en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/323972 Comments by aharris http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/14/tuesday-open-thread-valentine-edition/#IDComment292315230 But it's Valentine's Day. I'm sure they'll increase our chocolate rations while we listen to the double plus good band. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:33:37 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/14/tuesday-open-thread-valentine-edition/#IDComment292315230 http://bigpeace.com/libertychick/2012/02/13/anonymous-leaks-assad-emails-abc-interview-tips-exposed-american-psyche-easily-manipulated-prey-on-liberal-guilt/#IDComment292313672 And Anonymous thinks this is a scoop? This is just telling us things we already knew. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:31:19 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/libertychick/2012/02/13/anonymous-leaks-assad-emails-abc-interview-tips-exposed-american-psyche-easily-manipulated-prey-on-liberal-guilt/#IDComment292313672 http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2012/02/13/libya-tells-un-rights-council-gays-threaten-continuation-of-human-race/#IDComment292310738 I suppose they might be right about it if humanity were knocked back to the stone ages of subsistence ... Hey, isn't that the aim and goal of the Religion of Pieces? Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:26:45 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2012/02/13/libya-tells-un-rights-council-gays-threaten-continuation-of-human-race/#IDComment292310738 http://bigpeace.com/ktoloczko/2012/02/13/the-boiling-pot-axis-two-situations-which-might-set-off-a-triumvirate-of-americas-enemies/#IDComment291598308 China has a large population of young men with no prospects of marriage. What do you do with that? If you don't get rid of it, it causes unrest as it can't do anything else in life. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:40:54 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/ktoloczko/2012/02/13/the-boiling-pot-axis-two-situations-which-might-set-off-a-triumvirate-of-americas-enemies/#IDComment291598308 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291591963 I don't know so much about Lohan. I don't think she has near the body of work or talent that Houston had. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:31:56 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291591963 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291590560 That thing about Hollywood Hypocrisy is the most honest part of it all. Hollywood bashes religion, particularly Christianity (you know, the faith they were praying in), as a pick up sport. They mocked Catholicism (you know, a Christian sect) all the way through the Grammy ceremony after having prayed at the outset. You can't have it both ways. You either respect something or you don't. You don't get to respect it when it's convenient for you to look respectful and then dish crap all over it the rest of the time. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:30:07 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/13/the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-whitney-houston-sorrow/#IDComment291590560 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cjohnson/2012/02/13/syfys-being-human-is-one-of-the-best-conservative-shows-on-tv/#IDComment291580576 Britain in general has a different attitude toward faith even if there are far less Christians than there are in America. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:15:49 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cjohnson/2012/02/13/syfys-being-human-is-one-of-the-best-conservative-shows-on-tv/#IDComment291580576 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cjohnson/2012/02/13/syfys-being-human-is-one-of-the-best-conservative-shows-on-tv/#IDComment291579515 The reference to Christ is sacriligious, but they never doubt there is a God. That in and of itself is not sacreligious. You can argue that all the vampires in the show are damned whether they chose to become vampires or not, but you cannot deny that that dialogue doesn't deny the existence of a God, and indeed through Sally and the existence of a "Door" there is no doubt that the show's premise relies on an afterlife, so it would be sort of silly for vampires to deny the existence of a God even if they speak about Christ in a sacreligious manner. It seems the show also needs there to be a definite good and evil. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:14:01 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cjohnson/2012/02/13/syfys-being-human-is-one-of-the-best-conservative-shows-on-tv/#IDComment291579515 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cjohnson/2012/02/13/syfys-being-human-is-one-of-the-best-conservative-shows-on-tv/#IDComment291576540 Warehouse jumped the shark for me with their last season. The only really refreshing part of it was the gay buddhist character who was anything but cliche in the way he was portrayed, but they even had to ruin that by making sure at least one other character had to obviously mention his sexuality in every single episode lest we forget he was gay. It was like, please, I understand the guy is gay, just because he doesn't act like every other gay character on TV doesn't mean I'll forget it. :P But when they started delving into the realm of torture politics it turned me off. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:09:06 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cjohnson/2012/02/13/syfys-being-human-is-one-of-the-best-conservative-shows-on-tv/#IDComment291576540 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cjohnson/2012/02/13/syfys-being-human-is-one-of-the-best-conservative-shows-on-tv/#IDComment291572473 They have the BBC version on BBC America, but it's several seasons ahead. I tried watching it and got instantly lost. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:03:49 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cjohnson/2012/02/13/syfys-being-human-is-one-of-the-best-conservative-shows-on-tv/#IDComment291572473 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cjohnson/2012/02/13/syfys-being-human-is-one-of-the-best-conservative-shows-on-tv/#IDComment291571434 I confess to having a guilty pleasure taste for their so-called SyFy "originals." My latest favorite lol-tastic moment was in the Swamp Volcano movie when the teenage daughter was at a tennis lesson and the volcano erupted a jet of magma through the tennis court. It ignited the tennis ball which somehow was not vaporized but was hot enough to fly through the instructor's tennis racket and blaze a perfectly round hole through his torso. I don't think a movie has made me laugh that hard in years. Granted, I only have these on in the background to more serious activities like housework ... But, Being Human has been pleasantly surprising. I did like how they really didn't spend much time considering aborting Nora's baby when they found out she was pregnant either. