in the land where "the pursuit of happiness", along with the life and liberty (I suppose because these two are minimum pre-requirements to pursue happiness?) were declared to be unalienable rights. Since I am still an "alien”, a legal one, I may not be able to make a full fledged claim to these "unalienable rights", as yet.

But if I change to human from alien, and theoretically speaking, manage to amass a modest fortune of say $10 million, and if this GOP engineered minimum wage bill passes, I will not have to pay the darn "guvnment" any of my money. But on the other hand, if I, theoretically, end up as a moderately ambitious waiter (who is also an aspiring writer) - it has known to happen; PhDs becoming waiters - in a moderately expensive restaurant, where people who are more successful in the pursuit of happiness would dine, any tips I may then receive, under this bill, would count towards the minimum wage.

O! Senator Frist, how many psychological incentives you provide to motivate lazy bones, like yours truely, to really, really pursue happiness, to hit that $10 million mark, and not turn to waitressing. Brilliant use of your Harvard Medical Degree, sir, if I may say so. Now let's turn to what is an essential book for both of us, sir, the Bible (even though you read it for divine guidance in order to effectively pronounce on sick people like Terri Schiavo for TV, while I read it, in the KJV version, for literary inspiration), and consider Matthew 19:24:

"And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."

Gosh darn it. Surely, Mr. Jesus was joking?! Ok, back to work. This is why I find reading newspapers to be a satirical and comic activity.

There you go forgetting the Bush exception S. It clearly says in the Bush family bible that Jesus only meant that eye of a needle and meek shall inherit stuff for lesser, less studly folk. The Bush family and it's supporters will OWN heaven :)