On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au>wrote:
> Hi LOBsters,
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> Portrait of an emerging Tea Party consensus?
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> Mike B)
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> Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Mr. Common sense.
> Mr Sense had been with us for many years.
> No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago
> lost in bureaucratic shenanigins.
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> He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as
> fairness and truth. Common sense lived by simple , sound financial policies
> (don't spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting strategies (parents,
> not children are in charge).
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> His health began to rapidly deteriorate when well meaning but overbearing
> regulations were set in place.
> Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harrassment for kissing a
> classmate on the cheek, teens suspended from school for using a mouthmash
> after lunch, and a teacher fired for reprimanding a unruly student, only
> worsened his condition.
> Mr. Senses health declined even further when schools were required were get
> parental consent to administer asprin to a student but could not inform the
> parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
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> Finally , Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became
> contraband, churches became businesses and criminals received better
> treatment than the victims.
> Common Sense could not go on when the leaders passed an important
> 2,000-page health care bill without knowing what was in it. The Speaker of
> the house informed the public that the contents of the bill would be known
> after the bill was passed.
> And in another instance those very same leaders gave a standing ovation to
> a foreign president after he objected to one of the united states enforcing
> federal law.
> And with his final breath, Common Sense asked why half the citizens of the
> United States do not pay ANY income taxes while the other half pays it all.
>
> Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents Truth and Trust,
> his wife, Discretion,
> his daughter, Responsibility
> and his son, Reason.
> He is survived by two stepbrothers, My Rights and Ima Whiner.
> Sadly not too many people attended his funeral because so few realized he
> was gone.
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> "The mode of production in which the product takes the form of a commodity,
> or is produced directly for exchange, is the most general and most embryonic
> form of bourgeois production."
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