PUBLIC FORUM JOY.I am so relieved and exhilarated ex·hil·a·rate tr.v. ex·hil·a·rat·ed, ex·hil·a·rat·ing, ex·hil·a·rates 1. To cause to feel happily refreshed and energetic; elate: We were exhilarated by the cool, pine-scented air. with the final results of the presidential election that I have this strong urge to send the Rev. Jesse Jackson Noun 1. Jesse Jackson - United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941) Jesse Louis Jackson, Jackson a Christmas package consisting of a butterfly net A butterfly net is one of several kinds of nets used to collect insects. The entire bag of the net is generally constructed from a lightweight mesh to minimize damage to delicate butterfly wings. Other types of nets used in insect collecting include beat nets and sweep nets. and a box of dimpled chocolates. Once again life is good. - Everett P. Harrington Glendale He won it Democrats: Well, the time has come to accept the fact that George W. Bush has won the presidency. He was not given the victory. He won it by a majority of the electoral votes. Sure, you can recount the ballots any way you like and manufacture any result you prefer. That's exactly what you Democrats wanted to do: manufacture a result. Thank God, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped you. You need to understand that the Democrats are no longer in power. It is my hope that George W. Bush will stand by his campaign promises and not bend to the whining and sniveling sniv·el intr.v. sniv·eled or sniv·elled, sniv·el·ing or sniv·el·ling, sniv·els 1. To sniffle. 2. To complain or whine tearfully. 3. To run at the nose. n. 1. of your party. You will have to get used to bending to accommodate the Republicans. - James L. Bradbury Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. What a dummy What a naive dummy Gore turned out to be. He was for the people, not the powerful. The people elected Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore . The powerful elected George W. Bush. Guess who's president? - Rick Kellis Woodland Hills Truth is sacrificed Being a partisan zealot of either party is disabling to being an American. Party comes before country. Truth is sacrificed to spin. The rule of law becomes the rule of lawyers, irrespective of irrespective of prep. Without consideration of; regardless of. irrespective of preposition despite law. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg's and Antonin Scalia's rulings and comments had nothing to do with justice. Partisans have mastered the ability to make us see things that are not there and conceal what is. Partisans act on what we warn our children against: the notion that the ends justify the means. - Stephen Wagner Castaic Poor Joe Now that the election is finally over, my sympathies lie with Joe Lieberman Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is an American politician from Connecticut. Lieberman was first elected to the United States Senate in 1988, and was elected to his fourth term on November 7, 2006. In the 2000 U.S. . Here is a man who was purportedly chosen as a result of his high moral standing and his strong stands on principles, many of which he immediately renounced after being named to the ticket in order to fall into step with eco-nut Al Gore. Then after the election was over, we agonizingly watched him mug for the cameras, over and over again, having to repeat the Democrat lie: We are just trying to ensure that all votes are counted. One can only hope that Lieberman manages to salvage some of the respect and credibility he once had from both sides of the aisle. - Don Brunson Moorpark Good taste and dignity I think living too close to the ocean must water-log some brains. All this overly dramatic left-wing whining I keep reading in the Public Forum would be laughable if it weren't so pathetic. For the past eight years the Clintons have caused this country to be embarrassed and degraded on the world stage with lies, hypocrisy and out- and-out trashy antics. Thank God for George W. He and Laura Bush will restore the good taste and dignity that have been sorely missing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. since 1992. - Joey Claghorn Burbank Just convictions Having lost the presidency, the Democrats rage that the U.S. Supreme Court justices voted their politics. After reading the several accompanying opinions, we are instead persuaded and encouraged that the justices simply voted their convictions. - L.J. Andrews Hidden Hills Never sorry With apologies to Eric Segal: Being a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court is never having to say you're sorry. - Irwin R. Langs Sylmar Could have been worse Better lawyers and judges Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political scientist, historian, and politician, is best known for Democracy in America (1835). A believer in democracy, he was concerned about the concentration of power in the hands of a centralized government. than tanks and soldiers. - Steve Morsa Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. Republican Supreme Court The presidency was decided by a hypocritical, biased Republican Supreme Court that disenfranchised millions of voters by not allowing legally cast votes to be counted, thus casting a pall over our democracy. Over the past seven or eight years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Republicans blocked Clinton appointees to the federal courts and made a mockery of the trust Americans should have in their elected officials. I hope my representatives will resist Al Gore's attempts at reconciliation and block every effort of George W. Bush to appoint federal judges, whom the Supreme Court has shown to be partisan political representatives of the parties, rather than of the people. - C.F. Evans Granada Hills When is a good time? If I remember correctly, the Democratic leadership wanted to delay any court action against President Clinton until he was no longer in office. The new mantra is don't prosecute Clinton in Arkansas or ban him from being a lawyer. The loyalty of these Democrats to the worst president we've ever had is unbelievable. - Howard Knudson Van Nuys Assuming . . . With Vice President Gore's concession, the world can finally see that the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. through its democratic institutions is truly able to transfer power to a new statesman peacefully. It just took a little longer this time. This first hurdle will seem easy compared with the next: explaining to the world in the coming months why we inaugurated the wrong man - assuming that scholars examine the undervote un·der·vote n. 1. A ballot that has been cast but shows no selection in a given race or referendum. 2. The number of such ballots cast in an election. in Florida and find that judicial posturing, various felonious Done with an intent to commit a serious crime or a felony; done with an evil heart or purpose; malicious; wicked; villainous. An aggravated assault, such as an assault with an intent to murder, is a felonious assault. acts and the Bush family dynasty stole the election. - Michael Vosganian Woodland Hills You promised Now that Al Gore has said, ``It's time for me to go,'' I say to Alec Baldwin: It's time for you to go. Make good on your promise and leave the country now, while your precious Bill Clinton is still president, and don't let the door hit you on the way out. - John Tibbetts Canoga Park Missing in action Justices should sign their opinions. Inside the 65-page U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Florida election, there was an unsigned ``per curiam'' opinion, then a concurrence CONCURRENCE, French law. The equality of rights, or privilege which several persons-have over the same thing; as, for example, the right which two judgment creditors, Whose judgments were rendered at the same time, have to be paid out of the proceeds of real estate bound by them. Dict. de Jur. h.t. signed by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, with four separate dissents signed by Justices John Paul Stevens John Paul Stevens (born April 20, 1920) is currently the most senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He joined the Court in 1975 and is the oldest and longest serving incumbent member of the Court. , David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15 1933, Brooklyn, New York) is an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Having spent 13 years as a federal judge, but not being a career jurist, she is unique as a Supreme Court justice, having spent the majority of her career as an and Stephen G. Breyer. Nine justices on the court, but only seven signatures on the opinions. Why didn't the votes of two justices register? Did Sandra Day O'Connor Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26 1930) is an American jurist who served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. She was considered a strict constructionist. and Anthony M. Kennedy leave their chads dangling or dimpled? Should Americans believe that a constitutionally equitable standard was applied in counting these two undervotes toward the unsigned majority decision? - Sam Dolinar Sunland Horrifying visions Re double-deck freeways: Horrifying visions of the Highway 80 collapse in Oakland a few years ago make me hope that the second level of the proposed double-decker freeway system will be made of Styrofoam. - R. Presson North Hollywood Rotate it When I vote, I put the stylus in the hole in the voting machine opposite the person or proposition I select. I push it vigorously through that hole. I then rotate the stylus in a circular manner. I don't spin it or twist it. I rotate it. In that way I can be certain that there will be no hanging or dimpled chad. I think any intelligent person would do likewise. - Joe Benoit Valencia |
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