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Thrown out of an FBO...
Yes, the Field of Dreams is still there. I got photos of it this past
summer and placed them at http://www.securitybulletins.com/fod/ . There were players on the field and a game going on at the time I flew over. Doug On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:42:52 -0800 "karl gruber" wrote: Jay, Carrying around 300 pounds of extra weight in Iowa (is the "Field of Dreams" still there?) may be OK, but it will (and does)KILL you in some of the -- For UNIX, Linux and security articles visit http://SecurityBulletins.com/ |
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"Jessica Taylor" wrote in message
... In 1999, Ms Marshall had made direct remarks about praising legislation on an issue and favoring "jurisprudence" on the issue. She later wrote an opinion on the same issue. Remarks about gay marriage? Do you have a citation, please? Is *that* a disqualifying point of view for a judge? Is someone eligible to be a judge only if she *has no opinion* as to whether gays (or blacks or Jews) should be equal before the law? It is not proper for judges to hear cases on which they have announced personal biases in the issue. Does a simple public statement that gays (or blacks or Jews) should be treated equally before the law automatically disqualify a judge from hearing civil rights cases regarding the group in question, in your opinion? How come most other states didn't recognize the right of interracial couples to marry a hundred years ago? How come no country in the world recognized the right of women to vote until the latter 1800s? Ancient prejudices can persist for a long time, but previous nonrecognition of basic rights does not undermine moral entitlement to those rights. That's fine. If such a right does indeed exist, than there are appropriate facilities to deal with that. There are indeed, including the judicial overturning of laws that unconstitutionally trample individual rights. I'm also curious if it is such a basic right, how come it is more special than the constitutional process? Following your logic, the 13th amendment (and the first and all of them really) were gravely harmful to make. Huh? What I said was harmful is a referendum (even if it doesn't pass) that singles out a minority group for a repeal of a basic right under the constitution. If you're "following my logic", how do you conclude that the 13th amendment or the Bill of Rights meets that criterion? Passing the 13th amendment followed the appropriate documented procedure to do so. Passing a state constitution amendment would also follow the appropriate procedure to do so. You're exhibiting a most peculiar form of reasoning here. I said that event A is harmful because it has property X. You're replying that if that were true, then it would somehow follow that event B is also harmful (even though B does not have property X) because A and B share some other property Y. (A=anti-gay-marriage referendum; B=13th amendment; X=referendum to repeal basic constitutional right of a minority group; Y=amendment enacted according to prescribed procedure) If there was so much debate in the legislature, and the legislature was so favorable to gay marriage, then why on earth did it take a Court to create this "right?" At the time of the court ruling, a majority of the legislature did not favor gay marriage. It is now years later; several anti-gay-marriage legislators were ousted in subsequent elections, and others have been persuaded to change their minds. (Since you youself acknowledge that there's no reason not to have equal marriage rights for same-sex couples, you shouldn't be surprised that more voters and legislators have come to be convinced of that view.) If that's true, it's fine. But that doesn't justify shutting down a constitutional process after people did everything necessary to have that process followed. The "shutting down" was itself accomplished by a lawful, constitutional process (namely, a majority vote of the legislature to adjourn). And by the way, courts and legislatures *recognize* rights (or not); they don't "create" rights, at least in the moral sense. Rights are inherent, and governments and citizens have a moral obligation to craft their laws accordingly. (Hence, for example, slavery was wrong even when it was legal.) Then by your definition, there is a "right" to marry same sex in every state in the country, not just Massachusetts, and indeed any country in the world. In the moral sense, absolutely (just as there is a moral right for interracial or interfaith couples to marry, or for women to vote or drive cars, even if local laws abrogate those rights). Do you also disagree with the state and federal court rulings supporting interracial-marriage rights in Perez v. Sharp or Loving v. Virgina? Or should the courts have permitted states to prohibit interracial marriage (and sentence interracial couples to jail) until a majority of their citizens were ready to respect equal rights? Those laws were written out of prejudice, when blacks were not able to vote, could not have certain jobs, could not use certain schools, certain facilities, and indeed even certain restrooms. Those indeed were civil rights. So in the absence of those injustices, you would not have considered it appropriate for the courts to