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http://www.boston.com/news/daily/03/nh_old_man.htm

HR4477 "SEX TOURISM PROHIBITION IMPROVEMENTS ACT"
107th Congress
June 26, 2002

An Act to amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to crimes involving the transportation of persons and sex tourism. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.

Passed the House of Representatives June 26, 2002.


Rollcall # 259

Votes: For=418 Against=8 Not Voting=8

Mass Rep Barney Frank voted with the 8 Nays.

Barney Frank, John Kerry's Attorney General?

"So you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet," - Rumsfeld.

1789: First presidential election in the United States.

New York failed to appoint its allotment of eight electors therefore no electoral votes cast from NY.

North Carolina and Rhode Island had yet to ratified the United States Constitution therefore no votes were cast from those states either.

1864: American Civil War.

The following states did not cast votes in that election nor were they represented in Congress during the duration of the Civil War.

Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia

1868: Three years after the end of hostilities three states did not cast votes because they were as yet
"reconstructed".

Mississippi
Texas
Virginia

Until the 23rd Amendment was ratified on March 29, 1961 citizens of Washington, DC could not vote in Presidential elections.

Today citizens of the following territories cannot vote in Presidential elections:

Puerto Rico
Guam
U.S. Virgin Island
American Samoa.

I think Iraq will survive if the election is held in the law abiding sections only.

That's right ArmyBrat. They're just posting all kinds of stuff on that BushAwol site (& have been for several years). If you take the time to read it & have served in the military you can see a lot of the facts actually support W, it's their opinions that don't.

Here's W's record on an annual basis according to his enlistment date of May 1968:

May 68 - Sept 69
Active duty 226 days
Inactive duty 12 days
Gratuitus 15 days

Sept 69 - Jun 70
Active 313 days
Inactive 12 days
Gratuitus 15 days

Jun 70 - Jun 71
Active 46 days
Inactive 76 days
Gratuitus 15 days

Jun 71 - 72
Active 72 days
Inactive 75 days
Gratuitus 15 days

Jun 72 - May 73
56 points, 50 being minimum.
Therefore he had:
15 days active minimum
24 days inactive minimum

Discharged on 1 Oct 1973 with 672 days active duty, 196 days inactive duty.

ANG members were required to attend 24 days of weekend duty & 15 days of active duty per year.

Most of that came right from that sick BushAwol site & its links like USA toady & Factcheck, I guess they don't think we can read.

This is how Kerry responded to stories about Bush's ANG service:

"I don't know what the facts are with respect to the president's service," the decorated veteran said on a Tucson tarmac. "I know issues were raised previously. It's not up to me to talk about them or question them at this point. . . . It's up to the president and the military to answer those questions

-Tucson January 2004

Seems the military (Swift Boat Vets) has done it's part with this story, now it's Jawn's turn.

It's available on-line at:


http://www.c-span.org/search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=stossel&image1.x=28&image1.y=14

I'm pretty sure we'll see that Texas girl again someday, she was hot. Thomasia was her name methinks.

I'm 99.5% sure I saw this young lady on CSPAN's Book TV. I went to their site and entered her name both ways and the title, coming up with nothing.

Perhaps it was published here in the US under another title, she was quite convincing & held her own with a Muslim crowd. I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt over most Australian papers.

Thanks. The tag line "Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem" is the official Massachusetts state motto originating from the days of the Revolution. Translated from Latin it means roughly "By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty" Just goes to show how lost Massachusetts has become. John Kerry would have peace by surrendering the sword.

Did anyone else notice Al Franken in the audience? I believe this is the same school that gave him an office to write his book while at Harvard.

Here's some rumored fundraising events that the Dems plan to conduct here in Boston:

Bill Clinton with set up a "Kiss the Slick Willy" booth.

Hillary Clinton will auction off a midnight "Vince Foster" suicide / murder reenactment on the Boston Common.

Al Gore will visit the Myogyo Ji Buddist Temple of Greater Boston, participants are asked to bring a large brown bag with handles or empty suitcase.

