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The Florida Supreme Court also ruled that dented and hanging chads could be counted as votes. This was not part of FL law before the election and therefore constituted a change of law ex post facto, that the U.S. Supreme court rightly said was not allowed.

Your citation of the case law is wrong. The SCOTUS ruled that the recount was a violation of the equal protection clause because there was no uniform standard for the recount across the state, and FL didn't have the time to institute a uniform standard for a state-wide recount. Had there been time, those rules could have been applied state-wise.

When you find them,let us know.

People who don't own the Energy company or have a financial stake in the energy company are good enough.

Ridhard Armitage mistakenly gave her name to Novak because he had read it in a memo and never having seen a covered agents name used in a memo before, he assumed (incorrectly) that her job wasn't classified as secret. Since he was not charged, apparently the prosecutor agreed that his mistake was an accident and not malicious retribution.

Or there wasn't enough evidence to charge him.

Just pointing out the hypocracy that the Democrat protests about the Patriot Act died once they were the ones in control.

No they died when it stopped becoming the issue du jour because people are stupid.

Wasn't Iraq guilty of multiple violations of the United Nations surrender agreement from the first Gulf war? Why yes. Yes they were. Therefore the Iraq war was a legal (according to your beloved U.N.) continuation of the Iraq war started in the early 90's.

Really? Violations like having WMDs?

No threat? According to you? I guess I just dreamed the numerous and constant attacks by the Iraqis of the aircraft enforcing the U.N. mandated "no-fly zone" that the Iraqis agreed to in the surrender terms from he first Gulf war.

Yeah, no threat. You know, how they never attacked us, how they didn't actually have weapons capable of attacking us? How they weren't even pursuing those weapons? Yeah, no threat like that. And who gives a fuck about your beloved U.N.'s no fly zone? We shouldn't have been there in the (first Gulf War) first place.

Is the 10 billion from the Halliburton contracts? If so it just proves that the bigger government is, the more wasteful it is. I bet if this had been Schlumberger instead of Haliburton, you wouldn't give a rats ass, but the "evil" Haliburton is connected to "Darth" Cheney, so it must be a conspiracy.

I give a rat's ass anytime someone in my country's power structure profits off of the wars they cause.

Waterboarding is not torture because it does NO physical harm, but instead instills an intense fear reaction. The training is to help the troops deal with the fear just as many other training exercises are intended to help them deal with the fear that comes from actual combat.

You are a fucking moron. It is 100% possible to die from waterboarding. Just listen to any person who has participated in the training an execution of the technique in our armed forces. Jesse Ventura is a good example.

Who are they? Do they exhist outside of your conspiracy fevered mind?

We'll never get to know because the government doesn't have to tell us! But as someone who clearly thinks big government is wasteful and inefficient, do you mean to tell me this is the one area which they operate with complete precision and accuracy? Yeah right.

Nancy Pelosi said during the Bush years that killing Bin Laden wouldn't make the U.S. any safer. Did you get mad at her?

Thanks for the Strawman! Yes. Nancy Pelosi is a shitty opportunist. But you know who got Bin Laden? Obama, motherfucker.

Sure, because everybody knows you lefties are the militarys biggest supporters. [sarc/]

Haha! Wow! sarcasm. Great. How about you take your whole "democrats don't care about the troops stereotype" and shove it up your ass. Over the last decade the democrats have done more for the troops in terms of proposed legislation (Verteran's Job act - killed by Senate Republicans) - troop funding as well as DRAWING DOWN TROOP LEVELS AND BRINGING THEM HOME - than republicans have, hands down.

So when a Republican governor (NJ) handles a crisis well it's a blue state, but when a Democrat governor (Louisiana) does not handle a crisis well, it's a red state? If Christie had bitched that Obama wasn't doing enough for the Sandy victims, would you honestly be agreeing with him, or defending Obama? If Bush went to a Vegas fund raiser after his photo op meeting, would you be outraged?

No, NJ is a blue state because look how it has voted in the past 20 years of p********ial elections, along with the make up of it's state legislature. Same with Louisiana. If you're going to argue that New Jersey is more conservative a state than Louisiana, you're a fucking retard. Also, if Christie had said "Obama has not responded to any of my requests for aid, and the White House is stalling" any reasonable person would have called Obama out. Just because you blindly follow your parties' leaders and believe everything they say doesn't mean other people do.

So if you get robbed by someone with less than you, you take it without protest because of the "social contract" (whatever the fuck that is)? And your tax rate talking point is deceitful. The lower rate that is payed by the rich is on investment income. Their money has already been taxed at the highest rate, but to help incentivise investment back into the the economy, return on investment is taxed at the lower rate.

Jesus, where to begin. "Get robbed"? Taxes are the cost of a civilized society. If you don't know "whatever the fuck" the social contract is, I suggest you either pick up a book or go live by yourself in the fucking woods and shit in a bucket for the rest of your life. I hope your log cabin doesn't catch on fire and you need to call the fire department, or get somewhere and use a public road. Don't act like a fucking moron. And MY tax point is deceitful? "Their money has already been taxed at the highest rate" - complete lie. The CORPORATION was taxed. The corporation is a different legal entity. The corporation then pays its investors. If you don't want to pay corporate taxes, don't incorporate. It's not hard. Also, this notion that's is "purely investment income" is horseshit. CEOs can get their entire paycheck as a result of "investment income." There are so many fucking bullshit loopholes in the tax code that people who don't have the initial capital to invest with the company their daddy gave them or, alternatively, lose all their money in the market because some asshole decided to make a cool 100k by shorting some stocks needlessly don't have the luxury of this kind of shit. It's corporate welfare, and most of the working class is sick of it.

The emergency spending measures passed in late 2008 (by the Democrat held congress) such as TARP and the Stimulus did push the deficit past 1 trillion, but much of those funds were actually dispersed by Obama. IIRC Bush only spent about half of the TARP funds to keep the market from collapsing, and Obama (as Pres. elect) requested and was given control of the rest. All the spending is credited to Bush although he didn't actually spend it all. In FY 2009, with the market crisis behind him, Obama managed to spend even more than Bush did in the middle of an emergency, and Obama has raised spending every year since.

Raised spending? Oh, wow, look at that, nice way to stay true while obfuscating the point. The deficit has DECREASED under Obama since FY 2009. FY 2012 was less than FY 2011 and FY 2010 and FY 2009. (FY2011 was slightly greater than FY2010, but both were less than FY2009). FY2013 deficit is on track to be less than FY2012. Also "market crisis behind him" The economy didn't start ADDING jobs until Oct 2009 which is - you guessed it! FY 2010.

And anyone who could afford it came to the U.S. for treatments. Maybe you want to be on a waiting list to see a doctor. Maybe you don't mind waiting months for an operation. Maybe your senior family members have lived too long to be worth the money it would take to prolong their lives. If so, universal healthcare is for you.

You are a fucking moron. Go actually talk to a Brit or a Canadian instead of listening to Fox.

Please explain how Obama has done better.

We're out of Iraq. Bin Laden is dead. The economy isn't in free-fall. Universal Insurance coverage. U.S. Auto industry. Those are just a few.