But, thank you for reintroducing it to me! I looked
at that link and the page, and bookmarked it along with
the USMA home page URL. Certainly, America will
give you millions of hits when metric finally comes to our
shores officially.
>
> From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2003/06/07 Sat AM 01:37:47 EDT
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [USMA:25956] RE: point #4
>
> That's O.K. I knew you got it from the source.
>
> As I said, I couldn't resist the opportunity to plug SI Navigator.
>
> Bill Potts, CMS
> Roseville, CA
> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Behalf Of Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
> >Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 18:30
> >To: U.S. Metric Association
> >Subject: [USMA:25954] RE: point #4
> >
> >
> >Sorry, Bill---I was only peeking at the Constitution. I first peeked at it
> >on this issue in 1974.
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 6:03 PM
> >Subject: [USMA:25953] RE: point #4
> >
> >
> >> You must have been peeking at the Political Action section of SI
> >Navigator
> >> (http://metric1.org/action.htm). <g>
> >>
> >> Bill Potts, CMS
> >> Roseville, CA
> >> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> >>
> >> Couldn't resist the plug.
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf
> >Of
> >> Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
> >> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 15:12
> >> To: U.S. Metric Association
> >> Subject: [USMA:25952] point #4
> >>
> >>
> >> 4.National.
> >>
> >> Article I, Section 8, of the United States Constitution provides, in
> >part,
> >> that the Congress "shall have power...To coin money, regulate the value
> >> thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and
> >> measures;..."
> >>
> >> As part of the same concept as that of coining money (a truly national
> >> arrangement), the US Constitution empowers the US Congress to establish a
> >> standard of measurement for the United States. That the US Congress has
> >ever
> >> fulfilled its responsibility under this article is debatable. But the
> >> jurisdiction is clearly theirs, even though a few states, left to dangle
> >> without the federal metric mandate promised but not delivered under the
> >1998
> >> US Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), have
> >> nevertheless forged ahead to design highways using wholly metric
> >standards
> >> (some of thes states abandoned the effort because they were not part of a
> >> national measurement change). Attempts at metrication in the US shall
> >> never survive such a metrological Civil War, with non-metric states
> >> bordering metric states. It must be a process as national as the
> >> Constitution conceived it to be.
> >>
> >> Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
> >> 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122
> >> Midland TX 79707-2872 USA
> >> 432-694-6208
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >> "There are two cardinal sins, from
> >> which all the others spring: impatience
> >> and laziness."
> >> ---Franz Kafka
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
3609 Caldera Blvd, Apt. 122
Midland TX 79707-2872 USA
432-694-6208
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are two cardinal sins, from which all the others spring: impatience and laziness.
---Franz Kafka
