A Proclamation.

By MrMike a Poster on Slate.Com"That on the fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand and nine, all persons held asslaves within Slate or a designated part of a Slate Fray, the Fray people whereof shall then be inrebellion against the laws of common sense, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and theManagement of Slate, including the Fray Editor and Slate IT support authority thereof, will recognize andmaintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom of spam."That the Management will, on the fifth day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the Slatesand parts of Slates, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against theUnited Slates; and the fact that any Slate, or the Fray people thereof, shall on that day be, in a total lackof faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by corrupt members chosen thereto atelections wherein a majority of the unqualified voters of Slate shall have participated, shall, in theabsence of strong countervailing bullshit, be deemed inconclusive evidence that such Slate Frays, andthe Fray people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United Slates but in fact mere Libtardmorons with no life outside of the internet."Now, therefore I, MrMike, a Slate Poster, by virtue of the power in me vested by Google and MicrosoftWord, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the Slates, and as a fitand necessary Copy and Paste method for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this fifth day of January, inthe year of our Lord two thousand and nine, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publiclyproclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order anddesignate as the Slates and parts of Slates wherein the Fray people thereof respectively, are this day inrebellion against the Slates, the following, to dimwits:Ballotbox, Today

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s Papers, Politics, Dear Prudence, (except the Parts where the Articles are about Self-Gratification) Blorple Falls, A Fine Whine, Bloghdad, War Stories, and many other Slate Fray

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s (except theBest of the Fray because those people are dull as hell), and which excepted parts, are for the present,left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.