Here Comes The Sun.....
I posted this over on the MSFT and NOVL threads this morning.
Peace.
GO!!
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To: Duke of URL who wrote (53697)
From: Frederick Smart Friday, Dec 1, 2000 8:01 AM ET
Reply # of 53699
Here Comes The Sun.....
Imagine the prospect of Eric Schmidt - a Gore supporter - and Bill Gates coming out with a united voice on this topic.
I posted this over on the Novell thread - see below.
Peace.
GO!!
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To: Frederick Smart who wrote (35192)
From: Frederick Smart Friday, Dec 1, 2000 7:41 AM ET
Reply # of 35196
Here Comes The Sun.....
Before you read what follows, please take a moment and go to this link to play this famous Beatles song in the background.
wsp3.wspice.com
I don't know what the weather is going to be like, but journalistically speaking, the "Sun" is rising over Chicago today as Steve Neal, who I would consider one of the Chicago Sun Time's more liberal columnists, came out swinging to expose the real truth behind the lie that that David Bois and the Gore team pulled over on the Florida Supreme Court regarding it's heavy reliance on a 1990 Illinois Supreme Court decision over a dispute regarding "indented ballots."
As Steve Neal - see below - goes on to exposing....
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"A senior Gore strategist told the New York Times last week that the Illinois precedent cited by the Florida court was a "home run" for the Gore camp. It was more like a foul ball that was counted as fair. If Boies had been more truthful, the Florida jurists might have set a different standard.
The Florida high court made its ruling based on a precedent that never existed. "Half the truth," as Benjamin Franklin once noted, "is often a great lie."
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It's "high time" the highest court in this nation end this madness. And it's really "high time" the likes of Jesse, Al Sharpton and the rest of the liberal democratic blame/shame disenfrachisment shills and their lawyer/Priests such as David "Boies" himself get on with the task of finding other pursuits.
Like singing, sharing, caring, laughing, forgiving, helping and serving others.
When distrust rules, everyone becomes losers. When personal irresponsibility is placed on a pedestal and worshipped our society fails. For we have turned away from the fact that truth is not about winning and losing. It's about caring, sharing, forgiving, helping and serving. But a life of service begins and ends with personal responsibility. And we need more personal responsibility from more individuals for all of us to enjoy an environment of freedom which allows us all to realize these higher ideals.
I'm not mad at Jesse, Al or David. I just believe they are singing the wrong song in the wrong direction to an audience that finally is beginning to wise up. As the song says "here comes the sun..." When the sun comes out each morning the illusions behind fear and darkness tend to fade away.
There are democratic and republican blacks in the heart of the inner city right here in Chicago and East St. Louis who'd be happy to go on Fox News to sing this new song of light and personal responsibility for they aren't looking for handouts anymore. They are looking for more trust and hope and energy.
The lights are turning on everywhere exposing one of the ugly core truths behind the liberal cause: political enfranchisement through the avenue of personal irresponsibility fueled by blame and shame.
As Shelby Steele, writing in today's WJS editorial page writes....
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"Black America deserves a leadership that ignites our energies with the idea that personal responsibility - despite past or present suffering - is the only power that can truly deliver us to full parity with others. But today's black leadership only rallies blacks with a sense of their victimization into a voting campaign that promises nothing more than a little exceptionalism. And this as the sun begins to set on affirmative action.
Having lost faith in the capacities of it's own people - having bought into the defamation that blacks are intractably weak without white intervention - this leadership uses hard-earned black moral capital to chase the likes of Mr. Gore, and flatters itself that it can provide him with muscle. This, after going to bat for O.J. Simpson and bodyguarding for a philandering president who thanked them by suggesting that his very philandering made him "the first black president."
At no time in American history have blacks suffered from a leadership so lost, and so absurd.
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Now go ahead and slap me Peter, Paul and Scott for sharing this. But, as individuals I really believe we - blacks, whites, democrats and republicans, etc. - are all on the same page.
Everybody has more than enough reasons to come together over the cause of personal responsibility and trust. Heck, look at what the Northwestern Wildcats did this year - during practice and on game days they wore black T-Shirts emblazoned with ONE word on it: TRUST.
