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The Trillion Dollar Hoodwink
You've been sold. Obama: get a life. Rediscovering the scientific method. Plus more.
STILL DEFIANT
Re: Ben Stein's The
Purpose of Defiance:
I am second to none in my admiration of Ben Stein and he is spot
on regarding our liberties as Americans. It is also proper that
we be often reminded of our debt to those who have fought for
those freedoms. Yet I can not join him in wishing good fortune to
a president who wishes to quiet those who hold different
political views and who advocates more government intrusion into
the lives of citizens. Nor can I wish good fortune to a president
who thinks that terrorists and other mortal enemies of our nation
are best treated in the same fashion as burglars and car thieves.
What I can hope and pray for is that those by whom we have
consented to be governed choose a course that best protects the
rights and individual liberties for which so many have paid a
price.
-- Peter F. Killie
Ridgefield, Connecticut
HE SAYS WHAT HE MEANS
Re: Peter Ferrara's Good Morning,
Suckers:
Mr. Ferrara points out that the voters will pay over $2 billion
for the completely ineffective head start program and will
waste another $2 billion on federally-funded babysitting
services. Considering that a social welfare program, once
funded, never ever goes away under any circumstances, I now
understand what the president means when he says there will
be trillion dollar deficits for years to come.
-- Garry Greenwood
Gearhart, Oregon
I appreciate Mr. Ferrara’s line by line itemizing of the coming government malfeasance. We knew this would happen. But this is change! Ostensibly, the change we need.
Being faithfully married for over 17 years, I can’t wait to reap the benefits of $300,000,000 for STD research. Too bad about the prophylactics.
As a 20+ year conservative, I am delighted to see ACORN receiving over a billion dollars!
I have a soft spot for the article’s icon: Alfred E. Neuman. So I was delighted to see that MAD Magazine may reap a windfall from the Nation Endowment for the Arts spending. Hopefully, the MAD men had their lobbying contingent in place.
If they’re left an increase in funding bovine flatulence research off the list, we Americans may not see another sunrise.
Let us pray that congress had the foresight to include that as well.
Crisis? What Crisis? Let’s call it by its real name; ‘Boomerism
on Parade!’
-- P. Aaron Jones
Michigan
Democrats, should you plan to allow any of your fetuses to reach
full term, know this: Your children and their children will pay
for the "stimulus package" for decades, while shivering in their
cramped, tumbledown apartment, with an American -- gasp! -- car
in the carport. Take solace, however, in the knowledge that you
will be able to enthrall them with tales of your spendthrift ways
and days.
-- David Govett
Davis, California
PUNISHED WITH BARACK
Re: Lisa Fabrizio's March Toward
Life:
Lisa Fabrizio quotes President Obama saying that if his daughters "make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
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Appleby| 1.29.09 @ 10:57AM
If Jon M. Wade would educate himself regarding the difference between a theory and a hypothesis, his argument would have to be reworked.
Contrary to what Humpty Dumpty told Alice, a word does NOT mean precisely what he WANTS it to mean. A word means what it means.
Craig| 1.29.09 @ 1:05PM
Both Appleby and Wade should clearly define their terms, since Appleby accuses Wade of misusing words.
If you both would accept Merriam-Webster online, follow the links below. I would challenge Appleby to demonstrate the misuse of words by Wade so I can be enlightened as well.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theory
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypothesis
Being an engineer by profession, I like clarity and understanding in words and I look forward to a better understanding of the conflict intimated here.
Engage with the world| 1.29.09 @ 1:41PM
All Obama needs to do is deal with education in schools, and Universities in America, to win the next election.
Obama is no idiot, the Republican Party was only concerned with the 2 or 3% of American society. The reality is obvious most people on earth are not rich, most people are not business men and women. There are people who want to aspire to become rich, but with no education it is not going to happen.
Republicans have had their party taken over by NAZIS, and the vast majority of people in the world are not NAZIS, and the vast majority of people in America are not NAZIS.
The Republicans needs to appeal to the vast majority of Americans, and to do that you have to know about the society in which you live.
Thake a look at your country look at what is happening in your country, you have a divide of rich and poor, and look at the amount of poor that is out there, and how their lives can be improved would be a start.
What is your biggest problem, health care, jobs, education, information technology. Engage the public in a meaningfull way, show you can understand their problems, till the Repuiblicans can do that the party is over and the game is up.
People are sick of being taken for fools even though 99% of all Americans are absolute idiots.
David Hart| 1.29.09 @ 2:54PM
For the record, there IS NOT ONE DIME FOR ACORN!
The set-aside that keeps bouncing througb the right wing echo chamber is for non-profit housing developers to help purchase, rehab, and resell foreclosed properties, ACORN isn't eligible .
Ditto heads are the antithesis of critical thinkers.
David Hart
http://www.tips-Q.om
ruth| 1.29.09 @ 5:28PM
Liar! It's got nothing to do with critical thinking, we know that you liberals lie.
A LIAR ACCUSE OTHERS| 1.29.09 @ 11:15PM
What the hell does it matter if some one is liberal, in a democracy, one can be liberal today and change. The first thing they need is a reason, I've voted in several ways, because I vote for policies.
My vote is not for any one party, I have no loyalty to anyone, I am free to vote how I want by choice. And may I add, informed choice.
A LIAR ACCUSE OTHERS| 1.31.09 @ 12:45AM
I am a liar, and an idiot, too. Please forgive me Conservatives, I'm not worthy to kiss your feet.
hgfh| 11.19.09 @ 10:11PM
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