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This isn't a lawyers' joke.
1 posted on 04/20/2008 8:22:56 PM PDT by shove_it
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To: shove_it

What did Bill Shakespeare say about them?


2 posted on 04/20/2008 8:24:04 PM PDT by do not press 2 for spanish
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To: shove_it

This is a very interesting observation.

I’m curious to see more than just the last few decades or so. A complete history from Washington to today would be a fascinating list to see.


3 posted on 04/20/2008 8:27:12 PM PDT by BigBadVoodooDaddy
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To: BIGLOOK; SunkenCiv; jazusamo; Jeff Head; girlangler; neverdem; traviskicks; dynachrome; ...

Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate.) Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Benson, went to law school. Look at the Democrat Party in Congress: the Majority Leader in each house is a lawyer.

Today, we are drowning in laws, we are contorted by judicial decisions, we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked.


5 posted on 04/20/2008 8:32:23 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: shove_it

“Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate.)”

I know Sir Al couldn’t cut it at his first attempt, tried another and couldn’t make it there either, then tried Divinity school and couldn’t make it IIRC. Has Sir Al actually graduated from any college other than Chuck’s Mail In Divine Professy of Weather Seers, Inc?


8 posted on 04/20/2008 8:39:34 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: shove_it
This is one article I saved! MANY Americans, when they read this, a bell will go off, or a light will come on. This writer should be putting this in the public view somehow. It makes such sense!
9 posted on 04/20/2008 8:40:49 PM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: shove_it

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004526/posts

Click through to the Boston Herald article. Fiat law.


12 posted on 04/20/2008 8:47:07 PM PDT by Poincare (Hope is nostalgia for the future.)
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To: shove_it
More comments here
13 posted on 04/20/2008 8:49:06 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: shove_it
I know that Michael has been on the ground and I respect what he has been doing with his coverage in Iraq but anyone who thinks that Taliban will negotiate a state where people live with any sort of freedom is smoking crack.

(Gore didn't finish 'cause he would've flunked out - so he went off to Divinity College, where anyone should've been able to graduate - but he flunked out. He still dreams of ruling the world.)

This very stark difference between the dems and 'pubs has bothered me for years - in that no one seemed see the problem of having lawyers run the country.

What are lawyers trained to do? Parse the truth.

It's more than an occupational hazard. It's a prerequisite to getting a degree.

They are taught to shove the truth aside and do/say anything to win.

This saturation of lawyers needs to brought out for the voting public to see. It would wake a lot of people up.

It would make a great ad: flash the faces names in the article on the screen along with their profession. With "Lawyer" under every democrats name but not under one of the republicans, would shock a lot of people - and could sway a lot of votes. Lawyers aren't exactly the best loved, respected or trusted group of people =

14 posted on 04/20/2008 8:50:41 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Just a Typical White, gun-toting, Jesus-loving Gramma)
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To: shove_it

“... if my Neighbour hath a Mind to my Cow,
he hires a Lawyer to prove that he ought to
have my Cow from me.”
( IV:5;13)

It is a Maxim among these Lawyers, that whatever
hath been done before, may legally be done again:
(IV:5;15)

Jonathan Swift


18 posted on 04/20/2008 8:59:59 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (McCain will send a self-abused stomped elephant to the DRNC.)
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To: shove_it; george76

Excellent article and it points out what many and maybe even most are not aware of.

Thanks for the ping, George.


19 posted on 04/20/2008 9:02:05 PM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: shove_it

Bookmark


21 posted on 04/20/2008 9:04:13 PM PDT by 1035rep
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And one wonders why Democrats so worship the law profession. Instead of making money the old fashioned way, IE. earning it, Democrats look to make money by blaming someone else for their shortcomings in life, then taxing them or look to the courts for reparation.
22 posted on 04/20/2008 9:10:32 PM PDT by skimask (Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience)
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To: shove_it
"the Majority Leader in each house is a lawyer. The Republican Party is different. President Bush and Vice President Cheney were not lawyers, but... "

Laywers are fast, slick, articulate talkers. I just can't see Bush as a lawyer.

23 posted on 04/20/2008 9:13:18 PM PDT by houstonman58 ("When the Son of Man returns, will there be any faith left on earth, think ye"?)
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To: shove_it

Well said.


26 posted on 04/20/2008 9:22:14 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.

Lawyers in a vacuum are nothing. Lawyers with clients, that's a problem. So Mr. Shakespeare, do you kill the lawyers? Or do you kill the clients?

28 posted on 04/20/2008 9:41:14 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts
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Definition of a bus load of lawyers going over a cliff with 1 empty seat,

A damn shame.


30 posted on 04/20/2008 9:53:02 PM PDT by Skiziks20453
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To: shove_it

Pretty fascinating!

Bookmarked for later use.


35 posted on 04/21/2008 1:14:33 AM PDT by parisa
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this just confirms what most america will or will not say....

lawyers suck ~ lib/dems suck!!!!


36 posted on 04/21/2008 3:21:13 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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