Texsox

Obviously I am not a Trump supporter, but I really wish he would figure out this Presidency thing. Reagan, probably suffering from Alzheimer's, was able to present a solid public profile to the nation and the world. Why can't Trump be corralled even a little bit?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 20, 2017 -> 09:51 PM) I hate both. How can anybody eat guac or avocado? Sometimes I think you wait to see what the majority says and then pick the opposite.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 16, 2017 -> 07:21 PM) For every Tex example where medical conditions are self-induced, such as diet, lack of exercise, smoking.....there will be at least 2 or 3 that aren't preventable at all. Is it better to have panels of 3 or 5 doctors (majority vote) assess blame for conditions, and those deemed responsible would face the lifetime caps, while hereditary conditions would not? Again I ask, what should I have to give up to pay for other people's healthcare?

Avocados are a staple around my house. It's like buying milk.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 19, 2017 -> 10:43 PM) https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/nabra-...omepage%2Fstory May not legally be a hate crime but it sure feels hateful It seems like there is hate in every murder.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Jun 19, 2017 -> 07:46 PM) It's a good thing this site has a vulgarity filter. I can't believe they let you coach kids with a mouth like this. You think you're Bobby Knight or something? Seriously it is a challenge sometimes. The mom of one of my players drops f bombs after bad shots by her daughter. She asked how I manage not to. I laughed and told her it was tough. She told me to just whisper them. Her grandpa follows the Bob Knight tradition. We good coach - bad coach her all the time. lol I'm glad I can be the kumbaya singing coach.

It wasn't the even par top ten scoring that the USGA seems to enjoy. Which I like because it differentiates it from the other majors.

Sometimes it is the basics that really get you. I was 12 or 13 over on the front while playing with a few of my varsity guys. We make the turn and I was contemplating excuses to get out of there. A double bogey on ten didn't help my mood. I hit a thin drive that somehow found the fairway on 11. As I was lining up to hit an 8 iron I was a little exasperated and lifted the club and dropped it back down with a little force. I look down and realized I was about three inches inside of where I was set up. I moved closer to the ball, pured my first iron of the day and shot even on the back. Two birdies and six pars to go with the double on 10. Somehow I moved my ball position three inches out. Simple check I should have made a couple hours earlier when I started mis***ting so many shots thin and to the right. It was a good lesson for the team.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Jun 16, 2017 -> 04:49 PM) Health care is unique though. If the government isn't involved in health care, and I contract skin cancer (which I have a genetic pre-disposition to contract!), then it doesn't ultimately matter what livable wage I'm earning. The amount of health care that I will have to consume, and the cost of that health care will ravage my finances. I agree with you beyond that point - that getting more companies to pay a livable wage - and a true livable wage provides value. But what evidence do we have that lower taxes on businesses leads to increased gains for labor? Isn't it more likely that those gains are passed on to shareholders? Absent, of course, the feds significantly increasing the minimum wage... Not trying to be argumentative, but for the sake of debate, what should I have to give up so I can help pay for your health care if you contract skin cancer? Rhetorically . . . Can my kids go to a private college, or should I be forced to send them to a cheaper state school? Can I have a Texas Edition truck, or should I have to settle for basic? Can I go out to dinner at Ruth Chris or should I have to eat at Chili's? McDonalds? Home cooked? Can I buy nice clothes or shop at WalMart? Or from a different standpoint, how much should you be allowed to keep if you are stricken? Your house in a nice neighborhood? Car? Where should you be buying your clothes if I'm paying for your healthcare? These were the questions I was asked by a conservative family member and I must admit I've been giving it a lot of thought. I'm solidly a Dem. My heart and gut tells me that universal health care for all is great for this country. But the idea of taking from one person and giving it to another is tricky.