Ted Kennedy will give rides across the Zakim Bridge ala Chappaquiddick (July 18,1969).

Barney Frank will give a "guided" tour of the Back Bay.

Jimmy Carter will go rabbit hunter on the Charles.

Rob Lowe will photgraph two females, one of legal age the other not at a hotel of their choice.

John Edwards will conduct a midnight seance at the Granary Burial Grouds & conjure up spirits (not to mention votes & future clients).

The most sought after ticket will be the Copley Hotel tour by John Kerry. He'll visit the washroom where his grandfather blew his brains out on November 21, 1921.

Enjoy!

That's AWESOME! I bet you'll see a bunch of them here next week!

No need to be jealous, if you can't be in Boston in person you can always drop by at http://www.wickedgood.info/ to give our libs hell.

PS most of the libs in Boston are imports, square pegs from around this great nation of ours.

Randall, the pizza shop is right across from the Fleet Center and the entire area is closed down except by convention goers. So it should be alright because it's in a highly secured area unless.......


As for the owner he took off for Canada & vacation for the duration. Hell be back next week.

I hope he starts selling merchandise, like bumper stickers, mugs, etc.

Let's hope some enterprising type prints a few thousand "Say Democrats, Thanks for Nothing. Go Bush! bumper stickers.

Perhpas FR merchandise?

It's all about streamlining Europe's many small militaries into one larger EU Dept of Defense based in Brussels.

I love reading how my many UK "friends" who love Peace, hate Bush, are so ticked off about this. Some actually blame this on Bush.

If you don't think violating international law & murdering 300,000 people is grounds for war, what then is the Black Watch for?

May it & Europe RIP, from a American-Scot.

the folks in boston haven't forgotten either, most of them are Teddy's friends tho

http://www.wickedgood.info/

it's in their National Politics forum.

What's important here is that the SJC CONCEDED that by definition marriage is (& always has been) between one man & one woman. They then went on and after citing Canadian law and the fact that they now construe marriage to be an "evolving paradigm" they proclaimed that marriage can occur between "two people".

But if they conceded, and they did concede, that marriage is between a man & a women they CHANGED & AMENDED the Mass Constitution and overstepped their authority because the word "marriage' appears in the Mass Constitution with its author John Quincy Adams intending it to mean between a man and a woman.

Here's the excerpt:

"We interpret statutes to carry out the Legislature's intent, determined by the words of a statute interpreted according to "the ordinary and approved usage of the language." Hanlon v. Rollins, 286 Mass. 444, 447 (1934). The everyday meaning of "marriage" is "the legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife," Black's Law Dictionary 986 (7th ed.1999), and the plaintiffs do not argue that the term "marriage" has ever had a different meaning under Massachusetts law. See, e.g., Milford v. Worcester, 7 Mass. 48, 52 (1810) (marriage "is an engagement, by which a single man and a single woman, of sufficient discretion, take each other for husband and wife"). This definition of marriage, as both the department and the Superior Court judge point out, derives from the common law. See Commonwealth v. Knowlton, 2 Mass. 530, 535 (1807) (Massachusetts common law derives from English common law except as otherwise altered by Massachusetts statutes and Constitution). See also Commonwealth v. Lane, 113 Mass. 458, 462-463 (1873) ("when the statutes are silent, questions of the validity of marriages are to be determined by the jus gentium, the common law of nations"); C.P. Kindregan, Jr., & M.L. Inker, Family Law and Practice § 1.2 (3d ed.2002). Far from being ambiguous, the undefined word "marriage," as used in G.L. c. 207, confirms the General Court's intent to hew to the term's common-law and quotidian meaning concerning the genders of the marriage partners."


For this to stand we must accept the fact that the SJC has the right to not only interpret the law but to now alter the Mass Constitution when it feels like it.

Thanks guys, the Canadians certainly did their share supplying Europe in WWII. I'm glad they are getting some benefits now too. Here mariners face a similiar situation, they do have VA access but that's about it. This bill will help many long ignored.