friends are nuts !" There, that's what I wanted to say. They are complete, albeit wonderful, nuts. The one pictured here on the left next to the goofy bird is Dr. Simone Simone. She is the most loyal and loving true friend anyone could ever hope for in a friend.

And what is this concept of friendship? What is this quality that separates people into a category that allows us to become close to them and to want to share our lives with them? Indeed, as I myself have experienced, often we are closer to our friends than we are to our own blood relatives, and, what is more, these non-relatives seem to actually care what happens to us more than our own kin!

"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."- Jacques Delille (1738 - 1813) French poet.

When we face troubles in life it is our friends who come to our rescue. They suddenly show up at our houses with food - usually edible, but who cares. They listen patiently to our whining and pity parties, and finally when they have had enough and realize we need to shut up and face our problems they tell us to suck it up and go on with life. This, perhaps, is their greatest service.

"A true friend stabs you in the front."- Oscar Wilde

I can attest that sometimes so called "friends" shy away, no let's just say what really happens, they run away from and refuse to have anything to do with you when you have major problems in your life. These people will not interrupt their lives, their comfortable zones of security, to participate in your suffering, much less to endeavour to relieve it in some small way.


The Nut to the left is Phil Simone, my other nutty friend. A few words as to the Simone's peculiar brand of zaniness are in order. Phil and Simone are the most difficult people with whom to dine. We have spent untold hours debating where to go to eat. Certain establishments are off limits.




Phil can't or won't eat onions. Simone does not like food that is not cooked up to her specifications - which fall somewhere between Cordon Blue and McDonald's (I have not figured it out yet). Phil claims they deliberately spike the iced tea at Wendy's with a secret onion ingredient. Simone will only order Pepsi and refuses to allow ice anywhere near her soft drink. She is not sensitive to cold, and I'm certain she is not attempting to preserve the world's supply of frozen water, and a certified a tree hugger she is not - so what gives?


More strangeness.


I once made the mistake of picking up and writing with one of her ink pens. This was against the "Rules". I was in the process of learning the "Rules" as her daughter, Cynthia, refers to the convoluted customs and mores that make up daily life for the Simones. Dr. Simone can actually tell when a person has used her pen. At first I scoffed at this, but upon further testing it seems that she can actually detect minute changes in the microscopic texture of the tip of the point. CSI forensic teams could use her extraordinary (and nutty) talents. Once one of her ink pens has been polluted by someone else - meaning me - it can never be used again by Dr. Simone. No amount of coaxing will convince her to reuse the instrument.

In fact the panel on her dissertation for some reason lacked an ink pen and asked to borrow hers. She reluctantly, very reluctantly, allowed them to borrow her pen to sign the approval papers. Of course, she promptly threw away the implement afterwards.

The point about friends, even nutty ones, is that one loves them in spite of, and perhaps even because of their eccentricities. It is not that such things are forgiven for forgiveness is not the issue. There is nothing to forgive. It is a matter of acceptance, and with acceptance tolerance, and with tolerance love.

These nuts, these wonderful crazy nuts, have given me a renewed sense of hope, belonging and acceptance. They have offered me shelter in a time of great need, and they have opened up their hearts and home to my wife and family when we most needed a friend. In times of crisis our faith can be shaken. This is especially true when people we thought we could count on turn their backs on us and let us down, but God in his wisdom provides others who step forth and not only take up the slack but, indeed, surpass all expectations. Such people are the Simones, and I am ever thankful they have entered my life.

Friends.

The Realist

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Paul Minor and a message from the Gulag

Paul Minor's Message

Once upon a time Paul Minor was a very prominent Mississippi Gulf Coast lawyer. He specialized in personal injury and mass tort (damage suit) litigation. The dream life stopped and the nightmare began. After four years of intense investigation and two trials he was recently convicted of violating federal law along with two state court judges for allegedly bribing the judges in return for favorable rulings in cases before them.

