LawTalkers - My God, you are an idiot.

There's a hot debate on this board as to whether Hank is simply a troll or really severely challenged. Based on this response, I'm putting you down as voting "troll".

Sidd Finch

11-01-2011 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Fugee (Post 461316)

We thought he had WMDs for years and didn't go in.

Actually, we didn't think that. We knew that Clinton had controlled and prevented Saddam from stockpiling WMDs. Then a group of neo-cons convinced many people that this was wrong, by ignoring, mischaracterizing, or flatly lying about contrary evidence.

And relying on guys like "Curveball."

Hank Chinaski

11-01-2011 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 461332)

you make 4 or 5 absolute statements in this post. Is anyone else troubled by the absolutes, the endless absolute statements?

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

11-02-2011 09:05 AM

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How cynical can they get? http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/67408.html

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

11-02-2011 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 461361)

you make 4 or 5 absolute statements in this post. Is anyone else troubled by the absolutes, the endless absolute statements?

As long as he believes he's right, isn't that what matters?

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

11-02-2011 07:56 PM

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Atticus has another case to defend. You know Atticus thinks that whatever these guys did, they're cops, and they shouldn't get sued in their individual capacity. And he'll also defend the cops who "visit" these plaintiffs to exercise some "persuasion". Nothing wrong with a stray elbow or mace can, right?

Tyrone Slothrop

11-03-2011 11:22 PM

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Potd!

Adder

11-04-2011 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 461438)

Potd!

I'd be happy to discuss the politics of the Vikings stadium issue, but I suspect no one else here cares.

And I've got an email to my legislator to write.

Adder

11-04-2011 03:06 PM

He left off the REMIC, but still

Taibbi tears into Michael Bloomberg and puts out one of the cleaner summaries of what went wrong in the mortgage bubble while doing it.

ThurgreedMarshall

11-04-2011 03:11 PM

I'm Bachmann

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/...meness-110.jpg

TM

LessinSF

11-04-2011 03:12 PM

Caption, please.

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...30023173_n.jpg

Adder

11-04-2011 03:35 PM

Whatever happened to Spanky anyway?

Andrew Sullivan quotes former CIA agent Glenn Carle:

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It is telling that, to my knowledge, four individuals with first-hand experience in interrogations during the "War on Terror," have spoken out about enhanced interrogation methods: two Air Force officers (Steve Kleinman and another officer writing under the pseudonym Matthew Alexander), an FBI officer (Soufan), and a CIA officer (myself). All of us, independently, make the same points: interrogation must be based on rapport; enhanced interrogation methods are ineffective, counterproductive, immoral, illegal, and unnecessary, and they had nothing to do with obtaining much, if any, information not otherwise obtainable. It is only apologists for the Bush Administration, or Bush Administration policymakers themselves, who assert that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are legal, or work.

Gattigap

11-04-2011 04:03 PM

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Triumph attends OWS.

Hank Chinaski

11-07-2011 01:15 PM

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If Ty were to ever criticize Obama, i think it might look a little like this.

Tyrone Slothrop

11-07-2011 01:49 PM

I, too, want a cookie.

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 461477)

If Ty were to ever criticize Obama, i think it might look a little like this.

I were to ever criticize Obama. Quite.

Tyrone Slothrop

11-07-2011 02:04 PM

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I haven't been paying attention to the details at all, and on that basis, offer this silly little prediction: If Herman Cain's accusers are black, the story won't hurt him that much, but if they're white, he's toast.

Adder

11-07-2011 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 461481)

Hm. I guess I kind of think he's toast either way, in the sense that I think he was unlikely to be the nominee with or without this little problem, but this will remove the long-shot possibility.

But that's an interesting prediction.

Hank Chinaski

11-07-2011 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 461484)

how is it different than what Clinton was accused of?

sgtclub

11-07-2011 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 461481)

He's toast either way.

sgtclub

11-07-2011 02:39 PM

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Sound familiar?

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Jin, who has served as China's deputy minister of finance and vice president of the Asian Development Bank, manages $400bn worth of the nation's money through the sovereign wealth fund. He says that unless Europe changes its labour laws and adjusts its welfare system, he does not consider it to be a profitable investment.

"If you look at the troubles which happened in European countries, this is purely because of the accumulated troubles of the worn out welfare society. I think the labour laws are outdated. The labour laws induce sloth, indolence, rather than hardworking. The incentive system, is totally out of whack.

"Why should, for instance, within [the] eurozone some member's people have to work to 65, even longer, whereas in some other countries they are happily retiring at 55, languishing on the beach? This is unfair. The welfare system is good for any society to reduce the gap, to help those who happen to have disadvantages, to enjoy a good life, but a welfare society should not induce people not to work hard."

