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Sunday, November 2, 2008 08:22 PM

A possible solution to the electorial problem...

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/

Tuesday, November 4, 2008 02:41 PM

It's like nobody wants to jinks it

or like if you get too excited you'll wake yourself up.

Friday, November 7, 2008 04:24 PM

that didn't take long

wow, hit Godwin's Law three days in. It's going to be a long four years.

heh, make it eight

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 01:39 PM

eternal vigilance

Well I'm sure glad these guys are guarding our freedoms. Pity they were snoozing the last eight years.

Monday, November 17, 2008 11:27 AM

Let the healing begin

Gee Senator Colman, we can't really do that till we cut out the infection.

Monday, November 17, 2008 05:39 PM

Ya know

It just seems like the war on Christmas starts earlier every year.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:50 AM
Original article: First lady got back

really?

an article about the first booty?

Friday, November 21, 2008 01:28 PM
Original article: "Twilight"

well

Puppy does the Gumbo will always be my favorite.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 05:47 PM

Hey!!!!

Isn't that the dude that made the girl robot?

Monday, December 22, 2008 02:56 PM
Original article: Quote of the day

well, look's like the cat''s out of the bag

knew we were in trouble when I left my secret decoder ring on the bus.

Friday, January 2, 2009 06:21 PM

I Second!!!!

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.

Sunday, January 4, 2009 07:14 PM
Original article: Did I just buy an SUV?

meh

The devil hath the power to assume a pleasing shape

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 11:48 AM

It's not that surprizing

that courtship rituals would be a place where sexual rolls would be a little more entrenched.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:43 AM

Well they nail me on that one

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.

Monday, January 19, 2009 02:17 PM

@ FilthyHarry

Isn't the departure of Bush enough of a reason to celebrate?

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 05:32 PM

When your only tool is a hammer,

Every problem looks like a nail.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 09:31 PM

Meanwhile

We're running our air conditioners on the west coast.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 04:11 PM
Original article: Don't cross Rush Limbaugh

Can you imagine

What the hate mail must have been like to get him to change his tune so fast?

Thursday, January 29, 2009 03:57 PM
Original article: Ted Haggard in exile

Huh?

How can a church tell you you can't live in Colorado?

Thursday, February 12, 2009 02:54 PM
Original article: Trapped in the Dollhouse

tough slot for scifi fans

Isn't 9pm Friday Battlestar Galatica? Thank God for Tivo.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:11 AM
Original article: Quote of the day

Strange days indeed

When Pat Robertson is the voice of reason.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 04:30 PM

LSUTigers#1

Earth apparently.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 09:34 PM

no problem

let him change them

/next

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 04:56 PM

I'm confused

why was he giving a speech about cars?

/didn't see the speech

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 11:30 AM

@orbitboy

Is there any polling data about how the candidates stand now? I would imagine that some may have soured on Coleman at this point.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 11:05 AM

Faux News went one better

They said the train ran from Disneyland to the Moonlight Bunny Ranch.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 02:07 PM

Does that mean

we can have our money back?

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 04:26 PM

the word

I believe the word you are looking for is Sophestry.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:54 PM
Original article: Stick it in your earmark

As Jon Stewart put it one The Daily Show tonight

To put it into perspective, 2% is the amount of insect excrement allowed on a can of apricots by the FDA.

Friday, April 3, 2009 08:35 PM

What's the real aim of an Oklahoma law allowing expectant mothers to slay any attacker?

uh, so pregnant agent provocateurs (agents provocateur?) can kill abortion providers with impunity?

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 11:39 AM
Original article: Quote of the day

Oh Snap!!!

eom

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 11:27 PM
Original article: Your guide to teabagging

Oh Boy!!!!!!!

I;m gonna go yell "Get a Job you Hippies" at em!!!

Friday, April 17, 2009 05:17 PM
Original article: Me vs. G. Gordon Liddy

Is water boarding torture?

We executed Japanese for water boarding Americans after WWII so this question has already been legally decided.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:56 AM

from the artical: Moving in such a direction would have a deeply chilling effect

I believe that is the precise effect we are looking for.

Thursday, April 23, 2009 02:57 PM

awsome idea

Henceforth the republican party shall be known as LOSERS!

Monday, April 27, 2009 11:03 PM

SF Bay? Oh Please

There's a rumor that there is a colony of sailors intentionally adrift in the Sargasso. They should join them.

Thursday, April 30, 2009 06:58 PM

I have felt the past few days...

...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.

Monday, May 4, 2009 10:15 AM

I can't wait to see

how the teabaggers rationalize going to the barricades over the right of corporations to hide money in other countries.

Monday, May 11, 2009 03:03 PM

I think we should choose the issue.

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.

Friday, May 15, 2009 04:21 PM

Please Brer Cheney

Don't throw us in that Briar patch.

Sunday, May 31, 2009 11:35 PM

dead guys make perfect leaders

you never have to worry about what stupid thing they are going to do next.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 11:45 AM

Fine

Start sending right wing domestic terrorists there and see if that sentiment changes.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 09:18 PM

Yeah but did you know

the vast majority of GM dealership that were closed where owned by Christians?

Tuesday, June 9, 2009 10:42 AM

bunch of twits

get off my lawn!!!

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:23 PM
Original article: Night of the living neocons

Why is something that happened in 1979 even relevant

you should probably just let the grownups talk.

Saturday, June 20, 2009 04:40 PM

@Fraser

her name was Neda.

Monday, June 22, 2009 09:19 PM

What more does the GOP want?

they just ant to jerk him around.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 01:35 PM

The problem is...

no one wants to live the way they say we should.

Not even them.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:28 AM

well my mom says

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.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 08:00 PM

interesting

that on the cusp of his 15 minutes he chose to distance himself from the birthers.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 03:00 PM

he just want to find out what happened...

because he can't recall

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:58 AM

But what about State's Rights?

Oh I forgot, that only applies when righties want it to.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 02:23 PM

just maybe

We do have a functioning government.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 02:51 PM

They need a bomb

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

Thursday, October 8, 2009 09:15 AM

Matthew 5-17

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.

Saturday, October 10, 2009 11:01 PM

Maybe the commitee just feels

That being the first black President is enough.

Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:40 AM

Does anyone else think

based on that photo, that he has had a lot of work done.

He looks deceptively human in that picture.

Friday, October 16, 2009 06:08 PM

Looks like

"Progressivism is Racism" can soon be enshrined along side "War Is Peace" and "Ignorance Is Strength"

Friday, October 23, 2009 11:19 PM

It could be worse

Star Trek On Ice anyone?

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 04:08 PM

life expectancy

Wow things are getting worse. Life expectancy in the Middle Ages was 45 years

Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:30 AM

Dr. Edgell

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.

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