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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kid Rock who wrote (3331)	1/26/2001 12:46:46 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

If the RW could only have thought of Clinton as benign, we could have all worked together towards a single goal of happiness and prosperity. Oh yeah- didn't happen, not gonna happen. If you aren't pissed off about losing, then you never cared enough about winning. No compromise, no tolerance.

To: Kid Rock who wrote (3331)	1/26/2001 12:55:13 AM
From: Neenny	Respond to of 82486

Hi, Your abilities to find information never ceases to amaze me. The political threads have been quite heated. I am glad to see that there have been some guidelines set in place for respecting the TOU and more importantly respecting of each others differences. I think life would be so boring if people were little clones of one another....<cloning another recently hot debate based on the rulings regarding cloning in the UK.) When I think of taking away our individuality I cannot help but think of the movie "The Stefford Wives." Makes me glad that I can be an individual and "push the envelope" if I want, Unfortunately the personal attacks were accomplishing nothing here. I hope the efforts of setting down some guide lines works out. Of course there are those that will think that the guidelines are a bunch of bunk. To that point though, I see SI's right to set up guide lines much like the debate with the Boy Scouts and having homosexuals in leadership positions and admitting females to the organization. I feel the Boy Scouts are entitled to their rules, and in the same right, I think that SI is entitled to it rules. People then are free to agree with the rules of the group and decide if it is something they want to be part of. If they don't agree with the rules, the simply do not have to be a part of it. As for your Jefferson information: I think he said it much better than I.....Still one thing more, fellow-citizens -- a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, Using the broader scope of the word government.....it can include the governing bodies not just of countries but of groups and organizations anywhere. I think #6 applies to what I am saying. government (noun) often attributive First appeared 14th Century 1 : the act or process of governing; specifically : authoritative direction or control 2 obsolete : moral conduct or behavior : DISCRETION 3 a : the office, authority, or function of governing b obsolete : the term during which a governing official holds office 4 : the continuous exercise of authority over and the performance of functions for a political unit : RULE 5 a : the organization, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises authority and performs functions and which is usu. classified according to the distribution of power within it b : the complex of political institutions, laws, and customs through which the function of governing is carried out 6 : the body of persons that constitutes the governing authority of a political unit or organization: as a : the officials comprising the governing body of a political unit and constituting the organization as an active agency b capitalized : the executive branch of the U.S. federal government c capitalized : a small group of persons holding simultaneously the principal political executive offices of a nation or other political unit and being responsible for the direction and supervision of public affairs: (1) : such a group in a parliamentary system constituted by the cabinet or by the ministry