XPost: alt.politics.socialism, alt.politics.economics, alt.politics.media   
   From: efreem2@alumni.umbc.edu   
      
   The only thing worse than people who tailgate   
   are those people   
   who won't get out of my way   
   when I get right behind them.   
      
      
   While planning our trip to Europe,   
   my husband looked after our passports.   
   I was surprised to read on our application forms that   
   his hair color was silver, mine was grey.   
      
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   Oneliners   
      
   I belive in clubs for men - only after kindness fails   
      
   Dieting is wishful shrinking.   
      
   Being cool, is not trying to be cool.   
      
   To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice your gift   
      
   Cosmetics: A woman's means for keeping a man from reading between the   
   lines.   
      
   Never hire a colorblind electrician   
      
   A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defence.   
      
   A teenager is a person who answers the phone in the middle of the first   
   ring.   
      
   I'm a pseudo-vegetarian. I only eat animals that only eat vegetables   
      
   There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know   
   nothing about.   
      
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   Rookies (or, players in their first year)   
   are named after the rook in chess.   
      
   Rooks generally are the last pieces   
   to be moved into action,   
   and the same goes for Rookies.   
      
      
   Younger generations have come to read e.g. as:   
   "example given", although e.g. is actually abbreviation   
   for the Latin phrase "exempli gratia" which means   
   "for the sake of example."   
      
   This is a great example that shows how language is altered   
   with and by the younger generations.   
      
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   I saw a bald eagle the other day.   
   All of its feathers were combed over to one side.   
      
      
   Benny:    Who's your favorite fiction writer?   
   Murray:  My accountant.   
      
      
   I invented a substance that can eat through anything,   
   but I can't find a place to store it!   
      
      
   An argument with my husband tends to make me want   
   to clean something . . . with his toothbrush.   
      
   *.*   
      
   Wife:   You both arrived at the cab at the same time.   
           Why did you let him have it?   
           Why didn't you stand up for your rights?   
      
   Husband:   He needed it more than I did.   
              He was late to his karate class.   
      
   Issue of the Times;   
      
   Clone Despot Cagematch: George III vs George III by Stefan Molyneux   
      
      
      
      
   In June of 1776, when Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence, he   
   took great pains to detail the abuses heaped upon the Colonists by George   
   III, then King of England.  Now we have another "George III," the third   
   President to bear that name. How do the abuses the original George III was   
   charged with compare with our current administrations?   
      
      
      
   HE has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for   
   the public Good.   
      
      
      
   George III has invaded Iraq without a Congressional declaration of war,   
   and has suspended the Geneva conventions for "enemy combatants."   
   Violations of signed treaties include the UN Charter, the International   
   Court of Justice, the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile   
   Systems, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and so on.   
      
      
      
   HE has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing   
   Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be   
   obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to   
   them.   
      
      
      
   George III has used Federal Marshals to interdict against Marijuana users   
   in California (where, as a state, the substance is legal as a medicinal   
   drug). Then there.s the needle exchange plans many large cities wanted to   
   implement, that was blocked by George III. After the Terri Schiavo case   
   had been heard by 19 judges in six courts and been appealed to the Supreme   
   Court three times, the Fed intervened. State-level decisions on   
   euthanasia, minimum wages, medical insurance, food contamination and   
   warning labels, financial privacy laws. The Federal government regularly   
   uses the blackmail of the federal income tax to "force" states into   
   adhering to all sorts of Federal regulations . the speed limit, the   
   education standards, OSHA regulations, and on and on.   
      
      
      
   Last but not least, you might just remember the obscure Fed-influenced   
   Supreme Court decision to overturn Florida.s court-ordered vote recount in   
   2000.   
      
      
      
   HE has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts   
   of People, unless those People would relinquish the Right of   
   Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and   
   formidable to Tyrants only.   
      
      
      
   The U.S. Constitution applies to Guam, as do all federal laws, but   
   Guamanians have no voting representation in the Electoral College for the   
   selection of the President, and no U.S. senators. Guam is represented in   
   Washington by one non-voting congressman in the House of Representatives.   
   Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands both have diminished representation in   
   Congress. And how much does the average Iraqi.s vote count for anyway?   
      
      
      
   HE has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual,   
   uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records,   
   for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.   
      
      
      
   If you are willing to brave the violence of Washington, you can go and   
   visit the White House and Congress. Just keep your voice to a murmur. And   
   if you want to trail George III around the world to his various   
   tight-security conferences, you.d better have some frequent-flyer miles.   
      
      
      
   HE has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly   
   Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.   
      
      
      
   George III claims the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted   
   since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any   
   statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of   
   the Constitution. The "Decider" can now directly bypass military rules and   
   regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be   
   told about immigration services problems, "whistle-blower" protections for   
   nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political   
   interference in federally funded research.   
      
      
      
   Bush is also fast becoming the grand master of "States Secret Privilege" .   
   it was invoked only four times in the first 23 years after the U.S.   
   Supreme Court created the privilege in 1953, but now the government is   
   claiming the privilege to dismiss lawsuits at a rate of more than three a   
   year. Some of the targets include a lawsuit striving to penetrate the fog   
   of secrecy regarding "torture extraditions" and a post-9/11 investigation.   
      
      
      
   HE has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others   
   to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of the   
   Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the   
   State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion   
   from without, and the Convulsions within.   
      
      
      
   If the danger that Jefferson was most concerned with was civil revolt, or   
   foreign attack, then surely by shipping hundreds of thousands of troops   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)