On 19/01/2008, at 9:04 AM, Deborah Harrell wrote:
Did anyone watch 'Cheney's Law' on PBS recently?
It was broadcast on Australia's SBS a couple of weeks ago.
I
knew this group of chickenhawks was very bad news
indeed, but they're even worse than I believed. And
I'll have to retract a
I wrote:
Did anyone watch 'Cheney's Law' on PBS recently?
Forgot to provide a link:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/
For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney
conducted a secretive, behind-closed-doors campaign to
give the president virtually unlimited wartime power.
Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 16/01/2008, at 2:20 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
John Garcia wrote:
Amending the Constitution is not as easy as
Huckabee may wish,(pun intended)Gracias a Dios. See
http://www.usconstitution.net/constam.html.
If elected, he won't be able to just
On Jan 16, 2008 10:25 PM, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Big and rigid isn't the best for passenger
safety.
Or for getting along with others. Or succeeding in business. Or
government.
Big and rigid is just bad, bad, bad. Well, I can think of one exception...
and that wasn't
On 18/01/2008, at 2:15 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Jan 16, 2008 10:25 PM, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Big and rigid isn't the best for passenger
safety.
Or for getting along with others. Or succeeding in business. Or
government.
Big and rigid is just bad, bad, bad. Well,
On 17 Jan 2008, at 22:02, Charlie Bell wrote:
On 18/01/2008, at 2:15 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Jan 16, 2008 10:25 PM, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Big and rigid isn't the best for passenger
safety.
Or for getting along with others. Or succeeding in business. Or
On 16/01/2008, at 10:19 AM, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
Plenty of room Down Under...
Sure, nestled in right next to the various and sundry venomous
arthropods, the sharks, the jellyfish and various other natural
dangers.
Like North America doesn't have its fair share of
On 16/01/2008, at 2:20 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
John Garcia wrote:
Amending the Constitution is not as easy as Huckabee may wish, (pun
intended) Gracias a Dios. See http://www.usconstitution.net/constam.html
.
If
elected, he won't be able to just wave his hand and have it done.
You
John Garcia wrote:
Devolve for sure. Huckabee is just another (albeit charismatic) politician
trying to remake the world they way he wants it to be. Alas, his
world is not the world I want to live in. I wouldn't leave the US if
he won, but my attitude would be (to quote some friends of
Andrew Crystall wrote:
In other words, I'd rather live with a rabid atheist than
in a theocracy.
What makes you think it would be _easy_ to flee?
Well, going North? Can't really close the border. Long border and
all that.
I forgot about the northern border. But the southern border is
Charlie Bell wrote:
It's really quite scary that dominionists and other theocrats
are so close to the real power in the States, and that reality-based
thinking is under such attack.
You know, my wife's family consists almost entirely of fairly devout
Catholics. Yet not one of them has ever,
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Andrew Crystall wrote:
In other words, I'd rather live with a rabid atheist than
in a theocracy.
What makes you think it would be _easy_ to flee?
Well, going North? Can't really close the border. Long border and
all that.
I forgot about
On Jan 15, 2008 5:57 PM, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 15, 2008, at 6:45 PM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
Well, going North? Can't really close the border. Long border and all
that.
I bet 30+ million Canadians, faced with the prospect of being overrun
by SUV-driving,
On Jan 15, 2008 7:14 PM, Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick wrote:
Um... William, if Huckabee is elected president of my country, would you
have room for me and my family in yours?
What's the difference between Huckabee and Bush, other than Huckabee is
probably smarter and
On Jan 16, 2008, at 12:52 AM, Charlie Bell wrote:
On 16/01/2008, at 2:20 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
John Garcia wrote:
Amending the Constitution is not as easy as Huckabee may wish, (pun
intended) Gracias a Dios. See http://www.usconstitution.net/
constam.html
.
If
elected, he won't be
On Jan 16, 2008, at 12:52 AM, Charlie Bell wrote:
It's ever more astonishing to me that there has been no impeachment
(let alone a war crimes tribunal...). Then again, these c***s***ers
have insinuated themselves at all levels, and they've probably made
sure they've got a lot of ammo on
Folks,
Here's a Republican (a Senior at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
who seems to share the opinion of most who have participated in this
thread:
http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/printarticle.php?articleid=52614
Huckabee not a true Republican
by Tipton Taylor
I'm a conservative,
On 17/01/2008, at 2:49 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
SUVs perform poorly in altruistic crash testing, which ranks
vehicles on how
much damage they inflict.
