"Actually MOST congressional districts are so gerrymandered that very few of the seats are actually seriously contested in each election. The districts have been drawn so that the party that did the gerrymandering pretty much has a lock on the seats so they pick just their man, the voters vote a party line and they usually win. Incumbents almost always win reelection if they run"
This is what I find most bizarre about about the US political system, your public figures often trumpet how the US is believes in democracy blah-blah-blah but the whole point of gerrymandering is to make elections a farce and in the US is gerrymandering is:
blatant
LEGAL
I came across an effort in Florida to de-politisize (if that's a word) the defining of constituency boundries and I'm a bit surprised that such an effort is not a broader movement in the US as your local democracy (school boards etc) seems quite healthy and active. But then I'm just a stupid foreigner:).
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Disclaimer - I'm not a US citizen, I'm british.
This is what I find most bizarre about about the US political system, your public figures often trumpet how the US is believes in democracy blah-blah-blah but the whole point of gerrymandering is to make elections a farce and in the US is gerrymandering is:
I came across an effort in Florida to de-politisize (if that's a word) the defining of constituency boundries and I'm a bit surprised that such an effort is not a broader movement in the US as your local democracy (school boards etc) seems quite healthy and active. But then I'm just a stupid foreigner :).
The land of wonder, the land down under.
There are some clever add-on keyboard designs
Teoma, is owned by Ask Jeeves and both search engines use the same technology.
That will be enough for today.
But tomorrow bring us names - or we'll take you.
Have you never seen Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang?
You don't take it to a garage man, you take it to a barber/inventor.
The Economist recently reported a University of Utah study that suggested Ashkenazi Jews as an ethinic/genetic group have a similar gene.
The article doesn't say but I'm guessing it was either, a mail order gene test retailer, or a quality guaranteed sperm bank
Dunno about about the search engine angle but as an advertiser I'd suggest that Google was successful because their Adwords program was
- Cheap
- Very, very, very easy to use
their nearest (small advertisers welcome) competitor Overture was