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Seizing Power
Barack the Caudillo. The inferior sport of Soccer. Aging radicals and more!
(Page 4 of 4)
Given the volume of Obama’s inner intellectual and moral void
space, its filling will continue for a long time.
— C. Kenna Amos Jr.
ALICE IN OBAMALAND
Re: Peter Ferrara’s
The Coming Resignation of Barack Obama:
God, we can only hope but it probably won’t happen. Obama will most likely be our President for 6 1/2 more years. The GOP public relations are horrible. The Tea Party and GOP will dilute the conservatives. Bush made some awful mistakes while president with his spending, politically correct choices, and never grooming an electable successor.
Obama is an utter Disaster and is ruining our country. It will take decades to undo the damage. I hope the American people who were duped by this “Hope and Change” incompetent, arrogant imposter in the White House come to their senses. Al Franken a United States Senator, Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, Pelosi, Speaker of the House.
I feel like we are in Alice in Wonderland!
God help our country!
— Dr. Michael Schultz
Palos Verdes, California
FACT CHECK
Re: Philip Klein’s
Obama’s Rationing Man:
Do your editors ever fact check what Klein is writing? He provides a link to a Telegraph article as a reference to certain statements he makes about deaths resulting from poor care.
His exact quote is: “In March 2009, a report found that up to 1,200 died as a result of ‘appalling standards of care’ at just one hospital in Britain’s NHS.”
However, when you check the article he is using as a reference, you find that he is misquoting the article.
The article states: “It is not clear how many patients died as a direct result of the failures, but the commission found that mortality rates in emergency care were between 27 per cent and 45 per cent higher than would be expected, equating to between 400 and 1,200 ‘excess’ deaths.”
I have not decided where I stand on using the British health care model. However, taking such liberal license when restating what’s stated in your source article does not help much with credibility for the rest of the opinion article.
I really hope you fact check a bit more next time.
— Mike Blundell
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Ray| 6.18.10 @ 12:59PM
Cleave Frink, you cited the fact that the president can oder BP to "set aside" money when the LAW is violated. I have to ask you: What law was violated?
Just having a "spill" doesn't violate the law. The government itself inspected that oil right just prior to the explosion that lead to the pipe rupture that is the cause of the "spill'" and no violations were found. So, tell, me, what "law" was violated. It sure wasn't the Act you referenced.
Here's what you fail to understand: the Act you cite governs the PREVENTABLE contamination of the environment through the violations of environmental laws and regulations, not the accidental contamination though unpredictable mishaps, as is the case here.
If no law was violated, and it's obvious than the Act you cite was not violated, then the President doesn't have the authority to order a company to "set aside " funds for any reason whatsoever.
Kingofthenet| 6.19.10 @ 1:55AM
Clean Water Act for one, you idiot!
PolishKnight| 6.18.10 @ 4:29PM
"Ben Stein continues to represent the large number of supposedly intelligent people who refuse to acknowledge factual evidence before exposing the uneducated masses to their decidedly irresponsible innocuous thought processes. "
Versus the smug, hypocritical, self-important liberal who simultaneously whines about "fascist" right wingers trying to use government to control their lives while fantasizing about a leftist utopia fascist state different in name only.
What a laughable load of BS from Cleavis. "I used dem big words. I'm an intellectual! Other people are inferior to me!" Sheesh. That's so high school.
Alan Brooks| 6.19.10 @ 9:28AM
"right wingers trying to use government to control their lives while fantasizing about a leftist utopia fascist state different in name only."
OOhhh, so you admit there is no difference (now comes the 'what PK meant to say'.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.20.10 @ 10:54AM
SPO
Thank you!
I have never in my experience here at TAS witnessed a person so thoroughly dis-credit himself/herself in one single post.
Heh,
You have engaged my personal scroll finger from this day forward.
I honestly have never read a rant so brainless while asserting such wildly crazy conclusions.
Sir/maym... you are either totally Stuck on Stupid, or you are an unrepentant communist.
Can you even glimpse your own contradictions above? Can't you even count? (Clue, trillions are not billions.)
Whew!
ME| 6.21.10 @ 4:24PM
Dan Martin wouldn't know a nuance from a subtlety and his xenophobic rant about soccer is pointless. As far as well-nourished youth to play baseball, I just assumed he meant "fat," given soccer athletes remarkable fitness compared to other team sports. (No offense meant to the great sport of baseball or the talented specialists who play it.) Why on earth do people feel the need to run down the most popular game in the world? I think a psychologist might describe it as a variation on vuvuzela envy.
Ryan| 5.27.11 @ 8:13AM
"The Obama Crime Syndicate strikes again. And the taxpayers will pay and pay and pay with no benefit whatsoever."
Here here, how long will peopl put up with this??
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