Posted on 11/20/2005 10:16:45 AM PST by GeneD
I like your analysis. The whole point to having a legislative body that isn't based on population is to make sure that the big fish can't go around gobbling up the little fish.
There is no way to make the system perfect, but without some sort of true bicameral legislature, the only recourse is the courts... and we know how much we like doing that as conservatives.
I didn't know what to think about that "rural-sexual" thing at first, but I kind of like it.
Us hayseeds tend to be more likely to be married and stay married. Modern research shows that us married folks get laid a lot more than single folks -- even more than the swinging urban types. We don't need to hunt down our prey on a nightly or weekly basis -- he/she's right there every night in our bedroom. Day after day, year after year, decade after decade. Starts to add up after awhile...
The metrosexuals talk about sex alot more, read more manuals and magazines about it, and watch more of it on their favorite soft-porn TV shows and movies... We hayseeds tend to "just do it."
Mongolian cultural performers ride alongside the Presidential limousine of U.S. President George W. Bush as he arrives at Ikh Tenger, in Mongolia, November 21, 2005. Bush thanked Mongolia on Monday for sending troops to Iraq in a visit steeped in the traditional culture of a nomadic land that produced Genghis Khan. The last stop in Bush's week-long Asian tour marks the first time a U.S. president has visited Mongolia. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
You are quite perceptive, because this whole issue of Warren Court's tilting the entire continent toward the good of the "City Slickers" to the detriment of the entire rural American environment/economy has become an unmitigated disaster.
It is especially stark in a "urban interface" county such as mine that butts up against the county that contains the Crapitol of CA!!!
They own our rivers and streams, our highways and all out other infrastructure because they have more government workers that politic at night up here, while they implement policy by day, down there!!!
There is a large lake area near Branson, MO. Could that be it? The land is beautiful down there. I hope your friends like country music! :) I'm in St. Louis, several hours away.
Solzhenitsyn said of life under the Soviet regime that even when they knew that they could do nothing else, they could refuse to participate in "the lie."
That's how I look at life for those of us with traditional sensibilities here in America. Probably not a lot we can do to turn back the tide in an active sense, but we can refuse to participate in "the lie" of modern secular liberal urban society. We don't have to acquiesce in the idea that it is how things should be.
One doesn't need to live in a rural area to have rural sensibilities, btw. What we have lost is not so much our rural population (that's bad enough), but that a generation ago, the vast majority of non-rural Americans had relatives in the country or other close ties to rural/small town America. There was a set of grandparents or an uncle somewhere.
Not anymore. The combination of high immigration levels and the hardening of the urbanization of American society has taken care of that.
No... They moved to the shores of Table Lake in Golden, MO, just above the Arky border. My next door neighbor just moved here from St. Louis!!!
So true in most cases. However, around here, we are being flooded with "exurban refugees" who have poured in here from the "blue counties" in coastal southern and bay areas like a plague.
I say plague because as each new wave hits our urban/rural interface area, they come with a horrible attitude that they have escaped the horror of crime, etc., in their "white flight" and now that they're here... Not one more home or shopping center or highway improvement shall ever again occur as it would be "growth inducing!"
So ANY plans the prior arrivees had in progress (through investment backed expectations) are instantly deamonized as being proposed by those "Greedy Developers," whose only purpose in life is to destroy the planet for fun and PROFIT!!! (there's that vulgar evil word again)(snort!)
They are slowly beginning to waken to the fact that they have moved out from under the umbrella of over-representation and easy lobbying, into a veritable desert of representation due to the 40 years of Earl Warren's "Cows Don't Vote!"
It has created the virtual political "Freudian Hydrolic" like a teapot with several spouts, each pluged with a cork, and the pressure building and no one knows which will be the next cork to pop out at highly destructive velocity!!!
Boxer is only the second dumbest person in the senate. Patty Bin Murray has her beat. They both make Feinstein look brilliant!
It is incredible how no one speaks of the unconstitutionality of how the, "filibuster" ever saw the light of day. It is also incredible that no one knows just, "who" started it. Its all blamed on some committee. Well, one person has to be there, somewhere. According to the way its being used, it sounds like someone in Russia, China, or Cuba got it going. How 'bout putting an end to that ridiculous, "add on"?
I believe there was a study by a major university--quite a few years ago--that showed that not only do married people have better sex lives than the supposedly hot-blooded singles, but that Republicans have more and better than Democrats. I've been looking for that study since the advent of these new search engines...no luck so far. It makes sense to me that those who don't get any would think and talk about it a lot more--
Happy Thanksgiving to both of you!!!
Happy United States of America Thanksgiving Holiday to you, tomorrow!!!
It's the 4th quarter of the Bush Administration, and there's little to lose by b!tch-slapping Biden and his liberal buddies down!
I hope they're up to it!
Did he blame it on his speechwriters?
I've never seen that study, but I'm certain it is true.
No, he actually pull a Clinto. He said he loved Kinnoch's
speech so much, it unconsciously became part of his OWN speech.....................Pure LIAR!!
Biden: 'Chance of my having found a life and/or hobby before Alito confirmation hearing weak.'
"True, but Boxer is the dumbest human in the Senate"
She's human?
Alito is still more likely than not to be confirmed.
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