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Title: Well Jethro guess your wish isn't coming true
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Published: Jun 1, 2008
Author: Me and boby mcgee
Post Date: 2008-06-01 15:59:30 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Views: 1380
Comments: 102

Looks like Hillary can't win her required 195 delegates out of the remaining 200. Obama bin laden only needs 20 of the remaining 200.

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#1. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#0)

JT wished for hillary?

christine  posted on  2008-06-01   16:14:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I think people are confusing our disgust with Obama with a preference for one of the other puppets.

buckeye  posted on  2008-06-01   16:23:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

which other candidates? it's only been hillary and barack for the past 6 months.

Itisa1mosttoolate  posted on  2008-06-01   16:31:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Well I think everyone knows that we despise McCain both for his Zionist connections and his co-sponsorship of the 2006/2007 Immigration Reform bills and McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform. Our task here on 4 is to show that "change" will not come from the other two candidates are masters are offering us.

buckeye  posted on  2008-06-01   16:33:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

When we supported Ron Paul, the white guilters said.."One man cannot make a change, it wont happen".

Now the same side liners have found a "savior" to worship who says he will make small change and they grovel and slobber at his feet because he is a person of color.

Disgraceful.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-06-01   16:38:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

When we supported Ron Paul

Some of us never stopped supporting Dr. Paul.

mirage  posted on  2008-06-01   19:13:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Some of us never stopped supporting Dr. Paul.

I never stopped supporting Barry Goldwater but a lot of good it did.

Biggest landslide of popular vote in American history, for Johnson, I took little solace in that.

When my horse refuses to leave the gate, I have to wait for the next race.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-06-01   19:30:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

When my horse refuses to leave the gate, I have to wait for the next race.

True that. Check my tagline. There may be an alternative.

mirage  posted on  2008-06-01   19:35:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Mirage...off track, just something I am reading...

"For those not concerned with imposing term limits on Senate, House, and Supreme Court members, consider the following:

* Lifelong politicians are now allowed to represent lobbyists based in DC more than voters back home because of no limits to their power to stay in DC. * Term limits for legislators would allow a greater variety in the House and Senate, rather than a lifelong office just for the elite. What history proves is that Our Founding Fathers had this in mind: an average American citizen serving for a few short years, then returning home to enjoy their Guaranteed American Freedoms. * Since 1970, average Supreme Court Justice tenure has risen from approximately 15 years to over 25 years. * Until 2006, no new Justice had joined the Supreme Court in over ten years."

Cynicom  posted on  2008-06-01   19:40:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

You're dead on with the citizen legislator. The Founders envisioned a citizen going off to Washington, serving a term or two, then returning to the farm.

Urbanization and the rise of the Professional Politician (see Jerry Brown in California for details) did a lot of damage to their vision.

The Constitution was to be both guide and harness for the citizen legislator.

We have strayed far.

mirage  posted on  2008-06-01   19:53:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

John Adams...

"" Although John Adams was a devout Federalist, he maintained that rotation, as well as frequent elections, would be necessary in order to keep government as near to the people as possible. Adams expressed these two beliefs in a speech given just before the American Revolution in which he proposed holding annual elections of representatives (Peek 101).

He also compared men in a society with rotation-in-office to bubbles on the sea which "rise,...break, and to that sea return"; Adams later develops his thought by adding, "This will teach them the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey (Peek 102)."

In response to the ideas of Melancton Smith, the strongest opposition from the Federalists came from Alexander Hamilton at the New York ratification convention. Hamilton, along with Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston, developed three strong arguments against implementing term limits in government: the people have a right to judge who they will and will not elect to public office, rotation reduces the incentives for political accountability, and rotation deprives society of experienced public servants (Foley 28). In general, the goals of all founders, despite their political affiliation, aimed at preserving a close connection between representatives and their constituencies. While the Antifederalists believed that imposing term limits would create enhanced participation in government, a check on tyrannical leaders, and greater representation of the people, the Federalists theorized that the same goals could be accomplished by the president serving a short term and having congressman follow his actions "(Foley 34)

The Founding Fathers erred very badly, they did not conceive of professional politicians looking and lusting for lifetime power.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-06-01   20:00:12 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

The Founding Fathers erred very badly, they did not conceive of professional politicians looking and lusting for lifetime power.

