As they see it."If the media had to say bovine spongiform encephalopathy bovine spongiform encephalopathy: see prion. every time, this is not a story that would have hung around. Mad cow disease mad cow disease: see prion. mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) Fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Symptoms include behavioral changes (e.g. , well that sounds cool." --Alabama regional livestock extension agent Gerry Thompson to The Huntsville Times [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I consider this cruel and unusual punishment Such punishment as would amount to torture or barbarity, any cruel and degrading punishment not known to the Common Law, or any fine, penalty, confinement, or treatment that is so disproportionate to the offense as to shock the moral sense of the community. to be forced to sit here and listen to it." --Mississippi Representative Roger Ishee to the Clarion Ledger on the use of readings of entire bills in order to delay legislative action. "Make it chicken potpie pot·pie n. 1. A mixture of meat or poultry and vegetables covered with a pastry crust and baked in a deep dish. 2. A meat or poultry stew with dumplings. Noun 1. .... We got too many damn things to worry about besides pie." --Florida Representative Dwight Stansel, a pecan farmer, to the Miami Herald about another lawmaker's efforts to make key lime pie Key lime pie is a dessert made of key lime juice, egg yolks, and sweetened condensed milk in a pie crust. The pie is topped with meringue, then baked until the meringue is a golden brown.[1] Some key lime pies use other types of whipped toppings or none at all. the official pie of Florida. "Cows may come and cows may go but the bull in this place goes on forever." --Sign posted in an office near the Colorado House floor. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "If elections don't feature opponents or if one side always tends to win, it makes it hard to have the real give-and-take that democracy demands." --Don Kettl, director of the Fels Institute of Government The Fels Institute of Government is a public policy school founded in 1937 at the University of Pennsylvania. Its primary benefactor was Philadelphia philanthropist Samuel Fels of the Fels Naptha Soap Company and the Institute is housed in the Fels Mansion on the west of the Penn at the University of Pennsylvania to the Associated Press. "It just doesn't seem like the proverbial fair chase for me." --Idaho Senator Gary Schroeder, a fur trader by profession, to the Associated Press after seeing snowmobilers shooting coyotes in northern Idaho. "Refurbishing what we already had in here, it would be like putting a new set of buttons on a leisure suit." --North Carolina Senator Tony Rand, to the Associated Press on the $2 million renovation of the Senate chamber currently underway. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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