en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/350185 Comments by USNJIMRET http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_24808013#IDComment776049684 "What we have is that he made vague suicidal threats"....so we shot him. Cop "logic". Sun, 29 Dec 2013 21:06:03 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_24808013#IDComment776049684 http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/12/05/editorial-cartoonist-depicts-republicans-as-child-rapists/#IDComment233458073 Further, and totally unnecessary, evidence of just how morally corrupt the Nation has become. I don't know if Sandusky is guilty of what he has been accused of. I don't believe that there has been a trial yet, nor has he confessed. So, in what used to be the American Legal tradition, he is innocent. (Not that I don't believe he molested every one of those who have come forward making accusations.) And I have no clue if Sandusky is a Registered Republican, or a registered member of ANY political party. But FACTS like those never get in the way of a Lefty's chance to take a truly cheap shot at Republicans, does it? Tue, 6 Dec 2011 04:39:27 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/12/05/editorial-cartoonist-depicts-republicans-as-child-rapists/#IDComment233458073 http://www.dailycamera.com/broncos-nfl/ci_19419924#IDComment228311234 To bad for the bolts, the game pays for 60 minutes. Tebow does it again. Like him or not, the winning record is hard to argue with. Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:29:31 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/broncos-nfl/ci_19419924#IDComment228311234 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/30/the-government-inflated-college-loan-bubble/#IDComment214662362 ►"Oh well, sometimes the only way people learn is to run into the wall by themselves."◄ Agreed. Unfortunately, many of those people demand that the wall be built so as to cause the maximum damage to others first, AND then insist that they be empowered to drag/compel/force as many other people along for the ride as possible. Even people who already understand the "lesson of the wall", as it were, are forced to accompany the idiots as they learn the facts of a reality that does NOT bend to fit their Utopian dreams. To many people today actually believe that old Dire Straits lyric about "Get your money for nothing, and your checks for free." The idea of working hard and steady to "earn" that money and the accompanying life style seems to be just to much like "work" to be accepted by a growing number of educated Useful idiots in this country. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:50:05 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/30/the-government-inflated-college-loan-bubble/#IDComment214662362 http://www.dailycamera.com/lafayette-news/ci_19108301#IDComment207235621 Interesting.....Does the fact that the FDIC got a restraining order for an operation that had been running for at least 4 years mean that there was no liability insurance, or the like, previously? Have there been any incidents in previous years where liability issues have been a problem? One would have to assume that there was no insurance in place in previous years, no? Or did the FDIC demand increased amounts/kinds of Liability Insurance that Boulder County hadn't seen as necessary in previous years? Also, was this Haunted House run as a for profit kind of operation? If so, then yet another small business put out of business by some part of the Federal Government....isn't that just great? If the Haunted House costs were absorbed by the operators and others, without a profit motive, then an even greater example of our Federal Government making yet another 'tradition' a thing of the past. And little by little, small steps at a time, the various parts of the Government involves itself in more and more parts of life in America. This time, a kind of minuscule thing, compared to many other HUGE financial issues, but over time, the hundreds (thousands?) of little intrusions across the thousands of communities in the country....pretty soon you have to deal with the Government on just about everything. Even just a Halloween Haunted House. Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:38:46 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/lafayette-news/ci_19108301#IDComment207235621 http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2011/06/25/union-apologists-why-keep-school-seniority-older-teachers-have-mortgages/#IDComment166760450 How many horror stories have we all heard with regards to tenure, or seniority based systems? Hell, even the military, which also has a seniority based system, isn't so wrapped up in it that the chaff isn't regularly purged. Merit based promotion and retention systems simply make the most sense....unless your interest is based on anything other then whatever it is that you claim is your primary reason for the job in the first place! In the case of teachers unions, it appears quite obviously that maintaining their jobs, and forced dues, is not only the number one priority, but likely the ONLY priority. There are probably more dedicated and serious about their job performance teachers then there are Union Officials. But like politicians and attorneys, they have created a system that insures that whatever the Union declares is important is the ONLY thing that is important. And don't even start a discussion on how the concept of "good faith bargaining" has been bastardized into something that is unrecognizable!! Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:53:32 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2011/06/25/union-apologists-why-keep-school-seniority-older-teachers-have-mortgages/#IDComment166760450 http://bigpeace.com/ier/2011/06/23/what-the-obama-administration-wont-tell-you-about-solar-power/#IDComment165964045 In the old vernacular.......Right on, Right on, Right on!! But you never EVER hear anyone from the supposedly "smart" left comment on this "in your face" fact. Either the number of nuclear "accidents" aboard Nuke powered Navy vessels is exceedingly low, or cover ups of "X-Files" magnitude. Personally, having done 24 Active Duty years in the Navy, I'd go with the exceedingly low option. NOT "Loose lips" and all that for the tens of thousands, if not more, of people who would have been aware of nuke power plant issues makes the kind of "secrets" even X-Files tried to sound real seem childish. What with all the revelations like Wikileaks and the like over the years, how can ANYONE believe that the "Government" has kept all word of nuke accidents quiet? And that would have HAD to be the case for nothing to be out there, as it were. Thus, your point is excellent, and well made. The excess time/cost of civilian nuke plants is almost ALL associated with defeating the continuous efforts of idiots who look to block something smart, at great expense to ►everyone◄ else. Jim-Erie, CO Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:05:52 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/ier/2011/06/23/what-the-obama-administration-wont-tell-you-about-solar-power/#IDComment165964045 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_16820566#IDComment115336068 Jeeze.....why do so many people not want to just allow that it was a "flash" something or other, and would have been very cool to have been present to see? Of course it was practiced, organized, and approved by the mall operators! But, a bunch of folks dancing to a Christmas song, asking nothing of anyone but to enjoy the 3-4 minutes of their lives NOT being angry, bored or otherwise 'normal', and a bunch of other folks want to dissect the whole thing! Sheesh....it was cool and probably a lot of fun for all involved. Isn't that enough? Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:46:41 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_16820566#IDComment115336068 http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_16410008#IDComment105678220 So nice to know that the TSA has so solved EVERY potential attack on our Airports, Seaports and major land transportation hubs, that they can spare 'officers'(?) to protect football fans! So very nice indeed. As noted by others, the lack of response by those you would expect to complain about increased police powers by the Federal Govt is deafening! BTW, if you have a negative encounter with a TSA officer on patrol, is it a Federal Offense vs a lesser offense if just CUPD? Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:49:25 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_16410008#IDComment105678220 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_15983894#IDComment96844133 While I wouldn't vote for Hick if someone held a gun to my head, I am more then a little dismayed at the other choices. Maes and Tancredo BOTH are putting their personal interests above what is good for Colorado. And that is what is wrong with nearly ALL politicians anymore. They, and their 'friends/supporters', convince themselves that they are not being selfish, when the fact is they are. Had Tancredo entered the Republican primary, I believe he would have won it. Because he didn't, and chose late in the season to run for Governor, he becomes, possibly, the reason Hick might 'win'. Should that happen, Maes and Tancredo both should be all but banned from even being allowed to live in this State! BTW, in the picture above, isn't hick looking old and tired? Fri, 3 Sep 2010 23:47:28 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_15983894#IDComment96844133 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_15336730#IDComment81122528 "The fire had burned more than 4,500 acres by Sunday.-Great Sand Dunes National Park. A fire on the Roan Plateau in western Colorado has burned 150 acres." 4600 plus acres, probably much more by Monday. Yet the 600 acres fire near Flagstaff, AZ gets front page, above the fold, top of the hour coverage. Edit: I meant that the front page coverage was in many Major City publications. Not the Camera. Sheesh..... Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:04:13 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_15336730#IDComment81122528 http://www.dailycamera.com/entertainment/ci_15263296#IDComment79903641 Well, it took me three tries to read the entire article. :) Not really, it's a short read. As for the base premise, who knows? Is the actual physical way that a brain functions being altered by increased use of the Net? Again, no one knows, yet. The technology is still in it's comparative infancy and, like many new "miracle" drugs, the long term consequences are unknown. Even if the brain is being changed, is that necessarily a bad thing? Once again, it is difficult to know. But in the discussion of what might be happening to the deep thinking and more singular focus of the pre-net days, don't forget to ask if the problems faced today are any different then those in the past. Are we, as a Nation or the World, seeing issues and problems that were never an issue or problem before? Are the solutions being proposed any different then in the past? If not, then nothing has really changed, has it? Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:37:10 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/entertainment/ci_15263296#IDComment79903641 http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/16/looking-california-but-feeling-minnesota-miss-me-yet-billboard-sponsors-revealed/#IDComment57172751 One of the most disturbing things about this 'new age of communication', IMO, is that if someone wishes to do something anonymously, they cannot. At least not for very long. Someone, somewhere, with the right money, connection or threat, will always find not only a way, but a 'reason' to reveal that which was obviously intended to remain unknown. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, part of the price of living in a semi free country. The part that IS wrong, IMO, is that there will now be a mad rush to publicize every possible detail of the sponsors lives. And, as we saw with Governor Palin, it won't matter much to some of the details are completely manufactured. Just an observation. