LastPommerFan

It'd be cool if instead of calling icing, they eliminated the offsides for the PP team. Not sure what the result would look like, but I imagine it would really open things up.

il Papa Francesco's workin' on it. Just give him a little time.

This would be a fantastic time for a Carrion League Classic 1-point game.

The media seems to be pretty unequivocal there.

Here's the thing. For two generations we've tried blowing the problem up. Full scale war, limited engagement, special ops, air strikes, you name it. I'm ready to try some other solutions. Because everything we've tried for the past 30 years has failed to bring us even on step closer to ridding ourselves of this destructive evil.

No way that passes the filters.

Bell available to the best offer.

I'm glad you got the message. Your posts are clearly worse than the terrorists. In fact, everyone here is happy that armed men attacked the Canadian capital today. We're all sending our addresses to ISIL to sign our kids up to join them, or get beheaded, we'll leave that up to them. I can't believe it took you 3 pages to figure this out.

The very last one. Should be the intro for every game this season. Fantastic.

The Supreme Court denied the appeal of a Stay on the verdict (essentially allowing the law to take effect now, pending further appeals, which will eventually lead to the Supreme Court) They did not overturn the decision. The Constitution places strict guidelines about several ways the government must NOT disenfranchise voters. The Constitution grants no explicit power to the government to disenfranchise some legal voters in favor of protecting against fraud. In the balance between disenfranchisement and protection of the vote from fraud, the Constitution tells us to err on the side of never suppressing legal votes. If these ID laws suppress one vote, they are in violation of the constitution, and must not be law. If the current laws fail to prevent certain types of voter fraud, they should be improved, but never at the expense of a constitutionally guaranteed right. I had not thought of it this way before. Outstanding way to put it.

The current Texas case has ample evidence of both entered into the record and available in the brief (http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/TX_voter_ID_decision_100914.pdf) What is critical here is that the Constitution clearly defines ways in which the Government must not disenfranchise voters, but lays out nothing about requiring voters to prove their right to void. As a Constitution-ophile, I would assume you'd be more concerned with what the document says. And it lists multiple "thou shall not"s for the government.

Because everyone is born in a hospital?

Your proposal effectively brings back Grandfather Clauses. Things your parents do or do not do must have absolutely no bearing on your right to vote. "the grandfather clauses in the Maryland and Oklahoma constitutions to be repugnant to the Fifteenth Amendment and therefore null and void." ~Guinn v. US

None of my children were issued these documents at birth. All had to be applied for.

that's really just a median-mean argument.

Labor force participation and real wages both declined during Bush's presidency, even before the recession started.

When I wrote "immediately unpopular" I meant that these things became unpopular positions in to hold in the short term, but that in the long run they will prove to be popular. Not that they were unpopular immediately after he initiated them. Sorry about that. This president has seen a 2-3% point drop in Male Labor market participation. Essentially the same 2-3% point drop that GWB saw during his presidency. It's a long term trend that has little to do with immediate Washington policies. The Unemployment Rate is the "tried and true" historical measure of the job market, and the one that the public at large is still most likely to use. I'm not trying to contend that economics are not a common reason for the low popularity of a president. I'm saying that they are not currently the reason for the low popularity of this president. And as the Forbes article points out, everyone pretty much has to admit that the Government has done a good job on the deficit over the last 4 years.

I'm reasonably certain the the version of this board available to the resident's of Hell a century from now will be virtually indistinguishable from it's current incarnation.

I would like to posit that the President's Approval Rate is terrible, in part, because he's played the long game. He clung to the ACA and raising the hurdle required to bring the US into an international military battle despite these being immediately unpopular. In the long term, If these are his legacy, he'll land somewhere between Eisenhower and LBJ among the public. He's no Reagan or FDR, but he didn't have a WWII or Cold War to win, so I don't think that was ever in the cards. Other things i would blame it on: His miserable record as an administrator of government (jeepers, this guys is a circus since Rahm left). His continuation of the National Security State, and its subsequent uncovering through various leaks. Things I would certainly not blame it on: The current performance of the economy. The current budget deficit.

I'm gonna start sending him love notes. He, more than anyone else, is capable of single handedly delivering us all of McEichel.

You too. It's not your fault.

Don't be bashful, this is a safe place. We need occasional reminders to keep our heads down (as we come across the blue line) and our eyes on the prize.

Ok, sure, either way, consensus among economists is sub 3% deficits are sustainable. The number is below the 40 year average, and is lower than the deficit President Bush left him, even if you credit FY2009 to President Obama.

Amen brother. Amen.

Below the 40-year average. Lowest since 2007 and continuing to drop (for now). http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-10-15/news/55059186_1_budget-deficit-to-lowest-level-2015-budget Again, All you have to do is wait a few years. The boomer Medicade/SS trap is set, it just hasn't sprung yet.