en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/714756 Comments by KarlQ http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5fd9d9aca2e24cbdb73350eb1197d306.661&show_article=1#IDComment101514382 When stocks and gold go up simultaneously, it means the dollar has gone down... the change is not in intrinsic value, but in the value of the currency in which that value is denominated. The media always cheers a rising stock market, without regard as to the true meaning of the rise. Inflation is coming.... I am reminded of the old "good news, bad news" joke from the Carter days: the guy shipwrecked on an island is rescued and calls his broker. good news... your account is valued now at $3M... band news... (ding) please deposit $1M for 3 more minutes on this call. Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:54:16 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5fd9d9aca2e24cbdb73350eb1197d306.661&show_article=1#IDComment101514382 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH3I600&show_article=1#IDComment81794263 Obvious Answer: 1) there are 33 deep water drilling rigs on the coast..... assign a government safety inspector 24/7 to each one and CONTINUE DRILLING on all wells where all safety requirements are followed. The oil industry would gladly pay any costs involved in this greater level of oversight.... because it is VASTLY cheaper to drill than to not drill given the cost of the equipment and the degredation of the wells and equipment when they are left idle. 2) open up the government lands to drilling!!!!! ...it is OBVIOUS that any spill would be easier to contain ON LAND! When comparing the downside risks, it makes far more sense to suffer the loss of a small valley than the loss of the entire Gulf of Mexico! Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:10:06 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH3I600&show_article=1#IDComment81794263 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GGL7R06&show_article=1#IDComment81515086 33000 successful wells drilled in Gulf, one failure for reasons that ARE increasingly clear and unique to BP... and that is why you want to put well over 100,000 people on unemployment? Drill on LAND where it is safe, IN THE ROCKIES like the Canadians do, on GOVERNMENT land so we can earn the royaltees! ...the only reason not to is so Soros can make a lot of money by forcing us to buy oil from his Brazilian company! Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:44:10 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GGL7R06&show_article=1#IDComment81515086 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GGH9H00&show_article=1#IDComment81483083 The General IS the expert to tell Obama who's A** needs kicking! Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:44:15 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GGH9H00&show_article=1#IDComment81483083 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GGH9H00&show_article=1#IDComment81482834 Unfortunately, it is just the end of the beginning. We are on our way to a world no "progressive" would love: one in which half the world is dedicated to killing the other half on religious grounds..... now, THAT is a war a "progressive" would be ill equiped to fight! Seriously.... we will not escape terror by running away. We will simply invite them to follow us and try and finish the job by killing us off. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:42:35 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GGH9H00&show_article=1#IDComment81482834 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9F6V25O0&show_article=1#IDComment69061568 I wonder if this Cardinal also felt that it was offensive to be judgemental about Priests accused of abusing children? ....I guess he would have been in favor of granting them the broad "benefit of the doubt" and not reportng them to the police until forced to do so by publicity! Compassion for the poor, downtrodden and weak is important, but not to the point of promoting injustice against others who are innocent and following the rules. Want to be compassionate about illegal immigrants? ...help them get home safely and then help them go through the process of applying for legal immigration. Any more than that is harming legal immigrants and the poor and downtrodden (unemployed) citizens and welfare recipients we already have. Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:36:44 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9F6V25O0&show_article=1#IDComment69061568 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EUE9UO1&show_article=1#IDComment66493547 Bad news.... I am afraid our financial leaders are repeating the 1920's... the crash of '29 was followed by a rebound and then the "Great Depression" solved only by World War II, death to a significant fraction of the industrialized world, leaving us largely untouched.... able to export to everyone. We may not be so lucky this time around.... the oceans are not the great buffers they were back then. ....bad news. It is going to be VERY hard to avoid severe inflation ... oil going up, China now being the dominant manufacturing nation.... Thu, 8 Apr 2010 01:14:19 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EUE9UO1&show_article=1#IDComment66493547 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.540787e65066fbb55a6394f4416b6a7d.871&show_article=1#IDComment64148152 There was a Nova show back a decade or two ago that talked about how polution was causing global cooling... seriously! ...talked about how the particulates caused clouds to form, reflecting heat back into space and cooling the earth underneath. Israeli agrecultural scientists had been tracking the evaporation rates in their desert fields for decades, in recent times, evap slowed, total sunshine lessened world-wide and Nova tracted the problem world wide as due to particulate polution. Remember when LA was covered with smog? Back then global cooling was the rage. We cut down on particulate polution by scrubbing all our coal fired power plants, cut down on Nitrogen oxides with catalytic converters, and what happened? Skys cleared and 'global warming' became the rage. India and China replace the particulates we got rid of and global cooling returns.... sure seems like we may have finally found the problem! It is not CO2, it is particulate polution rearing its ugly head again! Ah what idiots we all are.... HUMILITY is the key attribute every good scientist should have. