LastPommerFan

4 Sabres potentially on Team USA! Fantastic.

'Well Regulated' did not mean in 1791, what, it appears, you are implying here. It implies training. I am not aware of any court case that limited the State's ability to require training as a prerequisite for gun ownership. And again, all 112 justices that have ever sat on the Supreme Court disagree with your assertion that the Second Amendment clearly allows for restrictions upon the individual right. Surely she and Ms. Lazarus are lost to some. I, however, think she's even more important right now. We should consider boxing her up again and shipping her down to Brownsville, TX for display on some small Island in the Rio Grande.

So a few weeks ago one of my friends had a case of Saranac break at the handles, resulting in the tragic loss of several good soldiers. He posted the sad picture on the Facebook. Coincidentally, later that week, I suffered the same horrid fate. I posted a picture of my poor broken bottles as a comment to his post. My friend had tagged the brewery in the initial post. Last week they contacted both of us for our addresses, and today, I received 2 Pint Glasses and a 12 pack in the mail! That is Awesome customer service!

[price is right game loss music]

His game was always based on his size and foot speed. He fell apart the first time he had to read the defense to make the right play. His accuracy and anticipation are fine, but just that, fine. He'll never be a top 12 QB. He'll never have the team in the playoffs year after year. Draft another one. Keep drafting them until you find what you need. Don't settle for Leino at Center.

Either way, we lose.

My judgement is based on his play in his last 53 games.

The problem isn't that we didn't draft a QB this year, It's that we can't draft a QB next year. That is a huge huge huge stupid mistake based, I am nearly certain, on an "EJ was MY pick, he'll work out" mentality.

yes, I'm commiserating.

Eleven, the Chargers had enough patience with Brees to Draft Manning=>Rivers after his second season as a starter. Unfortunately, because we decided to have shiny object syndrome in April, we won't be able to have that level of patience, we're going to have to be even MORE patient.

I hate to be the Drane here, but it wasn't too early to say that he isn't the answer the moment he was drafted. Great Quarterbacks (and that's what you need in this league if you want to be in the playoffs regularly) have two calling cards, accuracy and speed reading defenses. EJ does not now and has not ever had those critical items as his strength. EJ is what happens when you want something very specific, and when you can't get it you settle for something else. EJ is Ville Leino.

I'm just now forgiving him for attending the University of Miami.

I think we're probably already linked up, but I sent you a PM just in case. We, as a nation, need about 4x more programs like that one. And in CNC programming and Non Destructive Testing as well. It really is a problem. And it's not unique to our country. When I was working in the UK, we ended up importing 4 CNC Machine Operators and 2 Welders from Poland (which was super easy in the EU).

We've had open welder reqs for years. We've had open CNC programmer reqs for even longer. There are millions of unfilled manufacturing jobs in this country because the current labor pool does not have the required skills.

Myers will be a steal. Glad we didn't bridge him.

I bet I could get 50 Mexican welders here in a fortnight if I could get unlimited visas like the old days. The railroads just said "I need men" and the border officials at the ports of NY and San Francisco more than obliged. Nativism is the only real reason for immigration restrictions if today.

Totally agree that it is low demand. But it's demand and it grows the economy. Second generation immigrants are even better. But you gotta have first generation to get to #2. Also, legal immigrants pick most of your food. They earn minimum wage.

This position is intuitive, but there is no data to back it up. The demand that these immigrants brings is largely for things like food, shelter, and personal services. The first two involve low skilled labor, the third sometimes involves low skilled labor, and, importantly, all three involve workers that can't be offshored. Remember, if a family of 6 comes in, that's at most 2 units of labor, but six units of demand.

The First bold statement is factually incorrect: https://www.govtrack...ills/110/hr7311 The Second bolded statement is factually incorrect: http://news.national...entral-america/ I can't, however, question your desire to protect your family. I completely understand it. But these kids are not a threat, in fact, sending them back into the violence is more likely to create a threat to your family than bringing them in and assimilating them into America. Short term there will be impact on low skill workers. Long term, especially given our depressed native birth rate, mass immegration will have significant benefits to the economy. This is, in fact, a great way to deal with the Debt, which is a long term issue, solved only by economic growth. Great paper on the short-long effects: http://www.nber.org/papers/h0106 I'm not in favor of the president giving these children citizenship outside of the rule of law. I am in favor of opening the doors like they were in the 1840s, 1870s, 1910s and late 1930s/1940s. It's not a shock that these periods of mass immigration led to economic growth. Immigrants bring demand and labor, the two things needed for a growing economy. Not coincidentally, each one of these periods was also marked by huge resistance from the native population to these "New Immigrants" (NINA, etc.) The president can send troops to the border, they cannot cross into Mexico. There is no way they could stop a person until that person was in-fact on US soil. This is not the solution you are looking for. At the end of the day, we need to open the doors. We need to accept: "Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore." It's who we are, it's who we've always been. There is nothing more American and welcoming more Americans.

First - they are children. First-a - the current law states that children from Central America turning themselves in on us soil a guaranteed due process. So by law they can't simply be sent back. This law was passed because we see the value in giving children an elevated level of protection from harm. Sending them back to Honduras, which is effectively being run by MS-13 now, is harm. Second - we absolutely can take them all. I think it's rather selfish to say otherwise, our economy is massive, and mass immigration typically leads to very strong economic growth. The only real danger this wave adds is that they'll probably vote democrat. Third - yes, the border absolutely should be tightened to protect against criminal activity across it (illegal immigration is not a criminal offense, it is a civil offense) but just about the only thing the president can't do without congress is raise and spend money, and that is what would be needed to improve that particular issue.

The current influx of minors from Central America ABSOLUTELY are turning themselves in at the border.

He'll land on his feet. He's a poor mans Donald Trump.

Well, that's the end of Weave's "Summer 'O Baseball"

Got any bats? It gets spread by bats.