Claims And Issues

THIS IS WHAT "WE ARE NOTRE DAME" MEANS.

   Notre Dame Hat and Stars of David in Pittsburgh, PA (Matt Rourke / Associated Press)

SHOW THE REPORTERS IN THE PRESS PEN.

Show the reporters in the press pen.

          There is a press pen at political rallies.  The cameras are on the speaker.

          We read stories later about what happens to the press in their rally pens.  Enthusiasts for the speaker turn and look at a reporter.  Some draw their thumbs across their throats in a gesture of slitting someone's throat.

          And the cameras are still on the speaker.

          When the institution began of putting the press into a pen, someone thought it was a good idea.

          Did the same one think that it was a good idea to fix the cameras only on the speaker?

          If a tree falls in the forest but there is no-one around to hear, did it make a sound?  The new question is:  If something happens to a reporter in the press pen but there is no camera around to record it, did it happen?

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"FEAR DOES NOT COME FROM GOD. FEAR'S ANTIDOTE IS FAITH."

If you are afraid of people like this poor person's child in a photograph that accompanies a newspaper column on Wednesday, October 24, 2018, then you are a very sad specimen indeed.

See photo of Honduran immigrant child (Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images), photograph illustrating Dana Milbank, "All the Reasons the Migrant Caravan is Totally a National Emergency" (Washington Post Online, Wednesday, October 24, 2018).

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WHY THE EMPTY SEATS? SHOW US THE MONEY!

Why do television cameras only show us the speaker's podium?  And why do the television cameras show us only the dozen or so people sitting behind the speaker?  (They are hand-picked to sit there you know.)

If the crowds attending the event were so impressive, they would show them.

If there are empty seats in the arena, they would not show them.

They do not show them.

 

Visit this informative PowerPoint converted into a concisely narrated YouTube video of 11 minutes and 11 seconds, The Florida Constitution:  A Presentation of the Bundled Amendments on the Florida Ballot.

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FLORIDA CONSTITUTION, REVISION COMMISSION BUNGLED AMENDMENTS.

The sad and dispiriting story of how the Florida Constitution Revision Commission tried to game the amendment process with bungled amendments is told in this well-written column by John Romano, Some of These Florida Amendments Aren't Worth Your Time (Tampa Bay Times Online, posted October 18, 2018).   The title tells the tale especially about the bundled bungled amendments proposed by the CRC.

Particular insight into the facts behind the "Amendment 8" debacle (Amendment 8 was proposed by the CRC and taken off the ballot by the Supreme Court of Florida because it was too misleading) is in this excellent reporting by Jim Saunders, Supreme Court Details Clash Over Education Ballot Measure (WNDB FM 93.5 AM 1150, NewsDayontaBeach.com, posted October 18, 2018).

For more information visit this informative PowerPoint converted into a concisely narrated YouTube video of 11 minutes and 11 seconds, The Florida Constitution:  A Presentation of the Bundled Amendments on the Florida Ballot.

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FLORIDA, CONSTITUTION, REVISION COMMISSION BUNGLING, AND STAMINA: THE NOVEMBER BALLOT.

For behind-the-scenes exposure and a fresh look at things that you were never meant to know, read this Powerpoint presentation on the Bundled Amendments that are going to be on the Florida Ballot.  You can also watch and listen to the presentation uploaded as a video to YouTube!    https://youtu.be/Ma4Div0yXos.

P.S.

Oh, and I keep forgetting this part that is so important to many other YouTubers:  When you go to YouTube to view this video, please put a "like" on it!  Thank you.

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LENDER FORCE-PLACED INSURANCE LITIGATION AND THE FILED RATE DOCTRINE.

AND THE ISSUES IN FLORIDA.

Watch and learn from YouTube and the video of Lender Force-Placed Insurance Litigation and the Filed Rate Doctrine.

Fresh from presentation to the Florida Bar and updated.  Education and enjoyment at the same time, and all of it for free.  Enjoy your experience!

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"SAY IT AIN'T SO, JOE!"

In the Fall of 1920, a grand jury in Chicago indicted eight of the Chicago White Sox for throwing the 1919 World Series.  They have ever since been known only by their collective nickname, the Black Sox.

See the Indictment and Bill of Particulars from the Grand Jury on a website maintained by a UMKC Professor of Law.

Joe Jackson, a Sox from South Carolina, was reportedly met on the courthouse steps by one or more young boys who said to their hero, "Say it ain't so, Joe!"

