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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (239938)	3/19/2002 7:40:42 PM
From: George Coyne	Respond to of 769670

You got that snicker down beautifully. Impressive!

To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (239938)	3/19/2002 9:46:05 PM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 769670

Lott's a wimp. He should shut down the entire Senate, and take this opportunity to educate the American public about the fact that due to extra-Constitutional Senate rules (as in Unconstitutional), a small group of Senate dogmatists, or a committee composed of just a handful of zealots that don't represent the whole Senate, or even a single Senator, can block consideration of issues or a Senate vote on issues and nominees that the U.S. Constitution calls for the "Senate" to consider. Nothing in the Constitution contemplates a small screening committee to be able to thwart consideration of important matters by the entire body of 100 Senators. Our "Senate" has developed its own internal rules that are at odds with the Constitution. But no Senator wants to point the finger at his own institution or its rules -- they just consider it a game of chess among themselves. This is scandalous.

To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (239938)	3/19/2002 9:51:52 PM
From: RON BL	Respond to of 769670

Hey lots of great examples of multi-culturalism over the past few weeks. Girls being forced to burn alive because they didn't have their head gear on in Saudi Arabia. Or perhaps you might like the following being a female. "The U.N. estimates that human trafficking reaps $7 billion a year. Even the watchdogs themselves bear watching: Members of the U.N.'s International Police Force in Bosnia, where sexual trafficking has become an international scandal, have been accused of transporting young girls from Eastern Europe to local brothels. And the traffickers are a domestic as well as an international problem: An estimated 50,000 trafficking victims, overwhelmingly women and children, are brought to the U.S. every year. In February 1998, there was a raid of brothels in rural south Florida where Mexican girls, some as young as 13, were forced to have sex with dozens of men a day. The evidence of beatings, drug addiction, and forced abortions prompted one federal judge to call this trafficking case "one of the most base, most vile, most despicable, most reprehensible crimes" he had ever encountered. A trafficking ring in Atlanta imported nearly 1,000 women from Asia who were forced to work in debt bondage as prostitutes." Still waiting for one reason why we should continue to chant the glories of multi-culturalism