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Re: Systems and forgetting

placidwater — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:48:55 -0000

Three cheers for Spotlight!

Re: rtfa.net » A Slick Scheme to Capitalize on Low Voter Turnout

placidwater — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:23:19 -0000

You actually point out a good way to counteract the measure if it does get passed ... but that doesn't reduce the unfettered rape of the democratic process. When people who do not vote are considered to have voted one way or the other, then we have institutionalized election fraud. This is a crime punishable by staggering fines and imprisonment in Arizona ... when an individual citizen does it. But, of course, not when it's made into law. Deplorable!

Re: Op-Ed Columnist - The Class War Before Palin - NYTimes.com

placidwater — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:37:55 -0000

There is only one response to this: Madison's Federalist Paper No. 10

The first line states: "Among the numerous advantages promised by a wellconstructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction."

Every American needs to read this document by one of our beloved founding fathers, and Yale is helping you out by publishing it online: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed10...

Political parties are the death of democracy, and we've known it from the start.

Re: First-family-to-be gets code names — baltimoresun.com

placidwater — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:35:51 -0000

RTFA, yo! An excerpt from the BaltimoreSun article:

The monikers are a throwback to a time when electronic communications were not encrypted, and they no longer serve a security function.