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:31:21 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/16/looking-california-but-feeling-minnesota-miss-me-yet-billboard-sponsors-revealed/#IDComment57172751 http://biggovernment.com/mrichmond/2010/02/02/inspector-general-tarp-has-created-a-looming-disaster/#IDComment55127112 More to the point, who cares which specific individual (if any such can actually-factually, be identified) "caused" it? The insanity of constantly playing the school yard game of "who started it" accomplishes what? If President Bush were to publicly state that he now realizes that TARP was a mistake, and takes complete "blame" for the entire TARP debacle, as well as everything that led to it's 'need', what would that change? We would STILL have the Federal purse far to involved in owning/backing financial 'products' that most of us can't begin to understand. We'd still have Freddie and Fannie holding current and future generations of taxpayers hostage to unsecured debt that should NEVER have been risked. (As far as I am concerned, any mortgage that is worth more then the home it is on, upside down/under water as it were, is an unsecured debt!) So long as the Government is not only seen by many as the financial 'backstop', but indeed the starting catcher, the pitcher is going to keep throwing that fast ball right down the middle of the plate! Wed, 3 Feb 2010 03:31:52 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/mrichmond/2010/02/02/inspector-general-tarp-has-created-a-looming-disaster/#IDComment55127112 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.c95a9cfac86aefd2216c6292d7f6e815.261&show_article=1#IDComment53225568 OK, in it's own weird way, that's just funny! ;O) This President, he of the giant tin ear, has finally heard that the American People are NOT wandering around like zombies, mumbling about "Health Reform" to the exclusion of everything else???? Really?? And yet now suddenly he figures it's time to listen to the "voices of everyday Americans"??? Does he even KNOW any of us? You know, regular Joe's and Kathy's. People who might have a Bachelors degree, after years of night school. Folks who see Harvard and Yale on the TV box when some sporting event is held there? People working some job for 20 years, trying to play by the rules, and hoping that the "leaders" don't spend us all into poverty? Everyday Americans....like this dude has any experience in that crowd. Or at least any in recent memory....say the last 20 years or so. Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:48:08 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.c95a9cfac86aefd2216c6292d7f6e815.261&show_article=1#IDComment53225568 http://biggovernment.com/jpanero/2010/01/10/war-through-weakness-how-the-terrorists-win/#IDComment51420982 Those would be the "intelligence networks" he is building that missed the underwear bomber? And these "networks" are populated with who? The folks who are now watching every word they say, and written recommendation they might make, for fear of some future Attorney General (operating completely independently of the President's interests of course) might decide to investigate because a terrorist, oops 'alleged' terrorist might claim rough treatment? You actually believing the idea the this President is doing even a passable job of fighting the terrorists? Really??????? Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:56:44 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpanero/2010/01/10/war-through-weakness-how-the-terrorists-win/#IDComment51420982 http://biggovernment.com/jpanero/2010/01/10/war-through-weakness-how-the-terrorists-win/#IDComment51420011 Uh, the State Department is a part of the Nobama Administration. The President doesn't "ask" that the Department of State to do, or not do, something, he tells them! Although I am sure that should the idea of reducing the number of visas given to folks from 'problematic Middle East countries" be suggested to this President, the best we could hope for is him ordering a "review" of the process. He's really big on 'reviewing' things, even things long in place. Helps to avoid having to actually make a decision. Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:46:13 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpanero/2010/01/10/war-through-weakness-how-the-terrorists-win/#IDComment51420011 http://biggovernment.com/jpanero/2010/01/10/war-through-weakness-how-the-terrorists-win/#IDComment51419382 How can anyone possibly "know" that? It's never been done. There are many who claim that the vast majority of muslims are peace loving, fair people. Not interested in islam ruling the world. They seem to be awfully quiet most of the time, as it appears to be not in their interest to point out that mohammad down the street is planning to kill all the evil Americans he can next Thursday. Maybe it's time to change their thinking on that, and MAKE it in their interest to point out that mohammad down the street is planning a suicide bombing next Thursday! Just sayin' Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:39:39 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpanero/2010/01/10/war-through-weakness-how-the-terrorists-win/#IDComment51419382 http://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2010/01/08/obama-funder-jodie-evans-name-in-white-house-visitor-log-days-after-code-pink-hamas-trip/#IDComment51018476 Precisely what I was going to say, but I had to log in first!! Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:18:10 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2010/01/08/obama-funder-jodie-evans-name-in-white-house-visitor-log-days-after-code-pink-hamas-trip/#IDComment51018476 http://biggovernment.com/mkibbe/2010/01/07/obamacare-a-new-era-of-non-transparency/#IDComment50894944 Ya know......that whole line about "bending the cost curve"???? Well, nothing says a bend can't go up. Thu, 7 Jan 2010 16:48:03 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/mkibbe/2010/01/07/obamacare-a-new-era-of-non-transparency/#IDComment50894944