en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/327562 Comments by Dooney http://weaselzippers.us/2012/08/03/site-update/#IDComment414331278 I wasn't aware of any site problems but welcome back all the same. There'd be a big loss on the internet if WZ wasn't available. Fri, 3 Aug 2012 05:50:55 +0000 http://weaselzippers.us/2012/08/03/site-update/#IDComment414331278 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/08/30/meet-mark-ames-the-exile-who-created-the-false-koch-brothers-conspiracy-theory/#IDComment301072206 Long ago, I attended public school in a very fine, conservative and well-kept, intelligent small city -- our facility and instructors as also curriculum were all above average, paid for by local taxpayers and supported by the hard work of the residents. Our cafeteria was staffed by employed mothers who actually cooked delicious daily meals for us students, including hot-buttered dinner rolls daily and homemade icecream on some occasions -- point is that our "public" facility was highly supported by and administered/maintained by local residents and us students benefited from an excellent college-prep education despite it being "public education". I cannot begin to imagine the disasters of public education I read about today. POINT BEING that in my experience, people such as these misguided, unprincipled people (Taibi, Levine, Ames) would not have fared well in that environment because the rest of the guys in our town would not.have.tolerated their fringe and damaging, reckless behaviors and views. They'd have been matured quickly or they'd have left by popular demand. I think the Tea Party is generally a continuation of that same small-city, small-town citizen responsibility. It's people doing what they deem is best for themselves and our nation. Ames, specifically, seems to be mostly self-gratifying and his mental health is the issue: he certainly sounds insane. Taibi and Levine sound troubled, not quite as irrational as Ames, but still reckless and irresponsible. It may sell magazines and be entertaining to read people gone mad with their self-indulged fantasies, but it's not respectable. Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:59:49 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/08/30/meet-mark-ames-the-exile-who-created-the-false-koch-brothers-conspiracy-theory/#IDComment301072206 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/08/30/meet-mark-ames-the-exile-who-created-the-false-koch-brothers-conspiracy-theory/#IDComment301068514 "' I’m a small government libertarian, and Santelli’s message appealed to me. It was that simple.'” Such a genuine feeling, statement and sentiment followed with productive actions that reflect such intents is just too difficult for most of the Left to comphrehend. Instead, actions that follow such intents "must" be "funded by" giant evildoers or other evil intents of a grandiose nature. That the Tea Party is "simply" single citizens exercising their right to criticize their government and doing so in a lawful, peaceful and shared fashion with other citizens of similar complaints is too difficult a thing for the Left to understand. And the guys identified in this article, particularly Mark Ames, Matt Taibi and Yasha Levine appear to be deranged, based upon what they've written and expressed. Utterly deranged. These are the guys that decent people avoid, they only function in a third-party media like magazines, sites, political parties that afford them media-protection by avoiding the reprimands decent society applies to persons such as this otherwise. I'm finding their irresponsible expressions not only concerning but downright disgusting from a citizen perspective. Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:51:44 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/08/30/meet-mark-ames-the-exile-who-created-the-false-koch-brothers-conspiracy-theory/#IDComment301068514 http://tv.breitbart.com/teacher-of-the-year-tells-student-go-back-to-mexico/#IDComment297588946 I agree with this teacher. Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:57:39 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/teacher-of-the-year-tells-student-go-back-to-mexico/#IDComment297588946 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/07/beck-site-attacks-sarah-palin-over-trig-article-writer-calls-palin-supporter-whore/#IDComment286605999 Excellent comments, ladykrystyna -- about which, I agree completely. The Palin site mentioned and those associated with it are not in any way pure nor admirable in their online behaviors toward others. That key point -- that they harass others and otherwise "agitate" a personality cult, in my view (otherwise, what is it) -- is so often suppressed by others as to make the Palin site and those related to it appear guiltless, like angelic victims of some big, bad "get Sarah" effort, an effort that does not exist but which is shown to exist by framing any comments about Palin in any way, extreme or aimless, to be representation of that "get Sarah" effort. In other words, they play the victim card well and it eventually boils over for those they target (and that, apparently, is what Master Trolling wants, to get those they target to just go ugly like this hapless writer has on twitter). I don't respect any involved there. Palin is well known to take a simple, direct question and make it immensely and in a cascade of speech monopoly, about herself eventually. It's simply irritating to many. But to the Palin folks, you aren't allowed to differ. I call that a cult just like the Obama folk are engaged in and the rest of us don't care for it from anyone in politics. I also don't find Palin conservative but that's another story and certainly Gingrich isn't. AND SO, Beck makes another easy target. Unfortunately. