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Heinz Kerry's Fox Chapel estate:

Kerry is partying and scoring political points, while Bush is battling Katrina and al Queda.

Res Ipso Loquitor, as they say in law (the thing speaks for itself).

That is one brave little boy, standing up to pure evil.

Interesting piece of artwork. Can you explain the anti-Catholic bigotry for me?

The alligator jaws in this 1850s democrat party propaganda are papal hats with teeth. 150 years later, not much has changed. Ferocious anti-Catholic bigots like Schumer, Boxer, People for the American Way, and the ACLU take this same view... that the Catholics are very dangerous to their plans.

Ferocious anti-Catholic bigots like Schumer, Boxer, People for the American Way, and the ACLU will fight tooth and nail against any practicing Roman Catholic (or devout/evangelical Protestant) from ever being named to the Supreme Court. The democrats have a long tradition of anti-Catholic bigotry, as can be seen in this democrat party propaganda from the 1850's.

Ferocious anti-Catholic bigots like Schumer and Boxer will fight tooth and nail against any practicing Roman Catholic (or devout/evangelical Protestant) from ever being named to the Supreme Court. The democrats have a long tradition of anti-Catholic bigotry, as can be seen in this democrat party propaganda from the 1850's.

Critical Urgent Community Action Bulletin
from the Progressive Action Network For American Progress
For Immediate Release

The Progressive Action Network For American Progress is extremely concerned by today's news that President Bush has selected ___JOHN ROBERTS___ as his nominee for the vacancy on the United States Supreme Court. Unlike outgoing Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the widely respected and admired moderate consensus-building sensible mainstream compromisist, ___JOHN ROBERTS___ has a shocking record of extremely extreme fringe legal positions that fill us with grave concerns about ___HIS___ fitness for this critically crucial office.

Make no mistake: no one should be fooled by the administration's public relations efforts or ___JOHN ROBERTS___ 's seemingly "moderate" appearance. ___JOHN ROBERTS___ has a record that suggests that ___HE___ would deny women the right to reproductive choice, stop important life-saving medical stem cell research by extending the Patriot Act to draft their unwanted fetuses, and turn these conscripted fetuses over to dangerous tax-supported 'Creationist' religious indoctrination laboratories. The Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment, and America needs to know whether ___JOHN ROBERTS___ supports the GOP's secret plan of a Rush Limbaugh Jesus army of unwanted, unquestioning fetus zombies programmed to urinate on the Korans of Guantanamo detainees.

We should also point out that our opposition to ___JOHN ROBERTS___ has nothing to do with the nominee's race and/or gender. We at the Progressive Action Network For American Progress have long been on record of standing up for the civil rights of ___WHITE MEN___ , rights from which ___JOHN ROBERTS___ ironically, has benefitted. Sadly, rather than create programs and begin to work on the real problems that concern ___WHITE MEN___ , the Bush administration has cynically forwarded an unqualified, token candidate like ___JOHN ROBERTS___ to mask its callous indifference to the plight of the ___WHITE MAN___ community.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

In response to this shocking nomination, we here at the Progressive Action Network For American Progress are joining forces with other mainstream grassroots progressive activist organizations -- organizations like Peace Power Community Now Network, Grant Proposers for Justice, NairBusters, Out of Our Wombs!, UpChuck.org, ToothACHE, and Sitcom Producers for the American Way. Over the next few weeks we will be encouraging the Senate Judiciary Committee to take a close look at ___JOHN ROBERTS___ and ___HIS___ extremist views on the critical legal issues that face all of us. While we will be working hard to get out the word in Washington, ordinary progressive citizens like you can do your part as well. First, write your newspaper and/or Senator and let them know that you will not stand by idly while Bush and Company install a pseudo-" ___WHITE MAN___" like ___JOHN ROBERTS___ on the nation's highest court. Here's a letter to get you started!



Dear Senator __________

As a constituent and a voter in our great state of ___________, home of the famous ___________, I am proud that our state enjoys the the nickname of "Cradle of ____________s." This is why I must strongly urge you to oppose the nomination of ___JOHN ROBERTS___, a dangerous extremist whose legal rulings threaten to endanger our state's beloved ___________, making us no better than Mississippi.

Sincerely,

Your Name Here

Be polite and remember to fill in your Senator's name and pertinent facts about your state. If you are from Mississippi, replace "Mississippi" with "California". Also, replace "Your Name Here" with your name, unless your name is actually "Your Name Here."

