pfft. there were late-19th century elections (pre-17th Amendment) in which senate seats were left vacant for years.
After the Civil War, problems in senatorial elections by the state legislatures multiplied. In one case in the late 1860s, the election of Senator John Stockton of New Jersey was contested on the grounds that he had been elected by a plurality rather than a majority in the state legislature. Stockton based his defense on the observation that not all states elected their senators in the same way, and presented a report that illustrated the inconsistency in state elections of senators. In response, Congress passed a law in 1866 regulating how and when senators were elected in each state. This was the first change in the process of senatorial elections created by the Founders. The law helped but did not entirely solve the problem, and deadlocks in some legislatures continued to cause long vacancies in some Senate seats.
Intimidation and bribery marked some of the states' selection of senators. Nine bribery cases were brought before the Senate between 1866 and 1906. In addition, forty-five deadlocks occurred in twenty states between 1891 and 1905, resulting in numerous delays in seating senators. In 1899, problems in electing a senator in Delaware were so acute that the state legislature did not send a senator to Washington for four years.
Yeah, I kind of figured that one was going to be close, but that's crazy.
Holy crap!
A guy from my church lost a city council election by two votes four years ago. (In a race where the top two receiving votes make the council.)
This year, he lost by 15.
I won't be specific, but I was doing some job searching and found one organization who doesn't have their applicants' resumes stored properly. Putting "Human Resources" in the site search returns old resumes and cover letters from their Google Drive.
I've alerted the org. in question and I think I'll wait until they get that sorted to apply.
Maybe you should apply to be the document security manager for that place... sounds like you've got an in!
Funnily, enough the position I'm interested in is "records coordinator". It as to do with the records of their clients, not HR files, but I did think "This should help my application" when I sent the head's up.
Here are some more details with Chimney Sweep. This beer will be the first part of a duo of beers that will replace Stout in Schell’s year-round line-up of specialty beers.
dark lagers can be good, but dark lager <<< stout.
I started celebrating early. Oyster for the win.
After six months of paperwork, nagging phone calls, and frustration (because apparently they don't get any commission on it, so we get pushed to the bottom of the to-do list), our refinancing was finally approved and is now set for closing. Hooray for lower monthly payments!
The paper of record is having a nice promotion if you aren't into clearing out your caches.
I know they have decent educational rates. I wish I could combine them with this promo.
Delmon gets gets 10 days of community service and enrolled in a program at the Museum of Tolerance New York after his guilty plea. I wonder if part of his defense was "but he's only 27!"?
Not sure if I'm in favor of this, but if they restrict names to Scandinavian ones, it might be more apropos
Nor'Easter Lena. Me likey.
one of more dumb things the Weather Channel has done (number 1 in my book is moving away from weather and showing shows like Coast Guard Alaska)
i was flipping through channels last night, and it appeared that the weather channel was providing their own election coverage.
This is incredible. I wish I'd been watching their coverage now.
Indeed, I fail to see how that could be anything other than awesome.
the morning show has some pretty good train wreck moments when they try to talk about pop culture
I saw Misery (the movie with Kathy Bates) on last year. I guess there's a snowstorm in that one...
sounds like the sins of TLC, the history channel, the national geographic channel, the discovery channel, etc., etc.
I remember when A&E actually meant Arts and Entertainment not redneck reality shows.
Darren Wolfson @DarrenWolfson
I'm told the #MNTwins have officially planted a seed on free agent pitcher @BMcCarthy32. Will be curious to hear what his price is.
I didnt know McCarthy was a tree
The giant redwood, the larch, the fir, the mighty scots pine.
holy crap! on NBCSN, they are showing the New York Red Bulls playoff game, and its a friggin blizzard!
DW beats me by two minutes! Yeah, it's actually coming down. I hope they use the orange ball.
its the orange ball like when FOX used 'the glowing puck' when it had NHL?
Nah, the ball itself is orange for the sake of the players. I think it's pretty standard when snow comes into play.
Ha! It's snowing at Red Bull Arena right now for the second leg of the DCU-NYRB MLS playoff matchup. Sounds like kickoff will be 7:30 central, could be a fun game. It's tied 1-1 after the first leg, which should have been in NY but the legs were switched due to Hurricane Sandy.
