Posted on 12/05/2005 1:38:06 PM PST by John Jorsett
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You wrote that yahoo news headlined their story with,"DeLay`s money laundering charges upheld". They picked the story from the AP.That means most of the MSM will report it that way.
One more reason that the new media is killing them
I didn't know that...thanks for that info. ;o)
A hearing for earle on 'misconduct' will occur soon this is when the laundering charge will be thrown out...
everyone in NY or DC is a lawyer... LOL
You nailed it.
the dims knew this would not stick but they wanted DeLay out of the way when they started pulling their shenanigans. If it drags on out as the dims plan, the Repubs should toss their little self-imposed rule. We need the Hammer back in there. Now.
I never attempt to demoralize anyone except people who cross some kind of line into incivility, as you have by more or less calling me a troll.
I don't try to divide anyone. I try to express my honest views honestly, and sure, that has a tendency to divide those who agree with me from those who disagree.
Tough beans, "Veritas." I don't go in for baseless, chest-beating optimism. I think we Republicans and conservatives are going through a very rough patch, and, to vary the metaphor, I won't pretend to see a light at the end of the tunnel if I don't.
Morale is important, but I think I've done my share to boost it, and others seem to take care of that anyway. What is often lacking on FReep is clear-headed assessments of our situation, and I try to call 'em as I see 'em. Don't ever trash me for that. It just makes you look like a fool.
Listen CP. We see your likes all the times on this forum. People who pretend they are realistic and make all the wrong doom and gloom predictions about the Republicans, President Bush, the war, the economy, etc... and they are wrong over 95% of the time. Last year this forum was full of morons predicting the utter defeat of President Bush and the Republican party and they could not be more wrong. This year the same crowd of defeatism and utter pessimism are infiltrating every thread and spread their wrong predictions of doom and gloom. You are one of them and you are very wrong.
Actually, no. Our "X" is identical to the Greek letter chi, the first letter of the Greek word Christos, or Christ. Xmas is actually an honorific abbreviation that recent Christians have misunderstood. (Not that I'm recommending its use; it's not as if "Christmas" is difficult to spell in its entirety.)
Yes. Quite. My point.
Sorry, assumed my sarcasm was obvious.
it was... just wanted to acknowledge it
Yeah, and everyone outside of D.C. is a victim. LOL...
The shorthand that I used in seminary included things like theta+y = theory; theta+gy=theology.
Christ was simply chi (X), and Christian was X+ian, and etc.
Christmas was, of course, X+mas.
Its not clear as to why the "money laundering" charge was not thrown out along with the ‘conspiracy’ charge, but it is clear that this indictment is an example of the the current servitude of the court system to the ends of political power satyrs...in this instance Ronnie Earle and his Democratic groupie cadre.
This fanatical Grand Inquisitor has no case, it just seems that the judge did not have the balls to rule against the NYTimes left. After all, money laundering is the act of taking the proceeds of one or more criminal activities and making them untraceable. Typical 'money laundering' includes 'cleaning' the proceeds from drug sales, illegal gambling, bunko scams, etc. by making them financially invisible through off shore accounts, legal gambling operations, etc.. In this light, the speciousness of Earles charges should be self-evident - even to a Democratic judge:
a) During the time in question, no funds (coinage, currency, etc.) eligible (under the law) for laundering was transferred between named parties. All transactions were openly transferred by checks, excluded by law (at the time) as “funds" that are used in money laundering.
b) Proceeds (dictionary def: ''the amount of money derived from a commercial or fundraising venture; the yield") were legally solicited and openly transferred between parties prior to any alleged crime, not (as Texas law stipulates in the meaning of money laundering) derived as a yield from a "criminal" activity.
c) In any case, a predicate criminal act is required and then any resulting proceed laundering consists of two, separate, crimes and transactions. Texas and Federal courts have held they cannot occur in the same transaction. For example, when the courts have ruled on bank fraud and money laundering, seperate acts are required for both charges: the fraud that obtains the funds AND then (following it) a separate transaction that is required that to show an attempt to "launder" the money.
d) Texas election code replaced all related Penal Code in 1975, setting the civil and criminal limits to violations of election law (e.g. the election code stipulates there can be no corporate contributions to canidates beyond administrative expenses and it was defined as a third degree felony). They did not intend to "layer" that code with identical and the more severe Penal code on money laundering (1st degree felony) otherwise it would make election code limits irrelevant.
Still, the judge did not have the guts to call a fool a fool. In the end Earle will lose, but he will have done his dirty job of destroying the leadership of the house Republicans on a phony charge cooked up in his office.
Such is the state of our "justice" system..
Could very well be, but from what I am getting from all this, not till next year. Whatever that means. They have successfully kept it OUT of the Leader position.
"(Upholding charge on money laundering)"
The charge of money laundering is still under consideration...not upheld. Those charges could be
dismissed, too.
I never predicted that Bush would lose. From time to time I may have said he was in real danger of losing. And you know what, brilliant mind-reader who thinks he can identify trolls? I was g-ddamned right. He was in real danger of losing. It was a close election.
Complacency is never good in politics. Do I tilt toward
making negative points about our problems? Probably. Is this bad for FReep? I don't see why. If FReep comments were primarily negative, I might change my tune. But there is a lot of poorly sourced, and equally poorly argued, optimism on FReep. I call it chest-beating.
As for my supposed 95 percent failure rate on predictions, go ahead. Find 20 predictions I made, 19 of which were wrong. I don't think you can.
Careful, Max.
Mr. "Veritas" will call you a troll for daring to be realistic about this.
A "defeatist" is someone who believes we WILL lose. I tend to point out how difficult winning will be, because that's what I see. But I also tend to say we must keep fighting. And I always believe it.
Grow up. It takes all kinds. You should have learned that when you were, oh, about 10 years old.
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