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On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 21:22:30 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/7/18 8:17 PM, wrote: On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 15:28:12 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/7/18 3:25 PM, wrote: On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 14:35:53 -0400, John H. wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 09:52:20 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/6/18 9:20 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/6/2018 8:58 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/6/18 7:17 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 20:28:36 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: Oh, the investigations and revelations about Kavanaugh will continue. Maybe by a few but once the final vote is taken today and Kavanaugh is very likely confirmed most Dems will pull in their horns on this and crank their gunsights onto a new subject .... like Trump's father's tax returns from 60 years ago. Mid terms are coming up, don'cha know? Kavanaugh will always be known as "Beer Kavanaugh," or "Sex Offender Kavanaugh," or, worse, "Trump's Boy Kavanaugh." At some point, he will have to pay the piper. Not directly related (to Kavanaugh) but I suppressed my gag reflexes last night and watched Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC deliver a lecture on the structure of our government with particular attention to the Senate.Â* Citing his vast experience as an aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan he criticized the founding fathers as being "wrong" in the structure of government.Â* Much like Hillary, he said the founding fathers assumed the general population were too "stupid" to vote directly on the issues and there fore created the representative form of government with the chosen few ruling. Speaking of "representative," on the way home from the airport yesterday, my wife was commenting on the beauty of some few parts of North and South Dakota and Wyoming, and also how desolate and flat and ugly some parts of those states were, and on the general scarcity of population, and thought it was weird for those lightly populated states each to have two U.S. Senators. So, I looked up population by state. She has a point in terms of "one man or woman, one vote." That argument kind of works for the House, but not the Senate. North and South Dakota and Wyoming each has a population of less than a million. Wyoming's is less than 600,000. Yet each of those states is represented in the Senate with two U.S. Senators. So, each 500,000 persons or less is represented by a U.S. Senator. Same goes for Vermont, Alaska, Delaware. California also has two U.S. Senators, and a population of 40 million. Seems to me that to be more representationally fair, not that fairness matters, states with less than a million people should only have one U.S. Senator. My wife also commented that she really didn't know why North and South Dakota were two separate states. Ironically, that was my comment more than 50 years ago when I visited both states with a college buddy who lived in Vermillion, South Dakota. There's nothing on which to differentiate them. She did have well-attended seminars for her presentations on opioids. Damned drugs are a big problem everywhere.  I wonder why any two states (or more) bordering each other are separate states? Does that make me as smart as your wife? When you are talking about states like Maryland and Virginia, it is because they hate each other. Nonsense. How the **** would you know. You are a carpet bagger who has only been there a few weeks. My family lived down the road from you in the 18th century. Thrust me there has always been animosity and the war between the states did not help. I've lived in Virginia and Maryland for more than 40 years. I know a lot of people in both states. I've not encountered any Virginians who "hated" Maryland or Marylanders who hated Virginia. They must all be from Connecticut ;-) I will admit the Wilson Bridge did create more interaction and newer generations forget. In the 50s, Virginia was "over there, where those people lived". You could climb a tree and see the Masonic Temple in SE DC or near in PG. When you got down in Southern Maryland a little farther it was far more pronounced with watermen arguing over who 'se fish they were. |
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#33
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 21:22:30 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/7/18 8:17 PM, wrote: On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 15:28:12 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/7/18 3:25 PM, wrote: On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 14:35:53 -0400, John H. wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 09:52:20 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/6/18 9:20 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/6/2018 8:58 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/6/18 7:17 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 20:28:36 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: Oh, the investigations and revelations about Kavanaugh will continue. Maybe by a few but once the final vote is taken today and Kavanaugh is very likely confirmed most Dems will pull in their horns on this and crank their gunsights onto a new subject .... like Trump's father's tax returns from 60 years ago. Mid terms are coming up, don'cha know? Kavanaugh will always be known as "Beer Kavanaugh," or "Sex Offender Kavanaugh," or, worse, "Trump's Boy Kavanaugh." At some point, he will have to pay the piper. Not directly related (to Kavanaugh) but I suppressed my gag reflexes last night and watched Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC deliver a lecture on the structure of our government with particular attention to the Senate.* Citing his vast experience as an aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan he criticized the founding fathers as being "wrong" in the structure of government.