How bout Novell passing out Red T-Shirts with that same ONE word on it. I think all Novell shareholders would be glad to pay for the tab for what it costs to have these T-Shirts printed up and distributed. Paul Fiondella can even get a special bonus if he wants to take advantage of his rights to my "red" visage.
What do you think about them smackers?
Just imagine the political/economic stature and attention that Novell could get if Eric Schmidt came out and made some kind of uniting statement of leadership to all of this. I believe it would be a shot heard round the technology world. Pass out Red T-Shirts in the inner cities of America with that ONE word on it.
Bottom line: our world NEEDS MORE TRUST.
And more trust leads naturally to MORE ENERGY!!
Period.
End.
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Peace.
GO!!
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Gore invents precedent
December 1, 2000
BY STEVE NEAL SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
Al Gore's lawyers distorted an Illinois Supreme Court case in their successful effort to persuade the Florida Supreme Court to allow hand recounts without firm standards.
In its 40-page ruling, the Florida Supreme Court prominently cited the 1990 Illinois legal dispute between former state Rep. Penny Pullen (R-Park Ridge) and Rosemary Mulligan. "The words of the Supreme Court of Illinois are particularly apt in this case," the Florida justices proclaimed.
On page 35 of their decision, the Florida jurists quoted their Illinois brethren: "The purpose of our election laws is to obtain a correct expression of the intent of the voters. Our courts have repeatedly held that, where the intention of the voter can be ascertained with reasonable certainty from his ballot, that intention will be given effect even though the ballot is not strictly in conformity with the law. . . . The legislature authorized the use of electronic-tabulating equipment to expedite the tabulating process and to eliminate the possibility of human error in the counting process, not to create a technical obstruction which defeats the rights of qualified voters."
The Florida court last week quoted another passage from the Pullen vs. Mulligan decision that suggested that hanging chads should be counted and which seemed to imply that dimpled ballots should be considered: "Whatever the reason, where the intention of the voter can be fairly and satisfactorily ascertained, that intention should be given effect."
Gore's camp was quick to claim that the Florida ruling allowed the counting of dimpled ballots. David Boies, Gore's lawyer, provided the Florida court with a misleading interpretation of the Illinois decision. Boies claimed that the Illinois court allowed the counting of dimpled ballots. A week ago late Tuesday night, Boies telephoned former Chicago Board of Elections chief Michael Lavelle and solicited an affidavit in support of dimpled ballots. Lavelle signed an affidavit to that effect and sent it to Gore's legal team. But as it turned out, Lavelle's memory was faulty.
The reason that Boies desperately needed an affidavit is that the Illinois court disallowed dimpled ballots. Election officials could count hanging chads, according to the Illinois justices. But the Illinois high court upheld the ruling of Cook County Circuit Court Judge Francis Barth that indented ballots were invalid and could not be counted.
There were 27 disputed ballots in the Pullen-Mulligan primary. Some of these were dimpled ballots that were disallowed by Barth. "The voters' intent could not be ascertained from visual inspection" of these ballots, the Illinois court said. According to the high court's ruling, "the remaining 19 votes should be disregarded, because the voters' intent cannot be reasonably ascertained."
Eight ballots with hanging chads were allowed by Barth and upheld by the Supreme Court. But under guidelines set by the Illinois Supreme Court, Barth did not attempt to divine the intent of voters. He acted properly in counting hanging chads when voter intent could be ascertained with reasonable certainty.
In its ruling, the Illinois court cited a Georgia decision that "where (a) voter fails to properly use the vote recorder by punching out the chad with the instrument provided, voter has disenfranchised himself with regard to that office."
A senior Gore strategist told the New York Times last week that the Illinois precedent cited by the Florida court was a "home run" for the Gore camp. It was more like a foul ball that was counted as fair. If Boies had been more truthful, the Florida jurists might have set a different standard.
The Florida high court made its ruling based on a precedent that never existed. "Half the truth," as Benjamin Franklin once noted, "is often a great lie." |
