I watched with great interest the World's greatest Democracy processing
a needed change.
I saw the addresses from both camps and hoped that reason would prevail.
I believe it has, and my friends and I lifted a glass to the new regime.
In article <i0p3sdF834hU1@mid.individual.net>,
pete dashwood <dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote:
I watched with great interest the World's greatest Democracy processing
a needed change.
I saw the addresses from both camps and hoped that reason would prevail.
I believe it has, and my friends and I lifted a glass to the new regime.
As one citizen and voter of the United States of America I thank you for taking interest in my backwards, backwater, benighted land... did you know that in the national capital sales of champagne exceeded those of the preceding two New Year celebrations, combined?
My country lived through President Nixon, it will survive President
Trump... but there are still three months to make mischief and pilfer the public silver.
(there were tales of an Administrative turnover a few years back where the departing team was so malicious they destroyed individual keys on
typewriters so the new President's name could not be rendered... but I've never seen a photograph of a device so mangled)
DD
Never mind. Reason has prevailed and the American people have spoken as
their sacred documents say they must.
In article <i0r8kfFl8eiU1@mid.individual.net>,
pete dashwood <dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote:
[snip]
Never mind. Reason has prevailed and the American people have spoken as
their sacred documents say they must.
That 'sacred' caught my eye, Mr Dashwood, as I've had the good fortune and leisure to read a few of those, as well. Regarding the Constitution of
the United States of America it is good to remember that Its entirety can
be nullified by an Amendment with sufficient 'popular' support.
(Note that 'popular' is stated thus as there's a bit more involved than a buncha folks voting 'Stuff the Const. Up Your... Nose'. Also note - not because it is relevant but because I like to remind folks of it - that one
of the express purposes of the Constitution is *not* 'in order to Leave People Alone'; it is, expressly and unambiguously, '... in Order to form a more perfect Union... (for) ourselves and our Posterity'.)
(sometimes we get it right... sometimes not, welcome to h. sap. sap.)
DD
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