“The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.” — Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-MN)
Thursday, June 23, 2016
The cynic speaks
Today's vote in the UK is properly known as a plebiscite. Ambrose Bierce included a definition for that in his Devil's Dictionary:
PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.
SO the people of the U.K. have enough freedom to decide by vote what larger organization they want to belong to. There's an irony here so large that we should go back and just apologize to Jefferson Davis.
Perhaps, regardless of outcome of that vote, we could exchange the illegals here for the 30 million Brits who want to leave the EU but who will otherwise forced to live in a polarized nation with crappy weather.....
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SO the people of the U.K. have enough freedom to decide by vote what larger organization they want to belong to. There's an irony here so large that we should go back and just apologize to Jefferson Davis.
Perhaps, regardless of outcome of that vote, we could exchange the illegals here for the 30 million Brits who want to leave the EU but who will otherwise forced to live in a polarized nation with crappy weather.....
Differ:
can we chose the gun friendly ones?
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