en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/296384 Comments by Glennd1 http://tv.breitbart.com/planned-parenthood-releases-graphic-content-to-10-year-olds-for-national-condom-week/#IDComment292177544 You see, this is why folks like me think both the left and right are crazy. While what Planned Parenthood promotes to children is disgraceful, and I support ending all their funding in a heartbeat, they aren't trying to create "sex addicts". I mean, that's just paranoid ranting. Also, teaching that masturbation is natural is quite different from "fisting kits" but by lumping all this together, it makes you folks look extreme too. The other issue is that this entire topic is also blended in with the Christian Right's hatred of homosexuality. Newsflash, homosexuality occurs throughout nature in and is "normal" because it occurs naturally in small minorities of mammals across many species. Again, I don't support taking teenage kids to "Gay Pride" events, but to not tell them that science proves homosexuality is innate and not learned would be to lie. At the end of the day a libertarian like me will side with the right wingers because I think Planned Parenthood is vile and needs to be stopped but I have to hold my nose when listening to so much of the stupid stuff the right says about sexuality. I agree it's your job to teach your kids about sexual morality, but I don't think teaching abstention, that masturbation is wrong and that homosexuality is "unnatural" is a good idea either. Teenage children are sexually maturing, young adults, not infants held in your protective cage. Their hormones are revving and they will engage in sex - they always have, whether or not hectoring adults like it. I say taking a more realistic approach is healthier and that's what I did with my very healthy, non-slutty daughter and it turned out fine. Neither of us want the govt involved or Planned Parenthood - but that doesn't mean I buy the whole Christian Right sexual agenda, sorry. If you folks would try to find common ground with folks like me on this and many other issues instead of inserting your Christian morality into every issue, we would be much more powerful as a political force. Sigh... Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:38:25 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/planned-parenthood-releases-graphic-content-to-10-year-olds-for-national-condom-week/#IDComment292177544 http://tv.breitbart.com/olbermann-and-daily-kos-founder-attack-breitbart-no-one-really-cares-about-occupy-rapes/#IDComment292088764 Listen to Moulitsas, he actually believes what he's saying, that the Occupy movement is somehow relevant to anyone in this country. He's so deluded, so inside the bubble that he doesn't even know what's happening. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:59:35 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/olbermann-and-daily-kos-founder-attack-breitbart-no-one-really-cares-about-occupy-rapes/#IDComment292088764 http://tv.breitbart.com/breitbart-confronts-occupy-thugs-at-cpac-conference/#IDComment292081454 Of course I'm not talking about Obama or socialism (none of which I support) so take your imbecilic preaching elsewhere, yeah? The Confederacy had as it's stated goal the preservation of the ownership of slaves in the southern states. Lee may have been a man of honor until he picked that side to fight on, but then lost all honor by leading the fight for such cause. Nothing else he did nor how he comported himself as a gentleman relieves him of that stain on his character. Your inability to clearly see the immorality of the south says something ugly about you, but I bet you don't see that either. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:47:09 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/breitbart-confronts-occupy-thugs-at-cpac-conference/#IDComment292081454 http://tv.breitbart.com/greece-in-flames/#IDComment291415455 Government spending went up 6% last year in Greece - not down. The cutbacks aren't draconian, they are responsible. In Greece you retire at 53, collect a govt pension and healthcare for the rest of your life. Anyone can go to the doctor or dentist and never pay a penny. University is free and welfare payments are guaranteed to all who don't have work. None of that has been cut up until the point - none of it. The rhetoric is so divorced from reality that you can't even talk to folks who are so deranged that they can blame this state of affairs on the West. Worse yet, the Greeks never should have been admitted to the Euro as their balance sheet never complied. They "cooked" the books to join - all of Europe knew and winked (while calling those of us who cried foul bigots and worse), and pretended that all would fine someday magically. Bad news, "someday" has come for you. Keynes said that the long run doesn't matter - here's where ignoring the long run ends up. It should be a canary in the mine for leftists but instead it's a rallying cry. How pathetic, how delude and how unnecessary. Greece was never a 'first world' country but it was burgeoning. It used to dominate the shipping industry, but regulations and the labor movement in Greece destroyed both it's shipbuilding and repair businesses. These were real wealth building enterprises that provided many good jobs and a real industrial base to grow from. Instead, their government intentionally destroyed it. Where is the accounting for all these idiots who gave them all this bad advice over all these years? Why aren't they being dragged out into the street by these crowds? That's who's gotten them there, not capitalists. It's so sad, and it also shows that being right is meaningless. We must grab power away from these collectivist psychopaths or all is lost. Just sayin... Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:05:12 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/greece-in-flames/#IDComment291415455 http://tv.breitbart.com/breitbart-confronts-occupy-thugs-at-cpac-conference/#IDComment291298077 Robert E. Lee was a defender of the most odious crime against humanity every committed. Despite the revisionist history folks like you attempt, he has no place in the pantheon of great leaders or men - except to be known as an evil man. Go away, crypto-racist, go away. And I'm no liberal, just informed. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:16:24 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/breitbart-confronts-occupy-thugs-at-cpac-conference/#IDComment291298077 http://tv.breitbart.com/war-drums-u-s-military-reviewing-syria-options/#IDComment287529885 We intervened in Libya and now it's a country run by Islamists. We intervened in Afghanistan and the second we leave the Taliban will retake control of most of the country. The second we left Iraq, the entire political system descended into chaos. Jeez, why not intervene in another country, it's turning out so well! I have no desire to spend a penny of our money or to send a single soldier there. Period. I don't care if they all kill each other - it's a hard, cruel world and we can't stop Muslims from slaughtering each other. They seem to revel in it. So be it. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 02:06:12 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/war-drums-u-s-military-reviewing-syria-options/#IDComment287529885 http://tv.breitbart.com/sean-penn-named-ambassador-for-haiti/#IDComment281289766 Ah at last, we agree on something. You do have "common sense" - which in this society would mean you read about .5 books per year and read on an 8th grade level - spot on from what I've seen so far. I never said I respected Penn's politics, I said I respected him for not being a phony about it. I made clear I find socialism abhorrent. We don't disagree on that, but you keep wanting to argue you it. You are so stupid, and your critical faculties are so poorly developed, it's like arguing with someone who has a mental defect of some sort. My contention is that in this case, Penn is doing real good at real personal sacrifice and he doesn't deserve to be insulted while he's doing so much for so many. Are you so dense that you don't understand that? Do you realize all your comments about Marxism have nothing to do with what I'm even saying? You are one of those people who doesn't realize how stupid they are, what a joke. So long, sad moron. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:25:59 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/sean-penn-named-ambassador-for-haiti/#IDComment281289766 http://tv.breitbart.com/sean-penn-named-ambassador-for-haiti/#IDComment281227857 But of course you're wrong all day long and twice on Sunday. I support Gary Johnson, not the odious crank, Ron Paul, the Paleo Libertarian and crypto-bigot. Libertarian philosophy inherits directly from Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Locke - it'sconservatives who opposed the classical liberal values that created this nation. Today's "liberal" is a socialist, an enemy of liberty and un-American. However, dumbasses like you are just as bad because you substitute partisan mewling and cheerleading for reason. You know Jefferson and Madison were terrified of brutish thugs like you, don't you? They despised partisanship, referring repeatedly to at the time, using the language of the day of "factionalism". You admitted right here that ideology is more important to you than morality - that is disgusting. Guys like you are annoying because you are so easily manipulated by populist tropes and emotional appeals but somehow think you've got something worth saying. Go back to your TV and beer now, and let the grownups do the thinking now, okay? As for your moral reasoning, if one can really even grace what passes for thought in your furtive mind with such a grand description, so it's not possible for a leftist to do a good moral act? Do you realize how ignorant and vile a statement that is? I loathe Penn's politics, but he's no phony and puts his money where his mouth is. I can respect those I disagree with, even if they don't give me the same courtesy. Accordingly, I'm not blinded by hatred and can see the good thing that Penn is doing here. That you can't only identifies you as a morally backward, lowlife. Do the world a favor: Don't reproduce or vote, okay? Wed, 1 Feb 2012 22:54:25 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/sean-penn-named-ambassador-for-haiti/#IDComment281227857 http://tv.breitbart.com/sean-penn-named-ambassador-for-haiti/#IDComment281024639 Are you actually retarded? He's spending his own money, and most of it. That's the point. Can you actually even hear words that don't come from Rush Limbaugh anymore? Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:17:03 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/sean-penn-named-ambassador-for-haiti/#IDComment281024639 http://tv.breitbart.com/sean-penn-named-ambassador-for-haiti/#IDComment281023978 Typical Tea Party moron. I even said in my comment that I very strongly disagree with Penn politically - I'm a libertarian, no "lib" or socialist, in fact I'm farther from it than you are, you ignorant rube. As for what Penn is up to, hmm, he's spent millions of his own money, most of his fortune in fact ,on Haitians who are dying by the hundreds of thousands since the quake - maybe you didn't know that, so busy you are jacking-off to GlennBeckTV. He doesn't ask anyone to feel bad for him, he knows he can make more. While I do agree he's a real dik sometimes, I think in this he's shown his motives and actions to be very good. It's sad for you that you can't see the goodness in him - even if he can't see the goodness in you. I bet you call yourself a Christian too, what a nasty, pathetic little human being you must be. Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:16:06 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/sean-penn-named-ambassador-for-haiti/#IDComment281023978 http://tv.breitbart.com/sean-penn-named-ambassador-for-haiti/#IDComment281020782 And you aren't a Tea Partier? If so, sorry for the bashing, but I find that the likelihood of someone commenting on BreitbartTV in the way most of the morons on here do and being a Tea Partier very high in my experience here. Did you read the nasty, stupid comments? Or are you just a-okay with all that? Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:11:50 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/sean-penn-named-ambassador-for-haiti/#IDComment281020782 http://tv.breitbart.com/sean-penn-named-ambassador-for-haiti/#IDComment280888080 The responses on this thread show the vicious and delusional nature of the typical Tea Partier. While I disagree with Penn politically, very strongly, I admire his straight talk about it. He doesn't pretend to be something he's not. More to the point, his work and the fact that spent most of his personal fortune trying to help the people of Haiti who are suffering so dreadfully is meritorious, not worthy derision. What kind of Christians are you folks here? Are you all so deluded by your ideology that you cannot even tell good from bad, right from wrong anymore? And oh yeah, to the MORON above who worried about "his" tax dollars going to Penn - it was Haiti that made him an "ambassador at large", not the U.S. govt. The U.S. govt is completely uninvolved - if you would simply read, you'd know that. What a bunch of nasty jerks the lot of you are. Wed, 1 Feb 2012 15:12:02 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/sean-penn-named-ambassador-for-haiti/#IDComment280888080 http://tv.breitbart.com/newt-denied-advocating-individual-mandate-during-thursdays-debate-2009-audio-proves-he-did/#IDComment278953532 Do you understand what I was saying? Do you think for a second that the majority of Americans would vote against the safety net? Of course not, so having one without the other is a disaster. The only other solution is to roll back the safety net - but nobody will do that. Your approach just ignores the facts of insurance and puts ideology ahead of reason. And I want and even freer nation that you ever even dreamed of - but I also live in the real world. You, obviously, think slogans and cheering are a substitute for substance. You are what's wrong with our country. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:36:24 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/newt-denied-advocating-individual-mandate-during-thursdays-debate-2009-audio-proves-he-did/#IDComment278953532 http://tv.breitbart.com/newt-denied-advocating-individual-mandate-during-thursdays-debate-2009-audio-proves-he-did/#IDComment278648071 I wonder if any Breitbarter here knows anything about insurance? The fact is, if we as a country are going to have a medical 'safety net' such as we have now, in order for insurance to work properly, you have to have a mandate that individuals purchase health care insurance. Newt knows this, Romney knows this - Santorum's brain is so addled with religion and ideology that he thinks he can just ignore it. Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law in 1986 that forced health care providers (docs, hospitals etc) who receive medicare or medicaid payment to treat anyone who comes to their door with lifesaving/urgent care. That bill should have been called "no-payer" health insurance because there was no mechanism to pay for it. Why then do I say if we have a "safety net" like this bill created, do we then need a mandate? Here's why. 1. Free riding - Everyone in the U.S. already has "no-payer" insurance. Walk into an ER with a head injury and you are treated, no questions asked. Those 45 million who are without insurance temporarily or longer term are counting on this. The very existence of the safety net is a defacto insurance plan - nobody ever talks about this, i'm not sure why. People are responding to incentives, particularly poor, young and single people who either can't afford insurance or who just don't want to pay for it right now. They count on the fact that they already have "no-payer" insurance. 2. Adverse selection - Worse yet, what then happens is that insurance pools cannot be formed effectively. Sick people and high consumers of health care (people with young kids, the elderly) all get insured while those who are healthy do so at much lower levels . It makes the insurance that is available much more expensive, adding more incentive for healthy people to not insure themselves. This is why so many sick people end up on Medicaid, fyi. If you don't want a personal mandate - you have to eliminate the safety net. The left and the right seem to both believe a safety net is the moral choice, hence if you support a safety net, you can't rationally support no mandate. That's how we got into the mess we are in (along with many other stupid policies). I should add that the above has nothing to do with ideology - being conservative or progressive does not change the way insurance