jbluhm86

"Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical. No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact". - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Several members of my family; with varying degrees of severity. I've seen their struggles firsthand with it. That doesn't stop me from consuming alcohol on occasion, but it certainly shaped my views on moderating whatever you intoxicant of choice is.

If you consider pointing out inconsistencies or inaccuracies in people's arguments a "gotcha moment", then so be it. "That which we call a rose; by any other name would smell as sweet". And you shouldn't want to give me a gotcha moment; everybody needs to bring their A-game when making an argument. Some posters on here do better than others.

True, but when you hitch your presidency so closely to how well the economy is performing, as Trump has, then it's fair game to blame Trump and his policies when the economy takes a downturn.

Some, if not most, currently illegal drugs have a much lower harm potential than alcohol; that's borne out by statistics. Statistically, alcohol kills more people than cannabis, cocaine, LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, MDMA, etc - combined. Yet, alcohol remains legal. And substances like cannabis, LSD, and psilocybin are among the most safest drugs a person can take.

Right now, my tee shots fall roughly into 70% of the time pushing directly to the right, 25% of the time they slice (curves left and then goes right) and 5% of the time, I can hit it pretty straight. Right now my irons are my biggest weakness in my game; i'm hoping to clean a large portion of that up when I take lessons this offseason.

I never claimed that point. Reread what I posted earlier again. Nobody on this board is pure and innocent in the posting behavior department here. However, just like a bonfire and the surface of the sun are both two sources of light and heat, some poster's poor behavior outshines others. Wake me up when other posters over on the football forum - who rarely, if ever, post in the pol board - start making the same observations about my behavior and rhetoric anywhere near the same frequency that the do Cal and few other posters here and then you'll have a ghost of an argument. If you call posting to threads that pique my interest or ones where I have a counterargument or pointing out where I think posters are making bad points as having a "gotcha moment", then I don't know what you call what everyone else here does differently, since it's the exact same thing that everyone does on a message board; including yourself. If that's what you consider "broad brush attacks", then we're all fucking Rembrandts. As for you, I don't single you out in any particular way. We seem to butt heads over religious matters, but that's about it.

Not yet. I'm still at the "why do all my irons go for the same distance" point, with the "why does my ball push slice into the woods every time I tee off" a close second. 😀

I just started playing last year, but I really have gotten hooked on it and have been playing pretty regularly ever since. Still rocking out my Bazooka 360 starter set from Tour Edge, but I'll be looking to upgrade next year.

I've never insulted anyone's family on here either, so i'm not sure why you're implying that I have. The thing is, Cal, we've done this same song and dance a bunch of times before. Every time it is the same thing: the mods come in and tell everyone to cool it on name calling and insults, and they single you out, in particular, as being one of the more prominent perpetrators. And every time, you sing the same old bullshit about "woody this" or "woody that", or bend over backwards to deflect any blame or responsibility from your own actions. Hell, even other posters over in the football section of the board are hip to you bullshit at this point and make fun of it. This may come as a shock to you, Cal, but I have a life that doesn't revolve around the ramblings of curmudgeons such as yourself on some political forum on a football team's fan board. I work alot of hours at my job; make decent money while doing it.. I play golf, spend time with family and friends, pursue other hobbies and interests outside of political opinions. My time is too precious for me to spend hours a day sitting in front of my computer arguing over half the shit that's posted on here. So sue me that I don't spend all of my waking hours on this site. You're like, what, in your early 60s? For someone who has more years behind him than in front of him, you spend way too much time and effort waging some kind of war of words or opinions or whatever it is that you "do" on here. I honestly find it kind of sad that you waste so much time on here arguing over shit that, at the end of the day, isn't going to really be that important to you or anyone else on here.

Slurring members by calling them gay out of one side of your mouth, then running to the mods and the board owner because people are insulting you and hurting your "feeewings" out of the other side. What a coward.

Roughly 40% of all people convicted of murder were drunk or under the influence of alcohol at the time they committed murder. Guess it's time to dust off the ol' 18th Amendment again.

To be fair, the stock market did crash in 2008 on Bush's watch.

Somehow, I can't find a little girl crying because she's being separated from her parents - illegal immigrant or otherwise - a fit subject for such flippancy as presented above. Then again, I have a conscience, so...

Compromise was designed into the Constitution by the founding fathers. Blame them. The fact is, Trump has had every opportunity to make his disagreement with Congress over increasing the debt know (presidential veto). Even if they overrode him in the end, the debt increase would be on them, not Trump. But Trump is not a fiscal conservative, and because he puts on a façade of believing in the Jebus, he's bamboozled the simple minded into abandoning conservative principles such as fiscal responsibility.