The FUGAWE thread for people who are lost

[masalai]

Well my navigation systems check out, but the time-space continuum seems to have screwed my GPS - - - "Where the fugawe?"

[Roly]

Mas the test pilot? Scary job!

You been stealing Migs again?
.
Or, your GPS has a virus.

Maybe our seppo mates have run out of batteries for their sat's?

Where the fugawee.............wykikamoocow of course

[masalai]

As at 10:15 on Monday 15 Dec 2008 25 lost souls have looked in on this thread - - so post fool,!! - - and maybe someone who cares will assist you to find yourself or give you directions?

Out to sea there are 2 sailing yachts heading North - They seem to know where they are going Gladstone thence the Whitsundays then who knows?

[Frosty]

The problem is that Australia is too far to the east. Infact its nearly in the west and the little sun beams come though Masses window far too early.

After making his bed and tucking in teddy he then goes down the wooden hill for his cornflakes with fresh milk from his goat, and turns on the computer only to be angered that he is the only one awake. Have you got some friends in Kiwi, you could talk to for a hour or two.

Im just having my coffee and a blood pressure pill as the sun beams come over the hill and through the window reading a message from safey boy.

Good morning ------ Farque

[masalai]

How is Safie, - - - It would be nice if he posted a bit more regularly...

Can you think of any other good boat names?

Roly, How about those thermal spring resorts of Wakitinya, and Whopitupya - - do you know where they are? I would like to visit North Island some Summer (I hate the cold)....

[Frosty]

A good boat name is "KINEL"

Safie? Hes just putting his coat on.

[masalai]

Is That one of the unseemly Asian language words? - - what is the meaning and origin of Kinel?? or just a derivative of Far-Kinel - somewhere near where Bergs comes from...?

[Roly]

Can't say I frequent thermal pouls.
something amoebic about them.

As for wakinitinme, I have a one way valve.

Although I have been known to wakotherthingsinme, like hullolucynagins.
Used tobe alot of fun. i serious doubt my space/time continuum is flexible
enough any more.

[Chris Bretter]

People who are lost? Confused,crazy or just lost.

[Roly]

How about, "Confession" or, "Penance".
" Movin Reality"? heres a 6o's one "Multiple Frames":p :D

Hey you,ships registerer. I herby register "Multiple frames" for my next vessel. So everybody far-koff.


Lost, mad,..as long the spring in your step remains and you have concern for others, who gives a far-kinel.

Roll on 2008.


So when you 're getting the **** kicked out of you....just change your reference.

[safewalrus]

Confused.......you will be.............yeah the awld bulger is bac, more or less! Ya know when you gets set down by a squal and gets into a lee shore that you kinda haul off with difficulty you heaves a sigh (makes a change fra the usueal heaving I guess) and heads into another port where the maidens are sweeter, tis hard to beat back to yer awld course then, friends or no......After the last squall methought enuff was enuff....still I missed some o'ye enough to come wandering back (aya and a couple o' daft buggers askt were I were - oh how I wished I knew!!) Glad to you most o' ye are still doing alright - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you if that's your thing, if not to hell wie it come and enjoy the party! You can always pretend............we will when we come to yours! and if ye dinna come well good luck to ye anyway

'rus

[masalai]

Hi Safie, I am pleased, It took quite a bit of effort to inspire you to post he :D:D:D:D ?

[Chris Bretter]

Go through life fast and furious when u reach the end be moving so fast u dont realise it happened.And please dont leave a mess behind u including elcashola.(am i supposed to be on the drivel thread)Im lost,Dazed and Confused.

[masalai]

Then Chris, only to happy to assist you, click on the link and you will be there :D:D:D:D:D http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/open-discussion/drivel-thread-17986-264.html , and don't forget to leave your mark...

[nordvindcrew]

Once, I thought I knew exactly where I was and what I was doing. Unfortunately, I was wrong. WHERETHEFUGAMI !! It's wet here and everything is bobbing up and down and smells of salt.

[masalai]

"Dear Abbey says '....don't stop you are swimming, head for a large floating object or land if it is nearby.... sleepwalking whilst living on a boat can be life-threatening, go to bed wearing a PFD and with a rope secured to your person and the other end to the boat'....."

[safewalrus]

In that case Nord I think that maybe your not in the middle of the Mojave desert...............but hell you never know? any sand about?

