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Email your legislators as well. That's what I plan to do. You've got a better chance of audience with them, and they're the ones who actually draft the laws.

Here are three other good "letters" I've found. I like yours as well.

If you're worried about encroachments on your freedom, you should be voting Constitution or Libertarian.

Email your legislators as well. That's what I plan to do. You've got a better chance of audience with them, and they're the ones who actually draft the laws.

Here are three other good "letters" I've found. I like yours as well.

If you're worried about encroachments on your freedom, you should be voting Constitution or Libertarian.

Do you really think that you can discredit Terrorist Islam?

Yes. That's what we did to the Japanese religion, and it worked. I don't think that the faith of Islamic terrorists is any stronger or weaker than the faith of the Japanese citizens. I think something about having your country owned by another is naturally faith-shattering, particularly when one's faith is joined at the hip with military might. That's something that Islamic terrorists have in common with the Japanese of WW2.

The Romans couldn't discredit Christianity, even when they used their followers as streetlamps and lion food.

Torturing followers will not work: religious extremists love to be persecuted. They feel like it makes them right! Go over to WorldNet Daily and view the daily links there which read, "Christian persectuion: Learn the TRUTH." But showing people that their religion is false will work. I'm not familiar enough with fundamentalist Islam to know how this is best done, but there must be a way.

We can't even discredit Scientology!

I don't think we've hardly tried! Remember, the discrediting of the Japanese religion was a military effort, and it worked. Let's not give up before we've tried. We've done it successfully before and I think we can do it again. The lives of innocent civilians depend on it.

You don't know too much about the situation in Israel, do you? Here's more you should know. Let me quote a bit.

If Israel is running an apartheid/racist state, it's doing a damned shoddy job. Israeli Arabs, 20 percent of the population, have full civil rights. Arabs, Druze and Bedouins hold 12 seats in the Knesset.

Israel's Arab citizens have a 95 percent literacy rate, thanks to 1,000 government-funded schools. More than 5,000 Arab students attend Israeli universities and technical schools. In a recent poll, while 70 percent of Israeli Arabs said their loyalty lies with the Palestinians, the same percentage said there's no other nation in the region where they'd prefer to live, including under the Palestinian Authority.

Israeli society is the most multicultural on earth. It's taken in Jews from almost every land, including 40,000 from Ethiopia. It also accepted hundreds of Vietnamese boat people in the '70s. Roughly 60 percent of its population could be classified as non-Caucasian.

The Arabs are somewhat less inclusive. Anti-Semitism, racism, and persecution of religious and ethnic minorities thrives in the Middle East.

Egypt's Coptic Christians would consider second-class citizenship a promotion. Sudan's Muslim government enslaves black tribesmen.

Shiite Iran persecutes Christians, Jews (11 recently were convicted in a show trial of spying for Israel), Bha'is and Sunni Moslems. Iraq and Syria kill Kurds.

Jews are prohibited from living in Jordan. Christians can't practice their religion in Saudi Arabia. Arafat wants 120,000 Jews now living on the West Bank to be cleansed from his future Palestinian state.

And Arabs accuse Israel of oppression. The Jews have a word for this - chutzpah.

There's more, but that's the gist. Don't be so fast to point fingers.

I don't feel like making any comments... None are necessary. Here are the last few news sites I can find that aren't flooded offline.

"Potter books: Wicked witchcraft? New documentary claims tales lead kids to the occult"

And the "documentary" video, of course.

It is to giggle.

Bob-

Study: US Science booksrife with errors!
Popular textbooks used by 85% of US Middle-School kids, contain gross mistakes
Could be reason US students so dumb in science!

Officials Ban 8-Year-Old's Science Fair ExperimentProject
Suggested That Kids Prefer White Barbie Doll To Black Barbie Doll
Father Claims Her Freedom Of Expression Was Violated

BRITISH TO TEACH 4 YEAR OLDS HOMOSEXUALITY / ANAL SEX
teachers "not to try to promote any type of family or home life as the norm"

University of Florida: BLACK ENROLLMENT DROPS 50% WITHOUT RACE-PREFERENCES
They just can't cut-it without special treatment!

TEACHER ARRESTED FORASSAULTING and ENDANGERING STUDENTS
Tied children up; tied shoes around necks!

