en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/538456 Comments by oscar77 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/12/30/your-obama-apologist-of-the-day-don-cheadle/#IDComment251050551 Mike, watch what you wish for. If you are saying that unless a President has a FILIBUSTER-PROOF Congress, he cannot be blamed for what happens, then you have to make all the things that happened during the Bush years the fault of the Democrats, or at the least not Bush's fault, because Bush didn't have a filibuster-proof Congress either. Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:09:52 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/12/30/your-obama-apologist-of-the-day-don-cheadle/#IDComment251050551 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ckozlowski/2011/08/08/review-the-up/#IDComment181378751 We walked out of the movie at about the 50 minute mark, when a porno director was telling Jason Bateman in Ryan Reynolds body to do something disgusting with his thumb. I don't know what the second half was, but the first half was crap. I could feel brain cells dying as I watched. I am measurably shorter afterwards, and I now walk with a limp. How many ways can I say this? C. R. A. P. Mon, 8 Aug 2011 23:42:32 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ckozlowski/2011/08/08/review-the-up/#IDComment181378751 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178431958 Only the left calls disagreement with policy, "hate". And yet when you guys spew true hate speech at Bush, you call it "patriotic disagreement". Go figure. Had you deigned to listen to him this week, you would have heard NOTHING BUT solutions. This tells me that you never listen to him, because he nearly always offers alternatives. You may disagree with those alternatives, which revolve around the free market, liberty, small government, self-reliance, etc. But they are alternatives nevertheless. Thanks for your gracious apology for your mislabeling me as a dumbass and a poverty-stricken fool. I never can get over how truly gracious and loving the left can be when disagreed with. By the way, "Leaders" are what the left has - over here on the conservative side, we have "thinkers", because we make up our own minds instead of parrotting talking points. Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:25:22 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178431958 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178393697 Absolutely agree. We should have insisted that 90% of the cuts take place during THIS CONGRESS, because promises for another Congress are never followed. Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:18:37 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178393697 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178393440 Well, since I am a physician, and last year I made over $500K, I would guess that I can ignore your last comment. And since you didn't respond about when was the last time you listened to Limbaugh, I can infer that you don't. Which makes your comments about "stop listening" just mindless. Maybe he is giving nuggets of olympian knowledge - you wouldn't know because you don't listen to him. But you are okay with slamming him, all without knowing what he says. Mind-read much? Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:17:21 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178393440 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178384105 And, while we are at it, how do YOU know what Rush says about anything? When was the last time you actually listened to him, rather than relying on what you are told he says? The typical leftist talking point: "stop listening to Rush". Supposed to automatically win the argument. Sorry, bucko. Doesn't work here. Just makes you look stupid. Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:32:48 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178384105 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178380089 With the spendthrift ways of Congress (both parties), we have to be the adults. If behavior doesn't change, we will sooner or later not be able to "pay our debt" as you would like. We will run out of creditors, we will monetize our debt and make the dollar worthless, or we will default. Your party promised to do better than the Republicans on that score, and one would have to ask, "did they?" Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:13:21 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178380089 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178380046 (sigh, while answering patiently). No, it's not "paying your debt". It's paying off one credit card by getting another. That isn't paying one's debt at all (although I can see that the ones being paid are happy, at least for a time). Eventually, one has to pay the debt, and if one cannot see ever getting to the point where the income matches or exceeds the outflow, one declares bankruptcy. Nearly everyone who declares bankruptcy wonders why he didn't stop sooner, before his debt was unmanageable. The first rule of getting out of holes is: stop digging. Every increase in the debt limit is digging. It is a simple concept, one which even you could understand in your private life. I am not saying "don't increase the debt limit at all" - many of us are saying, "no increasing the debt limit until you demonstrate that you can change your behavior". Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:13:10 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178380046 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178360234 And, of course, O ye of simple mind, that reduction in spending will never happen so long as there is a Democrat president and Democrat Senate. So you may wish all you want for us to simply raise the debt limit and then limit spending, but it isn't going to happen without leverage on the Democrats. If they won't significantly limit spending with the debt limit issue hanging over their heads, what would be the chance that they would without that issue demanding action? Hmmmm? Do you also believe in the tooth fairy? They aren't two different issues. The debt limit is a blank check. You start with a spendthrift spouse by taking their credit cards away. Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:43:56 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178360234 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178091731 Dummy. You buy whatever the Dems say. The fact is that we should cut actual spending. We should go back to the actual budget of 2007 (you remember - that was when the Dems last said that we were "spending like drunken sailors" and promised to be more reliable than the Republicans with respect to spending). If we did, we could get rid of this huge deficity pretty quickly. If we don't, we are hosed. It's that simple. Small minds are those who cannot think new thoughts. Your's is pretty tiny. Try this one on for size: CUT SPENDING. Not slow the rate of growth. Not promise to cut eight years from now. Cut it. Cut it back to the levels before the TARP, before the stimulus bills. Cut it to 2007. Think of that one, if you can. Your guys said it was to big of a budget, at the time. So think about what would happen were we to try it. I don't expect you to, but you should try it. Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:14:39 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OO7V800&show_article=1#IDComment178091731 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhanlon/2011/07/25/captain-america-review-a-lost-opportunity/#IDComment177288854 I really disagree with this review. Saw the movie yesterday and loved it! I thought that the attitudes were typical of that era, and Cap should be the strong, silent, can-do type. Chris Evans did a good job. The thing that apparently irritated the reviewer, the digital representation of "skinny Chris Evans", I thought was pretty well done. What were the alternatives? Do him like they did the hobbits in LOTR? He is too buff to do that. I thought that the Hydra soldiers were a little too cardboard, and a bit too easy to kill, but watch an episode of "Combat", and you'll see that it has always been common to have the Nazis spray rounds all over creation hitting nothing, and our guys getting them with one clean shot. Typical and a bit annoying, but there you go. I did see some GIs hit, so it wasn't all the way to that extreme. I thought that they presented his frustration with being limited to showmanship well, and his transition was inspiring, to me. Loved this movie, and will get it on Blu-Ray. Jack Chaffin, MD Boise, ID Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:03:02 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhanlon/2011/07/25/captain-america-review-a-lost-opportunity/#IDComment177288854 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9af8774bd6e7ae5cbb91bbee978a28b6.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment120780304 So therefore, the woman's comment about guns "not having a place" in any environment is bogus, because my rights don't require anyone else's consent. Not if it is truly a right. And when Dupnik says, "I have never been a proponent of letting everybody in this state carry weapons under any circumstances that they want..", my response to him is the following: It isn't your job to "let me" do anything. It's not up to you, doofus. If everyone in this state wants to carry a weapon, then it is their right to do so. If ANYONE in the crowd at the shopping center had been carrying, the tragedy might have been MUCH smaller. And the shooter would have been properly ventilated, as he deserved. Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:31:59 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9af8774bd6e7ae5cbb91bbee978a28b6.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment120780304 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9af8774bd6e7ae5cbb91bbee978a28b6.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment120780285 re: "The Second Amendment to the US Constitution protects the right to bear arms in the context of a "well regulated militia." In recent years, the US Supreme Court has cited the amendment to strike down restrictions on gun ownership in the cities of Chicago and Washington. " This is actually not what the US Supreme Court has decided. Bearing arms is NOT only in the "context of a well regulated militia". It has been recognized since the beginning of the country as an INDIVIDUAL right, and the recent Supreme Court decisions recognized it as an INDIVIDUAL right. Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:31:47 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9af8774bd6e7ae5cbb91bbee978a28b6.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment120780285 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/12/29/film-school-rejects-making-fun-of-homosexuality-no-longer-acceptable/#IDComment118605211 Actually, I believe that it was Anderson Cooper of CNN that used it first, and the left followed quickly. Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:44:06 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/12/29/film-school-rejects-making-fun-of-homosexuality-no-longer-acceptable/#IDComment118605211 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/12/29/film-school-rejects-making-fun-of-homosexuality-no-longer-acceptable/#IDComment118604819 There is a difference between the Constitution and "legislation". The government "prohibiting" things is legislation. The government doesn't get any say in whether the Constitution says something or not. It may ignore it, or subvert it, or try to make it say something else. But ultimately, the "government" is being judged by an outside force, the "Constitution". And if we allow that the government interprets the Constitution, we are totally gone. The fox in the henhouse. The Constitution was designed to keep the fox out of the henhouse, knowing that any "government" was and is inherently unreliable, and will always reach for more power unless constrained. Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:41:46 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/12/29/film-school-rejects-making-fun-of-homosexuality-no-longer-acceptable/#IDComment118604819 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lbyrd/2010/12/19/sneak-peek-sarah-palins-alaska-mudflap-and-bones/#IDComment116988523 $42K. What do you care? It wasn't tax money. It wasn't your money. And if "seatbelt" is your strongest criticism, you need to go back home and think about it some more. "Sarah makes most real Alaskans sick": so what makes them sick? Be specific. And why do you believe that you are qualified to speak for "most real Alaskans"? Because you live there? I live in Idaho, and I don't think that I would be arrogant enough to attempt to speak for "most real Idahoans"! Your points are weak. Either make some good ones, or go home. Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:05:45 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lbyrd/2010/12/19/sneak-peek-sarah-palins-alaska-mudflap-and-bones/#IDComment116988523 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/11/24/does-sarah-palins-path-to-the-presidency-run-through-popular-culture/#IDComment111727454 Actually, yes. If a candidate would articulate his principles, then the choice would be clear. Including the choice for progressivism. If the nation wants to go down the path of progressivism, then let it be a clear choice, not a guerilla movement. Had Obama states his principles, he would never have been elected (this assumes that the MSM would actually publish what he said). I, however, would add to the mix the idea of impeachment due to falsification of oath. That is, each elected official swears in his oath of office to "support and defend" the Constitution of the United States. If his actions are shown to circumvent the Constitution, or shown to be unconstitutional, he should be impeached for falsification of oath. By this mechanism, half of the Congress and the President would have been impeached about fifty times by now. Actually, nothing like this would ever happen, but I can dream, can't I? Jack Chaffin MD Boise, ID Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:47:10 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/11/24/does-sarah-palins-path-to-the-presidency-run-through-popular-culture/#IDComment111727454 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/11/24/does-sarah-palins-path-to-the-presidency-run-through-popular-culture/#IDComment111711595 Like Obama "thinks on his feet in an unscripted setting"??? When did that ever happen? What this Obama/Palin episode shows is that one can be an intellectual lightweight and get away with it if the MSM is for you, but if they are not, you can be painted as whatever they want. I am not saying that Palin is an intellectual heavyweight, but most of our worst Presidents have been intellectual heavyweights. Obama and Carter were both heralded as great intellects. (Neither were, but that was their advertisement.) They were both terrible Presidents, primarily because they believed that they were rulers, not servants. And they believed the hype about them, so why did they need to take advice from lesser beings? I'm not worried about Palin's intellect. I am more concerned with her principles. And her principles are rock-solid, as far as I can see. Wouldn't it be great to have a President with principles again? Jack Chaffin MD Boise, ID Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:19:53 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/11/24/does-sarah-palins-path-to-the-presidency-run-through-popular-culture/#IDComment111711595 http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2010/10/29/nyt-shots-fired-at-korean-dmz/#IDComment106770307 I spent three years in Korea with the US Army from 1980-1983, when I was a pathologist at the 121st Evacuation Hospital in Seoul, and the Medical Examiner of the United Nations Forces, Korea. I can tell you that such incidents were going on even then. Almost none of them were reported in the US media. During my time there, we had multiple shooting incidents, reprisals going on, on both sides of the border involving both ROK and North Korean forces, US military deaths, and at least biological warfare incident that I was involved in investigating. If it is being reported right now, it is only because there is a political reason for it to be reported right now. Obama has surely learned the lesson that a "wartime president" gets more respect and leeway than would otherwise be granted. It is now a couple of days before an important election. Who wants to bet that the Times is simply following orders, and trying to make Obama look better because, after all, a conflict is imminent, and we always rally around our leaders at times like that. Anything to get a few votes during the next week. Jack Chaffin MD Boise, ID Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:08:02 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2010/10/29/nyt-shots-fired-at-korean-dmz/#IDComment106770307 http://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2010/01/12/crs-report-on-acorn-an-incompetent-whitewash/#IDComment51741690 Typical. Obamaism 101. Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:47:46 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2010/01/12/crs-report-on-acorn-an-incompetent-whitewash/#IDComment51741690