[beyond the sea]

"It was disgusting the way it was handled by Dan Rather. And I don't know why they're firing other people - he was the head of it. So why aren't they firing Dan Rather?"

Dan Rather is a totally delusional old lying creep.

Maybe he'll go down to Texas now and look for the source of those documents (not). Or do we have to wait for Mary Mapes to tell us the source in her book (not again).

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As one FReeper said yesterday: "Memo Real; Nobody lied" -- chisel that on his tombstone.

[Racehorse]

Megabucks real estate mogul Donald Trump, whose patented phrase,"You're Fired," has become the centerpiece of NBC's hit show "The Apprentice,"

You're fired.  Did Trump invent the phrase?

Don't believe Newsmax got this right, or if they did, I'm filing patents on the remaining clickes in the English Language starting tomorrow morning.  Maybe I'm missing something.

A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Generally, the term of a new patent is 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States or, in special cases, from the date an earlier related application was filed, subject to the payment of maintenance fees. U.S. patent grants are effective only within the United States, U.S. territories, and U.S. possessions. Under certain circumstances, patent term extensions or adjustments may be available.

The right conferred by the patent grant is, in the language of the statute and of the grant itself, “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling” the invention in the United States or “importing” the invention into the United States. What is granted is not the right to make, use, offer for sale, sell or import, but the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing the invention. Once a patent is issued, the patentee must enforce the patent without aid of the USPTO.

There are three types of patents:

1) Utility patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof;

2) Design patents may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture; and

3) Plant patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant.

United States Patent and Trademark Office

[GaltMeister]

Rather is going to use his top-notch investigative skills in his retirement.

He will team up with OJ and find 'the real killers'.

[BamaDi]

there was a front page article in the Houston Chronicle today and i was ready for a barf bag when i finished reading it. Dum Rather still claims that it was never proven that the memos were fakes....and he still takes absolutely no blame for this fiasco. what a pig!