gdp's Comments

NewsReal Blog : Smoking is the New Crack Cocaine

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:40:38 +0000

I gotta tell ya Michael, I LOVED smoking. Didn't feel better after I quit at all. I just know i'll have a longer life.

Right Across the Atlantic : Democrats Bungle 9/11 Workers Health Bill

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:24:45 +0000

might do you justice to attempt to read what it is you're outright opposing jeb

Right Across the Atlantic : General Does His Job. Gets Dragged Through Mud By President. 38 Years Later Recognized for Hero He I

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:37:31 +0000

The President, in public (via Congress) or private. It couldn't be unclear if they knew. a 4 star General in the field doesn't make up his own orders, nor does he get his orders from a hidden drop. He gets them from the JCS. And at the very least if the SOD tasked him, the JCS would have been in conversations at anyrate. See your link

Caseys came across audio recordings of Nixon's conversations as well as declassified message traffic from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The material, they concluded, showed that Lavelle had "unequivocal authorization" from Nixon and senior military officials

They knew, and they also had a duty.

Right Across the Atlantic : General Does His Job. Gets Dragged Through Mud By President. 38 Years Later Recognized for Hero He I

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:48:44 +0000

I didn't read the pdf's at all, but I have to wonder - why didn't the JCS stand up? Apparently Lavelle had no idea the orders came from Nixon - which had to mean he thought they came from the JCS.

Right Across the Atlantic : The Left’s War on the Army Continued: Soldier in Uniform Refused Service in Supermarket

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:40:58 +0000

Yep, that's what we face And on the good side - Not reported on as usual. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/243104/presi...

Right Across the Atlantic : Popular Vote Legislation Would Disenfranchise Some Voters

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 09:04:53 +0000

I'm sure they will, doing an end run around the Constitution isn't exactly a strong defense for a bad law. Nebraska & New Hampshire? Do you mean Nebraska and Maine? For States, I never liked a winner take all, personally I think people live in Counties and pay taxes to Counties first, State Second, Federal third. All Federal funds for State funding ultimately get divided by Counties. As such I'd think a modification of Colorado's proposal in 2004 would be best representative of the Nation. I.E. If candidate A wins 60% of the State's Counties - they get 60% of the Electoral votes. Every single argument against the Electoral College is a reason it was founded to begin with.

Right Across the Atlantic : Popular Vote Legislation Would Disenfranchise Some Voters

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:40:14 +0000

actually i'd call it illegal. The entire reason the electoral college was set up was not due to not trusting the people. A larger part of it was due to States not wanting to be held to the whim's of larger States that had a higher population. I can find no flaws in the current Electoral College system. I do though - find flaws in the individual State's methods for awarding or counting votes.

Right Across the Atlantic : Obama's Immigration Czar to Rid U.S. of Criminal Aliens - if We Can Figure Out Who They Are

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:56:55 +0000

with a falsified ssn? send your kids to public schools? get any health care in a community hospital?

Right Across the Atlantic : Gallup Polls Shows: Obama Should Start Planning for Life After the White House

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:53:30 +0000

so you feel a combined 18% negative fall as insignificant? You feel this is spin? Had you taken the time to do math on your undocumented numbers - you probably would not have posted a reply.

Right Across the Atlantic : Gallup Polls Shows: Obama Should Start Planning for Life After the White House

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:50:06 +0000

i don't see calling ineptness out as a problem

Right Across the Atlantic : CBO: Obama Stimulus Plan Worse than Ineffective

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:05:19 +0000

since this post whas nudging up on being a year and half old. You can look at today's unemployment rates, federal deficits and the GDP (just to name a few) Madeline. btw - how does Webster's spell Dictionary?

Right Across the Atlantic : It's Time for the Practice of Recess Appointments to End

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:46:48 +0000

There already is one, by the end of that current Congress. That's why John Bolton left at the end of 2006, because his time was up, and they knew he's never be approved.

In my mind when I put that I was thinking within x number of months from the time they return from that particular recess.

