The Hall of Fire

Two great games yesterday Griffy! If you can find links I'd recommend checking out Ireland v Wales and Scotland v England! Man, I really wanted to watch at least one of those games, but I ended up being out of town! Hoping to find links because from what I've heard they were both crackers. One day ...

Errr ... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/worshippers-clutching-ar-15-rifles-hold-commitment-ceremony/ar-BBJGx59?li=BBnbcA1 NEWFOUNDLAND, Pa. — Crown-wearing worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles drank holy wine and exchanged or renewed wedding vows in a commitment ceremony at a Pennsylvania church on...

I am most dismayed by the fact that this is, as RoseMorninStar says, really a matter of country, of self, of freedom, of American autonomy and self-goverance, of patriotism ... basically, everything Americans hold dear - all of it being subverted by nepotism, incompetence, or apparent outright malic...

V - of course! How could we all be so silly.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/vid ... agle-video

I forgot about that eagle episode. Of course, this was pre-presidential Mr. Trump as well.

That was the first thing that sprang to my mind when I read about his comment ...

Yeah, I'm not so sure Mister Draft Dodger has the guts to put action where his words are in this case. I wonder if he even knows how to handle a gun, for instance? I also wonder if people who actually put their lives in danger each day in law enforcement appreciates that kind of talk from a guy with...

I think that one is explained by something relating to what Maria posted - the United States places a very high premium on individualism and personal freedom. Including the right to possess the means to shoot somebody else's children to death, should you feel the world gone done you wrong. Republica...

Alatar wrote:So, has Trump achieved anything positive?

If bump stocks are banned, then Trump would have achieved something unambiguously positive. To be honest, he's probably the only president who will be able to do so, so let's hope he does.

Yes. For myself, as I just said: - He is harder on criminal illegal immigrants than the previous administration. In my opinion this is a good thing. - He brought the racism, sexism and bigotry inherent in a lot of Americans into the open and broke down societal norms around suppressing or ignoring i...

yov - as a rule of thumb most people only benefit from itemizing if they fall into sweetheart categories - in other words, they get tax breaks for their lifestyles or other special interests. Mortgage interest deduction is an example of that. We used to itemize for that, but we don't anymore becaus...

A straight-up mob mentality is bad. Harassing, demeaning, or trivializing women* is bad. I don't see any controversy with either of those statements. They are both true. I am uncomfortable with people tried in the court of public opinion. Therefore I am uncomfortable with mob swarms on Twitter and I...

Well, let's not get too hyperbolic. I think plenty of Republicans still believe in those things. After all, Roy Moore was defeated in part by Republican voters not voting for him. But I think it is also fair to say that there is a non-negligible chunk of Republicans that admire the sort of thing Joe...

It would certainly be entertaining ( that's what entertainers like Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey are for, right? ) but politics isn't supposed to be entertaining

I find CNN's constant pearl clutching over every tiny Trump thing to be cloying, but this is a little gem. While editing somebody's quote about him to make it more flattering, Trump missed autocorrect's helpful change of "consequential" to "consensual". Of course, he deleted that...

Roy Moore and his ilk happily ignore the 1st Amendment, or really, Article 6, Clause 3 of the actual Constitution. They'd have to tear the whole dang thing down before they can shoehorn their brand of false religion and false patriotism into what is American. :roll: Cenedril_Gildinaur is right - the...

Well, it is important to not buy into some of the hype around this, or get distracted by some of the buzzwords. Instead, focus on what's actually going on, and what actually should happen. The actual official doc in all its hideous dryness: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/201...

On the other hand, since he's a Democrat, he wasn't actually making any laws. Ouch! :rofl: Can't argue there, though. Well, of course Democrats would hope that a Democrat would win this seat. I don't know what the base is like in that district so I can't comment. My point was just that this opens t...

He resigned. Being the party of values will probably just cost Democrats power - they will give up seats for filling in special elections, and I don't see Republicans giving up a seat like that should one of their own come under fire. I really can't see any of this sort of behavior costing a Republi...

Faramond is the household accountant, so I can't really answer that question. I think we won't be worse off, for now. But once those tax cuts expire ( they're still planning on doing that, right? ) and an extra 1.5 trillion is added to the national deficit, we might be a bit worse off. Though what'...