*retreats back into torso*

I have about 8 different kinds of sausage/brats in the freezer just waiting to be grilled. Maybe I will tonight.

You’re the wurst.

Virginia Rep. Dave Brat told a conservative audience that, “Since Obamacare and these issues have come up, the women are in my grill no matter where I go.”

As a company owner myself, I always try to be cognizant of the challenges that the people who work for my company face. Of course, I’m a relatively small business, with only three employees and a handful of subcontractors right now — largely because my business is only 18 months old.

Both sound like idiots...

Thays not how it works, getting married doesn't mean you automatically get to stay beyond the visa that got you here.  From the story, she never had a visa to get here, so applying for a green card isn't enough to stay, without a visa they are supposed to go back to their country and wait for the change of status to…

See, here’s the thing. College education and post high-school education has been wrapped into this one category. But in reality you can get a very good paying job without going to a traditional four year university. There are trade schools and trade programs - some for profit, some not - that can train kids to be…

I get stuck on this line:

While nice that the size of the crowds managed to terrify the racists into staying away, actually demonstrating peacefully would have been much better.  Nonviolence works for a reason.

Even the “socialist” paradises of Scandinavia are relatively easy to do business in. That’s the thing, we can’t just start taxing the shit out of rich people and hand everyone free healthcare and declare ourselves the New Scandinavia. 

The point being nothing is free and Euro socialists deeply understand that capitalism must thrive in order to pay for their sweet prison recording studios.

Because it matters. Venezuela and a number of other countries are or call themselves socialist or communist. Guess what? They’re not the best places to live. You can pull the no true scotsman all day and say they’re not REALLY socialist, but those are all we have to compare to. We haven’t had a successful truly…

Do they really support classical socialism, where the public owns everything, or do they support the New Deal socialism that's more a safety net to capitalism? I suspect it's the second, which isn't what I consider socialism. It's much more the workers rights movement from the industrial revolution.

Someone get on the horn, and find that tuba player. Bring a 100 more.

Thank you, in turn, for your own measured and polite response.

1. They are “confronting the emerging threats on a new battlefield” that does not have a great many threats yet.

The Chinese have already shown the ability to destroy satellites in orbit from ground based launchers. If it comes to a shooting war, precision guided munitions aren’t going to work without GPS. Drones will be a lot harder to fly without the satellite bounce. Commanders stateside won’t be able to get updates from the…

I think we are largely paying for it now, it is under the Air Force, some joint organizations, and intel agencies. Rather than funding going to the AF, it just goes to the “Spacey Force”. A lot of the funding for current stuff is black money that doesn’t appear in the budget so...

Enough to wonder if the DSA is a covert Republican op.