Galactic Cannibalism: It's Not Just the GOP That Eats Their Young

John Steinberg:
...
As for California, with Arianna Huffington (and ex), Gary Coleman,
Larry Flynt, Arnold, a porn star, Herve Villechaize, Theodore Kaczynski
and quite a few others on the slate, I'd like to take this opportunity
to announce my own candidacy for Governor.
...

And a sumo wrestler. OK, I'd vote for you.

May I take this opportunity to remind the people that the last time
they elected a two-bit actor to their governership, the end result was
that 3-1/2 *trillion* dollars or more went missing from the U.S.
Treasury? And that hatred was institutionalized as an American virtue?
Sadly, the man who was responsible became demented on the afternoon of
the inauguration of his worthy successor, and thus could not remember
where the money went.

Now I know that Californians are going to say "But that can't happen
this time, because the two-bit actor in question is constitutionally
ineligible to be president." May I further remind the good people of
California that the incumbent is also constitutionally ineligible to be
president due to the technicality that he lost the election? The Party
of Nixon does not allow little things like the Constitution to stop it
from achieving its goals.

Davoud

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usenet *at* davidillig dawt com

I'd have sent this by e-mail if you had had a real e-mail address in
your headers.

On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:46:05 -0400, Davoud wrote:

May I further remind the good people of
California that the incumbent is also constitutionally ineligible to be
president due to the technicality that he lost the election? The Party
of Nixon does not allow little things like the Constitution to stop it
from achieving its goals.

This hardly qualifies as informed political discourse, not to mention
being hugely off charter for SAA.

You should read with understanding Article II, Section 1 of the US
Constitution.

If Albert Gore, Jr. had won the election in Tennessee (it wasn't even
close) this question would never have come up. But Gore followed the
sterling example of George McGovern, who lost South Dakota to Nixon in
1972. It is a bad presidential candidate who loses his own state.
Even Goldwater won Arizona in 1964. Unfortunately the Democratic
Party selected a lousy candidate. Besides Gore's obvious
shortcomings, had the party bosses read their history they would have
known that vice presidents tend to do poorly as presidential
candidates. Since the adoption of the 12th Amendment the only vice
presidents to be elected president were Martin van Buren and George
Bush. The other former vice presidents to win election either
succeeded to the office of president on the death of a president
(Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman, Lyndon Johnson) or ran again
later (Nixon). The qualities of a vice president, whose principle
duty is to inquire after the health of the president (to paraphrase
Peter Finley Dunne's Mr. Dooley) are not those of a president or even
a good candidate for president. As John Nance Garner described the
job, it isn't worth a pitcher of spit and vice presidential candidates
usually are party figures that noone can quite figure out what else to
do with them.

And for the astronomers: "My head is in a place where the Sun don't
shine"

It are!
Except for infrequent peeks at the sun.

This really should be a bumper sticker for our hobby. What a hoot!!

john

Davoud:
And that hatred was institutionalized as an American virtue?

Cousin Ricky:
More like a regression. In past America, hanging my ancestors from
trees without due process was not considered a vice, and membership in
the KKK was hardly an impediment to political office. The haters of
21st century America are increasingly marginalized. It remains to
convince the Ray Guns, Bush Lites, and Ward Connerlys of America that
although America finally recognizes that racism is wrong, that doesn't
mean that she has purged it.

Witting association with the white-supremacist and anti-semitic
"Council of Concerned Citizens" has hardly impinged upon the
reputations of Trent Lott and Bob Barr among their constituents.
Marginalized is as marginalized does. It's still true that in a fairly
wide region of the country, when people get together to talk business
or other matters the ice-breaking joke starts with "Did you hear about
the ******...". The only difference is that they no longer do that when
persons from outside the region are in attendance.

(Consider that America's top-ranking opponent of affirmative action is
the very same person who appointed the two most powerful Negroes in
American history. That's a strong indication to me that something
other than hatred is at work here.)

One of them is a right-wing freako-nutso with way too much power. The
other has no power and has compromised himself by going along with
schemes and lies that he surely doesn't believe in.

May I further remind the good people of
California that the incumbent is also constitutionally ineligible to be
president due to the technicality that he lost the election?

