Just sayin..... better appreciate the freedoms bestowed at your precious fingertips while you still may
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Where the hell are you from anyway, private?
Private Cowboy: Sir, Texas, sir.
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Holy dog garbage! Texas? Only steers and person come from Texas, Private Cowboy, and you don't look much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows it down. Do you suck person?
Private Cowboy: Sir, no, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Are you a peter puffer?
Private Cowboy: Sir, no, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I bet you're the kind of guy who would darn a person in the behind and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you!
It was amazing.
The last 12 minutes was the crowd screaming so loud they couldn't get the vote done. Like and NFL crowd stopping the game because of noise - they just got louder and louder.
I didn't know until I woke up what actually happened.
Look - I am for what Wendy Davis did - and for this bill not passing - but this is such a fucked up way to do politics. Millions of peoples daily lives were affected by a woman not being able to lean on a podium or have a back brace applied? Really? This is the USA. Just remember this the next time you see some wackiness from another country.
It was amazing.
The last 12 minutes was the crowd screaming so loud they couldn't get the vote done. Like and NFL crowd stopping the game because of noise - they just got louder and louder.
I didn't know until I woke up what actually happened.
Look - I am for what Wendy Davis did - and for this bill not passing - but this is such a fucked up way to do politics. Millions of peoples daily lives were affected by a woman not being able to lean on a podium or have a back brace applied? Really? This is the USA. Just remember this the next time you see some wackiness from another country.
A classic anecdote has Thomas Jefferson asking George Washington about the purpose of the Senate. Washington responded with a question, "Why did you pour that coffee into your saucer?" "To cool it," Jefferson replied. To which Washington said; "Even so, we pour legislation into the senatorial saucer to cool it." The framers of the Constitution intended the Senate to cool legislation by being a more deliberative body than the House. It was smaller, members were older, Senators were elected for longer terms, and elections were staggered and decided by state legislatures.
The House of Representatives has a Rules Committee that places a limit on debate when a bill goes to the floor. The Senate has no such committee. As a result, a bill is informally scheduled to come up on the Senate floor where debate can be endless. A filibuster occurs when a Senator engaged in debate refuses to yield the floor and thus prevents a roll call vote from taking place. The image of a Senator standing his ground on the Senate floor is epitomized by Jimmy Stewart with his performance in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Filibusters provide a minority of Senators a way to make their voices heard.
Established in 1995,
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