Path: ...!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:57:10 +0000 From: Joe Gwinn Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: Don't let Peanut Die For Nothing Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:57:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7hmiijtl3rvef23g21qip2l27gg8tu12uu@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 41 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-hEPCy3BgnWOyMJ7p7OFYYNMsHKzPvN3pe7aIZVGNnD4JEsYIT6oydr2Ia1sBsLyDlREGZcF2d0csCrr!hMnxfxlz5KL2T9EjzgFr+WYvabxhg4I+xa55t0STneDFN6o6PyCcdaa11/qPH4XRMSuQczc= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2832 On Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:53:27 -0800, john larkin wrote: >On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 23:43:52 +0100, Jeroen Belleman > wrote: > >>On 11/7/24 16:18, Ralph Mowery wrote: >>> In article , jl@glen-- >>> canyon.com says... >>>> >>>> There are lots of people here, and in other countries, who think that >>>> we have too much government. Killing the squirrel was an example. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Of all the major crime going on in the city they go after one pet >>> squirrel. Seems about right for the mentaliy of this country. The >>> squirrel was easy to find. Trapped in just a few rooms. Maybe they >>> should give the man harboring the squirrel a few years in prison for >>> doing something so serious of a crime.Don't worry about the thousands of >>> illeagal people in the city. >> >> >>That was the idea. There are plenty of things wrong in US society, >>but the authorities chose to after an easy target and politicians >>sought to use it to their advantage. Both parties deserve our scorn. >> >>Jeroen Belleman > >Political parties should have no official existance in the workings of >elections or in government. > >The framers of our constitution debated that, and got it wrong. They looked at the fractious politics of European parliamentary systems, which were largely self-crippling, and decided to set things up so there would be only a few parties, usually two major plus some pipsqueaks. It worked. Joe