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Miers Hit on Letters and the Law ("Writings Both Personal and Official Have Critics Poking Fun")
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| 10/15/2005
| Charles Babington
Posted on 10/15/2005 2:37:57 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
"Miers may be at particular risk of being turned into a judicial equivalent of Vice President Dan Quayle. Until his stumbling national debut, Quayle had been regarded as a bright senator from Indiana, but he never fully recovered from the initial blast of mockery." That would certainly be a problem if she planned to run for future office. :)
Unless she's the type of person who is concerned about her legacy, people can mock away without consequence once she has her lifetime appointment.
Jay Leno needs new material anyway.
To: Racehorse
<<< ". . . Claire Kehrwald Cook's Line By Line: How to improve your own writing, published by the Modern Language Association." >>>
Oh, please. Now you're touting a ho-hum text about the writing process, one that offers nothing but the obvious "revise, revise, revise," as if reading about revising certain stylistic habits will transform Miers into an authentic writer of meaningful prose instead of her published gobbledygook? Regards . . . Penny
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posted on
10/15/2005 5:17:09 AM PDT
by
Penny
To: Racehorse; Penny
Having worked with a few bright people who lacked basic writing skills, I know the evidence you ask to see is easily found. Thank You! This is a good starting point.
http://reading.indiana.edu/
To: AmericaUnited
Just because my simple point went right over your head completely mystifies me why you would think that is a sign of your superior intelligence. If clanging illiteracies such as the one directly above are in any way the result of that "Line By Line" codswallop you were shilling, earlier in this thread: I think I'll stick with Strunk and White, thanks. (Hope you kept the receipt; you got fleeced, kiddo.)
I'll lay it out for you in 'baby talk', epecially [sic] for you yaddaa yadda yadda, HEE-haw, HEE-haw. *yaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnn*
One last time, Winky: deal with the substance of the article (to the extent that you actually can, I mean), rather than ineptly attempting to spinmeister your way out of it by making us the subject, instead. Clop your hoof three times, if you managed to understand all of that.
No one's even remotely fooled by the fact that you're waving your arms about and making a good deal of noise, without ever actually getting around to rebutting the article itself, I assure you. As sorry online dodges go: it's a particularly transparent one. Now: wipe your chin and begin again, please.
I could give a damn about 'poor' writing
Not quite the shattering revelation you doubtless intended it to be, I assure you.
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posted on
10/15/2005 5:19:43 AM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
To: The Red Zone
Teflon?
You have to be joking.
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posted on
10/15/2005 5:20:41 AM PDT
by
Do not dub me shapka broham
("We don't want a Supreme Court justice just like George W. Bush. We can do better.")
To: sourcery
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posted on
10/15/2005 5:23:13 AM PDT
by
Marli
To: Do not dub me shapka broham
That is old fashioned. Silverstone.
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posted on
10/15/2005 5:23:18 AM PDT
by
The Red Zone
(Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
To: billclintonwillrotinhell
You are right. I am embarassed to read these.
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posted on
10/15/2005 5:23:57 AM PDT
by
nwrep
To: Penny
Oh, please. Now you're touting a ho-hum text . . .Now, I understand you.
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posted on
10/15/2005 5:26:07 AM PDT
by
Racehorse
(Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
What an excellent example of unintelligible, mindless dribble. When you post something coherent, I'll respond.
To: AmericaUnited
I know people who are absolutely brilliant thinkers and yet can't write. Anyone whose name we might recognize?
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posted on
10/15/2005 5:27:24 AM PDT
by
kabar
To: NittanyLion
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posted on
10/15/2005 5:27:54 AM PDT
by
kabar
To: MNJohnnie
Points well taken but this small writing sample stinks.
I sincerely hope she just needed coffee the day she wrote it. :)
73
posted on
10/15/2005 5:28:16 AM PDT
by
Earthdweller
(Republicans should give Miers a fair vote.)
To: GarySpFc
Quoting Stuart Bowen, who worked directly under Miers as deputy staff secretary at the White House for almost two years:
"She is wedded to stare decisis, wedded to the text of a statute. She lives her life strictly construed."
If true, doesn't that means she'll uphold Roe v Wade?
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posted on
10/15/2005 5:30:25 AM PDT
by
Ken H
To: Ken H
means = mean
(I need a writing clerk)
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posted on
10/15/2005 5:33:09 AM PDT
by
Ken H
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Im sure she wrote simple things to Bush, as he isn't the brightest light in the house.
To: AmericaUnited
When you post something coherent, I'll respond. Translated into English, from the Original Double-Speak: "No, actually, I cannot rebut even so much as a single sentence of the article at hand. I stand revealed as a pompous, partisan, bloviating jackass, and -- more shamefully, still -- more lightweight than an eclair, intellectually. I have been (as the kids say) 'phoned, boned and owned'."
"What" and "ever," kiddo. In that order.
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posted on
10/15/2005 5:34:13 AM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
To: kittymyrib
Now kitty, I think that if you objectively go back and look at the President's judgment in times that NO other President has been placed in, while you may not like his choice for SCJ, he has proven his judgment time and again.
If you have any hope of changing minds on this subject, accusing President Bush of poor judgment in general will win you few converts. I think this type of backhanded attack is what is causing so many of us that want the hearings to take place, to enter into arguments here that only aid and abet the enemy (dims).
I guess my point is that your points stand on their own quite well without these low-ball tactics.
LLS
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posted on
10/15/2005 5:34:46 AM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
For a lawyer/partner who once made 600k a year, she writes like crap.
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posted on
10/15/2005 5:36:05 AM PDT
by
KC_Conspirator
(This space outsourced to India)
To: Do not dub me shapka broham
No man is bigger than the ideas that bring him to power.
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