tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385085882160667044.post2847647019478351727..comments2023-08-16T10:32:46.866+00:00Comments on E3 Gazette: Reading (Bills) is FundamentalThe Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15291546809967159683noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385085882160667044.post-69487766607023526752009-07-21T16:56:43.685+00:002009-07-21T16:56:43.685+00:00Mark Twain on Congressmen:
Fleas can be taught ne...Mark Twain on Congressmen:<br /><br />Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.<br />- What Is Man?<br /><br />...the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.<br />- Letter fragment, 1891<br /><br /><br />“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”<br />- Mark Twain, a Biography<br /><br />Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.<br />- Notebook #14, 11/1877 - 7/1878 <br /><br />All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.<br />- Mark Twain's Autobiography; also in Mark Twain in Eruption<br /><br />The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether--Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.<br />- Mark Twain's Speeches, "The Weather"<br /><br />It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.<br />- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar<br /><br />It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no native criminal class except Congress.<br />- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927<br /><br />...I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.<br />- "Foster's Case", New York Tribune, 3/10/1873Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385085882160667044.post-56842348968072855532009-07-21T16:02:05.661+00:002009-07-21T16:02:05.661+00:00Great post! Keep up the outstanding work!!
COMMON...Great post! Keep up the outstanding work!!<br />COMMON CENTS <br />http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com<br /><br />ps. Link Exchange??commoncentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14497825816313122743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385085882160667044.post-14796980003468968822009-07-21T13:38:40.396+00:002009-07-21T13:38:40.396+00:00Ah, the wonders of Spam. Guy takes the time to sig...Ah, the wonders of Spam. Guy takes the time to sign in to make a comment that has only passing relevance to the post, just so he can pimp for himself. Sheesh.Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01790677413950555081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385085882160667044.post-465138351060575952009-07-20T20:31:23.309+00:002009-07-20T20:31:23.309+00:00Now, that is a stretch... However, it does prove t...Now, that is a stretch... However, it does prove that we need to teach reading comprehension more. Here's a great self-directed set of reading comprehension strategies: http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/reading/how-to-increase-reading-comprehension-using-the-scrip-comprehension-strategies/Mark Penningtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13184265967777133129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385085882160667044.post-12244315886786644452009-07-18T03:55:59.534+00:002009-07-18T03:55:59.534+00:00Hmm... maybe one of the esteemed readers of this s...Hmm... maybe one of the esteemed readers of this site can answer this one for me, because it dovetails with the main point above: One of the many confusing things about many of the Bills I have looked over, is that quite a few portions are not written as complete paragraphs or sections, they instead say that some portion of a sentence of a section in a previous law is being amended so that several words are being replaced with several other words, changing the scope or meaning of the previous law. <br /><br />Does anyone know what process is required to find out what the ultimate, current wording is of any law that has gone through these kinds of amendment? That in itself would seem to mitigate heavily against being able to understand many of the laws on the books.Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01790677413950555081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385085882160667044.post-28759159462208492692009-07-18T00:57:32.781+00:002009-07-18T00:57:32.781+00:00The thought that an educated person needs to have ...The thought that an educated person needs to have the proposed legislation explained to him is flooring. One of the big issues requiring that the legislation be understandable to high-school graduates is the seemingly large numbers of people graduating from high-school with a reading comprehension of a sixth-grader or less.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com