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Posted by The Skipper    United States   on 06/14/2005 at 05:51 AM   
 
  1. Did the former member of the KKK, ex-Kleagle Democratic Party Senator from West Virginia Robert Byrd participate in this activity?

    This is the equavalent of an e-mail birthday card sent because you forget to purchase a present.  Easy to do, a nice thought but rather meaningless in the long run.

    Posted by MAJ Mike    United States   06/14/2005  at  08:34 AM  

  2. Sometimes I wonder if Senator Byrd’s nickname “Sheets” can also be attributed to the fact that when he’s on the floor of the Senate debating whatever, he sounds like he’s four sheets to the wind!

    Posted by Macker    United States   06/14/2005  at  08:48 AM  

  3. They are called American Casino Owners.  My Chinese sister-in-law says, “Indians are hiring poor Chinese girls and putting them on their reservations without workman’s comp.”

    It’s totally meaningless, like most things in the Senate.  I don’t even believe those stats.

    Posted by Z Woof    United States   06/14/2005  at  08:55 AM  

  4. You sound exactly like my next door neighbor, Feather Dance.

    If you have any Bald Eagle head feathers he will pay you top dollar.  He says the young ones that are still brown have the most power.

    When he moved in he came over and gave me a little Dream Catcher.  My wife said, “Notice how he didn’t even look at me (her).” I told her that’s because she is just my Squaw.  Her father went to school on an indian reservation and he says those Redskins would beat up him and his brother after school.  Before my father-in-law retired in S. Dakota the indians would give him their money at the beginning of the month and then he would dole it out to them a little at a time.  It was a position of great repect from those Pesky Redskins.

    Posted by Z Woof    United States   06/14/2005  at  09:25 AM  

  5. I read a similar AP story the other day. When mentioning the Senate’s part in this they said something to the effect that bills had been blocked by conservative southern Senators. Not word one as to party affiliation.

    It’s called rewriting history. Al Gore Jr. does it when he claims that his father worked to get the civil rights act passed. Al Sr. actually filibustered it with Sheets Byrd and a bunch of other Dems.

    I note with interest that they end the article casting some negativity on the “leadership” of the Senate. To give the writer her due she doesn’t say Republicans. You know, the party that was founded to END slavery, the party that was instrumental in finally getting the civil rights legislation through despite decades of southern Democratic opposition. Oh, I’m sorry, I meant to say ‘conservative’.

    It’s like Bullshit Charlie Rangel introducing legislation to revive the draft and then claiming that Republicans wanted to reinstitute the draft. What amazes and concerns me is that lots of people buy into this shit.

    Posted by StinKerr    United States   06/14/2005  at  09:44 AM  

  6. Does the fact that we apologize for history make us more civilized?

    What a bunch of crap.  And a body of politicians arguing about whether or not to apologize?  A fatter sack of crap.

    How about some real time apologetic thinking to get us moving in the right direction and to get politicians to think beyond their own interests.

    Posted by Phoenix    United States   06/14/2005  at  09:48 AM  

  7. HEY EVERYBODY, DUH! LYNCHING IS --CKING ILLEGAL BECAUSE MURDER IS ILLEGAL.  C’mon why do we need stupid stuff like this. Can’t those drunks in the senate work on something more important?

    Posted by ztucka    United States   06/14/2005  at  02:42 PM  

  8. This is nonsense. But that is only thing the Senate produces.

    If they really want to improve something pass an amendment to abolish the Senate. It is simply a mistake. The nation can function quite well with one legislature.

    Posted by KenS    United States   06/14/2005  at  02:54 PM  

  9. Not a good idea, Ken. That’d leave us with the HORs only. The present setup is far from perfect but they do manage to control the extremes present in each body and, more or less, the other branches.

    If you want to discuss individual Senators to be abolished I already have a list and it’s bipartisan. Unfortunately I can only deal with my two but both are on my shit list.

    I’m going to have to wait till 2010 to lower the ballot boom on cryin’ George Voinovich, DeWhine, I think, is due for his comeuppence in 2008.

    Posted by StinKerr    United States   06/14/2005  at  03:06 PM  

  10. To StinKerr.

    Not true. We have a president, courts, and a constitution to limit the HOR.

    The great mistake is to have an all powerful legislature which appoints the executive branch (ministers) and allows courts no constitutional role. That is not the US.

    Oddly enough, in many such countries the legislature soon becomes captive. The ministers, who control the news and the vote counting and the polls and the local police, steadily make opposition leaders “disappear”.

    However, I do admit that my contempt for the crap factory called the US Senate is such that perhaps I can’t discuss it rationally.

    Posted by KenS    United States   06/14/2005  at  04:22 PM  

  11. Well, Ken. Look at the HOR. We’ve got some real moonbats in there. If anyone thinks the Senate is bad, which it is, I’ll point to Cynthia McKinney and Marcy Kaptur for starters.

    It’s almost enough to make me miss Jim “beam me up” Trafficant. We get a chance to change this outfit every two years. That’s a good thing. The bad thing is that they’re running for election as soon as they’re elected.

    Can you imagine if they had to give “advice and consent”? I’d suggest that it would be 4.35 times worse, at least.

    Now I’m trying to think of the impeached Federal Judge that’s now a Representative. I think he’s from Florida.

    I consider the Senate to be a necessary evil, if only to balance that other zoo.

    I’m not real impressed with the euro type parliamentary system. Quite often their upper house, if they have one, is a figurehead if not a rubber stamp. It makes a good place to put the crooks to give them immunity from prosecution for their past sins.

    Watch to see where they put ChIraq after his term is up. He NEEDS continued immunity.

    The problem gets magnified when the power is all concentrated in one element. When one person controls it all you could have the potential for a real problem.

    Watch to see what the EU tries to build. It’ll turn out to be essentially a one man show.

    Posted by StinKerr    United States   06/14/2005  at  05:52 PM  

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