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the senate special subcommittee on the arts Their specialty The

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art of congressional gridlock brought to you by half a

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brain dot com All right check out this passage Any

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name of the king Pel grants All right How would

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you change the underlined portion below if at all proposed

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legislation beginning in october nineteen sixty three before the death

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of president kennedy until the bill's approval here the potential

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answers All right we're going to think through these very

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carefully Okay Hey we understand the temptation of avoid punctuation

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all together in an effort to brush quickly over kennedy's

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death We don't want to dwell on it either but

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not putting anything in there It all leaves us with

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a run on sentence so it can't possibly be right

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so we'll go ahead and blow away choice as if

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were a gunman on a grassy knoll too soon All

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right scrub that Okay Assuming we're agreed that some type

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of punctuation needs to be added to set that klaus

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apart from what comes before and after it Well what's

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our best option b seems to have good intentions but

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it's sadly misguided like our cousin gerard who keeps trying

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to get us to join the church of the holy

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ham sandwich that some of these fringe groups are really

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unbelievable be plugs a semi colon into the sentence but

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it doesn't do us much good They're used to separate

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two complete thoughts and that's not what we have here

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so beacon go see is closer to the mark but

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still not quite there it's sense is that some sort

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of punctuation should follow nineteen sixty three but using a

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colon in this spot constitutes a gross misuse of tools

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As we've learned from experience this is a huge no

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no there's too many tools in congress anyway all right

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colin is used to introduce a second part of a

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sentence which explains or expands on the first part again

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that's not what we have here so we'll eliminate seat

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dash is on the other hand are perfect for indicating

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a breakin thought like we're doing here so d has

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to be the right answer Now if you'll excuse us

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we're suddenly dealing with a colon issue so we're going 00:02:05.77 --> [endTime] to need thio dash away

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