[kitkat]

Thank you, HLL. This one is definitely bookmarked.

We need to fight harder, and HARDER to save what we have.

[TomGuy]

The classic: I don't know what apathy is, and I don't care.

[Wings-n-Wind]

Your usual excellence.... thanks for the post

[Congressman Billybob]

One slight caveat. The Constitution was not "accepted" by 13 states in 1787. It was proposed by 11 states that year. Rhode Island took no part in the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia, and the majority of the New York Delegation left in disgust on 10 July, 1787, having failed in repeated attempts to defeat the "Virgina Plan."

The Constitution went into effect in 1788, when 11 of the 13 states had ratified the document. Rhode Island refused even to conduct a ratification convention, and North Carolina's convention adjourned without decision, waiting for a Bill of Rights to be added to the Constitution. It was not until 1789, after Congress and George Washington had been elected, that the hold-out states did ratify and rejoin the union.

Trust me, I know these things.

Congressman Billybob

Click here to stick a thumb in the eye of CFR, "Hugh & Series, Critical & Pulled by JimRob."

[Domestic Church]

I was just discussing this quote with a friend before Christmas. I think governmental dependency is the stage we have entered with the multileveledgovernmental and social bureaucracy and those who try fight it are being harassed or sidelined.

[expat_panama]

"Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won: by Gore, 13.2; by Bush, 2.1"

Well said; great post.

[sarcasm]

Don't believe, or pass on, all you read

This was attributed to a Professor Joseph Olson at the Hamline University School of Law. I never heard of such a university, but went online and found it. And Prof. Olson does exist.

"Now I'm getting somewhere," I thought.

But in response to my e-mail, Olson said the "research" was attributed to him erroneously. He said it came from a Sheriff Jay Printz in Montana. I e-mailed Sheriff Printz, and guess what? He didn't do the research either, and didn't remember who had e-mailed it to him.

In other words, he got the same legend e-mailed to him and passed it on to Olson without checking it out, and when Olson passed it on, someone thought it sounded better if a law professor had done the research, and so it grew.

Who knows where it originally came from, but it's just not true.

[LiteKeeper]

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