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27 Jun 1997 21:21:23 -0700 (MST)@
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Subject: Re: a good week for TD
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it may have been a good thing for republicans...but you should get all of 
your facts straight before you start talking...the supreme court only 
ruled that the federal government could not require local and or state 
police to do the backround check...they can still do them if they 
want...congress just can't require it...

justin skarb

On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Tim, not tim wrote:

> I know, I know....
>      this is not "politic-L" or "TD_can_piss_everyone_off-l", BUT...
> Hey it is summer, and the list seemed a bit dead so...
> This has been one hell of a week...politically...especially for the good guys.  First
> off, background checks required for the purchase of a firearm were ruled
> unconstitutional.  (I always hated that Brady bill.)  Secondly, the house budget
> committee passed a provision that would gut the budget for the NEA by almost
> 90%....it is about damn time.  We have a staggering national debt, but we still have
> 100 million dollars to fund the arts???  Come on...  The fact that the NEA even had a
> budget that size smacks of elitism.  Third, Missouri govenor Mel Carnahan (a
> democrat) signed a bill yesterday that will prevent state funding from going to
> Planned Parenthood.  (He must have visited Kansas and Oz finally granted him that
> "brain" request he had made.)  Finally...it looks like the house has come to some
> agreement on tax cuts.  Thank god....I am sick and tired of seeing 40% of everything
> I earn taken away.  Any reprive...no matter how small...is appreciated....now if they
> could just cut the capital gains by 50%, I might just start that Web consulting
> business I have been contemplating for 3 years.  Then I could leave Kansas City, and
> stop paying ridiculously high city taxes which our  !@#%$**& Mayor uses for
> landscaping projects in neighborhoods that the fire department won't go into w/o a
> police escort.  Well...I am quite sure that I have pissed-off the vast majority of
> the "L" by now...so I will end it here.
>     It was a good week to be a Republican.
> 
> -TD
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> TD Barnes                                    Programmer I, CCTR
> TBARNES@CCTR.UMKC.EDU                        University of Missouri, Kansas City
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>                  http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/tbarnes/index.html
> 
>           "I tip the bottle and bite the lime...and there ain't
>           no moral to this story at all, and anything I tell you 
>         very well could be a lie.  I've been away from the living.  
>                         I don't need to be forgiven.  
>       I'm just waiting for that coal-black, sun-cracked, soul of mine, 
>                                to come alive.
>        
> 
>                                                         -My Reality
>
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