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An invitation to go on a trip, using a handbasket as transportation; derived from the phrase, go hell in a handbasket.
by Downstrike November 6, 2006
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Get the big 10-4 mug.1. A form of government in which the true power lies in the hands of committees who dictate policy and bureaus that carry them out, with little accountability to the constituency.
2. A form of government, the authority of which is not so much to accomplish anything, but to obstruct accomplishment by anyone else.
3. The form of government that the United States of America really practices while the politicians distract the constituency.
2. A form of government, the authority of which is not so much to accomplish anything, but to obstruct accomplishment by anyone else.
3. The form of government that the United States of America really practices while the politicians distract the constituency.
by Downstrike June 5, 2004
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The inhumanely arrogant practice of patenting naturally occurring substances and organisms, and those developed long ago by other people - making customary practices such as growing crops and conceiving babies patent violations.
Patenting human genes is an act of biopiracy that makes it impossible for Australian Aborigines and African bush people to have babies without violating those patents.
In the year 2000, the Indian government found it necessary to file 50,000 pages of scientific evidence against a 1997 American biopiracy patent on Basmati rice.
In the year 2000, the Indian government found it necessary to file 50,000 pages of scientific evidence against a 1997 American biopiracy patent on Basmati rice.
by Downstrike December 28, 2005
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