Wow...
Three more posts and NYB will find himself in wordiness hell as he plunges headlong into The 300 Club.
QUOTE(Kato @ below)
Moulton, I noticed
a question posed of Charles Matthews by the
improbably named Gastrin Bombesin that had a familiar air to it. In amongst the usual fare about "bill of attainder" and Hammurabi", this Gastrin character used the term "Jimbonic practice" which made me laugh out loud.
Anyway, Matthews (quite rightly) took a dim view of Gastrin's use of the word "us" when launching into some blurb about "moving governance structure to at least catch up to where Thomas Jefferson and the Founders took us when they wrote into the US Constitution". Probably best to take the Apple Pie out of your arse before you address 95% of "us", because you'll likely get the same pissed-off reactions as you did from Matthews with stuff like that. (IMG:
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You will find the bio on Gastrin Bombesin
here.
Thomas Jefferson may have been a Colonial Founder, but his contributions to political thought belong to the world as much as those of Stephen Langton, Mohandas K. Gandhi, or Thich Nhat Hanh.
Incidentally, the term "Bill of Attainder" was also in use in Monarchial England, and the practice was similarly abolished there as well.
It will be interesting to see how many of the candidates give some serious thought to those questions, without finding some lame excuse to sweep them aside.
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