Random thoughts for the Modern Era!

hutch wrote:
power move by America's first hispanic president last night!

Really?  I don't want to turn this into a political discussion thread, but "power" is the last word I would use to describe the move.  I mean, he wussed out on immigration reform in September because he thought it would hurt Dems in the mid-terms.  Then the Dems got crushed anyway and now he's scrambling to cover his ass.  More of a "desperate" move than one of power.

All that being said, I think the ideas being floated on immigration are fine.  So do many Republicans, but they can't admit it because everyone's got to hew the party line and oppose whatever the other party advocates.  Politics – Yay!!! 

ggw wrote:

All that being said, I think the ideas being floated on immigration are fine.  So do many Republicans, but they can't admit it because everyone's got to hew the party line and oppose whatever the other party advocates.  Politics – Yay!!! 

This really dives me crazy too
Come up with an idea that is a compromise to what you really wanted to do, so the other party can get behind it.
But it doesn't matter, they are against anything you say… even if they agree

If Obama said "the snow is white" I'm certain there would be at least 20 republicans calling him a reverse racist and that this is just what Hitler did before exterminating the jews

It cuts both ways.  Neither party will admit the other party has a good idea because that may strengthen the other party and, at the end of the day, the party system is simply all about maintaining and expanding your own party's power.  Should any actions actually be beneficial to the masses, well that's just a coincidental bonus.

I agree it does cut both ways…but just seems like the party of the Elephant really has a hard time with any sort of compromise on anything.  They seem to view it as a sign of weakness, god forbid you do what the founding fathers explicitly stressed we should do

walkonby wrote:
http://dc.suntimes.com/dc-entertainment/7/82/30202/best-djs-washington-dc/

our very own dfa

con,grats!

Thanks! There was a LOT of negative feedback on this. It was cool. My Soundcloud got hundreds of hits because of it so whatever lol.

I don't think it is fine to reward anyone who, by their very first act of entering the country, broke the law.  If someone does not have enough respect for the laws of the country they are entering to do so legally, they ought to be made to leave and re-enter legally.  What Bammy is doing basically is saying 'well since you got away with being a criminal for so long we will let you get away with it'.  I'm all for anyone entering the USA as long as they do so by the rules that the law of the land has set. 

Sidehatch wrote:
I agree it does cut both ways…but just seems like the party of the Elephant really has a hard time with any sort of compromise on anything.  They seem to view it as a sign of weakness, god forbid you do what the founding fathers explicitly stressed we should do

You mean like follow the constitution?

Sidehatch wrote:

ggw wrote:

All that being said, I think the ideas being floated on immigration are fine.  So do many Republicans, but they can't admit it because everyone's got to hew the party line and oppose whatever the other party advocates.  Politics – Yay!!! 

This really dives me crazy too
Come up with an idea that is a compromise to what you really wanted to do, so the other party can get behind it.
But it doesn't matter, they are against anything you say… even if they agree

If Obama said "the snow is white" I'm certain there would be at least 20 republicans calling him a reverse racist and that this is just what Hitler did before exterminating the jews

#1 There is no such thing as REVERSE racism.  Racism is racism no matter who is being the racist.

#2 I know you are not silly enough to think that any one party has a monopoly of holding to their values and wanting more give form the other side.

Yawn.  You should not make a thread with an exclamation point in the title, and then allow this boring drivel.

Rogue wrote:
Yawn.  You should not make a thread with an exclamation point in the title, and then allow this boring drivel.

I didn't think any of the drivel was boring.  Amusing maybe, but not boring!

Rogue wrote:
Yawn.  You should not make a thread with an exclamation point in the title, and then allow this boring drivel.

Maybe you could spice it up for us with some discussion of Batman or the Muppets.

I spiced it up just by posting that and having people reply to it.

I am working on a mashup video of the Muppets Most Wanted (a scene with Ricky Gervais) and a Girl Talk track, maybe one day it will see the light of day…

So apparently one buys headphones these days based on how on they look on  ones head.  At Radio Shack they have mirrors for which to try headphones on with…

kosmo wrote:
So apparently one buys headphones these days based on how on they look on  ones head.  At Radio Shack they have mirrors for which to try headphones on with…

And this surprises you about the current generation?  (Get off of my lawn!)

The only good thing about Beats headphones is they brought back over the head headphones back in vogue.  I absolutely never used ear buds..

Here comes Ferguson…

I hope that is not all that you are focusing on in regards to this. 

Killer Mike's emotional response to the Grand Jury decision at the Run the Jewels show last night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MQs7CWKHM9w

I'm not focusing on anything.  I find it rather amusing that a population will burn their own building to the ground, break into and steal from their own local businesses, and generally act like barbarians.  All this because a man robs a store, then walks down the middle of the street with his stolen items, refuses to go to the sidewalk when asked to do so by a police officer, then attacks the officer when it becomes obvious that he is the robber, then tries to run away form the police as he is being arrested, then turns and aggressively confronts the officer again and refuses to stop when told to do so.  The fact that anyone involved was male/female, left handed/right handed, wore glasses/ wore contacts, was straight/gay, or was black/white/yellow/green is all 100% irrelevant.  Brown fucked up and he paid with his life.  Sad but his parents have no one to be upset with but their child.