"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
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On Jul 15, 8:07 am, Karl Townsend
wrote:
...Probably a prelude to what is going to happen in DC next
month. We're getting the government we deserve.
Karl

There's an alarming precedent for Midsummer midnight madness. On the
night of August 4, 1789 the newly elected and inexperienced French
National Assembly pulled a drunken all-nighter and changed all the
laws:
http://www.historywiz.com/nightofaug4.htm

Chaos ensued.

A bas le roi!!

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

--
Ed Huntress

jsw