-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 1:39 PM -0400 8/23/05, Trei, Peter wrote:

"I [want] a new drug..."

I would request the irony-impaired actually look up the lyrics of this paen to endogenous ero-endorphins, written by a drug-hating San Francisco "acid-kindergarten" refugee. In the meantime, I'm all for the legalization of meth -- as long as I get to sharpen my Recon Tonto and personally slit the bag of any of the bastids as they cross my windowsill looking for something to steal. Kinda like opening the borders without killing the welfare state first. Okay, maybe our porous borders *will* kill the welfare state, of course, Reagan used unrestrained soviet-killing budget deficits to "kill" the welfare state en passant. He didn't? I mean, Clinton *did* say "...big government is over.", right? Right??? <looks offstage> This thing on? Cheers, RAH The only to "legalize" anything is when progress makes the law superfluous. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.0.2 (Build 2425) iQEVAwUBQwtypsUCGwxmWcHhAQHpDgf/T5q80m2rgc57388eGuvdIq1YttZDMww2 NannlO3JhKbTXQNKuoArDV66++++GPhg9nST3KYWLXI/MyrJllgtNioudkxF/pTU B3ussJXFfHbo3Ya1wgM9P1srQlK6smmamv3oHXY92kqeM5JBWfwG7gybMaC+IKKb nk0YgblOoW2bsXfONjdISXti0ENvkFIMrLxajoWVXSAp1exDOCJPqLSxbKnX2DNd ftBNYO8h9tt/qr6KRhBZsY449Vs1g1CMVigdVy6h7y9WBlhRWCMjJF/pfnJWbQJm a4f9H/XjNntHVr+Z0UZnthj0Va2RKKm99CKTFS+7fypDlEfslq/W3A== =vsGf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'