From: Dave Frightens Me on 8 Aug 2006 17:49 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... -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Hatunen on 8 Aug 2006 17:47 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. ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
From: Hatunen on 8 Aug 2006 17:48 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) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
From: marika on 8 Aug 2006 19:35 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 8 Aug 2006 21:44
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. -- dgs |