Nice try. Now let's get back to leading the nation down the sewer ** -- icehokie 02/25/2016 11:54PMThe Soapbox
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Meanwhile today the "lets get some muscle" professor at Mizzou was canned -- CharlestonSC 02/25/2016 11:01PM Nice try. Now let's get back to leading the nation down the sewer ** -- icehokie 02/25/2016 11:54PM Cruz's whole strategy tonight seems to be trying to trick Trump into -- VAGentleman05 02/25/2016 10:37PM Don't remember a debate that ever as just a scream about polls - Trump has -- Mr Wahoo 02/25/2016 10:05PM I think he would beat sanders pretty easily. I guess I won't count him out -- KCHoo 02/25/2016 10:09PM Hillary would destroy him. Trump can get away with his garbage when there -- Hoodafan 02/26/2016 07:50AM His primary rivals are extreme idealogues. It's crazy, but Trump is by far -- VAGentleman05 02/25/2016 10:14PM His Israel answer was actually pretty good ** -- hooshouse 02/25/2016 10:19PM I agree. And it was definitely better than Carson comparing Israel to a -- VAGentleman05 02/25/2016 10:48PM The weird thing is I don't feel like he is even all that good at what he is -- KCHoo 02/25/2016 10:08PM Fairly certain they aren't even listening. It's like Beavis & -- TpkeHoo 02/26/2016 06:39AM Wrong Mike Judge work. It's Idiocracy come to life! ** -- WahooRQ 02/26/2016 07:51AM Whatever he says, he says with confidence and strength, while -- 111Balz 02/26/2016 07:04AM And it's not even close. I can't begin to imagine how people are choosing -- VAGentleman05 02/25/2016 9:45PM FINALLY - someone calls out Trump for repeating his shit over and over wi -- Mr Wahoo 02/25/2016 9:40PM But it wasn't done forcefully at all. Insults never work with dry mouth. ** -- Shenhoo 02/25/2016 9:42PM Trump has some big brass ones to defend Planned Parenthood at a GOP debate ** -- hooshouse 02/25/2016 9:31PM The guy has no fear, you've got to give him that. ** -- VAGentleman05 02/25/2016 9:42PM ...and Senators Rubio and Cruz, you're no Hispanics. ** -- Hoos Operator 02/25/2016 9:21PM Too bad I can't upvote you. Well played! ** -- Shenhoo 02/25/2016 9:40PM But the Leader will emerge unscathed -- our next lifetime President ** -- icehokie 02/25/2016 11:49PM Wow. Lowest common denominator. -- DanTheFan 02/25/2016 9:19PM This is what happens when you cut all the good kids and just keep the ones -- VAGentleman05 02/25/2016 9:44PM Ha! I've seen that game. ++ ** -- DanTheFan 02/25/2016 9:52PM It's like a bad reality tv show .... Only these fucking clowns are running -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 9:10PM When is Shrill and Shrivel's next softball-fielding event?** -- Hoos Operator 02/25/2016 9:16PM What a pitiful response ** -- cvilleHOOrat 02/25/2016 9:29PM Have you actually watched one of their "debates"? -- Hoos Operator 02/25/2016 9:47PM At least it doesn't look like a food fight between two weasels and an -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 11:22PM The Huge Weiner displayed in the background of this debate cracks me up** -- Mr Wahoo 02/25/2016 8:50PM The weiners on the stage are in rare form tonight. These guys are desperate -- VAGentleman05 02/25/2016 9:37PM Anybody ever watched the movie "Network?" For some reason I had never seen -- Seattle .Hoo 02/25/2016 5:53PM A terrific pairing of director and writer. -- DanTheFan 02/25/2016 6:43PM An all time classic. And yes it all came true, except it did not predict -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 5:55PM It didn't just come true; it was more or less true then. -- hoolstoptheheels 02/25/2016 7:15PM The media was what I was talking about. Had Walter retired -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 8:51PM I was talking more about the changes in media. At the time news programming -- Seattle .Hoo 02/25/2016 7:55PM Our tv dials went from 3 to 6 depending on where you lived. -- hoolstoptheheels 02/25/2016 8:19PM Yeah, but Beale was more Hannity, O'Reilley, et al. You are correct though. -- Seattle .Hoo 02/25/2016 5:59PM Or Beck....or in a different job, without the religious context, Bernie ** -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 6:03PM What a joke ** -- dajoka004 02/25/2016 10:44PM Insanity ** -- hoothat 02/25/2016 