Peace. I often go to bed early, or I certainly would have answered you. Like I always say... early to bed and early to rise makes a man wonder who won the game. The answer is... YES.

sIx. The fifth bead is love. Earth, wind, fire, rain, love. Remember when Bruce Willis kisses the orange-red haired girl and unleashes the power of good just in time to save the universe from being ruled by evil forever? Brucie... you should know that, being an honourary Cat'lic an all.

Dave. An elected Senate? No way. Keep it or abolish it are the only reasonable alternatives. As for the open votes, not worth a tinker's damn. It's a cowardly way out of commitment to doing what is right. Mob rule does not work, even among MsP.

Little Hawk. Hahahaha, cheeky bugger!!! Seems to me that your proposed political system didn't work all that well in the good old USSR. Again, mob rule sucks.

Good thing the election isn't today, with all the power outages around from the wind and ice storms in this end of the country.