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Originally Posted by Griff

Hypocrite update: Katz gets charges dropped, because politician not regular human.

And someones going to call him on it. And he's going to claim that his personal life and his job have nothing to do with each other, which is bullshit.

We elect (hire) these schmucks because we expect them to represent us. That means that they are supposed to take their experience as normal human beings from the same geographic area and with presumably similar experiences to us and use those views to work on our behalf. And then we go ahead and insulate them from the consequences of the stupid laws that they support based on political expediency.

They're not the stupid ones....we are for letting the system get screwed up to this point.


BTW, saw your HillBilly/HillWilliam tag. Two of my coworkers were discussing the origin of the term this week.

The Appalachian region was largely settled in the 18th century by the Ulster Scots, protestants who migrated to the Irish province of Ulster during the Plantation of Ulster in the 17th century. The majority of these people originated in the lowlands of Scotland. In America, the Ulster Scots became known as the Scotch-Irish. Harkins believes the most credible theory of the term's origin is that it derives from the linkage of two older Scottish expressions, "hill-folk" and "billie" which was a synonym for "fellow", similar to "guy" or "bloke".
Although the term is not documented until 1900, a conjectural etymology for the term is that it originated in 17th century Ireland for Protestant supporters of King William III during the Williamite War.[1] The Irish Catholic supporters of James II referred to these northern Protestant supporters of "King Billy", as "Billy Boys". However, Michael Montgomery, in From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English, states "In Ulster in recent years it has sometimes been supposed that it was coined to refer to followers of King William III and brought to America by early Ulster emigrants…, but this derivation is almost certainly incorrect… In America hillbilly was first attested only in 1898, which suggests a later, independent development."[2]