Comments on: Libertarian Party of Indiana Calls for an End to Partisan Redistricting http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/11/libertarian-party-of-indiana-calls-for-an-end-to-partisan-redistricting/ Covering America's third parties and independent candidates since May 2008 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:12:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Don Lake .......... Prove Me Wrong http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/11/libertarian-party-of-indiana-calls-for-an-end-to-partisan-redistricting/comment-page-1/#comment-136727 Don Lake .......... Prove Me Wrong Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:15:54 +0000 http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/?p=10935#comment-136727 Huh ???????????? [Documentation Please, as there have been election cycles since where the Democan - Republicrat exchange [change out] has been ZERO! Duh! The West Coast is know as one of the worst areas of democratic representation and electoral fairness. Comments from (Saint) Richard Winger ?????????] Huh ????????????

[Documentation Please, as there have been election cycles since where the Democan - Republicrat exchange [change out] has been ZERO! Duh! The West Coast is know as one of the worst areas of democratic representation and electoral fairness. Comments from (Saint) Richard Winger ?????????]

]]> By: Gene Berkman http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/11/libertarian-party-of-indiana-calls-for-an-end-to-partisan-redistricting/comment-page-1/#comment-136715 Gene Berkman Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:40:24 +0000 http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/?p=10935#comment-136715 In California after the 1990 census the Governor and the Legislature were not able to agree on a redistricting plan. As a result, the districts were drawn up by a non-partisan commision, which drew up geographically reasonable districts. During that period, California had more competitive elections - and more input from alternative parties - than it had before that decade, or since 2001. Best of luck to the Indiana LP on this campaign. In California after the 1990 census the Governor and the Legislature were not able to agree on a redistricting plan. As a result, the districts were drawn up by a non-partisan commision, which drew up geographically reasonable districts.

During that period, California had more competitive elections – and more input from alternative parties – than it had before that decade, or since 2001.

Best of luck to the Indiana LP on this campaign.

]]> By: Ghosts Islands .......... http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/11/libertarian-party-of-indiana-calls-for-an-end-to-partisan-redistricting/comment-page-1/#comment-136496 Ghosts Islands .......... Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:14:21 +0000 http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/?p=10935#comment-136496 And Intellectual Giants of an Earlier Age: Science Quotes by Simon Newcomb (7) Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible. — Simon Newcomb (1902). Foolish Words: The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken (2003), [Lake: Seebeck in nomination ????] The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be. — Simon Newcomb Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science (1906), ....... our mechanicians, in like manner, be ultimately forced to admit that aerial flight is one of that great class of problems with which men can never cope… I do not claim that this is a necessary conclusion from any past experience. But I do think that success must await progress of a different kind from that of invention. [Written following Samuel Pierpoint Langley's failed attempt to launch his flying machine from a catapult device mounted on a barge in Oct 1903. The Wright Brother's success came on 17 Dec 1903.] — Simon Newcomb 'The Outlook for the Flying Machine'. The Independent: A Weekly Magazine (22 Oct 1903), We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy. [1888] And Intellectual Giants of an Earlier Age:

Science Quotes by Simon Newcomb (7)

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

— Simon Newcomb
(1902). Foolish Words: The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken (2003), [Lake: Seebeck in nomination ????]

The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.

— Simon Newcomb
Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science (1906),

……. our mechanicians, in like manner, be ultimately forced to admit that aerial flight is one of that great class of problems with which men can never cope… I do not claim that this is a necessary conclusion from any past experience. But I do think that success must await progress of a different kind from that of invention.

[Written following Samuel Pierpoint Langley's failed attempt to launch his flying machine from a catapult device mounted on a barge in Oct 1903. The Wright Brother's success came on 17 Dec 1903.]

— Simon Newcomb
‘The Outlook for the Flying Machine’. The Independent: A Weekly Magazine (22 Oct 1903),

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy. [1888]

]]> By: Don Lake, ....... http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/11/libertarian-party-of-indiana-calls-for-an-end-to-partisan-redistricting/comment-page-1/#comment-136434 Don Lake, ....... Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:29:04 +0000 http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/?p=10935#comment-136434 Problem, what problem, it helps them get re-election, and it also means their staff[s] can spend time on politics instead of constituent issues! Problem, what problem? Problem, what problem, it helps them get re-election, and it also means their staff[s] can spend time on politics instead of constituent issues!

Problem, what problem?

]]> By: Mik Robertson http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/11/libertarian-party-of-indiana-calls-for-an-end-to-partisan-redistricting/comment-page-1/#comment-136430 Mik Robertson Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:06:07 +0000 http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/?p=10935#comment-136430 That is a very reasonable position to take and a very reasonable request to make. It is always amazing to me how often when I talk to state legislators about the issue they don't seem to see any problem with partisan redistricting. Some actually do see the problem, but it is not a big priority for them to address it. That is a very reasonable position to take and a very reasonable request to make. It is always amazing to me how often when I talk to state legislators about the issue they don’t seem to see any problem with partisan redistricting. Some actually do see the problem, but it is not a big priority for them to address it.

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