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Tommy, Tom & Rudy

Monday, November 25, 2002

• TITLE: "Tommy, Tom, and Rudy" Not a bad line up of smart people.

• Travelogue! - My trip from Atlanta to Baltimore. I know you think I make this stuff up ...!

• "... Hob and Nob ..." A cute (ok, not so cute) variant on "hobnob." Hobnob, according to Merriam Webster's unabridged is, in itself, a variant on the Middle English, habnab (pronounced 'abnab'), which is derived from the verbs "habben" to have; and nabban (ne-habben), to not have.

  Innerestin', huh? Ok, not so interesting.

• "... Tenth Amendment ..." The first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known, collectively as the Bill of Rights. This, from the U.S. Archives web site:

  During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution. They demanded a "bill of rights" that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens. Several state conventions in their formal ratification of the Constitution asked for such amendments; others ratified the Constitution with the understanding that the amendments would be offered.

  On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States therefore proposed to the state legislatures 12 amendments to the Constitution that met arguments most frequently advanced against it. The first two proposed amendments, which concerned the number of constituents for each Representative and the compensation of Congressmen, were not ratified. Articles 3 to 12, however, ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures, constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights.

  Mullfoto of the Day:
  
  This is my chance to prove that, when I go on the road I work very hard. It is work, work, work to, as in the case of the Republican Governors' Association meeting, to moderate a panel made up of Glen Bolger, Mike Murphy, Matthew Dowd, and Russ Schreifer. (Mullfoto by Walter White)

  Remember that song, "Workin' in a Coal Mine?" Well, that's exactly what it feels like to me.
  

  On the other hand, here is Homeland Security Chief, Tom Ridge, shamelessly goofing off:
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  WPA Federal Writers' Project poster
  

•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  

   
                                Bush carries Bucharest!

  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)( AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ____________________________________________________________________________________