>Steve,
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>Ok, so he's a conservative. Still doesn't make his decisions good nor does that invalidate (or validate for that matter) conservatism itself. I mean, there have to be a few good liberals out there who use their brains rather than their emotional glands, right? So I guess there could be a few conservatives who don't use their brains.
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And you've got those ratios figured out as well as the rest of your usual spew.

>>>Having said that I'd probably disagree and suggest that to take the positions he did he either had some personal prejudices that he allowed to influence his behaviour (essentially what the 7-0 ruling asserted) or he's a soft-headed feely-touchy big-businesses-are-bad kind of non-thinker. <g>
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So. tell us which gland you were stroking as you fantasized the above, Doug?

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>>>>All that from a very conservative judge! Go figure...
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>>>Well, I don't know Judge Penfield's political positions. How did you come by them?
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>>It's called "the World Wide Web". Check it out...
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>>>Having said that I'd probably disagree and suggest that to take the positions he did he either had some personal prejudices that he allowed to influence his behaviour (essentially what the 7-0 ruling asserted) or he's a soft-headed feely-touchy big-businesses-are-bad kind of non-thinker. <g>
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>>Sure Doug. But wrong. And this is called "projection". Check it out...
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>>CNN.com - Entertainment - The Microsoft case: Revealing views ...
>>... Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, a right-wing conservative who once worked for Richard
>>Nixon, told Auletta that the Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation ...
>>http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/books/02/26/microsoft.books/ [More Results From: www.cnn.com]
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>>Judge defends stay on Microsoft curbs
>>... appointee, who is 63, says, ''I am essentially very conservative and would generally
>>prefer the least drastic remedy.'' ... -Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. ...
>>http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cti163.htm [More Results From: www.usatoday.com]
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>>Online NewsHour: Conversation: Auletta -- February 26, 2001
>>... who got $100 million to represent Microsoft; Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, a classic
>>conservative who ultimately would rule against Microsoft and the position ...
>>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/conversation/jan-june01/auletta_02-26.html [More Results From: www.pbs.org]
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>>Network Newsletters: 00-02-01: SCAN> NewsScan Daily, 1 ...
>>... Lessig, whose opinion was sought directly by the presiding judge, Thomas Penfield
>>Jackson. Conservative jurist Robert Bork will write the brief for the states ...
>>http://scout18.cs.wisc.edu/net-news/00-02/00-02-01/0005.html [More Results From: scout18.cs.wisc.edu]
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>>Guardian Unlimited | Netnews | A high price for hubris
>>... of the serious charges against it has goaded Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, a conservative
>>Reaganite appointment, into inflicting a more severe penalty than ...
>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,380703,00.html [More Results From: www.guardian.co.uk]
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>>NewMediaMusic.com: Analysis: Truisms You Read Here Go ...
>>... ribbed Republican judges still enforce the antitrust laws Judge Thomas Penfield
>>Jackson is a conservative jurist, but he got very angry at Microsoft. America ...
>>http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01031198.html
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>>News: Jackson: Decision based on credibility
>>... of the Microsoft trial, no one figured Thomas Penfield Jackson for a hanging judge.
>>A pro-business, conservative Republican who was one of the first judges ...
>>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2584347,00.html [More Results From: www.zdnet.com]
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>>Sobran Column -- Playing Monopoly
>>... June 8, 2000. Now that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson described as a pro-business,
>>conservative Republican, by the Wall Street Journal has ordered the breakup of ...
>>http://www.sobran.com/columns/000608.shtml
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>>Mathew Fogg
>>... that I've won, against the Justice Department. Judge [Thomas Penfield] Jackson, an
>>ultra-conservative judge, said that due to the endemic atmosphere of racial ...
>>http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fogg_newviol.htm
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>>Cox Newspapers | Washington Bureau
>>... various public faces of Thomas Penfield Jackson, the burly US District ... Jackson was
>>named to bench by ... Reagan in 1982 as a conservative Republican who a decade ...
>>http://www.coxnews.com/washingtonbureau/staff/glass/06-08-00MICROSOFTJUDGE08COX.html
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>>US v. Microsoft
>>... accuses US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of being a stranger to ... Conservatives
>>are flocking to conservative websites.... Hunter S. Thompson ...
>>http://www.wired.lycos.com/news/antitrust/0,1551,,00.html [More Results From: www.wired.lycos.com]
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>>Appeals Court Nominees Share Conservative Roots (washingtonpost ...
>>... because they've sometimes taken conservative positions in court cases. But ... questions
>>about Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's public comments about the ...
>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62943-2001May22.html [More Results From: www.washingtonpost.com]
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>>American Conservative Union Press Releases
>>... US District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson made public his ... business remedy, Judge
>>Jackson ordered the company ... The American Conservative Union 1007 Cameron ...
>>http://www.conservative.org/release/pr06072000.htm [More Results From: www.conservative.org]
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>>TIME.com: TIME Magazine -- Grounds For Appeal
>>... Microsoft's side. Judge Robert Bork, a former conservative member of the court, is
>>now ... one other prominent GOP-appointed judge--Thomas Penfield Jackson. ...
>>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101000619-47116,00.html [More Results From: www.time.com]
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>>11/15/99 BW Online--Microsoft: Judge Jackson's Ruling Is ...
>>... experts say the more-conservative Court of Appeals has several ways to overrule
>>Jackson's findings US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has left little ...
>>http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov1999/nf91115e.htm [More Results From: www.businessweek.com]
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>>Microsoft in Mega Trouble - US Politics - 04/04/00
>>... Related Sites from About Conservative Politics: US Crime/Punishment Current Events:
>>Law ... browser market." - US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson . ...
>>http://uspolitics.about.com/library/weekly/aa040400a.htm [More Results From: uspolitics.about.com]
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>>http://www.mellon.com/inst/capmkt/fx/tools/occpapers/uselect.pdf
>>... is widely regarded as among Microsoft, the Honorable Thomas Penfield Jackson, the
>>most conservative mainstream parties in Europe. was appointed by President ...
>>http://www.mellon.com/inst/capmkt/fx/tools/occpapers/uselect.pdf
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>>Judge taps Posner to fight "divergent" fed views - Tech ...
>>... Although US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson made public his decision on Friday
>>to appoint conservative appeals court judge Richard Posner as a mediator ...
>>http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1462242.html [More Results From: news.cnet.com]
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>>CBS News | Eye On Politics | Microbacklash: Dog Won't Hunt ...
>>... rival Novell Inc., have backed Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling. Moreover,
>>the judge himself is a conservative Republican, appointed during the Reagan ...
>>http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,205525-412,00.shtml [More Results From: www.cbsnews.com]
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>>Court slaps breakup order on Microsoft - [09/06/2000] - The ...
>>... Right after Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the software giant split in ... The
>>move would bypass the more conservative US Appeals Court, which has ...
>>http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/090600/detFRO04.htm [More Results From: www.hindustantimes.com]