Our political history makes for good drama as well as good lessons in civics.  With genuine interest in this nation's destiny I submit tongue-in-cheek comments and play-geratrics.  The heart ache, sacrifice, and pure will to succeed shown by Messrs. Bush, Gore, and, that gadfly of American conscience, Nader, lets each of us bare personal witness to that of which each of us is capable.  Sons and Daughters of Slavery, of whatever form and from whichever quarter, are becoming the American Teachers of unbounded power.  Common Brothers and Sisters on all battlefronts of equality and quality, common and ordinary in coat and demeanor, are our personal friends to Courage as well as our kin. social security calculator NRA convention, May 20, 2000,  A "patriot's" comment on Million Mother March mothers:  "They're wackos, ignorant, just don't know anything."  [--and only a week after Mother's Day, son.]  . . . Thank you, congressman, for my favorite rain check!    (or the political  deliritanti) ========= Prayer Democratic "Lord, make me humble, miserable, poor, self-effacing, and always conscious of your love, working tirelessly for the common good and your forgotten and neglected social sparrows --or, short of that, I'd like to make it as an historical opportunist, articulating my political number, (taking myself) seriously, a "moderate" democrat, concomitantly provisioned adequate and appropriate economic and radically chic amenities.  Rock on. ========= A day without evening network news shows is like a day  with sunshine, ice cream,  having the winning PowerBall numbers, and  the Virgin Mother visiting and saying "You are a half-way decent person--glad you're here--in the exact place you deserve to be". ========= No Republican Believes in God (or Heston's real name) Mama named him No Republican,  counting his Cavafy days.  'Calm your body and smile  while you're in the moment,  the perfect one,' she whispered  and was gone.  No Republican remembers mama,  No Republican counts,  No Republican calms his body  and smiles,  No Republican is in the perfect  moment:  No Republican believes in God.  =========

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The Multiple Question: Where are the clear minds asking the important questions; and, where are the important ideas and inspiration to be found?

SITE PURPOSE: None  There goeses the kids!-Texas installs new and better death penalty law:  only children eleven and older convicted of capital crime can now face execution.  Check, and double check, those birth certificates, darlings, before ya even think of crossing a conservative tejano. No, mame!  Our national political past, present, and future did not, is not, and shall not (flawed, flowing, and shall flawed, that is) deliteriously from political couch "papas", like me, or you. Oh, Well,-ian: "It's up to the American people to take the mick out of the president--and their congressmen, too, if they need it."  Orson Welles, subbing as host on the Dick Cavett Show, which was after Jack Parr left the Tonight Show Political Dictionary: Politics: "Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects."  Gore Vials--sorry, Vidal

• Appropriate content and content levels--to match the IQs of congress personae
• Listing site responsibility--yeah, sure.
• Verifiable information/accuracy--excuse, me, Senator?
• Currency of information--or how long it takes to enact a law to respond to last year's crisis
• Timely updated information to pages--not 

just site--direct from the National Archives
• Timely updates or scheduled updates of pages/data--as reported by whatshisname, 
• the guy with his online spot that's a Walter Winchell wantabe
• Clarity of page focus and arrangement of data--"...paragraph three of appendix 'R', for section twelve of subdivision series, 'Redundant Citations', insertion, Mr. Starr?"
• Clarity of linked relation to referred information--"...until how many rows of corn on your daddy's farm dry up, Senator?"
• Helpful annotations to site listings--a cutesy page.  Got anything of real substance?
• Simplicity of design--"...The 'gentlemen of the senate chamber--oh, excuse, me.  The gentle- persons of the senate will rise to take  the oath of office"
• Conservative use of page levels--Funding cuts
• Ability to disable frames--Couselor Greg, thank you.
• Use of large image files directly related to page purpose, only--Wag This Dog, 
• Absence or minimal use of flash pages--taken from the pages of MAD Magazine

...the most melodious lobbyist canticle:  "trust no politician thou cans't not  purchase." 

We are only a few dots-..............,darling. tm
Yeah, yeah, yeah.  We are all on our way home, Einstein.

Recommended Reading:  "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville, the Harvey Mansfield edition.