From: Eeyore on 9 Nov 2006 12:27 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > > >> >> You do need to learn about Consitution. There are checks and > >> >> balances working. > >> > > >> >Bush has been busy removing some of them. > >> > >> He can't. His powers are checked by the legislature and judicial > >> branches of our government. All presidents have tried to do > >> certain things. So far they have failed, as the Constitution > >> designed it. > > > >You're saying he *hasn't* effectively removed habeas corpus ? > > For me? No. You think that it's acceptable to base habeas corpus on an individual basis ? Can't you see the inbuilt flaw inherent in that ? If you're going to 'disappear' someone, who's going to be the one doing the deciding as to whether or not HC applies ? The disappearer of course ! Graham
From: Eeyore on 9 Nov 2006 12:33 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> hill(a)rowland.org wrote: > >> >Winfield Hill wrote: > >> >> > >> >> 4200 postings and still going strong. Amazing. > >> > > >> > Wow, now 7200 posts and still going strong. And most > >> > of the posts were under the original subject title. This > >> > must be some kind of a record. > >> > >> I don't think so. > >> > >> >Certainly it's a stress > >> > test for the Google Groups web-page display code, etc. > >> > >> KEWL!!!! Has there been any glitches? > > > >None I'm aware of. > > > >7360 posts and counting. > > You can't know the correct count. If their counting mechanisms are > wrong or there's an exclusion to the count, you can't tell if > there's a mistake. This is a problem I've been spending time > thinking about. How do you detect something is missing if > you don't see it and haven't been told it exists? If I solve > this one, the comm world will give me a gold star. Since there'e no simple solution I don't waste time worrying about it. It obviously refers to the number of posts on Google's own servers. 7556 right now. Graham
From: Eeyore on 9 Nov 2006 12:43 lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > >>And the first reason is going to become ubiquitous as industry is less and > >>less willing to pay for the health care of its employees. > > > > Industry can't afford it. > > Yes, you are correct. It doesn't change the fact that the number of people > actually having effective health insurance under the current system in this > country is rapidly decreasing toward a limit of zero. Something similar is happening here wrt pensions too. I don't think private companies are up to the task of providing critical services like this very well. Graham
From: Eeyore on 9 Nov 2006 12:45 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > >I will say it is a shame that the current US public is currently so fearful > >of change that no revolutionary new ideas have a chance. The debate over > >nationalized health care is an excellent example. > > What is worse is people deciding to fix what ain't broke. Politicians are forever doing this. Graham
From: lucasea on 9 Nov 2006 12:44
"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:45536115.266C967D(a)hotmail.com... > > > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Keeping Germany caged is how WWII started. > > Hardly. It was bankrupting Germany that did it. It is, however, how WWII ended. Eric Lucas |