8:17PM Ugh. It isn't that hard. It's a PRIVILEGE to be at the University. -- RML Hoos 02/25/2016 8:08PM No privileges anymore ... everything is a right ** -- CharlestonSC 02/25/2016 10:18PM It would be a shame to see this respected system end... ** -- Hokie5150 02/25/2016 7:25PM I "tried" not to lie, cheat or steal. ** -- LAHOOters 02/25/2016 5:58PM Sort of honorish. -- DanTheFan 02/25/2016 9:14PM Nice ** -- HokieDan95 02/25/2016 6:54PM Ex-KKK Leader Duke: Not Voting Trump Is 'Treason to Your Heritage' (link) -- WaxHoo 02/25/2016 5:35PM Does the KKK even really EXIST anymore? - I dont think so ** -- Mr Wahoo 02/25/2016 7:58PM What -- did you guys rebrand or something? 😵 ** -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 8:59PM I gather Senator Graham is not a fan. -- Shenhoo 02/25/2016 6:54PM Graham is certainly a powerful voice in the GOP ........ ** -- Mr Wahoo 02/25/2016 8:03PM I cannot believe we are serious about a wall.... -- hoothat 02/25/2016 8:15PM Dont worry Fox - The drugs will still get thru and you'll get your tributes** -- Mr Wahoo 02/25/2016 7:39PM Maybe a lazer-gun border. Huh, Capn Trump? ** -- Hoogle.com 02/25/2016 5:45PM I assume trump means he will put some type of tariff on Mexican goods -- KCHoo 02/25/2016 4:48PM How 'bout we simply adopt Mexico's immigration policy with their southern -- Tuckahokie 02/25/2016 4:29PM Carpet bomb them too! ** -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 4:28PM And carpet bomb Agrabah ** -- FfxStationHokie 02/25/2016 4:58PM Democrats have voted to not bomb Agrabah and not surprisingly Trump -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 6:09PM Their sand can glow as well as any!** -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 4:32PM Are they tapped out from building wall on southern border? ** -- LAHOOters 02/25/2016 4:19PM I would simply put a hefty surcharge on money wire transfers from the US to -- Hokie5150 02/25/2016 3:53PM One of many topics I can't believe Trump keeps getting a pass on. How -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 3:42PM Trump:" I have a lot of lovely friends in Mexico" ** -- Hoogle.com 02/25/2016 5:50PM And Salma Hayek's tits are YOOGE!** -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 5:57PM Many ways this can be done -- TomKazanski 02/25/2016 5:49PM True, there are other ways. I was just focused on what seems to be Trump's -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 6:00PM I was thinking more of the folks we catch crossing the border -- TomKazanski 02/25/2016 6:14PM Oh yes they are ** -- FfxStationHokie 02/25/2016 3:10PM It is the president's responsibility to nominate replacements -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 5:39PM I dont know how you can say he was picked -- TomKazanski 02/25/2016 5:50PM Try to keep up reb, it was a hypothetical response to the "game" -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 5:52PM You words "he picked" -- TomKazanski 02/25/2016 6:17PM What the Republicans are hoping for with their little game is that all -- Seattle .Hoo 02/25/2016 3:57PM If Im Obama, I go with a recess appointment of someone who is -- TpkeHoo 02/25/2016 4:50PM Won't happen. No recess. ** -- DanTheFan 02/25/2016 7:24PM You're talking about William Brennan. Though Ike was running for -- Seattle .Hoo 02/25/2016 5:44PM So Sandoval is a chickenshiite McConnell toady?** -- WaxHoo 02/25/2016 3:44PM His one chance for the Supremes. Trump liked Scalia -- WarmHoo 02/25/2016 3:21PM Trump? I thought Larry Tribe and his sister topped his list ** -- TpkeHoo 02/25/2016 3:30PM He'll appoint Judge Judy. Gonna be YOOGE. ** -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 3:46PM Because Obama is the one who made the process awkward? -- SchmHoo 02/25/2016 2:17PM You probably missed my posts slamming Mitch yesterday but yes Sandoval was -- TpkeHoo 02/25/2016 2:51PM You don't think BOTH sides are playing politics here? ** -- Hokie5150 02/25/2016 2:44PM How can you even ask that with a straight face. The president -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 5:42PM Of course they are - both sides aim to make life difficult for the other -- CharlestonSC 02/25/2016 3:48PM No, republicans are consistently the ones who started it. -- HoosGuy 