Vodka and Orange
Bu2
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My boyfriend and I just had an argument. No, it wasn't over screwdrivers, but screwing each other may be out of the picture for tonight, heh heh *bouncing eyebrows*.
We were talking about OJ Simpson. Simply because we were talking about the system, and men who we think beat it, such as Robert "Baretta" Blake, William "Shall We Go For a Swim" Shatner, Robert "Wood Apparently Doesn't Float" Wagner, and, uh, OJ.
And I kept arguing that I was one of the few humans on the planet who agreed with the acquittal because I felt that, technically, "beyond a reasonable doubt" hadn't worked because the evidence had obviously been tampered with and messed up to a certain degree. I was looking at the letter of the law and not the fact that OJ had most certainly done it.
My boyfriend and I, so far, agree.
And then we talk about the second case, the civil case, and we start to disagree. I tell him that I think it opens a loophole that could cause an innocent man to be taken to trial twice and found guilty in that second court. Notice, I say second court. It's a civil court this time, not a criminal. And while many people took pleasure in seeing OJ lose in civil court, and have to give up all his money and his Heisman trophy, I can't help but envision the innocent man who might be forced to give up all of his income for the rest of his life simply because OJ's case set a precedent.
As I told my boyfriend, I don't want to see precedents set, and used as loopholes against the innocent sometime down the line. Sure, it proves justice is served to the obviously guilty, but it can also do lifetime damage to the innocent who are acquitted in criminal court due to faulty circumstantial evidence.
And that's when my boyfriend turned Socialist on me, and said that the laws we follow today were written by men who lived over 200 years ago and times have changed since then, and so should our laws. He argued that every case should be tried on its own merits and not on the basis of preceding law. Times change, laws should. People change, the Constitution should change.
And I kinda went bonkers at this because, I may be liberal, but I ain't THAT liberal. I started envisioning a government without our Constitution and everything that goes with it, and I got all defensive and prickly.
And then I sat back and looked at why, and I started trying to defend reasons why I defend our democracy versus a socialist government. And I remembered Mr. Sullivan, my 7th grade Social Studies teacher, who taught my class about China, the "sleeping giant" and socialism.
He split the class up into small groups and said that we were each to live on an island for the rest of the term, where four groups of islanders shared four grocery stands between them. There was no money, we had to barter with beads. Beads were chosen as our currency because they were popular ornaments for the women on this island.
The first day, one group sold bread for 23 beads. My group sold it for 21. Another group sold it for 25. The fourth group sold it for 19.
The fourth group ran out of bread and couldn't keep up with supply and demand. The rest of us ran low on beads.
The next day, we opened a bead bank.
The rest went downhill from there.
We were talking about OJ Simpson. Simply because we were talking about the system, and men who we think beat it, such as Robert "Baretta" Blake, William "Shall We Go For a Swim" Shatner, Robert "Wood Apparently Doesn't Float" Wagner, and, uh, OJ.
And I kept arguing that I was one of the few humans on the planet who agreed with the acquittal because I felt that, technically, "beyond a reasonable doubt" hadn't worked because the evidence had obviously been tampered with and messed up to a certain degree. I was looking at the letter of the law and not the fact that OJ had most certainly done it.
My boyfriend and I, so far, agree.
And then we talk about the second case, the civil case, and we start to disagree. I tell him that I think it opens a loophole that could cause an innocent man to be taken to trial twice and found guilty in that second court. Notice, I say second court. It's a civil court this time, not a criminal. And while many people took pleasure in seeing OJ lose in civil court, and have to give up all his money and his Heisman trophy, I can't help but envision the innocent man who might be forced to give up all of his income for the rest of his life simply because OJ's case set a precedent.
As I told my boyfriend, I don't want to see precedents set, and used as loopholes against the innocent sometime down the line. Sure, it proves justice is served to the obviously guilty, but it can also do lifetime damage to the innocent who are acquitted in criminal court due to faulty circumstantial evidence.
And that's when my boyfriend turned Socialist on me, and said that the laws we follow today were written by men who lived over 200 years ago and times have changed since then, and so should our laws. He argued that every case should be tried on its own merits and not on the basis of preceding law. Times change, laws should. People change, the Constitution should change.
And I kinda went bonkers at this because, I may be liberal, but I ain't THAT liberal. I started envisioning a government without our Constitution and everything that goes with it, and I got all defensive and prickly.
And then I sat back and looked at why, and I started trying to defend reasons why I defend our democracy versus a socialist government. And I remembered Mr. Sullivan, my 7th grade Social Studies teacher, who taught my class about China, the "sleeping giant" and socialism.
He split the class up into small groups and said that we were each to live on an island for the rest of the term, where four groups of islanders shared four grocery stands between them. There was no money, we had to barter with beads. Beads were chosen as our currency because they were popular ornaments for the women on this island.
The first day, one group sold bread for 23 beads. My group sold it for 21. Another group sold it for 25. The fourth group sold it for 19.
The fourth group ran out of bread and couldn't keep up with supply and demand. The rest of us ran low on beads.
The next day, we opened a bead bank.
The rest went downhill from there.
Feels Good Inc.
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No sex over that?
Jeebus.Why go home
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my jaw still works....Feels Good Inc.0
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Will you marry me?>
Why go home
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No, but I just got denied service at a steakhouse in St. Louis, and it was because I'm black. Why go home
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the price of beads in my Social Studies class?Feels Good Inc.0
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Depends on how expensive the beads are.Why go home
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TOOT TOOT!
Beep beep, heeeeyyyy.....
TOOT TOOT!Feels Good Inc.0 -
number 9...............Why go home
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that song.Feels Good Inc.0
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for long.Why go home
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had a nice body,
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Bu2 wrote:had a nice body,
would you hold it against me?
If I swore you were an angel would you treat me like the devil tonight?
BTW not sure I know where I stand in terms of your argument bu girl.
Seems you've both got a point!
Don't you just love my rampant fence sitting?! :rolleyes:NOPE!!!
*~You're IT Bert!~*
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Jeanie wrote: If I swore you were an angel would you treat me like the devil tonight?
BTW not sure I know where I stand in terms of your argument bu girl.
Seems you've both got a point!
Don't you just love my rampant fence sitting?! :rolleyes:
a shitload of alcohol in me (well, not THAT much, heh heh), and I'm just over-reacting to everything and yet having fun by under-reacting to everything by making it a joke about sex and blow jobs.
You know, kinda like Clinton.
Um, Bill, that is.Feels Good Inc.0 -
on Bu's hot body.....Why go home
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is..............
YES. Why go home
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rampant face sitting?Why go home
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Are you sure it wasn't my hot toddy?Feels Good Inc.0
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look beyond a woman's toddy.Why go home
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