Seems quaint

George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party, would be spinning around his corncob pipe if he were alive today at the namby pamby approach taken by today's alarmist xenophobes. He was a guy who, like his hero Adolph Hitler, got out of the military, went to art school, and lost his mind.

As head of the American Nazi Party, he got 212 votes in the 1964 presidential election. One year later he got 1 percent of the total vote in the Virginia gubernatorial race. Rockwell's message was racial separation, and he tried to find common cause with the Nation of Islam, but they turned him away.

He liked to refer to his house in Arlington as Stormtrooper Barracks, but the locals called it the House on Hatemonger Hill. On August 25, 1967, Rockwell was killed by gunshots while leaving the Econowash laundromat at the Dominion Hills Shopping Center. He staggered out of the car to point out the gunman on the roof. An associate of Rockwell, John Patler, was convicted, but served only four years of a 20-year sentence.

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Not a joke

Apparently the way to get the British to try a snack treat is to say it is popular in America.

As if facts mattered...

During Clinton's presidency, the top rates were set at 36 and 39.6 percent. George W. Bush's tax cuts reduced those rates to 33 and 35 percent. When those tax cuts expire, Obama favors letting the top rates revert to 36 and 39.6 percent.That historical perspective gives the lie to the notion that the president wants to impose an unprecedented level of taxation. Boston Globe

Gag me

“If you said to me that I could only consult with one individual, and my job was to bring the party back, Newt Gingrich would be the guy,” says Frank Luntz, the pollster who has worked with Gingrich going back to the 1994 Contract With America, the 10-point agenda that Republicans waved around on their way to the majority. “This guy would be the perfect ‘Behind the Music’ story, because he was on top, and then he lost it all, and now he’s back and bigger than ever. It’s perfect.”

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We get money the old fashioned way

Rejected song titles

Yes Sir! That's my baboon

Macaques the Knife

Gibbon to know you

I enjoy being a gorilla

I'm gonna wash that mandrill right out of my hair

Howler can I turn to (when nobody needs me)?

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Random history

Girls eligible to be received into said home (the West Virginia Industrial Home for Girls) are those who are from seven to eighteen years of age, and

• May be committed by any justice of the peace on complaint and due proof that by reason of incorrigible or vicious conduct, such girl has rendered her control beyond the power of such parent, guardian or next friend, and made it manifestly best that such girl should be placed in said home;
• Girls may be so committed for vagrancy up to eighteen years of age or where parents, guardians or next friends agree and contract with the board of directors for their support and maintenance;
• Girls up to fifteen years of age, who may be found in houses of ill fame or assignation houses, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, mayor of a town or city;
• Girls convicted by any of the courts of this State of felony or misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment, may be assigned by the judge provided there is room there for such girl;
  
• Every girl committed to said home shall remain there until she is twenty-one years of age, unless sooner discharged by the board of directors.

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The board of directors shall have power to bind out such girls committed to their care as apprentices to the time said girls shall arrive at twenty-one years of age, to learn some proper trade, business or calling, on such terms as will be advantageous to such girls: but such girls so bound out, are to be bound only to those whose characters are above reproach, and within the State.

The master shall bind himself with good security to pay the amount, if any thing above the maintenance of said child, and it shall be paid to the girl when she arrives at twenty-one years of age, or sooner if she marries.

The board shall not bind out any girl under the provisions of this act, unless the master comply with the conditions thereof.

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EPA AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT RULE 402. NUISANCE
A person shall not discharge from any source whatsoever such quantities of air contaminants or other material which cause injury, detriment, nuisance, or annoyance to any considerable number of persons or to the public, or which endanger the comfort, repose, health or safety of any such persons or the public, or which cause, or have a natural tendency to cause, injury or damage to business or property.

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