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10-14-2005, 03:21 PM
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Re: Is it really a smart move???
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since I am a genius, you clearly must be too, and thus we are right [/ QUOTE ] Your logic astounds me...where can I subscribe to your newsletter [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] 
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#22
10-14-2005, 04:11 PM
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Re: Harriet Miers Speaks
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Bush is like the guy with the deepest stack late in a big buy-in nl tournament who believes in his invulnerability, and who donks off his stack with a quick succession of boneheaded plays, progressing from overweening pride to impotent rage to frustration to desperation. America needs to be especially careful in guarding the Constitution now. Wounded animals, especially animals on tilt - can be extremely dangerous when cornered. [/ QUOTE ] I sure hope everyone else is appreciating that this post was written in a thread about Harriet Miers' bad prose.
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#23
10-14-2005, 06:23 PM
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Re: Harriet Miers Speaks
I think he nomination is so out of line that it is hard it. However, I look at the reasoning of a lot of the current justices and I find it hard to believe that her reasoning could be any worse.
And, I like her normination much better that the black market baby buying Roberts. I would have assumed buying s black market baby would have disqualified you for the supreme court.
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#24
10-14-2005, 10:01 PM
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just out of curiosity, who's your favroite justice, natedogg? lemme guess... thomas? [/ QUOTE ] Got it in one. He only gets better with time too. His recent term was stellar, dissenting on both Raich and Kelo. Thomas is the best. Scalia is nothing but a fair-weather federalist, but Thomas, that is a man with principle. natedogg
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10-14-2005, 11:56 PM
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So conservatives are caught between loyalty to their ideas and loyalty to the president they admire. [/ QUOTE ] This is obviously nonsense. There are no conservatives who admire President Bush. No conservative who actually believes in conservative ideals can fail to despise the man who has abandoned every conservative principle on the list. natedogg
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#27
10-15-2005, 12:42 PM
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[ QUOTE ] Thomas, that is a man with principle. [/ QUOTE ] If you include sexual harrassment as one of his principles, then I would agree. -ptmusic [/ QUOTE ] It's time to take off the "I Believe You Anita" bumper sticker. natedogg
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#28
10-17-2005, 03:53 AM
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Re: Harriet Miers Speaks
They weren't "black market babies" per se. Story goes, Mrs. Roberts' relatives in Ireland knew of two pregnant girls who were planning on getting abortions elsewhere.
Girls have babies, Roberts's adopt both & pays both mothers' "expenses". Catch is, foreign adoptions are illegal in Ireland. So the mamas fly to Costa Rica(?) for the handovers, or maybe the births happened there, too. Roberts & his wife walked a fine line here, no question. But he and his wife prolly have a combined IQ closer to 400 than 300 and nearly 50 years of combined legal-political experience at the highest levels. No way they didn't dot & cross everything. The reasons why Dem staffers & liberal reporters dropped this story like it was radioactive should be obvious. Ditto for the promised "investigation" by Euro authorities. Interesting how all the bloggers wouldn't touch it either. Roberts is gonna be running the sheeew for the next 30+ years. I imagine, nice guy that he is, he'd make a terrible enemy. And everybody's got skeletons. Note how these adoptions took place during the Florida recount debacle, which is likely why he wasn't directly involved. Too bad; woulda made his confirmation hearings much more interesting.
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#30
10-17-2005, 08:35 AM
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Harriet Miers and Gambing
Stanford Wong's BJ21 Newsletter quotes a couple of newspaper articles on Miers' relation to Gambling. She worked as the senior gaming regulator in Texas, and served as chair of the three-person Texas Lottery Commission from May 1995 to March 2000. In that capacity, Miers resisted attempts by the Christian Right to outlaw casino gambling.
In fact, her nomination might grate on the critics of gambling, some of whom, notably Rep. Frank R. Wolf, R-Va, have extended their opposition to an assault on tribal casinos, sovereignty and the recognition process. One key evangelical Christian figure, James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, was a member of the National Gaming Impact Study Commission, and has been visibly conflicted in supporting Miers. Her resume in gambling might emerge as the main stumbling block for her confirmation -- by the Right. Indian Country article
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