I agree they've gutted it. I'm not sure how I feel about it.
Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 14/05/2015 07:37:22 AM
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We need to go back to have senators appointed by the state
We need to go back to have senators appointed by the state
As opposed to being elected? I don't see any real benefit. The Louisiana legislature is comprised of morons who couldn't get a real job in their communities and were shunted off to Baton Rouge.
View original postand get away from the lie the interstate commerce clause give the fed the right to regulate any damn thing they want to.
Again, it's definitely troubling, but it's difficult to be upset when the results are rulings against segregation. I am uncomfortable with the precedent it's set, though.
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David Cameron whoops ass.....
- 08/05/2015 01:33:15 PM
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This time you're not talking nonsense. 
- 08/05/2015 05:36:35 PM
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The UK election system is as much a mystery as is cricket.....
- 08/05/2015 05:44:31 PM
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It's basically the same system as yours, you do realize? For Congress, anyway.
- 08/05/2015 06:32:54 PM
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For Congress, anyway.
- 08/05/2015 06:32:54 PM
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The Scots seem quite suicidal
- 09/05/2015 04:29:31 AM
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Yes - but so do the Eurosceptic English.
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The euro can only survive in one form
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Devaluation isn't exactly what you'd call a long-term solution.
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What fool or fools started the EU?
- 09/05/2015 01:37:27 PM
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Because Europe was doing so well before then, right?
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The Euro would have worked better if there had been fiscal integration.
- 10/05/2015 09:43:43 PM
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Re Scotland:
- 10/05/2015 09:41:43 PM
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So what is the SNP going to do if Cameron tells them (rightly) to sod off about another referendum?
- 11/05/2015 01:45:16 AM
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Not the SNP so much as the people.
- 11/05/2015 02:00:32 PM
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So the mob rules now, does it?
- 11/05/2015 06:04:04 PM
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Significant devolution will happen, that's for sure.
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Why?
- 12/05/2015 07:10:31 AM
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*NM*
Re: It's basically the same system as yours, you do realize? For Congress, anyway.
- 11/05/2015 05:32:55 AM
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For Congress, anyway.
- 11/05/2015 05:32:55 AM
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The US is made up of 50 nations
- 12/05/2015 03:19:25 PM
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Indeed, but with the same two parties everywhere.
- 12/05/2015 06:35:27 PM
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Wisconsin's drinking age
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I know. It's really sad that that's the most reasonable law anywhere in the US...
- 13/05/2015 06:26:09 PM
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The states still can set the drinking age, incidentally. The feds can just withhold some funds.
- 13/05/2015 02:55:51 AM
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They have still gutted the 10th amendment
- 13/05/2015 01:47:53 PM
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I agree they've gutted it. I'm not sure how I feel about it.
- 14/05/2015 07:37:22 AM
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Well your elected senators are not that stellar 
- 14/05/2015 01:38:37 PM
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- 14/05/2015 01:38:37 PM
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They're all right. They're a hell of a lot better than our elected state legislature.
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