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Very cute! Glad the mice don't live in my house, though!
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly." Richard Bach
"Support fosters your growth. If you are getting enough of the right support, you will experience a major transformation in yourself. You will discover a sense of empowerment and peace you have never before experienced. You will come to believe you can overcome your challenges and find some joy in this world." Katie Jay
Too cute! (Well, maybe not if you have a thing about rodents):
Surgery: RNY on 12/18/2013 with Jay M. Snow, MD "Don't mistake my kindness for weakness." - Robert Herjavec, quoting Al Capone
We'll I would hope very much you are a democracy! Don't you have a free vote? Don't you have freely elected politicians? Don't you have universal franchise? A Republic can be non-democratic as is the People's Public of China or a democratic republic as, I fondly believed, the USA. One doew not exclude the other.
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
on 4/16/14 5:01 pm
I appreciate the information and the differences, but either are laughable if members of the press go through the CIA first to make sure they won't get in trouble for publishing something.
If an investigative journalist is having his house continually searched, phones bugged, friends and relatives watched, if he is being held and questioned as a 'terrorist' ? In your reference it says something about "the majority cannot take away certain inalienable rights". Like the bill of rights? Isn't there something in there about freedom of the press?
on 4/16/14 4:49 pm
Yes, Forgive me, I got caught up and quoted from one of the articles I was reading. Shall I change the title?
There are also *many* definitions for democracy and republic.
Republic at the time of Madison, "It was a novel meaning to the term; representative democracy".
I hope we aren't a democracy, I was taught we were a republic.
5' 3" - HW: 244 SW:234 GW:120 LW: 107 CW:110 Made goal 3/16/13!
Today I googled democracy and saw a few articles in 'news' stating that the USA has been found not to be a democracy, but an oligarchy, we all knew it of course but now a study has concluded it.
You can read all about that here.
Democracy - government by the people; especially : rule of the majority.
Oligarchy - a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
A hearing is also being conducted on the NSA by the European parliament, which is available to watch at various places which I will link to.
It is very long but also extremely interesting, and while I didn't feel like spending so much time watching anything I couldn't pull myself away.
There were MANY scary and interesting points made but I found the statements of Jacob Appelbaum very worthwhile, so if you want to watch his much shorter interview from after the hearing you can click here.
For some people who did not have the pleasure (hah) of living in East Germany and or know not what Mr. Appelbaum refers to - he alludes to the Stasi.
He also uses the german word Zersetzung.
And for those living in the States, I will include this final dramatization. 
Thank you for posting this. Noam Chomsky has been writing about the U.S. being a failed state for years.
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Height: 5'-7" HW: 449 SW: 392 GW: 179 CW: 220
We are not a democracy. We are a republic :)
HW: 318 Date of Surgery: 3/10/14 SW: 270 CW: 154
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