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Based on the posts in this thread up to this point, how the !@#$ are you coming to that conclusion? Just how stoned are you right now?

there won't many minds changed in this election, yours included, I gather. What exactly does that have to do with whether it will be easier or more difficult to elect the SECOND African American President? I am mildly curious how the "GOP Congress" is the Country's barrier to success, when the GOP only controls the House of Representatives, the Democrats STILL control the Senate (though not by the fillibuster-proof majority they had at the beginning of the current President's term), and the House was overwhelmingly Democrat during the 1st 2 years of this Presidency as well? Women are locked up for the Democrats? Really? How does any of this make it easier for another African American to become President? What if that next high quality candidate is a Republican? Does anything you just babbled have any relevance to that situation? As for your 2nd paragraph; Romney's team has proven itself dull? How? By being a Republican candidate winning the Massachusetts Governorship? By being the most central leaning major candidate of the Republican primary and still winning it going away? And this is relative to Obama's campaign proving itself sharp?

Regarding the 1st bolded: how much more difficult will it be for the next legitimate African American candidate to win election after the past 4 years of "amateur hour?" Regarding the 2nd bolded: what reason, other than the President has run effective campaigns in the past is there to believe he and his team are "two steps ahead of Romney?"

Most, if not all of these have already been mentioned, but here goes: Cheers WRRP in Cincinnati SOAP Police Squad The Dick Van Dyke Show Newhart It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Sports Night Taxi The Odd Couple Honorable Mentions: The Cosby Show Family Ties Night Court M*A*S*H Gilligan's Island The Addams Family The Munsters I Love Lucy The Honeymooners EDIT: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis I forgot to include Arrested Development. Sorry Maynard. Nearly added Northern Exposure to the honorable mentions list, but it was an hour long and not really a true 'sit com' and it was only good the 1st 3 or so seasons; it then got REEEAAALY bad.

Only got $20 credit for 12 months and STM for $148, but that was their 1st offer and I didn't feel like spending another 30 minutes on the phone dickering to try to get the Ticket for free. Thanks to all for the reminder to make the call. Net result is I'll average ~$7.50/mo in savings over the year and have the ticket for free.

Don't know who will win. Expect the polls to be close until about 2-3 weeks before the election and then things will break hard towards one of them and the final result will resemble a landslide. If Romney wins, it'll be on the back of the economy and a strong debate performance. If the President wins, some of the **** he's been throwing at Romney will have finally stuck.

Not happening for at least another 10 years, probably more like 20 if ever. Even if the Navy dictates it, the technology simply isn't there. Don't really have an issue w/ the Navy looking for alternative fuels. Find it a bit silly the way they are implementing this one time exercise, but they'll waste a lot more money that this 'feel good' episode will waste.

What are you considering an 'acceptable cost for that fuel' and what are you considering 'giv(ing) it a chance to succeed?'

Not if the only source of demand is DoD - cost + contracts anyone?

That one and his cliff's notes of Shakespeare plays are classics. (He's no Bob Newhart, but he's good. ) Guess Barney can finally get his one bullet back from Andy again and he can get the keys back from Andy to allow Otis out after one of his benders. Heaven's finally safe again, though Danny Thomas might want to watch out for the speedtraps. RIP Sheriff Taylor.

Roy didn't fit in LT plans. Sabres have Ennis, Hodgson, and soon (1-2 years from now) Grigorenko will be ready for some serious minutes at C. A tough SOB that takes quality 3rd line minutes and wins faceoffs (though officially a LW) is a good fit for something the Sabres were lacking.

Oddly enough the only 2 leather bound comic strip collections I have. Thought I had all the Bloom County books and ~1/2 of the hardcover books that Breathed put out. (Though the story books and the Outland/Opus collections weren't nearly as good as the original B.C. strips.) But see I completely missed him putting out the full series over the last couple of years. I'm also missing One Last Little Peek, 1980-1995 and haven't ever seen either Acadamia Waltz book in print.

Of course. Tree makes paper and paper beats rock. Now, if he had been her "scissors" ...

If you're lucky, that's all it will be.

Thank you.

Thanks for the info and also for the additional post.

Sorry, but a partisan hack saying 'trust me' doesn't cause me to automatically trust them. EDIT: Much like your buddy flj2nd stating essentially 'it's the exact same thing they did in the Arizona immigration case,' doesn't make me automatically believe them. Especially when he was flat out wrong. You're posting here and stating 'trust me' when you have displayed no credetials to cause me to trust you wastes both our time. I was hoping that somebody with a legal background might opine on the original question. You admit yourself that finding the answer 'would take some searching;' when there are several lawyers already on this board, why not ask the opinion of an expert who might be able to point me towards some good examples? How exactly does you saying 'trust me' make ME the lazy one?

At the time Obamacare was getting passed? As for the polls, until the debates I don't put a whole lot of stock into them. I fully expect this to be close until ~mid-Ocotober and then it will break hard for one of them and the final result won't look close.

You will, of course, understand why I won't/don't.

Not to pull a NJ Sue, but I don't suppose you have some examples of the 'countless times' that has 'absolutely' happened in the past?

Wrong. Arizona SB 1070: That law did include a severability clause, so that if part of it was invalid the rest could stand.

Wasn't that what people on your side of the aisle were saying in mid-2010?

Question: have there been other laws that lack a 'severability clause' that have had a portion of the law struck down (section dealing w/ States' Medicaid) but the rest of the law remains valid? I wasn't aware of any, but am by no means a constitutional scholar or historian. If there weren't, has the SCOTUS just given itself a 'line item veto' of sorts?

It'll be interesting to see how this win for the President turns out in the end. He's just lost one of his major boogie men (SCOTUS) to campaign against and now the majority that oppose Obamacare realize that if they want to see it gone w/in the next 5 years they will have to vote the President out of office. I expect you are correct that this ruling will galvanize those who oppose Obamacare. Way too early to tell, but it could definitely end up one of those 'win the battle, lose the war' sort of deals.

Do you think the U.S. would be a better country if it was run more like Venezuela?