because people of the world are all the same

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I thought this was the evil Americans in the house of representatives. http://www.wimp.com/government/
Maybe Bill and the other lefties can give us an example of U.S. government acting equally as idiotic.

If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass.
Can't think of anything I need
No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound.
Nothing to eat, no books to read.

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wow. there's another video of a similar thing happening in Hong Kong.

i don't see how "lefties" has anything to do with people in New Delhi hitting each other with microphones, but whatever.

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July 18, 2003
Partisan Brawl Turns Congress into Animal House
In a display worthy of a junior high school debating society, irate Democrats and Republicans hurled insults at each other during a raucous meeting of the House Ways and Means Committee that culminated with the chairman summoning the police.

When Rep. Scott McInnis (R-Colo.) told Rep. Peter Stark (D-Calif.) to "shut up" amid a dispute over legislation, Stark had this to say: "You think you are big enough to make me, you little wimp? Come on, come over here and make me, I dare you…You little fruitcake. You little fruitcake. I said you are a fruitcake."
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From the Dred Scott era:

Meanwhile, Kansas submitted two constitutions in its application for statehood—one that permitted slavery and one that did not. President James Buchanan, a Northern Democrat and a solid supporter of the South, sent the Lecompton (proslavery) Constitution to Congress with a strong recommendation that it be accepted. In a congressional debate that at one point broke into a fistfight, enough Northern Democrats finally defected from their party to reject the Lecompton Constitution. The controversy deeply divided the Democratic Party in the North and made the election of an antislavery Republican as president in 1860 very likely.
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February 22, 1902

Ben Tillman (D-SC)
From its earliest days, the Senate has consistently stressed the importance of decorum in its proceedings. . . .

On February 22, 1902, John McLaurin, South Carolina's junior senator, raced into the Senate Chamber and pronounced that state's senior senator, Ben Tillman, guilty of "a willful, malicious, and deliberate lie." Standing nearby, Tillman spun around and punched McLaurin squarely in the jaw. The chamber exploded in pandemonium as members struggled to separate both members of the South Carolina delegation. In a long moment, it was over, but not without stinging bruises both to bystanders and to the Senate's sense of decorum.

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July 18, 2003
Partisan Brawl Turns Congress into Animal House
In a display worthy of a junior high school debating society, irate Democrats and Republicans hurled insults at each other during a raucous meeting of the House Ways and Means Committee that culminated with the chairman summoning the police.

When Rep. Scott McInnis (R-Colo.) told Rep. Peter Stark (D-Calif.) to "shut up" amid a dispute over legislation, Stark had this to say: "You think you are big enough to make me, you little wimp? Come on, come over here and make me, I dare you…You little fruitcake. You little fruitcake. I said you are a fruitcake."
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Bill you are really good at cracking me up. You compare a couple of verbal threats of violence to what you saw in that video.
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From the Dred Scott era:

Meanwhile, Kansas submitted two constitutions in its application for statehood—one that permitted slavery and one that did not. President James Buchanan, a Northern Democrat and a solid supporter of the South, sent the Lecompton (proslavery) Constitution to Congress with a strong recommendation that it be accepted. In a congressional debate that at one point broke into a fistfight, enough Northern Democrats finally defected from their party to reject the Lecompton Constitution. The controversy deeply divided the Democratic Party in the North and made the election of an antislavery Republican as president in 1860 very likely.
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This is even funnier. You see something contemporaray and you compare it to something that happened more than a century ago. Keep it up Bill I need some more good laughs.
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This is even funnier.
February 22, 1902

Ben Tillman (D-SC)
From its earliest days, the Senate has consistently stressed the importance of decorum in its proceedings. . . .

On February 22, 1902, John McLaurin, South Carolina's junior senator, raced into the Senate Chamber and pronounced that state's senior senator, Ben Tillman, guilty of "a willful, malicious, and deliberate lie." Standing nearby, Tillman spun around and punched McLaurin squarely in the jaw. The chamber exploded in pandemonium as members struggled to separate both members of the South Carolina delegation. In a long moment, it was over, but not without stinging bruises both to bystanders and to the Senate's sense of decorum.

Same as your second example over a century ago. Try again.

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Can't think of anything I need
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wow. there's another video of a similar thing happening in Hong Kong.

i don't see how "lefties" has anything to do with people in New Delhi hitting each other with microphones, but whatever.

I has to do with how lefties will swear on their mother's grave that people around the globe are all the same. Bill trying to equade this with his examples and failing miserably, drives that point in.
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Can't think of anything I need
No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound.
Nothing to eat, no books to read.

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wow. there's another video of a similar thing happening in Hong Kong.

i don't see how "lefties" has anything to do with people in New Delhi hitting each other with microphones, but whatever.

I has to do with how lefties will swear on their mother's grave that people around the globe are all the same. Bill trying to equade this with his examples and failing miserably, drives that point in.
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Bill didn't fail miserably at all, you just wish he had.

Britain's parliament has an interesting take on this:

"Toe the line" is an idiomatic expression with disputed origins. It is often equivocated to "toe the mark," both of which mean to conform to a rule or a standard. One documented origin of the phrase is as an athletics analogy originated in the early 19th century. Other suggested origins are the center line in boxing which boxers were instructed to toe at the start of each round, or the lines created by deck planks on ships which naval crews used to “fall in line”. The longest running use of the phrase and its most likely origin is from the British House of Commons where sword strapped members were instructed to stand behind lines that were better than a sword’s length from their political rivals. Thus the cry to “toe the line!” was echoed to return order to the House and to quell a potential mortal conflict."

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