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The Legislature amended the Health and Safety Code to require an automotive oil distributor to collect , report and pay the automotive oil fee on all first sales . They resolved the problem late Wednesday . The countdown begins at 8 a.m. Sunday with launch on tap , weather permitting , at 12:29 p.m. Wednesday . When the effort to do that , in which the Discovery Institute was involved , by the way , with some Ohio supporters , when that effort ran into opposition , they changed their strategy so that rather than asking for intelligent design to be in the science standards , they simply asked that teachers be permitted to teach or discuss the controversy . This was Boies 's belated argument : " Any differences as to how this standard [ to determine voter intent ] is interpreted have a lot less significance in terms of what votes are counted or not counted than simply the differences in machines that exist throughout the counties of Florida . The Legislature amended the Health and Safety Code to impose the waste tire recycling fee on the sale of certain used and new large tires , including agricultural tires . While the astronauts continue with their entry preparations , flight controllers in Houston are keeping a cautious eye on the weather in Florida . Also , since Boies already knew ( from language in the December 9 emergency order of the Court ) that Justice Scalia , the Court 's right-wing ideologue ; his Pavlovian puppet , Clarence Thomas , who does n't even try to create the impression that he 's thinking ; and three other conservatives on the Court ( William Rehnquist , Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy ) intended to deodorize their foul intent by hanging their hat on the anemic equal protection argument , would n't you think that he and his people would have come up with at least three or four strong arguments to expose it for what it was - - a legal gimmick that the brazen , shameless majority intended to invoke to perpetrate a judicial hijacking in broad daylight ?