greenspandan

 there are 2 potentially brutal games ahead on the road against the Niners and Colts.

those matchups aren't nearly as brutal as 6-1 Dallas on Monday night vs our third string quarterback.

Gold pants look great. Burgundy shirts, gold pants is the sharpest uniform the team has ever had.

i wish the pants left a little more to the imagination.

helmets don't match the unis.  looks terrible.

why do you think we'd go white on white?  didn't gibbs retire?

we are so outclassing these guys.

bad play call.  not on white.

man forbath just doesnt miss.   feels good!

lol this isn't the gameday thread!  haha speaking of out of context. ....

oh man, my Safeway just started stocking DFH's Palo Santo Marron and a few other very choice selections.  i could be in trouble.

i second FIREFLY.

just two things about it: one, the pilot might seem a little slow -- don't let that deter you! second, it's a show that rewards you for paying close attention to the dialogue. you won't get nearly as much out of it if you watch while websurfing or doing laundry or whatever.

also, it's quick. a 2 hour pilot, 12 episodes, and a 2 hour movie.

oh goodie a link to the national review.

burgundy top / gold pants is by far the sharpest look the redskins have ever sported. glad it seems to be the "default" home colors now.

bump. on vacation in Canada

Tried two new sam adams beers this week. they've got a Harvest Pumpkin and a Hazel Brown. I hadn't had either before.

Harvest Pumpkin: if not for the label, i wouldn't really have been able to distinguish this from the plain old boston lager, the spices and pumpkin flavoring was so weak. not a fan. a shame, because i normally really like both sam adams and pumpkin ales. stick with DFH's Punkin' Ale or go for the best: Southern Tier Pumking Imperial Pumpkin Ale.

Hazel Brown: this one on the other hand did not skimp on the flavor. the nose and flavor are overwhelmingly and pleasantly of hazelnut. the hazelnut is so heavy that it almost feels like a hoppy IPA, but with nuttiness instead of hops. very tasty.

hahahahaha

the republican freakout over "IT'S A TAX!" is going to fail because guess what ... it's a tax that only affects people who choose not to buy health insurance even though they can afford it. if you have health insurance, or if you legitimately can't afford it, there is no tax.

"The court rewrote the mandate as a tax and allowed it to be enforceable as a tax, so we lose on the outcome. It’s just very weird."

the court didn't re-write anything. they called a spade a spade, even though the administration kept referring to it as a shovel.

voters are really going to appreciate the GOP freaking out over this rather than the economy (and people aren't going to buy that this is a huge job killer, either).

They've used "fine" and "tax" interchangeably, based on which one suited their needs at any given time.

It was deemed constitutional because the SCOTUS condisidered it a tax. $250k my ass.

don't worry, nobody believes you were about to vote for obama if not for supreme court semantics.

Liberals didn't have a dog in this fight. This was a fight between moderates and extremists on the right. The liberals favor a single payer option which would have been the only "reform" left available to us if the court has blasted Obamacare. Liberals are not at all happy with Obamacare, first proposed by the Heritage Foundation, First championed by Nixon (and defeated by liberals), First Implemented into law by Mitt Romney in Ma..

Not at all a victory for liberals.

exactly. please remember the above post when surfing the seas of hyperbole on facebook and fox news.

one more thing: it's my private hope that this is the "don't ask, don't tell" of health care. it sucks, but it is a necessary stepping stone towards modernity and sanity.

Not if Kennedy was voting with the liberals.

Kennedy wrote the dissenting opinion.

I suspect Roberts joined the left on the court so he could write the opinion and thus include language that is more limiting than the other justices might have otherwise included.

no, that doesn't make sense. his was the deciding vote. he could have just as easily struck it down 5 to 4 if he didn't like it.

Make no mistake, had this been struck down (or a portion of it), the conservatives here and afar would have yapped us to death about how this was evidence of Obama's failure and eventual defeat.

Now that they lost, it means little, apparently.

i'm on obama's side, and i agree that it will make little difference in the polls.

Thank you George W. Bush, for appointing a Chief Justice that would uphold Mitt Romney's idea for a mandate!

haha that is sweet.

I think what will be interesting is the impact on the fall election. Does this mean Obama cruises to reelection. The Dems retake the House and keep the Senate. Liberalism on steroids in 2013.

Or does this lead to the opposite, Romney cruises to victory, Repubs keep the House and take the Senate.

My gut says that this will give Obama his victory.

i can see how it might make liberals a little more enthusiastic about obama's first term, but i don't see why anyone already opposed to obama would move in his favor (or vice versa). i predict little practical impact, and obama will retain his current slight electoral advantage.

CNN looks like idiots

yeah. ignore them for breaking news, they always get it wrong in the moment. (this not a commentary on their news reporting in general -- they just seem the worst of all possible outlets when it comes to by-the-second coverage)

This conservative doesn't currently have health insurance.

by choice or by economic hardship? if it's the latter, obamacare would fix that. if it's the former, well, i have no sympathy if you get sick, because it's me who will be footing the bill.