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Wed 4 Jan, 2006 05:41 am
What about the other 25%?
Lord Ellpus wrote:What about the other 25%?
I didn't realize your education system had become so Americanized.....
We could remove them all from office, install any kindergarten class, and achieve at least as much.
edgarblythe wrote:We could remove them all from office, install any kindergarten class, and achieve at least as much.
.....and I know JUST the kids for the job.......
I think that it is the nature of the beast. Many young politicians come into office, bright eyed and bushy tailed, and wanting to do "the right thing". They quickly discover that if they want to do the right thing, they have to stay elected. To stay elected, they have to pander to different voting blocks. It finally hits them that if they have to pander to these different groups, their idealism must take a back seat to pragmatism.
After awhile, they realize that the ideals they came in with have vanished, and all that is left is this need to stay in power. Often the way that they stay in power is to get into bed with special interest groups. And like all good whores, they get paid for their efforts.
No man's life or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
-- Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Clemens stole that from Mark Twain, setanta.
No he didn't twain stole it from Clemens!
As fas as I'm concerned, congress is the most reliable and the most honorable of all the branches. They do everything for the benifit of the American people and they are not concerned about special interest groups or lobbyists. They all feel that they are over paid and that all their excess salaries should go back to their constituents.
Did I do that with a straight face?????
Actually, Twain and Clemens were the same person. Here's how it was. Ol' Mark Twain worked the river boats for a while. Now, the leadsman would drop a weighted line into the water to determine the depth. When it got down to a certain critical depth, he would sing out "Samuel Clemons". Now, the sound of that kind of appealed to Mark, so he took it as his own name.
Ya came close, Ralph. Keep practicing.
Twain also stole the tale of Joan of Arc from the French.
That Bastard! How dare he!
He shouild run for congress. He already has an alias.
edgarblythe wrote:Clemens stole that from Mark Twain, setanta.
Thanks for the heads up, Boss, i didn't know that . . .
Just wanted to clue ya, setanta.
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