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Why would people from Texas give an F about a buffalo restaurant?

Yes

Does the fact that he wore the A in Carolina matter to anyone?

If that is a question, then sort of. Born and raised a Polish Catholic. I got Confirmed as an adult. However, much like my departure from the GOP - the Catholic sex abuse scandal was enough for me to exit stage right. Again, it is up to me to choose the company that I keep. If the existence of a conscious means I am without a party or a church, then so be it. In fact, it has been VERY liberating. No more diversions, no more "what about what your guy did?", no more sweeping things under the rug. I've extracted my identity away from professional manipulators.

Ha. 1. My vote for Gary Johnson was a protest vote. I live in Maryland and the state was guaranteed going for Clinton, so there was no agonizing over my vote. Couldn't tell you a single thing Johnson stood for. Didn't care. Hated the choices presented to me. 2. Ideas/groups/people I associate with: Scientists and data oriented people. Despite being an engineer, I didn't always stay true to my profession, so to speak. "Higher level principles" were very, very seductive to me. God, country, nuclear family, limited government, self-reliance, rugged-invidualism... The thought that I could have a handful of guiding principles and derive all my positions from those had sort of a mathematical elegance to it. I was an ideologue's ideologue. I was principle rich and data/reality ignorant. I'm not a democrat, although I will vote for them for the first time in 30 years this November. I'm JAG who wants the problem and desired outcome identified, past solutions analyzed for effectiveness and honest policy that is informed by historical data. So yes, I'm floating around. 3. Views I've held onto. This one is tough because I have such disgust for the current state of the GOP that I have a ton of doubt in any of my past views. Culturally, I'm still pro-life, but I consider it settled law, even if a new court decides otherwise. The thought of streamlining bureaucracy and regulations still appeals to me, but having corporations writing the regulations does not. Again, honest data driven policy is all I ask. Smaller deficits and responsible fiscal policy has also stuck (although the means of getting there has changed). What have I tossed aside? The notion that the GOP had a small percentage of bigots and racists in their membership. It was so easy to dismiss the occasional Jesse Helms and David Duke back in the day. We were a party that preached equal opportunity and not outcomes and that principle appealed to me even though it was clear it wasn't working (principle over data). After witnessing the past 18 months, I firmly believe the vast majority of the party are either overtly bigots or their willing enablers. Like George Will, at some point you have to look around and ask yourself if you are comfortable with the company you keep. I watch the polls and I consistently see ~90% approval ratings within the party, regardless of what hateful mess spews from Trump's mouth, for this effing disaster of a President. There's never a backlash from the base. Never. I have also tossed aside the notion that tax cuts bring in more revenue. We tried it. It failed. Let it go. I tossed aside the notion that poor people/minorities just need to work harder and their poor decisions and unfortunate circumstances aren't my problem. Thanks to cell phones, I witness how they are treated by our institutions of law enforcement and justice. The data shows how they are stuck in a poverty. And lastly, the notion of the growing economic pie and everyone has a chance to get their piece. Ugh. Just look at the data. The concentration of wealth is awful for society. And I live in this society. We all do. The fact that 60% of Americans say that they would have trouble paying a $400 emergency expense is disgusting. That bill is going to get paid some day and it isn't going to be pretty.

A little tongue in cheek but.... I'm a former Limbaugh (90’s), Contract with America, Gringrich loving, leftist hating party line conservative. Last democrat I voted for was Michael Dukakis in 1988. I voted for Gary Johnson in 2016. Now in 2018, I want to see the Republican Party burned to the ground. I am happy to give insights on what led me to such beliefs, how I justified those beliefs during those years, and why I feel differently today. I also suspect this topic is the worst idea I ever had.

I understand. It was an ingenious and completely unethical way to screw Blue states.

I stand corrected. However, I have never heard this argument in the context of SALT. It has always been associated with corporate taxes and individual taxes... In this broader definition, double taxation happens all the time.

Eh. I don’t think this is right. Double taxation is more along the lines of paying corporate taxes on profits and then again on individual taxes after distribution. Same money taxed twice by the same taxing authority.

What would?

And you want to keep North Buffalo over there?

I am still unclear what you are asking me to do.

Yikes. What????

Merge this one into that one? Which email address would you like to keep!

Yes.

Maybe the better question is what do we want him to produce so that he fits an appropriate cap number?

I know occasionally people get locked out of their accounts and they just decided to create a new one. Does anyone have a couple ghost accounts that you would like to have merged with your current one?

Do you want your two accounts merged? I’m sure the login issues can be corrected now.

I can't find the image... About 7-10 years ago, they sent out a promotional piece to STHs with picture of Brian Moorman punting from his end zone. The caption was "Awaiting your return" or something similar. They got crushed for sending out a picture of the punter from a pisspoor team.

The Bills are waiting for your return...

As a tip, if you want to call a member's attention to a post you can tag them @Derrico and they will get a notification. Just precede their display name with the @ symbol.

It also says Pegula Ice Arena across the scoreboard

Jerseys are Kessel and Malkin.

Two clues are the two fans in the jerseys. One has a dark 81. The other has a medium colored jersey with a white shoulder yoke.

Guhle?