From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:57:17 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Stanislas de Kertanguy writes:
>
>> Beacause it has less worth than the paper on which it is written.
>
>How did you determine its worth?

You try it, and see if anyone accepts it.

With some convincing acting, there is a good chance it might get you
the job, but if someone starts digging dirt on you...
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From: Hatunen on
On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:00:01 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Tchiowa writes:
>
>> Conscription is *not* involuntary servitude ...
>
>You are "serving" your government, and you cannot refuse. Therefore
>it is involuntary, and it is servitude.
>
>> ... and the courts have already rules that it doesn't violate
>> the Consitution.
>
>Because they care more about the status quo than respecting the
>Constitution.

It wasn't the status quo when it was first ruled constitutional.
It became the status quo after the courts ruled it
constitutional.

>> Civil forfeiture must involve certain laws and courts and thus
>> does, in fact, follow "due process".
>
>It does not allow due process because there is no conviction of
>wrongdoing required.

Duh. You reckon that's why it's claled "civil" forfeiture?

>It's like prior restraint (which is also unconstitutional).

Dependoing n what's being restrained.

>> The fact that you don't understand it doesn't mean it's not followed.
>
>The fact that some people deny their rights are being eroded doesn't
>mean that those rights are intact. It always starts that way.

It's been starting that way since 1789.


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From: Hatunen on
On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:38:09 +0100, The Reid
<dontuse(a)fell-walker.co.uk> wrote:

>Following up to Hatunen
>
>>For
>>instancve, the courts have already ruled that American citizens
>>do not lose their rights when detained at Guantanamo.
>
>pity about everybody else.

There is a serious question there, of course.

************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) *************
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From: marika on
On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:00:17 -0400, Karen Selwyn <kselwyntacc(a)erols.com>
wrote:

> marika wrote:
>> In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway medieval dream
>> At night we ride through mansions of glory in the bard's machines
>> Sprung from cages out on footpath 9,
>> Spoke wheeled, 10 horses and galloping out over the line
>> Baby ye olde town ripeth the bones from your back
>> It’s a death trap, it’s a belladonna rap
>> We gotta get out while we’re youngeth
>> `cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run
>
> LOL! As posted, the lyrics contain enough mistakes that they qualify for
> the web site www.kissthisguy.com -- the archive of misheard lyrics.
>

it's almost a classic dangling modifier,

it is always the language that goes first...
or comes first.

it's not misheard, but medEEvilized
From: dgs on
Mxsmanic wrote:

> Stanislas de Kertanguy writes:
>
>>Beacause it has less worth than the paper on which it is written.
>
> How did you determine its worth?

Forty-three, because canaries aren't made out of wrenches.
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