SoCal Deek

Did anyone sneak in an amendment for a dome? 😂

Somebody was opining that the money would be better spent on childrens’ programs. My response was that public construction funding is even better than that. Construction is at its heart a blue collar jobs program, where the vast majority of the money is spent and goes right back into the local economy. Apparently it was wrong of me to hold that position. Again…I have no idea why, when as I’ve said I have direct and significant expertise in these matters.

I apologize…there’s no need for DRs Ghost to call anyone a moron. The facts are self evident. We good? 😉

There’s a poster over there relentlessly screaming that NY State shouldn’t kick in on the costs of the stadium. To that I simply suggested that this person vote for different State leadership next time. That was apparently wrong of me. I have no idea why. Seemed to me like the only thing this person could do about it.

Funny you mentioned this in the moderator thread. I got privately chastised by a moderator on the football side for extolling the benefits of public construction funding. While others drone on and on unimpeded about how rotten the billionaire Pegulas are. And as far as I can tell I’m the one with a FORTY YEAR resume on the topic. Odd.

I don’t blame your brother in law. His fear was purposely imposed on him by ‘experts’ who knew better but sold the fear anyway.

I don’t mind simple posts even when copied and pasted. I can choose to read them or not. But I draw the line when it gets reduced to name calling, like another infamous poster is prone to do. We can all disagree from time to time but it doesn’t mean the other person is an idiot, freak, or POS….if you get my drift.

What’s your point?

Knowing Trump, he will run them in circles. If the Committee's smart, they'll threaten to, but never actually call him in. Just like Joe should've never let Obama steal the spotlight.

Exactly. An unchecked invasion in Ukraine is what comes from all of this. Everything is connected.

Oligarch: "A very rich business leader with a great deal of political influence." The Media likes to throw that word around as if it only applies to Russia. Most Americans have no idea that here, we have the same, but better defined as: "A very rich political leader with a great deal of business influence"

So I watched pretty good interview on CNN while running at the gym this morning. They were interviewing some dude representing the European Union. When asked why the EU wasn't doing more to help their neighbor, Ukraine, the guy starts waffling all over the place (I burst out laughing on the treadmill)....and he then tells the interviewer that the US must understand the EU is very intertwined with Russia, so it's "complicated" for them. You've got be kidding me! Where's Tibs when we need him? These are not serious people.

Stop with the talking points. They have “access to health care”. They can’t afford the INSURANCE. That’s different.

It’s way worse. Think about it: They impeached a sitting President for asking legitimate questions about corruption that we now KNOW was really going on.

Not exactly. You actually have auto insurance to protect others. You have health insurance to protect yourself. But I know what you mean.

When you’re picking as low down the draft as the Bills are their war room has to be very fast to react. There are 24 variables to the math equation before you even get your chance up at the chalkboard. So it all comes down to who’s picked who ahead of you. Everybody knows their positions of need. They have to be thinking not just about Pick 25 but also the pick after that. There’s no simple answers. That’s what makes it interesting.

See my post above. It’s a delicate balance between giving and getting.

You might be surprised to learn that I’m not a big healthcare voter. My concern with universal healthcare is that while spreading a wider net will of course cover everyone, it almost certainly means that the quality of care will be diminished.

If you’re taking a poll, I generally sleep on my side. 😉

I’ve always thought this was an interesting philosophical discussion and it’s actually at the heart of all our internal division. There’s a balance, an equilibrium, between what you get and what you gave in every society. One side believes that balance needs to move further in the direction of you ‘getting’ from others, and the other side believes they’ve ‘given’ more than enough. You obviously cannot have a functioning civilization at either polar end. But…I personally believe the modern LEFT would like to see us move really close to all ‘getting’….ever widening the so called safety net….while I don’t know a single person on the RIGHT that believes in total individualism…the so called every man for himself philosophy. It’s that simple.

One word from Nancy Pelosi and all of this ends. Do you think she’ll call it off? Nope! SHE is the problem.

I’ll try this one more time. The most efficient way to lower ticket prices is to spread the stadium expenditure out over more people. It’s that simple. It doesn’t make it right or wrong….it’s just an inconvenient truth.

What did PT Barnum say? There’s eighty one million born every day! 😉

Like everything else this issue is a simple one. The never-too-bright teachers Union thought they’d done something great by pushing for remote learning. What they hadn’t foreseen was that they’d just allowed millions of PARENTS inside their ‘office’. These laws, of which I assume there’ll be more, are an effort by the governed to put guidelines on a more or less until now unchecked group of radicals with daily access to our kids.

I have no idea what that means. I’ll defend your right to type it. 👍