Politics and religion.

[Lady's Human]

You think Blago was trying to sell the occupant as well?

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If Blago was convicted of selling the seat, that would imply the person holding the seat purchased it. It takes two to tango.

[Puckstop31]

Well.... It is going to be fun this summer watching everybody connected to Blago try to wiggle out of this.

I see a "made for TV" movie about him... On Oxygen. :P

[lizbud]

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If Blago was convicted of selling the seat, that would imply the person holding the seat purchased it. It takes two to tango.

Wasn't he charged with "Attempting" to sell the seat? He got no takers
that we know of or that has been proven.

[Edwina's Secretary]

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If Blago was convicted of selling the seat, that would imply the person holding the seat purchased it. It takes two to tango.

Indeed it would. If that had been what he was convicted of. But as you stated above (and Liz reiterates) "trying to sell the seat" is not the same as "selling the seat."

[lizbud]

I ran across this very interesting article in Rolling Stone about Michele
Bachmann. She sounds like a potent & also scary contender for POTUS.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...y-war-20110622

[lizbud]

Oh, this made my day to read this. I seriously dislike this obnoxious
fool. Not one other Justice supported his failed logic & obvious bias in this case.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/nat...stonHerald.com)

[wombat2u2004]

Food for thought ??

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a
permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal
policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

>From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."

[Bonny]

Food for thought ??

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a
permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal
policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

>From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."

Was that the Romans by chance?????????????? They got lazy & fell from within.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Was that the Romans by chance?????????????? They got lazy & fell from within.

Athens is in Greece and a two second Google search would have shown the OP that the quote is gobbly-gook. Check here.

[wombat2u2004]

Was that the Romans by chance?????????????? They got lazy & fell from within.

No mate, it was Athens in Greece. They had their Golden Age the same as most other civilisations, but it eventually collapsed from within. The Romans lasted longer, but they eventually fell to.
But yes, the reasons for that are quite accurately written in my previous post.