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The Law Applies To Each Of Us
Fort Worth Star Telegram ^ | Thursday, Dec. 22, 2005 | Molly Ivins

Posted on 12/24/2005 11:06:32 AM PST by an amused spectator

AUSTIN - I'm so sorry, but we are having a constitutional crisis. The timing couldn't be worse. Right in the middle of the wrapping paper, the gingerbread and the whole shebang, a tiny honest-to-goodness constitutional crisis...

**snip**

The Department of Defense has just proved this yet again with its latest folly of mistaking a flock of Florida Quakers for a threat to overthrow the government. A few months ago, a student at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth tried to check out a copy of Mao's Little Red Book and wound up being interviewed by two feds. Cointelpro and all those misbegotten Nixon-era spy programs were always making ludicrous mistakes...

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To: an amused spectator

Nice

This had made my birthday!!


21 posted on 12/24/2005 11:35:26 AM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: an amused spectator
A few years ago Molly broke into the national consciousness because she was a "sassy southern woman who called 'em like she saw 'em" and was a liberal. Interviewed on TV, profiled in magazines.

Now she shows up rarely on national TV and looks completely confused, a grinning old fool who doesn't know that everyone else in the room thinks she's been drinking. Her columns are basically filler--no one talks about them, she doesn't break stories, she simply coughs up the accepted liberal wisdom a week later, adding to the pure numbers of columnists who write about certain articles so boobs on TV can say "the story is the subject of columns all over the country" or whatever. She seems to think she is one of the top columnists, a real sparkplug, but she's a has-been who never was.

She's just filler. So is what's between her ears.

22 posted on 12/24/2005 11:35:50 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Warning: Adult language, but great Christmas message: http://foamy.libertech.net/noxmas.swf)
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To: an amused spectator

Oh, come on.

I dont get to poke a little fun at a dull normal Texas 'Rat?


23 posted on 12/24/2005 11:36:21 AM PST by axes_of_weezles
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To: an amused spectator

"...how's that size 14 taste..."

She wishes her *dress* size was only a 14...

I stopped reading Molly about 15 years ago. She's relentlessly stupid and inaccurate. As you've demonstrated.


24 posted on 12/24/2005 11:38:43 AM PST by Felis_irritable
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To: KosmicKitty
Happy Birthday, and Merry Christmas!

May you get twice the presents this year, to make up for all the times you got stiffed with the combination birthday/Christmas present!

25 posted on 12/24/2005 11:39:01 AM PST by an amused spectator (The Left only becomes concerned about the Constitution when it's convenient for them)
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To: an amused spectator
Being a resident of the great state of Massachusetts I learned long ago that the law only applies when the coppers are present.

I have a collection of seditious literature and various field expedients that would get me incarcerated in a second, every one purchased second hand at flea markets, yard sales and second hand sources.

I have CIA and MI field expedients published for overseas distribution to operatives in various countries, assassination manuals, 'device' manufacture from household goods and many other documents that would get me an(other) FBI interview in a second.
26 posted on 12/24/2005 11:43:38 AM PST by mmercier (barkers and colored baloons)
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To: Darkwolf377

I was tempted to comment that she usually comes out with a column a week after everyone else, but you made the point for me.

But she still belongs to Creators Syndicate and probably gets well paid for her nationqally syndicated birdcage filler.

Like Michael Moore, she's off the radar screen, but she's still laughing all the way to the bank.


27 posted on 12/24/2005 11:49:31 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: an amused spectator

Thank goodness it wasn't a copy of Catcher in the Rye.


28 posted on 12/24/2005 11:49:36 AM PST by Mercat (Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year, oh, and Happy Holy Days)
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To: an amused spectator

Thank you - Thank you!!

(I usually make out pretty well - have the family trained that today is my day, TOMORROW is Christmas)

And a most Merry Christmas to you!!


29 posted on 12/24/2005 11:50:40 AM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: an amused spectator

Cause she's full of shiite....


30 posted on 12/24/2005 11:52:27 AM PST by AmericanDave (Woe is the Income Tax...... and more Cowbell...)
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To: Felis_irritable
She wishes her *dress* size was only a 14...

I was thinking she must have lost a lot of weight to get down to a 14. Last pic I saw was about a 22.

31 posted on 12/24/2005 11:56:18 AM PST by nina0113 (Meow)
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To: an amused spectator

I notice that, unlike most columnists, molly doesn't print her e-mail address at the end of her columns. Wonder why that is? (Sarcasm)
A leftie librarian once told me molly was a "genius". How do these people get on the government payroll?


32 posted on 12/24/2005 11:57:04 AM PST by ozzymandus
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To: an amused spectator

Molly is the reason the rest of the bulbs in the string don't light up!


33 posted on 12/24/2005 12:08:43 PM PST by lawdude (LIEberals/socialists make up facts and history as they go!)
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To: lawdude

LOL, good one.


34 posted on 12/24/2005 12:10:43 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: an amused spectator

You can click on "About Knight-Ridder" at the bottom of the article's page.
Then click "Contact Us" at the top of that next page.
Then select "Contact a Newspaper"
The rest should be fairly obvious...

I emailed the following:

On Thursday, Dec. 22nd, you published
"The law applies to each of us"
By MOLLY IVINS
Creators Syndicate

It seems like you owe your readers a correction as the student at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, who said he tried to check out a copy of Mao's Little Red Book and wound up being interviewed by two feds, has admitted making up the entire story.
I'm always disappointed to find inaccurate and/or unverified stories being used to support editiorial opinions.
Hopefully, your news organization will do more fact checking in the future before you allow your opinion columns to be published.
I expect that you will issue a correction, won't you?
Thanks for listening.


35 posted on 12/24/2005 12:11:27 PM PST by riskybiz
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To: axes_of_weezles
"Fake But Accurate."

Yeah, who wrote this story, Tawana Brawley?

36 posted on 12/24/2005 12:18:51 PM PST by Redbob
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To: an amused spectator
Molly Ivins...


37 posted on 12/24/2005 12:20:42 PM PST by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: Jaxter

38 posted on 12/24/2005 12:22:24 PM PST by axes_of_weezles
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To: mmercier
Commonwealth of Massachusetts

39 posted on 12/24/2005 12:32:30 PM PST by I see my hands (Until this civil war heats up.. have a nice day.)
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To: ozzymandus
How do these people get on the government payroll?

Either government payroll or wefare. Same thing.

40 posted on 12/24/2005 12:51:09 PM PST by 11Bush
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