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[theweaselking]

World's First Single Mother Penguin produces chicks.
also:
Elderly man accidentally joins cutthoat online poker tournament, wins a spot in televised World Series Of Poker on ESPN 8: The Ocho.

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Americans lose billions a year because of the failure of the education system to teach people how to read and write. State governments alone spend a quarter of a billion on basic grade-school training a year, not even counting the lost productivity leading up to it.

"You have to be able to write, convert an idea and turn it into words," said Bob Kerrey, the former U.S. senator and governor from Nebraska, who is chairman of the commission. In public office, "I read things that were absolutely incomprehensible," Kerrey said. He shudders to think how Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, published 229 years ago Monday, would have read in standard, government-worker bureaucrat-speak.

Of course, the "founding documents" ARE a classic example of writing by people who didn't know how to write and had NOBODY check for errors. Case in point: "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
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Noon EDIT: The AP tag mislead me. This *is* a Moonie Times story, so take it with a pound of salt, and expect that any actual quotations and statistics it references to be fabricated.

Comments

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Yeah ... at least one too many commas ... aside from the horrible sentence structure.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

>>A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.<<

I'm actualy confused about what this is trying to say. It almost seems like two sentances were jammed together here haphazardly.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

That's because it *is* two sentences jammed together haphazardly.

What's it's supposed to say is: "The right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, because a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free State"

It's also worth noting that the People, capital P, are *always* a group in the Constitution. Guess what Americans *don't* consider the second amendment to be restricted to?