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Comment on Bieber-Babies & Boobs by ed

ed — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:06:00 +0000

“One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination.” that and “You want it, and you want it now!”

Comment on Courage by shutupnsing

shutupnsing — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:23:54 +0000

Understood…the leviathan didn’t become a leviathan overnight.

Comment on Courage by Rosy C

Rosy C — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:10:28 +0000

Item in the news Friday says Yahoo fought the NSA on supplying information back in 2008 saying their account holders had a constitutional right against unreasonable searches and seizures. Yahoo lost in court and capitulated.
2008 was back in the Bush administration. I’m not necessarily blaming Bush or Obama here. What I am saying is it’s next to impossible once a power is granted to the executive branch that any subsequent president would willingly relinquish that power. That means Republican or Democrat and presidents coming after Obama.

Comment on Courage by shutupnsing

shutupnsing — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:02:25 +0000

How do we trust the government who we’ve now caught abusing its powers to quell, suppress and remove dissent? Where is our Rule of Law? How is this not the first stage of tyranny? Tyranny is not new…it’s an old story that loves to repeat itself. But it’s new to us! And guess what…we’re sending it back!

Comment on Courage by Rosy C

Rosy C — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:34:10 +0000

Nice job with the dogs, Congratulations. And you remember it so it means something to you, whether you think you’re a hero or not coming out of it.
I agree with you on Snowden. I worry he’ll be prosecuted when nothing he did will endanger anybody, like say Cheney did when he outed Valerie Plame.
Snowden was just passing along information that better helps us understand the evils the Patriot Act unleashed as many knew it would. But I sort of agree with Bolton. This is nothing new, just in greater detail than before.

The separation of powers has always been blurred, going back to Andrew Jackson’s decision to defy the Supreme Court and enact his own policy of killing all Indians. Roosevelt tried to stack the Supreme Court, Truman tried to federalize the steel mills. He also moved to integrate the military on his own. Eisenhower tried to desegregate public schools against the wishes of just about everybody with any power.
That’s also nothing new.

Comment on NUTS! by shutupnsing

shutupnsing — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:47:47 +0000

…of course if you sent them in search of sand, the deserts are the very last place they would look!
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/061213-659753-all-intrusive-obama-terror-dragnet-excludes-mosques.htm

Comment on The Weiner in the Coal Mine by Judson J. Abbott

Judson J. Abbott — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:30:36 +0000

We’ve arrived at a point in time where the oblique issues surrounding the Anthony Weiner scandal may warrant discussion. One sociological question left unanswered is why did one of the women — Maegan Broussard – sell out Weiner?

Comment on Progressive Compassion & Willful Blindness by shutupnsing

shutupnsing — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:33:37 +0000

I have been breathing deeply & thinking even deeper. You don’t stand with the ACLU here because you ARE predisposed to giving your government the benefit of the doubt…as I once WAS. I would have trusted Reagan, Bush & even Clinton to have our best interests. I, and most of us paying attention to the modus operandi of this administration certainly do not trust them in the least bit! I hope you had a nice visit with your son!

Comment on One Nation Under…Carlyle? by shutupnsing

shutupnsing — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:25:06 +0000

As went Dinkins…

Comment on One Nation Under…Carlyle? by L.

L. — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:14:09 +0000

Funny, I also spent the past week at some family reunions. I was particularly struck by Times Square, which I hadn’t seen in many years. It’s gone the other way, and is once again a civic center — no longer the nest of peep shows and decrepit buildings I remember from the late 80′s, when it appeared immune to the rest of the city’s prosperity.