DukeNukeEm

You gloss over the part where we went to war with Germany and Japan because we were attacked. If Syria sneaks around the ocean and bombs Hawaii damn right we should teach them a lesson they'll never forget. Europeans eventually did get sick of killing each other, and its not because the US opened up a late second front against under supplied German conscripts. It's because they blew up their continent and they realized how stupid and pointless it was. We've tried saving Middle Eastern people the pain of that lesson, they didn't want the help. They want kill each other. Let them, they'll learn the way Europe did.

Its not our responsibility. These people are head-over-heels for killing each other, they cant get enough of it. So what, we end this massacre. Then next year another rathole flares up, government starts slaughtering people, people start slaughtering government sympathizers, eventually one side does something catastrophically dumb (chem weapons, targeting civilians indiscriminately) and Officer America has solve another domestic dispute. f*** em, they'll get sick of killing each other eventually if left to their own devices. Not our job to do it for them and American lives are not to be wasted to help them.

A massive win for equality.

Exactly, we created a need. If someone was waiting in the wings or we didn't have any other positions that were in dire need of attention it'd be one thing but we basically made another hole to fill before training camp. Makes no sense to me.

Why? Why is it our job to blow a bunch of money, resources and possibly American lives on these people? If its violating international law get the French or British to go fix it. They're infinitely more responsible for the f***upedness of Syria than we are.

I do not like letting Urlacher go. I dont like the fact that we have one LB left with more than a few minutes experience playing in the NFL. I dont like the implication that we are now going to spend, without a doubt, one of our first two picks on a LB when what we really need to do is draft two OL. Urlacher may have been way under par athletically and entirely incapable of being the player he used to be, but he at least knew where to be and was never out of position because he made a mental error. The new guy will undoubtedly be a rookie, f***ing up left and right, biting on fakes, not knowing where to be, generally being confused. But not just that, he'd be a rookie playing a position we could've had covered for this season while Cutler still runs for his life because as it stands now there are 4 guys on our OL that barely deserve to be on NFL rosters.

I'd rather we not go involve ourselves in another rotten Middle Eastern s***hole. But we will.

You should be a lot more worried about the guy who's wife your harassing than whether or not its covered under the 1A.

The correct answer is that people will generally sort internet squabbling out amongst themselves, but getting lawyers involved (by nature) will eventually lead to precedents and legislation that will erode our 1A rights. "BUT I SAW A NEWS STORY ABOUT INTERNET BULLYING WHERE SOMEONE KILLED THEMSELVES" -- This so rarely happens it shouldn't even matter. However being so sensationalized by the bleeding hearts of course many will gladly watch their rights get flushed down the toilet to feel better about it.

Pretty dumb move by Assad. Hope he likes getting the s*** bombed out of him.

Presidents dont make laws bud. Its mostly congress, though calls to action by the president undoubtedly have a major effect on legislation being moved. Not that I really think politicians on either side have had any problem growing the federal government for the exact purposes I stated in the post you quoted until very, very recently.

The Cubs are not moving. They will lose their entire fanbase overnight. The only thing keeping people going to games is Wrigley, nobody watches them on TV, and while they still move a lot of merchandise you'd figure that'll suffer too with the end of Wrigley. That ballpark is a crutch on which an unbelievably bad franchise can stay ludicrously profitable while running out a bottom 5 MLB roster every year. It'll never move.

Dont get me wrong, I love this complete inability to do anything at all and hope it never ends, but to say were living in a functional democracy is highly debatable. Anywhoooo You clamor for more taxation, more government programs, more legislation, fully subscribing to the "SOMETHING MUST BE DONE" chaos/panic philosophy to legislation. In vacuum it actually makes sense, I understand where you're coming from. But what blows my is that every time our government grows it just asks the market to handle the logistics in exchange for astronomical taxpayer funded subsidies and state-approved monopolies. Sure there's an accompanying bureaucracy to feign oversight and enforce the arbitrary regulations built to entrench the monopolies, this is government were talking about, but mostly its taxpayers being forced to pay private enterprise for stuff. Its not just the healthcare bill, that was just the latest, most brazen move. They've been doing it for decades now with the military and its huge government contracts, and the justice system is increasingly being subsidized towards private companies. You want government to grow because you think it'll lead to a more even wealth distribution but there's this clear as day f***ing reality that all it really does is loot middle class tax dollars to feed this monster.

Just heard on 670 that the Bears are looking to trade down, probably want to get that 3rd rounder back.

No, its pretty simple. If you want more government you can pay for it, if you dont have enough money tough s*** but its wrong for the government to rob people at gunpoint. There's your link, go nuts.

You wanted a first New World Pope? You get some nice little New World baggage.

Pope Francisco, of Buenos Aires. Oh he took Francis. Sounded like Francisco.

I lean towards agreeing with you there. Garza never struck me as being any good just better than the absolute filth we've surrounded him with. Only guy I'm confident with going into the season is Bushrod, and if Louis' rehab is going well him too.

Eh, my money's on Jeffery seizing that title this year. He showed a lot for a rookie. In other news our OL stands at: LT: Bushrod LG: Louis C: Garza RG: Carimi RT: Webb Honorable Mention: Martellus Bennett is pretty good at blocking. Not nearly good enough. We are still relying on Webb and Carimi to be starters when we should be in a position where those guys compete for starting jobs against mid-late round draft picks and low-level free agents. Also Lance Louis has to come back from a pretty major injury and insurance there would be nice. So far so good though, Emery is pretty awesome... everyone was wondering wtf the Bears were doing and he pounced on the guys he wanted out of nowhere.

Hard not to like this, but I said exactly that when we extended Danks soooooo

Except if they label you a terrorist you are engaged in combat on US soil. That's literally all it takes, they just say "yousa terrorist bud" and Mr. Drone rams some ordinance 10 feet up your ass. No courts, no due process, no oversight, not even a f***ing law that allows them to do this... just call you a terrorist and Obama with his pet Holder feel entitled to kill you.

Actually the power to carry out the criminal justice system lies with the courts, not Obama. He cant indiscriminately bomb US citizens, nobody can.

God bless Rand Paul for this, actually bringing some attention to the issue of our president's obsession with using drone strikes as a police tool. I know the liberals love it, socialism needs ways to kill its people in order to succeed and how else do you get rid of gun owners, but its just really great to see how fidgety it makes all these Senators.

Well the nice thing about that era is there wasn't much of a government to co-opt. Besides, even the cheap labor here was doing great compared to the rest of the world.

By modern standards? Yea, of course it was s***ty for most people if you're comparing it to 2013 America. But if you compare the standard of living in the United States to its global peers at that time we were blowing them out of the water. There's a reason immigrants flowed into this country.