They also fare poorly in almost all other crash testing too,
especially in single vehicle accidents. About the only area where they
do
On 17/01/2008, at 7:27 AM, Dave Land wrote:
On Jan 16, 2008, at 12:52 AM, Charlie Bell wrote:
It's ever more astonishing to me that there has been no impeachment
(let alone a war crimes tribunal...). Then again, these c***s***ers
have insinuated themselves at all levels, and they've
On 17/01/2008, at 7:08 AM, Dave Land wrote:
It's ever more astonishing to me that there has been no impeachment
(let alone a war crimes tribunal...). Then again, these c***s***ers
have insinuated themselves at all levels, and they've probably made
sure they've got a lot of ammo on anyone
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Huckabee_Amend_Constitution_to_meet_Gods_0115.html
Huckabee: Amend Constitution to be in 'God's standards'
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
The United States Constitution never uses the word God or makes
mention of any religion, drawing its sole authority from We the
On Jan 15, 2008 12:23 PM, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Huckabee_Amend_Constitution_to_meet_Gods_0115.html
Huckabee: Amend Constitution to be in 'God's standards'
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
The United States Constitution never uses the word God
Amending the Constitution is not as easy as Huckabee may wish, (pun
intended) Gracias a Dios. See http://www.usconstitution.net/constam.html. If
elected, he won't be able to just wave his hand and have it done.
john
On Jan 15, 2008 4:06 PM, Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 15, 2008
On 16/01/2008, at 8:06 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
Um... William, if Huckabee is elected president of my country, would
you
have room for me and my family in yours?
Plenty of room Down Under...
Charlie.
___
Nick Arnett wrote:
Um... William, if Huckabee is elected president of my country, would you
have room for me and my family in yours?
In other words, I'd rather live with a rabid atheist than in a theocracy.
What makes you think it would be _easy_ to flee?
Alberto Monteiro
John Garcia wrote:
Amending the Constitution is not as easy as Huckabee may wish, (pun
intended) Gracias a Dios. See http://www.usconstitution.net/constam.html. If
elected, he won't be able to just wave his hand and have it done.
Yes, but it's the thought that counts.
And that's scary!
Charlie Bell wrote:
Plenty of room Down Under...
Sure, nestled in right next to the various and sundry venomous
arthropods, the sharks, the jellyfish and various other natural
dangers. Still, I think I'd prefer those over Huckabee. :-)
Jim
___
Yeah, but Americans are always trying to make changes to and end run around
the Constitution, because something in it (or not in it) annoys them. Look
at things like free speech restrictions on college campuses or the hue and
cry every time some defendant's case is dismissed because of a bad
On 1/15/08, John Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... This is a guy who doesn't believe in
evolution.
He apparently believes it's just fine for the Constitution to evolve a bit.
Or would that be devolve?
Nick
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On Jan 15, 2008 7:21 PM, Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/15/08, John Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... This is a guy who doesn't believe in
evolution.
He apparently believes it's just fine for the Constitution to evolve a
bit.
Or would that be devolve?
Nick
Devolve for
On 1/15/2008 6:58:55 PM, John Garcia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Jan 15, 2008 7:21 PM, Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/15/08, John Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... This is a guy who
doesn't believe in
evolution.
He apparently believes it's
just fine for the
On 15 Jan 2008 at 22:42, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote:
Nick Arnett wrote:
Um... William, if Huckabee is elected president of my country, would you
have room for me and my family in yours?
In other words, I'd rather live with a rabid atheist than in a theocracy.
What makes
On Jan 15, 2008, at 6:45 PM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
Well, going North? Can't really close the border. Long border and all
that.
I bet 30+ million Canadians, faced with the prospect of being overrun
by SUV-driving, Starbucks-sucking weekend lib'rul Yanks,* would damned
well find a way to
Nick wrote:
Um... William, if Huckabee is elected president of my country, would you
have room for me and my family in yours?
What's the difference between Huckabee and Bush, other than Huckabee is
probably smarter and more articulate than most of his pets?
Doug
John Garcia wrote:
Amending the Constitution is not as easy as Huckabee may wish, (pun
intended) Gracias a Dios. See http://www.usconstitution.net/constam.html.
If
elected, he won't be able to just wave his hand and have it done.
You know, a few years ago I would have said the same thing
The President of the United States should not have the power to declare what
science teachers should teach. That it's even a remote possibility is a sign of
federal mission creep - and presidential mission creep on top of it - so severe
I'd be sorely tempted to vote for Ron Paul if I weren't a
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