In the Fall of 2018, the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C. approved a highly contested nomination to be a justice for life on the U.S. Supreme Court.  The nomination was contested only in part on the ground of the nominee's outlier doctrine.  The nomination was chiefly contested on the basis of his character, such as it may be.

Joe Manchin, a senator from West Virginia, was the only member of his party to vote in favor of this nominee, and the nomination barely passed.  So, like those little boys on the courthouse steps who addressed a hero, we can all address this person who is not so much a hero to anyone, "Say it ain't so, Joe!"

UPI.

And one more thing:  You clearly do not think that you can get on the ballot as a Republican.  But once you got on the ballot as a Democrat, you embraced the Republican agenda such as it is, and turned your back on the Democrats.  Have some courage, Joe.  If you must run for office, run as what you are and not as a Democrat.  Stop taking up someone else's rightful space on the ballot.  Once again, "Say it ain't so, Joe!"

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JEFF FLAKE: NOT A BAD MAN. NOT A GOOD MAN, EITHER.

Say one thing and do another.  Call for an investigation and accept a sham.  Talk the talk but for whatever reason incapable of walking the walk.

                              Official portrait of Sen. Jeff Flake courtesy Office of Jeff Flake.

Jeff Flake:  Not a bad man.  Not a good man, either.  It is a good thing he is going away.  He will not be missed, but his missed opportunities will be mourned.

We need someone who grabs headlines because they actually have the courage to walk the walk after talking the talk.

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SEN. SUSAN COLLINS, REMEMBER WHEN YOU SAID 2 TERMS IS ENOUGH?

                Senator Susan Collins portrayed by the Office of Senator Susan Collins.

You were right.

You said that when you first ran for the U.S. Senate in 1996.  That would mean that your 2 terms were up in 2008.

But you stayed around for another decade after that, so far.  It wasn't for the people's sake, that's certain.

                                                (Zach Gibson/ Getty Images)

Go back to Maine, Senator.  Time to keep that promise.  They have flags for background props there, too, you know.  Even without the props, people will certainly remember what you actually stood for. 

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"HIT THE ROAD, JOE MANCHIN! DON'T COME BACK NO MORE!"

It was a dark and stormy night.  Joe of "the West Virginia Manchins" was stumbling along, trying to find his way to the ballot.

In the confusion of the darkness and the night, Joe went to the wrong house.  He was looking to get on the ballot, as I said, and he ended up at the Democratic house.

They let him in and helped him get on the ballot just as he hoped.  But if he had knocked on the door of the other house, they would not have even let him in, and they would not have let him get on the ballot.

Ever since, Joe has been on the ballot as a Democrat.  All because he went to the wrong house.  You see, Joe was really a Republican all along.  And so he voted for Brett Kavanaugh, like he had voted earlier for Neil Gorsuch, like he had voted earlier against the Sandy Hook families from Newtown, Connecticut, and all the rest.

So, with new words we turn to the immortal song and sing,

"Hit the Road Joe!  And don't you come back no more!"

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KAVANAUGH, J.: WHY ARE WE SUPPOSED TO SUPPORT HIM, AGAIN, PLEASE?

                                                             (Andrew Harnik, Pool/Associated Press)

This is becoming important.  It's hard to understand, though.  So listen up and listen good, I guess.

He was accused of attempted rape.  He denied it.

So now, we are supposed to support him, and feel sorry for him, because he was accused?  Is that about right?

Why not?  It worked before, they say.

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KAVANAUGH, J.: “For what shall it profit a man ..."

 

                                                            (Andrew Harnik, Pool/Associated Press)

... if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

   (Mark 8:36 King James Version (KJV).

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KAVANAUGH, J.: STILL WAITING FOR AN INVESTIGATION?

                                                            (Andrew Harnik, Pool/Associated Press)

They may have a right to rule if we let them.

But they have no right to call their rule the United States of America.

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KAVANAUGH, J.: IS THIS THE FACE OF JESUIT TRAINING?

                                                             (Andrew Harnik, Pool/Associated Press)

      JUDGE TRAINING?

    CHRISTIAN TRAINING?

    Take your pick, answer any of these questions.

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MOVE TO RECUSE OR NOTIFY E&O CARRIER?

If I represented any of the people and parties in any case with himself on the panel that Brett Kavanaugh, J., just called out for special treatment, I would never subject my client to his judgment voluntarily.

I would file a motion to recuse each and every time, not necessarily expecting it to be granted although God knows there is every good reason for it, but because that would be the only way I could try to protect my client.

And if I did not try to protect my client when I could have tried, then I would expect to notify my E&O carrier of potential malpractice otherwise.

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