Achebe, i hear France is lovely this time of year if my memory serves me correct, Robert Byrd the senior most democratic senator in washington was a klansmen, so what's your point?
that you're glad to have him jpm. Just quit acting like you have a monopoly on friggin' morality. You're a human.
hey mc mark. incidentally jpm, I don't know what this means: perhaps you're highlighting the fact that you're a mental midget by insulting my patriotism. blow me. but just for the record, plane tickets are a bit too expensive for paris right now.
Actually, our old friend Heb's just full of patriotic indignation, while you are full of parrot food.
Mr. Clutch your right, i remember seeing a story on it. I don't even remember them saying Gore won 1, but i might have missed that.
Kicked my ass, if you really wanna know. Never fly AirTran. I wouldn't if I'd known ahead of time it was just a fancy name for ValueJet. Plus I always party too hard in NYC. Harder even than in Houston. Ask someone who knows me in 3-D how bad that actually is. If I'd had more time I woulda looked up some of you NY .netters. As it was I was too busy getting loaded and laid. Thanks for asking. It's good to be back.
damn Batman! Gotham treats you right. ps mc and jpm, I'll grab the miami herald link... oh fooey, i'll get it now, hold on... (I should have set this up... we could have bet chic-fil-a gift certificates or something; unfortunately my chic-fil-as don't have sweet tea). http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/2070914.htm ps, you guys didn't take issue w/ the other claim that I made, that katherine tramp harris evicted thousands of legitimate voters... most of whom are black, from the voting booths. you should bet me, err. a chic-fil-a sandwich and large waffle fry that this is not the case. Come on. I dare you. actually, forget the sandwich... if I'm right, you have to respond for 2 weeks straight, 3x a day... in this forum, to any political post... w/ the words "I cannot believe I voted for Bush. I am a tool." -- and only those words. I'll write whatever you come up with, if I'm wrong. Bet me. BET ME. BET ME.
Damm I thought the polo/mullet debate was a firestorm. Gore Wins, Gore Wins, Gore Wins. Ya know i'm right. Electoral Collage stick and paste where you see fit. Reagan/Bush Supreme court nomz will fit in the rest of the pattern. What comes around goes around, thats my opinion.
It would be if we didn't have a huge debt from past administrations to make up for. The only way to really make up for that debt is to have a surplus. Until that's paid down some a surplus is the best way to actually cut govt. spending. It seems odd, but it's true.
This is from an editorial column, and I can't find that quote for Gore winning, I must just be missing it.. I went to another article, and I found that there is only one way Gore could win: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/2486514.htm "SCENARIO 2: The Clean-Punch Scenario There is one scenario under the Florida Supreme Court order that would have led to a Gore victory -- though it was unlikely. That would have happened if the precincts affected by the Florida Supreme Court order had been counted with only clean punches counting in the punch card counties. Why is it so unlikely? Because the application of that standard only in the affected precincts would have required the Miami-Dade canvassing board to switch standards in the middle of its count. Nevertheless, applying the standard underscores the random nature of dimpling. In the counties to be counted under the state court order, Bush actually benefited from the inclusion of dimples, pinpricks and hanging chads. The scenario also assumes that the results in optical scan counties would have remained the same, since markings for president on those ballots are more obvious." Here are some quotes from the original Herald article: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/2071226.htm "Republican George W. Bush's victory in Florida, which gave him the White House, almost certainly would have endured even if a recount stopped by the U.S. Supreme Court had been allowed to go forward." "What would have happened if the U.S. Supreme Court had not halted the sweeping recount of undervotes -- ballots without presidential votes detected by counting machines -- ordered by the Florida Supreme Court on Dec. 8, a month after the November election? The answer: under almost all scenarios, Bush still would have won." "Contrary to popular belief, mismarks for Gore were less likely than mismarks for Bush in punch-card counties. Marks of some type were found in the Bush position on one ballot for every 172 valid Bush punch-card votes; marks in the Gore position were found on one ballot for every 181 valid Gore punch-card votes." Hmmm, I don't know much about that. I'll look into it...
hey mc... I hoped to relay that quote in my previous post... but reading your link (I guess 1 of 6; we should brave the other 5) only depresses me. For no other reason, than the fact that people are really... really... how do I say this.... 'sad'? People were writing in the candidates that they were voting for in the previous portion of the ballott. Why? People were... oh, I can't brave it anymore. I'm so depressed. God people are... oops, son-in-law-of-woman-who-teaches developmentally-disabled-kid-urge to not say 'r****ded'... but... people are... 'sad'? Incidentally, that was the 'headline', I believe, referenced in the editorial. At the bottom of the link in my previous post (again here) there are 5 more articles. We should brave them later on... maybe after I have a bit more faith in humanity. Oh wait (theme from rocky getting louder in my head), Harry Potter comes out tonight at 12:01am!! There is reason for hope! Everything is going to be okay!! I hope that girly-man Lucious gets his ass kicked all over the place by Sirius! I gotta get to Barnes & Noble! WHOOHOO!!
