Questions on train forums I wouldn't think of asking.

[Roy]

Saudi Arabia is an Islamic (Muslim) country. The government abides by Islamic and Sharia law. Women in these countries have no rights. They will never have a constitution that gives women any rights.....

We do better than mere Christian requirements in our Constitution - although we still need an equal rights amendment. So can they.

[Roy]

There is a reason the founders set up the Electoral College, it prevents 51% of the population from controlling the other 49%.

You prefer the 49% "controlling" the 51%? Essentially, the popular vote movement is attempting to get around the silliness of gerrymandering.

[HONDO74]

There is a reason the founders set up the Electoral College, it prevents 51% of the population from controlling the other 49%.

You prefer the 49% "controlling" the 51%?

If it means keeping you far left liberal Californians from controlling the rest of us. YES I DO.

Now Roy, what are you doing for all those thousands of homeless people in your state.

[rogruth]

I don't recall anything about "one man-one vote" in our constitution.
Or one person -one vote either.

[Roy]

I don't recall anything about "one man-one vote" in our constitution.
Or one person -one vote either.

It's not, Roger. Do you want someone elses vote to have more weight than yours?

[Mitch]

We should strive to get our own house in order, first. For instance, the electoral college is a direct violation of our one man, one vote ideal.

So you believe in one party rule, huh Roy. And that would be the Democrat Party only. If the Electoral College was eliminated, the huge population centers of California, Illinois, New York and the northeast would determine political rule. All of middle America is red, and we'd never have any say in another presidential election. Nope! The Framers of the Constitution got it right, and that document protects us from people who think just like you.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Do ghosts exist?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Do ghosts exist?

Next time you see one, ask it.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Do ghosts exist?

Next time you see one, ask it.

Cute as ever.

[Roy]

We should strive to get our own house in order, first. For instance, the electoral college is a direct violation of our one man, one vote ideal.

So you believe in one party rule, huh Roy. And that would be the Democrat Party only. If the Electoral College was eliminated, the huge population centers of California, Illinois, New York and the northeast would determine political rule. All of middle America is red, and we'd never have any say in another presidential election. Nope! The Framers of the Constitution got it right, and that document protects us from people who think just like you.

You almost make me feel bad for Republicans, Mitch. But then, they're all evil scum and villainy. We live in an unusual time, when there's a real, stark choice between good and evil, partywise. JFK purged the Democratic party of white racists in 1963, when he sided with the civil rights movement. And, Reagan and his sheep purged the Republican party of liberals, when he turned the party "conservative" and demonized liberals.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

JFK purged the Democratic party of white racists in 1963, when he sided with the civil rights movement.

Actually, LBJ did that during the Democratic convention when the South walked out of the convention over black delegates being added which set the stage for drawing many of today's political lines.

[HONDO74]

You almost make me feel bad for Republicans, Mitch. But then, they're all evil scum and villainy. We live in an unusual time, when there's a real, stark choice between good and evil, partywise.

Actually Roy it is your party that is the evil scum and villainy.

All Democrats.
Ku Klux Klan members in United States politics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_K ... s_politics

Robert Byrd. He had the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter. A United States Senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. He rose to become one of the Senate's most powerful members, including Senate Majority Leader, Senate Minority Leader, President pro tempore of the United States Senate and President pro tempore emeritus.[7] As President pro tempore—a position he held four times in his career—he was third in the line of presidential succession, after the Vice President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Both Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) and Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC): voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
It was the Republicans that help push it through for LBJ

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Actually neither party bears any resemblance today to what each was 50 years ago....or even 30 years ago.

Attempting to extrapolate and compare them to today's parties bearing those same names is just silly and foolish.

Both have become caricatures of stupidity; both fail to represent anyone beyond their owners that hold their leashes.

[HONDO74]

Actually neither party bears any resemblance today to what each was 50 years ago....or even 30 years ago.

Attempting to extrapolate and compare them to today's parties bearing those same names is just silly and foolish.

Both have become caricatures of stupidity; both fail to represent anyone beyond their owners that hold their leashes.

Rufus, Roy was addressing the past and I was responding to it in the same manner. I keep hoping that we won't repeat our past mistakes.

Roy seems to believe that anyone that doesn't think like he dose is evil scum and villainy.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Roy seems to believe that anyone that doesn't think like he dose is evil scum and villainy.

"plug in name here" seems to believe that anyone that doesn't think like he does is evil scum and villainy.

That's where we are today - so much for not repeating the errors of the past.

In fact we're not just repeating the errors, we're enhancing & increasing them.