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| monkey_man |
I interested to hear the opinions of the conservatives on the board re: the 5-4 ruling in Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc., v. PSKS, Inc. that reversed a 1911 Supreme Court decision that asserted that minimum-pricing agreements violated federal antitrust laws. |
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| mojoman |
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monkey_man wrote:
I interested to hear the opinions of the conservatives on the board re: the 5-4 ruling in Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc., v. PSKS, Inc. that reversed a 1911 Supreme Court decision that asserted that minimum-pricing agreements violated federal antitrust laws.
what would adam smith say? |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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mojoman wrote:
what would adam smith say?
He'd say that prices will be going up soon. |
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| mojoman |
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Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
He'd say that prices will be going up soon.
the not so invisible hand of the government |
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| lotsajizz |
the GOP has become FAR more statist and socialist than the Democrats in the last 30 years! |
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| Joey |
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lotsajizz wrote:
the GOP has become FAR more statist and socialist than the Democrats in the last 30 years!
Hi Jizzy !!!! |
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| Joey |
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mojoman wrote:
the not so invisible hand of the government
mojo ...................................
I wore my ' invisible hands ' tie to work today  |
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| Dan |
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lotsajizz wrote:
the GOP has become FAR more statist and socialist than the Democrats in the last 30 years!
It's kind of sad when real conservatives such as myself are stuck voting for fringe third parties. The left and right wings of the big government party have no appeal to me whatsoever and don't represent my interests or address my concerns at all. |
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| mojoman |
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mojo ...................................
I wore my ' invisible hands ' tie to work today
Your skills are complete, indeed you are powerful as the Emperor has foreseen |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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the GOP has become FAR more statist and socialist than the Democrats in the last 30 years!
It's called Fascism. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, the chances are it's probably a duck.
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| lotsajizz |
yup...'national' socialism.....the GOP's current lodestar
'idiot' socialism and the reduction to society's lowest common denominator appears to be the Democrats' current lodestar
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btw
HEY JOEY!!! |
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| Joey |
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Your skills are complete, indeed you are powerful as the Emperor has foreseen
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| Brainbell Jangler |
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glencar wrote:
LOL I don't think you're an American so let me inform you that hardly any Americans wanted to grant illegals amnesty. Most have no idea who Scooter is & what he did.
And don't think there isn't a connection between those two facts. |
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| pdog |
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That would be Richard Armitage & apparently it was by accident. He was in the administration but he was a media darling who loved dropping tidbits/leaking.
It was no accident, it was by design. Rove was behind, he's the guy who has tried to crush all opposition by going after people and their families. He doesn't care about R or D either... |
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| glencar |
That crazy Mrs. Edwards associated Karl Rove with Ann Coulter's "attacks" on the Breck Girl. If Karl Rove was as masterful as y'all think, Bush would still be in the stratosphere. For the record. Armitage would never have carried Rove's water. He fancies himself as a "real man" who indulges in gossip once in a while. |
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| corgi37 |
Anyone got the list of people pardoned by Bush41? |
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| Some Guy |
pardon me... |
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| Joey |
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Anyone got the list of people pardoned by Bush41?
Caspar Weinberger was one individual pardoned by Bushie41 .
Actually , someone needs to pardon that ' Brown Stinky ' I just took in the Fifth Floor Men's Room * ( NW Corner ) *
*******PHEW !!!!********
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| Morrisey Hotel |
Bush has single-handedly turned the United States into the most neurotic and terror-obsessed country on the planet. For non-Americans, the United States is suddenly not a very nice place to visit because US immigration officers — under the rules of Bush — now conduct themselves with all the charm and unanswerable indignation of Hitler’s SS. Please bring sanity and intelligence back to the United States. |
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| lotsajizz |
Lewis "Scooter" Libby ('Izzy Liebowicz')has been a long-serving intelligence agent for Israel's Mossad, according to the CIA. The CIA's Clandestine Service has, over the years, gathered a tremendous amount of intelligence on Libby's activities on behalf of Mossad.