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:23:26 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.540787e65066fbb55a6394f4416b6a7d.871&show_article=1#IDComment64148152 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EHPH5O2&show_article=1#IDComment62995337 I'd roll back many of the intrusions into state authority that the Federal Government made since they started interpreting the "Interstate Commerce" clause too broadly over 100 years ago. For example, we badly need national standards for education and a great deal of work learning how to make the best of all our talent and resources at the state and local level. I'd suggest reducing the role of the Education Department to overseeing a National Convention of State Educators who would manage state-wise experiments and promote adoption across state lines of those ideas that work successfully. The same with medical regulation, product labeling, nursing homes, infrastructure maintenance, building codes, etc. These are all things that benefit from good national standards AND experimentation at the state and local level on the technical details that work. Asking general purpose legislators to handle this stuff is insane. Asking them to oversee the activities of specialized boards is reasonable. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:59:05 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EHPH5O2&show_article=1#IDComment62995337 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EHPH5O2&show_article=1#IDComment62995223 I would recommend a new layer of specialized government to handle domestic policy between states, based on the model of the constitutional convention. Representatives of all the states would meet to determine a uniform set of rules for the administration of "insurance" products. This would be a national board of state insurance regulators and representatives of the people and industry appointed by the states and federal government to investigate the costs and negotiate compromises. If this works, we could have additional national boards or conventions meet to unify regulation and learn from the experiences of the varied states in regulating, enforcing, financing all the various specialized areas in which states have authority. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:58:07 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EHPH5O2&show_article=1#IDComment62995223 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EHPH5O2&show_article=1#IDComment62994139 It dawns on me that the government is now doing all the things that led to the Wall Street crash: over promising, bending the rules to the point of breaking, hiding expenses, over estimating the value of assets, etc. ...and doing it for the very same reason: greed for power and money The Federal Government has expanded to the point where it is no longer sustainable.... it needs to be split up and cut down to manageable size. Washington conflates disparate interests for political gain: e.g. putting the student loan revisions in the health care reform bill (which really is a reform on a certain class of insurance.) The results are ALWAYS sub-optimum, doing little to take into account the needs of the state governments who end up paying for most of it. If you are in favor of health insurance reform in the form of "Obamacare", stop a second and think about how you were probably also in favor of "no documentation, zero down" home loans. We are allowing our government to run amok just as our government allowed Wall Street too much freedom to take unreasonable risks, distort reality and lie about assets and outcomes. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:49:48 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EHPH5O2&show_article=1#IDComment62994139 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EHPH5O2&show_article=1#IDComment62993392 So.... in 1 year, his "promise" of reform has collapsed to the degree that it needs to be "redeemed"? Given the hoopla with which he won and was inaugurated, we expected "Hope and Change" would be fully demonstrated and highly touted by now..... instead it needs to be "redeemed"? Possibly he does have a "Messiah Complex" and is actively looking for a cross on which to sacrifice himself. Unfortunately, his "redemption" looks more like a sacrifice of American freedom and liberty. I wish he'd be the one making all the sacrifices over the years to fulfill this over promising! Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:44:06 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EHPH5O2&show_article=1#IDComment62993392 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EGILUG0&show_article=1#IDComment62654978 I never realized that slavery could be so popular with the American left. I hope they are happy having a new boss man telling them what is good for them. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:23:58 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EGILUG0&show_article=1#IDComment62654978 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.ce7b18ff74d1dcc6be3181f05e48255b.151&show_article=1#IDComment58919068 Final comment: If the Dems force this through via "reconciliation" (51 votes), then it will be easy to overturn it after the Repubs take control of the Senate this fall! Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:40:39 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.ce7b18ff74d1dcc6be3181f05e48255b.151&show_article=1#IDComment58919068 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.ce7b18ff74d1dcc6be3181f05e48255b.151&show_article=1#IDComment58918819 I love the C-SPAN archives.... the liars keep revealing themselves over and over again. Unfortunately, we seem to be raising a nation of selfish people who want to defend liars who pay them off. I know we've lost our manufacturing leadership, and are near losing our financial leadership... will our next leading export be liars? Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:37:55 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.ce7b18ff74d1dcc6be3181f05e48255b.151&show_article=1#IDComment58918819 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.ce7b18ff74d1dcc6be3181f05e48255b.151&show_article=1#IDComment58918449 What ever happened the to big push for jobs??? It job #1 too hard for #1? Frankly, like #1 told John McCain... the election is over. He simply suppressed the rest of what he was thinking: "....so I don't have to pretend I'll do any of those things I promised!' Well you wait #1. When the voters finish with you, you're finally realize that liars finish last! Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:33:47 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.ce7b18ff74d1dcc6be3181f05e48255b.151&show_article=1#IDComment58918449 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9E21QA00&show_article=1#IDComment58374462 Let me see.... a non-profit organization is one in which there is no wealth created.... hence there is no wealth to be invested.... hence the best we can expect is no growth, no new jobs, no new businesses, just the status quo. Government jobs, at the very best, are non-profit. (They generally cost more and more year to year, hence worse than simply non-profit.) Hence every dollar inserted into the economy by government is a dollar that ultimately is extracted from the economy.... non-profit, no-growth. Want the economy to grow? ....stimulate the part of the economy that creates wealth that can be invested in new jobs, new stores, new factories and new corporations in which we can invest our profits. You can't do that by taking money out of the economy and stuff it back in, after taking a cut to cover the government employees managing the "stimulus". What is needed is to LEAVE THE MONEY IN THE ECONOMY where it can create wealth. We need roughly 100,000 new jobs a month to keep up with population growth and retirements. So far, all that has been done is to keep government workers on the job and pay benefits for the unemployed. This clearly is far worse than just "not enough"!!! Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:49:16 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9E21QA00&show_article=1#IDComment58374462 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.44ec3a3581bd2b87b081a9614648ee11.c61&show_article=1#IDComment54722513 The real answer is to construct tax laws that are enforceable without the violation of the sovereignty of other nations or the privacy of individuals. The system as it exists now offers great advantages to those rich enough to hire lawyers and tax accountants. When you have to pay people to act as a buffer between your government and you, the citizen, the government has declared itself to some degree "the enemy". We need a transparent system so we no longer foster the fraud, waste, abuse and criminality involved in a system so complex that ordinary citizens can no longer trust it. Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:01:35 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.44ec3a3581bd2b87b081a9614648ee11.c61&show_article=1#IDComment54722513 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.44ec3a3581bd2b87b081a9614648ee11.c61&show_article=1#IDComment54720410 China thinks Google is violating their laws and subverting their national security. They want access to all the Gmail mailboxes used by dissidents. I guess if we can force the Swiss to help us track down our "criminals", we should help the Chinese track down their's. Is that your position? I don't see a sane resolution to this except to construct tax laws that do not require the violation of international sovereignty to enforce. Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:53:46 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.44ec3a3581bd2b87b081a9614648ee11.c61&show_article=1#IDComment54720410 http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_wpri_bishop_tobin_responds_to_kennedy_20091122#IDComment44295723 And Kennedy is perfectly free to no longer be a Catholic.... in fact, he is merely pretending now. "Being Catholic" is not a matter of donating money to the church or attending Mass on Sunday; it is a matter of accepting the precepts of the church. The importance of a respect for life goes beyond that. Respect for life is not "a Catholic thing." Humanity depends upon it. Trading that respect for the convenience of abortion is cheapening what it means to be human. The senator is free to sell his soul and sell out humanity for power and office, but he cannot blame the church for standing firm. He was NOT publicly rebuked... he was privately reminded that he might want to quit pretending to be a "practicing Catholic". I'd extend that advice to many other politicians that are catholic in lower case only. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:31:58 +0000 http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_wpri_bishop_tobin_responds_to_kennedy_20091122#IDComment44295723