netpackrat

People who want to do away with the 2 party system want to do away with the Constitution, because the way it is set up makes it almost mandatory. About the only stable system of government in which you can have more than 2 effective parties is the European parliamentary system, and with that you lose the separation of powers and bias against radical change that has always been the strength of the US' Constitutional Republic.

Why? While I can't claim to know Ms. Murkowski's real thinking on the issue, I suspect it probably included the fact that Obamacare caused a lot of people to lose their previous insurance through no fault of their own, so then turning around and taking away the insurance that the government already stuck them with wouldn't be fair at all. Note that while I don't necessarily agree with that argument, and in fact my response is "tough shit", it's probably the best and most legitimate argument for not scrapping Obamacare entirely. I will point out that Lisa did vote against Obamacare when it o

Guess what, your asshole senator voted against the repeal, too. Compared to having Marco "amnesty" Rubio and some democrat who is an anti-gun shitbag, I feel pretty good about having Murkowski and Sullivan as my US senators. You are absolutely right about Rubio and Nelson but Marco voted yes yours Rep voted no "Why?" Most. Dems are anti gun Nelson is no exception. As for Marco he will say anything to be elected. Fl has changed over the years as the boomers from the north east come down to retire. They winter here and summer in NY. That way they can vote twice, I was very amazed that Tump

I posted one thing that was wrong... It had been an FBI agent who had the inappropriate relationship with Bill Allen, not an attorney. A cow-orker of mine apparently knows the guy who blew the whistle (or knows people who know him, I don't remember for sure), and said that despite laws against retaliation to the contrary, the guy was basically forced out of federal service after he went public. My guess is he had hoped the jury would rule in the senator's favor anyway, but when it didn't he couldn't let him go to jail, and did the right thing at the cost of his career. https://e

I guess you want me to try to get democrats elected? Because most of what they are for, I am against, and I want representatives who are against that shit too. Edit to add; for some reason you guys are expecting the republicans with only 54 votes to reverse laws that the democrats could only get passed in the first place with 60 votes, and only just barely then. I want to see Obamacare repealed (and replaced with NOTHING) as much as anybody, but a more realistic course is to pick off the most offensive bits of it a piece at a time, and then go for the full clean-up after 2018 when we wil

There's certainly some RINOs that we'd be better off without, but instead of eating our own, howabout in 2018 we concentrate on knocking off democrats (at the polls, what did you think I meant)? From what I read elsewhere, '18 has the potential to be a good year for us in the Senate due to few or no republican seats being vulnerable, and a bunch of "D" seats maybe being ripe for conversion into "R" seats. Mainly it's a matter of putting our resources to work where they will do the most good. And also, if we have 55 or more in the senate instead of the minimal majority we have now, then the

Guess what, your asshole senator voted against the repeal, too. Compared to having Marco "amnesty" Rubio and some democrat who is an anti-gun shitbag, I feel pretty good about having Murkowski and Sullivan as my US senators.

Main reasons Trump won the nomination were liberals crossing over and voting in the "R" primaries in open primary states, and the media getting behind him during the primaries, all with the goal of sticking us with the worst candidate of the entire field. Congratulations, assholes... You sure showed us!

I think you can probably find something to swear at the engineers over, on just about any vehicle you care to name. Lots of times they know it is going to suck, but making it better would make something else worse. Part and parcel of complex machinery that is designed, built, operated and maintained by imperfect humans inhabiting in an imperfect world. At least your Suburban doesn't have to fly. Yeah, threading steel and aluminum together sucks. When I rebuilt the transmission for my '59 MGA a couple years ago, I pre-emptively installed helicoils wherever I could. Better to do it whil

WTF are you even talking about? Ted didn't get pardoned, didn't need a pardon, because the charges against him were false, and thrown out by the federal judge in his case because of prosecutorial misconduct, including an "inappropriate relationship" between one of the US attorneys and the star witness against him. Also, state governors don't issue pardons of federal charges anyway. The charges were based on renovation work done to his very modest a-frame house just south of Anchorage... The FBI tried to claim that he didn't pay enough for the work, and that the supposed true value of th

She was the best of bad choices. Lisa is good people for the most part but the republicans need to put somebody decent up against her if they want to get rid of her. The guy who beat her in the primary in 2010 is a total douchebag.... Which is why she was re-elected as a write-in (the democrat came in third). Alaska is a bit different in that most voters are either not affiliated with a party, or not with one of the main parties. So, it is relatively easy (especially with the closed republican primary) for either party to nominate somebody who they like, but has no shot in hell in getting

These days they'll both likely wind up as registered sex offenders. That doesn't really bother me, given that there's probably kids that play on that street.

Nice work.

Not sure. Those were just two articles that came up when I did a search; I posted them for background and I don't personally have any opinion on whether it was McCain's fault or not. My opinion is that McCain is an asshole, and I look forward to him being out of office.

http://www.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_wet_start_in_turbine_engines https://www.theburningplatform.com/2015/07/23/mccain-the-hero-nearly-sunk-an-aircraft-carrier-killed-134-sailors/

They're literally giving them away now: http://www.capitolarmory.com/advanced-armament-aac-tirant-45-suppressor-671.html

Guy I used to work with served on the Forrestal during that time, said it would have been 135 had he been in the place he normally was that time of day. Also said there was a "big party the night that asshole got shot down." Our liberal tax and spend bitch of an ex-governor wouldn't have been any better than McCain; they were peas in a pod in terms of selling out conservatism in exchange for publicity. Either would only have been better in comparison to the douche-nozzle we actually got. Among the many things I despise him for, I will never forgive McCain for making me vote for her a

Eff that. When I did my house a couple years ago, I bought a box of plain nails for places I couldn't use the nailer.

Belt feed makes everything better.

#$*^&%%#^$&* Ran out of felt (using up stuff left over from doing the house a couple years ago). Wife has to go to dentist soon, so it looks as though I will be dragging the kids to Lowes with me to get another roll. Plus I am going to have another partial roll left over again. #$*^%&%^$

Appropriate timing on this thread given what I have been doing for the last week or so. Finished the roof structure on my shed yesterday, was going to start with the felt and shingles last night but it looked like rain so I tarped it over instead. Today looks like decent weather, so as soon as I get some caffeine and advil into my system and drag my ass back outside, that's what I will be doing.

And all this time, I thought Ben was the forum loon....

Anybody tries to convince you to roof your own house and save money, you don't say a word. Just kick that asshole right in the balls. I re-roofed my old house 2 years ago mostly by myself (my brother helped a little with the garage portion after I had already done the whole house!) and it really took a lot out of me. When it is time to re-roof this house... Fuck that noise, I am going to pay somebody to do it. I'm in the middle of building a new shed right now, and will hopefully get the roof completed tomorrow. 180 square foot roof which is about my limit now. Plus being new there