Posted on 03/11/2010 12:02:52 PM PST by quintr
Can something be legal, but not equitable?
Can behavior be ethical but not moral?
Legal, for instance, is something that is permitted by law. Legal behavior gets its authority from law. Equitable, on the other hand, is something that is fair and just.
Ethical behavior is government by rules of conduct recognized by a particular class of human actions or a particular group of people. For instance, an attorney cannot get a speeding ticket in Illinois if that attorney is on his/her way to court. But going down the road at 80 mph at 7 pm would not be ethical because courts are generally not in session at that time. I know -- there are instances like holiday court. And sometimes court cases being heard will drag on into the evening. Those are exceptions, not the general rule.
Moral behavior is concerned with the rules of right conduct or, specifically the distinction between right and wrong. Moral behavior is not founded on the principles of legalities, or customs.
So much for the dictionary definitions of ethics and morals and legalities.
Then there's the House of Representatives. That supposedly august body has its own rules of what's ethical -- specifically what will not be tolerated or defined as unethical behavior.
For instance, is there a rule somewhere that says staff members of congressionals are supposed to fly coach, not first class. Yet there are millions of taxpayer dollars wasted because these staff members refuse to fly coach. Isn't that unethical behavior? It does seem that congressional staff members are set apart as a group unto themselves when they balk at following the rules. It seems that they've kind of made a little rule of their own that applies to themselves as members of a special class of people. In other words, does the requirement of ethical conduct not apply to them?
Dry dry dry. Watching paint dry, some would say.
But wait. What is a congressman forgets to pay nearly a hundred thousand dollars in taxes? So far at least the House Ethics Committee hasn't exempted anybody from paying income taxes. But what if the congressman just says "Oops, I just forgot to declare all that extra income." Apparently a lapse of memory is not illegal. But it does seem to be less than moral behavior, not to mention unethical. It doesn't appear to be illegal if there's a lapse of memory, followed very quickly by a check to cover the damages by a congressional who would insult the intelligence of taxpayers of this country with a sudden onslaught of economic amnesia. Then comes the headline, "He didn't do anything illegal."
Then there's all those politicians flying around from hither and yon on corporate jets.
Now they're really in trouble because the House Ethics Panel voted to investigate all of them. Including Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House; and Steney Hoyer, the House Majority Leader. The bill was introduced by John Boehner from Ohio. He offered a privileged resolution to ask the Ethics Panel to open an investigation. Majority Whip James Clyburn called to end the debate and Boehner's resolution passed 404-2.
Granted, the Boehner resolution has more to do with the big tornado blowing through the halls of congress about Eric Massa from New York, who resigned the other day while under pressure about what some deemed inappropriate behavior. Sexual harassment was the actual charge.
It's going to be interesting to follow this one through. And for all of you who prefer a nice, dry red wine along with your political dissections of ethics, moral turpitude, and legalistic behaviors, I can only remind you that the Ides of March is at hand. The masks of Mardi Gras have come off and the ugly truth is about to be unveiled in Washington, D.C.
Seems these days like that is an oxymoron.
Certainly a bunch of morons, in any case.
Note to all: I just got an “Untrusted Website” from my McAfee security program on this thread link. I never once saw the alert before this.
Here’s the message I Got:
“This Connection is Untrusted
You have asked Firefox to connect
securely to www.janereinheimer.com, but we can’t confirm that your connection is secure.
Normally, when you try to connect securely,
sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are
going to the right place. However, this site’s identity can’t be verified.
What Should I Do?
If you usually connect to this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn’t continue.”
ANYTHING to take public attention away from DeathCare...
It was actually a FireFox alert, not McAfee. But I never got one of these either until just now.
>>Then comes the headline, “He didn’t do anything illegal.” <<
Reminds me of a Michael Medved show several years ago. Before the break at the top of the hour he asked a question:
If there was a business that was completely legal and you could start it up for almost nothing, operate out of your garage, and make millions, would you do it? He said he’d discuss it in the next hour.
The business was running an online porn site.
Legal, yes, but ethical? Moral?
I’ve said, since graduating from high school in 1972 that what’s legal is not necessarily moral and what’s moral is not necessarily legal.
I had the same problem so I went to her website outside of FR and got to it with no warning. The URL started: http://.
The link above starts: https://; note the “s” after the “p”.
So then could it be someone attempting to impersonate the intended website?
The “s” means the site is on a secure server.
The “s” means the site is on a secure server.
The “s” after http indicates a secure site usually used for payment transactions. It may just have been a typo by quintr.
This web site (janereinheimer.com) has been in use for several years without a problem. I know that todays post is O.K. because I watched her write it.
Quint.
Has the 's' always been there, or was this a typo?
Good evening, Freepers!
I have spent an hour with web.com, the host of my web page, and also the best part of an hour with the server, Consolidated Communications.
Both these agencies assure me that my web page is secure even though the address of “https” should be replaced by “http” since it is no longer a commercial site which it once was.
It was a healthy exercise for me to determine that the web site is a secure one still. It would have been worrisome if such were not the case. It’s just no longer a commercial site where monetary transactions occur. It seems that I should have changed the internet address from https to http when that status changed.
I appreciate the heads up. I value readers to the web site too much to have any angst about the security of the web site in question.
And thank you for your continued readership. I believe that the mid-term elections will be crucial to getting our nation back. I’m doing what I can to bring a voice of reason to the process.
— Jane Reinheimer, Lic. Clinical Prof. Cnslr & Paralegal
“We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” - Winston Churchill
— Love this quote from your page.
I think we sleep securely in our beds because of all our military personnel. Especially my cousin, Alan, who for 27 years rode the high seas in a navy submarine.
He has since retired. I used to ask him what the first thing he’d do when he ever retired and he said he was going to buy a Harley. Sure ‘nuff, that’s exactly what he did.
He’s even made the trip from Chesapeake to visit us in Effingham, Illinois. With his wife and their little dachshund Ozzie.
Great fun they’re having tooling around the country. But seriously, I applaud all those years of service for him and for you and each and every one of our military persons.
Thank you thank you thank you!!!
— Jane
I was interested in reading your comments from Dr. John Drew who recounted his experiences with Obama while Obama was a student at Occidental.
When I was taking economics, I was told that Marxism was intended as an economic idea, not a political one.
Karl Marx also said that if you divided up all the money in a culture so that everyone had an equal share, it would not take five years before a low — middle — and upper class would come into being. That thought has never left me.
But back to college friends, has anyone ever come forward and admitted knowing Obama at Harvard? Or the other university he transferred to from Occidental? I’ve never seen anything written by anyone who said he knew Obama.
— Jane
You are of course referring to the piece currently at the top of my FR Home page. What I found most interesting was that Obama was actually talking about communist revolution, as opposed to just Marxist economics.
As for something that (apparently) links him to Columbia University (actually Columbia College, which is located on the CU campus), I have a few things on that as well on my Home page.
Here’s a direct link to the section:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/#Section%2031
I really appreciate the compilation of research you’ve put together on your page. It’s amazing.
I know what Quint is going to do tomorrow. He’s at church tonight for a council meeting; otherwise, he’d be burning the midnight oil probably.
Thanks for all the info.
— Jane
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