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Hey there ugly girl
that beautiful voice of yours
made you attractive
I was just thinking. If Bush managed to be elected to a 2nd term, and wanted to go for a third term, he could make a very compelling case that he had only been elected once. (This implies the impossible event that Mr. Bush didn’t try to rig the second election and was elected anyway.)
Hmmmm, interesting thought. Not so likely that anyone would buy it, though. I hope.
Hmmm…
Looking at the 22nd Amendment, I see that it states:
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
Reading this literally, I can see that an argument like the one you propose could be made. After all, he wasn’t elected in 2000 so much as he was awarded the presidency.
Still, I think the intent of limiting presidents to two terms is pretty clear, even if it is not unequivocally worded. Even the Supreme Court would have a tough time justifying that logic--which is not to suggest that it wouldn’t try.
Sako, am I missing something? you say
Reading this literally, I can see that an argument like the one you propose could be made.
but the 22nd amendment says
and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President
He has held the office of the president for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected.
This means tbat an argument like UltraBobby poses couldn’t be made. Or am I just drunker than I think?
Very very good point Kevin! I had just thought of that and was getting ready to post it when I saw your comment.
P.S. When did I become UltraBobby :(
You’ve always been UltraBobby to me.
If you read the wording of the amendment without reading anything into it, what it really says is that a person cannot be elected more than once if he has served more than two years of someone else’s term. If Bush wanted to make the argument that he was not elected but appointed in 2000, he could argue that he was first elected in 2004 (effectively, he would be arguing that no one was elected in 2000, thereby dodging the spirit of the amendment while technically not violating it). It’s a fool’s argument, to be sure, but since when have we known Bush to be anything other than a fool?
But don’t worry about it. It’s not worth debating in any detail. The likelihood of something like that happening are ridiculously remote.
I’m just debating it in fun. The same spirit I made the first post in. And really, Bush is serving all of Al Gore’s term isn’t he?
I’m just having fun too. 
What it says though, is that wether he was elected or not, hw can only “hold the office of president” for two terms.
He could be the (whoever becomes president if both the vice president and president die) for somone who is killed in the first year of office, then he servers out the last three… then the same thing happens again, and again, the president is mysteriously assasinated. (I think your site will be getting some visits from the secret service Bob) and again he takes over for the next three years.
Because he has served more than two years as president each time, he can no longer be elected. even though he was never elected once in the first place.
I don’t know what would happen if he was chosen to be vice president a third time… or if he was, what would happen when his third president befalls some tragedy?
and I thougth I needed to get laid !
I got nailed (and by nailed I mean hit really really hard) in the eye, by one of those crazy clumbsy erratic and altogether too large cicadas today.
Stupid hummingbird-sized bugs!
They are pretty ungainly on wing, aren’t they? At least they herald themselves loudly, giving you plenty of time to get out of the way. Usually.
Is your eye OK?
This is a test. Mom please tell me if you get this e-mail.
Man, we have those things over here in Japan and are they but big and but loud!
Hello Everybody.
I just returned from a fun-filled, action packed weekend in Nevada and California. I expected to check the Duo site to see some exciting new posts from Bob, or some exciting new comments from the rest of you, but its the same as when I left it. I expected, at least, to have UB make fun of me for my double comment.
My sister invited me to go along on this 4-day trip with her and her son Michael. We flew to Reno and met my brother Dave, wife Jane, and their 21 yr old son Charley. They had all kinds of fun surprises planned for us! We spent the night in Reno at Harrah’s and had an AWESOME buffet. We also saw a comedian magician and a singing quartet, consisting of former member of the singing groups the Platters, Coasters, Drifters and some others I think. They did a lot of old nostalgia songs, mostly MoTown.
Our house is still up in the air, but will hopefully be move-back-inable soon. My husband’s brother & wife are very kindly providing us with a home in our transient state, but I think more than a week’s worth of overnight guests could get old pretty quickly. They do let me use their computer, or you wouldn’t be getting this provacative new posting.
Well, there is lots more, but I’m tired and this is kind of boring, so I’ll tell you about the rest later and I’ll try, as Emeril says “To spice it up a little.”
Ultramom
Hi, UltraMom! Well, let’s see. What’s been going on around here?
MJ finished an important web project for the Australian Embassy’s arts festival; I got glasses so I can see what I’m reading without hurting my eyes; UB has a big presentation on web standards tomorrow. Tokyo is finally experiencing its usual hot-humid summer weather and we’re all cranky. (OK *I* am cranky from the heat and I just assume everyone else is.)
