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Wish I'd said this.......
What he said.
I'm oft to point out that my lack of support for same-sex marriage has little to do with the content and everything to do with the context. It's the context which irks me, and that context amounts to public officials disregarding the rule of law to forward an agenda. It's their job to follow the law... [Capitalist Lion]
6:08:32 PM 
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You Won't Believe This
"In Meida Res" sends this story from the Detroit Free Press: Michigan Teacher Must Cover Cost Of Substitute While On Military Duty ASSOCIATED PRESS GRAND RAPIDS -- A Michigan school district told a teacher activated for military duty that he... [Blackfive - The Paratrooper of Love]
I've emailed the school with my thoughts on this. I will probably go to jail for using naughty language but sometimes you just got to vent. CP
5:58:13 PM
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What The .....?
Is my creeping senility now complete or has the Times web site been hacked?
I go to the url above and I get a page that appears to be from the NY Times website. I read down through the corrections and I think good on the NY Times for correcting some of the spin in the columns of the left-wing wacko's they carry.
Then I get to the last two paragraphs and I see this..........
The Times does not welcome information about errors that call for correction in columns written by Times' Op-Ed columnists. Since The New York Times refuses to hold their columnists to any standard of accuracy, The National Debate has taken upon itself to offer this Supplemental Corrections Page for New York Times readers. Messages may be e-mailed to nytcolumnistcorrections@thenationaldebate.com.
To reach the real public editor, Daniel Okrent, and ask him to press Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger to make good on his promise to change The New York Times "columnist correction policy" which currently leaves the decision on whether to issue a correction up to the columnist, e-mail public@nytimes.com or telephone (212) 556-7652.
I know it's not really a page from the Times. My question is....can I make up pages like this and say anything I want and get away with it? I can think of some good articles I would like to write for the Times.
Beam me up Scotty....it's time to go back to our dimension! CP
5:22:39 PM
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Canadian Arrogance
This column is simply disgusting.
There is much about Haiti that pulls at the heart strings: the fact that it's the poorest country in the hemisphere, that it was established by former slaves after a courageous slave rebellion, and that it is struggling against great...
But this begs the question, why is it the job of the United States to go and solve every crisis in the world? Iraq was a country begging to be liberated, and the Canadian government didn't seem too damn interested in helping out. Okay, fair enough. But after criticizing us for freeing the Iraqi people Canada is going to criticize us for not doing more to help out in Haiti? [Right-Thinking from the Left Coast]
5:05:11 PM
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Kerry's complicated exfoliation
IT'S AN ODD campaign gimmick, but Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., often tells voters that he was "misled" and that's why he voted for an October 2002 resolution authorizing military force against Iraq.
Kerry says he believed the resolution tied President Bush to promises to build an international coalition, to work with the United Nations and only go to war as a last resort. A disappointed Kerry now says Bush failed in all three venues.
Kerry's story only works if you don't know that the resolution didn't bind Bush as Kerry said.
4:59:18 PM
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Court Knocks Down Church Weddings
A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT today ruled today that state recognition of clergy-officiated marriages is unconstitutional.
In a 2-1 decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, said the use of religious officials to perform a civil function violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, which requires a separation of church and state. [Citizen Smash - The Indepundit]
Clueless people - be sure to read the comments at the bottom. CP
4:48:53 PM
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A BORING ELECTION SEASON
Joshua Claybourn:Surprisingly, the first substantive issues Kerry addressed [after his Super Tuesday win] were taxes and his desire to raise them. But aside from hardcore Democrats who'll vote for Kerry anyway, that position inspires few people. The second issue he... [DiscountBlogger]
4:42:33 PM
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The second coming happened and we all missed it!
Damn! I was looking forward to the light show.
The Mind of George Soros
Meet the Esperanto enthusiast who wants to save the world from President Bush.
Cold as he is toward the Jewish people, Mr. Soros is not much warmer toward his adopted country. "I had never quite become an American," he once said. Now he complains that today's America "is not the America I chose as my home," as if, by turning conservative and electing George W. Bush as President, the country has failed to live up to him.
The egotism of the remark is revealing. Mr. Soros has admitted to having "carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble." Having made his mark, he now seems to give them free rein. He told one interviewer that he had "godlike, messianic ideas," and another that he sometimes thought of himself as "superhuman." To still a third he explained that his "goal is to become the conscience of the world."
4:26:26 PM
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Open source radicals (Linux Weenies)--eat cake
Open source advocacy pieces often sound like they are channeling the spirits of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, all of whom would ONLY do open source if programming had been a discipline in the 18th century.
Admittedly, this is a good way to spin the argument for Americans, since America's founding fathers hold special importance to Americans. It is also an implicit admission, even if unconscious, that MOST people wouldn't find access to source code particularly interesting.
What I have ALWAYS opposed is the notion that all software must be open source, or that it is right to dictate procurement practices that disadvantage proprietary software. Figure out where open source is important, and balance it against the revenue generating possibilities of closed-source software.
People who like macaroni and cheese don't tend to eat it exclusively (though they might get sick from ALL THIS ANALOGY). Don't get carried away by your enthusiasm for open source.
4:18:52 PM
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Profiles in Courage
Boy, that junior senator from New York is a real risk-taker, isn't she? Yesterday, the Associated Press reports, she issued a presidential endorsement:
"This is going to be a year, I believe, for Senator Kerry who will be our nominee and I will do everything I can to get him elected. So I hope that next year we will have a Democrat in the White House," she told Japan's Nippon Television Network Corporation.
Not only does she withhold her endorsement until the contest was over, but she decides to tell the Japanese.