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 23:57:15 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/07/beck-site-attacks-sarah-palin-over-trig-article-writer-calls-palin-supporter-whore/#IDComment286605999 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/01/08/white-house-threw-alice-in-wonderland-party-kept-press-in-the-dark/#IDComment259652059 I just love the photos of all the children of military personnel...uhh, wait, what? There AREN'T any photos of "them"? Just photos of The Mad Hatter and his companions? Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:36:34 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/01/08/white-house-threw-alice-in-wonderland-party-kept-press-in-the-dark/#IDComment259652059 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/09/johnny-depp-gate-why-didnt-disney-promote-a-white-house-party-surrounding-an-upcoming-film/#IDComment259646464 Well, second time my modest comment won't post, so I don't know how at this point to respond...the response does seem obvious to me, though, as to the why's of this story being covered-up. Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:29:22 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/09/johnny-depp-gate-why-didnt-disney-promote-a-white-house-party-surrounding-an-upcoming-film/#IDComment259646464 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/09/johnny-depp-gate-why-didnt-disney-promote-a-white-house-party-surrounding-an-upcoming-film/#IDComment259645720 I think it might be due to the inevitable public assumption that there was The Mad Hatter in the White House with his Wookie by his side. Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:28:21 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/09/johnny-depp-gate-why-didnt-disney-promote-a-white-house-party-surrounding-an-upcoming-film/#IDComment259645720 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/09/johnny-depp-gate-why-didnt-disney-promote-a-white-house-party-surrounding-an-upcoming-film/#IDComment259644460 Now, if media has any credibility, any at all, they'll air the stories and possible photos from those many Wednesday night cocktail parties the Obamas have had in the President's residence. I bet they won't. Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:26:41 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/09/johnny-depp-gate-why-didnt-disney-promote-a-white-house-party-surrounding-an-upcoming-film/#IDComment259644460 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/09/johnny-depp-gate-why-didnt-disney-promote-a-white-house-party-surrounding-an-upcoming-film/#IDComment259642770 The obvious, however: the Bush family would NOT have done something like this. I think the extent of their dubious partying was their Cinco de Mayo event completed in the South of the Border theme with everyone minding their p's-and-q's amidst the costumery. Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:24:50 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/09/johnny-depp-gate-why-didnt-disney-promote-a-white-house-party-surrounding-an-upcoming-film/#IDComment259642770 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/09/johnny-depp-gate-why-didnt-disney-promote-a-white-house-party-surrounding-an-upcoming-film/#IDComment259641136 An afterthought: the obvious conclusion by the public, though, in recognizing The Mad Hatter as being White House residential would have been the eventual perspective. Maybe that had something to do with wanting to keep this Mad-Hatter-In-Chief with his giant Wookie Lobsterhound 'quiet'. Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:22:56 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/09/johnny-depp-gate-why-didnt-disney-promote-a-white-house-party-surrounding-an-upcoming-film/#IDComment259641136 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/09/johnny-depp-gate-why-didnt-disney-promote-a-white-house-party-surrounding-an-upcoming-film/#IDComment259639313 [Begin Quote] According to news reports and Google, Disney did next to nothing to play this event up. Why? Occam’s Razor. I think Disney’s a studio run by left-wing partisans who memory-holed the party for the same reasons I suspect the MSM did — to protect Obama from a public relations hit, especially one during the crucial days leading up to a crucial ObamaCare vote. [End Quote] That'd be my conclusiion, too, stated there, that Quote above, your post. Disney IS run by "left-wing partisans" and whatever their somewhat-conservative public profile WAS at some PAST time, it was merely for show: to lend credibility and appeal to it's animation and other features. But as anyone who works there knows, the place is as left-wing as they come, and, the place will quickly penalize and punish anyone who they so much as suspect is not on board with the left-wingism. In other words, Disney has a left-wing partisan culture. Who "runs" it has created if not demanded such and let no one assume that they don't. Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:20:36 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/09/johnny-depp-gate-why-didnt-disney-promote-a-white-house-party-surrounding-an-upcoming-film/#IDComment259639313 http://biggovernment.com/pschweizer/2011/11/21/why-doesnt-john-kerry-put-his-investments-into-a-blind-trust/#IDComment225145075 Use of a "blind trust" -- especially by politicians while in public office -- is a smokescreen BECAUSE it can be "managed" by whomever they establish to manage it, such as (even) a spouse, a silent partner, whomever. It merely grants the appearance of benefiting "blindly" from investments and other financial property, it does not guarantee that anyone is actually not involved with what's taking place via the "blind trust." And, in John Kerry's case, he'd have to be someone other than he actually is to even appear to be honorable with his connections and other hoodwinks from the Senate or otherwise. