Still Hating America. - Page 7

Penske_Account · 02-04-2007, 12:46 AM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
and if I could find the Pa. state store prices I'd call Bullshit on the $10 too.

I am not sure what this thread is about because I don't really read any of y'all's posts for content, but my thought is, life is too short to drink cheap wine.....as much as he disappoints me on a daily basis, I feel duty bound to adopt Ty and liberate him from his tragic wallowing in the boxed wine.......

2004 Syncline Horse Heaven Hills/Mckinley springs vineyard Syrah.

Penske_Account · 02-04-2007, 12:48 AM

when I was a kid and we used to play Mclauglin Group, Mort Kondracke was considered a liberal by my playgroup (as I have noted before I always played the Novak role). When did he become so conservative??/

Penske_Account · 02-04-2007, 12:53 AM

I have a date later tonight, but as a warmup, to give me something current to talk about, I am watching the Beltway Boys (and sampling a nice Syrah) and Freddy "the Beetle" Barnes just posited on the virtues of a McCain-Jeb Bush ticket......a ticket I have been pimping for over a year......nwtf......Hank, is this an infringement of my intellectual property??!?!?!?!?!!??!??!??! Help!

SlaveNoMore · 02-04-2007, 06:11 AM

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Penske_Account
when I was a kid and we used to play Mclauglin Group, Mort Kondracke was considered a liberal by my playgroup (as I have noted before I always played the Novak role). When did he become so conservative??/

Around the same time as Buchanan became a populist/fascist - which, prior to Pat, a combination of which I thought was impossible.

Do you think all those years of having to work with Mike Kinsley drove him insane?

Gattigap · 02-04-2007, 09:43 AM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Around the same time as Buchanan became a populist/fascist - which, prior to Pat, a combination of which I thought was impossible.

Do you think all those years of having to work with Mike Kinsley drove him insane?

Good question. You think all those years of having to work with Pat gave Mike Kinsley Parkinson's disease?

Gattigap · 02-04-2007, 09:44 AM

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Originally posted by Spanky
That was the crux of the argument (which I understood) even though you blathered on about other irrelevent stuff.

I just wanted to see this again.

Hank Chinaski · 02-04-2007, 11:25 AM

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
I am not sure what this thread is about because I don't really read any of y'all's posts for content, but my thought is, life is too short to drink cheap wine.....as much as he disappoints me on a daily basis, I feel duty bound to adopt Ty and liberate him from his tragic wallowing in the boxed wine.......

2004 Syncline Horse Heaven Hills/Mckinley springs vineyard Syrah.

either you got a great discount on the wine OR you doubled the amount you spend on wine OR you're lying.

I'm ready to vote.

sebastian_dangerfield · 02-04-2007, 01:49 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
either you got a great discount on the wine OR you doubled the amount you spend on wine OR you're lying.

I'm ready to vote.

I just looked at your sig line and said "Damn, that's pretty funny." Then I realized why I liked it.

How early can you get Alzheimer's?

sebastian_dangerfield · 02-04-2007, 01:53 PM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Around the same time as Buchanan became a populist/fascist - which, prior to Pat, a combination of which I thought was impossible.

Do you think all those years of having to work with Mike Kinsley drove him insane?

The more I watch Pat, the more I think he ought to become a Democrat. I'm having a hard time separating him from Jim Webb these days.

Spanky · 02-04-2007, 07:46 PM

Last week I met Sarah Weddington. We both were speaking at the same event. I didn't know this but when she got out of law school in Texas in the early seventies, she couldn't find a job because she was a woman. So she went to work for a professor at the University of Texas. The family services clinic on campus came to her and said they had concerns because they were referring women to illegal abortion clinics.

So Sarah Weddington, in her very first court case, brought a case in federal court to stop the Texas Attorney General from prosecuting people for aiding and abetting an abortion. The three judge panel ruled in her favor. And then Wade, the Texas Attorney General, said he would ignore the ruling. So there is a federal rule that says if a local official refuses to comply with a Federal court ruling you can petition the Supreme Court directly. Which Sarah Weddington did and the court agreed to hear her case. So when she went before the Supreme Court (and she was the only lawyer that argued for her side) when she was only twenty seven years old, and it was only her second court appearance.

Tyrone Slothrop · 02-04-2007, 09:03 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
Last week I met Sarah Weddington. We both were speaking at the same event. I didn't know this but when she got out of law school in Texas in the early seventies, she couldn't find a job because she was a woman. So she went to work for a professor at the University of Texas. The family services clinic on campus came to her and said they had concerns because they were referring women to illegal abortion clinics.

So Sarah Weddington, in her very first court case, brought a case in federal court to stop the Texas Attorney General from prosecuting people for aiding and abetting an abortion. The three judge panel ruled in her favor. And then Wade, the Texas Attorney General, said he would ignore the ruling. So there is a federal rule that says if a local official refuses to comply with a Federal court ruling you can petition the Supreme Court directly. Which Sarah Weddington did and the court agreed to hear her case. So when she went before the Supreme Court (and she was the only lawyer that argued for her side) when she was only twenty seven years old, and it was only her second court appearance.

Do you think Blackmun would have written a better opinion if she'd been a little more experienced?

Spanky · 02-04-2007, 09:28 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Do you think Blackmun would have written a better opinion if she'd been a little more experienced?

My guess is that oral arguments are probably never that persuasive.

Penske_Account · 02-04-2007, 11:30 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
My guess is that oral arguments are probably never that persuasive.

Depends on how you define "oral arguments"? And persuasive of what?

Penske_Account · 02-05-2007, 08:46 AM

Adder · 02-05-2007, 10:38 AM

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[i]Originally posted by Spanky [/i

And if you look at at school districts their performance and their income is not related at all. There is a base amount of money you need to get a good result but after that it comes down to standards.

You really think the world is this simple, eh?

Urban schools districts, on the whole, spend a lot more than suburban and rural school districts, yet get worse results. And you think that is because of a lack of standards are urban school districts? Can you think of any reasons why it might be more expensive to run urban schools?