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Title: Rand Paul to Supreme Court: Drop dead
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URL Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion ... d-paul20120628,0,4362194.story
Published: Jun 29, 2012
Author: Sandra Hernandez
Post Date: 2012-06-29 05:09:03 by A K A Stone
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Views: 11518
Comments: 30
TheU.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to uphold all but one part of the 2010 healthcare law produced some strong reactions. Supporters declared victory and opponents vowed to keep fighting. That much was to be expected. But Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s rant against the high court’s ruling was a surprise of sorts. The physician-turned-elected-official appeared to suggest that the court needs a legal lesson or two. “Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so. The whole thing remains unconstitutional,” Paul said in a statement. “While the court may have erroneously come to the conclusion that the law is allowable, it certainly does nothing to make this mandate or government takeover of our healthcare right.” The senator is right, of course, about "a couple people" deciding. But in this case, five people, who happen to be justices on the Supreme Court, declared the law constitutional. Those five individuals constitute a majority on the high court and thus are empowered to decide whether something is constitutional or not. Perhaps Paul’s beef, though, isn’t with this court but with the 209-year-old landmark decision in Marbury vs. Madison that established the basis for judicial review under Article III of the Constitution and cleared the way for federal courts to declare laws unconstitutional. Either way, Paul's comments were the latest in a week of decisions that sparked spirited public debate. First, Justice Antonin Scalia read his feisty dissent from the majority's opinion that struck down most of Arizona's harsh immigration law, and then a freshman senator declared that just because some people on the Supreme Court weigh in on a legal matter, that doesn’t mean they know what they are doing.
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#2. To: A K A Stone, Liberator, SJN, Mad Dog, Hondo, Capitalist Eric (#0)
www.nydailynews.com/news/...0?localLinksEnabled=false SO MUCH FOR VOTING FOR REPUBLICANS BASED ON SCOTUS PICKS, HUH? John Roberts. May your life be short and your misery long.
Dammit, don't disturb the sheeple and their latest bleating (romNEE! romNEE! romNEE!) Don't worry, luberator will be along shortly, to discuss how the two-party charade is REAL (like pro-wrestling), and how they "care" about us, as the "President and Congress and government make THOUSANDS of decisions involving hundreds of thousands issues ..." And yeah, luberator really DID say that... (LMAO!) What EEEEEDIOTS!!!!!!!
Thanks for leaving out all the context to the quote, you phony three-dollar bill. Lol - "luberator"? When you begin posting multiple byteshredder-sized graphics while aping the name-calling "wit" of a yu-klown, you've already lost the debate and ANY credibility you never had to begin with. It's a LOSE-LOSE for you.
The context is clear: you're an ignorant sheep, licking the boots of your masters. That you've been dropped (repeatedly) on your head as a child could also be extrapolated from the sheer stupidity of your posts. As I said before, you think that by virtue of the fact that you have a keyboard to post your "thoughts," that those thoughts are automatically true. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indeed, the fact that your responses are generally limited to whatever propaganda the MSM happens to be pushing, your thoughts are no more your own, than this forum. You attempt to lecture ME on credibility? Given your inability to string logical sentences together, it's highly doubtful you ever made it past high-school. What, you a GED kid??? Bribe the proctor? Where you attempt to denigrate my "wit," you really have no basis of comparison, to determine where I fall on the Bell-curve... So to clarify, I'm a fucking genius. Literally. Somehow, I doubt Mensa (or any other organization made up of highly intelligent people) will extend any invitations to you, buckwheat... Ahh, that's called "projection." I understand that for a complete loser such as yourself, you just automatically assume that everyone else is as much of a loser as you are... So EVERYTHING looks like a "LOSE-LOSE" to you... To paraphrase John Candy, you wouldn't know a win if it fell out of the sky, landed on your face, and started to wiggle. Thanks for the laughs, loser.
So that's why you're posting on a small, essentially insignificant political forum. Genius!
Genius! Respectfully, that might not be the best tack to approach this matter with her? Since you are also posting to her here on a "small, essentially insignificant political forum." I'm on your side on this matter. I'm just saying ...