HARVARD UNIVERSITY EXPOSED IN GRADES FRAUD
Professor exposes intentional "Grade Inflation"
Harvard Grads not nearly as smart as once thought?

Cuba offers free Medical School toUS Students
. . . as long as they pledge allegiance to Communism

Vanguard News Network

Study: US Science booksrife with errors!
Popular textbooks used by 85% of US Middle-School kids, contain gross mistakes
Could be reason US students so dumb in science!

Officials Ban 8-Year-Old's Science Fair ExperimentProject
Suggested That Kids Prefer White Barbie Doll To Black Barbie Doll
Father Claims Her Freedom Of Expression Was Violated

BRITISH TO TEACH 4 YEAR OLDS HOMOSEXUALITY / ANAL SEX
teachers "not to try to promote any type of family or home life as the norm"

University of Florida: BLACK ENROLLMENT DROPS 50% WITHOUT RACE-PREFERENCES
They just can't cut-it without special treatment!

TEACHER ARRESTED FORASSAULTING and ENDANGERING STUDENTS
Tied children up; tied shoes around necks!

HARVARD UNIVERSITY EXPOSED IN GRADES FRAUD
Professor exposes intentional "Grade Inflation"
Harvard Grads not nearly as smart as once thought?

Cuba offers free Medical School toUS Students
. . . as long as they pledge allegiance to Communism

Vanguard News Network

Case in point: My roommate and I both read WorldNetDaily.com almost religiously. It's a free daily news site, that also publishes a small offline magazine. My roommate thought it was worth his money to get a subscription, I did not (and not simply because we live together, these decisions were made before we were actually roommates). The problem with online sites charging for content is not on whether they can get people to pay, because many probably will. The problem is how many people can they retain when they go from free, to fee? If they lose too much of their readership, they still won't make up for lost banner ad revenue or corporate sponsorship revenue. This is the hard truth that the dot-coms are learning suddenly. If I need info badly enough to pay for it, I will. Otherwise, I, Joe Consumer, am going to find the cheapest alternative, and on the net, that's pretty easy to find. So I say, feel free to charge people for access to the content you provide. Just don't expect everyone to stick around when you do.

How do I justify this to myself? I balance it with the savings of not getting a dead tree newspaper subscription and the savings of not paying cable since I threw away my television set around two years ago (one of the best things I ever did).

Would I pay that much for Slashdot? Nope. If Slashdot starts charging I'll be going somewhere else. Here, the value is coming from people posting comments of their own accord. They are not relying on their posting to put food in their mouths, and in fact, are happy to have their ideas in as many heads as possible.

Can the answer change over time? Yes. I used to pay for a mailbox at NetAddress so that I would not have to deal with advertising and with taglines at the end of my emails. Now, they are going to be charging starting at the end of July, and I will not be using them. Their service at one point distiquished itself from the other services. Now, it is of little or no comparitive value, therefore I will not pay.

What would I recommend to a website provider? Make your entire site free, put in a link to allow people to pay if they choose, and remind them that paying keeps the site free. Issue a reminder somewhere in the once-a-month time frame. If you want to use banner ads, go ahead, but assume that some (or maybe most, depending on your audience) will be filtering them. If that sounds risky, then you, as a website provider, must not believe in your content enough to risk showing it to me, hoping that I will pay for it out of goodwill.

The primary reason that Salon and Slate and other "Web magazines" is not that there is something inherently wrong with the format. The problem is that people are starting to reject the content. Salon and Slate are well-known unapologetic mouthpieces of the liberal left, and poll after poll is showing that Americans are increasingly not interested in liberalism. With conservatives running the show in Washington, the country is beginning to gravitate back towards its moral roots. The few Americans that do admit to liberalism are not even close to the number that would be required to keep Salon afloat (through ad revenue or any other means.) If you have no readers, you cannot possibly succeed.

Take a look at WorldNetDaily, a popular mainstream news outlet/magazine. WND is consistently voted the best site on the Web, and is going strong even as leftist sites crumble down around it. The point is that Web journalism is alive and well (and in fact, doing better than it ever has done before.) The fact that some of the old standbys are dying out is just a natural part of information evolution; it is the wheat being separated from the chaff.

Or how about one of him and Herr Reno covering up federal racketeering charges against Fuhr Clinton.