Looks like 700 DC supporters made it by bus. NYRB fans appear to number in the dozens.
looks like they didnt put heating coils under the turf
Yeah, they must not have planned on renting it out much in the winter.
yeah
and they dont have any plows or those machines with the snowbroom on it. $200 mil stadium and they go cheap on winter gear!
Those snowbrooms would be money in this situation.
This pregame is great. Ben Olsen embraces the chaos, Hans Backe and the NYRB want to chicken out and postpone the game.
I would figure that inclement weather favors DC, New York generally likes to keep the ball on the ground, which could figure into the two coaches' attitudes.
CONCACAF WQC Hex draw is just over. (Numbers aren't seeds, just for scheduling)
USA opens on the road in Honduras. Games against El Tri are @ Mexico on March 26 and at home on Sept. 10.
Not the greatest draw, though being @Mexico in March, avoiding the worst of the heat, has to be a positive, right? I wonder if this will change the thinking on hosting Mexico in Columbus, though changing that would definitely be spitting in the face of superstition.
Sounds like their last match is @Panama, hopefully they don't need a result going into that game.
4 of their 5 home games are games 5 through 9. They could have a shaky start with 3 of the first 4 games on the road.
Mexico 1st = conspiracy.
Postponed, boo.
I watched the entire snow removal pre-game.
It was hypnotic.
Sounds like DC has to ride back to at least Philly, if not DC, for the night, since hotel space post-Sandy is so short.
bought a case of Pyramid winter beers at Costco. It includes this. Not exactly a drain pour. Like all Pyramid products, it is structurally sound. I just don't get it. Tea-flavored beer? It is better than the chamomille-flavored ale I've had [shudder], but still. No thanks.
maybe I can find something to cook it in.
We had Pyramid Outburst Imperial IPA last weekend. Well balanced. Good beer.
Now that Deschutes Hop Trip is back, I've been having that.
I saw that Jubelale is back, too, but it was gone when I got to the store.
Is it time for Nate Silver to write a book about himself like Billy Beane did?
I'm pretty sure he already did.
He's so good at this stuff, he even predicted it'd be advantageous to have his book ready as soon as results were in.
For those of us of a certain age:
The campaign for 2016 starts today!
It was a hard fought campaign, but I'm proud to say I spent nary a dollar on negative campaign ads.
Oh boy, it sounds like the Senate race in ND is going to drag out at least until the end of the week. Just make it stop.
Only a week?
I forgot just how ridiculous that was. Wow.
pfft. there were late-19th century elections (pre-17th Amendment) in which senate seats were left vacant for years.
cite
i remember being sooo happy that i didn't have to hear about that race incessantly for months and months out here in illinois.
I clicked through pages and pages of pictures of ballots on the Star Trib site. I have no idea how I forgot it.
Well, other than my piss poor memory of course.
the joke was on me because all the blago stuff broke beginning of december, and that's all i heard about for months and months.
Oooooh. That was a good one too. I'm thinking that whole period I just blocked out of my memory.
Talk about every vote counting....
Yeah, I kind of figured that one was going to be close, but that's crazy.
Holy crap!
A guy from my church lost a city council election by two votes four years ago. (In a race where the top two receiving votes make the council.)
This year, he lost by 15.
I won't be specific, but I was doing some job searching and found one organization who doesn't have their applicants' resumes stored properly. Putting "Human Resources" in the site search returns old resumes and cover letters from their Google Drive.
I've alerted the org. in question and I think I'll wait until they get that sorted to apply.
Maybe you should apply to be the document security manager for that place... sounds like you've got an in!
Funnily, enough the position I'm interested in is "records coordinator". It as to do with the records of their clients, not HR files, but I did think "This should help my application" when I sent the head's up.
Maybe it was a test.
Don't forget tomorrow is International Stout Day! I for one plan on celebrating.
I for two plan on celebrating!
I will be mourning my favorite:
Cite
Crime against beer if you ask me.
dark lagers can be good, but dark lager <<< stout.
I started celebrating early. Oyster for the win.
After six months of paperwork, nagging phone calls, and frustration (because apparently they don't get any commission on it, so we get pushed to the bottom of the to-do list), our refinancing was finally approved and is now set for closing. Hooray for lower monthly payments!
