famac wrote:
sfcityduck - he threw down the wager - are you going to take him up it? And I find the Tea Bagger stuff insulting.


Famac,

The point of my post is not to predict the outcome of the appeal, it is to properly discuss the issues.  As an attorney, I know how difficult it is to predict the outcome of a case, and how often judges get it wrong.  I've lost appeals I should have won and won appeals I should have lost.  So, no, I'm not going to bet on an outcome, especially when I haven't read the appellate briefs on which the outcome will be based.  This appeal could have several stages, and it will be a long time, possibly years, before it is over.

I also don't make gentlemen's bets with folks who aren't gentlemen.  Binecon has repeatedly insulted me and my profession.  

On that note, I find it curious you feel a need to note that you feel "insulted" by a comment not directed to you, but make no comment on Binecon's rudeness to me.  Seems to me that Binecon's unprovoked insults are motivated by some long past political animosity, as I can't otherwise explain his insult that at some other point my analysis has offended him.  Hard for me to believe that my love of Barks or EC could have offended anyone.  I agree that there is no place for political animosity on this board.  The fact I apparently pegged Binecon accurately is suggested by his lack of alternative explanation for his animosity.

No further need for me to waste time on this.