Nobody’s going on any fun summer trips or vacations. All of our houses are firmly attached to the ground. And not one of us has become a renowned poet or received Bookworm Deluxe as a gift. (UltraDad, I’m sorry for introducing that game to your household)
You definitely have us beat on the excitement levels!
Tokyo’s SOOOO boring. Or maybe it’s just us…
So good to hear from you Kristen. Yes, when you put it THAT way, my life sounds very exciting, huh? It really isn’t all glamour and glitz, however. Hope all your projects are going well. One son is “home” (well, at Uncle Chuck’s with the rest of us) for a few days, and the renowned poet laureate of Howe is on a BIG fire near Duboise, Idaho where he is stationed. Right now a John Wayne movie is playing on the television (again). Perhaps this makes me un-American, but I really do NOT like John Wayne. This is totally incomprehensible to my husband. Jim has learned a bunch of really cool magic card tricks, so I’m glad his summer has been productive.
Stay in touch, y’all.
UltraMom
Kristen is right, UltraMom. Nothing special happening here in Tokyo. It is very hot and humid. There are occasional typhoons which always manage to give Tokyo a miss. I will be taking my “summer” vacation next month so I will be stuck here this month with nothing to look forward to except one wine-tasting event.
However, my new apartment is quite pretty and has me busy with shopping for it. Hope your house will be reattached to the ground soon.
Well, my house has now been set down on its foundation, and I am a little bit closer to being back in. My in-laws have been more than gracious, and being homeless wasn’t half as bad as I expected, however.
I have a knotty problem for you computer experts; my sister-in-law, Joy, gets her e-mail through a provider called “earth link”. She is only able to check her mail thru the Netscape browser, which on this computer is slow and ponderous. Explorer is much cleaner and faster, but when she tries to check her mail thru it she gets this error message: (thru Outlook)
The add-in “C:Program FilesNet2PhoneLaunchNet2Phone32.dll” could not be iinstalled or loaded. Unable to load “C:ProgramFilesNet2PhoneLaunchNet2Phone.” You may be out of memory, out of system resources or missing a .dll file.
I guess she is missing a file she needs? Anyway if you have any ideas, let me know.
Ultramom
UltraMom,
First of all don’t you mean “my sister-in-law, UltraJoy?”
Socond the error she is getting is quite strange, it seems that starting Outlook (is it really Outlook, or is it Outlook Express?, those are two different programs) is trying to launch an Internet Phone program called Net2Phone. The first thing that I would recommend that she do is download Spybot - Search & Destroy and scan her computer with it. There are some really nasty programs out there that can hijack your browser and mail programs and also transmit information about your computer usage to interested parties. Spybot helps to find and remove these, and can vaccinate your computer against getting some of them in the first place. If this doesn’t work, let me know which “Outlook” Aunt UltraJoy is using, and I will see what else I can come up with.
UltraMom,
I just did a google search, and got a little bit more information about the problem Aunt Joy may be having. It appears that she is probably using Outlook, and probably has Net2Phone installed as an add-in. If she checks her outlook add-in settings, she will probably find an entry for Net2Phone there. She should remove that, and hopefully everything should be sunshine and rainbows again. If not, let me know, and I’ll see what I can do about showing her how to remove the registry entry that may be causing the problem.
An alternative would be to install Net2Phone, but I’m guessing she doesn’t want that.
UB
Hi people…
I am having the same error using Outlook 2003…
Can anybody tell me where I would find the add-in settings?
Cheers
Pete
Trouble :The add-in “C:Program FilesNet2PhoneLaunchNet2Phone32.dll”
Why ?
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Hello !
Here is the solution.
First launch your Outlook.
Steps:
1)Click on TOOLS, Then OPTIONS ( below)
2)Go to the tab called OTHER.
3)Look for Outlook “Advanced OPTIONS”,Click on it
4)then look for “Addins Manager”
5)Once there disable “lauchn2p”
6)And click on OK,Close Outlook and Launch it.
WOW now you can smile !!!
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Jean from Paris
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Hi Daddy! Where are you? Please write a E-Mail. I wish you a merry X-Mas time .
your daughter,
Jennifer
Jean, thank you for that answer, removing net2phone from outlook worked perfectly for me with those instructions and I no longer have that error when starting it up.
I wonder who you were talking to today? I’m glad it wasn’t me… I don’t like being called ugly.