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Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : 5/26/09: North Korea Is Testing The President... And The World

Wed, 27 May 2009 17:41:30 +0000

I don't hate President Obama- I love my country.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : The 2nd Amendment

Wed, 27 May 2009 13:08:53 +0000

LOL...

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : The 2nd Amendment

Wed, 27 May 2009 13:08:33 +0000

Okay, are you trying to be witty or ironic here? Because you're coming off as petty and ignorant. Certainly there are people who support gun ownership and do some bad things- does this somehow validate the argument against firearms? Although I know you're just trolling, God help me- I can't resist... I am actually shocked that you're using this as the base for your argument, it's almost cute. Your little point was almost childlike in it's ignorant innocence.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : 5/26/09: North Korea Is Testing The President... And The World

Wed, 27 May 2009 12:40:29 +0000

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not surprised at all by this. Nor am I surprised by Iran's defiance- and I expect that we'll be feeling some waves from Chavez soon too. Let's face it... we've all known that the Obama administration would lack the fortitude to make a clear and decisive stand on *anything*- including national security. "North Korea is directly and recklessly challenging the international community..." No- they're directly and recklessly challenging the United States. They know what they're doing- historically, it has been up to the United States to police these kinds of issues, as we're one of the very few nations out there willing to show a backbone and stand up to tyrants. Its been proven that we can't count on the "international community" to do anything other than placate and pacify. They know the Obama administration is going to do just that. Sure, they may talk about 'consequences' every now and again, but if we keep talking about and threatening these consequences but back down every time they cross us... then we teach the Koreans and Iranians that they don't really need to abide by what we say. Are we going to wait until we're forced to take some pro-active action? What will it take to force our hand? A detonation in S. Korea? Taiwan? Israel? Or someplace far worse- a US city? This isn't some high school civics lesson. This isn't a video game or lab experiment. These are real people, real countries... real bombs. It's high time somebody started taking this seriously and recognizes the inherent danger here. Look at the bigger picture. Stop worrying so much about the carbon output or Chrysler's advertising budget and 'green' energy and start worrying about unstable dictators with something to prove. Start worrying about world leaders who believe it's their destiny to usher in prophecy. Make no mistake, these threats are real, and they're growing more real as each action goes by unchecked.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : 4/13/09 - On Obama's Orders, Navy Seal Snipers Free American Sea Captain

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:09:21 +0000

First off, I have the utmost faith in our military, and understand that they are always ready. These special teams are always operating at 100%. It didn't take them 5 days to get a clear shot. They were instructed to wait, and I believe that waiting will prove to be detrimental. We are constantly aware that the world is watching, and instead of being worried of being viewed as too harsh, I would argue that it's more dangerous for us to be viewed as too soft. And in this case, we shouldn't have waited so long. I trust that those SEAL teams didn't need 5 whole days to get their clear shot. They're better than that, WE'RE better than that. I'm not going to argue about a grieving widow or any other such nonsense, she isn't grieving- it all worked out for him- this time. How many more will we see? How can they be avoided in the future? I think that acting swifty and decisively would speak louder than hesitance and (what can be perceived as) indecision. Or worse, pacifism and appeasement.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : 4/13/09 - On Obama's Orders, Navy Seal Snipers Free American Sea Captain

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:38:52 +0000

Point taken, but you're referring to a duel between two individuals- this wasn't a dual, a third party's life was at stake. It was a dangerous game- a gamble to wait as long as they did. They should not have waited as long as they did. There was no strategy to this, just hesitation.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : 4/12/09: Negotiations Break Down in Standoff With Pirates

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:29:47 +0000

US: 3; Somali Pirates: 0

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : 4/13/09 - On Obama's Orders, Navy Seal Snipers Free American Sea Captain

