[Rhodes22-list] Was Lawyers, - Now Education, Boating, and Fishing
Brad Haslett
flybrad at gmail.com
Thu May 1 22:40:35 EDT 2008
Hank,
I wouldn't mind seeing this at the marina bar!
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/01/video-fox-breaks-bikinigate-wide-open/
Where the hell were all the teachers like this when we were kids? I feel
cheated!
Brad
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
> We got another one who thinks he can control the list. This list has
> been,
> and always will be, open for any topic. As has been stated many time,
> we're
> like a bar at a marina, some groups talk boats, some politics, some
> fishing,
> whatever. Learn how to hit the delete key for stuff you aren't interested
> in, but leave your controlling diatribe at the door.
>
> Hank
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Alan Robertson <bigal_61 at msn.com> wrote:
>
> > What does the following have to do with boating?? This is the sort of
> > material totally unrelated to Rhodes 22 boats and sailing that has
> finally
> > convinced me to have all incoming mail from the Rhodes list go into JUNK
> > MAIL. Thanks much Dave and Lou; E-mail each other and don't burden the
> rest
> > of us with your personal non-nautical mail!!
> >
> > Al Robertson '83 "Thor IV"
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Lou Rosenberg<mailto:lsr3 at nyu.edu>
> > To: The Rhodes 22 mail list<mailto:rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:04 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] THE LAWYERS PARTY
> >
> >
> > Thanks Dave
> >
> >
> > On May 1, 2008, at 3:28 AM, David Bradley wrote:
> >
> > > Hmm. Let's look at the listings of great presidents.
> > >
> > > George Washington - Surveryor, Planter, Military.
> > >
> > > John Adams - Laywer.
> > >
> > > Thomas Jefferson - Lawyer.
> > >
> > > James Polk- Lawyer.
> > >
> > > Abraham Lincoln - Lawyer.
> > >
> > > Harry Truman - Studied Law, Judge, Haberdasher.
> > >
> > > Woodrow Wilson - Law Professor
> > >
> > > FDR - Lawyer.
> > >
> > > Dwight Eisenhower - Military.
> > >
> > > John Kennedy - Military - Politician.
> > >
> > > Ronald Reagan (not on my list but on some) - Entertainer.
> > >
> > > Bill Clinton (dissapointing human but I'd say an excellent chief
> > > executive) - Lawyer.
> > >
> > >
> > > The premise that business leaders make good country leaders doesn't
> > > seem to have much historical basis. The strongest business leaders I
> > > have known have steered clear of politics because they didn't have
> the
> > > patience.
> > >
> > > The premise that all lawyers are leeches is just plain bigotry.
> > >
> > > The premise that the Democratic Party is anti-business is also a load
> > > of B.S., but too late to take that one on.
> > >
> > > In my opinion, of course.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com<mailto:
> > hnw555 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > >> Agree or disagree..it's interesting reading. - Hank
> > >>
> > >> THE LAWYERS PARTY
> > >>
> > >> The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack Obama
> > >> and Hillary
> > >> Clinton are lawyers. Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers.
> > >> John
> > >> Edwards, the other former Democrat candidate for president, is a
> > >> lawyer and
> > >> so is his wife Elizabeth. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went
> > >> to law
> > >> school (although Gore did not graduate.) Every Democrat vice
> > >> presidential
> > >> nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Benson, went to law school.
> > >> Look at the
> > >> Democrat Party in Congress: the Majority Leader in each house is a
> > >> lawyer.
> > >>
> > >> The Republican Party is different. President Bush and Vice
> > >> President Cheney
> > >> were not lawyers, but businessmen. The leaders of the Republican
> > >> Revolution
> > >> were not lawyers. Newt Gingrich was a history professor; Tom Delay
> > >> was an
> > >> exterminator; and Dick Armey was an economist. House Minority
> > >> Leader Boehner
> > >> was a plastic manufacturer, not a lawyer. The former Senate
> > >> Majority Leader
> > >> Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.
> > >>
> > >> Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald
> > >> Ford, who
> > >> left office thirty-one years ago and who barely won the Republican
> > >> nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan
> > >> in 1976.
> > >> The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work. The
> > >> Democratic Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn
> > >> men who
> > >> create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick like
> > >> Frist, or who
> > >> immerse themselves in history like Gingrich.
> > >>
> > >> The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and
> > >> services that people want, as the enemies of America. And so we
> > >> have seen
> > >> the procession of official enemies in the eyes of the Lawyers'
> > >> Party grow.
> > >>
> > >> Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies,
> oil
> > >> companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains,
> > >> large
> > >> retail businesses, bankers and anyone producing anything of value
> > >> in our
> > >> nation.
> > >>
> > >> This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the
> > >> eyes of
> > >> lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their
> > >> clients,
> > >> in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws
> > >> passed, they
> > >> seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn
> > >> precedent, and
> > >> lawyers always parse language to favor their side.
> > >>
> > >> Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an
> > >> awful way
> > >> to govern a great nation. When politicians as lawyers begin to
> > >> view some
> > >> Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then
> > >> the role
> > >> of the legal system in our life becomes all consuming. Some
> > >> Americans become
> > >> "adverse parties" of our very government. We are not all litigants
> > >> in some
> > >> vast social class action suit. We are citizens of a republic which
> > >> promises
> > >> us a great deal of freedom from laws,
> > >>
> > >> from courts, and from lawyers.
> > >>
> > >> Today, we are drowning in laws, we are contorted by judicial
> > >> decisions, we
> > >> are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of
> > >> our once
> > >> private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that
> > >> place is
> > >>
> > >> modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most
> > >> important
> > >> decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the
> > >> Supreme
> > >> Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big. When
> > >> lawyers
> > >> use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other
> > >> means, as
> > >> happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the
> > >> power of
> > >> lawyers in America is too great. When House Democrats sue America
> > >> in order
> > >> to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to
> > >> do to
> > >> use, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.
> > >>
> > >> We cannot expect the Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real
> > >> reform or
> > >> real hope in America. Most Americans know that a republic in which
> > >> every
> > >> major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges
> > >> is not what
> > >> Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot
> > >> fight a war
> > >> when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most
> > >> Americans intuit
> > >> that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral
> > >> values or
> > >> spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy.
> > >>
> > >> Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to
> > >> our
> > >> nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American
> > >> society and
> > >> business.
> > >>
> > >> Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths
> of
> > >> lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps
> > >> Americans
> > >> will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only
> > >> make our
> > >> problems worse.
> > >>
> > >> Page Printed from:
> > >> http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/the_lawyers_party.html<
> > http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/the_lawyers_party.html>
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> > >
> > > --
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