LastPommerFan

They did find compromise. It wasn't 100% obstructionism like it is today. There were shutdowns previously, but those 2 shutdowns were the longest ever, by a wide margin. But Newt pioneered mass obstructionism. It works. It is his legacy.

Absolutely. A huge mistake.

Government Shutdowns. If your goal is less government, you have a vested interest in the current government failing.

Newt Gingrich decided in the mid 90s that is was to the benefit of Conservatism to not work with the other side. The last 20 years are a direct reflection of that decision. If you hate government, it is certainly in your best interest to ensure it's failure.

I don't like Pelosi because her (lack of) leadership on ACA, Recession Management, and a host of other issues contributed to the lost message of the democrats in 2010 and the rise of the Tea Party. She knows how to raise money and build coalitions, which is great, right up until you have actual power, in which case it's really important to have someone who can lead the debate. There was a super majority in the Senate for a few weeks and a majority in the house. They could have elected the capsizing islands guy speaker and gotten the same legislation passed.

This statement was made official today (.pdf)

After the initial Island Video, MOXnews (fake news website) made a bunch of parodies. This is one of them.

Dragging you in for the last word is like trying to get someone to take the last Cream Ale at an AA meeting :D

Nancy Pelosi is the perfect example of a politician who gets to exist and have power solely because she can raise money. I literally wish anyone else had been the first female Speaker. She was/is...the...worst.

I believe a term to describe what Liger was doing might be "Segway" or "Transition". Which, it turns out, are not just a silly scooter and color changing eyewear.

I think it was 2010. His office said it was a deadpan joke. I'm not sure.

AMAZING. Thank you for sharing.

$1B+ isn't that surprising. Forbes had them at #30 with a value of $840M last year. Add the potential move to a huge-ass market premium and you get over a billion easily. Pegula is adding the ZFG premium.

The bold is not accurate, the Iron Dome has been mostly a spectacular failure this month (this is the aerospace engineer in me speaking) I am huge curious. What is the difference between Gaza and the West Bank? On paper, the West Bank, which contains more contested land and the all important/contentious city of Jerusalem, should be the site of more of the problems between the two sides, but it's not. So what is the difference? It's the same Israel Gov't in both places, what's different about the people?

Speaking of people who abuse their power for their own personal gain at the expense of others. You may not want to be so brazen when pointing out the blatant failures of El Modérator's arguments. :w00t:

$1.75B June Land Sale - 25% Cap Gains Tax = $1.3B bid on the bills

You are absolutely doing it right.

It's one of these ###### situations where everyone is wrong and poor people get to die as a result. Imagine a bank robber walks out into a street full of cops holding a baby in his left arm and a 30-round handgun in his right. He just starts shooting at the cops and nearby civilians indiscriminately. Who is responsible when that baby inevitably gets killed?

This: ? Me too.

This is a good point. The people of many of these nations would never be able to shoot their way to "freedom" even if they were to completely demolish the hegemony of the government (Somalia) because they do not have a social history with enlightenment-era liberty. But we do. We also, however have great examples of the freedom of Americans being ensured by the fact that the Federal Government was better armed and stronger than even the most well armed, well trained citizens. We enter the social contract for a reason. We cede our complete autonomy in favor of working together. We offer the power to compel and restrict our individual actions to society through the government because we want to protect ourselves from the "others" as well as "each other". I'm not in favor of disarming the entire civilian population. At the same time, those in favor of an armed citizenry have to recognize that those arms are just as dangerous to a person's individual liberty as weapons in the hands of the government. in many cases, such as the current state in Chicago, those weapons are FAR MORE likely to restrict a persons liberty than any weapon wielded by the state.

I'd argue that recent history is not on your side. The Syrians were exceptionally well armed. Assad is still the dictator. The Rebels in Ukraine are more likely to impose tyranny with their weapons than deny it. The people of Pakistan and Afganistan are less free because of the free flow of arms in those nations. Somalia is probably the best example of an armed citizenry restraining the power of the state. The people of Somalia do not have real freedom by any definition. I base all my apocalyptic preparedness exclusively on 1980s movies.

This incarnation scares me because it appears to have a much LOWER mortality rate. The disease can spread for weeks after someone gets well. There could be hundreds of Typhoid Annie's walking around west Africa with infectious Ebola right now. You are correct though, this isn't a pandemic in the making. This disease is more of a visual nightmare than a statistical one.

oh, absolutely on this. Had they not been so dumb so recently, they could have had Dubinsky in that slot and Anisimov where Nash is and be way better off at just over half the price.

The CDC's job is to protect the public health as a whole. Telling the public to be worried about Ebola would likely be a disaster, and the risk is low enough to say "we're not too concerned" without it being a complete lie. In the mean time, I'd be all for mandatory quarantines for all people returning from the hot zone. --Great, it's in Nigeria now. 153 Million people in a small space. I will have nightmares.