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You know, I thought about this and quite honestly, who gives a rip who wins this? It's a beauty contest... it's not going to affect world politics, our economic structure, or national security...... again, this really has zero effect on our country... and if it does, we had better reevaluate our priorities....My two cents...
More bread and circuses.
.... I guess I did not realize that this would have happened in the 1960s, but it does show how feminist movers were operating back in those days. I know there are complaints about Miss America and Miss USA today....
The 60's (after the JFK assassination) went out big for protests; the Civil Rights Movement was making progress and people were getting more outspoken about many causes. It was put up as a time to be enlightend and aware of many things. Anti-war, feminism, free love, drugs, and so on.
Section 6: Privileges and Restrictions 1. To help strengthen the federal gov?t. the members of Congress were to be paid by the US Treasury rather than their respective states. They were originally paid $6.00 per day; in 1815 the salary became $1500.00 per year. As of Jan. 2010, rank and file members earned (!?!) $174K? Speaker Pelosi gets $223.5K and the minority and majority leaders in both houses and the Pres Pro Tem of the Senate get $193.4K. This doesn?t consider retirement, staff allowances, expense allowances, franking privilege, travel allowances (domestic and foreign) nor the ability to earn (up to 15% of their member pay) outside income? some restrictions apply.The average American makes about $37K according to Ask.com. Except for ?Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace?? members have immunity from arrest while Congress is in session and may not be sued or prosecuted for anything they say in Congress. 2. Members may not pass laws that will benefit them personally nor can they remain members of Congress and hold other offices in the gov?t. They cannot enact raises without an election between passage of the bill and the raise.
Right you are. Though found guilty and fined $100.00 Scopes' conviction was overturned on appeal (the judge had set the fine, not the jury) but the Tennessee Supreme Court also held (3-1) that the Butler Act was, indeed, constitutional… it was finally repealed in 1967 by the state legisklature.Scopes, according to some sources, was innocent... he admitted several times that he skipped the chapter about evolution. 😮
Sorry guys, I jumped the gun by a week or so on his indictment… though the charges were made on May 5th… according to one source.
Sarah Palin. But she is a natural fit given her lifelong love of hunting and support for 2nd Amendment rights. I may not agree with everything she says but on the 2nd Amendment I do.
Agreed.
No… and Buster wasn't Grand Marshall of Tournament of Roses Parade either… this fellow was.His star on the Walk of Fame is at 6925 Hollywood Blvd.
Neither is correct but some attribute this fellow's success to a Chaplinesque wistfulness in much of his work. ???
Better known for a court “conviction” than his law degree or for coaching football… who is this dapper gent?
The 500-euro note is being withdrawn from sale in the UK. As banknotes that everybody knows exist but few ever see, they are known to many as...a) Bin Ladensb) Yetisc) Garbos
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I'm going with the Crimean war; 1st tactical use of telegraph and RxR. getting to closer to modern artillery. First photographed war, no, not to the extent of the AmCivWar but photos none-the-less. Assording to one article I read the use of steam-powered tractors (cat-type)… almost tanks. Advent of better med care (thx FN)… newspapers involved more, etc., etc. Or you could consider it the last pre-modern war... since it was tha last that most all combatants used muzzle loaders (score for modern as most were rifled), though breech loaders were around.
They reading I've done supports the idea that buffalo aren't the brightest bulbs in the attic… shoot one and the rest mill around and wonder “what happened to Bob”… shoot another; same drill until you run out of ammo or they get bored and wander off. A .50-90 Sharps is a wonderful thing.[Billy Dixon's famous shot at Adobe Walls was with a .50-90... 1538 yards]
