[MR] Waaaaaay OT: For those working at Federal facilities...

[Roy B. Scherer]

At 07:10 AM 4/7/2011, you wrote:
>Mark Twain said it best:
         [SNIP]
         Well, yes, he generally did.  However, this quote:
>  "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in
>session."
         is not from Mark Twain, but is an excerpt from a court
decision in New York state, way back in 1866.  The proper
citation is "1 Tucker 248, N.Y. Surr. 1866"
         As far as the lottery laws (and many others), I can only
repeat Beadle Bumble's comment, quoted by Charles Dickens, in
OLIVER TWIST:
         "If the law says that, then the law is a ass -- a idiot!"
-- YIS,
-- Britton

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