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MARK SMITH
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Hide the town board up in the attic
My publisher is too kind.

Let those who ride decide
I disagree completely when government says because of the number of head injuries from accidents with motorcycles (a person) should be forced to wear a helmet," declared Ronaldo Maximus many years ago. "I happen to think he's stupid if he rides a motorcycle without a helmet, but that's one of our sacred rights -- to be stupid."


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NAFTA now a 'cobweb constraint' on Congress
WASHINGTON -- With the braying of 328 yahoos -- members of the House of Representatives who voted for retroactive and punitive use of the tax code to confiscate legal earnings of a small unpopular group -- still reverberating, the Obama administration Monday invited private-sector investors to become business partners with the capricious and increasingly anti-constitutional government. This latest plan to unfreeze the financial system came almost half a year after Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Asset Relief Program, $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets.

Teens targeted in crack down on emissions
A school bus driver in Florida suspended an eighth-grader from the bus for passing so much gas that it became difficult to breathe. According to the article, the teen was purposely emitting the stench just to make other passengers laugh.










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