Posted on 05/16/2005 12:23:19 PM PDT by Irontank
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""We're always interested in finding out if one slipped through the cracks," he said.
They caught one last year. "GOT MILF" was thought to be a play on the milk commercials. It turned out to be a sexual reference to good looking moms."
Leave it to the morons at the DMV to confuse a benign Biblical reference and a porno reference.
Sheesh.
(Closing exclamation in celebration of what we just escaped having as First "Lady"...)
I did not play it for fear of offending someone. :) Fortunately no rules were broken either way.
First Amendment Issue: Quote from following article -
"I think FEC needs to regulate ordinary people as lightly as possible," said Carol Darr, director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet at The George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management.
***Are Freepers "ordinary people"???
Excerpt, article Chicago Tribune via http://www.news.yahoo.com
It seems to be the great forgotten fact that our Constitution's fundamental purpose was to lay out the specific powers of the federal government and everything that was not specifically delegated to the feds was left to the states. If the federal government is not explicitly given the power to do something, it is unconstitutional for it to then do that something.
In Federalist 84, Alexander Hamilton wrote of the proposed Bill of Rights:
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and in the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colourable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? Why for instance, should it be said, that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed?
This coming from Hamilton who, more than any of the other leading Framers of the Constitution, believed that the Constitution created a powerful federal government. Hamilton (and all of the other Framers) would be stunned and horrified to see the current federal government which does not even acknowledge that there are any limits on its powers.
So, federal regulation of political speech over the internet is clearly unconsitutional...not because its violates the First Amendment, but rather because the feds simply do not have the legal authority to do it.
"We tracked down the woman who lodged the complaint, and she declined an on-camera interview. She says frankly, she's dismayed the state didn't keep her complaint anonymous"
Dismayed that her assine complaint might come back to haunt her.
This Pierce County woman is, I'm quite sure, a regular poster over at DU.
They have a thread over htere today about how the next fascists will not be wearing swastikas --- they will wear, according to the DUmmies, crosses and Bibles.
She's being "prayed over" by a piece of metal?
There's no other scenery in the beautiful Pacific northwest that she can enjoy other than somebody's license plate?
This gal is nuts, just plain nuts, I tell ya....
You should have shrinkwrapped the holder and Scrabble tiles and sold them on eBay next to the "Mary in my grilled-cheese".
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