GIVE me a break...
to not quote Biden
I gotcher creepy pledge richt here:
AMENDMENTS TO NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE ACT OF 1990
*clicky*clicky* and search for H.R.1388.
`It is the sense of Congress that the number of participants in the programs authorized under subtitle C, including the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), should grow to reach 250,000 participants by 2014.’.
....
SEC. 151. PURPOSE.
It is the purpose of this subtitle to authorize the operation of, and support for, residential and other service programs that combine the best practices of civilian service with the best aspects of military service, including leadership and team building, to meet national and community needs. Such needs to be met under such programs include those related to--
`(1) natural and other disasters;
`(2) infrastructure improvement;
`(3) environmental stewardship and conservation;
`(4) energy conservation;
`(5) urban and rural development; and
`(6) other unmet needs consistent with the purpose as described in this section.’....striking `Civilian Community Corps Demonstration Program’ and inserting `National Civilian Community Corps Program’
It’s gonna take a lawyah - or someone with a brain and scads of time - to go thru this and figure out what it really means. [Like the Congresscritters will… ha!] simply because it’s a “rewrite” consisting entirely of phrases like this:
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking `community throughout’ and inserting `community and service throughout the varied and diverse communities of’;
I will refrain from using either the word “green” or the word “shirt.” Just to be faaaair.
I’m afraid I shall be less than charitable if any of those door-knockers come around.
Would it be OK to call His Oneness “The Leader”? (Us old geezers will recognize that term from a few wars ago.)
Posted by ZZMike on 03/16/09 at 02:43 PM
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