works. Newt and Romney both know this - but they are afraid to say it to you folks because they think you won't understand it. Tell me, Conservatives, are you willing to face the facts? Or do you think that ideology can change reality? Fyi, I'm a libertarian, a Gary Johnson supporter (no fan of the odious crank, Ron Paul). I want a completely different system and society but we don't have it now. In the world we have today, with the govt having crowded out private, civic solutions to poverty and health care, and seeming agreement on the "safety net" - this is the only logical choice. My ideology doesn't change that and as a responsible citizen, I can't afford to wish away reality. I of course support free market health care top to bottom and private charities to take care of the indigent - they would be more effective and would not provide incentives to mooch the way our current system does, but I won't get what I want so I deal with reality. Can you folks start doing the same? A mandate could simply require everyone to have a high deductible policy, say $5,000, for major medical, not the Rube Goldberg, socialist scheme Obama is peddling. Supporting a mandate doesn't mean supporting top down govt. I do realize that there are constitutional problems with doing this, but again, that doesn't change the nature of the problem either. And I think there are constitutional problems with the "safety net" as well, but I don't hear Conservatives mentioning that. I hope this is helpful, but probably I'm going to be called a leftie or Obama lover now when I'm nothing of the sort. I despise him and his current health care plan which is designed to end private insurance as we know it. Okay, start calling me names now. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:00:52 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/newt-denied-advocating-individual-mandate-during-thursdays-debate-2009-audio-proves-he-did/#IDComment278648071 http://tv.breitbart.com/hillary-im-done-with-high-wire-of-american-politics/#IDComment276245094 "... as long as they continue to make their case to the American people?" That's their role? She's a hack and a wanna-be. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:24:17 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/hillary-im-done-with-high-wire-of-american-politics/#IDComment276245094 http://tv.breitbart.com/hillary-im-done-with-high-wire-of-american-politics/#IDComment276243790 How does anyone refer to Hilary as "experienced" with respect to the State Dept? The left just makes up reality as it goes along anymore. How do you reason with such people? As for HIlary, good riddance, don't let the door hit you in the a$$. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:22:24 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/hillary-im-done-with-high-wire-of-american-politics/#IDComment276243790 http://tv.breitbart.com/liberal-hate-high-school-teacher-refuses-to-accept-mlk-award-from-paul-ryan/#IDComment276241684 That man needs a good beating. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:19:25 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/liberal-hate-high-school-teacher-refuses-to-accept-mlk-award-from-paul-ryan/#IDComment276241684 http://tv.breitbart.com/hume-gop-congress-terrified-of-newt-nomination/#IDComment273334502 Polls change like the wind because morons like you change your minds all the time. This week it's Newt, last it was Perry, before than Cain, Bachman, Palin. Survey research is a science and works very well. That you would eve suggest that it doesn't only reflects how effing stupid you are. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:32:04 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/hume-gop-congress-terrified-of-newt-nomination/#IDComment273334502 http://tv.breitbart.com/hume-gop-congress-terrified-of-newt-nomination/#IDComment273333342 You guys just don't realize how delusional you are. I'm not a leftist. I'm a libertarian - a real one, a Gary Johnson supporter. He's no leftist, in fact he vetoed more bills as Governor of New Mexico (750) than all other governors combined during his time in office. He cut spending, got the state's finances in order and got re-elected. I don't support Ron Paul because he's a crank and a lowlife. Just because I think you all are morons doesn't mean I'm a leftist, it means I have functioning critical faculties. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:30:52 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/hume-gop-congress-terrified-of-newt-nomination/#IDComment273333342 http://tv.breitbart.com/hume-gop-congress-terrified-of-newt-nomination/#IDComment272453242 Anger? Rage? The only emotion that comes up with you is mild annoyance. Your head is so screwed up you think that I need or am interested in communication tips from you, but I'm very intentionally brutal to these ignorant fools. You I can't figure out - you agree with me but seem to be focused on style points above all else. I'm getting exactly the reaction I seek. Sometimes you have to slug an idiot in the face to get his attention at all. I'm not claiming superiority - if you think my ideas are wrong, I'm all ears. But you instead imagine all kinds of things about me that aren't true from a couple of comments. And yes I pass judgment - just like you have on me. You are the arrogant one, being just as nasty to me as you accuse me of being. Are you so blind that you can't see how effed up your thinking is? Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:27:12 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/hume-gop-congress-terrified-of-newt-nomination/#IDComment272453242