Here's a link to the warrant application.

Here is a link to the article in question.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the government has a legitimate case.

Would he be wrong about that?  He seems to take heat for the fact that he's talking about getting ready for alien invasions, and not for the idea that government spending will solve our woes.  

The two that come to mind was the inflation fears that Joseph was talking about and the bond vigilantism from a couple years back (presumably the ones that Marco Rubio alludes to whenever he talks about our creditors putting the clamps on our spending).  There is/was no runaway inflation, and there are/were no bond vigilantes.  

Touche.

s/Congress/government

Sabrdance, what's to stop Congress from issuing lower and lower rate bonds, as they have been doing?

Better yet, what to stop them from issuing zero rate debt that never matures?  Sell that for $100 to banks on the Fed's promise to buy them for $100.25?  If no commercial bank would take such a sweet deal, then might Congress establish a bank that would?

Maybe.  But not on this one.

We read it in high school.  I thought it was a good read.  I recommend it generally.  I would recommend it specifically if you needed an American play.

I'll go ahead and present the simplest answer.  We don't know what we're talking about.

Hate to say it, but on matters of the economy, Ricochet's economic arch-nemesis, Paul Krugman, has been more right than he has been wrong.  He'd been calling inflation hawks wackos for the past few years now.

I'll step out of meta-trolling for a little bit to speak to this.  Parts of Relativity are derived from simple 'Galilean' kinematics.  In fact, if one (I presume that Larry is not interested) is focused on time dilation, which seems to be the focus of this conversation, the derivation of how a person on the ground will observe a person in a light speed spaceship (and vice versa) is very simple.  The same can be said of length contraction.  The only thing that you need to accept is that the speed of light is invariant with respect to reference frames of different speeds.  It's actually pretty cool.  

Greatest Ricochet Troll, ever.

Why are you asking questions that you already know the answer to?  You're trying to talk to a person who doesn't understand the relationship between math and the physical world, or the relationship between hypothesis, experiments, prediction and observation.  And you expect him to argue intelligently against special relativity?

To me, his issue is not any definition of time, or else he would have found one by now.  His problem is that the conclusions of modern physics bother him at an emotional level caused by the cognitive dissonance that we all went through when we first learned about it.  The only difference between him and us is that we got over it.  He never did, and it would seem that nothing on this message board is going to change that.

It's also why this is such an awesome thread.  Watching a guy attack extensively validated ideas from a position of profound ignorance soaked in sophomoric scholarship and sprinkled with disdain for the people his is arguing with is more fun than it should be.  For that, I apologize.

Coco Solo was a US naval base, and would be considered US soil.  McCain's natural born-ness would not have been in question.

Edit:  Check that.  Coco Solo was not considered US soil until 1937, when this was passed, retroactively granting McCain natural born citizen status.  McCain was born in 1936.  

Kinda takes the meaning out of the words, doesn't it?  But I suppose, as the term is undefined by the Constitution, that is is Congress's job to determine who is and is not a natural born citizen.  They did vote in favor of McCain in 2008 on this issue in a nonbinding resolution.

Where was this legalizing when Obama was under attack by crazy right wingers?  Now we're going to loosen up when it might help someone who's been on the scene for 5 minutes and knows to sprinkle words we like in his speeches?  I can only imagine the circus if he throws his hat in the ring.

Are we that anxious to commit collective political suicide?  This Cruz For President campaign is complete and utter madness.

I was really excited when I saw this entry.  I thought he was going to post random incomplete sentences the rest of the thread.  That would have been amazing.

What was that apropos of?

Edit:  Oh never mind.

He is begging the question.  Quite brilliantly I might add.  This thread is genius.

Also, props to Tim for his patience.

Ah.   Sweet, sweet flamebait.  Beautiful.  Just beautiful.