[masalai]

I think you need 2 points more to gain the ascendency in "rep"? :D:D:D:D:D

[Chris Bretter]

Hi Frosty.I think you need to start a Help Blog.sorta like a agony aunt or sumat// Friendly Frostys agony column//You are good and know lots of stuff.
help people with yachty relationship problems.....Why does it hurt when i p.Why does my head smell like a dead eel.

[masalai]

Chris, I am not sure how to put this delicately but if you are having difficulty with your Internet Protocol then maybe a change in ISP (Internet Service Provider), may be warranted, - and, - as for the smell, - - - - It may be that your beanie is not supposed to be a fishing basket and washing same after carrying the catch and forgetting it and leaving in the car - - - well maybe the car could be disinfected as well? - - - Oh but seems I am doing Frosty's work for him? - - - Where is Frosty then?...

Frosty, please refrain from spitting at the fish, you may be teaching them bad habits?

[Chris Bretter]

Thanks Masalai.You have cleared up two of the three problems It dosent have to be frosty you are doing a good job.My beanie got stuck in the head.

[masalai]

Chris, are you still lost? - May I suggest another God - go sailing, for 'tis obvious you are in need of a "smell of the oceans" fix as a matter of some urgency....

I am feeling good now, My wife's prayers to the Christian God seem to have had a good result, with both our houses sold... I think she knows something there.... & I am now sorting out my boat build project for 2009.... Praise the Lord

Go in Peace and may your God bless you all

[safewalrus]

Sounds good to me Mas......success at last eh!

[masalai]

Yup, starting to feel a bit more relaxed (less tense).... Thanks....

[Frosty]

Dear chris I am at a loss to know how to help you, but a few things come to mind,-- not sure why it huts when you "p" though,-you should see a doctor that has similar problems. Your head probably smells like a dead eeel because you have a dead eel in your hat.

Was this reply helpfull

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C Not at all waste, of ******* time

Congratulations you are the 100th reader and have won 1 million dollars ,--no ****, and it is true. Just give us you bank account details and a signed blank piece of paper and we will do the rest.

EDIT

PS the comma should be at the end of ,all and not waste!

[Chris Bretter]

Frosty as always you have fixed up all my problems.I feel like i can face a new week in paradise.Tanx Chris

[Chris Bretter]

Hi Maselai Well done, I will be starting in Jan/Feb2009 .Perhaps i must find a god as i lost mine in 1971 (Roman Catholic one)and have not found a new one as of yet.I was hoping to find a new one at sea.I heard there are nice ones there.Regards Chris

[masalai]

Frosty may be the better advisor there as there are lots of Godesses in Thailand, so he says...

[safewalrus]

Now that depends on how many 'O's you spell it with?

[Frosty]

Nope no godessesses or what ever but lots of little brown beach bunnies.

You remember the ole ping pong ball trick,--you know with the vagina thing?

Well its moved on now to a much more classy act, the firing the darts and the Terrapin shows have all but dissapered.

I have noticed to my horror last night that what happens now is shock therapy, If you not expecting it it can blow your socks off ( I dont wears socks -but )

There I was sitting at the bar and a there was of course a very young girl in a tiny miniskirt dancing about 6 inches from my glass and I just happened to look up and she had no nickers on and was shaven. Now this is quite normal and no shock there but then she noticed my interest and sqat down right in front of me with legs wide apart almost over my beer,--she then smiled politely.

My stool for some reason nearly went backwards with me on it.

The police must have softened their crack down ( no pun intended) and allow total nakedness on the dance floors . I noticed some dont even wear shoes.

Since the airport thing the silly tourists think they may not be able to leave the country and are small in number this year. Walking street used to be absalute choker at night time, like woolworths on Sat afternoon. This years it is quiter and the bars are falling over themselves literally trying to get you attention with free beer ( I suppose you are expected to buy the second one )

For 2 days no I have been out at 4 Pm and drank till midnight. I feel **** but will have another go today at the Butterfly bar for the free buffet.

[Chris Bretter]

Godesses are godesses no matter where they work

[Frosty]

Oh i forgot to tell you about the accident, ---one bar had had new dance floor made out of black marble.

This ,as you know is a very shiny surface,---well this girl was doing her bit and then did the splits. The poor naked girl was not aware that the new shiny floor was dangerous for this kind of act and when she hit the floor with a slap like a fish on a slab she became attached by the vagina to the floor by suction.

The music was stopped and a few people tried different tactics but the poor girl now in tears was firmly stuck like a toilet plunger,.

