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items: Bobbing And Weaving
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items: Re: Bobbing And Weaving---Gonzales

Bobbing And Weaving
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description: I am asking Isaiah to draft some of these Republican Senators and Congressmen for the Knicks because watching the Sunday news programs I have never seen such footwork in my life as they dodge and weave trying not to answer the Domestic spying questions and the Troop withdrawel questions and the overseas junkett questions. They are regular NBA stars. The best is how after they cut 12.7 billion dollars from the student loan program can they produce the funding for the new technology initiative. And the bobbing over trying to re-define what domestic wire-taps are. Man this is great.
creator: Manualblock
date: 2006-02-05T15:02:59-00:00

Re: Bobbing And Weaving
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description: Did you see the General in charge on Stephanopolus.(SP?) His was the most eloquent defense I've heard. But that's not saying much. Read an interesting analysis. They only monitor out of country calls. Almost all help desks now outsourced out of the US. I suppose they heard me the other day yelling at "David" in India.
creator: Leland Crooks
date: 2006-02-05T15:31:21-00:00

Re: Bobbing And Weaving
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description: David; there's a lot of people in India with that name, which David was it? Yelling does no good; you have to speak quickly and in slang, then you get a supervisor who can communicate a little better and help solve the problem. Sometimes if I have no time to dick around I tell them up-front that I will write a personal letter telling his supervisor what a great job he is doing and how much he is a credit to his company. They like that so much they sometimes jump over hoops for you. Just ask where you can send the e-mail to and to whom. It works a fair number of times.
creator: Manualblock
date: 2006-02-05T16:19:06-00:00

Re: Bobbing And Weaving---Gonzales
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description: I like that. Read this. Brilliant analysis by an attorney I came across. I was not familiar with "in pari materia" O.K., now that the Super Bowl is over, it's time to confront reality again. I'm an attorney, and this is a long, lawyerly piece that most DUers won't read, but here goes anyway. Just so you know, I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but, like most attorneys, I studied constitutional law in law school ... and, yes, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin hearings today on the right claimed by President Bush to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance. Bush's Republican henchmen have thrown a lot of spurious arguments up against the wall to see if anything will stick. All of them are wrong from the standpoint of constitutional law and statutory construction, but the media doesn't understand what is legal and what is not. All that matters to them is who turns the catchiest phrases and yells the loudest and longest. Nevertheless, when these hearings are over, if Congress, the media and the rest of the country roll over and allow the warrantless searches and seizures to stand, I fear that one of the most important checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution will have been eliminated. Bush would appear to be on the verge of sending a high-powered public-relations projectile through Article II, Section 2, blasting a hole through the Constitution that obliterates the Fourth and Fifth Amendments and effectively eviscerates the Bill of Rights. Once these civil liberties are gone, it is a virtual certainty that we will never get them back. To set the stage for this discussion, it is important to realize that the framers of the Constitution did not want a king. They also did not want Congress to be able to make the laws, enforce them and sit as a judicial body because this, too, would place complete power in the hands of a single entity. Consequently, they drafted a document that divided power three ways--between a …
creator: Leland Crooks
date: 2006-02-06T23:05:36-00:00

Re: Bobbing And Weaving---Gonzales
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description: The Stupor Bowl; one 75 yrd run and a lot of little screen passes. I am reading 1984 because my son is assigned it for English Class. It describes the Bush administration and Republican tactics to a tee. First; manufacture an enemy with a face but no body like Osama; then put his evil picture up in every newspaper and TV. He is never captured but always close to our troops. Then change the words used to describe actions; like "Coalition" for the U.S. army and "Terrorism" for the excuse to "Liberate" Iraq. You get the picture. Then use the endless "War" to justify eliminating monies for helping Americans, like Tuition for College and Medicare for the elderly and sick; Free milk for inner-city children before school. Call any kind of benefit the people work for an "Entitlement" while the Rich and Wealthy get "Subsidies". This is no news; people of intelligence have understood this kind of manipulation since Epictecus 2500 yrs ago.
creator: Manualblock
date: 2006-02-07T15:03:17-00:00

Re: Bobbing And Weaving---Gonzales
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description: The word entitlement should be struck from the lexicon. You're not entitled to shit except life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I've got no problem with a social safety net. But when it becomes "entitled" that's a problem. Let's call all of them, entitlements, subsidies, grants, what they really are. Welfare, charity, giveaways, jackpots. I first read 1984 during the Nixon years. Chilling then, more so now. Language is the most powerful tool there is. Just look how the language of this republic have resonated over 200 yrs. Based on language from the Greeks and Romans from over 2000 years ago. Someone has to reframe the debate.
creator: Leland Crooks
date: 2006-02-07T15:26:46-00:00

Re: Bobbing And Weaving---Gonzales
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description: Bush has given several major speeches all written for him by another born again christian. They call themselves that but the truth is they foster war/privation/death and fear. Not too christlike.
creator: Manualblock
date: 2006-02-07T21:49:11-00:00