It's worse than that - I hear he has a quorum and takes minutes, too.

Why do people of a certain political stripe use that word as if it's an insult? Is Roberts Rules of Order the new Protocols of Zion, or something?

citation needed.

No it didn't. Korea was authorized (or not, you're welcome to your opinion on this untried argument) under the U.N. Treaty after a declaration by the U.N. Security Counsel authorizing intervention in Korea. Vietnam was authorized by the Gulf of Tonkin resolution (See Wikipedia) which was an act of congress authorizing the President to use military force. Check out this helpful article by the Atlantic for more information on the history of U.S. wars and interventions:

If the poor were going to riot over losing their access to government programs, we would have been drenched in blood decades ago. If your fantasy race-war doesn't occur will you reconsider your position? (Do you even believe that or is it some kind of quasi-trolling live action role-play?) I trust we can call you a vote for the Democratic party in 2016 - since you feel the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (i.e. foodstamps) is so key to the stability of the nation?

Says the man who has never heard of beans and rice?

The constitution says that the Congress shall have the power: "To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;" which sounds a lot like "war powers" to me. I must have missed the part where the Article I grants the president the power to declare war (hint, it doesn't).

Yeah, pretty much. At the time her CIA identity was "revealed", didn't she drive every day to the CIA Langley headquarters to work and park in a CIA parking place? And had been doing so since 1997? I'm not entirely sure, but if I were a foreign intelligence agency, that little slip might just have tipped me off that she might have been a CIA officer even before Rove announced it.

I was raising my eyebrows at the time and thought "this seems like an incredibly tiny thing to be all more-patriotic-than-thou about and will rebound badly on the Democrats when the next military-industrial complex whistleblower comes along".

And here we are.

Correction: You haven't hurt anyone yet. But you definitely have and want the ability to hurt someone. Having that ability is obviously really important to you. Otherwise why do you need a functioning firearm at all, and not just a plastic replica?

Because in the best case, using these "tools" in an urban environment correctly and safely for their designed and intended purpose, at least one person will die. Hammers or circular saws only tend to kill people when they're misused.

I don't mind if people in the country want to walk around with rifles in case they're, um, swarmed by rabbits or something. But in a city? There aren't many bears or injured horses here.

Hey lighten up, it's not like programming is a field where you need to be able to understand syntax and type keywords exactly, right?

Most of our laws define of things, I.e. trade notes (look up the ucc) by the function they serve in the economy, rather than by name. Because the people that wrote our laws are not so stupid as to write every law as a one-off that can be evaded by changing the brand of your fraudulent instrument.

I started to, but when I got to the part where it tried to falsify itself, I decided to switch paradigms.

(eyebrow raise) The entire agricultural pesticides industry would be devastated by a single one of their products being temporarily banned?

That's one heck of a fragile industry you've got there.

I find generally that people that try to eat their own gun don't make it past the first one - at least not without major reconstructive surgery.