What about when he was a huge proponent of Carnivore and how he urged Congress to further wiretapping legislation? I wish I could find a URL for it though, specifically of him at the National Press Club. Stop being a CommiCrat and show some coherency.

Or how about one of him and Herr Reno covering up federal racketeering charges against Fuhr Clinton.

What about when he was a huge proponent of Carnivore and how he urged Congress to further wiretapping legislation? I wish I could find a URL for it though, specifically of him at the National Press Club. Stop being a CommiCrat and show some coherency.

Dissident Harry Wu on China

Now from a conservative stance. They are communist. The whole execution thing still applies as does the penal code. Fifteen years for jaywalking in a military run prison is overkill. Religion is outlawed. Look what they did to all the Buddhists and Catholics. What about their actions against Taiwan? Why not just go talk to Harry Wu about his experiences in China? Harry Wu. Conservative or Liberal, China is a threat to our Constitutional Republic and all the world's FREE democracies.

I'm not questioning your choice of where to live, I was questioning your assertion that Europe is more free than the US.

As far as traveling and seeing the world goes, I was talking about Europe and you mention ONE COUNTRY you have been to in Europe.

Correction: I mentioned ONE COUNTRY where I lived for two years, there's a big difference between playing tourist hopping through Europa for a couple of weeks and living there. But that's beside the point, I was not trying to impress you with the number of countries I've visited/lived in. I mentioned that merely to prevent someone from thinking I was sitting here in the US claiming that it's the greatest place to live without ever having traveled outside of the US borders.

As far as Japan goes, it's not just damn expensive, it's unbelievably expensive, and crowded. Thailand was much more enjoyable, the people were much friendlier.

Well, I think it's irresponsible NOT to put up cameras to allow criminals to be more easily identified and caught.

The problem comes down to where do you draw the line? You think it's irresponsible to follow the UK's lead and place cameras everywhere in public. What about the next person who that thinks it's irresponsible to give criminals legal representation? Or that there should be safeguards against unreasonable search and seizure? What about the FBI's carnivore? Wouldn't it be irresponsible to not hang one of those boxes off every isp so that we can catch all those child pornographers and terrorists out there? Where does it end? Nearly any draconian act can be justified in the name of "reducing crime."

It has to be a balancing act between reasonable methods of crime control and the citizens rights. To me, hanging that many cameras in public areas in order to catch a few more criminals, does not justify the gross violation of the rest of the citizenry.

One more thing, all those cameras don't seem to be working. According to the International Crime Victims Survey, Australia and the UK suffer the most violent crimes. There's an article about it

here

and here

Now if I wanted to play games with numbers I could probably cook something up that would show (falsely) crime had been increasing along with the number of cameras that go up in public places. But I don't play those kind of games, we have enough nutcases doing that here already.

Any medium of exchange is prone to some kind of degradation due to someone cheating trying to get more out of it. This includes things with intrinsic value such as gold or tobacco. In POW camps where soldiers got cigarettes in their Red Cross packages, cigarettes became a medium of exchange. But what if you wanted to smoke AND buy that tin of sardines that other POW has? You could pull out a few shreds of tobacco from the cigs you have before you trade them... You get the picture. Even with gold coin, this sort of degrading of the medium of exchange was common. Using gold as a medium of exchange was not practical until someone 3000 years ago discovered that you could rub a lump of gold on a 'touchstone' such that one could tell from the resulting streak that the gold was pure or alloyed with copper or something else. More recent countermeasures were the ribbed 'rolled' edge on coins and the use of scales and standardized weights to discourage the practice of shaving gold from the edge of the coins. These went a long way to keep someone from getting something from nothing.

The current 'money' system that we have, on the other hand, has 'shaving' of the currency built into it. To explain how it works is not complicated, but extemely boring and most of the facts fly in the face of 'conventional wisdom'. In this short space I can best point those who are interested to an excellent book on the subject - "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin (ISBN 0912986212) or more briefly a series of online articles from a week or two ago at WorldNetDaily.

The main motivation of the raid may be some concern of some higher ups that this non-inflatable method of exchange might catch on, and those who derive their wealth and power from creating 'money' out of thin air will again face some competition.

Hence there is little violence in European countries.

Bleep!