Meanwhile, Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University, offers some advice to Kerry on his choice of a running mate. Gillers urges a Kerry-Clinton ticket. Bill, that is. But isn't that unconstitutional? Not according to Gillers's tortured reading:
The 22nd Amendment, which became effective in 1951, begins: "No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice." No problem. Bill Clinton would be running for vice president, not president. Scholars and judges can debate how loosely constitutional language should be interpreted, but one need not be a strict constructionist to find this language clear beyond dispute. Bill Clinton cannot be elected president, but nothing stops him from being elected vice president.
Gillers, however, does not mention the 12th Amendment, ratified in 1804, which provides that "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." Is Bill Clinton ineligible to the office of president? As always, that depends on the meaning of is. [WSJ]
3:58:39 PM
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Can Graphs Lie?
Of course not, comrades. Aside from using wrong data, graphs cannot lie. But they can tell larger truth, da? Look at this graph. Is very famous. Is all over internet. Good Party Comrades love this graph, put it on backpacks... [The Politburo Diktat]
7:51:03 AM
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7:37:38 AM
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You are Gaius Caesar Germanicus - better known as Caligula!
Yep! - that's me!
Third Emperor of Rome and ruler of one of the most powerful empires of all time, your common name means "little boots". Although you only reigned for four years, brief even by Roman standards, you still managed to garner a reputation as a cruel, extravagant and downright insane despot. Your father died in suspicious circumstances, you were not the intended heir, and one of your first acts as Emperor was to force the suicide of your father-in-law. Your sister Drusilla died that same year; faced with allegations that your relationship with her had been incestuous, you responded, bafflingly, by declaring her a god.
You revived a number of unpopular traditions, including auctions of properties left over from public shows. When a senator fell asleep at one such auction, you took each of his nods as bids, selling him 13 gladiators for a vast sum. You attempted to have your horse, Incitatus, made into a consul and hence one of the most powerful figures in Rome. It was granted a marble stable with jewels and a staff of servants. At one point you forced your comrade Macro to kill himself - in much the same vein as your father-in-law - accusing him of being his wife's pimp. You, of course, were having an affair with said wife at the time.
Things went from bad to worse. When supplies of condemned men ran short in the circus, you had innocent spectators dragged into the arena with the lions to fill their place. You claimed mastery of the sea by walking across a three-mile bridge of boats in the Bay of Naples; kissed the necks of your lovers, whispering sweet nothings like "This lovely neck will be chopped as soon as I say so,"; dallied with your sister's lover and made her pull her unborn child out of her womb prematurely. Towards the end of your reign, you had a golden statue of yourself made and dressed each day in the same clothes you yourself wore. When you eventually died, the terrified people of Rome refused to believe that such a cruel reign could ever end, and believed you to be alive for years afterwards.
7:26:46 AM
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All in a Knight's Work
I really love my work. It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. And it brings satisfaction. Deep satisfaction. It was just that kind of night in San Francisco. Darkness filled the air like a velvet cloak that... [Shining full plate and a good broadsword]
You'll love this short story if your a hippy lover like me! CP
7:08:50 AM
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Kerry Voting Record Update.
Voted FOR extending the so-called "assault weapon" ban, keeping citizens from owning guns that have cosmetic differences from other similar guns.
Voted FOR requiring private citizens to obtain government approval before selling a gun to a family member, friend, or fellow collector.
Voted AGAINST stopping frivolous lawsuits against gun manufacturers and importers. [democrats give conservatives indigestion]
Just so you won't forget between now and November. I promise to not mention it more than once a day! CP
6:44:40 AM
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It's a Party
Did the VLWC try to invalidate my vote? You decide. I walk in, hand over my ID and two people with separate lists check my name against my address. Then, a third person hands me my ballot. I didn't notice... [baldilocks]
1:23:20 AM
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Does Michael Moore Need....
There’s no question that for 40 years, eco-activists have been claiming the environment around us is doomed because people are raising too many babies and living too well. The activists have predicted massive famines, energy shortages, the destruction of the world’s forests, unprecedented soil erosion, and a global warming that will fry the world’s crops and wildlife even as it melts the Arctic ice cap and floods port cities like New York and Calcutta. None of these dire predictions are coming true. [Right-Thinking from the Left Coast]
1:20:07 AM
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3/3/2004. Day By Day by Chris Muir
1:15:31 AM
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You've got to be kidding!
Bill Clinton could be just the ticket for Kerry
Clinton's strengths would compensate for Kerry's weaknesses almost perfectly. Not only is Clinton the most talented campaigner of his generation, but he is also a Southerner -- and since 1948, when Harry S. Truman chose Sen. Alben Barkley of Kentucky as his running mate, every successful Democratic ticket has included a citizen of a Southern state.
Besides, people might even pay to watch Bill Clinton debate Dick Cheney. So why not?
The first objection, the constitutional one, can be disposed of easily. The Constitution does not prevent Clinton from running for vice president. The 22nd Amendment, which became effective in 1951, begins: "No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice."
If I was Kerry I would be afraid of having a mysterious death in the first year of my presidency. He would never be able to sleep wondering when it was going to happen. Kick Bill in the nuts Hillary and tell him to go do his needlepoint! CP
1:10:35 AM
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Voters OK Schwarzenegger's Budget Plan
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Californians overwhelmingly approved a plan Tuesday to borrow a record $15 billion to bail out the state budget, handing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a crucial victory in his bid to turn around the world's sixth-largest economy.
"Californians have gone to the polls and flexed their muscles and let their voices be heard," Schwarzenegger said in his victory speech in Santa Monica. "California is back on track."
We just bought a very expensive house and now we have to pay the mortgage! CP
1:00:44 AM
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