I would put together a close group of advisors and hold meetings by going around the room demanding they each praise me and express their undying loyalty. Wait that's what I would do if I was president. Travel. Class A pulling a Jeep Rubicon. Hire someone to drive it to Maine while I start a walk in Springer Mountain Georgia.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 16, 2017 -> 04:30 PM) I chalk it up to the water in Texas which includes a 'pull up by your bootstraps' additive. I've been reconsidering the link between taxes and jobs. What we really need are jobs that pay a livable wage and allow people to naturally pay for things like health care. Perhaps one reason we have so many people unable to afford the necessities is so much income is rolling into the government instead of being spent by you and me. So money to buy the cheap imported stuff at WalMart doesn't get taxed. Money to buy the more expensive US made product gets taxed to the point we have to buy the cheaper imports. Looking specifically at luxury ships, the US was a leader, now it is the Netherlands. I can only think of one real world class player in the market somewhere in Oregon or Washington, I forget now. IIRC they were originally in California but where taxed out of there. One reason so few are made in the US is we don't buy many anymore.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 16, 2017 -> 04:03 PM) The ~risky lifestyle~ of being born with a genetic predisposition towards an illness or just catching something or being in an accident. If you're sick, you must have done something to deserve it? Come on, tex. You're not really defending a nearly $1T tax cut for the wealthy in the face of letting people suffer and die from lack of health care access, are you? Mitch McConnell is not Trump, and involving zero actual health care experts or knowledgeable people in the secret crafting of a bill that impacts every American and 1/6th of the economy is horrendous. I object to the we're just going to tax that income if you are going to do X with it logic. I'm pointing out that allowing people to spend the money they have earned benefits society as well. We mock someone buying something beyond the necessities, but those contribute as well. When politicians decided that luxury taxes were an easy thing to tax, a number of industries were decimated. Most of those luxury boats were made in the US until we taxed them and their customers out of business. I see a slippery slope. Once we start deciding what a person can and cannot do with their money the taxing game changes. If you can buy a $100,000 car we can tax you more becomes a $75,000 car, then a $25,000 car. And what we really are talking about is which wealthy business owners get to keep their cash, the health industry rich or the other rich folks.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 16, 2017 -> 01:16 PM) Pence pledged undying loyalty to trump via twitter today. This s*** gettin weird Psycho.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 16, 2017 -> 03:12 PM) cowards Didn't trump pledge to stop the lobbyists and special interest groups?

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jun 16, 2017 -> 09:28 AM) "Sir, we have cut you off of chemo treatment as you have reached your insurance lifetime limit. Good news though, there are some boats that need cleaning. That should help you pay the 300,000 health insurance bills!" Sorry you can't buy that boat, someone you don't know engaged in a risky lifestyle and now *you* are required to pay for their healthcare. Thank you for working so hard. Would you mind picking up a couple extra shifts? Did you see the guy you passed on the street? He's abusing drugs and going to need a transplant and someone has to pay for it. I can play the ridiculous example game.

If we base our laws on what the least responsible person in America will do then we lose everything. One big difference is most anything irresponsible someone can do with a gun almost always means they have broken a law.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 16, 2017 -> 09:05 AM) We asked 8 Senate Republicans to explain what their health bill is trying to do (the real goal of the bill is giving tax cuts to millionaires so they can buy a bigger boat, any impact on healthcare policy is largely incidental) Which means more jobs for people working building boats, operating marinas, serving as crew members, etc.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 16, 2017 -> 09:03 AM) They've already been deporting DACA and DAPA immigrants, though. ICE and CBP are rounding up anyone and everyone they can, even out of medical aid facilities, and the regular stories about their activities are disgusting and heartbreaking. Local police are dismayed and angered because these draconian actions are destroying trust and relationships with immigrant communities that take years or decades to build. There are apparently a lot of bad people within ICE and CBP and they've been given free reign by this admin. Officially by policy that has ended. What happens in the streets and courts has always been different.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 15, 2017 -> 05:30 PM) http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/15/politics/con...pons/index.html Meanwhile, GOP doubling down on gun control with their "good guy with a gun" scenario that usually works much better in the movies where lots of bystanders don't get killed. I'd hate to imagine if Rand Paul's "it would have been a bloodbath" scenario came to pass...everyone in the US would have been allowed the right to carry a gun everywhere they went beginning next week after a law was quickly jammed through. We can create scenarios in which untrained civilians with guns end in tragedy. How about the guy is pointing a gun at your head from five feet away? Do you want a gun then? We can go back and forth making up situations. You pick ones where an armed civilian is bad, I will create one where an armed civilian is good. What does that really prove?

