Pat Oliphant for May 06, 2009

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    believecommonsense  almost 15 years ago

    Punk is back. I don’t think individual state bar associations is the way to go … we’d have 50 different interpretations.

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    Simon_Jester  almost 15 years ago

    LLeRay, preferably under Oath

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    macb423  almost 15 years ago

    Doesn’t anyone know the difference between “lose” and “loose” anymore?

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    dlullmanii  almost 15 years ago

    Oliphant is obviously quite bitter about this issue - As we all should be

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    tomtrow44  almost 15 years ago

    Pat, you messed up. Those lawyers with their hands in their own pockets should have their hands in someone else’s pockets.

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    believecommonsense  almost 15 years ago

    and it’s and its and choose and chose

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    Motivemagus  almost 15 years ago

    Don’t get me started on IQ, which has been demonstrated to be racist, culturally biased, etc., and is still one of the dominant tools for selection. (For those interested, a very good if rather aggressive take on this is The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould. It will tick you off.) Being “test conscious” helps a great deal to get through these things. I had a roommate at Harvard who worked for one of the test prep people – he could get 95%th percentile on any tests – LSAT, MCAT, you name it – and he was dyslexic! But having said that, I do have a simple rule for you’re and it’s: “you’re” is always short for “you are,” and “it’s” is always short for “it is.” If you aren’t sure, try substituting the full phrase and see if it sounds funny. You’re welcome!

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    riley05  almost 15 years ago

    Just in case it does any good, here’s the trick for “who” and “whom”: Try substituting “he” or “him”. If “he” sounds better, use “who. If “him” sounds better, use “whom”. The mnemonic is the “m” ending “him” and “whom”.

    Example: “Who is helping whom?”, which would be checked by substituting “He is helping him”.

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    riley05  almost 15 years ago

    CH, I’ll put my money on your latter statement.

    Senor, I’m touched, but also taken.

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    MacZenWES  almost 15 years ago

    Yeah this is a tough one. I think I agree with disbarring them. The function of an attorney is to GIVE ADVICE, not to take action. The “principals”, in this case POTUS, SoD, DCIA, maybe the AG and those below them, are the ones that took the (allegedly) illegal action. The punishment for a sloppy, biased or bad faith legal opinion is you get disbarred and can’t be a lawyer anymore. It isn’t jail, but it isn’t insignificant. There are some who argue that a biased, bad faith opinion in the government context, because it can lead to legal “cover” for members of the administration, should carry criminal liability, but I’m not sure the theory has been tested in the U.S.

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    Lt_Lanier  almost 15 years ago

    You know servicemen, in SER training (Survival, Escape, and Resistance) go through waterboarding practice. I’d say, as Nancy Pelosi may agree, that it’s a sight more humane than the rendition-extradition policies under the previous Clinton/Panetta admin. or, for that matter, the Bataan Death March.

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