I'm on your side on this matter. I'm just saying ... I understand, but I'm not claiming to be a genius. If I were, I'd be using my talents for something far greater than posting on an internet forum. Thank you anyway. ;-)
I'm on your side on this matter. I'm just saying ... Lol... Dawg, I think Zesta was ever-so-slightly zinging the "genius's" opinion - and that as a proud MENSA member (joining that OTHER significant MENSA member, Madam Goldi L.), he is relegated to some "small, essentially insignificant political forum." Hey - suddenly even I am almost feeling like an untalented boob. But that's not quite the case since I'm not MENSA material (phew!). Were *that* the case, then I'd REALLY feel like an irrelevant dope posting here or at that other hotbed of intellectual heft: Madam Mensa's 'nutless gutless CT freak.org' ;-)
#26. To: Liberator, Zesta, Capitalist Eric, John Candy, Socrates (#22)
Since you are also posting to her here on a "small, essentially insignificant political forum." I'm on your side on this matter. I'm just saying ... I understand, but I'm not claiming to be a genius. If I were, I'd be using my talents for something far greater than posting on an internet forum. Thank you anyway. ;-) Lol... Dawg, I think Zesta was ever-so-slightly zinging the "genius's" opinion - and that as a proud MENSA member (joining that OTHER significant MENSA member, Madam Goldi L.), he is relegated to some "small, essentially insignificant political forum." Hey - suddenly even I am almost feeling like an untalented boob. But that's not quite the case since I'm not MENSA material (phew!). Were *that* the case, then I'd REALLY feel like an irrelevant dope posting here or at that other hotbed of intellectual heft: Madam Mensa's 'nutless gutless CT freak.org' LOL! I get it. I really get it honest. DECADES ago MENSA started bugging me to join. I have no idea where they got the data. Anyhow my mother got wind of me ignoring them, and she pitched a serious fit! She started talking about "networking" and "contacts" and such stuff and was on me like white on rice to go to a MENSA meeting. My mother was not one to be ignored. I gave up and went to ONE meeting. Jeeeeeeeeze what a "group W bench" even for Alaska! Turned out that I already knew a couple of them. I never went again because I was logging and building log cabins at the time. It turns out that MOST MENSA members aren't real interested in Scandinavian scribe fit. All IQ is is a measure of POTENTIAL. It's what you DO with it that matters. The average so called "genius" may dominate in some fraction of their life but in others ways WE, (hey erica claims to be a genius because MENSA wanted her, what am I? chopped liver?), are complete and absolute retards. Alot of time these do NOT balance out. All IQ is is how large of a "jar" we have as an individual, it doesn't even try to address what the "jar" contains or DOES. Only a MORON would even try to gain status in a conversation by claiming to be a genius. Even if it is factually true. Normal, (hey I only went to ONE meeting), people laugh OUR asses off at such nonsense! It's kind of like trying to give yourself a nickname. LOL! Right? I'm SO confused. Somebody ask erica to explain will ya? I have a headache. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
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#3. To: We The People (#2)
#6. To: Capitalist Eric, We The People (#3)
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"President and Congress and government make THOUSANDS of decisions involving hundreds of thousands issues ..."And yeah, luberator really DID say that... (LMAO!)
#8. To: Liberator (#6)
Capitalist Eric: "President and Congress and government make THOUSANDS of decisions involving hundreds of thousands issues ..." And yeah, luberator really DID say that... (LMAO!)
luberator: Thanks for leaving out all the context to the quote, you phony three-dollar bill. When you begin posting multiple byteshredder-sized graphics while aping the name-calling "wit" of a yu-klown, you've already lost the debate and ANY credibility you never had to begin with.
It's a LOSE-LOSE for you.
#16. To: Capitalist Eric (#8)
Where you attempt to denigrate my "wit," you really have no basis of comparison, to determine where I fall on the Bell-curve... So to clarify, I'm a fucking genius. Literally.
#18. To: Zesta, crapitalista erica (#16)
So that's why you're posting on a small, essentially insignificant political forum.
#21. To: Mad Dog (#18)
Since you are also posting to her here on a "small, essentially insignificant political forum."
#22. To: Zesta, Mad Dog, Capitalist Eric, John Candy, Socrates (#21)
Since you are also posting to her here on a "small, essentially insignificant political forum."
I understand, but I'm not claiming to be a genius. If I were, I'd be using my talents for something far greater than posting on an internet forum. Thank you anyway. ;-)
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