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In reply to the discussion: This lady is pissed.....but, she's also right! [View all]Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)28. Excellent! Look at this: Alan Simpson had "run-ins with the law"
Simpson had several run-ins with the law during his youth. A "friend of the Court" brief filed before the United States Supreme Court in the juvenile imprisonment cases Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida states: In Simpsons words to this Court, I was a monster.
One day in Cody, Wyoming, when Simpson was in high school, he and some friends went out to do damage. They went to an abandoned war relocation structure and decided to torch it. They committed arson on federal property, a crime now punishable by up to twenty years in prison if no one is hurt, and punishable by up to life in prison if the arson causes a persons death. Luckily for Simpson, no one was injured in the blaze. Simpson not only played with fire, but also with guns. He played a game with his friends in which they shot at rocks close to one another, at times using bullets they stole from the local hardware store. The goal of the game was to come as close as possible to striking someone without actually doing so. Again, Simpson was lucky: no one was killed or seriously injured. Simpson and his friends went shooting throughout their community. They fired their rifles at mailboxes, blowing holes in several and killing a cow. They fired their weapons at a road grader. We just raised hell, Simpson says. Federal authorities charged Simpson with destroying government property and Simpson pleaded guilty. He received two years of probation and was required to make restitution from his own funds funds that he was supposed to obtain by holding down a job.
... As he [Simpson] has described it, The older you get, the more you realize . . . your own attitude is stupefying, and arrogant, and cocky, and a miserable way to live. Simpson stated;"I was just dumb and rebellious and stupid. And a different person." And then added;"You're not who are when you're 16 or 18. You're dumb, and you don't care and you think you are eternal."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_K._Simpson
Actually, Alan, you're still a stupefyingly ignorant, cocky, dumb, rebellious and stupid asshole, only now you're an OLD stupefyingly ignorant, cocky, dumb, rebellious and stupid asshole.
One day in Cody, Wyoming, when Simpson was in high school, he and some friends went out to do damage. They went to an abandoned war relocation structure and decided to torch it. They committed arson on federal property, a crime now punishable by up to twenty years in prison if no one is hurt, and punishable by up to life in prison if the arson causes a persons death. Luckily for Simpson, no one was injured in the blaze. Simpson not only played with fire, but also with guns. He played a game with his friends in which they shot at rocks close to one another, at times using bullets they stole from the local hardware store. The goal of the game was to come as close as possible to striking someone without actually doing so. Again, Simpson was lucky: no one was killed or seriously injured. Simpson and his friends went shooting throughout their community. They fired their rifles at mailboxes, blowing holes in several and killing a cow. They fired their weapons at a road grader. We just raised hell, Simpson says. Federal authorities charged Simpson with destroying government property and Simpson pleaded guilty. He received two years of probation and was required to make restitution from his own funds funds that he was supposed to obtain by holding down a job.
... As he [Simpson] has described it, The older you get, the more you realize . . . your own attitude is stupefying, and arrogant, and cocky, and a miserable way to live. Simpson stated;"I was just dumb and rebellious and stupid. And a different person." And then added;"You're not who are when you're 16 or 18. You're dumb, and you don't care and you think you are eternal."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_K._Simpson
Actually, Alan, you're still a stupefyingly ignorant, cocky, dumb, rebellious and stupid asshole, only now you're an OLD stupefyingly ignorant, cocky, dumb, rebellious and stupid asshole.
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Don't ask how much he "earned". Ask how much he was "paid". There's a difference.
SharonAnn
Apr 2012
#1
Another point is how much did they benefit from their position of power?
LiberalFighter
Apr 2012
#57
They ALL should be run outta town on a rail. ANYONE with an "r" by his or her name.
calimary
Apr 2012
#24
Pure Teabaggery. Re: Taxes, losers, age change, etc. Written by and for people who hate Democrats.
freshwest
Apr 2012
#40
i'll never forgive him for his role in the thomas confirmation hearings
noiretextatique
Apr 2012
#14
The sad thing is he's to the left of most if not all GOP office-holders today.
libinnyandia
Apr 2012
#38