Finally a builder from next door was brought in and scraped her off with a shovel.

[Chris Bretter]

Hey frosty
A grand tale worthy of any seafaring man.Couldnt they just slide her to the edge of the stage.Poor child

[masalai]

and get splinters there - there would be claims of teeth growing there? - - - But does not the imagination create some fantastic images?

[safewalrus]

Could we all not have little suckers made up like that to stick notes to windows and things..............that'd sell a few!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[masalai]

That forms the basis for a "masturbation machine" invented at a gathering of a few drunken boaties about 4 weeks ago celebrating the completion of another 39'C from the Bob Oram range of sailing cats.... runs on booze....

[safewalrus]

Mas I notice your rep rises but you number of posts doesn't, is the system falling into chaos!!??!!

[masalai]

Safie, If you add to someones rep they should get 26 points for the affirmative and I have no idea what a negative feedback would give???? other than that fucknose....

[Frosty]

At last Ive managed to get onto the forum . It took me half an hour to get on and now I dont know what to say.

[safewalrus]

About normal for you Frosty - we consider your silence a bonus!

Only problems is when you are like this (rare but not unknown) we have no way of extracting the wee wee, most unfriendly of you! and us!

[masalai]

Who farted - Ooops sorry just another load of walrus **** that will be washed away in the next high tide:D:D:D

- - - - How are you keeping Safie, - - - may I suggest you buy some little gold bars of pure 99.99 gold as a hedge and future money instead of the next couple of cartons of Chivas Regal and the other stuff.... kept for a year or so should mature its value and return 5 times more booze in the future....

Prosperous New year to all.... but there is a possibility of a preposterous 09 for the incautious some....

[safewalrus]

idea is sound Mas trouble is the wherewithal ain't! To obtain the yellow metal first you got to have some of the folding stuff (or a big gun)

[Frosty]

Hey walrus were you there ? The Plymouth marina on 1st was jammed full, they had ran out of chips and beer, ---no money around ey? someone should tell the British.

Scottish friend of mine dropped dead late 31st ,--he was only 66.

He left the marina bar here gasping for breath to go home to die it would seem.

[masalai]

Where the F is everybody? - - - watching the Obama inauguration? on TV, as the place is so tightly secure there is nothing to be seen??? but funny deaf (all wearing cheap hearing aid ear-pieces) men talking to their shoes, cufflinks, themselves and wearing black suits trying to look like MiB IV? :D:D:D

[safewalrus]

Sez a lot for Obama don't it..................this is the guy who billed himself as the Big Christian Geezer who used to praise the Lord and all that! So what's he do on the Sabbath before he gets made up to the most powerful man on earth (saving Father Christmas of course) ------goes out and has a big party! That'll go down well with the Christian faithful won't it! **** don't need them no more I got the Job!!!!!!!!!!!! OK but fanatics carry guns and use 'em and it don't matter whos fanatics they be, Christian, Muslim, or church of the later day pissheads! How longs he got? I giv e him 18 months but I always was generious!

[masalai]

Safie, is it (your job) recession proof? - - - The latest EU talk is of a deep recession in Europe - How deep? deeper than a returning echo.... almost like space - - a vacuum - - can't hear them crying... - - - - - - and certain authorities in USA are talking serious Depression that would make the "Great Depression" look like a boom time of prosperity.... :D:D:D - - - - - Oops I shouldn't have said that as it was heavily censored by the bureau of propaganda...

[safewalrus]

Not looking to good mate, we have an extra problem in that our non elected prime minister (makes Mugabe look a nice guy)who has managed to give all our gold reserves away on a whim when he was chancellor, trouble is the world knows he's a prat...

Deep looks to be pretty deep but I don't think it will be that deep............but I ain't holding my breath!

[masalai]

Got to admit Orstrelia is not in good shape either, Little Johnny was soo far up the shrubs arse that the shrub gave him a medal for being such a good bum licker - - The consequences are that if USA coughs Orstrelia catches the asian flu - - or is it bird flu - 2 birds in the Bush etc....

What a great ****-up of this world - us baby-boomers must accept some of the blame for being born as a consequence of relief that the ww2 was ended and we sallied forth and bred the buggers who are mow ******* the world?

Wow is me, shame and scandal in de family.....

[safewalrus]

about that mas................but we believed the **** about no more wars and peace on earth and all that, we came to our senses too late and the children had taken over...........and look at the mess they are making of it!