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:02:19 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cjohnson/2012/02/13/syfys-being-human-is-one-of-the-best-conservative-shows-on-tv/#IDComment291571434 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/13/george-will-catholic-bishops-got-what-they-deserved-for-supporting-obamacare/#IDComment291558378 The church abandoned it's own precepts of charity and tried to lean on the government's forced "charity" of tax money. And now, they're getting burned just like the rest of us. There is no charity in the government only tyrrany. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:44:11 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/13/george-will-catholic-bishops-got-what-they-deserved-for-supporting-obamacare/#IDComment291558378 http://biggovernment.com/bshapiro/2012/02/12/do-u-s-corporations-pay-their-fair-share/#IDComment291050437 The stated tax rate for corporations is way too high, but they don't actually pay that rate in many cases because they can get all kinds of tax breaks through the system thanks to crony capitalism. Our tax law is a mess. There's no way any corporation with any kind of money pull pays it's share if it knows how to hire competent tax lawyers, and if you have political clout like GE, you can get out of paying any of your corporate tax liability which means paying 0% out of the stated 35% corporate tax rate. What we need a is a simple, level tax rate and tax code that can't be gamed. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:57:55 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/bshapiro/2012/02/12/do-u-s-corporations-pay-their-fair-share/#IDComment291050437 http://biggovernment.com/bshapiro/2012/02/12/do-u-s-corporations-pay-their-fair-share/#IDComment291048127 How about people start to realize the realistic price of labor and the toll of over regulation from the government? Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:53:51 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/bshapiro/2012/02/12/do-u-s-corporations-pay-their-fair-share/#IDComment291048127 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/12/obama-budget-tax-hikes-and-another-1-trillion-deficit/#IDComment291045812 Maybe instead of saying "decades of socialist spending" we should start saying "decades of projecting 4 trillion in savings over 10 years." Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:49:50 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/12/obama-budget-tax-hikes-and-another-1-trillion-deficit/#IDComment291045812 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/12/obama-budget-tax-hikes-and-another-1-trillion-deficit/#IDComment291044965 Of course it'll be higher. The CBO runs the numbers as if it all happens in a vacuum. That isn't reality. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:48:12 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/12/obama-budget-tax-hikes-and-another-1-trillion-deficit/#IDComment291044965 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/12/obama-budget-tax-hikes-and-another-1-trillion-deficit/#IDComment290838550 Let's do some math: 1 trillion every year in deficit spending is 10+ trillion dollars. But We'll save around 4 trillion by hiking taxes on those EVIL rich folks and coporations! Now if we could just figure out how to come up with the missing 6 trillion dollars. And never mind the other 15 trillion plus we still owe our creditors ... Yeah, I'm thinking this isn't so much a budget as it is some big numbers thrown around to accomplish that redistributionist agenda O likes so much while confusing the issue that we aren't actually doing anything to address runaway spending because, you know, 4 trillion is bigger than 1 trillion, so those idiots have got to beieve he's doing something to fix the problem. Greece, coming soon to an America near you. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:07:17 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/12/obama-budget-tax-hikes-and-another-1-trillion-deficit/#IDComment290838550 http://biggovernment.com/jhart/2012/01/29/sundays-with-sherrod-china-envy/#IDComment278087274 When does Obama break it to the Unions that in order to be more like China and compete they must all accept new contracts that mandate 12 hour days, 6 days per week with workers living at the factories and making only $17 a day? Because, those are the conditions that the workers in Apple iPhone plants live and work under, and those are plum jobs. That factory processes around 3,000 applications per day. Maybe this is why we have no manufacturing jobs? The American worker who demands paid holidays, 40 hour work weeks, overtime pay, and gold-plated benefits on top of his $30/hour pay or more not counting all the contract restrictions on just exactly what is or is not defined as a job he can or can't be asked to do v. the Chinese man who will work 12 hour days, 6 days a week for $17 a day ... You tell me which is the more economical and least aggravating option for any business. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:59:51 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jhart/2012/01/29/sundays-with-sherrod-china-envy/#IDComment278087274 http://biggovernment.com/jsshapiro/2012/01/29/exclusive-inside-occupy-dc-obama-is-not-why-the-us-park-police-are-letting-us-stay/#IDComment278078880 It was only a matter of time before Obamavilles started cropping up. I thought it'd be because the government couldn't afford to pay unemployment anymore. Who knew it'd be because people voluntarily threw themselves out on the streets? Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:44:53 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jsshapiro/2012/01/29/exclusive-inside-occupy-dc-obama-is-not-why-the-us-park-police-are-letting-us-stay/#IDComment278078880 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2012/01/28/the-2012-oscar-noms-more-proof-hollywood-doesnt-care-about-you/#IDComment277129585 You know, back in the days when we all sat around the fire in the dark, the storyteller who couldn't capture his audience with a good story wasn't one that received all kinds of awards, and his tribe definitely wasn't bragging about him to all the other tribes. The fact that Hollywood has so separated itself from its audience that its audience by and large doesn't care anymore should be a sign that it's not telling its stories well, and then to circle the wagons and excuse its poor performance by claiming that everyone else just doesn't get "the art" like the rest of Hollywood does is simple denial. Hopefully, they deny themselves out of a job before they deny motion picture industry to death. Americans need entertainment during times of national trouble, the Great Depression proved that during the first motion picture boom. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:26:41 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2012/01/28/the-2012-oscar-noms-more-proof-hollywood-doesnt-care-about-you/#IDComment277129585