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To: Rambi who wrote (56881)	12/8/2000 5:57:37 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

<<Absolutely, since SHerry has left you up for grabs. >> Sherry gave me orders to stay where I am. The by pass she takes around my town might be closed for a long time. The detour will be hell. I know a short cut and will be her guide. <<and will let me scream about the election is welcome here.>> That's turning into a Mongolian cluster grope. The 4 FSC that ruled against Judge Saul have personal grudges against him. Time for the USSC to swat those boys again. Then again it will be all the undercounts and not just selected.

To: Rambi who wrote (56881)	12/9/2000 2:28:39 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Dear Rambi, didn't we discuss the one legal menopausal murder? I think you have a copyright case. Or whatever it would be. Though I like his expansions on the concept.

To: Rambi who wrote (56881)	12/9/2000 6:54:13 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I dreamed that the Supreme Court ordered us all to vote again, only we had to go back to where we were from to vote (might have something to do with the Christmas story), so I had to go back to Louisiana and vote in the Superdome. I dreamed that the Superdome had been converted to a shopping mall, only not a fancy one, really just a Schweggmans, which is kind of like a New Orleans version of Walmart, it's a discount grocery store cum discount hardware store - you can buy tires, tackle, bait, and so on. But that was on the inside, in the arena, and the voting was going on in the giant circular hallway outside the arena. So there were a lot of people waiting to cast their votes, and I had a ballot that was on the kind of paper they use for bus transfers, and I punched out Bush's name using something like a tiny soda straw. The first time I messed up my ballot and I had to get another one. The second time, I was careful to punch all the way through, but when I turned my ballot over, the circle was still attached by a flap, and I had to carefully tear the circle off. That's what I dreamed. When the alarm clock went off, I couldn't figure out why, since it's Saturday, but then I remembered that Ben's Mock Trial is today. He's just a witness, not one of the lawyers, but I put in a lot of time coaching the past couple of weeks because the teacher who is sponsoring the class was starting to panic. They have had a young guy coaching the team but he could only come once a week and he really didn't do much but hang out and talk to the pretty girls. I've been trying to whip them into shape - one thing I had to do was get the girls to be more aggressive - which meant making the boys shut up and quit dominating everyone. Three of the lawyers are girls. My last command to them yesterday was that they can't make objections based on not liking what the witness said, it has to be on evidentiary grounds, e.g., they can't say, "objection! That's not in your statement!" They have to impeach the witness, and can only make objections on the rules of evidence. That's a very tall order for tenth graders, and I feel a lot of trepidation. But since Ben is only a witness, I can be objective if they lose. He's not one of the lawyers because of the way he speaks. He's got some kind of halt or hesitation because he has to think about what he says before he says it. Chris is like that, but to a lesser extent, and Chris' friend Terry is, too. I am not sure what causes it, I think not enough connections between the left and right side of the brain - they are all left handed, too. We took Ben out to buy him a blue blazer for the occasion. It's a 48 long, more because of the shoulders than anything else. He's almost 6'2". It took a while to find one with natural shoulders, most of the suits had the Italian shoulders, which look ridiculous on him. I'd better get him up and get dressed.