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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Whatever. Your boy Bill Brennan called him brilliant, which he undoubtedly is.

No one disputes that he's brilliant.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
well someone who can tell which of two votes on a ballot was the intended one....we can argue with the psychic.

I could be wrong, but in an "overvote," both votes are for the same person. That's why whoever (shifty? ty? gattigap? one of them pinko commie liberals) gave the example of the voter checking the "Bush" box (heh-heh) and writing in "George Bush." An invalid ballot, one would say, but finding voter intent seems pretty easy on it, no?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sgtclub
I find it laughable that you people are upset with what you perceive to be judicial activism.

It's not even clear to anyone what "judicial activism" means, but Posner, while brilliant, would have to be at the top of anyone's list of judicial activists.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
The Fla. Sec. of State, as required by Fla. law was set to certify the result. she was told not to because the recounts couldn't be finished. that is how it started. how did we fire the first shot?

ps w/o CBS calling the election an hour early for the panhandle Gore loses by 10000 votes, so understand this is all a hypo. Your side fucked fairness first and worst.

The Florida Secretary of State, a Republican hack with a minder making sure she did what Jeb Bush wanted, was not and is not the final arbiter of what Florida law requires. The Florida Supreme Court is, except when the U.S. Supreme Court decides to use the Equal Protection Clause to ensure a different result.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

President Bush prepares to eat lunch at a campaign stop in Nevada

[Tyrone Slothrop]

That Dick Cheney, he's a regular Joe McCarthy, eh Hank?

• Waterford, Mich. -- Vice President Dick Cheney spelled out Tuesday his differences with President Bush on the volatile issue of gay marriage, while for the first time discussing the sexual orientation of his gay daughter in a public setting.
  
  Asked his position on the subject at a town hall meeting in Davenport, Iowa, Cheney replied: "Lynne and I have a gay daughter, so it's an issue that our family is very familiar with. ... With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People ought to be able to free -- ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to."

How dare he drag her into the spotlight? Or is it that Republicans should get to use Mary Cheney when they want to, but Democrats must not utter her name?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Dick Cheney, Asked his position on the subject ......


How dare he drag her into the spotlight?

everyone would answer this one the same, right?
Ty. credibility dies quick and for a long time. You might want to edit this. When I realize a post is really stupid i delete everything and put in a smilie. feel free to copy!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The Florida Secretary of State, a Republican hack with a minder making sure she did what Jeb Bush wanted, was not and is not the final arbiter of what Florida law requires. The Florida Supreme Court is, except when the U.S. Supreme Court decides to use the Equal Protection Clause to ensure a different result.

the question was who sued first. I never insult the losing team, so i would never say the Fla. statute was crysatl clear and that the Fla. Supreme Court twisted it. but for it to go to the Fla. S. Ct., someone had to file something right?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Not Bob
I could be wrong, but in an "overvote," both votes are for the same person. That's why whoever (shifty? ty? gattigap? one of them pinko commie liberals) gave the example of the voter checking the "Bush" box (heh-heh) and writing in "George Bush." An invalid ballot, one would say, but finding voter intent seems pretty easy on it, no?

Bob, you know everyone loves and respects you. But are you telling me several hundred people punched the Gore box and then wrote in his name? You realize that only strengthens the too dumb to vote argument?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
everyone would answer this one the same, right?
Ty. credibility dies quick and for a long time. You might want to edit this. When I realize a post is really stupid i delete everything and put in a smilie. feel free to copy!

Self-awareness isn't your forte, is it?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
the question was who sued first. I never insult the losing team, so i would never say the Fla. statute was crysatl clear and that the Fla. Supreme Court twisted it. but for it to go to the Fla. S. Ct., someone had to file something right?

Surely you understand by now that the GOP actually sued first, no?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
credibility dies quick and for a long time.

I agree.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Self-awareness isn't your forte, is it?

how Orwellian of you.

Father went on to make some rather mumbling and worried explanations. He’d ‘had bad times lately’, things had ‘been a bit difficult’, and the upshot was that Joe and I would have to start earning our living. At that time I didn’t either know or greatly care whether the business was really in a bad way or not. I hadn’t even enough commercial instinct to see the reason why things were ‘difficult’. The fact was that Father had been hit by competition. Sarazins’, the big retail seedsmen who had branches all over the home counties, had stuck a tentacle into Lower Binfield. Six months earlier they’d taken the lease of a shop in the market-place and dolled it up until what with bright green paint, gilt lettering, gardening tools painted red and green, and huge advertisements for sweet peas, it hit you in the eye at a hundred yards’ distance. Sarazins’, besides selling flower seeds, described themselves as ‘universal poultry and livestock providers’, and apart from wheat and oats and so forth they went in for patent poultry mixtures, bird-seed done up in fancy packets, dog-biscuits of all shapes and colours, medicines, embrocations, and conditioning powders, and branched off into such things as rat-traps, dog-chains, incubators, sanitary eggs, bird-nesting, bulbs, weed-killer, insecticide, and even, in some branches, into what they called a ‘livestock department’, meaning rabbits and day-old chicks. Father, with his dusty old shop and his refusal to stock new lines, couldn’t compete with that kind of thing and didn’t want to.

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[mmm3587]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Who are you again? This is not the FB honey. You've got to do more than come around flashing your tits to get respect here.

My objective analysis indicates that you're just some sort of rhetoric robot, completely unable to discuss facts and issues. What gives? In the ten days I've been following this board you've shot your mouth off and been wrong several times. So, all your imaginary internet cred aside, all I see is that you don't really know what you're talking about.

I'm not against hearing what you have to say, but you don't really seem to say much.

My avatar is a picture of a woman. I don't think less of you because your avatar is two fingers giving the capitol bunny ears, so try to keep your hatred of women in check for purposes of discussion.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Surely you understand by now that the GOP actually sued first, no?

See? Ya'all should'a stuck to the minimum wage.