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http://www.npr.org/2013/10/08/230519762/sc...ey-and-politics I have really mixed feelings on this. While I believe reducing the money in politics is a good thing, I find it hard to justify limiting the total number of candidates a person may donate to. The problem becomes when you have to have the support of the wealthiest 500 donors or your campaign ends before it gets started. That seems like it will limit speech, not increase it. I was listening to an NPR report with Alabama businessman Shaun McCutcheon who brought the suit and I had to agree with his assertion that challengers, not incumbents have the roughest time raising funds. I am skeptical about his claim that this could help expand ideas in the arena with more candidates funded. I think it is equally plausible that the incumbents will just receive even more money, locking out new ideas and candidates.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 9, 2013 -> 05:50 PM) Well, one person who got backed into a corner. And who doesn't have the courage to fight. As I've said, people back here know me well enough to know I almost never blame one party for some political issue. But this is 100% Republican. No other way to look at it. And worse of all, the Dems will do it when they have a cause they believe in.

I'd start suspending players and coaches before eliminating the practice.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 9, 2013 -> 01:15 PM) Yeah I'm not entirely sure why a tasting room wouldn't just fall under the local liquor license. Because they sometimes "taste" products that are not for sale or packaged for regular sales. Plus there are federal inspectors already coming into the manufacturing side. (As I understand it from manufacturing). There has been a push by manufacturers to reduce the number of different agencies they have to deal with. So if the Feds are already going to be there, have them inspect as much as possible and keep the local inspectors out.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 9, 2013 -> 01:30 PM) Most of the breweries i've been to have been. It's normally a tour and a beer or a flight of beer for free. And then you can stick around and drink like you're at a bar. We use to pre-game at the Miller Brewery before hanging with some friends at UWM. It was all you can drink, then they would give you two tokens, but there were always people giving up their tokens.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 9, 2013 -> 01:03 PM) There are times where you are sympathetic to the idea of Hammurabi's Code. Yeah.

One factor in some of those awards is has it happened before and what has been done to correct it. Courts see a series of $50,000 settlements and nothing being done to change the situation will jack up the award to fulfill the idea that the award should be punitive to change the behavior.

That is brutal.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 9, 2013 -> 12:51 PM) Giving away what they sell? Tasting rooms aren't free. Depends on the facility. When I was in California a few years back at least half were free.

Should we even continue the restriction on natural born American? If voters are willing to elect someone born outside the US shouldn't they be allowed to do that? We allow it in all other elected offices.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 9, 2013 -> 11:49 AM) Why the hell should a tasting room need a permit from the federal gov't? How about republicans pass CR in exchange for making less stupid alcohol regulations on books (like wine across state lines). Because states do not want the expense and shifted it to the feds. Other sellers of alcohol, (bars) don't like competitors giving away what they sell. Anytime you are serving food and beverage in this country it is inspected in some way. The closer to the production, the more likely it will be the feds. This way a company does not have to deal with mutiple inspectors looking at basically the same thing.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 7, 2013 -> 01:22 PM) He is American, regardless of where he was born. So try again. There are two different standards here. American and eligible to be President of the US.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 8, 2013 -> 02:08 PM) Not to discount research, but why is that the responsibility of the tuition paying student? If I was paying tuition, I am paying it to be taught, not so he can go publish papers, research things and add a little to his prestige. Wouldn't you rather be a physics student at the University of Chicago and doing research using a particle accelerator or learning about it in a book later? Which employee would you rather hire?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 8, 2013 -> 10:00 AM) Good thing they dumbed down the touchscreen phone then. Otherwise we would still be using these: Dumb down is a poor choice of words, the marketing people at Apple prefer things like "making it more accessible" or "user friendly" possibly even "intuitive".

I wonder if food producers are thinking, hey we need to be extra careful during the shutdown because the government isn't fully supporting and watching over us -or- what can we slip by while no one is watching?

http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Report...-226744931.html Close to death after being forced from the national park by the shutdown. (hyperbole, I can't really blame the shut down)

NSS, it isn't Hollywood, yet our world views are shaped that way. Thank you for two excellent posts.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 7, 2013 -> 06:00 PM) But is the person who spills hot coffee in their lap worthy of a 7 figure settlement because they are idiots? When McDonalds had already settled many, many lawsuits over their too hot coffee while continuing to serve coffee many degrees hotter than anyone else? Yes. Their rational was their customers did not drink the coffee in the car, but waited until they were at work. Further causing the McD trouble was their employees initially refused the woman napkins while laughing at her. Read up on it. It really is a fascinating case and miles different than was portrayed in pop culture.

On the other side of the coin are the rstrictions that are placed on scholarship athletes which are different than on other scholarship students. For example, a music major who is attending a university on a music scholarship may also earn money playing music. The restrictions on athletes earning money makes them getting part time jobs almost impossible. These restrictions came about because boosters would offer star recruits $$$$ for doing basically nothing, or to make appearances. We didn't like that so various measures were imposed. I agree with everything SS is saying here, there is great value, but there needs to be a way for a kid to have enough pocket money to go out on a date or fly back home in case of a family emergency.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 6, 2013 -> 11:03 AM) I'm Irish so I stupidly bandwagon Notre Dame. Catholic, and me too. But not on an obsessive level. More like if they are playing any random opponent, I hope they win. But I couldn't even tell you who their coach is or their current record.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Oct 6, 2013 -> 11:03 AM) No ties at all to Florida State, but I became a fan when Weinke/Warrick were tearing it up and I fell in love. The logo/colors/Osceola were also easy to catch on with me, plus the great players that have come from there. Had I gone to a D1 college, no doubt that would have been my team, but I went DII and FSU stuck for good. \Was that you last night?

QUOTE (zenryan @ Oct 6, 2013 -> 09:25 AM) There is a local sports radio show host who is a Miami Hurricanes football fan and a Duke basketball fan. Now that annoys me. That would bother me too, but is that any different than being say a Sox fan and a Spurs fan?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 5, 2013 -> 10:03 AM) How is it a failure? By all accounts she was being treated for her various mental health issues. Being treated doesn't mean she is guaranteed to be cured. Some people have issues that go past conventional treatment and drugs. Was it a success of the mental health system? She forced a situation that caused her to be killed while having her baby in the car. Avoiding that would be a success, having it happen would be a failure. Now if you are suggesting the system did all it could reasonably be expected to do, I probably would agree on first glance. But reserve the right to flip flop as new information becomes available.

BTW, those students assisting professors on patent-able research projects, and the professors, also have made billions for universities.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 4, 2013 -> 09:11 PM) No, because in this industry, the major source of labor isn't paid for it's work because the NCAA (which is by definition a cartel) forbids payment to them. What I'm arguing is that college athletics really isn't any different from any other industry and that the main source of labor, the athletes, should be allowed to be compensated for their work. Compensation perhaps in the form of food and shelter, or a university degree? I'm in favor of some sort of payment, but then also dismantle scholarships and have them pay for their education, room, and board like other students. Imagine that swimmer for (insert major program here) paying the $30,000 a year tuition, then we'll see what he thinks about minimum value of the degree.