You're wrong: Britain, Australia top U.S.
in violent crime. Rates Down Under increase despite strict gun-control measures.

You see, when you take guns away from law-abiding citizens, by definition, the only guns left are in the hands of the criminals (and the government, but they're the same really). Additionally, criminals are less deterred from committing violent crimes because they know with certainty that their victims are unarmed.

A better example of "European Enlightenment" would be Switzerland: nearly 100% of the population owns firearms and the rate of violent crime is almost zero.

Hanssen is known to be "highly skilled in the use of computers and computer programming," according to the FBI's search warrant request.

In fact, he maintains his own computer server and is a registered Linux user, WorldNetDaily has learned.

Was this traitor using proprietary software or "un-american" free software to do this double-crossing?

Wired, the affidavit, and World Net Daily indicate that he was using Linux and Palms.

"Registered" Linux user even (whatever that means). Link to story here.

*sigh* I am getting tired of all this 2-party shit... Traffic was an incredible movie; I recommend that everyone go see it now!
and the LP rules... Harry Browne seems a little kooky, but I 100% agree with him. Check out his article The president's first day in office. It is awesome and makes me wish we could get him or any Libertarian into office...

If nothing else, they [The Clinton administration] grasped the business implications of the Net and Web, and decided to do nothing to impede the new global economy they envisioned and benefited from politically.

They seemed to be grasping more than implications 'round the West Wing

"You mean I can get pictures of Britney Spears nekkid? That there Inter-web-thingy is great!"

Brand new article I just found; according to WorldNetDaily, "The year's 10 most underreported stories". Yes, they're all of greatest interest to conservatives, but hey, that's what I am.

Unless those foreigners invade the USA. Then citizens are obliged to help protect their homeland.

Talk to people that live or have businesses near the Mexican border. According to them, it's already happening and the US Govt. does jack shit when it comes to protecting them from Mexican criminals (& sometimes rogue police/army units). In some cases, Mexican soldiers crossed into the US and shot at Border Patrol officers.

I really hope it is a credible news source. Take a look at this article. C'mon, don't you want to believe this is true?!?! If a glass of beer can help protect vision, it must be why I am the only person in my family that doesn't wear glasses.

This story brought to you by the same people who claim that Beer Helps Vision.

It was the sister/tobacco comination that I was referring to, not the Peace Corps. Gore has always sucked up to the tobacco industry and still does even after his sister's death. He should have gotten an Oscar for his 1996 speech. I used to work for the Federal Govt and it was stressed that it was against the law to use any Govt equipment or facilities for political purposes. There would be a difference if it was a cell phone bought with personal funds and not the taxpayer furnished. Check out this WND story about Gore's TN pollution. But I suppose since it goes against your views about Gore, you won't put much weight in them either.

See also A Vote for Bush Is a Vote for Gore
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From World Net Daily, this article talks about how data from a different level of government is being used by the Clinton/Gore administration to sway the vote of people who's residancy status is not yet confirmed!

Drug users are hurting themselves and I am dedicated to doing whatever it takes to stop them. This is a war, dammit, and there are casualties in a war.

Casualties 4Q 2000:

9/15/00 shot by police 10 years old

9/28/00 shot by police 60 years old

10/5/00 shot by police 62 years old (oops, wrong house.)

Refugees:

Renee Boje - waiting to receive refugee status in Canada while hiding out from American bounty hunters.

Ethnic cleansing in GWB's home state:

Tulia, TX

Brought to you courtesy of the war on drugs...

numb

Why Harry Browne is running for President.

Only because you are afraid of him and do not trust him.

"Because you don't have the right to fire shots at me -- until you hit me."

Only because you are not willing to stop the pserson shooting by shooting back, with better accuracy. (I, like most people, would not be stupid enough to just take pot shots at people, that behavior gets you killed)

"Because the police and fire departments should not be privatized."

Only beacause you want to steal other peoples money to pay for this.

"Because the time for a strong national defense is before it's needed."

Only because you do not belive in the strongest national defense there is, armed citizenry.

"Because the gold standard is a stupid, long dead idea."

Perhaps, but unbacked money WILL devalue.