[Frosty]

Sawalrus --Brown is the man, he has saved the country, his cheap Scottish way has been advantages. You think its bad now,---You will never know.

Some idiots want the banks to go bankrupt, I suppose they don't understand why that just can not happen, can not.

You must have played Monopoly??? well what would happen if the bank folded? end of game.

Try it --play the game for 1/2 an hour then just close the bank--take all the money in the bank away and try to carry on.

Too silly to think about.


Oh sorry ---boat--errrr mast N stuff --rigging, errrr props.

[Sean Herron]

Hello...

Thought I might subscribe to this thread - cause - ah - you know...

Can a NAFI crew tie their shoe laces...

SH.

[masalai]

Seems this is the only thread left for us old farts as the others have been deleted in the name of petulant septics not liking "free speech' from anyone not agreeing with their bigoted view of the world - I am looking for a forum where freedom of speech still reigns (seems not any more in America), because of crying anal retentive petulant child behavioural issues.... I am open to Singapore Australia or NZ?

[dreamer]

dude, you need to get your bad self over to Sailing Anarchy pronto.

[masalai]

Thanks dreamer - one-liners are not my style and the other yacht forum that also uses this software is rather staid and I would prefer an international site where English is the acceptable language to get something like "Economics and politics" going again with another thread "Religion" for the prudes and saintly aspirers, and lastly "sex & sinners" - but nothing illegal as recognised globally as immoral/illegal... catering for everyone so long as they stay true and do not forum swap and post inappropriate stuff in the other thread - Oops I forgot most importantly, "Cruising Yachties yarns"

[dreamer]

I see.

perhaps something that may also have a component of realism then. You may have to register (or may not...;)):

http://www.gthhh.com/

on-on

[Roly]

So I guess I missed the more noble side of the human psyche on "Global Politics and economics (lies and witchcraft)" and....... it is no more.
Which is a shame! I tried to get a cached copy for all the links I haven't had time to peruse, but it is only odd pages.
Jeff, can't you delete the personal abuse and leave the informative stuff?
If anybody has a copy it would be appreciated . ( Minus the acrimony)

[safewalrus]

Roly you'll only bore yourself to death reading that thread, it started of OK but by the time it got to the second page the muppets were hard at work gibbering - thank your lucky stars you missed it!

[Frosty]

Seems this is the only thread left for us old farts as the others have been deleted in the name of petulant septics not liking "free speech' from anyone not agreeing with their bigoted view of the world - I am looking for a forum where freedom of speech still reigns (seems not any more in America), because of crying anal retentive petulant child behavioural issues.... I am open to Singapore Australia or NZ?

Im having the same trouble on another forum.

Some one starts a thread to which I reply and then after a while its --"close the thread no one wants to talk about this sensative subject"

Land of the free,--- Yeah free to own a gun --Oh another sensative subject that they cant discuss reasonably.

It would appear that they are just as unable to discuss high up in the ranks of government.

I heard that Khrushchev intimidated Kennedy so badly in the kremlin kennedy blushed,-- Khruschev laughed. I used to know the actual details but have forgot ,it was a long time ago.

" What we have here is failure to communicate,--"


Paul Newman in "Cool hand luke"

[masalai]

WTF, ??? where are all the grumpy old regulars who used to give this forum a bit of life? -
gone into aged care?
had a second childhood and got married to a 20 year old beauty?
Gone cruising or building to resume cruising?
sulking over some booze because the economic fiasco has screwed their "gone cruising" plans?

Come on post here with an up-date - or an "up-yours" cause you are cruising...

[masalai]

Since the "cleanout", many are quiet - no **** to respond to? - even I have moderated my rabid approach and endeavoured to keep on topic??? - many seem to be MIA... I partially attribute it to greedy bastards going broke or being victims (unemployed as a result of)... Drivel is lost as is the original Global issues (lies & witchcraft) and lots of stuff missing in the clean sweep operation...

[Frosty]

Thats probably true mas, if youve fked your life up the best thing to do is fck others lifes up too.

[masalai]

my life is still OK, but fiscally it is now a waiting game - just wish uncle Ben B and others (your beloved PM) would cease with their manipulation of the markets - - Brown's latest stunt was to devalue gold yesterday by announcing they would sell hundreds of tons of British taxpayer gold to fund the fcuk England and others game and give it to the IMF...

