Mark My Words … I Mean What I Say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Oct 16, 2000 | by John Elvin

"The toilet memo is not sitting well with all male officers."

-- A report in the Washington Times on the proposal to remove urinals from U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and replace them with "gender-neutral water closets."

"I do think, though, with the changing demography in this country, people that have not been born here ought to have the opportunity to serve at the highest level."

-- Czechoslovakia-born Madeleine Albright, the U.S. secretary of state and the highest-ranking woman in U.S. political history, suggests that foreign-born Americans should be able to hold the office of president.

"There is no legal or moral justification for permitting Mr. Sundberg or anyone else to engage in this type of irresponsible and destructive action."

-- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protests to the government of Norway asking that Jan Sundberg be restrained in his efforts to capture a sea monster alleged to inhabit Seljord Lake in that country.

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