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Big Hollywood : 'The Lorax' Review: Eco-Hypocrisy Leavened By Whimsical Creatures

Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:18:33 +0000

Too bad. This is a missed opportunity to teach to the notion of the Tragedy of the Commons. As long as no one owns a resource there is no incentive to conserve it. Even better is that this story has a capitalist solution: let developers own the land producing the resource so they have no incentive to destroy it. if the town of Thneed-ville sold Trullula tree rights to the Once-ler he wouldn't have had a motive to cut them down to extinction. Because the price of the rights would take into account the perpetual value of Trullula trees, the rights would be more costly that the Once-ler would have to make the resource sustainable to cover payments to Thneed-ville. In turn, sweater prices would reflect this increased cost, and consumption would decrease, placing man in balance with nature. But in most things environmental such ideas don't make sense. In that laughable world, hope is a method and greed can be "solved" by a government program.

Big Hollywood : Woody Guthrie's 1942 New Year's Resolutions: In the Greatest Generation, Even the Socialists Were Be

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:46:28 +0000

"Take dump on cop car" conspicuously absent.

Big Government : Occupy Black Friday Protesters Hand Out 'CUM-sumer Whores' Fliers to Walmart Shoppers (Video)

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:16:34 +0000

"Take control of your money by allowing me to tell you not to spend it here." What Idiots.

Big Hollywood : Top 10 Thanksgiving Moments in TV and Film

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:38:05 +0000

Not having the WKRP clip removes this list from serious consideration. That episode has to be one of the 30 most funniest TV moments ever.

Big Government : Code Pink's Jodie Evans Occupies First Class

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:29:58 +0000

What a bloody hypocrite. Good catch with the camera.

Big Government : What the Joe Paterno Scandal and the Penn State Riots Say About America

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:05:54 +0000

You're missing a key difference. A difference bigger than the degree of severity of punishment. If you can't find it, then I can't help you. George Washington had deserters hung on the Plain at West Point in plain view. I guess he was a monster too.

Big Government : What the Joe Paterno Scandal and the Penn State Riots Say About America

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:57:24 +0000

If there were justice in the world, assuming he's found guilty, Sandusky would be led to an open grave he dug himself. He would be cuffed and forced to kneel for the execution, and the state would hand Paterno a pistol with one round and force him to carry out the sentence, else another grave would await him. No quarter for child rapists. Ever. They must be extinguished from the earth. Those who covered it up? Try out life in PMITA prison. See how they like some payback. See what that 10-year-old went through, and the dozens more that happened after they turned a blind eye. People wonder how the Holocaust could happen. This is how it could happen. It could happen anywhere where good people stand by while evil triumphs.

Big Hollywood : The Curious Case of Christoph Waltz

Wed, 9 Nov 2011 05:54:09 +0000

Christophe Waltz's best work was before Inglourious Basterds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7caY2tmKtcM

Big Government : Super Committee Can Keep the Change: Dollar Coin Proposal Lacks Momentum

Sat, 5 Nov 2011 19:00:01 +0000

The Mint has been trying to implement the dollar coin for years - not sure this is part of that effort, else Obama would just make an executive order and do it.

Big Government : Super Committee Can Keep the Change: Dollar Coin Proposal Lacks Momentum

Sat, 5 Nov 2011 18:58:11 +0000

Why is this so hard? People like dollar bills. The government needs to save money and use coins. How about print a little less dollar bills, and replace with dollar coins? Do this migration over 30 years. You'll realize cost savings immediately. (Unless, of course, it's fundamentally cheaper to print a bill over minting a coin. I know that assumption underlies the whole program but it should be challenged.) Actually I thought the Federal Reserve was trying to get rid of the dollar anyway.

Big Peace : #OccupyPortland Protester Dances On Soldiers’ Monument

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:51:08 +0000

Is it time for violence yet? Please?

