The Simple Truths Silver Mine

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By that logic, we might as well go George Carlin...
 
We don't have any rights.  What the hell is a "right"?

Oh, you mean that social contract we're forced to sign at the point of a gun (well, if you refuse to sign it enough times.. guns come into it eventually) that gives us certain privileges that are just as easily taken away when push comes to shove?

You don't have rights.  I don't have rights.  Nobody has rights.  We have crutches that we cling to during the in between times when things aren't so bad that the government hasn't decided to throw them away yet.

And if they do it enough, then people get guns and force the government to sign a new social contract.

Such is life!

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The Speaker of the House in the American tradition is like a Prime Minister who was dropped on his or her head as a baby.

I wonder what dropping Nancy P on her head would do to all the work she's had done?  I imagine there'd be a crustal displacement and her face might permanently shift a few degrees in the southwestern direction.

That said I am convinced that if you pricked John Boehner with a pin, cigarette smoke and tar flecks would come out in place of blood.