JuanValdez

...clock's still broken, my friend. But I guess you take your victories where ever you can get them...mdrowe00

...also couldn't hurt to do something about the Patriot Act. It's had some of its more "controversial" provisions expire or struck down judicially, and seeing as how we REALLY need to overhaul not just constitutional precedents wrt federal elections , but cyber-defense as a nation, might not be a better time to take a look at it...mdrowe00

...the hand-wringing over the way Robert Mueller has handled this investigation has been off-base. He was charged with finding evidence of federal election collusion with a foreign government. That was always going to be difficult to establish with de facto oligarchies involved. I don't think Americans deserved a silver bullet answer to this. This is what we've voted (or not voted) for. --mdrowe00

...lot of this is why I don't get into a lot of back-and-forth with certain people here. Basically, this is the logic of the broken clock: sure, it's got the time right twice a day, but that's got nothing to do with the clock...and nobody should bother setting up a schedule by it. Kudos. --mdrowe00

...like the nuance of this debate between you and Mathloom. While business (or more broadly, monetary) influence has been a staple of our democracy, ultimately government serves a wholly different purpose than capitalism. Sooner we get that settled, the sooner we may be on the track to good governance. --mdrowe00

Respect for liking my don't honk at me thread. We both know that a large percentage of posters know exactly where I am coming from but once the public mood of the thread turned against me, everyone was too cowardly to say how they really feel.

Stay righteous my friend.

...I have to admit, I am loathe to put anyone on "ignore"--even though I don't respond to certain posters at all. I find that ignoring people (in any fashion) is counterproductive--out-of-site, out-of-mind--and I don't think in some instances that that is wise...but I believe you're right in this instance. Consider this "RocketsLegend" ignored. --mdrowe00

....something about the perfect being the enemy of the good comes to mind with some of these "counter" arguments by some of these people...and I'm not even sure anymore people know what "perfect" means in this context. --mdrowe00

...I've got a few things about this country's "War on Drugs", and how that got started "legally" I'd LOVE for you to check out if you get time...or better yet, just GOOGLE some stuff. This internet stuff does have its uses. --mdrowe00

...sometimes, it does matter who holds a public office. Institutions are man-made constructions, and cannot be divorced, in and of themselves, from the people occupying them. The person in public office is at once facilitator, arbiter and dispensator. Callous disregard for the role of our legal institutions in some shallow demonstration of power or mandate undermines the entire concept of our democracy. --mdrowe00

...and this line of thinking tracks along with the whole "states rights" arguments proffered about the nation's reconciliation of chattel slavery. We generally don't speak of our society in terms of it being constructed or engineered to a specific purpose and/or end. You'd think we all would have at least figured out that much by now... --mdrowe00

Perfect profile picture.

It's funny but I was just watching some clip the other day where a talking head was saying our poor aren't really poor because almost all of them have refrigerators and microwaves. Sad but true.