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The Book of Laurence - 13 -
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Otherwise, don’t bother voting. You’ll understand even
less about stem-cell research, living wills,
cloning, soft-
wood lumber or out-sourcing than I do; and you’ll have
much louder opinions. Have you asked yourself any of the
following?
a.
How does Google google?
b.
What is recombinant DNA, or for that matter un-recombinant DNA?
c.
What is a Serotonin re-uptake inhibitor?
d.
How many people live in Canada? In the USA or Nigeria?
e.
Is having asbestos in your ceiling riskier than frequenting a tanning
parlour?
f.
Is nuclear energy really a dumb idea? It works great in my stars.
I don’t need to know, but you do. By-the-way, I’ve been
genetically modifying organisms, even continents, for eons
as have the Australian aboriginals.
XI.
Even liberty is a mixed-blessing.
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There is no damn
constitutional right to bear personal arms, let alone to a
Jihad. There is no point to democracy in a failed country.
I’m a pro-Canadian Greco-Judeo-Roman sort of more-or-less
Godlike being.
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants"
is Jefferson as quoted on Oklahoma Federal Building mass-murderer Timothy
McVeigh's T-shirt. Incidentally, if it’s OK to make short-shorts out of the US flag, then
it is just fine---if a tad wasteful---to burn it.
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I might be God, Zeus, Athena, Allah, Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva, Kali, Yahweh,
Zoroaster/Zarathustra, or Buddha ….or one of a host of others whose had sober second
thoughts. I’m not sure. I do know that that fat Buddha-guy is the only really good
company among the bunch. So perhaps I am he. Ralph Waldo might prefer me to be
Brahma. By the by, I might have been a lady God, that would have been cool. It would
probably have made me a lot more nurturing but then I’d feel so much more guilt about
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