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      <![CDATA[Can't be having any meddlesome whistleblower types running around making videos to prove their allegations. That would be bad for business and therefore bad for the economy.
        
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      <![CDATA[I just read that they're working on a bill to make it illegal to go undercover and film animal cruelty in a slaughterhouse. But not to worry, the Tennessee bill isn't as strict as the one they're considering in Arkansas.
        
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      <![CDATA[@NFR,<br>
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I love it, all the way to the screen name.<br>
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I will say that there are two major factions of the Republican party, 1) the religious right and 2) the fiscal conservative.<br>
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I have often voted Republican but only for fiscal reasons. I don't agree very often with the religious right, really very rarely if ever, and I have only one personal interest in the female sex organ, and it has nothing to do with abortion, or any of those choices.<br>
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On the state level though, you are probably right.
        
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      <![CDATA[NFR,Never say never.
        
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      <![CDATA[I won't call out the individuals who have posted here with banal hopes for the legislature this year and failure to condemn them for last year, you know who you are. My point is, had you a uterus, you'd perhaps not be so gracious in faint though clear praise of them.
        
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      <![CDATA[Well, Stacey spoke the phrase just last week. Great minds, huh?
        
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      <![CDATA[@ Tony<br>
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I admit to never having heard that particualr malaprop, and with as much reading as I do, I am chagrined. <br>
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My only defense, pathetic as it may be, is that I don't listen to country music.
        
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      <![CDATA[Yep, the "rocket surgeon" malaprop has been around awhile. Thought it was sort of common coin.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ah folks.... The term rocket surgeon was a joke.
        
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      <![CDATA[No apology required, Bruce. I assume you came across the connection of Stacey with the phrase in a casual, hurried moment of reading and let it tumble, forgotten, into your subconscious, whence it re-emerged.
        
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      <![CDATA[HA HA !!!! ROFL !
        
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      <![CDATA[Yep, I assumed you'd borrowed.
        
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      <![CDATA[Wow, I owe Jackson an apology. Stacey apparently did once use the term "rocket surgeon."
        
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      <![CDATA[Campfield on national TV, used term rocket surgeon. Can't remember what program, but I heard him say it.
        
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      <![CDATA[If that's true, I might just be a little offended as that "rocket scientist" this does resemble me. Compared to Campfield, I'm a flaming liberal!
        
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      <![CDATA[@Bruce<br>
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LOL!<br>
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Well played.
        
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      <![CDATA[Gents, if Tracey used that phrase, I am unaware of it, though it certainly wouldn't surprise me. I guess I didn't think it would take a brain scientist to see that I was just having a little fun with a hackneyed phrase. Oh well.
        
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      <![CDATA[@ Jackson<br>
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I did not know that Senator Campfield had said that, and I apologize to Bruce for any offense.<br>
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The only thing I can say is that it confirms my opinion of Senator Campfield as a moron.<br>
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Does sound high-tech. Perhaps we could get a company specializing in rocket surgery to move to Memphis.
        
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      <![CDATA[Er, Pop, about that 'rocket surgeon" thing: I think Bruce was playing off on a recent use of that term by the aforesaid Sen. Campfield. So you should ask Stacey what he knows about what may be a brand-new growth field.
        
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      <![CDATA[Sad but true.
        
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      <![CDATA[Jeff,<br>
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Sometimes, like me, they just get lucky.<br>
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If you think I am an idiot now, you ain't seen nothing. Actually, I got to be 21, left home after college, and went beserk with the freedom.
        
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      <![CDATA[Pop, in your experience, what happens when a 21-year-old pushes their limits and suffers no ill consequences? Nay, in fact, their antics are rewarded with more beer and the keys to the freshman dorm?
        
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      <![CDATA[@Bruce,<br>
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While I, as a Republican, share much of your opinion about Mr. Campfield, I would look for a saner legislature this session. After so many years out of power, the last session was pretty much one where the Republicans pushed the limits of their power much like youngsters push their limits when they reach 21.
        
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