The paper of record is having a nice promotion if you aren't into clearing out your caches.
I know they have decent educational rates. I wish I could combine them with this promo.
Delmon gets gets 10 days of community service and enrolled in a program at the Museum of Tolerance New York after his guilty plea. I wonder if part of his defense was "but he's only 27!"?
Since when does he play defense?
Point: cheaptoy
Nobody doubts his
talenttolerance.The Weather Channel will begin naming winter storms.
Not sure if I'm in favor of this, but if they restrict names to Scandinavian ones, it might be more apropos
Nor'Easter Lena. Me likey.
one of more dumb things the Weather Channel has done (number 1 in my book is moving away from weather and showing shows like Coast Guard Alaska)
i was flipping through channels last night, and it appeared that the weather channel was providing their own election coverage.
This is incredible. I wish I'd been watching their coverage now.
Indeed, I fail to see how that could be anything other than awesome.
the morning show has some pretty good train wreck moments when they try to talk about pop culture
I saw Misery (the movie with Kathy Bates) on last year. I guess there's a snowstorm in that one...
sounds like the sins of TLC, the history channel, the national geographic channel, the discovery channel, etc., etc.
I remember when A&E actually meant Arts and Entertainment not redneck reality shows.
I didnt know McCarthy was a tree
The giant redwood, the larch, the fir, the mighty scots pine.
He was close to being a vegetable!
(Too soon?)
Buffalo: Zubaz Ground Zero.
holy crap! on NBCSN, they are showing the New York Red Bulls playoff game, and its a friggin blizzard!
DW beats me by two minutes! Yeah, it's actually coming down. I hope they use the orange ball.
its the orange ball like when FOX used 'the glowing puck' when it had NHL?
Nah, the ball itself is orange for the sake of the players. I think it's pretty standard when snow comes into play.
Ha! It's snowing at Red Bull Arena right now for the second leg of the DCU-NYRB MLS playoff matchup. Sounds like kickoff will be 7:30 central, could be a fun game. It's tied 1-1 after the first leg, which should have been in NY but the legs were switched due to Hurricane Sandy.
Looks like 700 DC supporters made it by bus. NYRB fans appear to number in the dozens.
looks like they didnt put heating coils under the turf
Yeah, they must not have planned on renting it out much in the winter.
yeah
and they dont have any plows or those machines with the snowbroom on it. $200 mil stadium and they go cheap on winter gear!
Those snowbrooms would be money in this situation.
This pregame is great. Ben Olsen embraces the chaos, Hans Backe and the NYRB want to chicken out and postpone the game.
I would figure that inclement weather favors DC, New York generally likes to keep the ball on the ground, which could figure into the two coaches' attitudes.
CONCACAF WQC Hex draw is just over. (Numbers aren't seeds, just for scheduling)
1-Mexico
2-Jamacia
3-Honduras
4-USA
5-Panama
6-Costa Rica
USA opens on the road in Honduras. Games against El Tri are @ Mexico on March 26 and at home on Sept. 10.
Not the greatest draw, though being @Mexico in March, avoiding the worst of the heat, has to be a positive, right? I wonder if this will change the thinking on hosting Mexico in Columbus, though changing that would definitely be spitting in the face of superstition.
Sounds like their last match is @Panama, hopefully they don't need a result going into that game.
duNord has the whole schedule
4 of their 5 home games are games 5 through 9. They could have a shaky start with 3 of the first 4 games on the road.
Mexico 1st = conspiracy.
Postponed, boo.
I watched the entire snow removal pre-game.
It was hypnotic.
Sounds like DC has to ride back to at least Philly, if not DC, for the night, since hotel space post-Sandy is so short.
bought a case of Pyramid winter beers at Costco. It includes this. Not exactly a drain pour. Like all Pyramid products, it is structurally sound. I just don't get it. Tea-flavored beer? It is better than the chamomille-flavored ale I've had [shudder], but still. No thanks.
maybe I can find something to cook it in.
We had Pyramid Outburst Imperial IPA last weekend. Well balanced. Good beer.
Now that Deschutes Hop Trip is back, I've been having that.
I saw that Jubelale is back, too, but it was gone when I got to the store.