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Urbane Guerrilla · 08-09-2010, 09:13 PM

Lamplighter, dear boy. Did you happen somehow to miss the parenthetical remark inserted into the second para I quoted? I've gone back and italicized and expanded a bit -- shoulda done that the first time, really. Mea culpa.

And they sure as hell are up in arms -- aren't those pictures something? The latest is the officials are knocking their pay down by 90% annually out of sheer embarrassment. Two have ceased to draw their pay entirely, though it doesn't look like they're going to miss a mortgage payment in so doing, either.

This crops up from time to time. It is the weakness in a democracy: these guys voted themselves the treasury. Something that was more a weakness of character than of a democracy was they used voter fraud to do it -- check out how many votes there were in the election that voted these guys the treasury, and what happened with the absentee ballots cast therein. Quite a tale. One of stuffing.

The majority is nearer five to one, there being about seventeen hundred Decline To State voters registered in Bell. Still decisive, to be sure -- for now.

08-09-2010, 09:13 PM	#4
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Lamplighter, dear boy. Did you happen somehow to miss the parenthetical remark inserted into the second para I quoted? I've gone back and italicized and expanded a bit -- shoulda done that the first time, really. Mea culpa. And they sure as hell are up in arms -- aren't those pictures something? The latest is the officials are knocking their pay down by 90% annually out of sheer embarrassment. Two have ceased to draw their pay entirely, though it doesn't look like they're going to miss a mortgage payment in so doing, either. This crops up from time to time. It is the weakness in a democracy: these guys voted themselves the treasury. Something that was more a weakness of character than of a democracy was they used voter fraud to do it -- check out how many votes there were in the election that voted these guys the treasury, and what happened with the absentee ballots cast therein. Quite a tale. One of stuffing. The majority is nearer five to one, there being about seventeen hundred Decline To State voters registered in Bell. Still decisive, to be sure -- for now. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.