Posted on 02/04/2010 9:14:20 AM PST by Big Bureaucracy
At the beginning there was the desk. Actually 48 desks that New York cabinet maker Thomas Constantine made for the Senate Chamber at newly reconstructed Capitol building in 1819... n 100 years the space for books was doubled and ventilation was added to the work space as you can see from the second and third image of the evolution of the Senator’s desk.
The things really got out of control at the beginning of the twentieth century. The tiny red mahogany desks were the Senate primary working space until the first Senate office building opened in 1909...There was also more room for staffers. Senators found out that those are handy helpers and more and more of them were needed and hired.
As a result in 1941 on the eve of the World War II Senators voted themselves a second office building...No wonder the C-Span cameras cannot catch the action today. It is hard to find all the 100 US Senators at the same time because their negotiations take place in different spots somewhere in the 4 buildings. As I drink my tea I wonder if we can leave the Senate Office buildings to the stuffers and drag the Senators back to their original work space: the tiny red mahogany desks in the Old Senate Chamber...
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you forgot the blogpimp tag...but it actually sounds interesting and is not one of those 1 sentence wonders...8 out of 10
Is there really such tag? I can put it next time.
there are all kinds of them...blogpimp, pimpmyblog...they’re really quite amusing...
btw, I agree that they would be far less dangerous if they had to do more of the work themselves...
I added a couple for you...:)
no problem, I’ll write them myself next time. Is “blogpimp” going to be enough or go with all four.
I am proud I pimp my own crap instead of stealing somebody’s content. So I have no problem if you call me blogpimp. I believe it is nice to share my thoughts with the folks. If somehow that offends you - you have the power to stop me from posting in the republic.
Would you explain to me what is the difference between
mgist posting my article http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2425138/posts
and rface posting my article http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2391650/posts
None of those asked me if it is OK with me.
What is wrong with posting my own article? How is that offensive to you?
Thank you for the explanation. I do not wish to abuse the republic. I am glad I know about your site and I can find people who are like minded and passionate about the conservative ideas. I just like to join the conversation and I only post my own writings. I do not try to misrepresent anything. I go by my name, my blog. I read great posts here and I enjoy being in the community.
I am learning the rules and your feedback is important for me. Thank you for reading my post. I got to go get the kids from school so I will be gone for a while. What is a female version for a pimp? pimpess :)
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