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And I thought you'd reached rock bottom and started to dig. Obviously I was incorrect in that assumption! You're still falling down the hole. Next time you go spelunking, bring a light of some sort. Be it intellectual or physical, you obviously need all the illumination you can get. Imitation being the best sort of flattery, thanks for imitating my posting style. Embarrassing myself? Me? I think not. If it amuses you to think so, by all means, be amused. I really don't care. I'm not in a hole - you are. Re-read your own posts and mine, with specific attention to the 'bask in your own hypocrisy' phrases I insert at appropriate places. Then bask in your own hypocrisy yet again. I haven't quoted Bill O'Reilly nor used any of his arguments - to my knowledge - in this thread. Haven't watched him in a couple of weeks so it would be pretty hard to do. Try again. This time, try basing your argument on something credible. Yelling shut up at an idiot? No, I usually just ignore them. Sometimes I make excptions, as I'm sure you know... Nope. Don't you read what you write? You stated - in your title - that Judge Pickering was installed with the obvious connotation that such was a bad/evil thing. I point out to you that your hero Bubba (and many other Presidents since George Washington) have used the same mechanism to appoint government officials and somehow you fail to grasp the relevance. Your failure to grasp this is your own problem - deal with it. If you want the Constitution changed, WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN. Don't recall Roger Gregory, but since you attempt to change the subject after maligning me for supposedly doing so, bask in your own hypocrisy once again - you should be good at that by now. You might want to educate yourself on recess appointments, as you obviously don't know jack shyte. Those of us that actually READ the Constitution and get our news from sources that don't come with crayons know that Judge Pickering's recent appointment isn't lifetime until confirmed by the Senate. When Leahy can back that statement up with evidence, I'll give it credence. Since you obviously can't grasp it, I'll explain it a bit slower in the hope that you have the ability to do so, which I seriously doubt. You are ticked that Bush installed a judge via recess appointment - a judge whom you smear with vague accusations of racist tendencies. Lee admittedly supports racial discrimination and was appointed by the same mechanism (Art 2, Sec 2 of that Constitution - have someone read it to you). See a difference? Note that Pickering has the floor votes for confirmation and Lee never did, FYI. If your 'musta been drunk' is meant in sarcasm, go back to whatever school let you out and demand readmission regardless of age. Better still, sue them for dereliction of duty. It's gotta HURT being that......ahhh screw it...you won't get it anyway 15 vs. 0, eh? Since Reagan left office, Ted Kennedy voted against a black nominee for the Supreme Court. Rick Santorum hasn't. Ted Kennedy is obviously a racist and Rick Santorum isn't, according to your logic. Pathetic. Go back to school. LMFAO. You admit knowing nothing about Judge Pickering's reversed decisions, the # of decisions he made, the content of those decisions, yet claim to know these decisions are indicative of his worth as a judge? Hilarious. Go back to school. Angry labelling? This after you call conservatives hate-filled and narrow minded (among other things?) Bask in your....er...you know the rest. ROFLMFAO. PFAW isn't a conservative hate sight? Really? I've heard Baldwin speak - it's a hate group. Did you actually think I'm not familiar with those bozos? I already did so with their inane 'overturned 15 times' comment - you fail to grasp that simple bit of logic. Let's try another one. Once you grasp either of them, we'll wade further through the morass. You are right - their vague 'fact set' is fairly easy to see through - for anyone with a three digit IQ. How about the one claiming Pickering frequently had harsh words for plaintiffs in civil rights cases? Oooooh what a bad man. If one is actually stupid enough to assume that the plaintiff in ALL such cases is right, regardless of facts pertaining to the specific case, then this 'fact' presented by PFAW is a damning bit of evidence that Pickering is a flaming racist. If one isn't that addled - it doesn't. For those former Gore suppporters and current Deanie Babies out there, I'll elaborate. PFAW doesn't mention any case. They don't mention if the plaintiff was the victor or loser of the case. They just say that Judge Pickering made harsh comments. NEWSFLASH: If some jackass who didn't show up for work 4 days in a row because he was drinking vodka in front of the home office subsequently files a wrongful termination lawsuit claiming racial discrimination was the reason he was fired, HE DESERVES HARSH COMMENTS FROM THE JUDGE - as does his attorney! Dunno if my example was the actual case, but since PFAW doesn't present any examples, we'll never know. VAGUE. Uncredible. Idiotic. Other adjectives apply, but I'll stop there. When you can show me WHY pfaw's accusation against Judge Pickering in this manner damns him as a racist - OR show the statistical relevance of his 15 overturned cases, we'll continue. Until then, study hard. You need itl. No you don't understand. That's the problem. Until you do, I'm not wasting my time going further throught the morass of pfaw's vague and inconsequential accusations. You have a choice here Gary. You can take my challenge and prove the aforementioned 'facts' damn Pickering as a racist OR you can do the typical leftist thing and imitate Brave, Brave Sir Robin. Do which ever one you like. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

