The Meaning of "Make a Statement"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jun 15 16:23:42 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
> Justice Thomas presumably wrote this with a straight face, but if the meaning of "make" was not ambiguous prior to the  > Court's decision, then it's hard to think what would meet the Court's standard of ambiguity.

Don't forget that this is the work of the "Silent Bob" of the Supreme
Court, also known among us - or should that be "we" -colored of the
Democratic Left as the "Yard-Jockey of the Republican Right."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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