<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>They, manufacturers/retailers of assault rifles (better known as the NRA constituency), place the sale of their product ahead of the safety of children.</div><div><br></div><div>Rifles have a long shelf life. Hence, there are not many repeat customers. To "beef up" sales, manufacturers/retailers benefit (extremely) on fear tactics ("Obama wants to take your guns away", etc.), coupled with "come and get them while you can" sales.</div><div><br></div><div>After that, the murders of children amount to nothing more than unrelated side-effects.</div><div><br></div><div>It all comes down to one thing . . . $$$$$$.</div><div><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div><div><br>On Jan 31, 2013, at 5:27 PM, Paul Rumelhart <<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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I won't argue with you on fracking, but is that really why you
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year 2525</span></div>
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<pre style="text-align: left; "><font face="Helvetica"><span style="white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><font><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>In the year 3535</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies</b></div><b><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Everything you think, do, and say</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Is in the pill you took today</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">
</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>In the year 4545</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>You won't find a thing chew</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Nobody's gonna look at you</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">
</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>In the year 5555</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Your arms are hanging limp at your sides</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Your legs got not nothing to do</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Some machine is doing that for you</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">
</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>In the year 6565</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>From the bottom of a long glass tube</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">
</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>In the year 7510</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>If God's a-comin' he ought to make it by then</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Maybe he'll look around himself and say</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Guess it's time for the Judgement day</b></div></b></font><font><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>
</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>In the year 8510</b></div><b><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>God is gonna shake his mighty head</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Or tear it down and start again</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">
</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>In the year 9595</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>I'm kinda wondering if man is gonna be alive</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>He's taken everything this old earth can give</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>And he ain't put back nothing</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">
</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Now it's been 10,000 years</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Man has cried a billion tears</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>For what he never knew</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Now man's reign is through</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>But through the eternal night</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>The twinkling of starlight</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>So very far away</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Maybe it's only yesterday</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">
</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>In the year 2525</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>If man is still alive</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>If woman can survive</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>They may find</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">
</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>In the year 3535</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Everything you think, do or say</b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Is in the pill you took today ....(fading...)"</b></div></b></font></span></font></pre>
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