Topic: Our World

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Declaration of Independence
Posted by: Shawn

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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Mandate from America!
Posted by: Shawn

The American voters have spoken and sent a clear mandate with the highest majority vote since 1988, to re-elect President George W. Bush. Along with the presidential mandate, voters have mandated the policies and direction of the country by electing additional Republicans to both the House of Representatives and Senate, filling the losing Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards' senate seat with a Republican, and ousting Democrat Senate leader Tom Daschle in favor of his Republican challenger.

Maybe more later...

-Shawn

Archive: The way it is in Texas
Posted by: Shawn

A father watched his daughter playing in the garden. He smiled as he reflected on how sweet and innocent his little girl was.

Suddenly she just stopped and stared at the ground. He went over to her and noticed she was looking at two spiders mating.

"Daddy, what are those two spiders doing?", she asked. "They're mating", her father replied.

"What do you call the spider on top, Daddy?" she asked. That's a Daddy Longlegs", her father answered. "So, the other one is Mommy Longlegs?", the little girl asked.

"No", her father replied. "Both of them are Daddy Longlegs".

The little girl thought for a moment, then took her foot and stomped them flat and said "Well, it might be ok in Massachusetts , but we're not having any of that shit in Texas."

Great news... English over German!
Posted by: Shawn

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which is the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

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With war lurking in the shadows... Columbia Shuttle
Posted by: dollareyez

As I sit every night watching the news, yesterdays report can hardly be described as "common" journalistic information. War has dominated the television sets as troops are called up everyday for deployment to the Middle East. For months, the possibility of us going to war has been instilled into our minds. We hear of other countries in conflicts while their militants are fighting to keep their beliefs solid and intact. But it seems that we have become numb to the talks of war.

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