Sean get them poo pumps well sorted for when the s hits the fan there will be copious amounts of fertiliser to process.... Sympathies - cannon fodder to serve the greedier masters get richer on their blood?

[peter radclyffe]

I see.

perhaps something that may also have a component of realism then. You may have to register (or may not...;)):

http://www.gthhh.com/

on-on

why do you stay close to natural fibreglass-frank lloyd wright

[masalai]

Another form of utter madness - vigorous exercise for the unhealthy only to gorge on fatty food and booze when staggering to the finish-line pub:D:P:D:P:D:P

[masalai]

and I was talking of Hash House Harriers... :D:D:D - are you one of them? - - I admire Sonny Levi, and know even less of the other two, Gather that they are old hands in the "boat racing game"....

[Sean Herron]

see http://www.flickr.com/photos/nafi_and_bmc/ ...

[masalai]

No offence but your artistic skills gave me this off the wall stupid idea.... how about trying to develop a "limp wristed appearance" or some other easily identified and trade-able image of notoriety for marketing hype and a good self effacing promotional style, to appease and get the rich-bitch socialite types gushing and never feeling threatened, and you should be able to earn more and be more famous than the likes of "Andy Warhole"?

[Sean Herron]

Hello...

I do not have a lisp and I swing hammers rather than wave fans - but you may be onto something...

At my last job - I had some office girls believing that I took dance classes at night to improve my figure skating - good way to filter out 'the blondes'...:)

SH.

[masalai]

The blonds with money are the ones to sell artwork to - made of scrap iron and steel, welded and bashed into submission... so they can fees/sense the control, and claim it as theirs...

[masalai]

Oh where the FUGAWE - do I seem to have lost the plot?

[Sean Herron]

Hello...

The plot - there is NO plot - no linear thought - look folks - take some time out - and listen to the planet - the top raptors - imagine ME spewing such **** - but it is true - I am very sensitive and - ah - I am so damned tired...

See - http://www.hancockwildlifechannel.org/staticpages/index.php/20080401010059972 - leave it playing on the speakers and just go to bed...

SH.

[Frosty]

Excuse me,--is this the thread for lost people because im lost and dont know where to post anymore.

I saw this on another forum, it is not mine --I wish it were, it was written by another gentleman who has my absalute respect as a writer. he probably wrote this of the top of his head.

Read this,--

And finally, New Rule: America must stop bragging that it's the greatest country on earth and start acting like it. Now, I know — I know this is uncomfortable for the faith-over-facts crowd, but the greatness of a country can, to a large degree, be measured. Here are some numbers: Infant mortality rate, America ranks 48th in the world; overall health, 72nd; freedom of the press, 44; literacy, 55th. Do you realize there are 12-year-old kids in this country who can't spell the name of the teacher they're having sex with?

Now, America, I will admit, has done many great things: making the New World democratic comes to mind, the Marshall Plan, curing polio, beating Hitler, the deep-fried Twinkie. But what have we done for us lately? We're not the freest country. That would be Holland, where you can smoke hash in church, and Janet Jackson's nipple is on their flag.

And, sadly, we're no longer a country that can get things done, either. Not big things, like building a tunnel under Boston or running a war with competence. We had six years to fix the voting machines. Couldn't get that done. The FBI is just now getting email!

Prop 87 out here in California is about lessening our dependence on oil by using alternative fuels, and Bill Clinton comes on at the end of the ad and says, "If Brazil can do it, America can, too." Excuse me, since when did America have to buck itself up by saying we could catch up to Brazil?! We invented the airplane and the lightbulb. They invented the bikini wax, and now they're ahead?!

In most of the industrialized world, nearly everyone has health care. And hardly anyone doubts evolution. And, yes, having to live amid so many superstitious dimwits is also something that affects quality of life. It's why America isn't going to be the country that gets the inevitable patents in stem cell cures, because Jesus thinks it's too close to cloning!

Oh, and did I mention we owe China a trillion dollars? We owe everybody money. America is a debtor nation to Mexico! We're not on a bridge to the 21st century. We're on a bus to Atlantic City with a roll of quarters.

And this is why it bugs me that so many people talk like it's 1955 and we're still number one in everything. We're not. And I take no glee in saying this, because I love my country, and I wish we were. But when you're number 55 in this category and number 92 in that one, you look a little silly waving the big foam "Number One" finger.

