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Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak analyze the bills in Congress. My US Representative, I learned, may not be reading the bills before voting. He’s been doing this ever since 1981, but it’s a 2-year office supposedly.
Can I forward my federal tax payments to No Agenda instead of my unrepresentative?
I keep saying it. Repubes or democraps, our politicians are equipped with the morals of gutter cats.
The problem with republics is the same as with monarchies. After a while, the noble intentions at the start are as dead as the noble individuals which founded the kingdom or the republic. (The methods of creation for either are equally bloody.)
If we want a representative government, we’ll have to RE-create it. (There were no parties in 1776.)
If we want smaller government, we’ll have to take out the incentives for its growth too.
We’ve become a government
• OF the thousandaires (the 99%, that would be me and thee,)
• BY the millionaires (the 1%, that would be the extremely insular privileged overlords and bosses,)
• FOR the billionaires (the 12,400 individuals identified by the IRS as the people who count (though they don’t really count as they hire some thousandaires to run machines to do that.)
The first thing we do is change from an ELECTED to a SELECTED form of government.
Pick names at random out an eligible citizen pool and they’re stuck with doing the job for one, and only one, four year term.
There could/should/would be no such thing as a career in politics. (The only thing worse than getting stuck with somebody who didn’t want the job is getting stuck with some idiot who did, figuring it was going to lift him a few rungs up the social/economic ladder.)
I’d sooner have Steven Colbert as president as Obama or any of the lousy jokes the repubes are fielding.
The first thing we do is change from an ELECTED to a SELECTED form of government.
Pick names at random out an eligible citizen pool and they’re stuck with doing the job for one, and only one, four year term.
This is what John Adams thought of getting elected to public office:
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and the ruin of our children. I give you this warning, that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
John Adams, to Abigail Adams, May 1770
[violations of posting guidelines]
True.
“Coasties” Active Players in War on Terrorism
From American Forces Press Service, Aug 6 2004
[violations of posting guidelines]???
What are the posting guidelines?
Did I miss something?
Did something slide down the memory hole?
here you go:
http://dvorak.org/blog/misc/commentguidelines.html
Thanks. I promise to be a good slave.
Personal attacks on the Editors unless it represents interesting commentary.
Who decides what is interesting commentary?
Never mind.
(Please don’t hit me, Massa…)
Exit slowly, while bowing.
Actually ANY of the many editors given posting privilege can kill comments. Most moderated blogs do this.
Sorry Adam, your theory of the Iranian torpedo striking the Costa Concordia doesn’t fly.
This video show s huge stone trapped inside the cracks, and the captain said that the maps he used for the voyage didn’t show any rocks to be worried about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWrd6UHjOYg
(look at 2:52)
But what’s interesting at the end of the clip it shows that on the ship’s maid voyage, the bottle of champagne didn’t smash onto the ship.
Aha! The champagne curse!!