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Climbing Mount Obama
The pork barrel Olympics. Foreign oil. Roman rape. Israel's Reagan. Political correctness and more.
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Canada has over one trillion barrels of oil in tar sands and is profitably extracting the oil. America's natural gas reserves are bountiful.
The nuclear power industry has invented a new generation of reactors that are safer than ever ( that's where stimulus money should go , building new nuclear plants....high paying construction jobs for over four years).
The Gulf of Mexico has untold of reserves, and new deep drilling
techniques are available and practical.
Venezuela has over a trillion barrels of oil in clay strata. It's
frustrating to hear someone parrot "we are running out of oil."
It's nonsense. Anyone for global warming-climate
change...huh?
-- Fred Edwards
Tucson, Arizona
IT'S RAPE
Re: George Neumayr's Roman
Law:
So, Whoopi Goldberg doesn't think what Polanski did to the child was rape-rape? I have read the horrifying transcript of the girl's testimony, and I don't see how it could possibly be called anything else. Perhaps on El Auria, Guinan's home world, drugging and forcibly sodomizing a child is just peachy-keen, but not on this planet.
If Mr. Polanski is incarcerated I hope, for his sake he is kept
away from the rest of the prison population. Even the most
hardened villains take an extremely dim view of child molesters
and deal with them accordingly; the guards usually manage to be
"on break" when this occurs.
-- Gretchen L. Chellson
Alexandria, Virginia
Had Polanski done as much to a daughter of mine, I would go Al
Bundy on him. My disgust with the man is unbounded.
-- David Govett
Davis, California
"... Polanski drugged and raped a thirteen-year-old in the 1970s...."
Didn't he wear a condom?
-- Dan Martin
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
TOO BIG TO FAIL
Re: Matthew Vadum's
ACORN's Prophetic Lawyer:
It wouldn't surprise me that the Obama White House will say that
ACORN is "too big to fail" and bail them out in whichever way it
can.
-- Basil Christofilis
GOD BLESS
Re: Matthew Vadum's Hugo's
Hollywood:
God Bless you and yours. You gave the Facts, but let's pray there
are some good people left that will now carry the ball, the rest
of us will support them.
-- Frank B. Thomas
Johns Creek, Georgia
CHUTZPA
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Israel's
Reagan:
To anyone who wishes to glimpse into chutzpa (Yiddish for nerve),
standing up to evil and facing down a hostile world, do yourself
a favor and see Melville Shavelson's Cast a Giant Shadow. It
showcases the national (re)birth Israel and the midwife that was
America.
-- I.M. Kessel
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Big J| 10.2.09 @ 8:23AM
To Dan Martin above:
If your comment was made tongue in cheek, you failed miserably.
If you were attempting humor, you failed miserably.
None of the above? You are simply disgusting, and in serious need of calibration for your moral compass.
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PolishKnight| 10.2.09 @ 10:42AM
Gretchen, did I read correctly? Did you just cheer on rapists?
Indeed, most rape in this country is performed in prison, probably mostly against weaker prisoners, with the quiet approval of the populace putting us on level with, or perhaps even below, Saudi Arabia. If rape is "ok" sometimes, there goes our moral superiority...
Indeed, the horrid prison conditions in the states may be used as an argument at Polanski's extradition hearing.
Richard L.A. Schaefer| 10.2.09 @ 11:34AM
DARK KNIGHT SHOW
Reply to Polish Knight
The Top Ten Stupid Dave Tricks
10. He had sex with a subordinate employee.
9. He had sex with a subordinate while in a committed relationship and/or marriage.
8. He had sex with more than one subordinate employee.
7. His self-described creepy behavior was revealed by him as if part of a comedy routine.
6. The confession in “So what?” form was preceded by a typical joke critical of unfaithful politicians.
5. He manipulated the audience into laughing about his self-described terrible behavior.
4. After he made the laughter disappear with his confession, he made it reappear with a mock self-mocking about his sex partners having their reputation hurt by the revelation they’d had sex with him, as if it were less attractive rather than more attractive to have sex with such a powerful boss.
3. On a national comedy show, he hurt his mother and son and wife, who is also a former subordinate employee sex partner.
2. He pulled the curtain back on the fact that his regular self-deprecating remarks are even more justified than people realized.
1. He hadn’t booked for the night the former employee sex partner who once came back to the show and made embarrassing references to their former sex life.
Richard L.A. Schaefer
Michael L. Hauschild| 10.3.09 @ 2:15PM
First of all Gretchen never said anything of the kind. Second, most of the rapes in the USA are perpetrated on women and of those it is estimated that only sixteen percent are reported.
As far as what will happen to Polanski, if and when he is incarcerated, he will be isolated from the general prison population, not because he will be raped but because he would be killed.
Two point four percent of women attending a University or College report being raped; not counting the assaults that go unreported, that small segment of our citizenry alone accounts for far a far greater number of rapes than occurs in the entire prison population of the USA.
In one short post you have proved to us that you cannot comprehend what you read, you know nothing of the subject to which you speak, and you sure do not know anything about prisons.
Tim| 10.2.09 @ 12:26PM
How do you spell courage?
I.O.C.
IMKessel| 10.2.09 @ 12:47PM
Mr. Edwards makes some excellent points.
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twolaneflash| 10.4.09 @ 12:43PM
Roman Polanski. You can't spell RaPe without RP.
Ask OPRAH about rape. I read she got her Polanski at 9 years old, was a runaway and pregnant at 13 , baby at 14, and her baby died an infant. So, I guess being Polanskied doesn't mean your whole life is ruined. OPRAH? Comments?
e.m. mason| 10.4.09 @ 5:58PM
I don't have loads of time to read so excuse me if I missed it, but has The American Spectator retracted the false remark that Patrick Gaspard was employed by ACORN? If so, please tell me where I can read that.
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