Libby served as the lawyer for Switzerland-based American fugitive financier Marc Rich, aka Mark David Reich, who is also known to be an Israeli intelligence asset and someone Israel relies upon for missions that demand "plausible deniability" on the part of the Mossad. Rich heads up a worldwide empire of dummy corporations, foundations, and numbered bank accounts that have been involved in sanctions busting and weapons smuggling. The nations involved include Israel, United States, United Kingdom, Iran, Panama, Colombia, Russia, Iraq (under Saddam Hussein), Cuba, Spain, Nigeria, Singapore, Bolivia, Jamaica, Bermuda, France, Italy, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Australia, Argentina, Peru, Ireland, Zambia, Sweden, Monaco, and apartheid South Africa.
In 1983, the then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York urged jail time for Rich and his partner Pincus Green for racketeering. The name of that U.S. Attorney is Rudolph Giuliani. Giuliani, who is now running for president, praised Bush's decision to commute Libby's jail sentence. After Clinton's pardon of Rich, Giuliani said he was "shocked." Paul Klebnikov, the Moscow editor for Forbes' Russian edition, wrote about the connections of Rich to Russian gangsters like Boris Berezovsky, a business partner of Neil Bush, in his book "Godfather of the Kremlin." Klebnikov was shot to death gangland-style on a Moscow street on July 9, 2004.
Libby not only provided the Mossad with a top agent inside the White House but also an important conduit for the Russian-Israeli Mafia.
Libby arranged for Rich's eleventh hour pardon by outgoing President Bill Clinton in January 2001. The pardon of Rich was urged in a phone call to Clinton by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, as well as Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert.
Libby received a commutation of his 30-month prison sentence from President George W. Bush. Libby was convicted on four counts of perjury, lying to a federal law enforcement officer, and obstruction of justice in the investigation by U.S. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald of the White House's leak to the media of the identity CIA non-official cover officer Valerie Plame Wilson.
Libby was denied bail by U.S. Judge Reggie Walton and was ordered to prison while appealing his sentence. Libby was assigned Bureau of Prisons inmate number 28301-016.
Libby worked for Paul Wolfowitz in the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1982 to 1985. Libby again worked for Wolfowitz in the Pentagon as the Principal Undersecretary for Strategy and Resources. Libby later became the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and served as a chief aide to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney.
It was while Libby was working for Wolfowitz at State, the FBI arrested Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who had delivered enough highly-classified U.S. documents they could have entirely filled a garage. It was well known that Pollard had a "control officer" within the Reagan administration. The control officer was code-named "Mega."
Current British Lord Chancellor and former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said that during Middle East peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, "It's a toss-up whether [Libby] is working for the Israelis or the Americans on any given day." Clinton's Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder told the House Government Affairs Committee in 2001 that he discovered much more about Rich after Clinton's pardon and said, "Knowing everything that I know now, I would not have recommended to the president that he grant the pardon."
It has also been reported that, in addition to pressure from leading neocons in the United States to keep Libby out of jail, Bush was urged by leading Israeli government officials to prevent Libby from going to prison.
Fitzgerald issued the following statement regarding Bush's commutation of Libby's prison sentence:
"We fully recognize that the Constitution provides that commutation decisions are a matter of presidential prerogative and we do not comment on the exercise of that prerogative.
We comment only on the statement in which the President termed the sentence imposed by the judge as 'excessive.' The sentence in this case was imposed pursuant to the laws governing sentencings which occur every day throughout this country. In this case, an experienced federal judge considered extensive argument from the parties and then imposed a sentence consistent with the applicable laws. It is fundamental to the rule of law that all citizens stand before the bar of justice as equals. That principle guided the judge during both the trial and the sentencing.
Although the President’s decision eliminates Mr. Libby’s sentence of imprisonment, Mr. Libby remains convicted by a jury of serious felonies, and we will continue to seek to preserve those convictions through the appeals process."
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
I'm glad Bush commuted Scooter's sentence, it shows that as a compassionate conservative he really does have a big heart. No need for a sentence that severe. Besides we might need that federal jail space for conscientious objectors, dissenters, whistleblowers, and that ilk.
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