[Vision2020] lawyers
J Ford
privatejf32 at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 9 12:05:49 PST 2007
How about cold puppy noses, cars that go "beep-beep" or yellow-poka-dotted
string bikinis?
Blimy - asking for trouble there, I am!
J :]
>From: "Sue Hovey" <suehovey at moscow.com>
>To: "Tony" <tonytime at clearwire.net>
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] lawyers
>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:45:46 -0600
>
>Tony, you are so welcome. Could it be true that any mention of any subject
>reminds you of Bill Clinton? Chocolate cake, rain, podiatrists--any of
>those subjects grab you?
>
>Sue
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tony" <tonytime at clearwire.net>
>To: "Sue Hovey" <suehovey at moscow.com>
>Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:12 AM
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] lawyers
>
>
> > Sue, I found your comments regarding professionalism to be most
> > refreshing. I agree that Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter exemplify the
>very
> > best in their profession. Also, where you pointed out that some in a
> > position of trust abuse that trust by preying on young people, I was
> > reminded once again of Bill Clinton and his predatory behavior toward
> > woman who functioned under him.
> >
> > Thanks again for your astute observations.
> >
> > Best, -T
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sue Hovey" <suehovey at moscow.com>
> > To: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>; <fotopro63 at hotmail.com>;
> > <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] lawyers
> >
> >
> >> Good for you, Keely. My nephew is an environmental lawyer in Seattle.
>I
> >> am
> >> so proud of him and his accomplishments. Just this month he was
>featured
> >> on
> >> the cover of a Seattle magazine as one of the significant persons in
>that
> >> city whose good deeds are worthy of celebration. There are scuzzy
> >> lawyers,
> >> yes; as there are persons in all fields who are not representative of
>the
> >> best of the profession. In the field of communications I would mention
> >> Rush
> >> Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. In the ministry and even in my own teaching
> >> profession all those in positions of trust who prey on young people.
>No
> >> profession has a corner on the market when it comes to unethical and
> >> unprofessional practitioners. Were it possible to purge the ranks of
>all
> >> of
> >> them that would be a cause to celebrate. Perhaps one way to begin to
> >> do
> >> that is for those who malign other professions to examine their own as
> >> well.
> >>>From my own perspective I feel Kai might even start in his own
>workplace.
> >>
> >> Sue Hovey
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
> >> To: <fotopro63 at hotmail.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> >> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 11:35 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] lawyers
> >>
> >>
> >>> I'm getting tired of all of the lawyer-bashing here.
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, sometimes bad lawyers do reprehensible things. Welcome to a
> >>> fallen
> >>> world; there isn't a profession in it whose practitioners are all pure
> >>> and
> >>> free from temptations of greed and power. But I'm astonished at how
> >>> easily
> >>> people who enjoy freedom and a secure social order blast an entire
> >>> profession whose efforts safeguard what they hold dear, and then
>presume
> >>> to
> >>> run to them when their rights are trampled on. We all benefit from
>the
> >>> highest ideals of the law, and most of us have not suffered directly
> >>> from
> >>> the bad behavior of some in the profession. On the contrary. We're
> >>> better
> >>> off because of law and the lawyers who study, administer, and guide
>us
> >>> through it.
> >>>
> >>> It occurs to me that it is the provence of the secure and relatively
> >>> affluent -- I might say "privileged" -- to malign lawyers. Try seeing
> >>> through the eyes of the disenfranchised, the victimized, the poor, and
> >>> the
> >>> voiceless, for whom the long arm of a vicious society constantly
> >>> reaches.
> >>> In Spanish, the word for lawyer, "abogado," is similar to "advocate."
> >>> In
> >>> my
> >>> work with Mexican immigrants, I saw many examples of injustice, and I
> >>> saw
> >>> a
> >>> few times when righteousness and justice were accomplished through
> >>> lawyers
> >>> -- advocates for those without one. I thank God for those women and
>men
> >>> who
> >>> safeguard the freedoms of both the most privileged and the least of
> >>> those
> >>> among us. Respect for the professions compels me to lament the bad
> >>> ones,
> >>> but it also requires that I extend my gratitude to the good ones who I
> >>> know
> >>> are the majority.
> >>>
> >>> keely
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> From: "Kai Eiselein" <fotopro63 at hotmail.com>
> >>> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> >>> Subject: [Vision2020] Health Care
> >>> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:55:23 +0000
> >>>
> >>> I notice that Nick left out a critcal element in the health care
>issue:
> >>> LAWYERS.
> >>> How much of the high cost is a direct result of sleazy litigators and
> >>> their
> >>> often frivolous lawsuits, which result in higher malpractice insurance
> >>> costs, which are then passed on to consumers?
> >>> One of the hardest hit areas in medicine is in the OB specialty and
>many
> >>> highly qualified practitioners are leaving it because of outrageous
> >>> insurance costs.
> >>> When are people going to learn that doctors are not miracle workers,
> >>> people
> >>> die. Things don't always work out as planned or hoped, an unforseen
> >>> complication here an alergic reaction there and, suddenly, a greezy
> >>> shyster
> >>> shows up and says its worth millions.
> >>> This isn't to say that doctors shouldn't be held accountable for their
> >>> mistakes, they should, but there are things out of their control as
> >>> well.
> >>> Get the scuzzball attorneys under control first, then see what
>happens.
> >>> But
> >>> we know that won't happen with the number of sharks we've elected to
> >>> national office. They'll protect their own.
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