Posted on 11/28/2006 1:35:36 PM PST by SmithL
Edited on 11/28/2006 3:20:53 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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Crap you beat me
Funny, but I don't find the authority for this anywhere in the Enumerated Powers in my copy of the U.S. Constitution.
Seems to me that the judge has been accepting his pay in this "illegal" money for years. Should we impeach him for knowingly violating the ADA?
"Makes counterfeiting more difficult,"
Umm... No it doesn't.
Just as with U.S. money, counterfeiters only produce 'certain' bills, such as 20's and 100's.
There wouldn't be any practical reason to counterfeit all denominations so counterfeiting Euro's or any other nations money wouldn't be anymore difficult. But since the American Dollar is the one that is traded the most on the open markets, producing counterfeit bills is more practical, which, in the end, is the reason to counterfeit in the first place.
Probably a dumb decision, but has anyone actually read the decision? Who knows, maybe there is a provision in the ADA that a Judge hearing this case could not in good faith come to any other conclusion(?) If so, Congress is to blame, not the Judge. Reading the opinion and the statute is the least we owe a judge before we go off on him.
Did you ever look at the Constitution of the United States? It uses the word "dollar" just as it uses the word "year." Neither are defined because everyone in the late 18th Century English speaking world understood what these words meant. A "dollar" was a Spanish silver coin. One of the first act of the Congress was the Coinage Act of 1792 where an American Dollar was defined. In doing this Congress collected a whole bunch of Spanish dollars, and determined that on average each contained 371.25 grains of fine silver. Congress then defined an American dollar as this same 371.25 grains of silver. I don't believe this has ever changed.
Maybe you've heard about gold, but gold was always denominated in "Eagles" with one eagle being set equivalent to ten dollars. From time to time people (like William Jennings Bryant) argued about how much gold should be in an eagle, but the dollar remained as it was.
It is amusing to research the history of the Art I, Sect 10 Clause 2 of the US Constitution: "No State shall make any Think other than Gold and Silver a Tender in payment of Debts." Madison, in the Federalist Papers says the clause was included to "protect the people from the pestilent effects of paper money."
FTR, Federal Reserve Notes are denominated in dollars. They are not dollars.
ML/NJ
Or perhaps a blind person could use a debit/cash card? No cash money required. Millions of folks use them everyday. And the machines are Braille enabled aren't they?
That was a rhetorical question, right?
This is a joke, right?
Works for me. I'd hardly call that "good behavior."
The Fox News story says it was District Judge James Robertson who ordered this.
Still a Clinton appointee, of course, but I wonder who's correct.
in that case, Mr. Judge, your possession of that money is illegal. Therefore, you should forfeit all cash that you have. I'll send you my address later.
Nah. He needs something distinctive on his Bill so it can be told from all the rest.
The Americans with Disabilities Act.
I've always wondered about the braile next to the elevators which say, use the stairs. Or the braile on the wall as I go into the dressing room at the gym which says, no males over the age of three. Do they really think someone is going to be moving along the wall looking for that message?
I wonder how the blind people who read this will feel...
(yes, I'm joking...)
What is this judge drinking/smoking?
The only thing my moneys says is "Goodbye". :-(
We've already been over that.
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