Right Across the Atlantic : It's Time for the Practice of Recess Appointments to End

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:35:44 +0000

I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that they would fight to their last breath to keep recesses unrestricted just as much as Democrats would.

Course they want it just as much. Like I said when Bush was in the seat. If the Dimwits don't like it, they can close the loophole by setting a time limit on how long recess appointments can remain in charge. And likewise they can address the stalling tactic's legislatively by setting time limits on when a nominee has to be brought to a general vote. But until that time, he's got the legal right. As much as he bashed Bush for it - is also the legal right of the opposition to bring it up time and time again.

Right Across the Atlantic : The Unwritten Qualifications for Being a Candidate

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 01:51:58 +0000

Even though what he says about Byrd is a complete fabrication,

That's what Clinton's are known for. frankly, I expect we will have an agnostic - well vocally agnostic president in the future. And that's a damn shame. For all it's many ill's, Nothing has provided an individual, or a family with a way to center themselves more than Religion has. Nothing has always been a place to go to for a special, private need as much as Religion has. And there will be nothing to take it's place for some time to come. People want to be able to identify with their elected leaders, and the majority of the country is Christian - ergo they are representative. Note back when JFK was elected. Big whooplah over electing a Catholic. in other words, times are shifting. Unfortunately.

Right Across the Atlantic : Media Blocked From Oil-Drenched Beaches, But This Isn't The First Time

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 01:27:52 +0000

I'd imagine the dear leader's administration has had several closed door discussions over which is more politically beneficial. 1) Looking like the complete buffoon he is on answering the 3am phone call if media is given full access vs partial blame shifting. 2) How much would the actual net gain be from full media access showing the environmental plight vs risking #1.

Right Across the Atlantic : Marines in Connecticut Want to Fly Gadsden Flag

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 01:25:25 +0000

actually I should have said Confederate Flag. Too many damn flags back then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confede...

Right Across the Atlantic : Christopher Hitchens Has Esophageal Cancer

Thu, 1 Jul 2010 06:17:30 +0000

yeah, pretty much any cancer collar bone and up is not very good.

Right Across the Atlantic : Marines in Connecticut Want to Fly Gadsden Flag

Thu, 1 Jul 2010 06:16:05 +0000

Playing strictly devils avocate - since I don't really have an opinion one way or the other. What about South Carolina and the flying of the Union Jack?

Right Across the Atlantic : Miss Him Yet?

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:40:34 +0000

Are you actually serious MM? His hard turn towards the center was out of a very late political necessity. Much like Clinton turned to the center when he was politically in trouble. Of course Clinton recognized it early on. The Stimulus 1 was TARP. Which was when Bush felt the urgency to bypass Congress on it. - These are all the same situation. You can combine Bushs budget with Tarp and he still comes out looking very conservative against the Dear Leader. - obviously so. - You heard plenty of Bush's economic initiatives with his two tax cuts, the extremely short recession he faced after 9/11, the massive windfall of profits businesses and governments were seeing as a result of the economics of the time. Of course economics isn't much for news when things are going super. With Bush - You wouldn't have had the Healthcare mistake that no-one really knows how many trillions it will end up costing us -You wouldn't have had the 2nd Bailout -You wouldn't have had the cash for clunkers mistake -You wouldn't have had a gov't takeover of GM -You wouldn't have had the forced closure of Chrysler dealerships (btw, notice the one US manufacturer who refused bailout money did just fine?) And i'm sure I missed a few other smaller bailout programs of his. And the Libs wouldn't have liked it, and Bush wouldn't have cared that they didn't. And we would have recovered by now. Like I said. Compared to this one, #43 was very conservative. Even though Bush being a Neo-Conservative is closer to the Liberal side of things than a fiscal Conservative. How do you possibly - in any phantom scenario say that the two are pretty much the same in terms of a recession?

Right Across the Atlantic : Miss Him Yet?

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:13:04 +0000

something to be said for when you know where you stand. He wasn't much of a Conservative, spent way to freaking much, had DOH moments every other day, got himself caught up in so-called scandals because he simply didn't care how he came across. But compared to this one? #43 was very conservative, for much more limited gov't and I don't mind the gaffe's.