overturn laws that prohibited (or imposed jail sentences for) interracial marriages? Equal rights? People who describe themselves as gay have a higher than average income and have a political power much greater than their their population numbers, compared to other people. Huh? Jews, on average, have higher than average income and education too. Does that mean that a constitutional amendment to prevent Jews from marrying (or otherwise curtailing Jews' civil rights) shouldn't be construed as a serious violation of equal rights? Curiously, at least one high school in the country, in New York City, has decided to be exclusively for gay students. Should straight high school students not enjoy the same right to go there? No, your representation is wildly false. The Harvey Milk School in NYC was established to provide an environment that is safe for gay students (shamefully, not all public schools have that property). But there is absolutely no requirement to be gay in order to attend the school. By what measure do they determine if someone is gay or straight? They have no such measure because they make no such determination because they have no such requirement. You're just making that up (or passing along someone else's fabrication). Margaret Marshall, an African-American even admitted that she derived her opinion on South African law. Silly me, I thought a Massachusetts supreme court would base its opinions on Massachusetts law, or even US law. Uh, what "admission" are you referring to? The majority decision in Goodridge was explicitly grounded in the state constitution, and in an extensive body of case law in Massachusetts and the US. This occurred after the opinion was written. There are no mention of it in the decision, of course. Where is the alleged remark documented, please? Also, please explain why the Lesbian member of the supreme court voted AGAINST the gay marriage enactment, since you say this is a basic "right?" The dissenting opinions are clearly explained in the decision itself. (How is a dissenter's sexual orientation relevant?) When people who do not agree with Goodridge vs. Board-o-Health are ridiculed as merely "bigots" and -phobes, it certainly is. Your question just above clearly asserts some connection between the dissenter's sexual orientation and the legitimacy of the right that I allege. But now you're backpedaling, claiming you were just rebutting someone else's accusation of bigotry in some other conversation (even though I myself made no such accusation about you). Since the organization received income from the $60.00/plate event, yes. If Dick Cheney speaks at a dinner to raise income, say also for $60.00 per plate, would that not be a "fundraiser?" even if someone tries claiming otherwise after the fact? The question is whether an annual bar association dinner (that incidentally charges an admission fee) counts as a "fundraiser" for purposes of the Code of Judicial Conduct, according to previously established precedent. To me, saying there's no harm caused by such a referendum is like saying there's no harm caused by someone pointing a gun at a bystander's face and pulling the trigger, as long as it turns out that the gun wasn't loaded (in fact, the law recognizes that such an act still constitutes a serious assault). A public debate is *NOT* an assault! It is not battery, it is not pointing a weapon at anyone's face or body. Debates have always been absolutely essential to the institution of democracy. If we squelch debates by claiming that they are too harmful to have, then we start killing off democracy. First, we're talking about a binding referendum, not a debate. Nothing prevents debate from continuing. Second, you're misconstruing my analogy. Of course the referendum is not an assault in the legal sense, and of course attempts to hold the referendum should not be subject to any sort of legal penalty. My point is simply that in both cases, an attempt to injure others (whether physically or by a repeal of civil rights) can be harmful in and of itself (contrary to your claim), even if the attempted injury is not accomplished. But halting a constitutional process is NOT support for gay marriage! There would be ample time for each legislator to vote support/no support of gay marriage if the process was followed. In the absence of an adjournment, only 25% of the legislature would need to vote for the referendum in order to put it on the ballot. The majority of the legislature voted instead to adjourn. Whether or not you believe in the legitimacy of that maneuver, the vote was clearly a proxy for the question of gay marriage rights: there'd be no reason to vote for adjournment except to protect those rights. So the vote clearly shows that a majority of the legislature supports gay marriage rights. --Gary |
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"Jessica Taylor" wrote in message
