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It has taken me a little while to divine the original source of my disgust with those in baby blue. While I can’t really pin it down to one event and the entire process of developing full on unx hate was more akin to Chinese water torture, this particular scenario is representative of more than one encounter I’ve had with the enemy.
I moved from Chattanooga, TN to Cary, NC in the summer of ’69 (really). In TN there was Volunteer football on TV – The Doug Dickey Show! – but I was way more into the Cardinals and the Packers. In NC, college sports ruled the airwaves and the talk in schools and neighborhoods, and being so close to State I naturally followed the Pack. Of course there were a few mini-unxers in the neighborhood, but for the most part it was cordial ribbing. We moved to Gastonia in the summer of ’72, next door to a kid my age, a rabid unxer who had no association with the Holes. And so it began. Of course State bball went undefeated in the 72-73 season, including beating unx three times. State destroyed all in their path, only to be denied the opportunity to compete in the post season due to so-called violations. Well, the kid never let me hear the end of it. He was an a** to begin with, and his douchiness knew no bounds – unx was a better school, a better team, you know the drill. That said, I gave as good as I got, and the hate began to catalyze.
We moved away in the summer of ’73, back to Cary, so I was able to bask in the glory of ’74 on home ground. Fast forward to the late 70’s early 80’s when I attended State, and who did I bump in to on campus? Yep. His dad was a vet, and the kid wanted to follow in his footsteps. Imagine my glee when I found out a year or two later that karma bit him in the ass and he had unceremoniously flunked out of NC State. He couldn’t handle the academics. Go figure.
Found a stream then like clockwork buddies show up to help move my boat. Pack triumphs and boat moved – win-win for today. DSJ’s line (overlooking the FG%) looks great, 24pts, 8ast and 2to. And 9/10 FTs.
According to this, Obama takes the cake…by a large margin:
https://cei.org/blog/obamas-2016-federal-register-just-topped-highest-page-count-all-time
And this is the problem I have with progressives they specialize in growing the reach and power of government.
While the extrapolated page numbers for 2016 may well come to pass, we won’t know for sure until it happens.
In the top 15 “most pages list”, W’s admin accounted for the highest increase in pages from year to year, going from 72,090 in 2007 to a then record 79,435 in 2008, about a 10% increase. Does that mean that W was ruling by pen and phone?
After 2008 the count has remained fairly steady in Obama’s administration, with the caveat that this year’s total remains to be seen. Obama’s total of 81,405 pages in 2015 is about 2.5% above W’s 2008 total of 79,435. That does not strike me as being egregious.
According to The Congressional Research Service document Counting Regulations: An Overview of
Rulemaking, Types of Federal Regulations, and Pages in the Federal Register:“The number of federal rules issued annually and the total number of pages in the Federal Register are often referred to as measures of the total federal regulatory burden. Certain methods of quantifying regulatory activity, however, may provide an imperfect portrayal of the total federal rulemaking burden.”
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“However, the total number of Federal Register pages may not be an accurate way to measure regulatory activity for several reasons. In addition to publishing proposed and final rules in the Federal Register, agencies publish other items that may be related to regulations, such as notices of public meetings and extensions of comment periods. The Federal Register also
contains many other items related to non-regulatory activities, including presidential documents, notices, and corrections. In 2015, approximately 30% of the total pages in the Federal Register were in the “Rules and Regulations” section, the section in which final rules are published.”So do we lay “growing the reach and power of government” at the feet of Obama and progressives, or since W’s administration also accounted for plenty of additional pages do the number of pages reflect a problem with government and regulations in general, regardless of party or ideology?
I don’t get the Strong love. He had his two over-achieving years at Louisville but they were bookended by 5 mediocre years, 2 at L’ville and 3 at Texas.
My point being 6 major cities should not drive the outcome of a national election. That is why the Electorial College was installed in the first place. In colonial times they wanted to make sure Philly, NY, Boston, and Charleston did not elect the president.
Concern about the message not getting to rural and far-flung reaches of the country – resulting in an uninformed electorate and cities “driving the election” – might have been valid in the past, but that argument doesn’t hold water anymore. The red states and red voters were united by ideology if not proximity. The messages get out in numerous ways, that much became clear with this election alone.
“My point being 6 major cities should not drive the outcome of a national election.”
By saying “6” you minimize the votes of millions of people who live in those cities, and infer that suburban/rural votes are a more legitimate indication of the peoples’ will. City dwellers are citizens too, I don’t know why living in or near a city should disqualify their votes. LA, NYC, New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, Portland represent geographic areas across the United States and the inhabitants deserve representation. It’s the nature of the beast that metropolitan and outlying areas have different views. Even in Texas, the counties containing Austin, Dallas and Houston voted blue. In Florida it was Miami, Tallahassee, Orlando and Tampa. It just so happened that the rest of those states were sufficiently red to give the states to Trump. This holds true for a lot of the red states – and blue for that matter – most of the large cities voted blue, the rest of the state red.
I dunno, ball was short, UM guy was coming back through Tocho who had position. No call IMO. Moot point though.
