Guard Dog

The only response I can come up with is this:

70's & 80's TV actor Richard Anderson passed away at age 91. I remember him in Big Valley and the Six Million Dollar Man http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/richard-anderson-dies-oscar-goldman-from-%E2%80%98six-million-dollar-man%E2%80%99-was-91/ar-AAr3OZC?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

I just can't see them two hitting it off. Qis and Bruce on the other hand was a romantic love story just starting to blossom before she went away... Too bad she left too. It's been a long time since I was threatened with death.who is this Qis exactly? Oh you missed a winner there. She would start these posts with a long rant about world peace and flowers and puppies and stuff and then link these videos and it all had a sinister kind of undertone. Then three or four pages in her other personality took over and she was raving how the west is evil and Allah will kill us all and stuff like that. Ah... sad. My money was on her wanting to kill bourgeois dogs, declaring that "all landowners are thieves" No that was Lord of Flies. Well, that was one of his alts anyway. There were others. Hmmm if a person has multiple personalities and they all create and account does that count as alts? Now there is a question for the mods to puzzle over!

Hey everyone. Remember when someone said "when Ben & Guard Dog agree on something we should listen"? It just happened again.

I just can't see them two hitting it off. Qis and Bruce on the other hand was a romantic love story just starting to blossom before she went away... Too bad she left too. It's been a long time since I was threatened with death. who is this Qis exactly? Oh you missed a winner there. She would start these posts with a long rant about world peace and flowers and puppies and stuff and then link these videos and it all had a sinister kind of undertone. Then three or four pages in her other personality took over and she was raving how the west is evil and Allah will kill us all and stuff like that.

Should they have less say? It's obviously a very tricky situation. Right now there is a decent argument for everyone being unhappy, which probably means something is being done right. You said California isn't marginalized and then justified why it should be marginalized. That's all I'm saying, let's be realistic about what the electoral college does to populated states. I don't think it is that big of a deal, I could always move to Wyoming if it really bothered me. Also I'd argue with California being some liberal wonderland. The reality is it can be quite conservative. CA booted Gray Davis out of office and put in a Republican and it voted to pass Prop 8. I'd argue the problem lies in a weak Republican leadership structure. This the state that produced Reagan, afterall, and he is probably the most popular Republican in recent history. True, sadly I have no way with words. How bout I say this about the marginalization. I'll say it doesn't because it's not a system to grant power to the majority, it's a system that grants power to everyone. To do so, there is a limit of resources and because of that there is a cap to prevent total power. So states with much bigger populations may seem like they are being marginalized, when in reality they have basically surpassed the high score long ago and get no higher. It's not a system to reward high scores (even though higher population does grant u more power than others), it's a system designed to keep everyone playing instead of one or a few people to keep deciding what game we gonna play. Make more sense? Agree. Except for one thing. California can have more electoral votes if they want them. All they have to so is stop running off the middle class. They are losing votes, not gaining them. If I was Hurlshot I'd have packed up the family and headed east long ago.

I just can't see them two hitting it off. Qis and Bruce on the other hand was a romantic love story just starting to blossom before she went away... Too bad she left too. It's been a long time since I was threatened with death.

as a libertarian, gd should be, at the very least, conflicted. is the individual STATES which decide how to apportion votes. maine and nebraska, for instance, is not winner-take-all. in the aforementioned states, 2 electoral votes go to overall state winner, and rest of votes go to the winning candidate based on victory in popular vote in each district. can't bring 'bout universal change w/o abridging state rights. HA! Good Fun! I said if it were up to me. It ain't! I'm Libertarian because I'm closer to that than any other political party. I'm not 100% libertarian. Probably 85% at best. Anyone who is 100% anything really ought to be doing some thinking on their own.

As someone living in a state that would be marginalized I would never agree to a straight popular vote. The executive branch would forever more become mayor of Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Boston etc. Unless of course the President goes back to being just the President and limited to the enumerated powers in Article 2. But I doubt we'll ever get the genie back in the bottle. More is the pity.

No arguments there. But it didn't matter who they ran I would have voted and asked others to do the same. Like I said it was about 5% rather than winning the election.

