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In the original thread I proposed a solution to end this circus of a stalemate and help unify the country so President Bush and the republicans can get on with establishing an administration. The longer this debacle continues the more divided we become and the more difficult it will be for the new administration to function effectively. If this election is contested to the extent it now appears likely, the final result will be determined by the next congress. If that happens a very possible result will be a President Bush (picked by the republican House) and a Vice President ...

The Solution: Governor Bush and Secretary Cheney propose that if the Bush ticket wins the election, Secretary Cheney will resign as Vice President and President Bush will appoint Senator Lieberman to fill that post. This configuration could occur anyway if the election is decided by the Congress. Someone has to show the leadership to bring this country together and bring this process to a close before it gets any worse. Bush/Cheney should charge the Gore/democrats to agree to allow the Florida Secretary of State or the Florida Legislature to follow their state laws and declare Bush the winner before we ...

We are now entering the relm of AMENDED CHADS. An amended chad being a gore chad which was once an undetermined chad. An AMENDED CHAD is usually derived from a pregnant chad or a dimpled chad or a food stained chad or a slightly discolored chad or an innocent chad which might think it is a democrat chad but has not yet realized it. The important thing here is who is creating these AMENDED CHADS. These chads are being created by groups of 2 democrats and 1 republican or 3 democrats. This is obviously not a valid way of determining ...

Where can I buy souvenir Florida election chads? They should be a neat remembrance of this splendid election. As this caller to CSPAN observed, the longer the manual recount goes, the more chads that will be available. But, as demand increases they will eventually all be taken so we better get our orders in soon. :-}

NOTHING HAS BEEN RESOLVED! The Judge punted. The decision to appeal the ruling has already been made. The Florida Supreme Court will have to resolve this. What is the make up of the Florida Supreme Court? What is their history in matters similiar to this? Can anyone shed some light on this?

Full Article HERE The closest presidential race in a century left a lot of splattered egg on the faces of international leaders and media organizations around the globe yesterday. One of the lessons of the 2000 presidential election as seen from afar: Don't place your trust in the US media.(Bold is mine) In their eagerness to be first in the diplomatic line to wish George W. Bush congratulations, many leaders (relying on the unofficial television reports) later found themselves wishing they'd remembered the old American adage warning that it's not over "till the fat lady sings." ...As confusion spread over ...

Go HERE to take a test which will give you a percentage ranking of how the positions of the presidential candidates compare with your political views.

The Republicans in Philadelphia managed to close ranks despite the divisive issue of abortion. Not so the Republicans of Kansas concerning another issue charged with emotion and religious fervor: the teaching of evolution in public schools. There, GOP moderates and conservatives parted ways not over presidential candidates, but candidates for the state education board. That board, last year, voted in guidelines that removed Darwin's theory from the state's academic assessment tests. That could effectively remove evolution from the curriculum in many public schools, though the choice of teaching evolution was formally left up to local districts. In primary elections held ...

THE MONITOR'S VIEW Three different events, looked at together, offer some insight on how pervasive, and potentially destructive, gambling is becoming in America: California's Indian tribes have been given federal approval to greatly expand gambling operations on their areas in the state. Winning numbers were drawn for the largest multistate lottery prize yet ($366 million). Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards was convicted of extortion and conspiracy in the awarding of licenses to run floating casinos. To take Mr. Edwards first, his casino-related conviction culminates a long history of run-ins with the law over corruption charges. This time, federal prosecutors had ...

As Ann Colter has pointed out in her article posted HERE, Juan Gonzalez is not the legal father of Elian Gonzalez (therefore no one Juan's Miami family is a legal relative either). In fact many are starting to question Juan's biological paternity. The consequence of this is clear: Elian's maternal grandmother is the only living legal relative. She should be given custody of her grandson as soon as possible. And the chances of that happening?

