Re: OT - speaking of quotes....


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Stephen Cowell wrote:
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From one of our founding fathers....

?I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution
which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of
benevolence, the money of their constituents.?

James Madison


Well, I'll just bet that there's no *prohibition* of
it either... in fact, any such embargo would obstruct
the normal operation of Congress.

Interesting point... that something not *prohibited* by the Constitution,
*allows* for that something.... to be enacted.. as in income taxes
(!?!?!?!?!!!!!)

I'm pretty sure that the business of Congress involves
spending constituent's money.

Now, anyone care to total up the current expenditures of tax revenues "on
objects of benevolence"...?????? Both internally and globally..??


Are Iraqis 'objects of benevolence'?

They seem to think so... are the Sudanese..??

If they are, it is to a far lesser extent... the mind
boggles at the billions.

And... add to that the totals of money collected by NON-govt agencies
for charitable use IN THE USA.... and abroad...


Uh, that would be Established Religion, and the funds
further their ideology and pay the bills as well as supply
charitable non-secular activities.

C'mon dude... try not to sound too ignorant...

Here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization#Types_of_NGOs

After you read that... re-post your statement from above...
"...that would be Established Religion, and the funds
further their ideology and pay the bills as well as supply
charitable non-secular activities."

Amnesty International: Gross receipts =
Catholic Church: Gross receipts =

See if *you* can fill in the blanks above.

HINT... the amount for NON-govt charity is larger than many govts GNP,
globally....


Yes, Very Big Religion. It *is* scary...

The folks at Amnesty International would probably be surprised to be
considered "Very Big Religion".

Indeed... since they are small fish comparitively.

Yep, we Americans are but lowly war-mongers and problematic to the global
well being.....
As in... "they all hate us..."


We have a Dork for a president and a Bully for a veep.

And an overabundent supply of stunods who think NGOs are (all) religous
organizations... (?????)

Follow the money, 'ski...

They appoint lackeys and idiots in order to prove that
government doesn't work. Their foreign policy mostly
comes across as '*** you' and 'Israel right or wrong'.

Amazing. You are stating that this "foreign policy" you describe is
*new*, and only instuted under the Bush admin...???

You are attempting to introduce a Red Herring.
That *** Don't Fly Here. Thanks for implicitly
agreeing with the statement, however.

Restate it for the record....

We've recently *** the bed in Iraq and Afghanistan,
nothing good's come of it. Is it any wonder?

What is a wonder, is the total ignorance and shallow understanding of
people who see things as you do...

.... you mean like the rest of Earth?

You must think the "Greatest Generation" were complete, total, losers and
worse after "shitting the bed" all over Europe and Asia for fifty years.
Nothing good came of that, did it...????

Invoking GG needlessly... another Red Herring.
You Elected Bush. You Suck.
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Steve
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