From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 20 11:30:32 2000 From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 11:30:30 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (unknown [216.152.64.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB5337B402 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:30:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from whenever ([216.152.68.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:30:24 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Brett Glass" Cc: Subject: RE: CA Power Shortage (was Re: Why do you support Yahoo!) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:30:29 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001220120244.04767ed0@localhost> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > Bush became a candidate because monied interests thought that he would > favor them and thus contributed many millions to his campaign. Actually, both candidates got significant contributions from both individuals and companies. > He won > because a majority of the Supreme Court justices, some of whom wished > to retire and be replaced by members of the same political party, were > willing to defy their own long standing principles to ensure that party's > victory. Two of the justices in the majority had close relatives who were > actively campaigning, and yet did not recuse themselves -- a horrendous > breach of judicial ethics. I'm sure that being a fair-minded person, you would put the Florida Supreme Court's decision to prevent the election results from being certified in the same category. Remember, not only did nobody ask them to issue the restraining order, but they had no power to do so. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message