[ale] OT - Looking like SOPA is dead and burried, but PIPA is still in play...

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>wrote:

>
> > how about only registered voters who get NO resources from ANY government
> > entity! That way we can keep out them damned welfare queens AND the fat
> > bastards on the guberment contract payola game. GAG! But remember, money
> is
> > a first amendment right if used for political reasons. GAG again! So you
> > advocate fewer rights for less affluent people?!?!?
>
> Wow...  That would really streamline the election process eliminating
> all those people in the oil and gas industry with their subsidies and
> the farmers and the home owners (mortgage tax breaks).  That'll make the
> elections run like a bat outta hell.
>
> and shortly afterwards we could replace the lot with a tiny shell script
:-)

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consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
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