JimBob2232

I wonder where TO is going in present day drafts...

I surely hope you are joking and that they were not doing fundraising instead...unless they are attending a funeral or tending to an important international crisis, they should make their opinion known and vote, especially on something as important as an attorney general confirmation.

Followup on my last post....the 4 senators who did not vote: Republican Conrad Burns of Montana and Democrats Max Baucus of Montana, Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii. This is absurd. DO YOUR JOB. If I was in any of these states I would be furious they missed this vote. For the record Inouye is also a member of the "Gang of 14", leaving Senator Byrd the only member of the Gang to vote Against a Gonzalez nomination for AG. Hardly sounds like they can come up with the "extreme circumstance" they need to block his nomination. Point is, a Gonzalez nomination would (and could) be pushed though very fast. Personally I wish bush would nominate someone "in the mold of thomas or scalia" as he promised in his campaign. But I think we are all making a mistake right now. Lets let the president make his selection, as he has a right to do, and then critique it. But remember, whoever it is, is the choice of the rightfully elected president, and the way our system works is that there is a vote in the senate to confirm or deny that nominee.

I have posted this many times on this board. However, like others have said, they cant do this with the gonzalez nomination. First of all, they have to realize gonzalez is about the best they can get out of this president. To reject him, they are assured of getting an even more right wing nominee to follow him. Secondly, Gonzalez won his AG confirmation vote 60-36 (Not sure which 4 senators did not vote). Among the democrats voting for him were Lieberman (CT), Landrieu (LA), Pryor (AR), Nelson (FL), Nelson (NE), and Salazar (CO). All but Nelson (FL) are part of the so called "Gang of 14" who signed the no filibuster agreement unless under extreme circumstances. They are going to have a hard time explaining why they agreed to confirm him for AG, but not its an extreme circumstance and vote to filibuster and hold him up from a supreme court spot. On a side note, how can you be a United States Senator and NOT vote on the attorney general of the United States? What could be more important?

Wait until soros buys the team....that will be the end of this debate...

That too....was sarcasm

The decloration of Independance...that gives us the right to bear arms right?

Well...thats the way the NFL (and life) works. Guess what...If I dont show up to work tomorrow, I get fired. I dont have a choice, I have to go. My employer can fire me at any time. Thats the way life is. These guys actually have the luxury of negotiating with the employer of THEIR choice to an agreeable amount of money, and all they have to do is keep up their end of the bargain and the money is theirs. If you dont like what they are offering...GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.

I think they should not get paid when they hold out, and if they miss opening day, they should not be allowed to play for the remainder of the season and their contract should automatically renew for 1 year (at the teams discression). If you dont like the terms of the contract...DONT SIGN IT. Novel concept I know.

Do they make 50k a year? Cuz thats about all it would take for me to do that for a living (assuming i was good enough to make ANY cut)

NO WHAMMY NO WHAMMY...Then Rudy cant run against hillary in 06 (or 08)... and she becomes president....WHAMMY.

Seriously? I usually tip a buck and the change...Maybe 2 and change on occasion. Usually I just order one pizza and maybe a coke. It never seemed to me like I was undertipping...am I?

Ya gotta beat the system. If she swings sideways...ball is on the right....if its up and down...go to the left cup. Never the middle cup.

Yep. Tonight is the last night i can care about these guys...Watching the draft to me is kind of like a funeral. Its so sad they will go to the NBA and I wont care and will never watch them again.

NO. this is not a good idea. we need him to buy the bills when ralph passes on. He cant have a job like gov of ny. He wont be able to handle both.

We are there as long as Iraq wants us there. As soon as Iraqs government tells us to leave we should leave. Until that point, I support us being there.

Did I say Brown was injury prone?

Well, he feels wronged here.. He wants to leave. I understand that. In TEN there is a good chance he would start over brown. Brown is not that good, and fans there love TH after his days at UT. As for Jacksonville...Fred Taylor needs a portable MRI machine with him wherever he goes. Travis knows he will play when (not if) fred gets hurt. both are better options than buffalo for him. But even if willis goes down...we cant rely on travis. He doesnt want to be here, he has lost the respect of the fans...its a lose/lose situation.

If September 11th wasnt enough...I doubt this will be it. The problem is we are normalizing this stuff...then it gets a little wose and we normalize that. Its a vicious cycle...at some point we have to stand up for ourselves...but i fear it will be too late when we do.

First off, I dont see much outrage from ANY politician. from ANY party. If that doesnt scare you, you dont have a pulse. I understand the whole "interpret the law" thing. And I agree. That is what they SHOULD be doing. But more and more often courts start making law. In this case, I dont feel they are so much making the law, but interpreting it incorrectly. The constitution appears to be quite clear. I dont understand how "Public Use" can be interpereted to mean "private development" What I fear most now, is that the issue of what is "Just compensation" will arrise. Given this ruling, the SCOTUS will likely rule that the local government (the same entity who decided to take your property) will be the one who will determine whether given compensation is just. This is a major problem. As for the states, I am a big fan of states rights. The federal government currently has too much power, and I am the first one in line to want to take that away from them. However...this is a constitutional issue, and therefore one that needs to be dealt with on a federal level. For whatever reason, the SCOTUS got this wrong. We need to ammend the constitution on this one. A government of the people, by the people and for the people....yeah right.

As I said in another thread...It was the liberal wing of the court that decided this. Remember this when bush appoints someone deemed "Too Conservative" to the supreme court.

Remember this feeling you have when the democrats try to prevent bush from putting someone "Too conservative" on the supreme court. It is the conservative judges who voted against this.

This is ridiculous. Lets recap the 5th ammendment... Now, most of that does not apply to this case. The only part that does is the "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." This is what the constitution says. The supreme courts job is to decide if this ruling is constitutional or not. The big argument is whether or not taking land to be privatly redeveloped for economic gain is considered "public use". I argue that it is not. IMO Public use would be to build a school, road, park or other infastructure that is for public use or consumption. However, the determination of what is "public use" should best be left to the legislature and to to the judiciary. If "public use" was meant to include things such as this, the term would not be public use, but rather public interest or public welfare. I think the supreme court once again overstepped their bounds. No suprise thouhg.

I work with many miltiary personnel. They may be only 19, but they have a job to do and they do it, and they do it well. I am sure there are people in their chain of command present every second of the day as well. I dont worry one bit about our 19 year olds guarding saddam. We trust them with AK-47s, nuclear power plants, and explosives on a daily basis. They can guard saddam.

I own nevermind...only one here...