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Lifestyles of the rish, famous, and politcally connected.
« on: November 20, 2010, 08:30:48 AM »
Interestingly, fame and power are very, very different.

If you are a movie star, maybe someone like Wesley Snipes, and you don't pay your taxes, you go to prison for three years.

If you are Representative in the house, maybe like Charlie Rangel, and you don't pay taxes for 17 years, your colleagues give you a slap on the wrist, you're allowed to keep your job, and maybe even build a library as a shrine to yourself.

If there was any justice and equality, both of these men would share a cell in the same prison.
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Re: Lifestyles of the rish, famous, and politcally connected.
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2010, 10:36:08 AM »
Someday I would like to be rish.
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Re: Lifestyles of the rish, famous, and politcally connected.
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2010, 10:44:20 AM »
Quote from: Fistful on November 20, 2010, 10:36:08 AM
Someday I would like to be rish.

Given what the word means... I don't think you would.

Google 'to rish' or 'rishatra'.
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« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2010, 10:46:00 AM »
Oh, right. I meant rich. 
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Re: Lifestyles of the rish, famous, and politcally connected.
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2010, 11:38:40 AM »
Quote from: Fistful on November 20, 2010, 10:36:08 AM
Someday I would like to be rish.

You drinking again  ???

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« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2010, 11:48:35 AM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on November 20, 2010, 10:44:20 AM
Given what the word means... I don't think you would.

Google 'to rish' or 'rishatra'.

At least spell it correctly.

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« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2010, 01:45:10 PM »
Put 'em both in jail, it would be go for their re-education. Let them share a cell. By day they could share as Rangel lectures on politics and morality, by night they could relax together by watching Wesley Snipes movies. With any luck they would engage in fatal mutual combat involving shanks made from toothbrushes within a week.
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« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2010, 01:50:47 PM »
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In Larry Niven's Ringworld novels, rishathra is

Oh great, so this is actually another furry thread...
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« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2010, 04:33:20 PM »
Quote from: Ben on November 20, 2010, 01:50:47 PM
Oh great, so this is actually another furry thread...

I think that would be going beyond furry...
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« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2010, 07:13:11 PM »
Quote from: French G. on November 20, 2010, 01:45:10 PM
by night they could relax together by watching Wesley Snipes movies

Nope. Eighth amendment.
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« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2010, 07:44:44 PM »
Quote from: Fistful on November 20, 2010, 07:13:11 PM
Nope. Eight amendment.

Only if the warden put it on the CCTV system.  They can buy their own DVD and watch - but thankfully the rules require headphones at all times.

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« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2010, 01:35:24 AM »
I thought it was  Lifestyles of the Irish, famous, and politcally connected.

BTW "politcally" is spelled politically.

I used to work with a guy from Jamaica who was super liberal, to rib him I would say "that Denzell Snipes guy is a great actor" ... he took the bait every time. :laugh:
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« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2010, 11:14:29 AM »
What do you think would result if the courts allowed the non-prosecution of famous/connected people to be used as precedent in other cases?  Or just the non-prosecution of anyone?
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« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2010, 03:08:26 PM »
But impeachment is not designed to prosecute criminal acts.  It is to punish folks who are convicted of committing treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors.

The failure of the House is in that they did not refer Rangel to DOJ for prosecution of the acts they confirmed (not convicted him for) he committed.  Sort of like a grand jury that finds a true bill but refuses to send it to the DA.

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If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.

Hey you kids!! Get off my lawn!!!

They keep making this eternal vigilance thing harder and harder.  Protecting the 2nd amendment is like playing PACMAN - there's no pause button so you can go to the bathroom.
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