Thank you, USSC
 

The city of Hollywood, Florida must just love the current make up of the US supreme court. if it weren't for the justices and their infinite wisdom the city wouldn't be able to violate property rights so easily in order to turn a quick buck.

is this slope getting slippery?

This slope was made out of grease to begin with.

At which point do you realize your government is broken, and take steps to correct it?

Does anyone honestly think that the majority of people in a city would vote "yes" when described the process of eminent domain, and asked if they support it?

And if this is the case, how can the government still be "for the people"?


It just blows my mind that people tolerate this, or feel powerless to change it, so they accept it.

How often do these things end up in a firefight?

George W. and his brother the Gov.

Sure, we're all equal.......but pigs are more equal. :mad:

OK - i know some of you like Howard Dean, but WTF??? yesterday i heard him calling in to two different shows on Air America. I'm not sure who the host of the first one was - it was a guy. but the second one was Randi Rhoades.

Dean was pitching the website/pledgesite he has set up so that you can have $$$ auto withdrawn from your account everymonth to be spent combatting the Republicans. OK, nothing new there. but then he went on a little tirade about the "neo-con supreme court" and "bush's justices" and their decision that caused a little old lady in New England to lose her home so that a Casino could be built by developers who, no doubt, contributed heavily to bushes reelection campaign.

what the hell? if that is a neo-con packed bench i'd like to know how. none of them has been appointed by Bush. the two justices that most left leaning individuals bemoan voted against it. it was the traditionally left of center justices who voted in favor of the eminent domain decision.

that, of course, didn't stop Dean from asking for money to stop this stripping of your property rights by the republicans. it also didn't stop Rhoades from burying her tongue further up Dean's rectum. but what the hell does truth matter, right?

I heard he was doing that. Disappointing. I suspect that the decision will be used more often by state and local Republican governments than Democratic ones, but you certainly can't place the court decision on the conservatives in the court. I looked around a bit for his explanation, but couldn't find any references a week or tow ago.

The explanation is that Howard Dean is batshit. We evil neocons have been trying to tell you that ever since the Democratic primaries.

Dean is no more Batshit then the hard right nutjobs. the reason that i am so frustrated by this is that after Kerry's big fizzle, i was really truly hopeful that the leadership of the democratic party might stop and think "hey, running further to the left hasn't worked, maybe we should consider returning to our more moderate roots". with Dean's behavior i seriously doubt that is going to happen before the next election. i would really like to see the D's put out some quality candidates that moderate conservatives could look at as an alternative to what they are getting from the "conservative" GOP.

What's scary is that while most republicans I know personally are not taken in by the far far right wing, Howard Dean was the "best and brightest" of his party. Now, even Al Gore's stock has risen considerably, and he's talked about as the alternative nominee in '08, should Hillary become unelectable by then.

Al Gore and Howard Dean?

things are looking quite rosy for the republican party.

rosy, eh?

who's on deck for the R's?

Why? Did you think that Kerry ran farther to the left? Kerry was Mr. Moderate Roots.

IMO the problem was that nobody knew who Kerry really was. it was hard to tell whether he was really a moderate trying to reach out and appeal to the hard left or whether he was super liberal trying to grab the moderate vote.

everything about him was too engineered.

What did he do to appeal to the hard left?