BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft

Subject: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: WyoWoman
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 08:16 AM

Recuse me, from this Enron thing
Recuse me, when the witnesses sing
Recuse me, 'cause we're guilty ...

anyone? anyone?

amos?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 12:35 PM

The new American Public Policy Initiative!

Recuse, resign and plead the 5th

Doo dah, doo dah

Bush and Cheney did the trick

all the doo dah day

They did nothing wrong

Just sang the same old song

And danced to the tune of the Enron Club

That's Dubya's energy way!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: DougR
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 02:43 PM

WyoWoman: you have more liesure time now, don't you? :>)

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: WyoWoman
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 11:35 PM

No, Doug, Just no social life since I live out in the country and since I finally gave up the ghost on the man formerly known as my fella.

Guest, good one ...

ww

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: DougR
Date: 25 Jan 02 - 12:39 AM

You live out in the country? Sounds great!

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: GUEST,Sandy Paton (sans cookie)
Date: 25 Jan 02 - 01:34 AM

I heard that Ashcroft just suspended all of the first ten amendments, except for the second one. Now we are safely protected by the Bill of Right.

Sandy

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: WyoWoman
Date: 25 Jan 02 - 08:55 AM

Excellent. Maybe this whole scandalpot will at least result in some campaign finance reform. I just keep wondering why anyone's actually surprised! As if this weren't utterly predictable ...

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jan 02 - 09:04 AM

Because we aren't surprised, doesn't mean we shall never cease to be appalled by it! Good joke there Sandy.

We have separation of church and state. Maybe we need to foment a revolution advocating for a separation of corporation and state, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: DougR
Date: 25 Jan 02 - 12:46 PM

I see nothing wrong with campaign finance reform prohibiting corporations from making political contributions to candidates, so long as the Unions cannot either.

Perhaps, KC, a more appropriate title for this thread might be, "Please Recuse Me, Let Me Go."

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: WyoWoman
Date: 26 Jan 02 - 10:54 AM

No, being appalled and unsurprised are perfectly compatible. Sadly, they are.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: mack/misophist
Date: 26 Jan 02 - 12:47 PM

I can't tell you how pleased and happy I am to find a group that know what 'recuse' means. I attend the largest city college in the world and damn few of my fellow students do.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: DougR
Date: 26 Jan 02 - 12:51 PM

Oh, we're smart, misophist! Real smart. Just axe us!:>)DougR

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: DougR
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 04:36 PM

Ok, WoWoman, here goes: To the tune: Release Me, and dedicated to John Ashcroft.

Please recuse me, I don't know,
why you think I have to go
To take a gift is not a crime,
I'll just say it one more time.

Please recuse me, can't you see,
you' be a fool to subpoena me,
I never me met with old Ken Lay
he never asked me out to play.

Please recuse me, Mudcat friends,
or I fear I'll get the bends,
I just want to cath Osama,
while Kendall courts a pretty Lama

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: WyoWoman
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 07:17 PM

Very good, Doug, very good. In D for Democrat?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: DougR
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 08:00 PM

In F for you know what. :>)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 10:24 PM

I see both Bush and Rumsfeld have vowed that the Taliban terrorists in Cuba will not be treated as prisoners of war. Now, wait a minute, bush keeps saying we are at war, but, the enemy are not prisoners of war. Am I missing something? Or is it only war when he is trying to explain the huge deficit? He has spent 50 billion bucks so far, and that caused the shortfall? Now, I'm not good with figures, I should say, numbers, but 50 billion from 3 trillion is not a huge amount. Is it? (Actually, I'm very good at figures)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: DougR
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 12:05 AM

Let's hang him, Kendall! Then we'll have a beer! :>)

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 12:10 AM

Push the pedal to the floor on the "war" and hope the public will forget the Enron business. Now wait-- didn't we go through something to do with S & L a while back? Lots of investigation but nothing really came out of it.
All corporate and union donations should be prohibited; only private donations? Limit everybody to a $1 donation per candidate? Not bloody likely!
Full business disclosure? Ha-Ha!
Song cover : "There will always be an Enron." Only the name will change.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: GUEST,Sandy Paton
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 02:29 AM

Yep, there sure was an S & L scandal, and brother Neil Bush now plays patty-cake with Enron in South America. Pays to have good connections, doesn't it? Keaton went to prison; Neil went south. So what's new?

Sandy

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 07:19 AM

Terrorists are the new commies. In order to create a whole new class of enemy where they didn't exist before in people's minds, one must call them by the new name, and treat them differently than everyone else does.

That is the purpose of the military tribunals. The rationale for military tribunals is that suspects who have been labelled, though not even formally charged, with committing illegal terrorist acts, are not deserving of justice, fairness, or any of the rights and protections given to prisoners of war under the Geneva conventions.

What the Bush administration is getting away with is really, really frightening in terms of true security. Indiscriminate bombing, sending troops in where they have no business being, like the Phillipines, violating and/or unilaterally abrogating all the major peace and security treaties the world community has negotiated in the past 50 years since the last world war, and antagonizing the international Arab community by it's arrogant policies regarding Israel, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq, etc.

The Bush administration is guilty of the worst acts of naked imperialist aggression in over half a century. And no one in the business of shaping, influencing, and creating public policy is trying to stop it. These are the most frightening times I've seen in my lifetime.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Recuse Me' by J.Ashcroft
From: DougR
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 02:19 PM

Well, WyoWoman, it doesn't appear anybody's in a protest song mood anymore. :>)

DougR