Jin Liqun, the supervising chairman of China's sovereign wealth fund

I think this makes the left in this country to the left of communist China.

Sidd Finch

11-07-2011 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by sgtclub (Post 461489)

Sound familiar?

I think this makes the left in this country to the left of communist China.

The old notions of "left" and "right" are pretty useless these days. The world's biggest communist country is also the world's biggest capitalist country, and some of the world's worst socialists are found in heavily Republican prison guard, police, and firefighter unions.

Sidd Finch

11-07-2011 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by sgtclub (Post 461488)

He's toast either way.

Yeah, but not before it gets really interesting.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/f...193541143.html

Adder

11-07-2011 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 461494)

Yeah, but not before it gets really interesting.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/f...193541143.html

Why is it that Gloria Alred is always involved in these things? How do you think she does that?

futbol fan

11-07-2011 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by sgtclub (Post 461489)

Sound familiar?

I think this makes the left in this country to the left of communist China.

I think this proves that we are all* not working as hard as we should be to make Chinese government hedge fund managers rich(er). A damning indictment of our decadent Western Values if ever I have heard one.

*And not just the Europeans! There are still sloth-inducing labor laws in this country, too. smh

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

11-07-2011 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by ironweed (Post 461502)

What do you think Jin thinks of lawyers who post on frivilous boards? We are robbing the hard-working elites of the Middle Kingdom of their due.

Tyrone Slothrop

11-07-2011 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by sgtclub (Post 461488)

He's toast either way.

What I meant was, he will be toasted by the heat of the sexual-harassment accusations rather than the light of the judgment of GOP voters.

Tyrone Slothrop

11-07-2011 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 461486)

how is it different than what Clinton was accused of?

Dunno. I don't have any idea what he allegedly did.

Adder

11-07-2011 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 461506)

Dunno. I don't have any idea what he allegedly did.

Cain? We don't know about the women who got settlements, but today's accuser says he put his hand up her skirt, pushed her head toward his crotch, and said, "You want a job, don't you" when she said no.

A lawyer for one of the other women says the allegations were "very similar" and "corroborating" to his client's claim.

Hank Chinaski

11-07-2011 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 461507)

right. I didn't mean the fact that clinton killed 26 people. i meant the allegations about him dropping trou and just scrambling for BJs.

Adder

11-07-2011 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 461508)

right. I didn't mean the fact that clinton killed 26 people. i meant the allegations about him dropping trou and just scrambling for BJs.

Yeah, I haven't responded to you because I've been thinking about it.

But the obvious difference is that Paula Jones's story didn't come out until after he was already president. Had it come out during the primaries, Clinton mighta been toast too.

Tyrone Slothrop

11-07-2011 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 461507)

Yeah, that's not good. That may make my prediction moot. Even mooter than it was otherwise going to be, per club.

Adder

11-07-2011 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 461510)

Yeah, that's not good. That may make my prediction moot. Even mooter than it was otherwise going to be, per club.

Well, she's white, so your prediction has that going for it.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

11-07-2011 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 461508)

right. I didn't mean the fact that clinton killed 26 people. i meant the allegations about him dropping trou and just scrambling for BJs.

I would say that Cain probably would make a better president than most of the Republican field, apparent lack of judgment, horniness and proclivity to potentially actionable conduct notwithstanding.

I trust your point is, though, that the Republican congress would impeach him if elected? I sure hope if he makes it to the White House, he gets a Democratic congress - we don't need that kind of sideshow in DC.

Hank Chinaski

11-07-2011 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 461512)

I'm just hoping they don't impeach obama for somethingorother. Next term is too far down the road to worry.

Tyrone Slothrop

11-07-2011 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 461513)

I'm just hoping they don't impeach obama for somethingorother. Next term is too far down the road to worry.

I am reasonably sure that you would prefer Obama to anyone in the GOP field (barring Huntsman and with the possible exception of Romney), but your efforts to goad others here are always amusing.

Hank Chinaski

11-07-2011 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 461517)

I am reasonably sure that you would prefer Obama to anyone in the GOP field (barring Huntsman and with the possible exception of Romney), but your efforts to goad others here are always amusing.

I seriously fear the congressional R's could drum up a reason to file charges of impeachment. "Grounds? We don't need no stinkin grounds."

but yes, there is a very good chance I'm voting to re-elect a president for the second time in a row! (not that my vote matters in the great state of Michigan!)

Sidd Finch

11-08-2011 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 461508)

right. I didn't mean the fact that clinton killed 26 people. i meant the allegations about him dropping trou and just scrambling for BJs.

So you're thinking Rs will vote for Cain so they can impeach him? After all, they are the party of principle.

eta: Doh! STP.

sgtclub

11-08-2011 11:21 AM

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Hank, are you happy that Obama's views on Israel are finally on the record?

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