Big Peace : Outspoken Army Captain Denied a Decoration, Now Considered for Medal of Honor

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:55:02 +0000

Micromanagement was rampid when I was in during Bosnia - it didn't help that you could have a bunch of GOs and TOC weenies watching the game on the Predator drone, with a chin over every operator's shoulder. Doesn't help either when you get one shot to succeed as an officer, else kiss your chances at further command goodbye. Risk adverse can't describe half of it. I can only wonder how this culture did in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Breitbart.tv : Bush Greeted with Cheers, Applause at 9/11 Memorial

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:07:57 +0000

Agreed although Bush's expansion of government was done before the mathematical reality set in, brought doubly on by the collapse of the housing market. I'm positive that if Bush took office now he wouldn't dream of doing those costly things. Bush took the war to our enemies in a huge way. Bush DOVE into Afghanistan full-bore when EVERYONE told us we'd get our butts kicked there. Then he opened up a front in Iraq, and drew out our enemies into the light so we could slaughter them by the bushel. Clinton never did that. Heck, Reagan didn't either, but he was fighting the Cold War. Would Gore have done it? No way. Only thing he would have done was air-drop those stupid mercury light bulbs and some recyclable toilet paper (that they don't use) on them as a ransom payment.

Big Hollywood : Daily Mail: Jane Fonda Said Her Biggest Regret Not Sleeping With Che Guevera

Tue, 6 Sep 2011 00:11:17 +0000

One could only hope one day a District Attorney with some ba**s has her arraigned for treason, and a court and jury can find it in their heart to convict her and sentence her accordingly. I can't imagine there's a statute of limitations on treason, but if there is, let's get the GOP-led Congress to pass it and President Perry to sign it.

Big Government : Obama Declares He's 'Proud' of Hoffa--After Hoffa Declares 'War' on Tea Party 'Sons-Of-Bitches'

Tue, 6 Sep 2011 00:06:20 +0000

Any Democrats remember Gabby Giffords?

Big Government : Let Freedom Drink in Pennsylvania

Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:50:43 +0000

Yeah, that's why during Democrat control these insane restrictions flourished, and when the GOP takes over the government the elimination of these restrictions is on the table. This goes against the narrative: Republicans are Theocrats out of the movie "Footloose" who want to ban everything, vs. the reality that conservatives know virtue comes from within, not from a government regulation, and that the entrenched interests and love of Big Government - the playground of Democrats - has kept this apparatus alive.

Big Government : John Bolton Positioning Himself For V.P.?

Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:32:10 +0000

He's not running for VP so much as making himself a shoo-in for SecState. I can't think of anyone else who is a comparable choice, let alone better choice. He gets "it," and he'll drive the UN nuts. Love it.

Big Government : Political Realities Are a Bit Hard for Rep. Maxine Waters to Accept

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:36:44 +0000

I'd love to see more Black-Americans part of the Republican Party. How Republicans have written off an entire community is unfortunate to say the least. Never mind it's unfortunate that we have to talk about a "black community" to begin with. I thought we were striving to be color-blind, but it is what it is. Republicans need to be addressing the issues of urban poor and rural poor, regardless of color. Republicans need to show that flat, fair taxes and common sense fiscal policy for all lifts all boats, not just those of the rich. On the point of Barack Obama I've always wondered what the true opinion of the black community is. He really IS NOT one of them. He's half-white, but more importantly, he doesn't come from the long heritage of African-Americans who came over hundreds of years ago in chains. He doesn't seem to have come from adversity. His ancestors didn't have the same lineage as most blacks in this country. He's half-Kenyan! Who's ever met a Kenyan? I would argue that many whites (including Rick Perry) are more "black" than Obama. Some of us whites have come up hard. Some have come up in the Deep South. Obama? He's less Jesse Jackson and more John Kerry.

Big Government : World War II Was Not the Quintessential Keynesian Miracle

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:23:13 +0000

Could have distilled this post into something a little simpler: WW2 is not a pertinent example because 1) the nation's economy was dedicated to destruction on a mass scale - not something we would want to mimic; 2) the WW2 economy represented widescale national sacrifice that would not be sustainable as an indefinite condition (e.g. rationing, no auto sales, etc.); 3) the government played a heavy role via price controls, etc. and these would be undermined over time via a burgeoning black market (imagine a black market in an eBay society! Off the hook!). There you go. A moot argument given these three points. Never mind the recovery from the Great Depression really started at the end of the war when a new government unwound all of FDR's nonsense. Alas, everything old is new again...

Breitbart.tv : Tea Party Freshman Stands-Up to 'Racer' Bashir

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:55:03 +0000

Now that this video is on Breitbart MSNBC's ratings for this Bashir interview have tripled to 2,000 viewers.