02/25/2016 2:57PM I think you forgot to add TIC. At least I hope sure hope so. ** -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 3:27PM Obama only after the Republicans put their foot down. ** -- cvilleHOOrat 02/25/2016 2:49PM So, he's allowing his actions to be dictated by the pubs? ** -- Hokie5150 02/25/2016 2:53PM Dictated? C'mon. Of course not. -- SchmHoo 02/25/2016 3:27PM I'm simply cracking on the notion that he's only playing politics because -- Hokie5150 02/25/2016 3:52PM So, despite no one claiming that Obama wasn't "playing politics"..... -- SchmHoo 02/25/2016 4:09PM If playing politics is nominating someone from the opposite party -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 5:48PM It certainly appears that way. Though, I still think this is his attempt -- cvilleHOOrat 02/25/2016 2:59PM I hope you're right. But I'm certainly skeptical. ** -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 3:29PM It would be a nice change of pace... ** -- Hokie5150 02/25/2016 3:34PM deleted** -- WaxHoo 02/25/2016 3:43PM There was zero chance Obama was going to appoint a guy who was quoted as -- TpkeHoo 02/25/2016 3:32PM How long before the Dems blame it on the GOP Senate? ** -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 3:37PM Let me ask you something...would YOU want to go through -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 5:51PM Rubio's window is closing -- Stimp 02/25/2016 2:12PM Yep. As is Cruz'. Could make for an interesting debate tonight. I'm -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 3:25PM A few polls I've seen out of Texas have Cruz leading. ** -- hooshouse 02/25/2016 2:14PM I find it interesting that Mitt is going all Harry Reid about Trump's tax -- Shenhoo 02/25/2016 1:47PM On a lefty board somebody said "here's Mitt, above the fray, waiting to get -- southdenverhoo 02/25/2016 10:36PM Mitt hopes for brokered convention in which he gets drafted ** -- WarmHoo 02/25/2016 3:18PM "We won." - Harry. ** -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 3:17PM Should be drawn by chimpanzees -- AlexHoo 02/25/2016 3:26PM My first thought was that it makes sense for a Congressman to have -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 2:04PM Rest assured the fcc or whoever controls that would become politicized ** -- HokieDan95 02/25/2016 1:40PM OT: Not sure if it has been mentioned, but I can vote on this board now -- Chesapeake HOO 02/25/2016 1:24PM Voting works now? Guess I'm sunk... -- Hokie5150 02/25/2016 1:37PM Most of the folks who disagree with you wont be able to vote -- KCHoo 02/25/2016 2:02PM You have no idea ** -- AngusHoo 02/25/2016 2:01PM Yip, yip, yip ** -- Hokie5150 02/25/2016 2:13PM Thanks. I discovered that the voting buttons work for me now as well -- Late 80s Hokie 02/25/2016 1:26PM I like the shortest-splitline algorithm...(link) -- Hokie5150 02/25/2016 1:08PM Works as well....but when you zoom in, where is the line? -- Late 80s Hokie 02/25/2016 1:15PM I would think it would be rare for one to fall "on the line" -- Hokie5150 02/25/2016 1:35PM Splitline is the best. But minorities will demand carveouts. -- Hoogle.com 02/25/2016 1:14PM I think the zipcode idea addresses that concern fairly well -- Late 80s Hokie 02/25/2016 1:18PM Are carve outs for racial-areas a form of gerrymandering? ** -- Hoogle.com 02/25/2016 5:42PM But it is funny to watch that monster turn on those that helped create it ** -- HokieDan95 02/25/2016 11:23AM Yep...1996 Hillary was correct, hopefully the 2016 Hillary will stand by -- Tuckahokie 02/25/2016 11:02AM Ted Cruz now trails Joe Biden (who isn't running) in the British betting -- Shenhoo 02/25/2016 08:27AM Really, British? ** -- Hoogle.com 02/25/2016 1:15PM OT -- I would like to see a study of whether there is a significant -- KCHoo 02/25/2016 4:42PM It's a long tradition. Gambling was a huge preoccupation in -- Shenhoo 02/25/2016 5:24PM Yeah. Intrade closed down. I found it to be generally -- Shenhoo 02/25/2016 1:17PM Sounds right -- Stimp 02/25/2016 09:31AM Question about Cruz's future. -- HowieT3 02/25/2016 10:42AM No -- rdm 02/25/2016 5:25PM I would LOVE to see him get Daschled. ** -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 1:31PM Trump out-Christied Christie w/bluster & out-Cruzed Cruz on immigration -- TpkeHoo 02/25/2016 09:50AM I'm thinking Cruz will be locked up in Texas for the next week. -- Shenhoo 02/25/2016 09:43AM In a year of very strong anti-D.C. insider sentiment, a Biden bid would -- Tuckahokie 02/25/2016 08:31AM VP odds? I'm hoping Trump picks Palin ** -- FfxStationHokie 02/25/2016 08:28AM Trump cabinet meeting: -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 12:31PM The VP Apprentice: "The Ultimate Job Interview" -- DanTheFan 02/25/2016 08:38AM Spy agencies say Clinton emails closely matched top secret documents -- HokieDan95 02/25/2016 08:24AM Now that it appears that Bernie will flame out...it is highly unlikely -- Tuckahokie 02/25/2016 09:23AM Or there's nothing to go after. There's always that. ** -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 09:30AM Doesn't everybody have beyond top secret emails on their home PC's? I'm -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 09:48AM Personal email server does not equal home PC, and by the way -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 10:18AM I can assure you it was -- hoothat 02/25/2016 7:25PM And how is the server in her home different than "home PC"? ** -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 10:42AM Well for one thing the email server was NOT in her home -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 11:18AM Correction: The server WAS in her home until 2013 when management -- Hokie5150 02/25/2016 11:37AM No computer expert but that might actually be worse since it gave more -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 11:26AM Didn't Platte River say they had a backup of her wiped hard drive at one -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 12:02PM To paraphrase The English Beat..."Server in the Bathroom, you're my server -- Tuckahokie 02/25/2016 11:20AM Irrelevant. SHe either handled the info in acoordance with the law or she -- TpkeHoo 02/25/2016 10:22AM Or there is something about the law that is unclear or makes technical -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 10:34AM The regs on transferring classified info on an unsecure networm -- hoothat 02/25/2016 7:36PM Or the regulations changed during that time and she knew about it... -- Hokie5150 02/25/2016 11:46AM I'm not sure you read your own post. -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 12:12PM It is the issue I have been talking about all along. She did not -- Hokie5150 02/25/2016 12:54PM Well it's not the issue for the investigation because she complied with -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 2:27PM I don't give a rat's arse about what the GOP talking points are. -- Hokie5150 02/25/2016 2:47PM Sure you don't. You just parrot them, even when they're several months -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 3:45PM I've been speaking about this issue in terms of the creation -- Hokie5150 02/25/2016 5:02PM Do you think we are talking about some highly technical aspect of the law -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 10:54AM The people saying Hillary did nothing -- hoothat 02/25/2016 7:47PM So, "nobody has disputed" Powell assertion that no classified -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 11:21AM Ahhh, the "vast right wing conspiracy" defense. whatever.. ** -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 11:28AM That's your response? nevermind then ** -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 5:54PM Breaks the heart to see the poor Clintons victimized like that doesn't it? ** -- Moneyshot 02/25/2016 11:58AM "Victimized"? More just standard bullshit that looks like nothing but -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 12:21PM Queue the violin music...it's heart wrenching -- Moneyshot 02/25/2016 12:39PM Didn't the McDougals do jail time over Whitewater? It's VERY hard to say -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 12:35PM Hillary Clinton believes she is a member of an aristocracy which exempts -- Hoos Operator 02/25/2016 09:22AM For the love of Peter -- Wahoo Ron 02/25/2016 08:53AM Pink, with Pink Floyd's "the Wall" on repeat. -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 09:54AM Winner! ** -- FfxStationHokie 02/25/2016 10:10AM