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No reason to be upset or protest or have a media circus or anything. The president has a ‘D’ after his name.

“Software opportunity!”

Perhaps I will do that, I already write software just as complicated as that for scheduling of anesthesiologists as a side thing.

Don’t get it. The government will use tax money to defend itself, and if it loses will use tax money to pay up. sounds like a lose lose to me.

If all plants required was sunlight and water, then plants would be made completely out of water. If she wanted to be a plant, then she should also eat dirt, and manure.

We might be able to win badmitten and shuffleboard too

International forces for security? International forces are more likely to attack.

If you are a minority, or a woman, or some other victimized group, the simple act of doing ones job is cause fpr celebration.

Of course shaming works. That’s why they used to do it in the old days.

“There can only be 1 of two answers. A simple “No” would have been easy and they could have moved on. The non answer he gave just dumped more blood in the water.”

True, with all that new blood in the water it becomes even more likely that absolutely nothing will happen.

Does anybody not believe that the last act of a lame duck democrat senate would be to repeal this rule change?

Ok, I am sorry, I did not mean to imply that all Indians are bad programmers. There are plenty of good and bad as there are in all cultures. My point is that many many programmers are brought here not because they are necessarily the good or exceptional ones, but because they are cheap.

I’m not jealous, My day job is in Automation and my side business is custom software, and I am far from underpaid or underworked. Just relaying things I have observed over the years.

Not to mention a position that is supposed to represent the whole population of the country, doesn’t seem to be appropriately used to fight against the interests of half the country.

Can someone point me to the job description manual for president that says he is required to do at least one fundraiser somewhere random in the country each day.

“I think the point is to demonize gun ownership with the younger generation.”

I absolutely think you are right. The good news is that young adults tend to rebel against authority...and it most likely will become trendy to have tons of guns (like it is today to have tons of tattoos).

Extra thought on that. I believe programming is an art form. To me it is like playing an instrument such as the violin or even the guitar. Some people are born to it, most are not. You can teach someone to pluck chords on a guitar and sound OK, but they will never be a master. A true programmer does not need to be taught to program, they learn it themselves and can come up with an elegant solution to almost any problem because they are not encumbered with the “right” way to do it.

They hire foreigners because they are cheaper. Programmers from India are a dime a dozen. The problem with Indian programmers (in my opinion) is they are krap programmers. I don’t know if that is because of the way they are taught, or they just have no imagination or creativity.

Muslims offend me. Can we drop them from the immigration roles?

Just wait until kids start getting stabbed.

It seems to me that every third news story these days has to do with cornholing.

I’ve always wondered about fees like this. The peoples time to fill in whatever forms and paperwork would be charged the same whether they filled in forms or not.

It’s the same as for airline tickets...why is there a change fee? It only takes 2 seconds to change the date and done over the internet does not require a body to do it...the flight is more than likely overbooked anyway, so what difference does it make? Your reservation is a database record that contains your name and date and time, and maybe a few other items, but it costs you 100 bucks or more for a database edit on the date/time? If the flight is not already booked (and thus is no longer selling tickets) and you change at the last second causing an empty seat that otherwise would not have been there on that flight, I can see a change charge, but how often is this the case...and at the gate if the flight is already full, there never seems to be a lack of standby people, so change in this case hurt nothing. Otherwise the plane was not full already, and changing to a different flight will make no difference either. The other thing is why once purchased is it impossible to change the name on a ticket...say the person you got the ticket for couldn’t go, but someone else wanted to...you cannot give the original ticket to the new person, you would have to buy a whole new ticket.

” A group of non-Amish teens from Hell and their totally inept adult “leaders”. “

Aye, I travel for a living, and occasionally I will work somewhere that is also a tourist destination. I inwardly cringe every time I see amish with children in the hall. Though obviously not all (not even most) amish with children are loud and obnoxious, if there is going to be loudness and obnoxiousness all night long it is always amish with children.

Just change the name to NAMBSLA and be done with it

Impossible. I’ve been hearing for decades that the Europeans are much more civilized, and smarter, and cultured than us neanderthal Americans. Therefore, nothing of the sort can possibly happen.

I’m sure he said the same thing about Bush or even Reagan

“he will NEVER be the GOP nominee, never.”

Conservatives said exactly that (even on this site) about Romney in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Christie WILL be the nominee (if it’s not Little Jebbie). Mark my words

I say we give each side one nuke

They should make new uniforms that have targets painted on the back of their shorts.

I don’t think the liberals will want this either once they discover that there will be terrabits of hard data about the performance of their favorite subcultures.

“so... who are the R’s going to nominate ?????”

Little Jebbie, or Krispy Kreme Kristy.

It’s already pre-ordained, just like Romney was about this time in the last election

I must be getting old. Anytime I see a bill with the word “fairness” in the title, I automatically dismiss it as being inherently unfair.

“He and Obama are so dang good at parsing, misleading and outright lying is why he’s still...”

Technically, they are not any good at parsing and lying at all. The only reason they get away with it is because the media obfuscates for them. If Bush had every tried to justify anything one billionth as bad with an excuse on trillionth as lame, it would have been ‘round the clock feeding frenzy time with the national media.

I saw the guy writing this constantly complain that though the packaging did say they were ok for vegetarians, that information was not prominently front and center.

I think that is done on purpose, as if I saw something prominently advertising it is good for vegetarians, I would not buy it just out of principle. Just as I will not buy any product advertising itself as “green”. And I think there are a lot more people like me, than there are of them.

We should just report that it’s gays being killed like this. It would suck to defame these people in such a way, but at least there would suddenly be overwhelming international pressure to put a stop to it.

It’s funny...Europe always likes to think of itself as so much more civilized and sophisticated than the neanderthals in america...but World War 1, World War 2, both started in Europe, and World War 3 will also start in Europe, and soon.

Don’t care anymore. As far as I’m concerned, we should just airdrop every imaginable type of weapon in every middle eastern city and let them have at it

Jury selection should just be 100% asian. Blacks will be 1000% biased, whites will be assumed to be biased even though they probably won’t be, and will be an excuse for rioting. I don’t see how asians could be used as an excuse for rioting (except everybody knows, asians hate blacks /s?)

I will bet there is more than one town that is all black

“Please tell me, does Lord Tyrion have a good ending?! I’m routing for him.”

Won’t tell about Tyrion, no spoilers....though I will also say, since book #1, both Tyrion and Arya have been my favorite characters.

And must say, in the HBO, Tyrion is probably one of the best cast characters of all time. Actually most of the characters are incredibly well cast.

I loved books 1,2,3 of game of thrones. It took him it seemed a decade to complete book 4, while throwing excuse after excuse on his web page, then when the announcement finally came that book 4 would come out soon, he explained how it would be written where half the characters would be in book 4, and a simultaneous timeline of the other half of the characters would be in book 5, I was already pissed. After book 4 finally came out, and I read it, I was ready to find George RR Martin and strangle him personally (plus it doesn’t help that he is a big big big lib)....I was livid at the suckiness of book 4.

When book 5 came out, I read it (because I had to), and was pleasantly surprised, and feel he has at least somewhat redeemed himself for the travesty of book 4. We will see if he can finish off what started as an incredible series well.

I think I should write the president of “Citizens for a better Arizona” and ask in what way allowing unlimited, unchecked immigration of uneducated and unskilled and unchecked for diseases to come here and leach off the “safety net” make Arizona better?

Not only did it have to evolve the first time. But then it had to split into thousands of unique sub-species, and populate every nook and cranny of the planet in just a few million years.

He gets it. No harm and no foul then. Move along.