On a good note, imnsho "dreamers" will not be deported. Trump will not be pushing for immediate deportation which was a campaign promise.

I'll bet his soon to be wife has a bunch of friends and he needs to "even out the wedding party". or He came from somewhere back in her long ago The sentimental fool don't see trying hard to recreate What had yet to be created once in her life She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale Never coming near what he wanted to say Only to realize It never really was She had a place in his life He never made her think twice As he rises to her apology Anybody else would surely know He's watching her go But what a fool believes he sees No wise man has the power to reason away What seems to be Is always better than nothing And nothing at all keeps sending him Somewhere back in her long ago Where he can still believe there's a place in her life Someday, somewhere, she will return She had a place in his life He never made her think twice As he rises to her apology Anybody else would surely know He's watching her go But what a fool believes he sees No wise man has the power to reason away What seems to be (if love can come and love can go, then why can't love return once more?) Is always better than nothing (fool's got the power) There's nothing at all (oh, now) But what a fool believes he sees (i believe she's never gone away) No wise man has the power To reason away (to reason away) What seems to be (oh, if love can come and love can go, oh, mama) Is always better than nothing (better than nothing) And nothing at all

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 09:31 AM) These posts make me ill. Can we maybe, for a day, blame the lunatic who did the shooting? And not create a link that can never be proven just to score political points? Come on. This.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jun 6, 2017 -> 09:27 PM) That or a dick in a box Dammit, I just had to go watch the video . . . and read the Wiki . . . and watch a couple more vids . . .

What set of issues could a person find important and then find candidates on both ends of the political spectrum to support? I've never actually pulled the lever for a Republican Presidential candidate, although there were a couple I would not have minded winning (McCain, Bush), and one primary candidate I wish had done better (Perry). I probably have voted for about 85-90% Democrats in my life time, so I'm not independent by any means. I'm intrigued by people who can claim something close to 50-50. What are the issues you find important?

Civility is the main thing we are looking for. What Greg writes may at times be frustrating, challenging, baiting, maybe what some people would call trolling, I can't think of a post where we attacked someone personally. I don't know Greg the person, I only know what he writes which creates a screen character. Is it his true thoughts and beliefs? I don't know and don't worry about that. Same with every other poster here. I personally believe the 'Buster is a little better because of Greg and other posters like him stirring the pot. Let me offer an example. Years ago a poster here who I greatly respect and like accused me of not liking him based on the battles we had here on the pages of the 'buster. I was shocked that he thought that, but after thinking about the arguments we had and how we responded to each other, it made sense. That should not have happened and are the types of posts we would like to tone down. I recognize that the hope he has for America is the same as mine, we only differ on the route to that dream. Mine works and his won't. A final thought. I believe the topics we discuss here are important to the future of our country. If we each tried to move people to our point of view that is truly doing something for what we each believe is right. We aren't going to do that by insulting each other. I really want y'all to resist a border wall, especially through a National Park. I'm not going to do that by calling you a racist idiot. I want y'all to support a guest worker program and a path to limited citizenship for the undocumented workers contributing each day to our success. I can't achieve that through insults. I'd like y'all to push for less government borrowing. And I will leave you with this. A now banned poster accused me of always humming this tune as I was sitting around this campfire . . . Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya Oh Lord, kumbaya Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya Oh Lord, kumbayah Someone's laughing, Lord, kumbaya Someone's laughing, Lord, kumbaya Someone's laughing, Lord, kumbaya Oh Lord, kumbaya Someone's crying, Lord, kumbaya Someone's crying, Lord, kumbaya Someone's crying, Lord, kumbaya Oh Lord, kumbaya Someone's praying, Lord, kumbaya Someone's…