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Re: Don’t Let Abortion Destroy Health Care Reform (Guest Voice)

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:35:07 -0000

"It is something that the ultra-liberal crowd has been against from the beginning."

That's part of it -- risk-free, responsibility-free living, cradle-to-grave security and a related entitlement, demanding mentality. More broadly, it's an infantilism trend associated with radicalism and how personal behavior is involved. I.e., consequences not only shouldn't even matter, they shouldn't even enter into the picture or situation at all...

Re: COMPROMISE NEEDED WITH ABORTION FOES IN HEALTHCARE REFORM

roro80 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:33:27 -0000

"It's also obvious that a majority doesn't approve of an unlimited, absolute federal abortion entitlement"

No, you're right. Luckily, that doesn't exist, nor is it being proposed by anyone.

Re: Don’t Let Abortion Destroy Health Care Reform (Guest Voice)

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:33:19 -0000

"Doesn't quite work that neatly, many folks on the "Pro Choice" side are not Pro abortion"

Oh, you can make the distinction between how you view abortion itself and what the legality of it should be, or what is practical or realistic, and more frequently you can view it with respect to the amount of degree of support or opposition. That is why I have said that most people (which is true) are not "100% absolute anti-abortionists." (The same is true for the truly extreme and wacky 100% "pro" people, who don't even want limitations on minors, parental notification for minors, etc., and who typically insist on an unlimited federal government entitlement, to have this be provided at public expense on demand, as well as silly related demands such as that if abortion were restricted, society should be "obliged" to pay for raising any children than are born as a result.)

What you can say can be additionally be elucidated by noting that often the phrase "abortion rights" is how the relevent issue of the time is described. (Whether or not you like or approve of the action or not, it's actually a separate issue whether or not it should be legal, and if so, what restrictions it may face, etc.)

Re: The Scozzafava Meme

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:23:53 -0000

"people need to quit whining because some wanted to see a little difference"

Also, not be so hypocritical, given that it's the Left, and liberals, who are the iron-fisted conformists here.

Re: Ex-Miss USA Carrie Prejean Flips Out On CNN’s Larry King

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:19:34 -0000

Side note:

"Obama said he smoked dope and did coke"

He admitted more than Dubya (Bush) did...

Re: Why Should Public Dollars Pay for the Vanity of Old Men?

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:17:02 -0000

"equating abortions and ED medications"

The first is elective -- a Choice [tm], to introduce a badly-misused word.

The second, to appropriate nomenclature of the enviro-extremists: involves not only urgent but, indeed, emergent action, in order to avoid what truly is a global crisis, a catastrophe, a horrifying apocalypse!!!

Re: Joe Lieberman, Hospital Orderly

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:12:43 -0000

Most people want reform. About a half want the "public option" (an explicit federal government role as "payer" and intermediary-provider), and half of these (about a quarter of the population) support the public option substantially. This is, along with the actual events to date, why I have said the public option is not yet dead. There is less support for this in the Senate than in the House, but I suspect support for it is potentially greater than it may superficially appear, given the grossly over-claimed and hyped, but nevertheless significant amount of support the public option retains currently.

Re: Let’s Save or Create Even More Jobs!

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:00:49 -0000

I wasn't kidding about the "jobs forum" (actually, an "economic forum").

Let's just hope this isn't just a pale imitation of the Clinton economic "round table" at Little Rock years ago. (Hmmm. How much in tax increases, and what new taxes, does this nation so greatly "need"?)

Never mind that it's an effective admission of failure, and of other problems.

(Real help, or out-of-touch-elite, public-opinion-manipulative, "symbolic"-BS PR?)

http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/20...

And meanwhile, let's not see other meddling...

http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/...

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_ge...

http://www.freep.com/article/20091112/BUSINESS0...

Re: Why Should Public Dollars Pay for the Vanity of Old Men?

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:52:10 -0000

True -- Kathy is consistent, at least.

"far red": To Kathy, anything but violet (or violet-blue)

http://www.gamonline.com/new/catalog/colortheor...

Re: Lou Dobbs Leaves CNN

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:48:41 -0000

"they need it for their own people"

John King is slated to replace Dobbs. Not surprising. Someone else who was no doubt in line would be, for example, Roland Martin (who subbed for Campbell Brown when Brown was on maternity leave) or Rick Sanchez (blowhard but bright smile and clear diction, just what that network would be looking for as prime time material).

Re: Dumping Dobbs: Good News for News

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:45:08 -0000

CNN = Clearly Not Neutral. They could use a good deal of quality control, too; much of their programming is dumbed-down and gimmicky, when not also unprofessional to downright flippant or silly. (I've noticed, for example, a notable dumbing-down of Campbell Brown's show this year, which now not only features gimmicky graphics and sound effects associated with some made-up term "mash-up," but which now features intentionally stupid programming to start each show, featuring deliberately sped-up motion.) Lou Dobbs is ordinary to the risk of being labeled mediocre by absolute standards, but he was better than most of the others on that network, including the standard "news" crew.

