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Well....
There was a reason why conservatives in the DC area, when leaving for another part of the nation, would refer to it as "going to America."
Then there was the time when then-Senator Manny Lujan (R-N.M.) sent a letter to a constituent in New Mexico and had it returned by the DC Post Office, for having insufficient postage to go to a foreign country.
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can we have them all fired for stupidity, please?
Last year my parents were vacationing in Puerto Rico. I had a phone number for them in PR so,I called my long distance carrier to make sure that PR was included in my "free" minutes. When I asked the customer service rep if PR was included she responded. "Why of course,PR is a STATE."
However unpleasant this may have been for the individual traveler, the biggest threat from all of the ignorati remains the fact that . . . They Vote.
wrangler5: they vote because they get paid to so maybe we can pay them not to
I rather like Robert Heinleins system of qualification for voting: The potential voter pays up front with an ounce of gold. goes into the voting booth and a computer offers a one-question test of knowledge and ability (say, solving a mathematical problem). Answer the question correctly and you get to vote, and your ounce of gold back.
Smart 10 year olds voting? No problem. Stupid 40 year olds not voting? No problem.
Oh, and if you answer incorrectly? Either of two choices - horns and lights going off, humiliating the failure (to encourage you to get smarter or not bother again) or ..... the curtains open on the voting booth, and a slightly greasy cloud dissipates.
Washington, D.C.. 1. The City Bureauful. 2. A territory hounded on all sides by the United States of America. 3. The only place where sound travels faster than light.
See air: hot air (1); spring (6).
- Esar's Comic Dictionary. 1943.
That TSA thug should be fired for stupidity.....