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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">My high school civics teacher was an outspoken anti-communist. We studied the Constitution. It really isn't very long, but it might take more than one sitting to absorb it.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">A few years back I was perplexed with the Tea Party people. I saw more than one public demonstration where someone held up a pamphlet and said, "We must protect the Constitution." The way they said it gave me the impression that they had not actually opened and read the document they were praising. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The Tenth Amendment would appear to be a problem for the Toddler granting immunity to the meat packing plant that violated state rules on worker health and safety.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">BTW, the class was the total opposite of the echo chambers we find today. Although the teacher had nothing nice to say about Moscow, he did have a subscription to Pravda. Copies were in the room and we were encouraged to read them. It's important to know what your opponent is thinking and saying. I think I actually took a copy home once or twice.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 9:57:40 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>...<br clear="none"><br clear="none">It's really odd, but ever since the Toddler got into office, I've<br clear="none">repeatedly found myself needing to remind alleged-conservatives about<br clear="none">the Tenth Amendment -- which is ironic, because the limitation of<br clear="none">Federal power and reservation of rights to the states and to the<br clear="none">American people was traditionally a conservative go-to talking point<br clear="none">(with which I always of course concurred).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Cheers, @kareem_carr: "I discovered a new statistical law, that says that<br clear="none">Rick Moen all jokes on Twitter are based on other jokes on Twitter."<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:rick@linux" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rick@linux</a> friend: "That's really cool! What do you call it?"<br clear="none">mafia.com @kareem_carr: *slowly doffs sunglasses" "Regression to the meme."<br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><div class="ydp63cc76a1yqt8270155454" id="ydp63cc76a1yqtfd33676"><br clear="none"></div></div>
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