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:26:40 +0000

I'm at a loss as to why it took so long to take action, the reports I've read indicated that we were to take action only if the captain's life appeared to be in 'imminent danger'? Isn't the simple fact that he was being held hostage, by pirates, at gunpoint 'imminent' enough? Now don't get me wrong, I'm pleased with how it worked out in the end, but I think that our hesitation spoke volumes. These pirates are now vowing revenge against the US for their fallen brothers? Seriously? We're taking them seriously? I think that waiting 5 days ultimately proved a couple of things: (1) That our military can still get the job done, with extreme precision and prejudice, and (2) that, as a nation, we're hesitant to pull the trigger. Unfortunately I believe the latter speaks louder. The best thing that we could have done when coming up on this lifeboat was to lay siege to it, conduct an operation and get our man out of there. It was proven that we could do it, we just should have done it about 4 days sooner. Apparently we're more concerned with how the rest of the world will view us- perhaps even sections of our own citizenry- than we are with the life of an American citizen. A citizen whose life was in the hands of his captors: Somali Pirates. How did we get here?

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Despite the recent rise in gun violence ...

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 22:20:25 +0000

As I thought: just trolling. Still, the problem with you and your stance (besides the trolling) is that you know you're wrong. You're taking an emotional stand on issues that need logic to understand. I'd like to see some actual data to back up your claim of such extreme lawlessness and "huge problems with gun violence" in these areas where "fire arms laws are so loose". Now, I live in Florida, and we have very permissive gun laws, many people hold concealed carry permits and carry firearms, on their person, everywhere they go. I have yet to see this state revert to the "wild west". I don't see gun violence everyday (by the way, I am formerly employed by the local Sheriff's department, where my wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother and father all still work)- as a matter of fact, I don't see gun violence very often at all. And when there is a gun crime, that gun in most every case, has been obtained illegally- by a criminal- for the purpose of committing a criminal act with it. The simple fact remains that law abiding citizens are the only people who would abide by any gun control legislation- the criminal elements would not. They don't bother abiding by the laws in place now. If you start criminalizing firearms, you will start making criminals out of the responsible gun owners.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Despite the recent rise in gun violence ...

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 20:37:54 +0000

LOL .... my thoughts exactly, MR2.... but I just can't help myself....

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Despite the recent rise in gun violence ...

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 20:35:58 +0000

"Public safety concerns" ... ? I don't know why I'm arguing this with you, I believe you're just trolling.... but here goes nothing: C'mon Jeffty- you can think of something better than that, can't you? You don't HONESTLY believe what you're saying, do you? The incident you're thinking of was in Los Angeles, and yes: bad guys had automatic weapons and were wearing body armor. The LAPD ended up going to a local gunstore to purchase weapons that WOULD be capable of penetrating their body armor (newsflash: most all rifle cartridges will penetrate light body armor. They don't have to be any class of weapon). The reason the LAPD didn't have these weapons is because of poorly thought out regulations on what an officer could carry and what they couldn't. they were carrying pistols and shotguns- neither had the ability to end that situation from that range. But, that incident isn't the point here. No gun control laws would have prevented that bank robbery that day- they had weapons they couldn't have had anyway. I sincerely doubt that those knuckleheads were 'responsible' gun owners. The had fully automatic M4s and AKs. Those aren't the kinds of weapons you buy at the local pawn shop or sporting goods store. Responsible and law abiding gun owners don't threaten any 'social order', and I don't know what you've read/seen/heard/dreamed up to suggest otherwise. Gun control laws do nothing to reduce crime, on the contrary, they have been statistically shown to prove the opposite. And yes- I advocate LEGAL and RESPONSIBLE ownership of ANY firearm. By the way, all of those firearms are legal to own right now, they're just taxed heavily and the paperwork that you need to fill out in order to get them is daunting.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Despite the recent rise in gun violence ...

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 19:05:32 +0000

There is no middle ground here, Jeffty- the 2nd amendment is quite clear: "..the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." This doesn't mean nor imply that we have the right to keep and bear *some* arms... we have the right to keep and bear "Arms". Period. If you choose not to exercise your right, that's fine- but do not, for one moment, think that you have ANY right to keep me from mine. This argument is getting so tired. You have no idea what you're speaking of- you're either too delusional or too narcissistic to recognize what is going on around you- who perpetrates the kind of crimes that a gun control law would target. Maybe you're just too naive. You have a foolish argument and one that cannot be taken seriously.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : America's Wish List

