Waiting for Fitzgerald
 

Homer, pick a title

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Waiting for Fitzgerald.

A truly awesome public servant
 

Ignore the fact he's a Democrat, tapped by another Democrat, and just admire State Representative Rick Noreiga:

Sure, if you're happy to admit that the failure of Republicans to call for Helms being jailed (as you have for Landrieu) constitutes an equivalent failure, and contribution to the degradation and respect for institutions in our society.

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I don't understand what this means.

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egad, do I need it to be babyjesus this, babyjesus that?

Godot/Fitzgerald
eternal wait
bunch of bullshit while doing so.

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Wait. i thought we made a rule that you can't win a K race with a "filler" post. If a non-substantive post goes in at 5000, isn't 5001 supposed to get the gold?

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VLADIMIR:
Ah yes, the two thieves. Do you remember the story?
ESTRAGON:
No.
VLADIMIR:
Shall I tell it to you?
ESTRAGON:
No.
VLADIMIR:
It'll pass the time. (Pause.) Two thieves, crucified at the same time as our Saviour. One—
ESTRAGON:
Our what?
VLADIMIR:
Our Saviour. Two thieves. One is supposed to have been saved and the other . . . (he searches for the contrary of saved) . . . damned.
ESTRAGON:
Saved from what?
VLADIMIR:
Hell.
ESTRAGON:
I'm going.
He does not move.
VLADIMIR:
And yet . . . (pause) . . . how is it –this is not boring you I hope– how is it that of the four Evangelists only one speaks of a thief being saved. The four of them were there –or thereabouts– and only one speaks of a thief being saved. (Pause.) Come on, Gogo, return the ball, can't you, once in a while?
ESTRAGON:
(with exaggerated enthusiasm). I find this really most extraordinarily interesting.
VLADIMIR:
One out of four. Of the other three, two don't mention any thieves at all and the third says that both of them abused him.
ESTRAGON:
Who?
VLADIMIR:
What?
ESTRAGON:
What's all this about? Abused who?
VLADIMIR:
The Saviour.
ESTRAGON:
Why?
VLADIMIR:
Because he wouldn't save them.
ESTRAGON:
From hell?
VLADIMIR:
Imbecile! From death.
ESTRAGON:
I thought you said hell.
VLADIMIR:
From death, from death.
ESTRAGON:
Well what of it?
VLADIMIR:
Then the two of them must have been damned.
ESTRAGON:
And why not?
VLADIMIR:
But one of the four says that one of the two was saved.
ESTRAGON:
Well? They don't agree and that's all there is to it.
VLADIMIR:
But all four were there. And only one speaks of a thief being saved. Why believe him rather than the others?
ESTRAGON:
Who believes him?
VLADIMIR:
Everybody. It's the only version they know.
ESTRAGON:
People are bloody ignorant apes.

2008
 

you'd have to delete posts to get that result. Who are you, Ty?

BTW, why would Hillary introduce a bill setting up a Katrina Commission? story

I thought she was from New York?

And, on that count, why would I (living in DC) get a fundraising letter from her Senate campaign? (Don't even know the threshold answer to that one--probably cheaper to mail to everone in DC that figure out who's a registered democrat)

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shouldn't that be about 20 posts? And include pictures?

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You're just trying to get Ty to delete me.

Slippery Slope - my favorite
 

Penske

quote:


It absolutely does. The liberals seek to throw out any sense of morality, decency, and decorum, because any lit bit of it threatens the boundaries of their faux-intellectually elite rude boorishness.

Its like the NARAL strategery on abortion. Abortions in the 39th week?!!? We can't prohibit those, its the woman's right to choose. Any infringement is a slippery slope. Disgusting.

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Kind of like the NRA position with gun control. "If we outlaw cop kiling bulletes (armour piercing bullets) eventually they will ban all hand guns".

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No, that sounds relatively interesting. I'm willing to return the ball* on those.



* This phrase should be used wherever possible. It is a very fecund phrase.

Dikes or civil liberties
 

Which would you rather have?

Netherlands to track everything about everyone in massive database

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Its like the NARAL strategery on abortion. Abortions in the 39th week?!!? We can't prohibit those, its the woman's right to choose. Any infringement is a slippery slope. Disgusting.
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Aren't you confident they'll just rot in hell for this? Why do we need to regulate?

Spanky?

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Why do I feel like my mother is calling me?

What did I do?

Dikes or civil liberties
 

I wonder where they put the bar code tattoos.

Slippery Slope - my favorite
 

That is the position of the NRA. I think NARAL's position on late term abortions is somewhat different.

Jesse Helms was a political Jerk.

He went around calling everyone communist and socialists when he was the biggest defender of Tobacco Subsidies in the Senate. The Tobacco policy of the Federal government would make the Politburo proud. The height of hypocracy.

I met him a few times when I worked on the hill. In person he was really nice.