Should blend in with terrain, with a picture of an open gate -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 09:25AM How about red,white and blue? ** -- Wahoo Ron 02/25/2016 08:32AM Amarillo on the south side... ** -- Tuckahokie 02/25/2016 08:26AM Rainbow. To get bi support! ** -- Shenhoo 02/25/2016 08:18AM This is why reasonable people roll their eyes about hate crimes laws -- CharlestonSC 02/24/2016 9:47PM In need of education (shocking, I know) -- Stimp 02/25/2016 10:55AM I understand the frustration, but I think you might be missing the point. -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 08:20AM I think that is right. Not really relevant in this serious a case ** -- KCHoo 02/25/2016 11:12AM Perfectly said. -- SchmHoo 02/25/2016 10:49AM Not good. Blindfolded Lady Justice weeps. ** -- ryno hoo 02/25/2016 10:14AM I don't think that hooded figure is the blind justice lady. ** -- Shenhoo 02/25/2016 10:30AM I didn't say anything about a hood. Mentioned a blindfold, which is not -- ryno hoo 02/25/2016 10:34AM I got your point and don't disagree once you get to a certain level of -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 11:22AM LOL on your last line. -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 1:42PM Haters gonna hate! It doesn't help, but sure makes some of your -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 2:48PM Terrific post. That is exactly right. -- Shenhoo 02/25/2016 10:03AM I think it has improved. Look at the 60's and 70's. How many -- Cold Hoober Hoo 02/25/2016 10:40AM Yes. And it's simply remarkable how many mixed racially couples there -- Shenhoo 02/25/2016 11:01AM If I read your last paragraph the way you intended I believe you are -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 10:02AM No actually I think Hoodafan DOES have it right -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 10:14AM It's not that the law is narrowly applied at the discretion of prosecutors -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 11:14AM You are still not quite getting the distinction ** -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 11:23AM I think he is. If I understand him correctly, his point is that there could -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 11:33AM Except it IS against the law to burn a cross on someone's property -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 6:02PM Yep, there is no history or prevalence of violence against tall people. Not -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 11:03AM Strike "much" from your last sentence and we agree. That's my entire point. ** -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 11:31AM Keep it and I think we agree. It should matter in this case that this guy -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 11:39AM Although I would add it's not that different than what 81 Hokie is saying, -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 11:08AM OK -- who are you and what have you done with Hoodafan? -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 09:03AM I can see where you would be confused by anything other than partisan shill -- Hoodafan 02/25/2016 10:56AM Really good post ** -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 08:48AM Hate crimes laws make me a bit uneasy too but I dont -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 07:29AM I don't think they are necessary but can't bring myself to care much about -- KCHoo 02/25/2016 08:25AM There may have been, but I can't recall any case of a black -- Cold Hoober Hoo 02/25/2016 07:55AM According to the FBI, around 22% of hate crimes were anti-white. -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 08:03AM Thanks for the link. It may not be as one sided as some think -- Cold Hoober Hoo 02/25/2016 10:26AM No, it's not. Oh and here's some more to the story - link -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 07:14AM Marquez may be the one charged with a hate crime ** -- Tuckahokie 02/25/2016 07:37AM It happened in D.C. ** -- Hoogle.com 02/25/2016 12:10AM Are you against the different degrees of murder also? ** -- KCHoo 02/24/2016 10:01PM They depend upon the actions of the offender, not his motivation. I am not -- 81_Hokie 02/24/2016 10:13PM