[Platt] "During Judge Alito's hearings, Senator Ted Kennedy accidentally referred to Sam Alito as Ali-oto. Kennedy said 'Forgive me, I'm sober.'" --Conan O'Brien
[Krimel] An appeal to a fictional authority? That's what you're reduced to? And even then you cannot comment on it or explain in your own words. Dave pegged it the other day. "...barnacles all the way down." _______________________________________________________ > [Krimel] > Ah, Bork. We dodged a bullet on that dude. Thanks to Ted Kennedy for > stopping that one. Here is a Wiki-snag from his 1987 Robert Bork's America > speech. Even the shameless Raygun was stunned into silence. Unfortunately > Borg's vision lives in other reactionary Republican court appointees. But > Bork would have been the worst of a bad lot. > > "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into > back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue > police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren > could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored > at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be > shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is -- and > is often the only -- protector of the individual rights that are the heart > of our democracy... President Reagan is still our president. But he should > not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of > Watergate and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the > Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be > better than this injustice." > -Ted Kennedy, 1987 > > This is the America Platt longs for but so far can't have. > Thanks, Ted! Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
