>>>>>>If people want to resent that bottom 20%, consider that they received 3.5% of all income in 2007 and paid 1.9% of all taxes, with no dividends or capital gains to help them get by.
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>>>>>>If you feel so strongly tht the bottom 20% are paying too much, I suggest that you donate all of your income to them. There is nothing stopping you from doing so.
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>>>>>And, to add to Marcia's comment, for those of you libs who think you aren't paying enough in taxes, write the government a check! They will misspend it, if you send it!
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>>>>You're channeling Jesse Jackson with that last sentence, John ;-)
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>>>Haha, no that would be Johnny Cochran!
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>>Could have been, although I suspect Cochran picked it up from Jesse. Jess has been around Chicago forever (lucky us) and I can tell you he has been doing that rhyming thing since Hitler was a corporal.
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>>Even all these years later I am amazed that Marcia Clark let Cochran get away with that glove act. It was a leather glove that had been sitting around soaked in blood for for a year or more. What happens to leather when it gets wet? Duh, it shrinks. AND O.J. was allowed to try it on himself, making a big show of it being too small. What a farce. It helped the man get away with murder.
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>Yep, she blew it, first by letting him try the glove on, and second by not demonstrating what happens to leather when it gets wet. Even so, karma has a way of leveling the playing field, doesn't it? OJ is where he should be!

That's true. He is a pariah. After his playing career ended he was basically in the business of Being OJ, liked and admired by all. All that went away. Supposedly he has a hard time finding golf partners, which would have been unimaginable when he was dashing into the end zone or making Hertz commercials. No, he's not behind bars, as the average guy who offed his wife and some other guy, who didn't have the wherewithal to hire a legal dream team, probably would be. But he's paying for it.

Where Marcia Clark really lost the case IMO was right up front in the jury selection. She wanted a lot of women on the jury, thinking they would respond to the testimony presented about earlier domestic violence by OJ. In fact those jurors were more motivated by the defense's depiction of a racist LAPD. They found it entirely plausible that OJ was set up by white cops. No witnesses, no weapon. The DNA evidence, which to me was irrefutable -- OJ's blood at the scene, the victim's blood in his car and his house -- was not trusted. So off he went.