t out your ass" is a very vulgar and somewhat dated way of saying "fuck you," and generally speaking, the "it" is rarely replaced by another direct object, as Laureen does here. In this case, "the seminal prison infrastructure" refers to the political organizing of prisoners. "Seminal" is a word that means seed, or the beginning of an organization, and "infrastructure" is an important word referring to physical foundations, such as streets. I’m not knocking down my goddamn distribution charges! "To knock down" the price of something is to reduce it. Subsidiary rights. A legal term referring to legal rights that one has beyond an actual book or movie, such as the right to translate it into other languages, or produce it as a play. We all know she’s brainy. An interesting but fairly rare word for very intelligent. Before we start digging into our chateaubriand…. "To dig into" food is to eat it with great hunger and enthusiasm. "Chateaubriand" is a French word for a very good piece of meat. That’s our channel! Another word for a TV station. When one company wants to take over another company, they simply buy up a controlling share of the stock. In most cases, to own a "controlling share" of stock in a company, you must own 50.1% of the stock. Somebody called the Western World Funding Corporation. It is a consortium of banks and insurance companies who is buying CCA… A "consortium" is a legal word for a combination of many businesses. They won’t tell the SEC, the FCC, the Justice Department. The SEC is the Securities and Exchange Commission, and is responsible for regulating the sale of stocks. They’re buying it for the Saudi Arabian Investment Corporation. An "investment corporation" just buys other companies. Clarence, take it easy! A very common way of telling an angry person to calm down. All of those Arab petrol dollars are washed through Switzerland and Canada and the biggest banks in this country. "Petrol dollars" refers to the money Arab nations made by selling oil.Money that is "washed" through various banks is hard to follow back to its original source, which makes it easier to avoid various American investment laws. The Arabs have screwed us out of enough American dollars to buy General Motors, IBM, ITT, ATT, DuPont and US Steel. "To screw a person out" a lot of money is to steal it from them. General Motors and the others were, and still are, some of the biggest American corporations. I want them wading knee deep in telegrams at the White House! "To wade knee deep" in water is to walk through water (or in this case, telegrams), that is as high as your knees. I want the CCA deal stopped now! A "deal" is an important word for an official agreement. The show is an unmitigated disaster. The death knell. If a disaster is "unmi
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