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RE: Damned Republicunts
November 21, 2016 at 4:25 pm
NLRB, EPA, HHS, VA, HEW, NIH, and literally 100,000 other agencies, bureaus, admins, offices are still open for business.
Weird in the extreme they all don't have people lined up around the block getting shit fixed right now. Figured there'd even be congestion on the news shows tripping over themselves reporting on the rush of 'penitents' streaming to Washington* for absolution/redress of grievances before the doors are slammed shut. Figured offices would be open on weekends and evening hours too.
*sorry for the flowery prose there, but it should be literally that way and it isn't. What's up ?
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RE: Damned Republicunts
November 21, 2016 at 4:32 pm
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RE: Damned Republicunts
November 21, 2016 at 4:59 pm
Seems kind of asshole-ish to use that as a defense, though. I wonder what their annual school budget is?
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RE: Damned Republicunts
November 21, 2016 at 5:57 pm
No...I'm just explaining that if someone is trying to sue and say that the state does not already have it in its constitution that the kids have a "right to literacy" then the defense's default position is that they don't.