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The Ridiculous LexisNexis Search that the Justice Department Used
[First name of a candidate]! and pre/2 [last name of a candidate] w/7 bush or gore or republican! or democrat! or charg! or accus! or criticiz! or blam! or defend! or iran contra or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! or controvers! or racis! or fraud! or investigat! or bankrupt! or layoff! or downsiz! or PNTR or NAFTA or outsourc! or indict! or enron or kerry or iraq or wmd! or arrest! or intox! or fired or sex! or racis! or intox! or slur! or arrest! or fired or controvers! or abortion! or gay! or homosexual! or gun! or firearm!
Needless to say, when asked about it, Williams first said she didn't remember ever seeing it, then said she'd used an edited version just once. LexisNexis records show she used it, as shown, 25 times." Note that 'sex!' appears twice in the query. Must be VERY important.
what the hell
"Sex, sex, sex, that's all they think about!"
Can someone tell me what a LexisNexis search is
Wikipedia can. Do you know what Wikipedia is? If not, look it up on Wikipedia.
...the recipe for a good time!
They do TRY to be secure with the LEO-only portions though.
So, if you're beyond a Low Earth Orbit, you're safe?
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Hedley Lamarr: Qualifications?
Applicant: Rape, murder, arson, and rape.
Hedley Lamarr: You said rape twice.
Applicant: I like rape.
Courtesy IMDB
They do TRY to be secure with the LEO-only portions though.
So, if you're beyond a Low Earth Orbit, you're safe?
Law Enforcement Officer, but I like your sense of humor.
I would have also laughed if you took it as limiting access based on astrological sign.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
This must be what they mean about a search with a "wide stance".
Perhaps it's more enlightening to add together all the terms appearing more than once, like sex!, fired, racis!, arrest!, intox! and contravers!. What emerges is an interesting psychological view into the heads of the people doing the search. Based on what they list more than once, I would guess Jan Williams and Monica Gooding are afraid of getting so drunk or otherwise intoxicated that they wind up having sex with someone of a different race, being arrested (perhaps by an aggrieved other-racial spouse or something), and having the subsequent controversy cost them their jobs.
Just kidding, but who knows? Some of those prim and proper morality queens get really, really twisted when they drink a bit too much. Yeah alcohol!
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
M. Nut Shamalamadingdong is actually God's way of punishing us for electing Bush twice. Repent now before another soul-searingly bad movie is unleashed!
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
The spotted owl became a shibboleth. Anyone who said "save the endangered owls!" was likely to be a Democrat, and anyone who said "to hell with the owls!" was a Democrat.
Trying to have it both ways, eh? Tricky, those Democrats...
-- Language is a virus from outer space.
Whereas anyone who said "To hell with the Republicans!" was probably a Spotted Owl.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
...the damage good ole [President Bill Clinton]...did to us
8 years of peace and prosperity ending with a budget surplus?
If you build it, nerds will come. Soylentnews.org
It's "To hell with Georgia". You insensitive clod.
If the Justice Department doesn't stop the spotted owl, homosexuals, and dirty dirty sex; the terrorists win.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Constitutionally, it's just him and the VP, standing around outside somewhere. He does have the constitutional power to sign bills into law, so legally he probably demand, in the courts, that Congress budget him a pen or other writing utensil. But that's it.
Not to be terribly pedantic, but this isn't quite accurate. He doesn't have the power to sign bills into law. He has ten days (minus Sundays) to look at a bill after it's passed by congress before it automatically gets passed.
What he has is the power to veto bills, which is the only reason he has need for a pen.
Don't even get me started on pocket vetoes...
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
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That's a very short and limited disclaimer. Any casual Slashdot reader could easily take your observation about the shortcomings of parliaments and apply it in the real world with terrible consequences, and you would be liable. Might I suggest:
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