Even the childish lefty critics here and elsewhere reveal an inability to intelligently spot reasonable grounds for remarks (albeit, not strident), such as Dobbs's female guest appearances that featured the routine 120-to-135-degree-angle gratuitious "leg shots" and appearances' ends. (I.e., lightweight sexism)

Re: Ex-Miss USA Carrie Prejean Flips Out On CNN’s Larry King

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:37:55 -0000

"Good for her that she had the decency to not comment as its none of anyone else's business but her own."

I saw and heard part of the interview. She handled King's pestering quite well.

More people need to be tougher with misbehaving interviewers. If someone is asked an inappropriate question or one that won't be answered once, that is it. Period. Asking it again, later, is grounds for prompt cancellation (and full payment of any fees due as an appropriate, punitive type of forfeiture).

Re: Lou Dobbs Leaves CNN

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:32:28 -0000

"I'm no conspiracy theorist, but with the purposeful devaluation of the dollar"

There are plenty of other, real-world things also to worry about, like "harmonizing" our tax policy with that of a (harmonized) European Union, in addition to energy political policies and other things.

Re: Keith Olbermann And The Kettle

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:30:49 -0000

"nature seeks balance"

No more than supercriticality and the associated nuclear chain reaction. But leftward shouldn't be limited?

Re: If War Breaks Out, Venezuela’s ‘Fifth Columnists’ Will Have to Be Confronted: El Universal, Venezuela

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:29:05 -0000

Baby Huey's propensity for mischief in Latin America isn't surprising in the least to the aware and awake.

As for suppressing the media, Team Obama already has flirted with demanding "fidelity" Or Else already.

Re: Why Should Public Dollars Pay for the Vanity of Old Men?

jchem — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:28:24 -0000

DLS, anyone who disagrees with Kathy on anything is considered far right

Re: Don’t Let Abortion Destroy Health Care Reform (Guest Voice)

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:26:23 -0000

Choice?

Turn left or right, or proceed straight, at an intersection? Red or blue tie? Coke or Pepsi? McD's or BK?

We have plenty of choices we face and make every waking hour.

The correct terms with respect to abortion have always been "pro-abortion" and "anti-abortion."

Ignorant, evasive, cowardly, or debilitated language, and users of such, are corrected again. [sigh]

Re: Why Should Public Dollars Pay for the Vanity of Old Men?

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:23:58 -0000

With Kathy, it may or may not be misandrosy. Proably not -- it's just adhering to rigid far-left replacement of reality with a radical alternative to it (obviously, in this case), far removed from it.

Down is "up," red is "green," trees are "rocks," etc., frequently with Kathy.

Examples:

"Bart Stupak is hard right. A lot of readers on this blog are hard right. The entire Republican leadership is hard right."

"Misogyny 101."

Re: Dumping Dobbs: Good News for News

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:19:46 -0000

Dobbs leaves, the little kiddies continue to snipe at him -- pathetic, but predictable.

Re: Ex-Miss USA Carrie Prejean Flips Out On CNN’s Larry King

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:17:22 -0000

"Pretty much non news except for the Paparazzi."

But, she is also the object of disturbed behavior and hatred from the Left since she made her gay marriage remark. "Instant manufactured controversy and diseased outrage"

Re: http://themoderatevoice.com/52820/52820/

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:15:56 -0000

The political correctness that has pervaded our society and our government, among other sites, is so very obvious that even liberal commentators have asked aloud about it, and if it is a problem. (There has been even more expression of concern about this problem than there was a notable lack of protest by liberals and anti-death-penalty activists at the recent execution of the older DC sniper.)

What also may be in effect in this case is simple bureaucratic bungling or negligence or dysfunctionality.

The rest of it, such as Daley's truly demented remarks about "gun culture" and other nonsense related to gun control (and violent crime in specific places, like his Chicago), is merely trivial and annoying.

Re: Let’s Save or Create Even More Jobs!

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:09:57 -0000

"Accountability is simply too much to ask for."

Don't expect it at the "jobs summit." If anything, expect the private sector to be blamed for unemployment.

Re: Let’s Save or Create Even More Jobs!

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:56:45 -0000

More on current state (and worst-state) woes:

http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/uploadedFil...

http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/uploadedFil...

Re: Let’s Save or Create Even More Jobs!

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:50:31 -0000

Apparently, when Obama returns from his trip to eastern Asia, he'll host a big meeting that will encourage, enlist, or conscript the private sector to do what he promised and failed to provide from the stimulus effort, the creation and saving of millions of jobs. It's time for the private sector "to do its part."

Never mind real issue, about federal failure, as well as the failure of states long in need of reform of what is happening in a number of states to cost jobs and be counterproductive to recovery.

http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/news_room_d...

Re: Lou Dobbs Leaves CNN

DLS — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:42:17 -0000

Well, one of the writers on this site started a thread some time ago about Dobbs's possible departure from CNN, and that writer can now claim additional credit -- Dobbs is leaving CNN.

Speculation on that thread was that he might to go Fox. Would that happen, or would he instead try to go nation-wide with his radio show? Or perhaps join populist-righties and paleocons like Pat Buchanan?