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Topic: Congress strikes word
´lunatic´ from US laws |
Congress strikes word
´lunatic´ from US laws
Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By:NorthernDog, 12/5/2012 9:41:07 PM
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| Washington — Americans may be forgiven for calling their lawmakers "lunatics" given the partisanship that has consumed Washington, but that term will no longer be allowed in laws promulgated by Congress. The House of Representatives voted 398-1 on Wednesday to strike the word "lunatic" from all federal legislation. With the Senate having approved the measure earlier this year, the bill now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature. "Federal law should reflect the 21st century understanding of mental illness and disease, and that the continued use of this pejorative term has no place
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Comments:
The word hits a little too close to home.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
scribe35, 12/5/2012 9:48:12 PM (No. 9050744)
To be signed by one?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bob913, 12/5/2012 9:55:05 PM (No. 9050752)
How will we describe Congress and obama?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
secondtimelucky, 12/5/2012 10:02:31 PM (No. 9050757)
Billy Joel will be disappointed ´cuz it just may be a luuuunatic you´re looking for...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
SouthSanAntonio, 12/5/2012 10:09:59 PM (No. 9050762)
You are looking at what is probably the crowning legislation of NØbama´s first term in office. The most useless legislation to be signed by the most useless president in the history of this once-great nation.
With all the real problems facing this nation, was this really such an important issue that it had to be taken up now??? How many millions of tax dollars were wasted printing this, debating it, and passing it???
We are freakin´ doomed...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bamapreacher, 12/5/2012 10:19:23 PM (No. 9050768)
Don´t worry, nutjob and whacko are so ingrained in modern parlance that lunatic won´t be much missed.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
WyoEagle, 12/5/2012 10:28:52 PM (No. 9050773)
This is what they are doing with their time?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
dman, 12/5/2012 10:33:21 PM (No. 9050774)
Yup, save that word for the politicians.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 12/5/2012 10:56:32 PM (No. 9050797)
So then-n-n-n-n-n what word will be used to describe the phrase _ _ _ _ _ _ _ fringe?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jimboendaatl, 12/5/2012 11:37:45 PM (No. 9050832)
Well thank God this was taken care of, it´s not like we have any real problems on our hands or anything. Do these buffoons realize the buffoons they have become?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 12/5/2012 11:39:28 PM (No. 9050833)
Is space cadet less perjorative? It seems they are running the asylum.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
melman, 12/5/2012 11:57:15 PM (No. 9050848)
Glad to see they are attacking the important issues.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 12/6/2012 12:40:20 AM (No. 9050880)
Must have been seen on a post it note, pasted to an Obama memo.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 12/6/2012 5:53:51 AM (No. 9050991)
The economy is imploding and congress spends their time worrying about the word lunatic. Talk about a bunch of lunatics.
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