My goodness how threads evolve when you don't pay attention for a while. John & rehmwa, I'd like to add to y'all's discussion before responding to the puerile and inane ravings of the other dz.com denizen with whom I'm engaged in this thread. John, I don't have a problem with a subjective admission system that takes more than quantitative results from standardized tests into account. What I have a problem with is RACE being taken into account - be it for collegiate admission or employment. As I've stated on other threads - I neither judge anyone by their race for any reason nor support any programs that do likewise. I feel this way on both moral and patriotic grounds. Morally, I find racial discrimination repulsive. On a patriotic level, I see the tactics used by race-base AA supporters and see how they divide the nation I love so deeply. A racially stratified nation is a weakened nation and I have neither use, love, nor mercy for those that seek to weaken the United States in any manner, be it inadvertent or deliberately malicious. Their actions and tactics DISGUST me. When lefties run like cowards when confronted with the fact that it is racial discrimination that they support, my disgust is deepened further. As far as specific mechanisms by which subjective quantities might be taken into account for collegiate admission, federal employment, civil employment, or whatever - I believe such things to be a different matter in which I'm really not interested as long as it's consistent and reasonable. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Oh goody. More leftist rantings posted for all to see. One wonders why Mr. Kaplan only commented on half the speech, but because that half went way too long for my tastes I guess I can see that. I'll comment on his article since I offended some folks' tender feelings for not drudging through some other liberal rantings recently. I apologize for the length, but will use humor to keep it interesting if at all possible - if not, you won't be reading this 'cuz I'll simply not post it! Let's go! Hot damn, call the CIA! Mr. Kaplan knows more than the Brits' own intelligence service - who never backed down from their claim referenced here by Mr. Kaplan. If Mr. Kaplan can prove this, then he's surely worthy of a nice job. WIth their Clandestine Trainee Service perhaps. Let's see what other gems he has for us... Oh joy. Nice attack piece sure to follow. Let's read on and see.... Failed to do, eh? Love to see Kaplan's plan for doing it better. Since he's complaining about smaller budgets, from now on when lefties who don't decry Kaplan's words scream about the deficit, let's all laugh at them. Let's continue... Develop or procure? If they aren't developed, how can they be bought? What sort of sensor? What's the current technology readiness level? Inquiring minds want to know...I digress... Point them out please, though for the cargo ships I'd agree with you. Geez, those new fangled cargo container tracking devices would sure be nice for our ports, wouldn't they? Are you calling for them to be USED? The Longshoremen's Unions would just love the candidate that would do so. Let's continue. Local police and fire departments are federally funded? They are FEDERAL employees? Really? When did this happen? OH! I see! Kaplan has to blame that on BUSH! The federal government should fund all state employees' salaries! That way denizens of Vermont could see their federal tax $ doing such great things for the LAPD. Get a grip. What the hell is Kaplan getting at here. The ones we don't have and the ones that we don't know about are dangerous? Bush's fault there too? What a moron.....let's keep going...always love these 'pearls of wisdom' from the left.... OK. This is a total lie. My brother is a Ranger. Lot's of my best friends are military folks. And, gosh darn-it, I read the news quite often. We've been active in Afghanistan since we've been there. Wouldn't be a leftist attack article without a few lies here and there. Don't want to elaborate/gloat now...there's MORE to read! What fun! Hot DAMN! I must be the most geographically uneducated bloke on the planet! NATO is the organization we should first turn to for aid when we want to do something in....Middle East/ASIA! Ingenious! Groundbreaking logic here! Don't know what we'd do without thinkers[sic] like this Kaplan fellow. Let's see what ELSE he shows us! I can't wait! Armchair general Kaplan gives his keen insight. The Iraqi's resorted to guerrilla tactics not because it was the only avenue left them, but because the US didn't send enough troops for stabilization purposes. They had a secret staging/regrouping area unbeknownst to us, but chose not to use it. The statue must have been the straw that broke the camel's back. Kaplan really needs a job at CIA if this is true. Let's see what else he's got for us...this is fun. Saddam loyalists aren't Iraqis? The demographics of a guerilla force seem to consist of citizens of the nation in which it operates? Move over Sun Tzu, Jomini, and von Clausewitz....heeeeeeere comes Kaplan!!! Good filler. After that brilliant insight into guerrilla warfare, I think we needed a break. But I'm not giving up hope that he'll continue later. Let's move on (notice the lack of '.org') The UN wouldn't enforce its own resolutions, scoffed at the US for doing what it wouldn't, left the country after their HQ got bombed, and Kaplan wants them involved? Maybe he'll tell us why later... Is this a compliment to Bush's foreign policy team? Geez this guy is inconsistent. Hmmm...Kaplan...nuclear weapons physicist...or left-wing journalist.....you make the call. So Bush's FP worked, but it doesn't matter because Ghadaffi REALLY wasn't close to producing nukes yet anyway? So let me get this straight...Kaplan is inferring that we shouldn't have been using diplomacy to get Ghaddaffi to cease and desist his WMD programs? Wacky. Kaplan should read the news a bit more often. Then again, he is quite amusing. Exactly what would he have the US do in the case of Iran? With regards to his NK remark, it's gotta hurt being that stupid. Bush's refusal to negotiate? Does he know what the NK's proposed? When they did so? Does he recall their cheating on Clinton's 1994 exortion agreement with them - right from the get-go no less? What a BUFFOON...good thing he's got such a knack at the intel business, as we found out previously...let's keep going....this particular point is just too stupid to ponder.... Low blow....this right after his NK comment? ROFLMFAO. What a hypocrite. Uhhhhh...only GWB goofed on the intel he was given? Ahem....http://www.townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/le20040122.shtml Check out the Japanese constitution and the populations of the countries mentioned, then relook at the #'s Mr. Kaplan. You're making a fool of yourself, but hey, you started earlier in the article... So any decision made by the US is illegitmate? WTFO? The man just doesn't quit! At least he's funny....let's keeeeep going!

