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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-23-07 03:51 AM
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Let me quote Mickey Leland, by way of Molly Ivins:
This is not the exact wording, it's a paraphrase except for the last line, which is a direct quote:

In the late 1960s, Mickey Leland was in the Texas Legislature, before he won Barbara Jordan's Congressional seat. He had introduced a bill to provide cheap prescription drugs to low income senior citizens. He was a pharmacist who graduated from Texas Southern University.

Well, the legislators with seniority quashed his bill, thanks to the drug company lobbyists who bought and paid for the legislators.

Mickey could not believe that the government would not help old people buy their lifesaving drugs.

He saw a group of drug company lobbyists standing around in the State Capitol having a bull session.


He went up to them and said, "YOU ARE EVIL MOTHERFUCKERS".



To quote Molly, "They just about shit their pants."


That's what corporations are. Edwards is right.


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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-23-07 04:34 AM
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1. The FEDs are now saying that talking about 'work'
Is not 'work' related.
Why isn't this story on the front page?
Feds: Employers allowed to block e-mails related to labor union activity

Employers have the right to bar employees from sending union-related
E-mails using company servers, the New York Times reports.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Feds_Employers_allowed_to_block_emails_1222.html

I am old enough now,
that I can see when an animal wants to leave a turd
but as we know these guys, they don't leave anything
that is organic or natural
which does anything for the environment,
except leave, a toxic dump for humanity and the planet to clean up.


That is why crossing the aisle
is not an option to this bitch
who doesn't want to
marry a wife beater again.

The male and female energies are out of balance now,
the Yin and the Yang of our beliefs.

The planet can see this, but unfortunately Americans can't.

It is not a question of electing a male or female,
a black or white, a hispanic or a religious nut.

The question is, whose turds leaves the least negative impact on humanity
and this planet, so our 'posterity' doesn't have to take care of it?






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