Bush Proposes Voluntary Compliance with Criminal Laws

WASHINGTON (DPI) - George W. Bush called for the elimination of criminal penalties today, instead favoring a system of voluntary compliance with laws. "We don't want to limit the creative spirit of America's criminal population with strict government mandates," Bush explained. "Instead, let's allow criminals to police themselves in the true American spirit of honest pursuit of criminal enterprise." White House officials noted that strict compliance with criminal laws was too expensive and time-consuming for many large criminal organizations, such as the New Jersey Mafia and Enron. In keeping with the proposal, John Ashcroft announced that the Department of Justice was changing its motto to "Hey, Quit It!"

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• (was) on the panel of a Peace Education Conference back in 1995
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• a finalist in the National Merit Scolarship Program

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1. Love is a beautiful, living thing.
2. Like all beautiful, living things, Love dies.
3. If we are lucky, Love will not die until the person Loving dies.
4. If we're really, really lucky, the object of our Love feel the same way in return.
5. As a living thing, Love has the ability to grow into something greater.
6. As a living thing, Love also has the ability to become stagnant and remain in an arrested/retarded state. This kind of Love will eventually get old & die.
7. Love does not need any feedback to exist. In fact, a significant percentage of Love is unrequited.
8. The animal that most resembles Love is the cat: it is warm, fuzzy, & craves attention. It can also be aloof & suddenly leave the room for no apparent reason.
9. Everyone is broken in some way. The secret to finding lasting Love is to find someone with a compatable, um, brokenosity.

"Net types like to catfight about whether blogging is the Way Forward or utter self-indulgence. Since it is almost certainly both at once, blogging is quite the hot topic....Yes, blogging has its limitations. There isn't much in the way of original content, for instance. Weblogging consists mostly of logging one's websurfing activities, then making sardonic comments about whatever you see. An activity one's admirers find hilarious. Yet admirers rarely pay for this. Except in their admiration."