Your Sig said "Party is more important that person, vote party." A small party in Germany said the same thing in the 30's. (their name started with a N)

Read this: http :// www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_excomm/20000725_xex_ fascism_corr.shtml

It is about the Democratic party, but says the same thing you do. (about voting party)

==>Me

I think perhaps you should research some of your remarks and accusations about Bush. *shakes head* Here, Here, or Here.

I myself, being an Air Force enlistee, am most definately voting for Bush. I would like to keep UN Patches and Chinese Flags off of my Blues thank you. Al Gore and the current Administration have pandered to the Chinese. We open trade policies with Communist China. Key word, Communist. I thought the US wasn't going to trade with communist countries? Am I wrong? Why not trade openly with Cuba as well? Gore handing over secrets to Russia as well. What 's up with that?

7 of the 9 judges on the current court ARE republican appointments and they aren't overturning Roe v. Wade anytime soon. Additionaly two of the three judges Bush has appointed in Texas are pro abortion rights. Not exactly the radical right wing record most would expect.

What I don't understand is how folks can say they don't want Bush appointing judges, but Gore is OK? WTF? Neither clearly understand the constitution and neither will appoint judges who will limit the federal government to its constitutional powers.

If you look at the three justices Bush has appointed two turned out to be pro abortion rights. None of the three have been particularly 'conservative' let alone 'ultra-conservatice'.

Actually, a vote for Nader is a vote for Nader. Bush must get more votes than Gore in order to win. The best analogy you can make is a Vote for Nader is the same as not voting. Since you aren't helping Bush or Gore your not voting. What a useless way of looking at things.

BTW - The lesser of two evils is still an evil. Cast a vote for what you think is good, not evil (unless you consider yourself evil, then by all means don't vote for good)

I've read nearly every one of Brin's SF books, enjoying their scientific approach coupled with his humorous cynicism directed at politics.

But in this screed, I see Brin finally abandoning any hope for political change. This is cynical realism at its hopeless worst.

Sure, the Supreme Court scam is no excuse for voting for Gush, but geekyness is about the worst reason I can think of for voting for Mr. Status Quo Bore.

As for me, I'll be watching CSPAN on Friday night from 8:00-9:30 EDT to hear the "Rest of the Story."

The government is going to be voting on a bill today that may give them the right to search records without a warrant, in secret. This bill has already passed the Senate! HELP!!!

The full story is at http://www.defendyourprivacy.com/

I have some other urls as well to go along with this:

So is your DSS receiver, your cable company, your Internet Service Provider, and "friendly" agents riding around in your neighborhood with everything from mobile wiretapping devices to bugs and microphones to Van Eck phreaking setups. They're monitoring your viewing habits, listening to your phone calls, pulling images off of your monitor, and God knows what else. But it's not Tivo that's doing it, and it's certainly not Tivo that we need to be afraid of. It's the liberals. They're watching us, and people need to know it.

When you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Micheal Reagan, do you think that you're just sitting back and listening to real Americans talk about the current sordid state of affairs in your country? Do you think that agents of the government don't care that you listen to these patriots? They do. I have several acquaintances that work at high levels within the United States "national security" system, and believe me when I tell you that they know who each and every one of us are. Each of us who chooses to listen to Rush instead of Geraldo Rivera is being monitored by the federal government in case we decide to do something un-American, such as speak out against the liberals that run this country (God forbid!)

Liberalism is about two things: first, the enslavement of children and second, the suppression of any and all opinions that run contrary to it. To that end, the government has established a vast network of surveillance devices capable of monitoring us wherever we may be. Think you're safe at the gun range or at church? Think again. They're watching our every move. And let me tell you, friends .. if you're scared of Project Echelon or Carnivore, you're being naive, because those projects are positively benign compared to some of the other things the liberals have up their sleeves.

Look. We don't have to worry about Tivo or other corporations "watching us." They are, after all, not government agents. They are corporations in pursuit of wealth creation, and the creation of wealth is among the Godliest things that a person or entity can aspire to do. If a corporation wishes to target entertaining advertisements at us that aid us in our quest to engage in conspicuous consumption (as is every American's duty), then we should be applauding them. That is not the problem. The problem is leftist government agencies monitoring everything we do.

I suggest every Slashdot reader keep aware of these issues by constantly monitoring WorldNet Daily, which is about the only objective source of news left in this country. There is far too much at stake here for us to sit back and remain complacent. Only by rising up against our government will we regain our freedom.

