Magox

Costa Rica looked good. They allowed the least goals during CONCACAF qualifying and finished second behind the US. They have a good team.

You can test it, but it's not going to lead to any reasonable conclusions. We are a country with a population of 315 million, Vermont has about 600k. Hardly a good test case.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2014/06/19/altidore-to-miss-world-cup-game-against-portugal/10841869/ This was to be expected, but the fact that they mention that there is a possibility he could return after the MRI result is promising.

I know it's early and Germany has only played one game, but from what I've seen, they look to be the most organized and precise team in the tournament. I think they are going to take the cup.

I'm looking for someone with some opposing views to actually contribute something substantive to the conversation. I tried with Birddog,

Yes, but what a team it was, up until just recently.

Actually, the issue for them isn't just political, and you can absolutely reasonably draw parallels between both the ACA and VA. So, what's the issue with the VA, other than the deception from the administrators? In a nut shell, there are too many patients and not enough medical providers to care for them. Hence the ridiculous wait times. The ACA exchange plans headed by the HSA made a concerted effort with the carriers participating on the exchanges to keep the premiums as low as possible. One of the ways that the carriers could attempt to contain premiums was by reducing the medical reimbursement rates. In other words, for example lets just say that a pre ACA carrier use to pay out to a primary care physician $65 for a routine Dr. visit. With the law, the carriers now say, we are only going to $45 for an office visit, in order to contain premiums. What happens is that you have many medical providers that decide to drop working with that particular plan from that carrier because they don't want to operate with such a low reimbursement rate. However, obviously some do, but what happens is that you have fewer medical providers then what there were accepting these plans. Many of the ACA plans, specially in the higher population zones are already encountering issues with considerably longer wait periods between the time that the scheduled office visit was placed to the time of the actual visit. And it's going to get much worse. Reason being is simple, the way the law is designed you will see many businesses, specially small businesses decide to drop coverage, replace the coverage with fixed payout to the employee and therefore they will end up going on to the exchange. If they don't increase the medical reimbursement rates, you won't see a marked increase with the medical providers participating along with the carriers from the exchange plans. Which means longer wait time periods. If you are someone who finds these delayed wait times with the VA as unacceptable, then you certainly won't be a fan of the ACA exchange plans, much less a single-payer system. You are going to need a "life-changing" event to qualify for special enrollment.

Of course Rand Paul doesn't have an answer at this time, he knows that if he is going to get any of those donor dollars he has to act like a grown up rather than pander to the youth like his father did. The question is how can he get those donor dollars by being a little more serious on matters of defense without alienating his father's base?

Oh Wow! You are right. http://www.dailymail...-bad-worse.html You mean like this game? I just found this about his injury status.

Cahill so far gets the goal of the tournament. Brilliant! And Holland is looking lackluster to say the least.

It's difficult to know, it really boils down to the character of the leaders of the team. Some teams come out on determined to execute their game plan, others fold like the Iraqi army after such a humiliating defeat. My guess is that they'll play a good game, even though Chile is world renowned for it's tough defense. I'm thinking 2-1 Spain. Netherlands I'm guessing will dominate. 3-0

So when someone is from "the other side" which I'm assuming you are, and you give a grade of a "C" from a president that is from your side, on a sliding scale, I guess that puts him at around D - I think that's pretty close to about right.

I swallowed it hook, line and sinker??? Maybe if you had the reading comprehension skills of at least a 10 year old, you wouldn't have made this post. This is what I said about that article: Try again And what's pathetic are the trolls that chime in and go out of their way to show their disdain for the sport. But hey, the rest of the world are a bunch of banana-throwing Europeans and 3rd worlder's, so you got them there. Are you pretending to be dense or did you not read the rest of what I wrote?

You don't see it? Of course not. Sure, the rest of the world are a bunch of 3rd worlder's and "banana-throwing" Europeans. Yeah, that isn't disparaging at all.

What a phenomenally ignorant view. Pretty much validates that your post is complete and utter garbage.

Ochoa definitely was the man of the match.

I'm pretty much with you on this one. CONCACAF Represent!

And tools will always be tools.

Yep, and it's not akin FIFA, the Olympics is another 4 year even that make the very same lunacy. See Greece.

I read this article today, and it encapsulated the errr discussions we are having on this topic. http://www.washingto...f9f1_story.html

In other words, what you wanted him to do was list in detail on his website how he would solve each one of these issues. Great, now that you have clearly laid that as your marker, I fully expect ( no, I really don't) For you to hold the same standards for Liberals. So let's see, how about we start off with the leader of house for the Democrats. I mean after all, she has had soooo much more time and resources $$ to list on her website and to "Man UP!" and detail how she would as you say : "Fiscal responsibility - man up and present a budget that balances revenues and expenditures - and recognize that your simply not going to be able to get legislation passed that dramatically changes SS and MC/MA." I'm assuming you are holding the leader of the Liberal party accountable to do the same, and that anything less would be hypocritical, right? So lets see what she has to say about this topic: http://pelosi.house....rement-security So her plan is what exactly? Oh, I know, to punt the looming problem, the status quo. What detail, and a profile in courage. You are grasping for straws, you desperately were looking to find something "extreme" and neither of you could find something. So now, you had to go to what in your mind was the next best line of attack which basically was "Hey, this guy needs to show us his detailed plans, or else I won't take him seriously" At least you attempted to come up with something on your own, rather than post a link so that Mother Jones could do speculating for you.

No, your views would be mainstream in Venezuela. Again, post what you find to be "extreme" and explain why, rather than having an extremist leftist political website tell you what to think. And yes, let's discuss the issues. WTF do you think I've been trying to do with you?

I did. How about we do this, why don't you paste the "extreme" statements that he made, and tell us why you believe it was "extreme", rather than have Mother Jones Spoon feed to you their interpretations.