Slippery Slope - my favorite
 

Whatever. The Slippery Slope argument is the lamest argument ever and the NRA uses it incessantly. Makes me sick.

Exclusionary Rule
 

I don't know where we are on this topic, but the exclusionary rules was the lamest idea ever. Pure stupidity. One of the worst moves the Supreme Court ever made.

Exclusionary Rule
 

While I agree that it's a bizarre decision in a lot of ways, I think the court forced itself into a corner by eliminating other ways of redressing constitutional violations. What good is a constitutional prohibition on an invasion of privacy (an improper search and seizure, for example) without some penalty for a violation of that right? If the court won't mess with sovereign immunity, then the government can't really be held accountable to the constitution, can it? And what good is a constitution that a Government can ignore?

So they latched on to the only remedy left.

But to fix the problem, I think we have to fix sovereign immunity.

(Sorry if this is repetitive, but I think the train of thought had gotten buried before).

Good Times There Are Not Forgotten . . .
 

Since RT was kind enough to put this fine image on the LawTalkers server, I can now bring you this touching image of the recent Bush family vacation.

http://www.lawtalkers.com/bushvaca.jpg


S_A_M

Exclusionary Rule
 

i suspect that Rehnquist would not have flinched to get rid of the exlusionary rule, on the basis that an action in tort would sound, even if sovereign immunity could be invoked.

Exclusionary Rule
 

And, of course, the family of the deceased can always seek an injunction to prevent the government from killing their beloved again.

There may come a time when a majority of the Supreme Court are willing to let the 4th and 5th amendments become dead letters, much as the 9th has become.

Joke
 

Q: What is George W. Bush's position on Roe vs. Wade?

A: He really doesn't care how people got out of New Orleans.

Dikes or civil liberties
 

Call me naive, but the government doesn't scare me that much. It is private companys that have the information that scares me. It is the fact that EDS has tracked every purchase I have ever made and knows my spending habits better than myself.

My NRA friends say that it is good to have an armed citizenry in case the government becomes autocratic. First of all, I just don't see our country turning into a dictatorship. The citizenry is not armed in Western Europe and they still have their rights. Second of all, if our government decides to start abusing our rights, a Smith and Wesson ain't going to be much good against the 101st Airborne Division. When Janet Reno and the ATF show up at my door, I am coming out with my hands up.

What does scare me is these militias or drug gangs getting a hold of an AK 47 and blowing my head off. That is what I fear.

Dikes or civil liberties
 

Nah. Too inefficient and subject to error. Subdermal RFIDs.

Dikes or civil liberties
 

Why are you afraid of Janet Reno? If she comes to your door, she'll likely be driving a pickup truck, and she won't have the ATF with her. Perhaps you mean Alberto "Torquemada" Gonzales?

Actually, given the myriad of ways to go, that wouldn't be so bad. Quick, relatively painless. Not that I wouldn't want to have a say in the timing, though.

Joke
 

http://67.18.37.18/1642/181/emo/ponder2.gif

http://67.18.37.18/1642/181/emo/nono.gif

:mad:

Dikes or civil liberties
 

Travel up the Penninsula more often ask the random guy on the street what he thinks about this.

He'll tell you it already has.

I recall that a long time ago someone on this board had posted some links to websites discussing the arguments disputing the existence of global warming. Can anyone point me in that direction? I could do a general google search but I'm hoping a poster might suggest a site that that they think is particularly persuasive.

I saw The Day After Tomorrow on tv a few weeks ago and started laughing at how much that movie must piss off some folks here.

My guess is that the next motion that John Bolton makes at the UN is to ban cameras from summit meetings from now on.

Joke
 

LOL. Good one.

eta: merde! STP!!

What does that say? I think I might need to go to the bathroom blah blah blah?

"Is this possible?" I think is the last line. Damn fucking liberals don't even want to allow Bush a bathroom break. Not while New Orleans is flooded.

I would think given the condition of that water in NO, you could just pee while wading. Though it's not polite to do it in the boat if rowing.

ETA I think I remember from handwriting analysis a long time ago that mixing caps and lowercase is a sign of bad things.

He also had a penchant for supporting baby-killers and random murderers in Africa.

Joke
 

Yayyyyy! Slave is funny again!!!

I don't get the bid deal.
 

I just read an article that said this would be the most talked about photo of the year:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ea..._id=1001137252

What????????? I don't get the big deal. Won't this photo be forgotten tomorrow?

I don't get the bid deal.
 

that is the biggest who gives a fucking shit in the world. Everyone has to go to the bathroom sometime. These liberals will put no bounds on the level that they will sink to in their psuedo-intellectually smug arrogance to attempt to debase the office of the President and the man who rightfully occupies it.

Below's the photo that will end up being the most talked about of the year. It is the evidence of Nagin's culpability in the deaths and misery of tens of thousands.

http://www.wnd.com/images2/KatrinaBuses2.jpg