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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Stupidity is so rampant that I actually tried this fascinating experiment
this very day as I was peddling along on my bicycle. I had my ipod blaring and
the "pedal to the metal" as I happily raced along, passing cars with
a big "whoosh!" and yelling at the pretty girls hoping that they
would say, "Oh, you are so handsome! Take me for a ride on your big black single-speed
zen-like bicycle and I will let you do whatever you want, over and over again,
until you are exhausted!"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>After a while I was pretty grumpy because none of the girls wanted to
go for a ride and most of them threatened to call the police if I did not stop
bothering them and yelling at them, which was prophetic in its own way because
the police soon pulled me over.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Anyway, the thought of being pulled over by the police on my bicycle
would normally have me in a panic, but this time I was ready! So as I pulled
over to the side of the road, I smiled smugly to myself as the grim-faced cop
came sauntering up to me, whereupon he started predictably yammering about
giving me a ticket for speeding.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Coolly, and with a sneer on my face, I told him that it wasn't my
fault! I explained that, yes, I had my feet on the peddles, but the bike went
fast all by itself! In fact, the more I pushed on the peddles, the faster the bicycle
went! It's obviously one of the mysteries of the universe!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>He just kept calmly writing out the citation in that damned little pad
of his, and I kept explaining how this is the exact same scenario that "THE
POWERS THAT BE" keep yammering about! They say that roaring speed in their
cars, like the roaring speed of my vehicle, happens all by itself, and if he
wanted to hand out tickets for mysteries of the cosmos like this, then why
doesn't he get his fat, stupid cop butt back into his stupid little cop car and
arrest all the automobile scofflaws?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Of course, I naturally figured that with these kinds of references, he
would soon see the powerful validity of my argument about how I was right that
the speed of my bicycle was not my fault, and send me merrily on my way, again
happily speeding, the ipod blaring and me yelling at the pretty girls. But he
didn't. He started giving me a hard time! The bastard!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Then I decided to play my trump card, and told him that I can't be
given a traffic citation because I had already given myself a pardon for any
crimes I may have committed, including traffic infractions, just like Bush and
Cheney have given themselves a pardon-in-advance against being charged with war
crimes of which they are obviously guilty.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>My argument is simple: If these two despicable creeps could pass
legislation that trumps international laws and conventions to which we are
signatory members, then surely I can be above the law, too! It's just a matter
of creating the right pieces of paper!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>It didn't work. He knew I was an idiot. And I know a couple of other
idiots, but they didn't get tickets for speeding. See the kind of
discriminatory crap I have to put up with every damned day of my life it seems?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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