I've been quoted! Yes! Now TheAnvil is famous! And skydivexxl says I'm just a Midget Tequila Monster and lawn gnome. Ha! Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

That WAS the first half of his speech dude. For the most part. With regards to the social security discussion, I believe he's going to propose something of this nature: - you have the option to stick with the current program if you so desire - you also have the option to apportion up to a certain percentage - say 5% - to a private account you control and invest - at retirement, the gov't will guarantee a certain monthly income. For those who choose the partially privatized route, fthe $$ comes from your account and SS pay-in a slightly higher income for those who choose not to go the partially-privatized route. If market trends hold then the government would save tons of $$ under such a scheme and maintain SS benefits. Many who choose the partial-privatized route would get mainly $$ from their own private accounts. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

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Didn't mean to ignore you Benny. Got distracted by Gary's latest anti-Anvil rant. Quite amusing. I'd support non-race based affirmative action if it were based upon parents'/guardians' tax returns or something of the like AND merit were still the primary factor. I think most other conservatives would as well. Most liberals too. I think billvon and I might have discussed something of the sort a while back - I forget. I've always considered legacy or bought admissions to universities non-sequitur to the race-based affirmative action discussion. Beers and blues dude, Vinny the Anvil Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Dude, I like GWB as a hypocritical libertarian who tends to vote Republican, but I didn't like this speech very much. I did like portions of it. I thought it was way too heavy on foreign policy and defending his implementation of it. I also thought it was a bit unfocused on foreign policy as a whole and domestic policy seemed a bit unfocused as well. Things I DID like: - he supports partial privatization of SS. This is desparately needed or all of us younger folks are screwed. - making permanent the initial tax cut. I DON'T support the structure of his second one, for the record. - call to make the marriage penalty go the way of the dodo - US doesn't need a permission slip - good quote