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 02:34:24 +0000

We need some intestinal fortitude. We NEED to follow our Constitution. We NEED to hold our legislators responsible for their actions and we need to heal. We need to stop the bleeding. Cauterize the wound, don't just continually apply band-aids in the form of bailouts, fix it. We NEED to take our country back. Yes... that's what I'd put on my wish-list: My Country.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Obama: U.S. Not at War With Islam

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 02:19:42 +0000

I would agree that we aren't at war with Islam in general. We have been at war with extremism. It just so happens that a lot of fundamental Muslims are extremists. Have we targeted predominantly Muslim territories? Yes. Have we fought with a number of fundamental Muslim extremist groups? Yes. So, does this mean that we're only targeting the Muslims for worshiping Allah? No- that's just some apologetic, cowardly bullsh*t. We're bombing and targeting them because I don't know the last time a Sikh Guru piloted a hijacked plane into a building full of Americans. We target places like Afghanistan and the surrounding hills because Mormons in Utah aren't the ones who are convincing kids to strap bombs to themselves and detonate them in crowded markets! More people should exercise some common sense! It is a basic fact that radical Islam is waging a war against us. I don't know about you guys, but I am sick and tired of tip-toeing around this... stop trying to make me out to be a racist, stop trying to make me out to be a fear-monger. I am an American, and I choose to take the fight to them. If they're Muslim, then I guess we're going to be fighting some Muslims.. if they're Hindu- we'd be fighting Hindus. Stop being so myopic and disingenuously thin-skinned. Fact: Muslim Terrorists, radical followers of Islam have repeatedly brought violence and carnage to us- to our doorstep. Ignoring it and calling it something else is going to do nothing more than empower and encourage more of the same. Own it, don't be afraid of it- get out there and get it done!

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : 4000+ people show at Florida Tea Party

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:02:22 +0000

Just out for a leisurely troll, eh Ben?

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Someone is bussing protesters to the homes of AIG execs

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:58:30 +0000

Oh. My. God. Are they kidding with this? I mean, seriously... bussing people to the homes of these people to protest? * Mary Huguley, of Hartford, said AIG executives should share their wealth with people like her sister, who is facing foreclosure. "You ought to share it, and God will bless you for doing it," she said. * Share their wealth? Huh? This is just getting silly now... Perhaps Mary's sister should get a better job? Make herself more marketable? Take some initiative on her own and fix her problem herself? Or, maybe Mary could help her out? I mean, after all, she's got all of this spare time to take a bunch of bus trips around Hartford and yell at rich people. She could use some of that time and work more hours at her job, or pick up a second job. If times are tough, aren't you supposed to 'sacrifice' some? That's what they're asking everyone else to do. They look like morons, protesting outside of their homes. Wonder if Mary knows that she's being manipulated and used, and that she looks stupid doing it? My guess is no...

