But neighbor James Lucal, who sold the couple the lot, said he likes the design and he never hears neighbors complain during the annual block party.
Actual talking filibusters have become rare in the Senate, where the rules are typically used in procedural ways to block the other party's agenda.
Today it's Plaid Cymru - a party with the newest leader on the block in Leanne Wood, and the party that's done the most thinking about its future over the past year.
He badly needs the handsome block of votes the Bavarian party is likely to amass (as usual) in the next general election, just 15 months away.
CouchSurfing is neither the first nor the only organized pajama party on the block.
An effort by the Conservative Party to block a Bill proposing sweeping reforms of the Royal Ulster Constabulary has been defeated at Westminster.
The DUP's Lee Reynolds said his party would be trying to persuade the Alliance Party to block the move at the full council meeting.
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Sinn Fein, however, joined by two MLAs from Alliance and the Green Party, managed to block the move.
But the ruralistas are the largest cross-party block in Congress, and that limited the president's room for manoeuvre.
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In the fragmented Congress, Mr Mahuad's party is the largest block, and will probably hold the chair.
In return, he bowed to a plan stitched up between pan-European socialists and the European People's Party, the main conservative block in the EU, to give the council presidency to someone from the centre right and the foreign-policy job to the centre left.
With Brown as the 41st Republican senator, the minority party can now muster the votes to block legislation from being called to a vote before the full Senate and so prevent laws from being passed.
The Conservatives have offered the government a compromise deal under which the party would not seek to block the bill - but only so long as the contentious "right to roam" is dropped.
Britain's Conservative Party, hostile to the EU's draft constitution and membership of the single currency, sits in the European People's Party block, made up mainly of continental Christian Democratic parties that are much more integrationist than the Conservatives.
So we're looking for a big gang over here, so we might have to close off the street and have a block party.
Even so, the commission and others are pressing wireless carriers to offer consumers the option to block third-party billing as a way to prevent cramming charges.
Jerry Amato says a smaller Mardi Gras is better than nothing at all, but Chucky Stevens says the city should have reconsidered hosting the country's biggest block party.
However, Mr Paisley has predicted that the DUP will hold the balance of unionist power in the assembly and that his party will therefore have the power to block any such move.
All this came as the Tories attempted to prove that - unlike the Labour party, which is trying to block Ken Livingstone - its selection process is the most democratic of the lot.
Combining his fundamentalist faith, his conservative views and his flair for television, Falwell helped mold Evangelicals into a vital voting block and helped push the Republican Party to the right.
One, notably, who welcomed the Calgary document was Preston Manning, leader of the Reform Party, powerful in the west and the second-largest block in the federal parliament.
Americans for Prosperity, the Koch-funded Tea Party group, has lent support to his campaign to block the new bridge.
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The US Congress dominated by the Democratic Party will possibly try to use this crisis to stop US aid and block the FTA, which could be catastrophic.
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Meanwhile, the Democratic Unionist Party leader, Ian Paisley, has said that he is prepared to block the possible election of David Trimble as first minister of the new body.
Ranking Democrats Barney Frank and Charles Schumer led their party to block these efforts in the fall of 2003.
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The opposing party, which regained the U.S. House two years later, promised to block firm cuts in carbon dioxide releases.
And yet, the party ended the same convention by resolving to block Mr Brown's plan wholesale, opposing even the cuts.
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Against this block, probably, will be ranged the Democratic Left party and the party of former president Abdala Bucaram, deposed in February.
Yukio Hatoyama, leader of the Democratic Party, the biggest of the opposition forces, says he will use control of the upper house to block legislation and so force an early general election.
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