Post #213,497
7/4/05 10:46:00 PM
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Furthermore...
Senator Cornyn (R-TX) has introduced bill S.1313 [*] to limit eminent domain abuse. Cornyn can't limit eminent domain. It's not a power extended by Congress. It's a power given to the states by the Constitution. (Wanna watch a bill die when it goes against the SCOTUS and loses?) The House has voted [*] to deny federal funds to any city abuseing eminent domain in the Kelo fashion. More dollar diplomacy for the states. Follow our "No child left behind" or lose tax dollars. Follow our drinking age laws or lose tax dollars. Now, be nice with eminent domain or ...sigh...lose tax dollars. So much for state rights. The states should be passing these laws, not Congress.
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Post #213,498
7/4/05 11:14:23 PM
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You misunderstand.
Under the Imperial Presidency states have no rights.
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Post #213,502
7/4/05 11:40:27 PM
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well lincoln kinda pointed that out....
All tribal myths are true, for a given value of "true" Terry Pratchett
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Post #213,757
7/6/05 6:50:52 PM
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No I didn't
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
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Post #213,758
7/6/05 6:52:27 PM
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yes you did, the same year you suspended habeus corpus
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Post #213,761
7/6/05 6:57:59 PM
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that was "Lincoln" with a capital "L"
my name is lowercase.
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
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Post #213,500
7/4/05 11:31:40 PM
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Don't forget the Mother of All Such Pronouncements...
...the 55 MPH speed limit.
"Dollar Diplomacy". Such a euphemism....(but I like it!)
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #213,534
7/5/05 7:55:42 AM
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I felt no reason to bring in Nixon's 55 mile-an-hour bit.
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