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Ralph

Nope. Diet Coke is the true ambrosia.

Ralph

Only New York City has ever been called "home" by me.

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CNN.com Washington (CNN) -- Some 65 years after their service, a group of former civilian women pilots whose unheralded work was key to helping the U.S. effort in World War II are being honored Wednesday with the Congressional Gold Medal. Fewer than 300 Women Airforce Service Pilots are still alive....

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Moronic. I've actually represented students in similar situations. It's like butting my head against a stone wall. The school satraps feel that if they show any discretion, make that common sense, they open themselves up to liability which is really not true. In criminal law, what this girl did does...

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A brilliant colleague died of ALS some years ago. He showed incredible determination to keep teaching as his faculties failed and we supported him in every way, modifying his office and even a bathroom on our floor. His decision was to keep working as long as he could but eventually he was a prisone...

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Barry - I very well remember our awfully nice lunch at the Second Ave Deli, but not what I ate. It was your excellent company which was the point of my attention and not the food. However, if you say it was lox, I believe it! (Although I am not sure if it was a kosher restaurant - how could I have ...

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How is the food court?

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piston wrote:What's the proper noun for horse meat eater? And I do wonder why they, too, are underrepresented on this illustrious board!

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Yes, Saul, there is a world of difference between saying Jesus was a "false prophet" as opposed to being a "liar." To say he was a false prophet is to express one's theological viewpoint. A Jew can believe Jesus was not a true prophet of God without intimating or stating that he was a "liar," a term...

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I wouldn't knowingly eat either but in many Asian countries these animals are a staple part of the diet and they have no comprehension of how so many of us regard dogs and cats.

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Interesting that this gentle death which avoided horrid suffering (body become a concrete vault, mind remaining unaffected) bothers people while so much deadly violence crowds news reports and documentaries.

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If Saul ever wants a real job he'd be an incredible headline writer for any supermarket checkout counter tabloid.

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Barry - I very well remember our awfully nice lunch at the Second Ave Deli, but not what I ate. It was your excellent company which was the point of my attention and not the food. However, if you say it was lox, I believe it! (Although I am not sure if it was a kosher restaurant - how could I have ...

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Ralph, do you mean anthropophagite? If so, I think we may have a few! :lol: By the way, I am awarding you the William F. Buckley award for March (the award goes to the first person each month who forces me to consult a dictionary, and many months no award is made). ***** Both spellings are accepted...

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Saul,

Your comment about Jesus being a liar as one view held by most if not all Jews is pure bigotry. Most Jews whom I know respect Christianity and the belief in Christ that binds Christians. They do not denigrate Christ just as no Christians I know denigrate your God.

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What's new? For most of post Civil War history a black defendant could not get a fair trial by impartial jurors if the victim was white. Prejudice and preconceptions run deep and a case involving race or ethnicity compounds the jury selection process.

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than why not?

I have often wondered about this.

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Not to derail this thread, but a comment on reconciliation of old war grudges. The year before I went to Germany I volunteered at the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls. Another volunteer was an old man who had been a WW II pilot who had been downed with his crew in Germany. I only had to mention that ...

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They can say what they like about lox. If they start messing with kippered salmon ... well .... just let them try it. ***** Barry, Did you know that the Grand Rebbe Mendel of Piscataway has forbidden Orthodox Jews to drink milk shakes because they are "the devil's own drink?" Hope you will come dow...

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... tml?hpt=C2

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I'm Jewish......and I always thought lox was a little bit GROSS. No fooling. I don't think I've ever tasted it. I mean maybe once, but I probably spat it out. :) ***** Hmmm, Freud wrote in an undiscovered paper about a patient he called "Bubby" who hated lox and it turned out under analysis that he...

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Barry wrote:They can say what they like about lox. If they start messing with kippered salmon ... well .... just let them try it.

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Barry,

Did you know that the Grand Rebbe Mendel of Piscataway has forbidden Orthodox Jews to drink milk shakes because they are "the devil's own drink?"

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The fanatics are playing with fire. It's one thing for these rabbis to inveigh against abortion, equality for women, gay rights, etc. But lox? I bet not even Saul will bite (or not bite) on this one.