As long as we believe being the greatest country in the world is a birthright, we'll keep coasting on the achievements of earlier generations and we'll keep losing the moral high ground. Because we may not be the biggest or the healthiest or the best educated. But we always did have one thing no other place did. We knew soccer was bulls***.

And...and we also had a little thing called the Bill of Rights. A great nation doesn't torture people or make them disappear without a trial. Bush keeps saying the terrorists hate us for our freedom. And he's working damn hard to see that pretty soon that won't be a problem.
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Is that on the button or what?

[Fanie]

I just knew I was going to find you guys here :D

[masalai]

Very mild and still strongly pro-American denialist propaganda, but it is a start on the road to honesty - wait till masrapido chimes in.... - or maybe he is unloading another load of stuff from China for 'wallmart' and feels being quiet is appropriate....

It is saddening to see a once great nation fall victim to the greed of so few "money controllers" so quickly with such intensity... Many very good folk must surely be hurting, and my sincere sympathies go to all who feel the pain of this economic catastrophe....

[masalai]

This may have been lost, How many have read it and understand it?

The Declaration of Independence
and U.S. Constitution

Declaration of Independence
(Adopted in Congress 4 July 1776)
The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers form the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:

For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:

For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

United States Constitution
Preamble
We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish the Constitution of the United States of America.

Article I.
Sect. 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.

Sect. 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature. No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.

Representative and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the state of New Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New- Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North-Carolina five, South-Carolina five, and Georgia three.

When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the Executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.

The House of Representatives shall choose the Speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment.

Sect. 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state chosen by the legislature thereof, for six years and each senator shall have one vote. Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class at the expiration of the fourth year, and of the third class at the expiration of the sixth year, so that one-third may be chosen every second year; and if vacancies happen by resignation, or otherwise during the recess of the legislature of any state, the Executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies.

No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.

The Vice-President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided.

The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States.

The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present.

Judgement in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States; but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law.

Sect. 4. The times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof: but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.

The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.

Sect. 5. Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each house may provide.

Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two- thirds, expel a member.

Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present be entered in the journal.

Neither house, during the session of Congress shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting.

Sect. 6. The senators and representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the United States. They shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either house, they shall not be questioned in any other place.

No senator or representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no person holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either house during his continuance in office.

Sect. 7. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives; but the senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills.

Every bill which shall have passed the house of representatives and the senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the president of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that house in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration two-thirds of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which is shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of that house, it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.

Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.

Sect. 8. The Congress shall have power To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

To establish post offices and post roads;

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

To constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court;

To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;

To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a navy;

To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the states in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings; -And

To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by the Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

Sect. 9. The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.

The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety require it.

No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.

No capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state. No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one state, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.

No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.

No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States:--And no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.

Sect. 10. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.

No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws; and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the United States; all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress. No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.

Article II.
Sect. 1. The executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the vice-president, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows.

Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress: but no senator or representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.

The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the president of the senate. The president of the senate shall, in the presence of the senate and house of representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have am equal number of electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the house of representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for president; and if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said house shall in like manner choose the president. But in choosing the president, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the vice-president. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the senate shall choose from them by ballot the vice-president.

The Congress may determine the time of the choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.

In case of the removal of the president from office, or his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the vice-president, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or inability, both of the president and vice- president, declaring what officer shall then act as president, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a president be elected.

The president shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.

Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States."

Sect. 2. The president shall be commander in chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.

He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the supreme court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law. But the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the president alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.

The president shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their session.

Sect. 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.

Sect. 4. The president, vice-president and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Article III.
Sect. 1. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated time, receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.

Sect. 2.

1. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States, between a State and citizens of another State, between citizens of different States, between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a State or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens, or subjects.

2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.

3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.

Sect. 3.

1. Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

2. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attained.

Article IV
Sect. 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public act, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.

Sect. 2.

1. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.

2. A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.

3. No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.

Sect. 3.

1. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State, nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.

2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular State.

Sect. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence.

Article V.
The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both House shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several States, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, or by conventions in three- fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided [that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first Article;] and that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

Article VI.

Sect. 1. All debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.

Sect. 2. This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sect. 3. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several State legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound, by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

Article VII.

The ratification of the conventions of nine States shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the same.

Done in Convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the twelfth. In Witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names.

