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On 2012-10-11, "ppint. at pplay" <v$af$pp...@i-m-t.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 	 - 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.]

Have a 'moral turpitude' exclusion that disfranchises any one
accused of being LGBT; require a minimum annual attendance at a 'house 
of worship' (thereby avoiding religious discrimination challenges.)
 
-- 
An old favourite quote of mine from the Talmud springs to mind:
 In these three things is a man revealed:
      In his wine goblet, in his purse
      And in his wrath.                Daniel Goldsmith on AFP.