Posted on 03/17/2008 7:25:38 AM PDT by rellimpank
Eliot Spitzer is (was?) a lawyer. So is his wife.
Definitely something to this. Law school attracts alot of the ambitious “change the world through the law” types. Its gross.
Hey, we're a nation of lawyers, not of men. I learned that in high school.
In law school they teach you to lie to one person at a time. In journalism school they teach you to lie to everyone at once.
“In law school they teach you to lie to one person at a time. In journalism school they teach you to lie to everyone at once.”
EXCELLENT!
This is nothing new. The ‘Rat party has always been the home for trial lawyers.
The trial lawyers are the Dems 4th largest donors at $28.5M so far.
“I believe this has something to do with the Republidums ineptness at fighting for principle-—”
Leave out principle. Principle is definitely not involved with either party and especially with the Dumbocrats.
1 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, 2 saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; 3 therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them. 4 “They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger. 5 “But they do all their deeds to be noticed by men; for they broaden their phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments. 6 “They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues, 7 and respectful greetings in the market places, and being called Rabbi by men. 8 “But do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers. 9 “Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. 10 “Do not be called leaders; for One is your Leader, that is, Christ. 11 “But the greatest among you shall be your servant. 12 “Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted. Eight Woes 13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. 14 [“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation.] 15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves. 16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, that is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is obligated.’ 17 “You fools and blind men! Which is more important, the gold or the temple that sanctified the gold? 18 “And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, that is nothing, but whoever swears by the offering on it, he is obligated.’ 19 “You blind men, which is more important, the offering, or the altar that sanctifies the offering? 20 “Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears both by the altar and by everything on it. 21 “And whoever swears by the temple, swears both by the temple and by Him who dwells within it. 22 “And whoever swears by heaven, swears both by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it. 23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others. 24 “You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! 25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence. 26 “You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also. 27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. 28 “So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, 30 and say, ‘If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 “So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 “Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers. 33 “You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell? 34 “Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city, 35 so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 “Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
So does today’s J school.
That is a gross mischaracterization!
They teach you to lie to twelve people at a time.
Algore didn’t graduate?
Law school is tough but anyone with above average intelligence and an organized lifestyle can graduate.
But....but...Al Gore couldn’t graduate from Law School? How could that be? He is so smart.....I think. Maybe not.....he don’t look smart. Just looks like another fat politician.
No, he didn't say it that way, but that is much of what we have become.
Judges (99% lawyers) legislate from the bench while ignoring a plainly worded Constitution, legislators (mostly lawyers) pass laws that specifically DO NOT apply to them & again, ignore a plainly worded Constitution. The concept of “a jury of your peers” or “justice being served” is a joke. Anyone with enough money/influence is above the law.
Legislatures pass laws that are so full of “yeah buts” & “oh, by the ways” that they require whole forests of trees to publish, & not even a lawyer can decipher them, which usually means the perps get off again, while honest citizens pick up the tab. Does it really take 5 or 10 thousand pages to describe a crime & its penalties, or are most of those pages filled with ways to free the guilty?
I hope our next Constitution plainly states, “lawyers & their ilk may not hold public office”.
Which is also why they don’t want to pass an intelligence bill that protects communications companies that cooperated with American intelligence in prior foreign to US eavesdropping programs. Pure payback to the Trial Lawyers Assn.
Not just principle, but ineptness at fighting, period. This crap started with asbestos. The crowning moment for trial lawyers was the tobacco scam. They lined their deep pockets and sent billions to states to be used by Democrat incumbents to reelect themselves. And Republicans, who were the majority in the House at the time, sat on their thumbs and let them do it. Now, they are letting them try to enrich themselves at the very SAFETY of the American people.
The Republicans are like the kid who fights the bully by reading the playground rules to him. Absolutely useless. Totally impotent.
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