But then of course William Rehnquist had no judicial experience either if memory serves my correctly. Rod W6ROD At 08:50 PM 11/18/2005, you wrote:

Andy,

What a ghastly, but accurate, nightmare!

Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director 5065 Bethany Rd., Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: <mailto:k8je@arrl.org>k8je@arrl.org; Tel: 513-459-0142 ARRL Great Lakes Division ARRL, the Reason Amateur Radio is! Members, the Reason ARRL is! -----Original Message----- From: Andy Oppel [mailto:andy_oppel@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:48 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:13293] Re: Abernathy Announces Departure from FCC

My only fear is the next one may be worse than this one was. I know that's difficult to imagine. But if he can nominate an attorney who has never been a judge for the Supreme Court, I figure anything can happen.

-- Andy Oppel, N6AJO

At 07:51 PM 11/18/2005, you wrote:

I'll cry . . . tomorrow.

Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director 5065 Bethany Rd., Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: <mailto:k8je@arrl.org>k8je@arrl.org; Tel: 513-459-0142 ARRL Great Lakes Division ARRL, the Reason Amateur Radio is! Members, the Reason ARRL is! -----Original Message----- From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [ mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 9:55 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:13284] Abernathy Announces Departure from FCC

Anybody got a brass band handy?

Dave

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