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| Why You Won't Hear Fred Thompson's Latest Speech | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 13 2007, 06:16 AM (97 Views) | |
| QuirtEvans | May 13 2007, 06:16 AM Post #1 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05...enough-meeting/
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| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| Mark | May 13 2007, 06:30 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Go Fred! |
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| ivorythumper | May 13 2007, 12:19 PM Post #3 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Does the NYT have some problem with like minded folks peacefully assembling and carrying on their business in private? |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| Mark | May 13 2007, 12:34 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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My kind of guy!
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| George K | May 13 2007, 12:57 PM Post #5 |
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Finally
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[size=1](shhh...it's a conspiracy....now that we brought down the twin towers, the world is ours!)[/size] |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Dewey | May 13 2007, 01:38 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Gee, I'll bet you could just see the evil oozing out from under the door of the meeting. What a stupid, agenda-driven attempt at writing; what a waste of ink and time publishing it.
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| George K | May 13 2007, 02:02 PM Post #7 |
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Finally
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It's OK, Dewey, we're not going to see their tax returns either. No Disclosure: Presidential Candidates Defy Tradition, Refuse to Release Taxes ince Watergate, Only Clinton Refused to Release Income Information By JENNIFER RUBIN May 11, 2007— Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.,worked for a hedge fund while heading a poverty center in between his presidential campaigns. But since he isn't telling, voters can't know how much money he earned. Former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., says his wife, Ann, once donated to Planned Parenthood, but that he never contributed to an abortion-rights group himself. But there's no way for the media and the public to check that claim. Candidates Keep Taxes in the Dark In a break with the tradition of recent presidential campaigns, most of the major presidential candidates aren't releasing their income-tax filings. Edwards has indicated that he will keep his tax returns private, and while Romney is still considering his options, he has never released his returns in previous runs for office. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., aren't saying whether they will or not, but neither has released income tax forms filed this year. That means voters are likely to know less about the income sources, personal wealth and charitable inclinations of the presidential candidates than in any election in the past generation. "When you run for president, you really have to open yourself up to the American people," said Mary Boyle, a spokeswoman for Common Cause, a government watchdog group. "If you're asking voters of this country to elect you as president, it's reasonable and rational that your tax returns are made public." Tax Release Common Post-Watergate The release of candidates' tax forms has become common practice in presidential campaigns since the Watergate era of the early '70s. Since 1984, only one major-party presidential candidate -- Bill Clinton in 1992 -- has refused to release the tax forms he sent to the Internal Revenue Service. In 1996, Clinton did release his forms, and Republican nominee Bob Dole released his tax returns going back 30 years. Candidates, including 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry in 2004, and Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, were criticized for not releasing their spouses' returns but offered no resistance to releasing their own. Yet as the 2008 election draws near, the only top-tier candidate who has committed to releasing his 1040 forms is Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., who already made public the return he filed this year. Rudolph Giuliani, R-N.Y., released his while he served as New York City's mayor but has not said whether he will revive the practice during his presidential run. (The tax forms from his mayoralty presented an unwelcome distraction to his campaign this week, when reporters tallied up six separate donations he and his then-wife made in the 1990s to Planned Parenthood, a prominent abortion-rights group.) |
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What a stupid, agenda-driven attempt at writing; what a waste of ink and time publishing it.

6:40 AM Jul 11