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* No rule says a woman can't be a yeoman: http://www.navygirl.org/navywomen/navy_women_history_page.htm
** On ''[[Star Trek]]'' anyway, it seems that ''only'' women can be yeomen.
* No rule says a woman can't be prom king: https://web.archive.org/web/20140223143624/http://www.komonews.com/news/archive/4004466.html
* No rule says a man can't be prom queen: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/28/local/me-prom-queen28
* No rule says a boy can't be carnival queen: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-406773/Only-gay-village-carnival-queen.html
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** '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_United_States_government Independent agencies]''' aren’t mentioned either, and they work outside of United States federal executive departments. This means even the President of the United States has little power over them. While they're often given approval from Congress, they're ''not'' part of Congress. Now, you see why there was an issue following [[Janet Jackson]] and her performance at Super Bowl XXXVIII since the Federal Communications Commission is classified as an independent agency. In any words, now see how censorship of American programming was able slip by.
*** [[Howard Stern]] also got screw by the FCC thanks to this loophole.
* If you’re a high school student and want to run school newspapers, you should [https://web.archive.org/web/20120806072801/http://www.firstamendmentschools.org/freedoms/faq.aspx?id=12818 anticipate censorship by the schools] unless you don’t have them sponsor it. Make it an [https://web.archive.org/web/20130513034618/http://www.splc.org/news/report_detail.asp?id=1230&edition=37 independently run] and offer it off-campus either having it available a news stand on public grounds or publish it online. There’s nothing the schools can do if the work is off-campus thanks to the Fourth Amendment since it would be considered private property.
** Better yet, if you happen to have a business license,<ref>this varies by state</ref> it’s seen as a form of insurance since city officials would likely allow “clean” businesses to continue just as long the license is valid.
* When the Birther Movement demanded evidence that Barack Obama is a natural born of the United States, they failed to realize there are three loopholes in the law on meets the definition of "'''''natural born'''''". While the movement was correct on the rule about being born in United States, which Hawaii became in 1959… two years before Obama was born, [[wikipedia:Birthright citizenship in the United States|here are the rules they missed]]:
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