Comments | bkmichele: Watch Your Civil Liberties Disappear!

bkmichele

Watch Your Civil Liberties Disappear!

Jun 22, 2005 11:31

The boss-attorney in the complex (Steve, a.k.a. The Blatt) received this mug as a gift, and we tried it out today. Disappearing Civil Liberties Mug. Basically it lists the bill of rights and when you pour hot coffee into the mug, certain amendments begin to fade away. The 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 9th and 10th remain quite clearly. The rest of the amendments ( Read more... )

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Comments 6

I'm sorry but that is funny mmc327 June 22 2005, 15:39:15 UTC

HAHA! LOL!
F Bush and his buddies!

Re: I'm sorry but that is funny bkmichele June 22 2005, 15:45:03 UTC

I'm restraining myself from ordering a billion to distribute to everyone I know.

Re: I'm sorry but that is funny mmc327 June 23 2005, 15:25:27 UTC

I should get one for myself as a birthday present. I would if I had net access at home.

coercedbynutmeg June 25 2005, 02:37:44 UTC

Haha, if you pour coffee into it today, the eminent domain clause should disappear. (I mean it won't, but it may just as well have been erased on Thursday.)

mystikminx June 25 2005, 13:15:11 UTC

A friend of mine SO needs that mug. lol!

pecunium November 1 2005, 02:35:09 UTC

Putting aside the question of the second (which is much in contention) I would argue the 9th is dead, and sadly because it is the basis for things like Griswold v Connetticut, Roe v Wade, Lawrence v Texas and all the other privacy related issues.

It also provides for things like maternity leave, and anything else not explicitly prescribed in the Consitution.

The Right hates it, because it is the obstacle which (sadly hasn't been used) to them making the Constitution into what Scalia has called, "a dead document" (by which he means it can't be interpreted in light of present morés, conditions and needs).

TK