There are a few folks we need to send out search parties for. Wals should pay us a visit. LOF is gone now so he can.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/all-female-lord-of-the-flies-remake-faces-backlash-as-it-misses-the-point-and-women-wouldnt-act-like-that/ar-AAr159V?ocid=spartanntp https://youtu.be/rrqNx_og_uk

So... it's really Bud Light in a new can right?

I'd love to see the winner-take-all system go away. If it were up to me I'd still keep the electors based on congressional districts. Each elector is bound to the results of their district not the entire state. No more of the faithless elector crap. It's past time the electors stopped being actual people.

Well the NL races are pretty much over. It would take a major losing streak to shake that up now. The AL especially the WC race is a red hot. The Yankees & Twins are in right now with six teams within 3 games. For those eight teams every game is a playoff game. It does make for interesting watching.

@Gromnir One other number to watch out four in terms of voter registration and voting numbers is nine states do not recognize the LP as a registration option for various reasons. Like Ohio for example, but that is about to change. In Ohio in 2016 Johnson/Weld were actually on the ballot as independents. Quite a few LP candidates for various offices in various states are actually on the ballot as independent. It won't make a big jump in the numbers but they are a bit higher than they seem when you take that into account. But dues paying party membership is definitely up. It grew 25% between 2012 & 2015 since Johnson/Gray got over 1.2M votes in the 2012 Presidential race. It grew by 30% from 2014 to 2016. Existing member renewal rates are up 25%. Donations in 2016 were up 566% over 2012. And as you know Johnson/Weld got around 3.5M votes. Presidential campaigns are expensive. A LOT of resources went into ballot access. And that left local and congressional candidates short of help from the national party. And I know you and I agree the cause would be better served by getting a few LP candidates into Congress and State Houses. But Presidential races grow the brand and that has to happen too. Like I said last year. This isn't a movement, it's a political party and that means it needs a face. The growth is slow. Painfully slow. The reason is from the 80's to 2000 this party had no sense of itself. It became a single issue party: legalize drugs. And it had more than a drop of anarchism in the platform beyond that. Earlier smjames referred to libertarians as a little crazy. That reputation was earned. The big L vs. small L struggle is still a thing but since 2004 the small L's are winning and things are becoming better organized. We still have guys like John MacAfee around and making trouble but there are fewer now than ever. It is a damned shame Johnson/Weld did not get the magic number of 5%. Automatic ballot access, and election assistance in 2020 we the real prize. That was the biggest goal of voting for them. No one expected them to actually get elected. That is why I tried so hard to convince people in safe states to give them their vote. There was no chance Clinton was going to lose California. If 100k voters there voted for Johnson/Weld and just 20k in every other safe red or safe blue state did they would have. The 2016 race was always about 2020. In 2020 the two candidates with the inside track for a Presidential nomination are Austin Peterson (who is running for Senate as a Republican in 2018) and Justin Amash who was defeated in the 2016 Primary. Both are capable and likeable but will struggle with name recognition and getting media attention. Jesse Ventura, Bill Weld, and John MacAfee are all exploring running but it would be a mistake to nominate any of them. We need a serious candidate, not another Bob Barr.

Long time no see Enoch!

There's no chance either Libertarians or Greens will ever become a viable party, I wouldn't bet on that. The numbers are going up every election since 2000. Too slow for my liking but heading in the right direction. http://independentpoliticalreport.com/2016/12/growth-in-libertarian-vote-percentage-in-us-federal-races-2004-2016/

Sure, 7 million paying member of the LP and this one guy is representative of every one of them.

Now playing this and it is quite awsome: https://youtu.be/EIa_BIeEh-E

And ear boxing. Can't forget that.

But Democrats are far, far worse. Granted both parties are corrupt, but without changing the electoral system nothing can be done about it. Have you ever considered not voting for Republicans and Democrats? If we get enough people to do that we CAN start changing things a little without screwing with the Constitution. It has happened before. You don't see any Whigs running around do you? Oh... wait: http://www.modernwhig.org/

Apparently Johnny Manziel worked out for the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the CFL last week. They declined to sign him. It seems he wasn't in shape and being able to complete a pass in the CFL is pretty important since there is 1 fewer down to do it with.

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Oh gawd here is comes. I start bragging about the smokies and here comes the guy who lives in the Rockies. Remember James Lofton from the Bills teams in the 90's. He said he'd never wear his AFC championship right because he was afraid someone would show up wearing a super bowl ring.