House passes spending bill with little time to spare

[Oceander]

Not at all. This bill cuts IRS funding by $345 million, cuts the EPA AGAIN, and allows GOP opportunity to address immigration issue in February.

The negativity around this place has become intolerable. Not quite as bad as TOS, but almost.  Seems to me that ideological rigidity should be proving to its adherents that it's unrealistic. Gotta be flexible. Politics is the  art of the possible.

With all due respect, I really disagree.  There is negativity, of course, but that is not all there is here.

[PzLdr]

Not at all. This bill cuts IRS funding by $345 million, cuts the EPA AGAIN, and allows GOP opportunity to address immigration issue in February.

The negativity around this place has become intolerable. Not quite as bad as TOS, but almost.  Seems to me that ideological rigidity should be proving to its adherents that it's unrealistic. Gotta be flexible. Politics is the  art of the possible.

If the deal was so great, why did the GOP fund it through Feb.? Why give Obozo and DHS two months into a GOP Congress to run wild on illegal immigration and whatever else that pinhead decides to do? Why not cut off the resolution say at January 10th, and then paste the White House in the face?

[SPQR]

Non-Euclidean space!!!  With a dynamic metric tensor.

Thank you for answering that. I am not a astrophysicist.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Non-Euclidean space!!!  With a dynamic metric tensor.

I believe if the pendulum is swinging at close to the speed of light, or if the pendulum is so massive that it collapses in on itself...then it can warp space.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

If the deal was so great, why did the GOP fund it through Feb.? Why give Obozo and DHS two months into a GOP Congress to run wild on illegal immigration and whatever else that pinhead decides to do? Why not cut off the resolution say at January 10th, and then paste the White House in the face?

Good legislation takes time because it is read and debated.  Rushed bills contain errors and you have to pass it to find out what is in it.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2014/12/07/healthcare-subsidies-court-challenge/19962491/

In a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, known as King v. Burwell, plaintiffs argue that the law allows subsidies to be offered only to consumers who purchase policies on state-run exchanges. After a contentious debate, lawmakers in Michigan decided against running a state exchange. By default, the federal government runs the Michigan Health Insurance Marketplace through its www.healthcare.gov portal.

In fact, just 16 states and the District of Columbia launched their own exchanges in 2014.

Until the nine justices decide the case — one that observers say is the biggest threat to the law right now — that puts subsidies such as the one the Barnetts received in question.

More than 13 million people in 37 states could lose their subsidies, according to an analysis earlier this month by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a California-based nonprofit focused on health care issues and research.

[Oceander]

I believe if the pendulum is swinging at close to the speed of light, or if the pendulum is so massive that it collapses in on itself...then it can warp space.

All mass warps space, the denser/bigger the mass, the greater the warp.  However, to avoid retracing the path, the warp must be changing as the pendulum moves so that the local curvature is different each time the pendulum passes over it.

[Oceander]

Thank you for answering that. I am not a astrophysicist.

You are most welcome!!!  Neither am I, and I don't even play one on TV!

[Luis Gonzalez]

More proof we are at each others throats

That's being at each other's throats?

Really?

[SPQR]

You are most welcome!!!  Neither am I, and I don't even play one on TV!

Really I do appreciate answering that. I did not know. When the question was posed it had an attitude behind it.

[SPQR]

That's being at each other's throats?

Really?

Just read the posts in the last several months and Sinkspur is 100 percent correct and I do not normally agree with Sinkspur on anything.

[Luis Gonzalez]

If the deal was so great, why did the GOP fund it through Feb.? Why give Obozo and DHS two months into a GOP Congress to run wild on illegal immigration and whatever else that pinhead decides to do? Why not cut off the resolution say at January 10th, and then paste the White House in the face?

This is further proof of nothing ever being good enough.

Congress is sworn in on January 3rd, but you want the Democrats pinned to a fence in 7 days, nit 28.

Give it a break already.

[SPQR]

Just read the posts in the last several months and Sinkspur is 100 percent correct and I do not normally agree with Sinkspur on anything.

Its slowly becoming TOS 2.0

[Luis Gonzalez]

Just read the posts in the last several months and Sinkspur is 100 percent correct and I do not normally agree with Sinkspur on anything.

My point on the pendulum was that it takes time to get things back to some level of normalcy and sanity.

There's a number of people in this forum who are accusing the new GOP majority of everything from malfeasance to treason, and they're weeks away from being sworn in.

[SPQR]

My point on the pendulum was that it takes time to get things back to some level of normalcy and sanity.

There's a number of people in this forum who are accusing the new GOP majority of everything from malfeasance to treason, and they're weeks away from being sworn in.

How long? I do not see any proof of this.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Its slowly becoming TOS 2.0

Where are the Kittie Brigades, Zots, and Opus's?  This place is nothing like TOS.  TOS was an echo chamber of "Me too Jim!" Angry debate here proves the breifingroom is not an echo chamber.

[SPQR]

Where are the Kittie Brigades, Zots, and Opus's?  This place is nothing like TOS.  TOS was an echo chamber of "Me too Jim!" Angry debate here proves the breifingroom is not an echo chamber.

This place tends to be an echo chamber from time to time. There are even posters who post there and post here.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

This place tends to be an echo chamber from time to time. There are even posters who post there and post here.

I'm proud to say I got banned for speaking the truth to Jim.

[SPQR]

I'm proud to say I got banned for speaking the truth to Jim.

If it happened there, it can happen here. Very easily. Nobody is absolutely safe at any board. You are at mercy at the powers at be here like all of us who was at the mercy of Jim. To a certain extent Jim still has influence here.

[SPQR]

With all due respect, I really disagree.  There is negativity, of course, but that is not all there is here.

Sink is dead on target on this one.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

If it happened there, it can happen here. Very easily. Nobody is absolutely safe at any board. You are at mercy at the powers at be here like all of us who was at the mercy of Jim. To a certain extent Jim still has influence here.

Perhaps, but I doubt it from my experiences of the last few years here...and I don't think Jim has any influence here.  Good night Trigger.  I wish you a Merry Christmas. 

[SPQR]

Perhaps, but I doubt it from my experiences of the last few years here...and I don't think Jim has any influence here.  Good night Trigger.  I wish you a Merry Christmas.

If we have posters swimming at both ends of the pool Jim influence is still here.

[mystery-ak]

Its slowly becoming TOS 2.0

I'm not going to respond to that because I am trying to get into the holiday spirit myself....but you have rustled my feathers...


btw..if this was anything like TOS you wouldn't still be here!

[Bigun]

I'm not going to respond to that because I am trying to get into the holiday spirit myself....but you have rustled my feathers...


btw..if this was anything like TOS you wouldn't still be here!

 

[alicewonders]

I'm not going to respond to that because I am trying to get into the holiday spirit myself....but you have rustled my feathers...


btw..if this was anything like TOS you wouldn't still be here!

Ain't that the truth!  Sure we disagree on things, but for the most part, we keep it civil.  I don't want to participate in an echo chamber - no matter how much other people's opinions irk me sometimes.  I love that we can still respect each other - there is a lot more that we share common ground on than we differ on.

Thank you Nancy and Tracy for this wonderful site! 

 

[DCPatriot]

If it happened there, it can happen here. Very easily. Nobody is absolutely safe at any board. You are at mercy at the powers at be here like all of us who was at the mercy of Jim. To a certain extent Jim still has influence here.

With all due respect, that's ridiculous.