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is to enlarge the house of reps to make it as repressenative as the founders envisioned.
A rep. was supposed to represent about 30,000 people. The size of congress was adjusted every ten years to reflect the nations population growth for the first hundered years. In 1910 they decided it was big enough and locked it in at 435.
http://thirty-thousand.org/
or like if you get too excited you'll wake yourself up.
wow, hit Godwin's Law three days in. It's going to be a long four years.
heh, make it eight
Well I'm sure glad these guys are guarding our freedoms. Pity they were snoozing the last eight years.
Gee Senator Colman, we can't really do that till we cut out the infection.
It just seems like the war on Christmas starts earlier every year.
an article about the first booty?
Puppy does the Gumbo will always be my favorite.
Isn't that the dude that made the girl robot?
knew we were in trouble when I left my secret decoder ring on the bus.
On with the fillibuster!!! Enough of this let's not and say we did.
I'd love to see some of those old farts drop dead on the floor of the senate protecting us from Al Franken while the economy and Gaza implode and India and Pakestan start nukking each other.
The devil hath the power to assume a pleasing shape
that courtship rituals would be a place where sexual rolls would be a little more entrenched.
FTA
"So, if something happened that was so bad in Gitmo, why hasn’t anybody been charged? Because NO LAWS WERE BROKEN!"
Can't argue this that logic. Nope, no point at all.
Isn't the departure of Bush enough of a reason to celebrate?
Every problem looks like a nail.
We're running our air conditioners on the west coast.
What the hate mail must have been like to get him to change his tune so fast?
How can a church tell you you can't live in Colorado?
Isn't 9pm Friday Battlestar Galatica? Thank God for Tivo.
When Pat Robertson is the voice of reason.
Earth apparently.
let him change them
/next
why was he giving a speech about cars?
/didn't see the speech
Is there any polling data about how the candidates stand now? I would imagine that some may have soured on Coleman at this point.
They said the train ran from Disneyland to the Moonlight Bunny Ranch.
we can have our money back?
I believe the word you are looking for is Sophestry.
To put it into perspective, 2% is the amount of insect excrement allowed on a can of apricots by the FDA.
uh, so pregnant agent provocateurs (agents provocateur?) can kill abortion providers with impunity?
I;m gonna go yell "Get a Job you Hippies" at em!!!
We executed Japanese for water boarding Americans after WWII so this question has already been legally decided.
I believe that is the precise effect we are looking for.
Henceforth the republican party shall be known as LOSERS!
There's a rumor that there is a colony of sailors intentionally adrift in the Sargasso. They should join them.
...like I was in the opening sequence of a zombie movie. Every time I turn on a radio I hear about more deaths, more new outbreaks as I go about my mundane activities.
how the teabaggers rationalize going to the barricades over the right of corporations to hide money in other countries.
And I think that issue should be secession. Let them go on record and let the voters choose if they want these dangerous crybabies representing them.
Don't throw us in that Briar patch.
you never have to worry about what stupid thing they are going to do next.
Start sending right wing domestic terrorists there and see if that sentiment changes.
the vast majority of GM dealership that were closed where owned by Christians?
get off my lawn!!!
you should probably just let the grownups talk.
her name was Neda.
they just ant to jerk him around.
no one wants to live the way they say we should.
Not even them.
We don't have to worry about him being the Antichrist unless he dies and comes back to life or something.
But still this must be troubling to the apocalyptic wing of the republican party.
that on the cusp of his 15 minutes he chose to distance himself from the birthers.
because he can't recall
Oh I forgot, that only applies when righties want it to.
We do have a functioning government.
We invade countries that don't have one.
Iran:___________No Nukes______Invaded
Afghanistan:_____No Nukes______Invaded
Pakistan:________Nukes________Not Invaded
North Korea:_____Nukes________Not Invaded
17"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
That being the first black President is enough.
based on that photo, that he has had a lot of work done.
He looks deceptively human in that picture.
"Progressivism is Racism" can soon be enshrined along side "War Is Peace" and "Ignorance Is Strength"
Star Trek On Ice anyone?
Wow things are getting worse. Life expectancy in the Middle Ages was 45 years
I think you should write about your correspondence with Dr. Edgell. It would be a fitting tribute and might help someone.
On a different note; you sure have riled up the troll. You must be doing something right.