... Gary Drescher wrote: "Ron Lee" wrote in message Frankly I am just tired of trying to normalize deviancy. And I'm tired of bigots crying 'deviancy' whenever others don't "know their place" as assigned by their race or (in this case) gender. Some of [us] so-called bigots have [no] quarrel with 'deviancy' or whatever but are merely dismayed about a trampling of process and judicial codes. Assuming I've correctly reconstructed your typo-mangled sentence above, please note that my remark was clearly directed at Ron, not you. As much as I disagree with many of your views, you have not resorted to bigoted slurs or other personal insults in our conversation; you present contentful arguments instead of ad hominem attacks. Furthermore, I understand that there is a legitimate procedural concern regarding the vote to adjourn. But I believe there is also a legitimate principle that basic civil rights should be respected even in defiance of a majority; and therefore a repeal of a basic right for a particular minority group is not properly subject to a referendum. These two legitimate principles conflict here. For me, the latter principle prevails, but I understand how a reasonable person might disagree. --Gary |
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"Jessica Taylor" wrote in message
... Gary Drescher wrote: "Jessica Taylor" wrote in message ... When Pearl Harbor was attacked, did the USA just find Japan, and hunt them down and forget about anything else? No! We did realize that there were other threats out there, and we better start to deal with them, hastily. And actually the USA defended Europe from Nazi Germany and their friends in Italy, Albania, etc. first. But only after Japan's ally Germany declared war on the US immediately after Pearl Harbor. Iraq did not declare war on the US after Sept. 11 (and Iraq had no alliance with al Qaeda; in fact, they were mutual enemies). Being attacked by one party does not automatically entitle you to wage war on other parties of your choice. So you're saying that we only went to war with Germany b/c they declared war on USA? So if they had NOT formerly declared war on USA we wouldn't have gone to war with Germany or that we weren't "entitled?" Good luck advancing that story. There extensive alliance with Japan might have sufficed. But there was no alliance between al Qaeda and Iraq; if anything, they were enemies. --Gary |
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"Grumman-581" wrote in message
news The best you can hope for is a *dead* Muslim... You are beneath contempt. |
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Thrown out of an FBO...
Not at the moment.
Though you might want to try snipping and top posting. mike "Jessica Taylor" wrote in message ... If you say so. Any other accusations that you would like to make from your pulpit of "tolerance?" :-) |
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Thrown out of an FBO...
karl gruber wrote: Carrying around 300 pounds of extra weight in Iowa (is the "Field of Dreams" still there?) may be OK, but it will (and does)KILL you in some of the mountain strips in the west. What bites the pilots is not taking the T.O. or landing weight into account when doing so. Not simply carrying it around. John |
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Thrown out of an FBO...
You do realize I'm talking about breathing?
mike "Jessica Taylor" wrote in message ... mike regish wrote: When you stop, please do it for at least 5 minutes. mike mike regish wrote: Agreed. Please stop. mike "Jay Honeck" wrote in message A valiant effort, Jessica, but you're truly wasting your breath... -- Jay Honeck |
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No such thing as a non-radical in any religion AFAIC.
mike "Jessica Taylor" wrote in message ... mike regish wrote: No such thing as a non-radical Muslim. Nice generalization, Mike. But what would Pete say? |
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"Jessica Taylor" wrote in message
... You certainly didn't identify any certain types of generalizations. I absolutely did so. You just didn't bother to read it. Here is one such post, for example: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...ed72116dcbb99a More generally, it has been plainly clear throughout this thread that the kinds of generalizations at question here are the insulting sort that Jay used. There is no reason to discuss any other kind of generalization, nor should it be necessary for a person to qualify the kind of generalization each and every time a generalization is mentioned. I can think of only two reasons for you to fail to understand this. Either you are simply intellectually incapable of understanding it, or you are intentionally being obtuse just for the sake of your own argument. In either case, there's really not much point in wasting time explaining it to you. [...] If it makes you happy, you can have whatever in your mind that you please. But you did claim that "you are the one who could not understand how generalizations are offensive." I did not "claim" that. I simply reiterated your own post. You wrote the words. You can try to deny it now, but Google has already archived it. I wrote what words, Pete? From this post: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...6c40345ef84ce4 "You were claiming that blanket generalizations are "so offensive." How so?" When you ask why something is true, you are admitting that you do not know yourself why it is true. And as I said, if you do not comprehend this fundamental aspect of common social respect, you are incapable of understanding the more specific applications of the question. It would be like trying to explain calculus to someone that doesn't know how to add. Pete |
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