Yes, I honestly believe that the Green Party screwed the Democrates in the 2000 election. Did you not read my breakdown? 22k Green Party votes in New Hampshire decided the 2000 election. It was certainly not the only cause of Gore losing, i.e. Florida, but if he won New Hampshire and its four votes, regardless of…

Actually, Nader and the Greens cost Gore the Presidency. New Hampshire went Republican with its four electorial votes and Bush won 271 to 266 of the electorial college, switch the numbers and Gore is president in 2000. In New Hampshire, Bush got 273k votes, Gore got 266k, and Nader got 22k. If half of the Nader…

Ha. I can't escape GOT. Fair enough but I think the Lannister reputation was really hurt by the whole Kingslaying and sack of Kings Landing. Tywin has always been considered ruthless but fair and even handed. He gave the realm 20 years of peace and prosperity while the Mad King slipped further into insanity is the…

Fair enough. I never particularly liked that theory where the Mad King is Tyrion's father. One secret Targearyan is enough. Besides the whole Aunt Genna telling Jaime that Tyrion is Tywin's true son completely falls on its face if this theory is true. I believe that the only evidence in the books that the Mad King…

Ha. This will never end! I think Stannis has to die to allow Jon Snow to become the Lord of Lights chosen against the Others. I think Robb's Stark's fall was perfectly plotted. Usually we have our dashing heroes making stupid mistakes and being protected by the plot armor. Here Robb Stark was in over his head. …

Tywin promised the Westerlings and Spicers castles and lordships for Jeyne Westerling seducing Robb Stark though she wasnt part of the plot. Jaime honored those promises after Tywin's death. I can't remember if it was in feast of crows or dance of dragons.

We'll just have to disagree on Stannis' chances without magic. Even with the negative comments from his most experience lords (Tarly and the like), they still expected to win and win decisively even with the sun in their eyes, even with letting Stannis pick the time of the fight. Overwhelming numerical and…

It is never explicitely stated that Stannis knows about shadow assassins before Renly dies but when he sends Davos to take Melisandre into Storms End to finish off Lord Penrose, he definitely did know what she was promising. I suspect that was the plan from the beginning using the shadow assassins to kill Renly and…

I mean Stannis had shadow assassins to win the battle before it started and give him most of Renly's army. He could be pretty confident about his victory. If he had thought he could win without resorting to blood magic he would have faced Renly in open battle. He refused to bring his red priestess to King's Landing…

Disagree with this assessment. Renly's plan was a great one. He'd let the Starks, Tullys, and Lannisters butcher each other in the Riverlands while he slowly marched north with biggest army in the Realm. The combined might of Highgarden and Storm's End. There was no army to hold King's Landing against him. Cersei…

LOL. Jaime might like Bronn, but Bronn is lowborn scum and Castlerly Rock is Jaime's ancesteral home and why would he give his only daughter to a man that's four times her age? There are plenty of castles bigger than the one Cersei promised Bronn and much less important Casterly Rock.

The Targaryans had a lot of sworn houses and men too once upon a time. Surprisingly how quickly people switch sides once you start losing and getting their relatives and friends murdered. But whatever, if you want to insist that the North will remain loyal to the bitter end to the Starks, then go ahead. Bolton and…

I agree with you that Sansa shouldn't go with the Boltons. It would have helped if Littlefinger had fleshed out a plan to destroy the Boltons that involved Sansa being at Winterfell, but I don't understand how you think Sansa will rule the North without or even in spite of the Boltons? She's a fancy name with no…

It actually makes a lot of sense. Sansa becomes a hostage for the Boltons. If the North rises for the Starks, the Boltons could execute Sansa immediately so their position is actually better now than it was before she arrived. As far as anyone knows, Sansa is the last Stark so the Stark loyalists are even less…

Ha. Neat. Thanks for the info. I had no idea.

I agree with your point but I'd just like to point out that Stalin, Mao, and Kim Il Sung were not facists. Fascism was the totaliterian ideology of the right, while Stalin, Mao and co were totalitarian Communists (leftists). At a certain point, you could argue that ideology is a circle not a line and fascism and…

I assume Native Americans and Confederates don't count… cause some American presidents racked up a pretty high kill count on both. Well, one president on the latter.

Isnt the show set in D.C. and Falls Church? Do they shoot in New York?

It was an unstamped envelope. Either the murderer did it or he used a proxy, which should help lead back to it. I mean there could have been more levels to the investigation, but the procedural murder of the week is relatively simple in this show. A false suspect or two then it gets to the point. I thought the…

The birthday card wasn't mailed. It was hand delivered so the assumption they made was that it was someone in town. That and their other suspect the internet kid lived in NYC and was 14. Pretty easy to rule him out. The brother of the girl (Sim Reaper hounded till she committed suicide) got a job at a donut shop…