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Do you actually buy that?

Love the Old Man and the Sea Synopsis.

I really don't get why the President of the United States of America is still active on Twitter. This doesn't seem like it will end well for anyone.

The problem is the school voucher program. Nobody is trying to get rid of private schools. If you want to send your kid to one, you pay for it while still paying your taxes which fund public schools. Those public schools are designed to benefit the community as a whole, not just your individual child. I'm clearly pretty biased here, but it makes no sense to me to take that tax money away from the public schools to fund private education. The argument is always "well then more people can afford private education." But that completely ignores the reality of the world we live in, which is a good percentage of parents are not operating with the best interests of their children in mind, and that free public education (which is mandatory by law) is the best chance those children have of breaking out of a cycle of poverty.

But the judiciary cannot introduce legislation, or even challenge something unless it is brought before them.

Sorry but you are way off here. If the law favors the majority over a minority the judiciary (acting properly) will follow the law. And vice versa. I probably should not have said primary, but if that law violates the constitutional rights of a minority, it is the judiciary's responsibility to challenge the law. Now I am now lawyer, so I totally could be talking out my butt, but that has always been my impression. Isnt that part of the whole rock paper scissors government we have? 3 branches with checks and balances?

This thread is turning into the plot of Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender Game titles used to be way cooler.

I haven't played LotRO in awhile. Anything good happening in it?

The primary purpose behind the judicial branch is to protect the minority against the tyranny of the majority.

I still get the idea that Pence and Clinton are simply old people with no real grasp of technology, and they are just doing what someone tells them to do, but also being stubborn about it.

I tell that story to my students every year with the caveat that it may be a bit apocryphal. Also gives me a chance to teach what apocryphal means.

I also check out the CompuServe forums, there is some great moderated content there about games.

Adrenaline Vault is my gold standard.

The San Bernadino shooting was committed by an American citizen and his wife, what sort of scrutiny do you suggest that will prevent that? http://abcnews.go.com/US/inside-immigration-file-san-bernardino-shooter-tashfeen-malik/story?id=35912170 The wife was admitted in spite of terrorist links. This is primarily about illegal immigration, not terrorism, no? Btw, do you believe that foreign criminals should not be deported? The administration is working very hard to tie the two together. I think foreign criminals deserve the rights of due process, and I tend to side with the police chiefs on this specific scenario. As for the wife, I think you are giving the government a tremendous amount of power over the rights of an American citizen. Does he not have the right to marry who he wants and have her live in his country? How long do you plan on denying her entry based on those links? How many real families are you willing to break up in order to prevent one of these situations from happening again?

The San Bernadino shooting was committed by an American citizen and his wife, what sort of scrutiny do you suggest that will prevent that? http://abcnews.go.com/US/inside-immigration-file-san-bernardino-shooter-tashfeen-malik/story?id=35912170 This is an example of ramping up: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/03/01/police-chiefs-immigration-task-force-outlines-opposition-to-trump-policy/?utm_term=.7fcfef384afa

No, I'm not saying we haven't done enough, but you can't just say we've done enough and stop. We have to keep taking measures, because they haven't stopped trying to attack us. I don't think anyone is arguing to stop the measures that are already in place right now. The Trump administration is not simply maintaining measures, it is aggressively ramping them up. Where is the justification for that?

Ok WoD, let's start from the beginning. First we have the threat of terrorism. Is it your argument that we have not done enough to prevent another attack? We can get to the threat of other world nations next. Let's focus on one aspect at a time.

Did you not notice I'm answering your question in two parts? Did you not notice I answered your first question before you even asked it? So you do nothing and just wait for it to happen again? We've done a ton already.

You are basically asking if diplomacy is more effective than an arms race. edit: The answer would seem to be that both are important. So why is one being cut in favor of the other? edit 2: Look, I found some money! https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/pentagon-buries-evidence-of-125-billion-in-bureaucratic-waste/2016/12/05/e0668c76-9af6-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html?utm_term=.8a2a5c10b839

Wait, first you reference terrorism with 9/11, and now we are dealing with Russia, China, and North Korea?

It's also good to remember that 9/11 happened 15 years ago. We have already given up rights to try and prevent another attack, we've waged two costly wars to root out bad guys, and we are still actively involved in those areas. How much more do we need to do? We are fighting an ideology, not an enemy nation. The odds are there will be another major attack someday. Will throwing money stop that? Will giving up our privacy stop that? Will closing off our borders stop that? I guess that last one might work, but I am not sure drawing an iron curtain around our country is a great look.

See this is fear talking. How much power are you willing to give our government to protect us from the next 9/11? How much of your tax dollars should be going to that? How effective is all this really going to be at stopping the next 9/11? Our military is massive. I want them to spend money smarter instead of just throwing it at them. Given that they are also cutting the diplomacy budget by a third, it is clear this administration is playing into the fears of the American people instead of trying to create long lasting peace. If that were the real goal, the diplomacy budget should be growing as well.

Isn't that roughly a third? Yep, it's a travesty! ok, maybe some of those people are students and old people.

Where is that 1 trillion coming from with the 54 billion bucks the defense department is getting and the 10-20 billion the wall is going to cost? Also according to Trump there is 96 million unemployed Americans!

We just seem to be ramping up government spending based on fear instead of actually doing stuff to make America great again. Does a big border wall make America great? We already have a huge military budget, is that really where we need more spending? Who are we fighting here? Illegal immigrants and ISIS? The actual chances of either of those groups affecting me in a negative way are miniscule. My tax dollars are being wasted.