They largely depend on intent. The victim is dead either way. ** -- KCHoo 02/24/2016 10:29PM Sure actions... is there a kidnapping, etc involved but also intent.. meant -- 81_Hokie 02/24/2016 11:09PM How about terrorism? Just murder or something else? ** -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 07:53AM Hmm, interesting. After just a bit of thought -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 09:40AM An ISIS wannabe decides he's going to go out and randomly -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 09:48AM Under our present law it's a hate crime. Under the law as I would write it -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 11:04AM From a practical standpoint, I don't think it should really matter. -- BocaHoo91 02/25/2016 08:55AM Fair points although I'd note that state laws don't always work that way. -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 09:29AM If you walk in on a guy sleeping with your wife and kill him on the spot -- KCHoo 02/24/2016 11:14PM That's the difference between premeditated murder and 2nd degree -- BocaHoo91 02/25/2016 08:47AM It really goes to intent/state of mind though (or can) -- KCHoo 02/25/2016 11:13AM But what if you just happen to be a Grand Wizard and he is of an ethnic or -- TpkeHoo 02/25/2016 05:49AM And the cops find a copy of David Allen Coe's "She Ran Off With a N---" -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 07:06AM That might be significant under hate crimes, but if she runs off with -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 07:31AM (sigh)** -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 05:42AM Of course they are. Had they kept their mouths shut, they could weigh -- TpkeHoo 02/25/2016 05:52AM Mike Bloomberg to the rescue? ** -- Hoogle.com 02/25/2016 12:11AM But they are usually so savy ** -- 111Balz 02/24/2016 9:22PM Fox doing a townhall they knew Trump couldn't make. lol ** -- hooshouse 02/24/2016 9:04PM How are you doing? ** -- 111Balz 02/24/2016 8:14PM Pretty much back to normal. Are you and your sidekick -- Doug 02/24/2016 8:46PM Yes to both! email me ** -- 111Balz 02/24/2016 8:47PM You mean that was all politics too? ** -- TpkeHoo 02/24/2016 3:24PM Who was being political? The grand jury that indicted or the Republican -- 81_Hokie 02/25/2016 08:16AM In Texas, politics is a sport, second only to football in popularity. ** -- Hoos Operator 02/24/2016 3:57PM Judging by the Perry case, it's a blood sport. ;-) ** -- Doug 02/24/2016 4:13PM Governor Sandoval from Nevada--a Republican--may be the Scalia replacement -- southdenverhoo 02/24/2016 3:11PM Could take out a great VP candidate ** -- WarmHoo 02/25/2016 3:13PM This is Obama attempting to cement his legacy and promises -- cvilleHOOrat 02/25/2016 08:39AM Be careful, Denver, about posting anything remotely -- NJHoo 02/24/2016 9:59PM Point proved ** -- NJHoo 02/25/2016 1:35PM Former federal judge and Hispanic. ** -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 8:01PM I can see a compromise that should be acceptable to both sides -- Wahoo Ron 02/24/2016 4:57PM Well I'm concerned about some cases this term. For one, I think the -- southdenverhoo 02/24/2016 9:45PM One thing: Republicans don't compromise ** -- WaxHoo 02/24/2016 6:00PM Some would argue that is EXACTLY what they do -- Wahoo Ron 02/24/2016 6:21PM Doing their corporate sponsors' bidding is NOT compromising with the Dems. -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 10:19AM Unfortunately you're right ** -- WaxHoo 02/24/2016 8:10PM IMO he should nominate whoever he wants as that is his prerogative -- KCHoo 02/24/2016 5:03PM In Sandoval he would have sent 1 of the 2 best candidates in the US, the -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 8:10PM We know thats not going to happen without a compromise -- Wahoo Ron 02/24/2016 5:14PM So, not knowing the history, how did Scalia get in there? Was he a known -- HoosWillWin 02/24/2016 6:38PM Back in the day, clearly qualified jurists got confirmed -- KCHoo 02/24/2016 6:44PM Thanks. ** -- HoosWillWin 02/25/2016 11:50AM 98–0. And Reagan was a so-called lame duck. -- DanTheFan 02/24/2016 11:37PM The Democrats used up all their capital fighting Rehnquist being made chief -- WahooRQ 02/24/2016 