It stinks, but it's all legal. George Dubya Bush is my president. I
don't like it one single little bit, but i accept it.

In my opinion, if a person stole a sum of money and got away with it,
then invested that money wisely and made a fortune through entirely
legal investments, that person and her fortune would have no
legitimacy. I would consider the entire fortune to be stolen. A court
ruling that nothing could be done because of time -- the statute of
limitations having expired in the above example -- wouldn't change
anything.

As for being anyone's presdient, Dubya is president if a puppet can be
president. He's an amiable dunce, too dumb to know that he's dumb. The
real power lies with his puppetmasters Cheney and Rumsfeld and the
robber barons who, in turn, pull their strings.

Davoud

A President told us lies and a woman had to send her dress to the
cleaners. Another President came along and told us lies and thousands
of innocent people died. Go figure!

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usenet *at* davidillig dawt com

Bush won in the Electoral College and in the Courts. Get over it and live with
it. As to the popular vote, even a half-hearted check with the polls and the
obituaries would show that any Democratic (which once was Democratic but turned
totally Socialist) plurality was largely due to frequent voting by live and
dead voters in large cities...

Clear, Dark, Steady Skies!
(And considerate neighbors!!!)

In article , Davoud
wrote:

SNIP_

(Consider that America's top-ranking opponent of affirmative action is
the very same person who appointed the two most powerful Negroes in
American history. That's a strong indication to me that something
other than hatred is at work here.)

One of them is a right-wing freako-nutso with way too much power. The
other has no power and has compromised himself by going along with
schemes and lies that he surely doesn't believe in.

SNIP_

Just an observation-
One of the most positive signs that blacks are making some progress is
the fact that more and more of them aren't simply toeing the liberal
Democrat party line.

Starry Skies,
Rich

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:19:16 GMT, Richard DeLuca
wrote:

In article , Davoud
wrote:

SNIP_

(Consider that America's top-ranking opponent of affirmative action is
the very same person who appointed the two most powerful Negroes in
American history. That's a strong indication to me that something
other than hatred is at work here.)

One of them is a right-wing freako-nutso with way too much power. The
other has no power and has compromised himself by going along with
schemes and lies that he surely doesn't believe in.

SNIP_

Just an observation-
One of the most positive signs that blacks are making some progress is
the fact that more and more of them aren't simply toeing the liberal
Democrat party line.

Starry Skies,
Rich'

And, ain't it wonderful the lying, hypocrisy, and elitist racism of
lib-progs are finally getting the attention and condemnation they
deserve!!

Cheerio,

Dennis, Proud America-Loving Conservative, Irish

Richard DeLuca
Just an observation-
One of the most positive signs that blacks are making some progress is
the fact that more and more of them aren't simply toeing the liberal
Democrat party line.

Just an observation-
Bush received only 8 percent of the African-American vote in 2000, the
lowest level of black support for a Republican presidential candidate
since Barry Goldwater ran in 1964.

Davoud

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Davoud wrote:

Richard DeLuca
Just an observation-
One of the most positive signs that blacks are making some progress is
the fact that more and more of them aren't simply toeing the liberal
Democrat party line.

Just an observation-
Bush received only 8 percent of the African-American vote in 2000, the
lowest level of black support for a Republican presidential candidate
since Barry Goldwater ran in 1964.


Here's an observation: Usenet convention dictates you set a followup to
an appropriate newsgroup when you're blazingly off-topic.

FreeClue: I just did it for you...
--
Mike

In article , Davoud
wrote:

Richard DeLuca
Just an observation-
One of the most positive signs that blacks are making some progress is
the fact that more and more of them aren't simply toeing the liberal
Democrat party line.

Just an observation-
Bush received only 8 percent of the African-American vote in 2000, the
lowest level of black support for a Republican presidential candidate
since Barry Goldwater ran in 1964.


You have taken my post out of context. If you look back on your post
and my response, you may decipher that I wasn't referring to the
electorate, but to blacks in power such as the two you mentioned. In
any case, I'm outta this thread now. I usually resist discussing
anything but astronomy in this newsgroup- and I am resolved to do so
again.

Starry Skies,
Rich