>     - hi; in article,
>      <LqudnXKpF4kV7_bNnZ2dnUVZ_gmdn...@wightman.ca>,
>      sshirleyallan1...@gmail.com "Larry Moore" wondered:
>>              Paul Jamison <pjamis...@cox.net> wrote:
>>>The most unsettling theory that I've seen online is that the whole
>>>Romney/Ryan ticket fiasco is part of a long-term plan by Karl Rove
>>>to put Jeb Bush in the White House in 2016. *shudder*  *shudder*

>>On an platform of 'Education Reform'.
>>'Education reform' is a euphemism for what, one wonders?

>    - at a guess, and in the spirit of the hopefully to be avoided
>    possible future you anticipate, it would seem likely that it
>    would include use of the threat to withdraw central government
>    subsidy and grant to any educational establishment that fails
>    to teach creationism as science, and "intelligent design" as a
>    valid alternative to the processes of inheritance and evolution;
>    and to do likewise to any states that fail to do so in their
>    public school systems.

>    - i don't know whether they'd go so far as to require that the
>    doctrine derived by bishop usher, that the universe was created
>    on a certain day in 4004 BC; it depends on whether they perceive
>    any electoral advantage to be gained thereby.  they might offer
>    to settle for a "compromise", say, that the age of the earth be
>    taught as 9,000 years, to present themselves as "reasonable men".

>    - outside of education, i'd expect them to foster further measures
>    to restrict the availability of abortion to women in economic _or_
>    medical need of ending their pregnancies, and perhaps even that of
>    birth control; though i think this latter rather less likely. they
>    will also promise further restrictions upon charities working in
>    the third world, and of aid to governments and ngos there, unless
>    they refrain from promoting or offering birth control and abortion.

>    - look also for further restriction of the electoral franchise,
>    perhaps presented as commonplace justice; that anyone convicted
>    of, say, three petty crimes - but not driving offences - should
>    lose the right to vote.  this, it will be claimed, will be both
>    politically and racially "blindfold", penalising only the poor^W
>    convicted criminals, who have of course lost all moral and human
>    rights in a democracy.

>    - further suggestions for their presidential campaign platform?

>    - love, ppint.
>    [drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]