Gee Gary. I thought your last post was hate filled and full of shyte. This really takes the case. I haven't seen one like this in a while. All of my suggestions are kind. Read the above then your own words 'attack attack attack' later and bask in your own hypocrisy. Nice of you to include the above in an attack post. Brilliant, in fact. My compliments and thanks. You're quite welcome. Always glad to help where needed - you obviously need a lot. Remember to wear your 'Thank you Anvil' T-shirt. And to educate yourself. Education is quite important. No, we conservative types really don't care if it involves Clinton. Just like we don't care what race anyone is - you should try it sometime, by the way. And it is YOU who ignore the fact at hand: both Lee and Pickering were recess appointments. Article 2, section two of that document called the Constitution - you might have heard of it - provides for it. If you have a problem with it, write your congressman. If you're really enterprising and interested, check out US. vs. Allocco or US vs Woodley for references - the latter from the 9th circuit itself, that bastion of liberal activism from the bench.(en banc, no less Lawrocket!) Lee was illegally kept there past the one year mark - and not challenged by the Republicans in congress, to their discredit. Pickering's appointment isn't lifetime, as you mentioned, so I'm having trouble discerning what point you're trying to make here. More than three hundred recess appointments have been made in our nation's history - starting with George Washington. One wonders at your sudden ire at the practice. LMFAO. Did I tweak your wittle nerves? Awwwww....and there you go attacking Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. I don't listen to Rush, though I do read his brother David's columns from time to time. I see you admitted previously now that PFAW was your source. As for your 'facts' from this hate-conservatives sight, they presented so vaguely that it's not even worthwhile to go through the morass. This after you use Apples and Oranges as your basis of logic? Are you shitting me? Please tell me you were drunk when you wrote this. Our education system cannot be this far degraded. In case it is.... Brown and Pickering have WHAT in common? Did they hear the same # of cases? Same type of cases? Did they sit together en banc somewhere? Go to law school together perhaps? What, exactly, makes your presented comparison statistically relevant? NOTHING. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Live with it. Apples and oranges would be extremely appropriate here. Do your own research, but if memory serves the # was somewhere around the 1% mark for Pickering being overturned. Oh, what a bad bad judge I stand by my statement - you give no evidence to refute it. For your attack portion of the above, bask in your own hypocrisy once again. Ann Coulter is a great role model, though a bit vitriolic in her prose. Odd you mention her derisively given the tenor of your posts is vitriolic as well. Bill Clinton - not a great role model in almost all respects, but a man who did do some good things once in a while. Glaringly long list of vague accusations from a conservative hate sight? And you WONDER why I question it? LMFAO. Try again dude. Smearing your sources? By calling them vague? By pointing out the irrelevance of the #15 as presented? Don't tell me you actually believe they found the 15 times he was overturned and don't also know the # of cases he reviewed - nobody is that naive. The # as presented is statistically irrelevant. You refer to Pickering as a racist in your post, so my comparison to Lee using affirmative action is quite appropriate. If you're uncomfortable defending the left's support of racial discrimination, you're in good company with all of the other lefties with whom I've discussed the issue. You left the link in the other part of the post. Now I know you were drunk. At least I hope so - my faith in the nation's education system isn't totally dead now. That was one of many links available. Snag a copy of the court proceedings if you like - the facts will all be ther same. Read any you like, but I agree with Pickering's actions there. The sentence was absurd given the crime and the circumstances under which it was committed. Whose point of view it is told from is fairly non-sequitur - the facts are all there. Still love it when you bring the case up as 'evidence' of Pickering's suitability for office. As presented, the pfaw is using people's ignorance of the case and the avid hatred of the KKK's well-known racism to lead them into a conclusion of PFAW's own liking. How deceptive of them. You really WONDER why I call them a non-credible source? I'll leave the name calling to you. See your first paragraph. Greedy, hate filled, narrow thinking, mean-spirited. Bask in your own hypocrisy once again. I stand by my statement. Change the subject? Nope- the vagueness of many of your pfaw ravings is fairly obvious and one of the main reasons they aren't credible. Your use of the term 'install' given the long history of recess appointments also makes your rant unredible right from the start. If you choose to consider such garbage tenable, that's your prerogative. I'm sorry Gary. You've mistaken me for the sorry dumbass who actually respects your arrogance. How silly of you. For the record, I don't. Try again dude. A for effort, F for content. Don't give up hope. Given a few years of reading newspapers, magazines, learning basic statistics, and more than passive PFAW/NAACP/DNC involvement with the political process, one day you too might be able to have the honor of calling yourself a conservative. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Should be the weekend prior to Valentine's Day.... Don't wanna leave. Hope you had fun wine tasting.... Missed y'all! Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Good luck dude. Don't do anything stupid with weights and hurt yourself. Vinny the Anvil Midget Tequila Monster Prospective Lawn Gnome Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

sfc dreams of Skypup naked....how very clever. Geno - do itashimashite! redtwiga - you're a cool skychick; glad you came to H-town! Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

