Unless the laws of physics have recently been warped by the polar vortex, 0c is NOT "well below freezing" 0F is.

Hard to accept that deal if you're Snowden. "I promise I'll let you go once I have you in jail." hmm.

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).

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 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.

Your statement is inconsistent with the NSA's own admissions to the FISA courts that have been released in the Snowden docs. They broke their own rules for using the documents. Many times. But the FISA court's rulings are secret, the judges cannot blow the whistle (legally) and none of the people negatively effected by the NSA's actions have notice or an opportunity to object. So.. yeah.. great justice system you've got there, shame if something should happen to it.

Minimal if any. Even if you only have 2-3 gigs a month - if not music, what ARE you moving on that connection?

I hate that left/right division - the reason most people come down "in the middle" is that there's no way to really identify an individual on that spectrum that is consistent - most people have opinions on both sides - sometimes very extremely. So -- for example -- you may be for legalisation of all drugs always, and think you're a libertarian, but hate banks and want them strictly regulated. I know this person - he doesn't see a conflict. Or, you could be hard-line anti-abortion and also pro-union - where the fuck does that put you? (other than old-school Irish Catholic - i.e. deeply in the Democratic party).

That would be against the law. Congress has regulated the procurement process for government software and IT projects to hell and back, that's why big incompetent companies like CGI win the contracts over and over, they know the system. It is designed to produce middling to poor results at modest cost - when it works we get competent tools, when it dosen't, costs balloon and the incompetent contractors make out like bandits taking extra pay to repair what they broke (again, can't withhold payment like any small business would do). SNAFU exists as a term because of the special kind of bureaucratic process that comes out of democratic government.

That is simply madness. It is divergent with reality to a degree incapable of repair. If this fails, there will be no further reform in our generation. The Republicans will gleefully roll back the ACA and do nothing. The Insurers will go back to denying coverage for pre-existing conditions and dropping coverage once you get sick. If this fails, the Democrats lose the next half dozen election cycles as well.

There is no world where Obama willingly allows the ACA to fail.