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : 3/20/09 - 3/24/09

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:53:05 +0000

Frustrating indeed, but I really don't believe they're burying their head in the sand. I don't believe we CARE anymore. But I don't believe it's their fault. I think it's been bred out of us. We been trained not to care. Most people are lemmings, sheep... cattle with that ring through their nose. They stand around in their field all day, oblivious to most things going on around them. They just wait for someone to grab that ring and pull them to to the milking station. Or the slaughterhouse. For years now we haven't been challenged. Times have been good, the 80's were prosperous enough. The cold war was over by the 90's, and we were able to relax quite a bit. We had a President in office who just made a lot of people "feel good". We had time to settle into a deeper sense of complacency that we had never before been able to enjoy. We sat around and got fat. Sure, we had the partisan bickering and politicking (depends on what your definition of the word "is" is...), we had political correctness running rampant, but by and large- we were safe. We knew it. President Reagan had seen to that. We may not have all agreed as to the who and why, but we felt we were untouchable. So much that even when the warning signs started popping up, we paid them no mind. Events like the 93 Trade center bombing were now seen as mere crimes. The people didn't look at it any deeper. When we saw the bodies of our brave pilots dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, how many people really batted an eye? I was in high school, and remember people talking as if we shouldn't have been there in the first place. Kenya and Tanzania in 97 aren't even blips on most people's radar, and forget about the USS Cole. Recent news (http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/05/uss.cole.bomb... just proves how much we cared about that. The 90's was the first decade that we truly started to experience an on-demand world. Even though news was instant, we'd rather watch high-speed chases, or mock murder trials. Celebrity watching became business, and the affairs of the world were all but forgotten. We didn't need to worry about what was going on elsewhere, because we were told it was all taken care of... besides, it's more fun to look at pictures of our favorite stars and their multi million dollar homes, isn't it? With the new century came a new President, one that wasn't liked by very many people from the moment he was elected (and yes people, he WAS elected). Now our morning papers inundated us with more partisan fighting than we'd ever seen, at least the most I had ever seen. Until 9/11/01. That day changed everything. Or should have. Suddenly we woke up, most of us anyway. For the first time in decades something happened HERE. Not in Beirut, not in some eastern bloc country no one can pronounce, here. New York. Washington. Pennsylvania. Still, after all of this, we're standing here today having this discussion. We're discussing issues of constitutionality and freedom. My God, socialism is honestly being talked about right now. Bone fide socialism. We're watching as our freedoms, one by one get taken away... quietly, but surely. Most people don't have the slightest clue what's going on because they don't want to. They can't see what's outside of their own little bubble- they've been taught that they don't have to really look out there anyway, because we're all unique little snowflakes. We're all so special that someone's going to take care of us. That makes us feel safe- we're going to be taken care of... but look around. If we're all in our own little bubbles, being special and pandered to, who's left to take care of us? Who's watching out for us? I know this is a crazy rant I've gone off on, and I apologize, but the simple fact is that our greatest strength is our numbers. WE the People. How do we take people out of their trances? How do you make someone care about an issue they don't want to care about? Our children and our children's children have to live in this country we're creating for them. We don't own this country, we are merely her stewards for a time. This country will one day soon belong to our grandchildren- what kind of country do we want them to grow up in?

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : House Passes Retroactive Tax on AIG Bonuses... The Senate weighs in next

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:32:46 +0000

Unfortunately, this isn't just the beginning... we're mid-stream, and this farce in particular is in violation of two sections of our Constitution. In addition to Amendment VIII, it violates Article I, section 10: "No state shall...pass any Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts..." For a group of people who have taken an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, they sure do play fast and loose with the rules, don't they? Their idea of "defending" our Constitution is ignoring and nullifying it. This is shameful, just absolutely shameful.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : MEET THE NEW NEIGHBORS! They're from Guantanamo Bay.

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:59:42 +0000

Well.... regardless of any charges that may or may not have been levied against them, regardless of whether or not they've been convicted by a jury of their peers (by the way, the Constitution doesn't typically apply to foreign citizens- and certainly not foreign citizens engaged in a guerrilla war against the US), these people just don't belong here. They aren't citizens, they don't deserve the protection of our laws. Let's not kid ourselves, 'comrade', these people weren't picked up in a library, or a peace rally march. No- they were plucked from battlefields and war zones. They are people who have raised their hands against our beloved country- by extension, they've raised their hands to you and me. Do you honestly believe that any of these subjects will leave Guantanamo and head home? Just assimilate into normal life? Maybe rent a room from that lady down the street from you and join the PTA? Maybe he'll come to the barbecue in the park next weekend. He and all his friends can even come over for a beer later and watch Sports Center? Do you expect us to believe that you think these guys are victims of circumstance only? No... you know these people can't be a functional member of our society. It's not just that we don't want them- they don't want us. What I think you're failing to realize is that these people don't like you. They don't want anything to do with you or your way of life. They'd just as soon cut your throat than look at you- no, they would *rather* slit your throat than look at you. Maybe it isn't ignorance that your argument suffers from... perhaps arrogance?

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : House Passes Retroactive Tax on AIG Bonuses... The Senate weighs in next

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:33:52 +0000

Distraction or no distraction, what's happening is unconscionable. According to Amendment VIII of the Constitution: "...nor excessive fines imposed..." If a 90% retroactive tax isn't an excessive fine- what is?