LastPommerFan

well...yeah...but...

It hasn't even been 100 years since the last one!

soon.

Remember last month when the CDC found three vials of Small Pox in a random refrigerator that no one knew about? We are all going to die.

Yes. Obama, IMO, overstepped his executive authority in granting that particular guidance (text of the guidance available here: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-13-45.PDF) Essentially it says, Employers won't know if they owe penalty in 2014 until their employees file taxes in April of 2015, so there's no effective way to enforce the provision until 2015. I think the correct answer to this would have been to sue the IRS and let the SCOTUS resolve the issue. But that is not the tactic that the GOP took, because they would have essentially been suing to ensure the ACA was implemented, and they don't want that.

wait, what was the question?

Bylsma is.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/money/business/2014/07/03/steve-donner-bankruptcy-knighthawks-amerks/12192403/ probably could have been put in the schadenfreude thread, but hey.

Like I said: The exact choice of words: "There are numerous steps the president can and should be taking right now, without the need for congressional action" is a hilarious juxtaposition. And executive orders are the method by which ALL the laws are executed. If congress passes a law creating a new gasoline tax, for instance, the president issues an executive order to the IRS ordering them to take the necessary actions to collect the new tax.

http://www.speaker.gov/press-release/statement-house-gop-leaders-border-bill So, in the link above, John Boehner writes: On the same day the house passes approval to file suit against the President for acting without congressional approval. I know what he means... but... really?

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Marguerite Norris was the president of the Red Wings in the 50s. Her name is on the cup twice as a result.

All of this. Eventually we will decide which direction we want to go. This is absolutely how it was designed. The problem is, the world changes far faster now than the founders could have ever imagined. But I suppose that's why the founders created a powerful executive. To deal with those short cycle problems while the legislature set long term strategy and the judicial played referee between the two.

I just don't see why. There are isolated military hospitals all over the world, not in major American cities.

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My condolences to you and your family.

How hilarious would it be if the Sabres don't actually hire Trottier. Half the hockey-webs has "according to bucky gleason of the Buffalo News..." :lol:

My assumption is that she's only 8 weeks along, so we're all just gonna have to wait. :w00t:

It's this line, just came across a touch more biting than intended, I think. Curse of the written word, it lacks that certain "je ne sais quoi" that humans use when communicating in person.

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Congrats! no coffee on Sunday, you'll barely be able to sleep as is. :)

Of course not! Obstructionism has existed as long as parliamentary procedure has existed, Newt pioneered mass obstructionism, Cloture, sun-setting legislation, all that fun stuff that at this point seems like it's just the way the system is supposed to work. It is and will be Newt's lasting legacy. I'm sure TBPhd can provide some of the scholarly research into the subject. (I'm not sure how much weight academic study into the issue will have for you, but it's all I got.) Newt brought it into the everyday politics. It has been wildly successful for conservatism for nearly two decades. I'm not even sure I'd consider it in and of itself a bad tool. If you want to maintain the status quo on social items, and reduce the average American's belief in the effectiveness of government, it's a helluva tool.

Unless you are Terry Pegula, you know you out bid all the turdbags from Jersey, and you have ZFG. Then you tell the Buff News exactly how much money is in the safe you're about to drop on ###### Bon Jovi, Wyle E. Coyote style.

On the Iron Dome: It is critical to the Israeli war effort that the people feel protected. So the efficacy rate reported by IDF is certainly artificially high (perhaps 90% of locked targets are destroyed, so it gets reported as 90% effective, while only 25% of the rockets get radar lock.) Aerospace analysts, working from video data and news reports, are indicating that as many as 70% of the rockets are passing the dome. The best thing protecting Israeli civilians (and they are the targets, not Israeli military installations) is the fact that the rockets are old and damaged and fired by untrained personnel. ============================================================ on the rest: Thank you. This backs up my initial suspicion that the issue in Gaza is poverty, not politics or religion. People who are restricted from obtaining the means to care for their families will take extreme actions in an attempt to secure those means. There are very few middle class terrorists. Gaza has been under economic siege for decades, in an attempt to restrict weapons flow. I imagine this has had some severe unintended consequences.