NavyDave Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Now that we have the opening Bush should give us the candidate we want and give anannouncement by Monday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Dollars to doughnuts that. #1. It won't be announced by Monday. He's supposed to go through the process and make us think a lot of careful thought goes into this. #2. That its going to be a hardline anything. Depending how tomorrow goes, will determine how toothless the next nomination is. Also, it could very well wait until after his travel aboard stuff coming up. Maybe to change the topic from Rove/Libby in a few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 I didnt say I wanted an egghead I'm superior type from academia which Judge Janice R Brown isnt LOL. You know as much about Janice Brown as I know about Urdu poetry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 aa bhii jaao kii zindagii kam hai tum nahii.n ho to har Khushii kam hai vaadaa kar ke ye kaun aayaa nahii.n shahar me.n aaj raushanii kam hai jaane kyaa ho gayaa hai mausam ko dhuup ziyaadaa hai chaa.Ndanii kam hai aa_iinaa dekh kar Khayaal aayaa aaj kal un kii dostii kam hai tere dam se hii mai.n mukammal huu.N bin tere terii 'Yamini' kam hai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsHokieFan Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 aa bhii jaao kii zindagii kam hai tum nahii.n ho to har Khushii kam hai vaadaa kar ke ye kaun aayaa nahii.n shahar me.n aaj raushanii kam hai jaane kyaa ho gayaa hai mausam ko dhuup ziyaadaa hai chaa.Ndanii kam hai aa_iinaa dekh kar Khayaal aayaa aaj kal un kii dostii kam hai tere dam se hii mai.n mukammal huu.N bin tere terii 'Yamini' kam hai No joke Kilmer, my grandmother was an urdu poet before she died and that sounds like something she wrote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 it was first up on google. You should sue for royalties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancalagon the Black Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Not to diss on your grandma, Ish, but those are pretty standard lyrics. They could come from a Hindi movie. Not exactly one of the more standout ghazals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsHokieFan Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Not to diss on your grandma, Ish, but those are pretty standard lyrics. They could come from a Hindi movie. Not exactly one of the more standout ghazals. Hahaha, they just look real familiar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 heheh I guess someone knows their Urdu poetry - I sure don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjTj Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Does anybody else find it suspicious that exactly a week ago, Charles Krauthammer suggest this exact scenario? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/20/AR2005102001635.html Miers: The Only Exit Strategy By Charles Krauthammer Friday, October 21, 2005; A23 It's no secret that I think the Harriet Miers nomination was a mistake. Nonetheless, when asked how she will do in her confirmation hearings, my answer is, I hope she does well. I have no desire to see her humiliated. Nor would I take any joy in seeing her rejected, though I continue to believe it would be best for the country that she not be confirmed to the Supreme Court. And while I remain as exercised as anyone by the lack of wisdom of this choice, I part company with those who see the Miers nomination as a betrayal of conservative principles. The idea that Bush is looking to appoint some kind of closet liberal David Souter or even some rudderless Sandra Day O'Connor clone is wildly off the mark. The president's mistake was thinking he could sneak a reliable conservative past the liberal litmus tests (on abortion, above all) by nominating a candidate at once exceptionally obscure and exceptionally well known to him. The problem is that this strategy blew up in his face. Her obscurity is the result of her lack of constitutional history, which, in turn, robs her of the minimum qualifications for service on the Supreme Court. And while, post-Robert Bork, stealth seems to be the most precious asset a conservative Supreme Court nominee can have, how stealthy is a candidate who has come out publicly for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion? So, imagine the hearings. First she will have to pass an implicit competency test. As case upon case is thrown at her on national television, she dare not respond, as she apparently did to Sen. Chuck Schumer while making the rounds, that she will have to "bone up on this a little more." Then there will be the withering fire of conservatives such as Sen. Sam Brownback who will try to establish some grounds to believe that (a) she has a judicial philosophy and ( it is conservative. And then there will be the Democrats who, in their first act of political wisdom in this millennium, have held their fire on Miers, under the political axiom that when your opponent is committing suicide, you get out of the way. But now that Miers is so exposed on abortion, the Democrats will be poised like a reserve cavalry to come over the hills to attack her from the left -- assuming she has survived the attack from the right. The omens are not good. When the chairman and ranking minority member of the Judiciary Committee express bipartisan exasperation, annoyance and almost indignation at her answers to the committee's simple questionnaire, she's got trouble. This after she confused Chairman Arlen Specter about her position on Griswold , the second most famous "right to privacy" case, and seemed confused when answering ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy's question about her favorite justice. But it gets worse: There's the off-stage stuff. John Fund reports that in a conference call of conservative leaders, two Miers confidants explicitly said that she would overturn Roe v. Wade . The subsequent denial by one of these judges that he ever said that, and the subsequent affirmation by two of the people who had heard the call that he did say so, create the nightmare scenario of subpoenaed witnesses contradicting each other under oath. We need an exit strategy from this debacle. I have it. Sen. Lindsey Graham has been a staunch and public supporter of this nominee. Yet on Wednesday he joined Brownback in demanding privileged documents from Miers's White House tenure. Finally, a way out: irreconcilable differences over documents. For a nominee who, unlike John Roberts, has practically no record on constitutional issues, such documentation is essential for the Senate to judge her thinking and legal acumen. But there is no way that any president would release this kind of information -- "policy documents" and "legal analysis" -- from such a close confidante. It would forever undermine the ability of any president to get unguarded advice. That creates a classic conflict, not of personality, not of competence, not of ideology, but of simple constitutional prerogatives: The Senate cannot confirm her unless it has this information. And the White House cannot allow release of this information lest it jeopardize executive privilege. Hence the perfectly honorable way to solve the conundrum: Miers withdraws out of respect for both the Senate and the executive's prerogatives, the Senate expresses appreciation for this gracious acknowledgment of its needs and responsibilities, and the White House accepts her decision with the deepest regret and with gratitude for Miers's putting preservation of executive prerogative above personal ambition. Faces saved. And we start again. --- ...are George Will and Charles Krauthammer running this administration? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomerics Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Not to diss on your grandma, Ish, but those are pretty standard lyrics. They could come from a Hindi movie. Not exactly one of the more standout ghazals. I was thinking more along the lines of Nusrat Fata Ali Khan myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomerics Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 ...are George Will and Charles Krauthammer running this administration? It appears that way doesn't it. . . Without Rove pulling the strings behind the scenes, Dubya is like a lost sheep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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