en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/660714 Comments by Methusela http://biggovernment.com/ldrummer/2010/04/09/regulating-the-internet-one-way-or-the-other/#IDComment66929625 He may be speaking the truth but he's insinuating too much. "The internet wouldn't exist without some public funding at some point. That's not to say that Government MUST control it, but that government has always had some role." Has the government always had some role? Would it not exist without some public funding? Seems to me that the internet didn't really get off the starting block until the government abandoned it. I first saw it in 1981 and back then it was strictly an email network between large universities (mainly private, I was going to the University of Southern California at the time). After the government got out of the way, those university students figured out a way to really make it better. The basic elements of the internet may have been created by the government but the real bells and whistles and the world wide web was created in spite of the government. Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:19:08 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/ldrummer/2010/04/09/regulating-the-internet-one-way-or-the-other/#IDComment66929625 http://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/11/16/al-gore-and-the-great-debate-will-he-or-wont-he/#IDComment43482251 What you consider pedantic, the rest of us, that actually have an entire brain, consider important facts that disprove the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Oh, but wait, I forgot, the debate is over and you won. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:05:00 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/11/16/al-gore-and-the-great-debate-will-he-or-wont-he/#IDComment43482251 http://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/11/04/lindsey-graham-for-cap-and-trade-except-when-hes-not/#IDComment42012807 Just because you believe it to be a logical fallacy doesn't make it so. In order to be a straw man it must be illogical and you are the only one here spouting illogical statements. By the way, I didn't bring up the UN. Someone else did. My statement stands, the IPCC is a UN organization. The IPCC is the ultimate power grab by the UN. Prove me wrong or just call it a strawman argument, your choice. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 01:45:08 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/11/04/lindsey-graham-for-cap-and-trade-except-when-hes-not/#IDComment42012807 http://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/11/04/lindsey-graham-for-cap-and-trade-except-when-hes-not/#IDComment41998964 Stop looking at the hockeystick graph. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:45:53 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/11/04/lindsey-graham-for-cap-and-trade-except-when-hes-not/#IDComment41998964 http://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/11/04/lindsey-graham-for-cap-and-trade-except-when-hes-not/#IDComment41998891 Which disinformation site did you summarize that from? Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:45:02 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/11/04/lindsey-graham-for-cap-and-trade-except-when-hes-not/#IDComment41998891 http://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/11/04/lindsey-graham-for-cap-and-trade-except-when-hes-not/#IDComment41998708 Do you believe what you just said? The UN is a strawman? The IPCC is a UN organization. Sounds like you see strawmen everywhere. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:42:32 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/11/04/lindsey-graham-for-cap-and-trade-except-when-hes-not/#IDComment41998708 http://biggovernment.com/bhennessy/2009/11/04/house-conservatives-break-with-gop-leaders-in-fight-against-obamacare/#IDComment41952131 This is the problem. Dems can't get the message because they don't care. The bigger issue is, did the Republicans get the message? I doubt it considering their response on every other issue.____Just because a politician has an R behind their name doesn't make them a conservative. Case in point is Scozzafava, she was more liberal than the Democrat. The leadership of the Republican party wants a bigger tent and they don't care how that tent is formed. I'm almost ready to reregister as an independent because both major parties are lying hypocrites. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:21:25 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/bhennessy/2009/11/04/house-conservatives-break-with-gop-leaders-in-fight-against-obamacare/#IDComment41952131 http://biggovernment.com/agunn/2009/10/31/boeing-heads-south-for-better-business-climate-washington-state-politicians-are-surprised/#IDComment41431508 True, Florida is a paradise. I loved living there while I was in the Navy. I didn't notice Floridians having an accent though, unless they were New York transplants :D Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:26:46 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/agunn/2009/10/31/boeing-heads-south-for-better-business-climate-washington-state-politicians-are-surprised/#IDComment41431508 http://biggovernment.com/agunn/2009/10/31/boeing-heads-south-for-better-business-climate-washington-state-politicians-are-surprised/#IDComment41430824 That's one thing that's always annoyed me. The government always tallys up the creation of a government job in the "plus" column. In all actuality, the creation of a government job is a net drain on the budget. The job and all its benefits are paid for by the taxpayer. The creation of any job should be considered a part of the deficit column because it is a burden on the taxpayer. Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:16:57 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/agunn/2009/10/31/boeing-heads-south-for-better-business-climate-washington-state-politicians-are-surprised/#IDComment41430824 http://biggovernment.com/agunn/2009/10/31/boeing-heads-south-for-better-business-climate-washington-state-politicians-are-surprised/#IDComment41429724 The sad part is that Governor Ritter is trying to emulate California. If we don't get rid of him for a fiscal conservative, Colorado will become a suburb of San Francisco. Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:00:24 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/agunn/2009/10/31/boeing-heads-south-for-better-business-climate-washington-state-politicians-are-surprised/#IDComment41429724 http://biggovernment.com/agunn/2009/10/31/boeing-heads-south-for-better-business-climate-washington-state-politicians-are-surprised/#IDComment41428360 All it takes is one good screwing by a union to foster union hatred. I worked at a steel mill in southern California that previously had been owned by Kaiser Steel. The United Steelworkers had a union at that plant during the Kaiser days. When the company closed down, the union didn't do a thing to help its workers and had raided the retirement fund. After the Japanese bought the old plant, the steelworkers tried again to weasle into the plant. Most of the employees had been screwed by the USW union when Kaiser shut down. As a result, when the election was held for allowing the union to "represent" us, they were defeated. Not just defeated, devastated. I believe the vote was near 96% against allowing the union to enter. Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:41:51 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/agunn/2009/10/31/boeing-heads-south-for-better-business-climate-washington-state-politicians-are-surprised/#IDComment41428360 http://biggovernment.com/agunn/2009/10/31/boeing-heads-south-for-better-business-climate-washington-state-politicians-are-surprised/#IDComment41427588 I lived in California for 22 years and the Governor was never really the problem. The problem is that the Assembly is overrun by FAR left liberals. The Governor has no power in California. The Assembly has his testicles in a vise. I left back in 2000 because I was just so tired of having less and less responsibility for how I lived my own life. California would be a great State if they could just remove San Francisco and Los Angeles. It would be even better if the anchor baby laws were repealed. Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:31:16 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/agunn/2009/10/31/boeing-heads-south-for-better-business-climate-washington-state-politicians-are-surprised/#IDComment41427588 http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2009/10/31/obamacare-insurance-premiums-soaring-up-up-and-away/#IDComment41422455 I think Walmart has been selling caskets for quite a while now. I don't have a problem with it because they cost a hell of a lot less than buying them at a funeral parlor. SEIU is organized crime and Walmart wants to be in with them so when the entire country is unionized, Walmart will have been in the family since the beginning and will be able to quash any small businesses that try to compete with them. Sun, 1 Nov 2009 15:16:39 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2009/10/31/obamacare-insurance-premiums-soaring-up-up-and-away/#IDComment41422455 http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2009/10/31/obamacare-insurance-premiums-soaring-up-up-and-away/#IDComment41422032 God, you need to go back to your progressive websites apparently. When Democrats were in power from 2006 till Obama, what did they do? When Democrats were in charge for 40 years before the Republicans took over in 1996, what did they do? Stop playing the stupid blame the Republican game. Neither party did a damned thing for healthcare. Define the healthcare problems and fix them one at a time. Don't scrap a system that works for most of us. Sun, 1 Nov 2009 15:11:22 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2009/10/31/obamacare-insurance-premiums-soaring-up-up-and-away/#IDComment41422032 http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2009/10/31/obamacare-insurance-premiums-soaring-up-up-and-away/#IDComment41421677 OK. Who has the best healthcare? Don't use the bullsh!t statistics that you get from DailyKOS though. Tell you what, when you need the best surgeon in the world, where do YOU look? Why don't you go to those wonderful countries with, in your opinion, the best health care in the world the next time you need an organ transplant or cancer treatment. Good luck with that. Sun, 1 Nov 2009 15:06:22 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2009/10/31/obamacare-insurance-premiums-soaring-up-up-and-away/#IDComment41421677 http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2009/10/31/obamacare-insurance-premiums-soaring-up-up-and-away/#IDComment41421410 True, it will be free for the leeches for a little while. When the money runs out the only ones receiving "free" health care will be the dictator and his cronies. Sun, 1 Nov 2009 15:02:35 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2009/10/31/obamacare-insurance-premiums-soaring-up-up-and-away/#IDComment41421410 http://biggovernment.com/cberg/2009/10/30/acorn-50-more-days-without-federal-funds/#IDComment41213281 It wouldn't shock me much especially after watching them fawn over Fidel Castro. They are just a bunch of morons within the Democratic moron party. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:11:53 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/cberg/2009/10/30/acorn-50-more-days-without-federal-funds/#IDComment41213281 http://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2009/10/23/a-name-americans-should-know-jodie-evans-and-the-obama-hollywood-terrorist-connection/#IDComment40566760 If he meant that, then he'd certainly think that Obama was a true patriot since he's doing more to suppress free speech than Bush ever did. Psst, your Bush Derangement Syndrome is showing. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:36:24 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2009/10/23/a-name-americans-should-know-jodie-evans-and-the-obama-hollywood-terrorist-connection/#IDComment40566760 http://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2009/10/23/a-name-americans-should-know-jodie-evans-and-the-obama-hollywood-terrorist-connection/#IDComment40566263 Tell that to the people that were attacked by SEIU at the tea parties. Terror: 4 : violent or destructive acts (as bombing) committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands <insurrection and revolutionary terror> Terrorism: : the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion Using these definitions, it's not a stretch to consider the SEIU terrorists. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:31:33 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2009/10/23/a-name-americans-should-know-jodie-evans-and-the-obama-hollywood-terrorist-connection/#IDComment40566263 http://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2009/10/23/a-name-americans-should-know-jodie-evans-and-the-obama-hollywood-terrorist-connection/#IDComment40565056 Mistake withstanding, I'd still like to see a woman activist from Afghanistan. To Evans, a woman activist from Afghanistan is probably a woman who would speak to her. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:20:31 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2009/10/23/a-name-americans-should-know-jodie-evans-and-the-obama-hollywood-terrorist-connection/#IDComment40565056