en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/761064 Comments by bubba4 http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/did-george-lucas-change-cinema-with-star-wars-prequels#IDComment118198785 I don't think George understands or can remember what "evil" is really like and why it would be appealing, especially how powerlust and desire can corrupt the spirit of men. Anakin's journey could have been the journey of the anti-hero but George is too ham-handed and child friendly to really give us a taste of it. Bad casting and terriblle scripts didn't help. Then there is the entire "little creatures in your cells' business...where he completely lost me. Lucas is a genius and innovator and no one can take his accomplishments away from him, but his best movies are the ones where someone helps him write the script and someone else directs it. Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:52:59 +0000 http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/did-george-lucas-change-cinema-with-star-wars-prequels#IDComment118198785 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/oil-producers-bullied/#IDComment111710939 The EPA isn't hostile to fossil fuels...but it has a reponsibility to protect you from them. You do realize that's what it's for? Fossil fuel companies tend to do a lot of the polluting...seriously Wesley...you do realize that pollution is a real thing... It wasn't invented by "lefty". Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:16:49 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/oil-producers-bullied/#IDComment111710939 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/oil-producers-bullied/#IDComment111709067 thank you coyotebot3000 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:07:51 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/oil-producers-bullied/#IDComment111709067 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/oil-producers-bullied/#IDComment111708844 How come the defenders of these international conglomerates are so angry? The fossil fuel giants are OK. Where does the urgency and anger come from? Where does that 4% figure come from? I mean, we know there is sales tax on a gallon of gas like everything else. States get that mostly. Maybe it's the retailer profit or some other way to juggle the numbers to make the victim case for these super rich and powerful entities (that aren't Americans). You and Sniper should go bowling and discuss where to get "reports" that make you feel like you wanna. Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:06:38 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/oil-producers-bullied/#IDComment111708844 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/oil-producers-bullied/#IDComment111707379 You're probably on the Tax Foundation's e-mail list. You wouldn't want to wait for their next breathtaking "report". You can't even stand me not thinking they are victims. You have to stand up and insist that they are.... Now go empty your bedpan. Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:57:34 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/oil-producers-bullied/#IDComment111707379 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/the-madness-of-a-twisted-faith/#IDComment111682636 Only sure things are death and taxes...I have no idea what you are getting at. Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:23:12 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/the-madness-of-a-twisted-faith/#IDComment111682636 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/oil-producers-bullied/#IDComment111658186 Not articles scum..."blog posts". This isn't a magazine or newspaper if it ever was one. Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:51:17 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/oil-producers-bullied/#IDComment111658186 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/oil-producers-bullied/#IDComment111658098 So give it to them? What crawled up your arse? Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:50:34 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/oil-producers-bullied/#IDComment111658098 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/the-madness-of-a-twisted-faith/#IDComment111472783 You can use the reply feature... "Real hourly compensation in America, including non-wage benefits, increased 41% on average from 1973 to 2007." Yeah that's exciting news sans the rise in the cost of living...the cost of food, rent, housing, cars, and everything else. Granted, it is a purposeful omission from Howard's post but: The Consumer Price Index went from 44.4 in 1973 to 207.3 in 2007, according to the BLS. In plain English, that means it cost almost five times as much to buy goods and services such as food in 2007 as it did in 1973. Debt has risen steadily, too. Average household debt was $27,600 in 1962 (adjusted for inflation), according to Federal Reserve Board data. In 2004, it was $79,100. In context, I don't know what Howard's examples are even for, exceptt to give the wrong impression and false context for the discussion. Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:44:48 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/the-madness-of-a-twisted-faith/#IDComment111472783 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/the-madness-of-a-twisted-faith/#IDComment111471077 What, you couldn't wait until I answered you above? Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:36:05 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/the-madness-of-a-twisted-faith/#IDComment111471077 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/the-madness-of-a-twisted-faith/#IDComment111470255 "So what are you arguing for, communism/socialism?" Sigh. "What the F is your point? Firm up what field?" The hereditary class of the same people? "The field of fascism, in your mind, that allows people to keep more of their hard earned money, except for those evil people who have had it over a certain period of time." Look, Howard already did this for you in the article. He took another person correctly pointing out a statistical fact and already tried to make that into the strawman of "tax the rich to death, they're evil". He then defended his safe positions (that America is good and people want to come here) against this strawman. So there is no need for you to come along and take my comments and do the same thing. It's just a tactic. "Have you determined what that period of time should be? Who determines what that period of time should be before the government has the right to take most of it away from you?" You're going to get taxed, somehow in some form, so how does it help any conversation to try to rephrase "taxes" as wealth distribution or theft? I mean, it's not wit. Now we just need the Coyote to come along and add that all income tax is unconstitutional and we can lose any point unique to this blog post all together. "Oh and by the way, I am sure what ever other web site you go to, the subject always gets steered into the ideological template of .... communism vs. capitalism." Ah..come on, don't be so quick to discount FPM's uniqueness. "Progressive equals commie, Liberal equals leftie. You think that by changing the names everything is cool now, but we dummies here at FPM are not that stupid." Um...I'll let you figure out what's wrong with this. Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:31:52 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/the-madness-of-a-twisted-faith/#IDComment111470255 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/the-war-on-conservative-teachers/#IDComment111440726 "At the George Washington University, part-time faculty members were attracted by the promise of increased compensation and work rules that limited the University’s ability to terminate them for poor performance. " Well of course...why else would anyone want to be in a Union except to cover their own inadequacy....and to think these poor performing teachers want more compensation...what a weak and terrible bunch. LOL. "The contract that the University signed" is where?...how about a link? How weak is the new "blog post" format? All the linkable, quotable spin without the pesky journalistic requirements. "The agency fee is set by the Union, and the current fee for George Washington University faculty is 79% of the monthly Union dues." Which is how much? Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:50:48 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/the-war-on-conservative-teachers/#IDComment111440726 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/the-madness-of-a-twisted-faith/#IDComment111437722 Here's Howard Hyde showing us how it's done. Whatever the point is...whatever the argument or even fact, just steer it into FPM's favorite ideological template...capitalism vs. communism. The fact that we are back to late 1920s breakdown of wealth distribution stands on it's own...there it is. Howard asks what it means, but then doesn't bother to answer. He concludes its a worthless factoid because America is a great place to be. "How did the top 1% ‘accrue’ all that wealth? Could it possibly be that they earned it – created and produced it?" Some of them sure...but as the old saying goes "it takes money to make money". With few exceptions the families that have a ton of wealth have had a ton of wealth for generations. "NOT permanent hereditary classes of the same people" No, it shifts around..you have your Bill Gates and other people that come out of nowhere and amass huge fortunes, but that is the exception, not the rule. By championing the cutting of income tax, capital gains tax, and the estate tax, FPM is certainly trying to firm up the field. Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:25:14 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/the-madness-of-a-twisted-faith/#IDComment111437722 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/oil-producers-bullied/#IDComment111435763 “If they cut corners they could end up paying enough to quickly take care of the federal deficit.” This was about fines for doing bad things like destroying the environment. Remember the BP oil spill..I know it was a long time ago...but you know...stuff like that. It was not a comment about royalties. So you can't even get through your opening without being dishonest. "The oil industry now pays $37 million a day in royalties." Good...they are sucking out America's natural resources...of course they should pay for it. Oil companies as victims though...really Tait? Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:09:10 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/oil-producers-bullied/#IDComment111435763 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/19/oklahoma-says-no-to-sharia/#IDComment111393216 thank you coyotebot3000. Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:22:01 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/19/oklahoma-says-no-to-sharia/#IDComment111393216 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/22/obamas-power-mad-cell-phone-czar/#IDComment111380388 You're right DrMack, Michelle's lying is ok if you can find something on that site you don't like. Thanks for the non-sequitor. Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:20:33 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/22/obamas-power-mad-cell-phone-czar/#IDComment111380388 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/18/the-world-turned-upside-down/#IDComment111274528 I've never called anyone a Nazi. But you find that person and argue your little heart out. Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:54:53 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/18/the-world-turned-upside-down/#IDComment111274528 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/18/the-world-turned-upside-down/#IDComment111266376 I'm glad you know what you are against. Marxism doesn't have the first thing to do with anything we have talked about but whatever... You don't want to argue for your faith, you want to argue against Marxism or something and you keep going back to it...since you don't need me for that, you can continue by yourself. Your a kook...have a nice day. Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:12:19 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/18/the-world-turned-upside-down/#IDComment111266376 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/18/the-world-turned-upside-down/#IDComment111259037 "Mind your own business, anti-Zionist scum!" LOL. You brought it up. Now don't start hurling poor little victim smears. If you can't talk about it like a big boy, don't post. "Says the one who believes mere discussions and land concessions ("peace based on certain borders") can bring peace to this area." I never said that. I said that is what your leadership is doing in this peace process...and that if any of them are like you they are being dishonest. "Shut up. You and all other interventionists, just shut the h**l up." Dude, I really don't give a dead donkeys testicles about you or what the Israelis decide to do about their own country. We are discussing it. Or at least we were until you wet your pants and started throwing poop. Next time someone says euphemistically that the West "created" Israel...just let it go. Because you like to talk about what God owes you, but you don't like other people picking at it...so keep it to yourself. Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:35:15 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/18/the-world-turned-upside-down/#IDComment111259037 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/18/the-world-turned-upside-down/#IDComment111247724 The only one talking about religion in very general terms and in terms of how many people it's killed or no...is you. "Did I get it right that you complain religion makes a conflict intractable?" I think YOUR religious beliefs make YOU intractable....and insufferable. It's all the fault of those dogs the Arabs...but while your leadership talks peace based on certain borders, you and some of your leadership feel that God owes you that and more. Be honest about says I. We weren't talking about conflicts in the world we were talking about conflicts in Israel and specifically your entitlement. But listen..you can have your irrational beliefs..no one can take them from you. Shalom. BTW...I think the invention of the machine gun and other fun technology made sure the 20th century pile of dead was extra high whether it was driven by god cults or cults without a diety. Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:32:48 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/18/the-world-turned-upside-down/#IDComment111247724