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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 08/23/2008 : 09:44:43
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YO:
Texas truant students to be tracked by GPS anklets 3:28 AM ET
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- Court authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring.
Onward, Big Brother and stand by for an update on your chocolate ration.
OY!
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty
"The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
--Oscar Wilde
"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus
"I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
--Albert Camus
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 08/23/2008 : 12:36:46 [Permalink]
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Well, it is, after all, Texas where everything is bigger including (especally?) stupidity.
Would a student strike make a difference, I wonder.
Nah. It would probably just get some students shot.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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