Things like that just didn't exist in the 1770s and 1780s in America. They weren't really exposed to it because most folks were trying to make a living back then and politics didn't pay very well.

People were expected to maintain their own households back then - it was one of those "social things" that we say "Its how it is" nowadays about. The professional politician didn't come around until mass urbanization in the post-Civil War days if I remember correctly.

Note that the Founders had their own personal fortunes; Government service didn't pay in the early days of the Republic. In fact, it didn't really start to pay until around the 1950s/1960s if I remember my Congressional Pay Rates properly.

mirage  posted on  2008-06-01   20:17:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

The professional politician didn't come around until mass urbanization in the post-Civil War days if I remember correctly.

True...

However the South saw what was coming and in their Constitution they restrained their President to a one time six year term and out you go. The rebels were nearly 100 years ahead of the rest of the country before FDR stayed on for life and something had to be done.

Also those were the days before this country became infested with lawyers looking for a steady paycheck.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-06-01   20:43:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Also those were the days before this country became infested with lawyers looking for a steady paycheck.

Lawyers have always been like that. Shakespeare even noticed.

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene II

mirage  posted on  2008-06-01   20:50:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Lawyers have always been like that. Shakespeare even noticed.

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene II

Well, Shakespeare noticed something that you seem not to have, and that is how necessary lawyers are to the rule of law and limited government.

You seem not to have noticed that the line you quote was put by Shakespeare into the mouth of Dick the Butcher, a thoroughly nasty and unsympathetic revolutionary.

aristeides  posted on  2008-06-02   18:44:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

You seem not to have noticed that the line you quote was put by Shakespeare into the mouth of Dick the Butcher, a thoroughly nasty and unsympathetic revolutionary.

No offense intended, but I have a family full of attorneys and one of our lovelies wears that exact shirt with a dagger dripping blood off of it and is even named appropriately.

Would you care to take some wild guesses as to why I think Shakespeare was correct given that new information and some other things like watching one of them drag his ex-wife through a 15-year divorce process because the idiot couldn't figure out that the courts didn't want to give him what he wanted?

Yes, there are lots of horrible lawyers out there. I know a lot of them.

mirage  posted on  2008-06-02   19:02:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#76. To: mirage (#74)

Would you care to take some wild guesses as to why I think Shakespeare was correct

I take it you've never read or seen the play. May I humbly suggest that you do so. Doing so will disabuse you of any belief that killing all the lawyers was anything Shakespeare wanted.

aristeides  posted on  2008-06-02 19:20:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Yes, there are lots of horrible lawyers out there. I know a lot of them.

This does not sound ethical at all.

Attorney Melvyn Weiss sentenced to prison in kickback scheme By GREG RISLING - Associated Press Writer

Last Updated 3:09 pm PDT Monday, June 2, 2008

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LOS ANGELES -- Melvyn Weiss, the co-founder of a prestigious New York law firm, was sentenced Monday to 30 months in prison for his role in a lucrative lawsuit kickback scheme targeting some of the largest corporations in the nation.

U.S. District Judge John F. Walter also ordered Weiss, 72, to pay $9.7 million in forfeitures and $250,000 in fines.

In a prepared, handwritten statement read before sentencing, Weiss apologized for his "wrongful conduct" and described the case as a fall from grace.

"I promise you my contrition is profound and genuine," he said.

Weiss pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge in April as part of an agreement with prosecutors.

Contending that Weiss had orchestrated the scheme, prosecutors had sought a 33-month sentence. Weiss and his attorneys asked for a reduced prison term, citing his age and contributions inside and outside courtrooms.

Authorities said the law firm made about $250 million over two decades by filing legal actions on behalf of professional plaintiffs who received $11.3 million in kickbacks.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-06-02 19:22:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

i know several who are decent human beings and true patriots. Edwin Vieira, John O'Neil Green, Tom Cryer, Jeff Dickstein, Larry Becraft just to name a few.

christine  posted on  2008-06-02 19:29:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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