Add in O'Neill acting as mini-Kirk to force the alien out, which always bugs me, and the consciousness switching shell-game to save Sam and, well, a very underwhelming episode. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The fact that Islamic banking, which renounces interest, is a thriving rival to the shaky Western financial shell-game might scare your banker's pocketbook as well, so you can start screaming about Shariah law supplanting the Constitution. ❋ Kamran Pasha (2010)
But a monomaniacal obsession with testing scores risks making public education a shadow of a Wall Street shell-game. ❋ Fred Bauer (2012)
We should do direct carbon tax credits instead of making a shell-game exchange out of the whole thing, like the Republicans asked for. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Shame on your invalid attempt to shell-game this grand magician! ❋ Unknown (2011)
On the other hand, if the mechanisms and institutions underlying the democratic process are widely perceived as fraudulent, unstable, and inefficient, there seem to be few ways to prevent a "free and fair" election from devolving into a stage-managed shell-game. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This is one big gigantic word-smithing, shell-game. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Hundreds of billions from the Social Security trust fund have also been diverted in true Republican shell-game fashion, in order to make the shortfall look smaller. ❋ Unknown (2009)
You're playing a shell-game with which 'importance' is being discussed. ❋ Unknown (2007)
More importantly, you misrepresent Sagan's position. nullasalus: You're playing a shell-game with which 'importance' is being discussed. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Rather than fulfilling a bipartisan mandate to establish the ombudsman at the National Archives, Bush attempts a shell-game switch of the ombudsman to the DOJ. ' ❋ Unknown (2008)
Rather than fulfilling a bipartisan mandate to establish the ombudsman at the National Archives, Bush attempts a shell-game switch of the ombudsman to the DOJ. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Part of me hopes Seattle is dumb enough to fall for this shell-game. ❋ Unknown (2006)
This is a profits shell-game and petroleum CEOs are pros at swindling consumers! ❋ Unknown (2006)
This latest snub to owners of businesses and homes damaged by floods is the latest in a string of shell-game tomfoolery from the Governor's office. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Maybe future primaries should be made democratic, maybe not (I think not, and that the suggestion that they should involves a mistake about what primaries are), but either way, claiming that the delegate count should be overturned in deference to "the will of the people" is simply a shell-game that, as I think I've demonstrated conclusively, doesn't stand up to minimal scrutiny. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It's the biggest shell-game that's ever been played and our elected officials are hidden from public scrutiny BY BEING SYSTEMATICALLY BOUGHT OFF. ❋ Unknown (2007)