Minor sets out his explanation of what actually happened in the case in a detailed letter to the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee which recently held hearings on the Bush administration's use of selective prosecution of Democrats in order to gain political advantage in the upcoming elections. According to Mr. Minor and others, the scheme was hatched by George Bush's right hand political wizard, Karl Rove, who, while sitting in his White House, office used his position (paid for by the taxpayers from both parties) to apply pressure to Department of Justice (DOJ) officials to single out democrats in order to criminally prosecute them in order to punish them for their political views.

If you wish to review Mr. Minor's full letter to the House Judiciary Committee you can find it at http://judiciary.house.gov/ . Go to "Documents in Demand" under "Allegations of Selective Prosecution: The Erosion of Public Confidence in our Federal Judicial System". See Letter of Paul Minor. While you are at it, look at Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz's letter, and Memo of Points in Support of Paul Minor's Motion to Dismiss. These are good reads.

Scott Horton, attorney and author, writing in Harper's Magazine http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/nbc-90001343, has made a detailed and scholarly study of this topic. His conclusion is the Bush administration has used the federal justice system to go after democrats to "defund" the democratic party. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/nbc-90001321. Suggested reading: "A Minor Injustice" and "Bagging a Democrat".

Defunding is a method by which contributors are prevented from making donations. In Horton's analysis this was accomplished by prosecuting known major contributors to democratic causes and candidates. One such person was Paul Minor. Mr. Horton points out that Minor was one of John Edward's primary financial supporters. By strategically "taking out" these contributors the ability to elect democrats would be substantially hampered. Anyone familiar with modern political campaigns knows that a candidate's qualifications, his ability to make a coherent speech, and even his background matter little when weighed against his ability to raise MONEY. Everything revolves around money. Otherwise qualified but unfunded candidates stand almost no chance of being elected. This is the harsh reality in our republic.

New sources which have come forth, according to Mr. Horton, have indicated that not just John Edwards supporters were identified as early on targets for criminalizing their political activities. Hillary Clinton supporters were also identified and are presently being dogged be the heavy hand of the feds bent on stamping out political opposition.

Money, big money, money to run TV ads, to take polls, to hire consultants, and to print campaign literature is what matters - not ideas or policies. Eliminating a political party's fund raising capacity is the death knell of that party.

A pioneering citizen journalist, Robert Schuler, no stranger to being abused by the judicial system himself in civil litigation, who writes in his Legalschnauzer blog http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/ has examined the Minor case in depth. His series, "Mississippi Churning" is masterfully written. It explores motives for the prosecution and concludes the case was without merit and fatally flawed along with numerous court rulings.

Both Schuler and Horton take on one of the worse scandals in Alabama, the Governor Siegelman case. They document the political influences which were brought to bear which resulted in Siegleman's subsequent prosecution and conviction. This is a prosecution which implicates the present Alabama governor, numerous prosecutors, and reached up to the higher eschelons of the Bush administration including Karl Rove and discredited former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. The methods, means, and motives behind the Siegleman case seem to mimic those employed in the Paul Minor case.

Paul Minor states he is innocent of the charges levied against him. He further states he believes he was targeted for prosecution not because he committed any crime, but because he is a democrat and his prosecution accomplished Karl's Rove's goal of shutting down another source of funding for the democratic party.

The Realist is inclined to agree with Mr. Minor's conclusions- especially since I am one of those two state court judges who was convicted with him!

The Realist believes that there are people of goodwill who think that the might of the federal legal system should be reserved for those who deserve to be prosecuted for actual crimes, not for their political views - regardless of party affiliation. Should the democrats gain control of the executive branch of government it would be just as morally repugnant should they target republicans for criminal prosecution merely to disrupt and "defund" the republican party.

The trite old adage that "what goes around comes around" has a large measure of common sense truth to it. Karma, if you like.

If you as a person of goodwill and a person who believes in rule of law want to take action to preserve our system of justice [yes, you can actually do something about it] take a minute and write or email a letter to the members of the House Judiciary Committee and implore them to investigate the Paul Minor case. This is not about party or philosophy. It is about not allowing anyone from any political party to use the justice system to further a political agenda.

You do remember who headed the judicial system in Nazi Germany don't you? That great humanitarian and civil rights activist Herman Goering.

The Realist

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