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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:43 pm    Post subject: More on the Supremes Reply with quote

All the Friday evening news shows are saying that Washington was rife all day with rumors that Rhenquist would resign today (he didn't), AND that John Paul Stevens, a liberal justice, will resign later in the summer.

Pat Buchanan was just on, beaming and chortling and frothing at the prospect of Bush getting to nominate 3 justices, something that hasn't happened since FDR. He says, and he's right, that if it develops it will be the Right's historic opportunity to drive a stake through the heart of modern liberalism.
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dulouz



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Delicious, delicious. I wish I had better cable.
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe you'd get better reception if you stuck your tongue in a light socket. You can't tell if you don't try.
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Derrek



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They will filibuster this for 3 solid years -- you watch.

Nothing in congress will get done.

Dems live and die on the right to murder a baby in the womb.
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guangho



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Derrek, would you be willing to tell a pregnant woman that if she chose not to abort you will adopt her child?
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dulouz



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DETROIT (AP) -- Longtime Detroit high school basketball coach Ben Kelso has been named assistant coach at Kansas State.

"I thought that it's time to test my abilities at a different level," Kelso, 58, told The Detroit Free Press.

Kelso, who won three state titles at Detroit Cooley (1987-89) and guided Detroit Central to a 17-5 record last season, returns to college coaching for the first time since 1980, when he ended a four-year run as an Eastern Michigan assistant.

"He is one of the most successful high school basketball coaches in the state of Michigan, if not the country," Kansas State head coach Jim Wooldridge said in a statement Friday.

"Ben also gives us additional recruiting inroads into one of the most fertile regions in the country for producing high quality basketball talent."

The former Detroit Piston was named national coach of the year award in 1990, moved to suburban Southfield High School in 1998 and coached there until 2002, when he was removed as athletic director and coach after being accused of misappropriating school funds.

Kelso denied the accusations, which were never proven, and he was made the athletic director at the district's alternative school
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Nowhere Man



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:10 am    Post subject: ... Reply with quote

That is a grim prospect. I find it highly unlikely that one of the liberals will give up a seat in the face of what is about to happen. And, let me say for the moment that I believe in Rehnquist. He was clearly not stepping down because of his illness, and , as a judge, I'm not so sure he is strategically planning to stand down. He could have already done so very easily. As a good judge should, I think he's basing it on his capacity to carry out his mandate. I don't really agree with the guy much, but I see his behavior as objective rather than opportunistic.

So far.

But driving a stake into one half of America's political whole at this point seems rather communist to me.

The supreme court justices ought not be like workaday politicians. Whoever gets in there embarks on a dangerous mission to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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it highly unlikely that one of the liberals will give up a seat in the face of what is about to happen


I hope you're right, but Justice Stevens is 85. He can't go on for ever.

When all this is over, I think it would be a good idea to think about putting in a required retirement age for the Supremes. I know it would cause some strategic thinking when it comes to picking nominees for the court, but it isn't a good idea to allow any one president choose more than two. No law would take care of the death from heart attack problem, but some tinkering wouldn't be amiss. (And maybe all the alternatives are worse than the problem. I haven't thought enough about it yet.)
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Moldy Rutabaga



Joined: 01 Jul 2003
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

But where's the news about Diana Ross?

Cool Ken:>
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 7:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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But where's the news about Diana Ross?



Not to worry. She'll still sing lead on the come-back tour, but O'Connor won't be doing back up this time around.
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