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:27:24 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/pschweizer/2011/11/21/why-doesnt-john-kerry-put-his-investments-into-a-blind-trust/#IDComment225145075 http://bigpeace.com/phair/2011/11/16/the-u-s-armed-forces-are-apparently-okay-with-occupywallstreet/#IDComment223296015 @ nm690 - However, doesn't it make you a tad uncomfortable that it's being represented to the contrary (as the opposite of what you know firsthand as you state there). Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:14:25 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/phair/2011/11/16/the-u-s-armed-forces-are-apparently-okay-with-occupywallstreet/#IDComment223296015 http://bigpeace.com/phair/2011/11/16/the-u-s-armed-forces-are-apparently-okay-with-occupywallstreet/#IDComment223295508 I am not.at.all.pleased with the New Age Gay Rage Muslim Embracing "new" Army personality. Not.at.all.pleased. One of my hunches about the why's involved in this "change" is that Barack Obama wants to inhibit the "all volunteer Army" -- less attractive to capable volunteers, in other words. Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:12:52 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/phair/2011/11/16/the-u-s-armed-forces-are-apparently-okay-with-occupywallstreet/#IDComment223295508 http://bigpeace.com/phair/2011/11/16/the-u-s-armed-forces-are-apparently-okay-with-occupywallstreet/#IDComment223295122 [Quote] What this all means is that the U.S. Armed Forces and government apparently see nothing wrong with an avowed group of anarchists and communists who have openly aligned with the Arab Spring [End Quote]. Apparently, the Obama adminstration's "change" of the U.S. has included implementing "The Men Who Stare At Goats" cultural effects on the Army. It seems that George Clooney didn't portray a fictional character after all -- it was mere training material for the actual Obama-Change plans. Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:11:37 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/phair/2011/11/16/the-u-s-armed-forces-are-apparently-okay-with-occupywallstreet/#IDComment223295122 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9QSS6680&show_article=1#IDComment218981859 Whenever I consider the Earth as it is, suspended here in infinite space, with other objects moving to and from as they are and not destroying our planet, I thank God. And if there is nothing else to convince others that God exists, consider this, that we are, indeed, suspended as we are and yet have persisted here as a planet all these considerable centuries. If you don't recognize the miraculous in that, then allow us who do a moment to pause and thank God for His love and protection of us all. I could just as easily thank Jupiter for attracting many an object away from our planet, but then, God made (and manages) Jupiter, too. :) Wed, 9 Nov 2011 00:43:20 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9QSS6680&show_article=1#IDComment218981859 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/10/25/barack-obama-led-occupychicago-circa-1988/#IDComment212479891 And keep in mind that the majority of media corporation CEOs and controlling interests still fawn over and about Obama. He calls them his "stockholders" and they're still throwing money at him for re-election. This has a great deal to do with how information both in general and specifically is presented to the public especially in broadcasting and on the internet. Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:28:03 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/10/25/barack-obama-led-occupychicago-circa-1988/#IDComment212479891 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/10/25/barack-obama-led-occupychicago-circa-1988/#IDComment212478757 He really is simply a hustler of the most corrupt kind. One who uses the sweet-act and seductive voice performances to influence gullible and impressionable (and other corrupt) people. He's still nothing more than a rotten hustler, just happens to be being paid to do his hustle by very corrupt people with a lot of money and there should be no wonder why they have it. Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:23:24 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/10/25/barack-obama-led-occupychicago-circa-1988/#IDComment212478757 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/10/25/barack-obama-led-occupychicago-circa-1988/#IDComment212477694 This WAS available as information to the public during the 2008 election. Except that anyone who mentioned it anywhere on the internet was ridiculed, their sites and accounts hacked, gossip was spread about them online as elsewhere, they were greatly maligned and attacked and it wasn't just the Left who did so. There was a lot of revealing information about Barack Obama's corruption and Marxist acts and beliefs available prior to him being elected, but, when it was mentioned by anyone, they were destroyed, not him. The sites where a lot of this informatioin was gathered and available were ridiculed also, as being "looney" sites and their owners "nuts" and things of that nature. It was this spectacle that Obama both encouraged, led and participated in (this post here and now) that resulted in the eventual housing and economy implosion. Obama and his Communist kind in Chicago threated Citi with "bad public relations" (that they'd be ruined in the street by people gossiping bad gossip about them) IF Citi did NOT relent and issue home mortgages based upon race and not based upon credit worthiness. Thus began the soon-widespread practice of coercion upon lending institutions to issue non-credit-worthy home loans to just about anyone who claimed race as qualification for a loan. This was the same process of threat that they applied later to anyone who attempted to share the information about them (about Obama and associates, including ACORN, SEIU, the Communist/Marxist crime syndicate, etc.) leading up to the election in 2008. Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:19:16 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/10/25/barack-obama-led-occupychicago-circa-1988/#IDComment212477694