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The Smithsonian will be open as always. So will the National Zoo. You'll have a great time!

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I surrender.

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Then again, I am not a supporter of home schooling and can think oof very few circumstances under which it would be preferable to alternatives. Do you know anything about the relative academic success vis public schooled children? ***** Many home schooled kids do well on SATs and adjust to college ...

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I've noticed that while driving to and from work recently.

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I posted this story last night to my Church and State seminar and we'll be discussing it on Thursday evening. It's a very unusual ruling. I hope Germany does not mobilize and rattle a saber in response.

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]But Ralph--an iPod, or a notebook computer, is not contraband. Random seizures of personal property based on an unsubstantiated presumption that they might contain pirated files is clearly contrary to both the spirit and the letter of the law. But assuming there was reasonable suspicion, could the...

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Hate to be the lawyer here but there is NO warrant requirement for seixing contraband from anyone, american or not, when entering the country. Federal law provides for a due process hearing to challenge seizures of material where there is a colorable argument that the seizure was wrong (obviously n...

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I'd be embarrassed to give that small a rock to a gal as an engagement ring.

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I would give up my teaching career to become a guide in a Diet Coke plant!

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Hate to be the lawyer here but there is NO warrant requirement for seixing contraband from anyone, american or not, when entering the country. Federal law provides for a due process hearing to challenge seizures of material where there is a colorable argument that the seizure was wrong (obviously no...

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Mark,

Most laptops have a DVD/CD drive. DVDs and CDs will play very well but the sound quality is usually very poor. I often play DVDs on a laptop when traveling but not music CDs. Mahler on a laptop is...

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Agnes Selby wrote:To a certain extent, we are all snobs. How many people
who abhore snobbery would invite the local bag-lady
to dinner with the boss?

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Why would I invite the boss? Sycophancy is wore than snobbery.

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No and I never would be. I treat the great host of figuratively unwashed humanity who can not rise to my level of knowledge, culture or sophistication with tolerant understanding.

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CMG is most beneficially accessed during REM sleep.

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We have a very interesting Lincoln exhibition at the New-York Historical Society till March. When I was in Chicago in November I found a small but fascinating exhibition of Lincoln artifacts at the beautiful Harold Washington Library.

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Of course the judge should have recused herself. I couldn't care less about the mutual acts of adultery. The relationship between the judge and the prosecutor creates the likelihood if not the certainty of unfairness to the defense in terms of rulings on motions.

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At the same age boys do.

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The German model produced the all-powerful but generally ineffective General Staff model where careerists could rise in rank planning ever more complex operations without ever commanding troops. I think the Wehrmacht NCO may well have been the best trained of the type overall in WWII, at least befo...

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The German model produced the all-powerful but generally ineffective General Staff model where careerists could rise in rank planning ever more complex operations without ever commanding troops. I think the Wehrmacht NCO may well have been the best trained of the type overall in WWII, at least befor...

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If laws and policies remove power of authority and punishment from teachers and parents concerning children, where in the world do you think it will come from? :roll: PC has ensured no other option is possible, so get used to it. Funny that an ACLU guy is pointing out how stupid and out of control ...

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 523386.stm

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MarkC wrote:
Ralph wrote:I misread the thread title when I first saw it. I thought it said "Jesus was a goy." I am glad THAT canard hasn't been raised here.
Did y'all realize that "yogurt" spelled backwards is "Tru goy"?

Make you think........

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http://usa.kosher.com/store/kosher-dairy/yogurt

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I misread the thread title when I first saw it. I thought it said "Jesus was a goy." I am glad THAT canard hasn't been raised here.

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I realize I am the only Constitutional lawyer/professor on CMG but no one else noticed that Keaggy's "quote" isn't from the Constitution????????? The Tenth Amendment reads simply that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved...

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Well, this guy certainly hated the Catholic Church.

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By the way, remember the robe ordered by Chief Justice Rehnquist when he presided over President Clinton's impeachment trial. Straight out of Gilbert and Sullivan.

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I haven't seen it, but I looked up the synopsis and have put it on my Netflix queue. Looking forward to watching it. It looks very promising based on the cast and storyline. What is your review? After additional thought, I guess the hankies are better than pink robes. ***** There aren't many flicks...

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