6:51PM Typical Obama attempt to placate GOP that won't work ** -- hokeyhokie 02/24/2016 3:20PM Oh I think it's a typical Obama attempt to make the GOP reject a -- southdenverhoo 02/24/2016 3:25PM This ain't to placate 'em. It's to hoist 'em on their own petard ** -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 3:35PM Easy to make the GOP look like fools. Of course, they don't seem to care ** -- Beerman 02/24/2016 4:14PM Yeh, sometimes a person has to wonder about that ** -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 4:22PM He's added Republicans to his staff his entire admininstration, to no avail ** -- hokeyhokie 02/24/2016 3:30PM The R's should call him on it. No way this nomination is ever made ** -- TpkeHoo 02/24/2016 3:27PM THey should call and raise ** -- Wahoo Ron 02/24/2016 5:23PM No way to stop him from making a nomination if he wants to ** -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 4:33PM They should have but they don't play poker as well as you do. ** -- southdenverhoo 02/24/2016 3:28PM Obama is under the gun with a short stack -- Wahoo Ron 02/24/2016 4:22PM LMK when he sends the nomination to the Senate. This is just politics -- TpkeHoo 02/24/2016 3:23PM Of course it is poilitics -- Wahoo Ron 02/24/2016 4:13PM I don't think you guys know what "lame duck" means. ** -- VAGentleman05 02/24/2016 4:21PM MIght not be 100% lame but he's definitely on crutches ** -- Wahoo Ron 02/24/2016 4:30PM Well your party has been trying to take out his knees -- 111Balz 02/24/2016 9:11PM Yeh but 'twouldn't dumb politics, for reasons stated just above -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 3:30PM You wont see me defend McConnell. The guy had a free option to let the -- TpkeHoo 02/24/2016 3:35PM Now he doesn't have to; McConnell rejected it out of hand because he's a -- southdenverhoo 02/24/2016 3:27PM He shouldn't have said that ... probably -- CharlestonSC 02/24/2016 3:52PM Yep -- the Pres is just making McConnell look like the petty douchebag -- WahooRQ 02/24/2016 3:27PM Agreed. McConnell should have kept his mouth shut, wait -- TpkeHoo 02/24/2016 3:29PM Study religion = leave the Republican Party; a case study -- WarmHoo 02/25/2016 3:27PM Recycled talking points by people that have yet to explain the rich liberal ** -- HokieDan95 02/24/2016 7:15PM Most liberals I know aren't against earning money, they just -- 111Balz 02/24/2016 9:21PM You just described most anyone. Where did I say they should -- HokieDan95 02/25/2016 09:21AM Because liberals are most anyone. Some people like to attach labels -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 6:07PM And by anyone I mean those that don't share your political beliefs and... -- HokieDan95 02/25/2016 6:53PM Yep, they are about legislating morality. -- ryno hoo 02/25/2016 10:20AM That may be the dumbest thing I've ever read. -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 2:14PM Don't liberals consider greed immoral? -- HokieDan95 02/25/2016 7:56PM Think that's Christians, actually. And who's banning greed? -- WahooRQ 02/25/2016 9:08PM Yes social conservatives and liberals are out to punish immorality that -- HokieDan95 02/26/2016 08:36AM Noooo, most of his posts are equally stupid ** -- 111Balz 02/25/2016 6:08PM Re: That may be the dumbest thing I've ever read. -- SchmHoo 02/25/2016 4:26PM Christ was pro choice ** -- Tuckahokie 02/24/2016 5:03PM More emportantly so was his mother!!!! ** -- MSGHoofan 02/24/2016 5:19PM I hate this kind of foolishness, these kind stupid statement are a hugh bar -- RML Hoos 02/24/2016 5:01PM Pfft. Republicans invented Christianity, to hear them tell it. -- SixerHoo 02/24/2016 3:49PM What applesauce (nod to Scalia) -- Doug 02/24/2016 3:33PM Republicans, as a group, have more money than Democrats. -- SixerHoo 02/24/2016 3:52PM So they are better at handling money! -- Hokie5150 02/24/2016 5:12PM Ha! They're Rs cuz they have money. They don't have money cuz they're Rs. ** -- SixerHoo 02/24/2016 5:54PM Is that true or is it that they are overwhelmingly more religious and -- WahooRQ 02/24/2016 4:29PM Good point on church giving. I was raised a Southern Baptist, and as far -- SixerHoo 02/24/2016 4:38PM Don't know...but they are wealthy as a result of their Christianity so they -- Tuckahokie 02/24/2016 3:58PM I would say they are wealthy because of race baiting -- KCHoo 02/24/2016 4:59PM Oops...meant to be under KCHoo's question ** -- Tuckahokie 02/24/2016 3:59PM I wonder how Rev. Wright, Rev. Al, Rev. Jesse live, what they drive, and -- Tuckahokie 02/24/2016 3:33PM Or Falwell, Graham, Shuster, etc., live and drive. Why list from one race? ** -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 4:19PM Not listing by race but by political affiliation...just as easy to claim -- Tuckahokie 02/24/2016 4:26PM So dumb ** -- KCHoo 02/24/2016 4:53PM I guess some people can't see past race. ** -- Hoodafan 02/24/2016 4:35PM Well that's readily apparent for sure ** -- 111Balz 02/24/2016 8:17PM Why? do you think they are good people? ** -- KCHoo 02/24/2016 3:48PM Matthew 20:1-16 would seem to indicate that Christ had no problem -- Hokie5150 02/24/2016 3:32PM That Thor was some God ** -- 111Balz 02/24/2016 8:18PM That interpretation is a stretch. -- DanTheFan 02/24/2016 4:22PM It represents, at a minimum, an allowance for free exchange -- Hokie5150 02/24/2016 4:24PM Go to Matthew 25 where broad duties toward the needy are laid out -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 4:14PM Absolutely. What I'm missing in my reading of the text is -- Hokie5150 02/24/2016 4:18PM He talks about eternal damnation if you don't perform these duties. If you -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 4:28PM Again, though, the issue is personal. He does not once, that I'm -- Hokie5150 02/24/2016 4:52PM Announces greatest force religious authority could apply. Says as to civil -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 6:08PM The question becomes, then, what is Caesar's? Does the fruit -- Hokie5150 02/24/2016 7:44PM We're back to tax cuts for the moneylenders -- WarmHoo 02/25/2016 3:01PM Well I would quote two Corinthians ** -- 81_Hokie 02/24/2016 4:00PM "Look at the rich Corinthian leather seats in my new car!" "Very nice!" ** -- SixerHoo 02/24/2016 4:12PM Nice pull... -- Hokie5150 02/24/2016 4:15PM Nice pic! Ricardo could rock him a Chrysler. ** -- SixerHoo 02/24/2016 4:30PM CORINTH IS FAMOUS FOR ITS LEATHER! ** -- Fuzzy Dunlop 02/24/2016 4:14PM Those two?!? You can't believe anything they say! ** -- Hokie5150 02/24/2016 4:05PM More on this issue from Alan Watts -- cvilleHOOrat 02/24/2016 3:08PM We finally have Trump's education plan-increase number of 'poorly educated' -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 1:39PM Trump is the Happy Gilmore of politics. His fans might as well wear beer -- Hoo05Dave 02/24/2016 5:13PM We do need ditch diggers and wall builders ** -- FfxStationHokie 02/24/2016 2:08PM Just had a crew of "ditch diggers" in our neighborhood last week -- NJHoo 02/24/2016 2:19PM Google fiber has done almost the entire KC area -- KCHoo 02/24/2016 5:52PM I hope you yelled "Speak American!" to them? ** -- FfxStationHokie 02/24/2016 2:23PM No, just buenos días ** -- NJHoo 02/24/2016 2:25PM Well now see there, you're part of the problem! ** -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 2:35PM Losers. Criminals, rapists. Git 'em outa here. ** -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 2:23PM Indeed! Beloved ditch diggers and wall builders, at that -- except one -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 2:17PM How would the poorly educated do with "free" college, when they and their -- Hoodafan 02/24/2016 2:03PM Just keep 'em all barefoot & dumb, just shufflin' off to the next hatefest ** -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 2:08PM Well if they went to college, they wouldn't be poorly educated. Unless -- WahooRQ 02/24/2016 2:05PM Are you going to mandate attendance like K-12 to ensure that? Are -- Hoodafan 02/24/2016 2:41PM Honestly man, I was just poking fun at hoakies. -- WahooRQ 02/24/2016 2:48PM Despite the "hoakies", I actually gave you a +1 on this... -- Hokie5150 02/24/2016 5:51PM I suspected that was your main purpose, and btw I couldn't agree -- Hoodafan 02/24/2016 3:05PM UNC athletes count ** -- WarmHoo 02/24/2016 2:40PM But only to 10. -- HowieT3 02/24/2016 3:02PM Now watchit thar, pardner ** -- seanbryan 02/24/2016 2:09PM Yes... that's exactly what he said!** -- LAHOOters 02/24/2016 1:54PM