Word: specious
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...decision to attach such weight to the December 12 deadline was based on thoroughly specious legal reasoning - so specious that it has led some to declare the decision political in nature. The Supreme Court should never have opened itself up to such accusations; if the majority wanted to guarantee the end of the Florida recount, they ought to have structured their argument around a convincing legal precedent - rather than depending on such a transparent and frail political maneuver and then trying to disguise it as a matter...
...from discrimination based upon sexual orientation. TCF argued that it had denied Catalano a leadership position not because she was a bisexual, but rather because she interpreted Scripture on homosexuality in a manner that was inconsistent with the organization's beliefs. Like the protesters, we find this claim entirely specious. Any organization that forces an individual to renounce the morality of his or her own identity in order to gain membership or hold office is guilty of discrimination of the worst kind...
...same time, I find the Republican argument that the courts are making law rather than interpreting it to be specious. What do you do when you're confronted with incompetent lawmakers and a legislature like Florida's that enacts imprecise and contradictory laws? You can't just throw up your hands and walk away. The court's job is to try to make sense out of statutes that don't always make sense...
...greenhouse gases, as part of a country's emission reductions. Indeed, the U.S. negotiators went in suggesting that the scale of U.S. forests was sufficient to cut its emission reduction target in half. Needless to say, the Europeans aren't having any of it, dismissing the proposals as a specious attempt to let the world's biggest polluter off the hook...
...meantime, you can still catch "Action" in reruns on the FX network. It's on Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m., convention prime-time, when its breath of sewer air will make a refreshing antidote to the specious perfume wafting down from the podium...