They're not interested in peace, unity, or equality for all. They're interested in privelige based upon race and electing anyone who will give it to them. MLK's 'mind, heart, and character' ideal has been hijacked by such idiots who want racial discrimination today, tomorrow, and forever under the guise of affirmative action. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Oh shit......do I have to snag a pointy little gnome hat now? Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

I'm calling the fleas.....tremble in fear Timmeh! You're about to experience a flea infestation of biblical proportions! Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

No personal attacks! Especially one so vile! May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits for calling me such! You have to land sometime Timmeh! I shall see you soon! Heheheheheheheheheheheheheheheee....wish I remembered Saturday night a bit better....was I really that bad? I'm a hypocritical libertarian.......lover of tequilla.....short barrel chested smiling fellow....single, blonde, with big poppy blue eyes, and a sinister sounding laugh...proponent of sake bombs en masse...denizen of Hollister...and JACKASS of the political threads...but NOT A democrat! Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

You should seek help to get your Bush-hatred under control. INSTALL? Bill Lan Lee Ring a bell? Compare and contrast him with Charles Pickering. LMFAO. One supports programs that discriminate based on race. The other doesn't. One hadn't the votes for confirmation on the Senate floor. THe other does. I could go on, but think that sufficient. You have a problem with recess appointments? Tough shyte - they're the law. Write your congressman. With regards to Charles Pickering, you might want to get your 'facts' somewhere other than democraticunderground.com or People for the American Way or whatever source from which you obtained them. As presented, they're pretty pathetic. For example: 15 times out of HOW MANY? LMFAO. I remember this argument from a couple of years ago. It was pretty stupid then - it still is. The cross burning case. Man I LOVE it whan the Swan case is brought up by the lefties. Just love it. You think this case proves he's a racist, eh? Well, I think that anyone who supports programs that judge people by their race for any reason is about 100000000000000000 times the racist Pickering is. Here's the link for all not acquainted with the case: http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0301/14/m01.html I'm not going to waste my time refuting Gary's entire posting of vague accusations against Charles Pickering. Get a grip dude. Your Bush hatred is just out of control, your 'facts' vague, and your argument untenable. I hope Bush's recess appointment signals a more aggressive response by Republicans to the ludicrous charges of racism often leveled at them by the left via their race-baiting rhetoric. Such race baiting tactics are the true divisive force in America today and those that use them aren't worthy of the honor of public service. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Glad he lost today. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

If snopes is correct - I suspect it is - then I've been duped about the #14. I'll still be thinking of those using the Enron/WorldCom lies as morons, however. Interesting to see this resurrected. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

TheAnvil's short little ass in in! Fun jumps!!!!!! Speaking of which, I'm on the road in about 5 m. Vinny the Anvil (Midget Tequila Monster) Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

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Odd you need me to point them out for you John. You can lie outright and you can also lie by ignoring facts - Kennedy's speech is HUGE on the latter. If I had time I'd dissect it for you, but to whet your appetite..... A few: It has broken faith with the American people, aided and abetted by a Congressional majority willing to pursue ideology at any price They have pursued their goals at the expense of urgent national and human needs The Administration and the majority in Congress have put the state of our union at risk Our troubles in foreign policy today are as clear as they are self-made. By far the most serious consequence of the unjustified and unnecessary war in Iraq is that it made the war on terrorism harder to win. We knocked Al Qaeda down in the war in Afghanistan, but we let it regroup by going to war in Iraq. We did not have to go to war. Alternatives were working. The President should never have sent them in harm's way in Iraq for ideological reasons and on a timetable based on the marketing of a political product. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

I'm jealous you got to know Hawking. I'd love to have the same chance someday. Never said Bush was in the same league as him intellectually. My point is that I judge on content rather than smoothness of delivery. And like you said - some of what Bush says makes no sense content-wise either. (Second tax cut structure, for example) Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!