Warning: this post is going to be seriously random.

I almost can't take this anymore. How can we wake up the public to see that our Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms are being stolen right from under our nose? On a related note, check out this article Harry Browne wrote about his Supreme Court litmus test (question 1: "Can you read?").

Back to the serious part: what can we do? What organizations are out there watching the government now? A thousand angry Slashdot readers are nothing but noise. How can we organize; create an "open source" protest against this ("this" not being Carnivore specifically, but the gradual movement of the USA to Oceania)? Let's get some suggestions here.

I tried to register unconstitutional.org yesterday but it's already taken. Does anyone know of a site that lists all of the laws in effect which are clearly unconstitutional? I'd love to see that.

Greed is one of the most powerful motivators in the world and it could be enough to change the government.

Are you saying that greed is good because it's a good motivator, or are you just saying it's a good motivator?

Powerful motivation can lead to some horrible acts. The Chinese don't need greed to change their government, they need guns.
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...I think that site would be down for good.

Here ya go.
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The Pinkerton Inc. Website

The Commission's Website

Their Final Report

The Center For the Prevention of Youth Violence, one of the brainchildren behind the idea

and of course

W.A.V.E.'s site.

This program appears to be well intended: if you think someone is a threat to himself or others, you call a number and they have someone speak to him. Overall, not a terrible state of affairs. If the situation isn't a problem, they go about their business. If they are depressed, maybe they find a good shrink and lead happier lives.

You missed the biggest problem with it... They'll give kids cash, T-shirts, etc, for these calls. It could easily lead to (and im sure it will somewhere if it goes national) "bounty hunting"-like activities. It'll no longer be about helping friends, it'll be about finding someone you can get away with reporting, and get as much cash as possible.

This CNN story is not to be believed, as they have been infiltrated by US Army PSYOP agents. A recent article in Worldnetdaily exposed the collusion of the Army and CNN in manufacturing propaganda. Don't believe the hype. They're coming for us. Even now.

I'm sorry, I didn't know that this was the White Internet.

Why? Well, a lot of reasons, but for the most part, I can almost guarantee you than an out of work steelworker or logger in the pacific northwest isn't singing the praises of the free market.

Yes, they're singing the praises of the Green Party and trade embargos.

Remember, Pepsi never bombed any cities because they've never had to do it themselves. That's what governments are for.

Well, they didn't give away their Harrier.. :) Seriously, what could possibly be the motive for Pepsico to bomb people? "Eat at Taco Bell or you'll die?". Sounds like a touch of paranoia to me.

I speak for a lot of people when I say that corporate power is frightening as hell, so I don't think the Libertarians are going to gain many converts in the coming years by going on about how public services should be privatized or eliminated, all the while being conspicuously silent about corporate welfare.

Which corporations scare you? Pepsi? The corporate power to put a banner ad on Slashdot scares me slightly less than the governm ent power to break down my door and kill me, courtesy of a trumped-up charge. BTW, do you have a link to any "libertarian" who advocates corporate welfare?

The free market has failed quite a few people, and people are starting to understand that, and take matters into their own hands (Yahoo Search: "Monsanto Karnataka")

So what does a bunch of thugs burning some crops have to do with "the failure of the free market"? It sounds like simple vandalisim to me.

Oh yeah, and here's a surefire way to stump a Libertarian: Ask them about labor issues. What happens if there's a general strike and workers halt production?

Hope that their union buys them groceries.

What about factory occupations?

What about 'em?

What about sweatshops in a "free market?"

I'll assume that "sweatshop" means "bad/unsafe working conditions" here. In a free market, you can quit or go out on strike. If enough people quit, the business goes under. If enough people strike, the business changes its ways, or it goes under. It's simple supply and demand.

Upon whose shoulders does the world *really* rest? Labor? Or CEO's?

In any diversified economy (where there are specialized jobs), everyone has an important job (with the exception of government employees/welfare clients, of course). Of this list, who's the most important: the farmer who grows the food, the trucker who brings it to your store, the mechanic who works on the truck, the fertilizer plant that supplies the farmer, or the power plant that supplies them all?

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A person is usually quite intelligent, but people are dumb.

I wish your email address worked, please read this for more information on ChiCom-Clinton axis than you every wanted to know.

Time to cut off Israel