* Much like Hillary, he said the founding fathers assumed the general population were too "stupid" to vote directly on the issues and there fore created the representative form of government with the chosen few ruling. Speaking of "representative," on the way home from the airport yesterday, my wife was commenting on the beauty of some few parts of North and South Dakota and Wyoming, and also how desolate and flat and ugly some parts of those states were, and on the general scarcity of population, and thought it was weird for those lightly populated states each to have two U.S. Senators. So, I looked up population by state. She has a point in terms of "one man or woman, one vote." That argument kind of works for the House, but not the Senate. North and South Dakota and Wyoming each has a population of less than a million. Wyoming's is less than 600,000. Yet each of those states is represented in the Senate with two U.S. Senators. So, each 500,000 persons or less is represented by a U.S. Senator. Same goes for Vermont, Alaska, Delaware. California also has two U.S. Senators, and a population of 40 million. Seems to me that to be more representationally fair, not that fairness matters, states with less than a million people should only have one U.S. Senator. My wife also commented that she really didn't know why North and South Dakota were two separate states. Ironically, that was my comment more than 50 years ago when I visited both states with a college buddy who lived in Vermillion, South Dakota. There's nothing on which to differentiate them. She did have well-attended seminars for her presentations on opioids. Damned drugs are a big problem everywhere. I wonder why any two states (or more) bordering each other are separate states? Does that make me as smart as your wife? When you are talking about states like Maryland and Virginia, it is because they hate each other. Nonsense. How the **** would you know. You are a carpet bagger who has only been there a few weeks. My family lived down the road from you in the 18th century. Thrust me there has always been animosity and the war between the states did not help. I've lived in Virginia and Maryland for more than 40 years. I know a lot of people in both states. I've not encountered any Virginians who "hated" Maryland or Marylanders who hated Virginia. There is at least one Virginian who doesn't think much of one Marylander. |
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#34
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On 10/7/18 10:31 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 21:22:30 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/7/18 8:17 PM, wrote: On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 15:28:12 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/7/18 3:25 PM, wrote: On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 14:35:53 -0400, John H. wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 09:52:20 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/6/18 9:20 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/6/2018 8:58 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/6/18 7:17 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 20:28:36 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: Oh, the investigations and revelations about Kavanaugh will continue. Maybe by a few but once the final vote is taken today and Kavanaugh is very likely confirmed most Dems will pull in their horns on this and crank their gunsights onto a new subject .... like Trump's father's tax returns from 60 years ago. Mid terms are coming up, don'cha know? Kavanaugh will always be known as "Beer Kavanaugh," or "Sex Offender Kavanaugh," or, worse, "Trump's Boy Kavanaugh." At some point, he will have to pay the piper. Not directly related (to Kavanaugh) but I suppressed my gag reflexes last night and watched Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC deliver a lecture on the structure of our government with particular attention to the Senate.Â* Citing his vast experience as an aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan he criticized the founding fathers as being "wrong" in the structure of government.Â* Much like Hillary, he said the founding fathers assumed the general population were too "stupid" to vote directly on the issues and there fore created the representative form of government with the chosen few ruling. Speaking of "representative," on the way home from the airport yesterday, my wife was commenting on the beauty of some few parts of North and South Dakota and Wyoming, and also how desolate and flat and ugly some parts of those states were, and on the general scarcity of population, and thought it was weird for those lightly populated states each to have two U.S. Senators. So, I looked up population by state. She has a point in terms of "one man or woman, one vote." That argument kind of works for the House, but not the Senate. North and South Dakota and Wyoming each has a population of less than a million. Wyoming's is less than 600,000. Yet each of those states is represented in the Senate with two U.S. Senators. So, each 500,000 persons or less is represented by a U.S. Senator. Same goes for Vermont, Alaska, Delaware. California also has two U.S. Senators, and a population of 40 million. Seems to me that to be more representationally fair, not that fairness matters, states with less than a million people should only have one U.S. Senator. My wife also commented that she really didn't know why North and South Dakota were two separate states. Ironically, that was my comment more than 50 years ago when I visited both states with a college buddy who lived in Vermillion, South Dakota. There's nothing on which to differentiate them. She did have well-attended seminars for her presentations on opioids. Damned drugs are a big problem everywhere. I wonder why any two states (or more) bordering each other are separate states? Does that make me as smart as your wife? When you are talking about states like Maryland and Virginia, it is because they hate each other. Nonsense. How the **** would you know. You are a carpet bagger who has only been there a few weeks. My family lived down the road from you in the 18th century. Thrust me there has always been animosity and the war between the states did not help. I've lived in Virginia and Maryland for more than 40 years. I know a lot of people in both states. I've not encountered any Virginians who "hated" Maryland or Marylanders who hated Virginia. They must all be from Connecticut ;-) I will admit the Wilson Bridge did create more interaction and newer generations forget. In the 50s, Virginia was "over there, where those people lived". You could climb a tree and see the Masonic Temple in SE DC or near in PG. When you got down in Southern Maryland a little farther it was far more pronounced with watermen arguing over who 'se fish they were. There aren't enough serious watermen these days to field a lacrosse league. |
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#35
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Geeze
On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 09:45:08 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/7/18 10:31 PM, wrote: They must all be from Connecticut ;-) I will admit the Wilson Bridge did create more interaction and newer generations forget. In the 50s, Virginia was "over there, where those people lived". You could climb a tree and see the Masonic Temple in SE DC or near in PG. When you got down in Southern Maryland a little farther it was far more pronounced with watermen arguing over who 'se fish they were. There aren't enough serious watermen these days to field a lacrosse league. There are as many as the state will allow with a pretty long waiting list. I would not be surprised if there were far more than there were 100 years ago. You also have exponentially more recreational fishers competing for the resource. The word I am hearing is they are catching more crabs than they can find people to pick. That is truly a job Americans don't want to do. |
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