Attest:

William Jackson, Secretary
George Washington, PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY FROM VIRGINIA

NEW HAMPSHIRE
John Langdon
Nicholas Gilman

MASSACHUSETTS
Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King

NEW YORK
Alexander Hamilton

NEW JERSEY
William Livingston
David Brearley
William Paterson
Jonathan Dayton

PENNSYLVANIA
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Mifflin
Robert Morris
George Clymer
Thomas Fitzsimons
Jared Ingersoll
James Wilson
Gouverneur Morris

DELAWARE
George Read
Gunning Bedford, Jr.
John Dickinson
Richard Bassett
Jacob Broom

MARYLAND
James McHenry
Dan of St. Thomas Jennifer
Daniel Carroll

VIRGINIA
John Blair
James Madison, Jr.

NORTH CAROLINA
William Blount
Richard Dobbs Spaight
Hugh Williamson

SOUTH CAROLINA
John Rutledge
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Charles Pinckney
Pierce Butler

GEORGIA
William Few
Abraham Baldwin

AMENDMENTS
1st Amendment. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

2nd Amendment. A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

3rd Amendment. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

4th Amendment. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.

5th Amendment. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous, crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service, in time of war, or public danger; nor shall any person be subject, for the same offense, to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

6th Amendment. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law; and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

7th Amendment. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved; and no fact, tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re- examined in any court of the United States than according to the rules of the common law.

8th Amendment. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted.

9th Amendment. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

10th Amendment. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

11th Amendment. The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another State or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.

12th Amendment. The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice President; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign, and certify, and transmit, sealed, to the seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such a majority, then, from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for a President, the House of Representative shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by States, the representation from each State having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President, whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, [before the fourth day of March next following] the Vice President shall act as President, as in case of death, or other constitutional disability of the President. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have a majority, then, form the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators; a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

13th Amendment.

Sect. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Sect. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

14th Amendment.

Sect. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Sect. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a State, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

[safewalrus]

- - Brown's latest stunt was to devalue gold yesterday by announcing they would sell hundreds of tons of British taxpayer gold to fund the fcuk England and others game and give it to the IMF...



Don't you believe that one, he sold most of the stuff at a loss years ago when he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I don't believe we have sufficent left to fit out a jew with a set of gold teeth!

[Sean Herron]

Hello...

Rasorinc - just hurt my feelings and I am not sure that I will be OK...

AH - yeah - ah - F'ck that - today I had to get pulled out of a boat - no **** - because I could not F'cking remember how I bent my 6 foot ass into it...

MICK MICK - what - are you hurt Sean - NO I JUST CANNOT REMEMBER HOW I GOT INTO THIS F'CKING HOLE...

What a stupid day - great fun though - job DONE...

SH.

[rasorinc]

Why did you change threads???????????????????????????????????????Stan

[masalai]

Safie - The market did and went nuts again - &*^$@# simpletons....

rasorinc - ?the swearing thread? - well sort-of:D:D:D:D

[Sean Herron]

Hello...

Rasorinc - I have 9 machines in my house and 13 monitors - and 3 lines out...

Oh - imagine all that - with a white ass bitter - feel sorry for himself - drunk boatbuilder - me - gets a little messy and hard to control - 'dodgie ****'....:)

The other answer is - 'because I can' - and you are not my wife...

SH.

[rasorinc]

Excuse me while I step outside to smoke a joint and then try to re-read what I don't understand. See you on Vancouver Island. See other thread...............

[masalai]

This has to be a quote for these times - - - "...One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back…" - - Carl Sagan

[Sean Herron]

Hello...

Thank you man - if I was a figure skater - I would cry - what I am is a man paying a solid mortagage on a money paid already made joint - but I do hold grudges - I got a sack of potatoes on my shoulder - ready to be made into chips...

Same is tearing me apart and driving me to drink more than no human guts should be able to stand - not yet a loser drinker - more like a rock star...:)

Wasted talent - I know it - it litters my desk here...

You are so correct - time to back off - I am still standing - still working - and the bankrupt F'cker and the **** that he is responsible for - which I and many other ace crew are still fixing - is still a bankrupt and an ass - I should just let it go - and get on with my bits - but it is hard for me to do this...

Great post Masalai - I still owe pics of YellowCat...

AHAH - see http://www.teknicraft.com/ - by Fitzroy Yachts - MANS and Hamiltons as big as a sofa...

This thing is built like a space shuttle - by Fitzroy...

Cheers...

SH.