Pete www.workwithpete.com
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Lawmaker Seeks to End Sexy Cheerleading<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>"It's just too sexually oriented, you know, the way they're shaking their behinds and going on, breaking it down," said Edwards, a 26-year veteran of the Texas House. "And then we say to them, 'don't get involved in sex unless it's marriage or love, it's dangerous out there' and yet the teachers and directors are helping them go through those kind of gyrations."<p><hr></blockquote><p>Did I miss something? Did we warp back to 1955 yesterday? <br><br>[color:red]5.19.05 - The 'Jedi Slaughter' tour begins!</font color=red>
Michael
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The new America get tough on any and everything remotely titillating (that's right I said titillating), put someone in jail for 20 years for possession of banned weed, but if you commit a violent crime or walk around with a gun bought on the black market and ehh probation and don't do that again . <br><br>
and those outfits AREN'T sexually suggestive?!!!<br><br>
_________________________ I used to think it was terrible that life was unfair. Then I thought what if life were fair and all of the terrible things that happen came because we really deserved them? Now I take comfort in the general unfairness and hostility of the universe.
<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>Did we warp back to 1955 yesterday?<p><hr></blockquote><p>This is not the forum to discuss it, but yes, this is part of what comes with the government that has been elected in recent years.<br><br>
sean
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uh huh.<br><br>--<br>Straw-man rhetorical techniques are the practice of refuting weaker arguments than one's opponents offer. 2 "set up a straw man" or "set up a straw-man argument" is 2 create a position easily refuted, then attribute that position to your opponent.
Well, considering this is legislation being proposed by a Democrat at the state level, I'd say it has nothing to do with the Bush administration <br><br>
sean
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nobody said dubya . . . the implication is that the election had a big emphasis on trying to bring back the good old days, which you'd expect from our gov't. even the democrats of the good old days are personified by the zell millers of the world. so, this state level legislator is merely pandering to the constituents who vote these days.<br><br>--<br>Straw-man rhetorical techniques are the practice of refuting weaker arguments than one's opponents offer. 2 "set up a straw man" or "set up a straw-man argument" is 2 create a position easily refuted, then attribute that position to your opponent.