SAN DIEGO ---- The photo is riveting: a frightened 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez watches Saturday as armed federal agents storm the small bedroom of the Miami home where the Cuban boy lived with relatives. But Elian's case is not isolated. Upwards of 30 children are taken from their parents' homes in San Diego County raids ---- sometimes as intense as Elian's ---- to enforce Family Court custody and visitation orders, Deputy District Attorney Garry Haehnle, head of the district attorney's child abduction unit, said Monday. Sometimes, he said, those children are sent to other countries, including New Zealand, the Czech ...

Premise one: If McCain does not get the republican nomination, he will "allow himself" to be drafted as the reform party candidate - he has already been established as a viable, across party lines, appealing reformer. Premise two: If McCain is the reform party candidate, the vote splits and Gore is elected president or there is electoral chaos. Observation one: The republican establishment is beginning to realize the above. They also realize this means that the best chance to win the presidency is to go with McCain. Observation two: What a dilemma: to pick the most likely winner, republicans must ...

This is a continuation of an earlier thread touting "Creation Science" evangelist, Dr? Hovind and his bogus $250,000 offer for proof of evolution. Here is one of my favorite responses from that thread: To: Buggman I applaud your zeal for scripture, but I think you have been too long buried in minutiae and have lost track of the bigger picture; too entrenched in dogma to hear the call of the spirit. As subtle and powerful as it moves in the lives of millions of people of infinitely varied perspectives and belief-systems, it can not possibly be encompassed by a rigid ...

"An international group of physicists has reenacted in miniature the birth of the material universe. Their so-called "little bang" experiments re-created conditions thought to prevail just 10 millionths of a second after our universe appeared in a "big bang" explosion of pure energy. The experiments, reported today, created a new state of matter never seen by physicists before... This is "an important step forward in the understanding of the early evolution of the universe," says Luciano Maiani, director general of the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva, where the experiments took place. Current theory of what happened ... ...

This is a continuation of what turned out to be an outstanding thread started by sinkspur which generated at least 260 replies. Read the original here: Only a small petty God would play favorites . One interpretation of the original Post is that it raises the questions: What is the nature of God? What is our relationship to Him? How do we apply these answers to our relationships with others of different beliefs, faiths, cultures, etc.? (This brief interpretation is not a sufficient substitution for the original post and thread - it is good to read that at some point ...

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (Excerpts) For the first time in 15 years, Republicans account for less than half of Orange County’s registered voters. In the county that proudly proclaimed itself "Reagan Country" and was a crucial GOP campaign stop, only 49 percent of the registered voters are Republicans, … The news came as Republicans gathered in Anaheim this weekend for their state convention. Their host city’s main representatives in government - the mayor, assemblyman, state senator and congresswoman - are all democrats… The ranks of independents and third-party voters also are growing. According to the latest count, 18 percent registered with ...

ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA (Excerpts) GOP moderates moved Friday to strike strong anti-abortion language from the California Republican Party’s platform, saying such provisions were driving away middle-of-the-road voters and especially women. In a largely symbolic act meant to signal their frustration at their own party, about 40 Republicans met at a hotel near the GOP state convention and adopted a proposed substitute plank. Their proposed language on abortion would urge Republicans to "work to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions in the United States but allow individuals to form and articulate their own positions." "The party is being torn down, ...

It has been reported that if Pat Buchanan decides to run for the Reform Party’s presidential nomination but is unsuccessful, he will start a new party to be called the Ego party. He is optimistic about attracting other dissatisfied egotists such as Senator Bob Smith. When confronted with the possibility that his actions will contribute to the weakening of the republican party, the only viable current opposition to the democrat party’s power grabbing socialist agenda, he stated that it would be better to have a democrat president and a democrat congress than to contribute to the "status quo". That Pat, ...

THE ART OF LISTENING The KEY to the art of listening is selectivity. You stand guard at the ear-gateway to your mind, heart and spirit. You decide what you will accept. * LISTEN to the good. Tune your ears to love, hope and courage. Tune out gossip, fear and resentment. * LISTEN to the beautiful. Relax to the music of the masters; listen to the symphony of nature - the wind in the treetops, bird songs, thundering surf. * LISTEN with your eyes. Let your imagination make real the "sounds" expressed in a poem, a novel, a picture. * LISTEN ...