thomasxc said:i should have just as good a chance as a rich guy.
You don't have Google where you live? Congressional salaries are public knowledge.thomasxc said:because he has money to...get his name out there. have you ever seen a middle class man in any upper office? i have not. i'd like to be proved wrong. if someone can find out how much reps. and senators make, that would be nice.
I encountered someone who voted for Bush because he 'looked' better than Kerry. I started laughing because I thought it was a joke. It wasn't.Evo said:Considering the average intelligence and how many voters don't bother to educate themselves on issues before voting, is it any surprise that animals, teenagers, and dead people have gotten elected?
People vote because they saw the name on a sign, their church or union told them to vote for the person, they flipped a coin, voted by party, the person was running unopposed, etc...
I think your definition is bogus. Do you have a document/link where "policiticians" make such a definition with reference to the law you state?thomasxc said:someone who's sexually transient. people who go back and forth between feeling like a man and woman. i think its bogus.
thomasxc said:http://www.gainesville.com/article/20080129/NEWS/801290319/1002/NEWS
its been hard trying to find an article about it on a govt website. theyve pretty much swept it under the rug. but its been a big deal. its really easy to find stuff about it. excuse me, the term being used is "transgender" but its all symantecs. and this is all taking place in gainesville, florida.
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