Another thing you can do to help is to find more information about ___JOHN ROBERTS___ . The people who know ___HIM___, what do they say about ___HIM___ ? Was ___HE___ ever in trouble with the law? Frequently, ___WHITE MEN___ like ___JOHN ROBERTS___ have arrest records in their youth. If you are near ___JOHN ROBERTS___ 's hometown of ___UNKNOWN___, try searching in the local police archives for the ___JOHN ROBERTS___ name or possible aliases. Also, think hard -- are you certain that you have not been personally victimized, or assaulted by ___JOHN ROBERTS___? Search your recollections carefully. Scientists tell us that millions of us suffer from Repressed Memory Syndrome -- a debilitating psychological problem where victims are unable to recall a painful physical or emotional trauma, such as being physically violated by ___JOHN ROBERTS___. If you do not remember this happening to you, please call us and we will get you the help you need to recover your mind and start the road to healing.

Consider the consequences of inaction: with ___JOHN ROBERTS___ on the bench, millions of Americans may lose their cherished constitutional rights, Air America, perhaps even their grant money from George Soros. We here at the Progressive Action Network For American Progress ask you to please do your part. Our very democracy depends on the grassroots action of committed progressives like ___YOUR_NAME_HERE___ .


(from IowaHawk)

Canada has relatively weak civil rights compared to the US. No Bill of Rights. Totalitarians and tyrants are a dime a dozen in Canuckistan.

The most boring (and evil) person on taxpayer funded public radio.

The photo you posted of this fool needs context! Schumer is the worst Senator in Congress.

Sorry, I just don't buy the alternative theory to Natural Selection:

400 incompetent scientists.

My date is way off. It was 1994, not 1976.

The most evil thing I ever heard LautenCadaver say in a debate with Rick Santorum in 1976. The loathesome Jersey rat said that was that babies inadvertently born alive in an abortionist's butcher shop COULD STILL BE KILLED EVEN AFTER BIRTH.

As an aside, this is the exact same argument of the only human in New Jersey more evil than LautenCadaver: "Ethics" Professor Singer of Princeton University.

Maybe I am wrong, but I thought the title of this thread is "Notice to all Yankees (Mississippi ranked least livable state 6 years running) followed by the statement "Mississippi ranked 50th for the sixth year in a row."

My apologies to the fine citizens of Mississippi, which includes my aunt, uncle, and cousins, if they felt disparaged by this thread or my particualar post. I am merely pointing out the consequences of having a corrupt lawyer industry running your state. This is something Governor Barbour and I are in totally in agreement with.

Get angry at those who enslave you, not the messenger!

bump for Barbour!

Miss. governor: hellish legal climate helped cost us auto plant

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says the Magnolia State's famously pro-plaintiff litigation climate may have played a role in Toyota's decision last year to locate a new plant in Texas rather than northern Mississippi. Barbour "gave reporters and legislators copies of a letter written to him last week by Dennis C. Cuneo, a New York-based senior vice president of Toyota Motor North America Inc. ...Cuneo said he led the site selection for the Japanese auto maker's newest plants and was impressed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry's commitment to changing that state's civil justice system. Cuneo wrote Mississippi is 'desirable' for its infrastructure, pool of skilled labor, quality of life and proximity to other Toyota plants and suppliers. But he said 'the litigation climate in Mississippi is unfavorable, and negatively impacts the state's business climate.'" (Emily Wagster Pettus, "Barbour: Legal climate hurt state in push to get Toyota plant", AP/Biloxi Sun-Herald, Apr. 26). Barbour was promptly assailed by lawmaker Ed Blackmon, himself a successful plaintiff's lawyer, who heads a judiciary committee in the lower house of the Mississippi legislature where he has helped to bottle up liability reform. Blackmun said he "doesn't believe tort reform played a role in Toyota's decision and said he guesses 'Maybe someone at Toyota owed (Barbour) a favor' and wrote the letter." (Geoff Pender, "House, Senate show little tort progress", AP/Biloxi Sun-Herald, Apr. 27; Shelia Hardwell Byrd, "Barbour says House needs chance to vote on tort reform", AP/Biloxi Sun-Herald, Apr. 29; "Letter shows state needs tort reform" (editorial), Natchez Democrat, Apr. 27; Julie Goodman, "Lawmaker accuses gov. of exploiting tort myth", Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Apr. 29).

McCoy said it was wrong for Barbour to solicit and release a letter that casts Mississippi in a bad light.

Bad light? Reform the broken toilet of a legal system in Mississippi and you will end the bad light. I LOVE Barbour!

Mississippi may be hell on earth for human beings, but it has a well deserved reputation as heaven on earth for lawyers.

Hence no obstetricians and trauma care. No industry either. Everyone productive chased out of the state by the parasitic shyster industry. Business wouldn't go near this liability legal hell-hole with a ten foot pole.

Mississippi's only hope is massive tort reform ASAP.

This is a ral danger, what with the rat party Judges out there in the federal judiciary. Our Bill of Rights protections are urinated upon daily.