Hints at sounds of screaching halt coming from Congress...

[Gaspar]

Quick point of order:  that US Army Training Manual is quoted from the 1928 edition, as best as I can find, and is cited almost exclusively in places like firearmsforum.com, libertytree.ca, etc.

Would dearly LOVE to see a slightly more verifiable cite.

Geez. . .excuse me.  I am very aware of that. It was a quote pertaining to Democracy as a pure form of governance.  I find it very accurate.  If you have information to the contrary, or can illustrate a functioning purely democratic governance, please do so.

You may notice that most of what I quote is actually even older  .  Sorry about that, but I find great wisdom in history.  It's all I have to learn from.

[swake]

Geez. . .excuse me.  I am very aware of that. It was a quote pertaining to Democracy as a pure form of governance.  I find it very accurate.  If you have information to the contrary, or can illustrate a functioning purely democratic governance, please do so.

You may notice that most of what I quote is actually even older  .  Sorry about that, but I find great wisdom in history.  It's all I have to learn from.

I don't know that there are any forms of pure governance that aren't authoritarian in nature. We are a constitutional federal democratic republic.

[we vs us]

Geez. . .excuse me.  I am very aware of that. It was a quote pertaining to Democracy as a pure form of governance.  I find it very accurate.  If you have information to the contrary, or can illustrate a functioning purely democratic governance, please do so.

You may notice that most of what I quote is actually even older  .  Sorry about that, but I find great wisdom in history.  It's all I have to learn from.

My apologies.  I misunderstood how you were using it.  

[Gaspar]

My apologies.  I misunderstood how you were using it.  

Sallright!   

[guido911]

Here is an intriguing take on a possible government shut down.

The obvious point here is that if it's so "reckless" to shutdown the government, why have Wisconsin legislators, the President and the DNC all supported the government shutdown in Wisconsin? Not only that, they have shutdown the government by fleeing the state and breaking the law, not to mention the illegal union strikes shutting down schools and national Democrats helping to organize the angry mob descending on Madison.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/after-wisconsin-how-will-democrats-argue-against-gop-government-shutdown_550497.html