LeBelAge's Comments (597)

“That was amazing!”

“That's right. Warmongers and ideologues feed off each other. They hate that Obama is defusing situations around the globe.”

“Do righties get irony?”

“The international press reported Chavez providing oil and gas to Iran as a means of fending of any potential sanctions.

All the hysterics on the Right about Chavez, should be ignored, but the left can't afford to blindly defend him either.

Yes it sucks that America is addicted to Saudi oil, but that's not an excuse for Chavez supporting un-democratic nations or being a cheerleader for the rest of the world to gang up on the US. If Chavez really believes in democracy why help Iran? He's only doing it to stick it to the US.

America has a lot of problems right now. We can't make things right at home or abroad with Chavez acting like a child and stiring up more animosity.”

“I guess the fact that Carter is being critical of Chavez is lost on some people.”

“Failed presidency? Old propaganda meme from the Right. History has smiled favorably on Carter. W will not be so lucky.”

“The Supreme Court in Florida followed the rules for a recount, but the so-called States Rights advocates on the Right stopped the recount with help from the Supreme Court.

Its amazing how the neo-cons attempt to re-write history, even recent history.”

“This isn't about how Chavez is running his own country. In the past few weeks Chavez has helped out Iran with oil and natural gas to reduce the effect of any potenial sanctions on the country to stop their nuke program. He held a joint conference with neighboring Latin American countries to try to prevent the US from using bases in Columbia. He gave a speech in Syria, basically proclaiming Israel the imperial boogyman for the United States against the Muslim world. He's also arming himself with the help of Russia.”

“Carter is correct. Chavez seems to want to confront the United States at every turn these days, making it impossible to have a civil relationship.

It seems like he's trying to follow in the foot-steps of Fidel Castro. Defiant for the sake of being defiant. Maybe he wants war with the US to make his Simon Bolivar dreams come true? Unite all of Latin America against the United States.

Whatever his end goal, it will have negative consequences for the US, Venezula and the region.

Why is it that time and time again, nations that are angry at the United States turn to some form of tyranny in order to stick it to America? All they seem to do is stick it to their own people in the end.”

“Men in American society advise their friends to get a girl drunk, so they have sex. I've heard this said by guys a hundred times. This is seen as acceptable behavior, even by nice normal guys. The date rape drug and what happened in this video is just an extreme version of that attitude.

Most young women have no idea they are going to be preyed upon in such a fashion. Most young women are brought up to be naive and trusting. Young men are not aware that in most states if a girl is drunk when you have sex, you can be charged with rape. Consent equals awareness.

Schools should do more to point out what is acceptable sexual behavior and what is not during sex education classes.

I'm really tired of reading, "when a woman is raped she has to take responsiblity for being raped". When are we as a society going to hold men responsible for fostering a cultural where rape is talked about in such a causal unrepentent manner.”

“Serena wasn't singled out. All players who throw a racket or scream at a line judge get warnings and point penalities. Everyone gets the same treatment because McEnroe made everyone so miserable for so long.

Its not acceptable for hockey/football players to verbally abuse lines people either. They get penalities or kicked out of the game.

It pains me that Serena lost, but she wasn't treated unfairly by the umpire or tournament officials. They followed the rules. The line judge did a bad job. The foot fault call was wrong, but Serena should have held her anger in check or at least challenged it away from the lines judge.”

“The rules have changed because of McEnroe's tirades. Players get warnings and points taken away when the act out now. McEnroe got away with his behavior because the tennis tour didn't have rules in place way back when.”

“I was so upset to see Serena lose the match that way. It’s obvious from the replay, it wasn’t a foot fault. It’s understandable for Serena or any player to lose their temper under those circumstances. However, she confronted the line judge, which cost her match. It doesn’t matter what she said, it was the confrontation itself that broke the rules. The rules in tennis are now very strict against players verbally abusing or confronting linesmen and umpires. There is a zero tolerance policy. Serena lost the match because she already had a previous warning for breaking her racket and hitting it against the net. The rules are the rules, which is why I believe Serena didn’t argue with the officials or the umpire when she lost match point. She quickly accepted it, and shook Kim’s hand.

As far as racism goes, I would say there is no way of knowing for sure. Her disqualification was based on the rules, with two obvious infractions. The line judge who made the terrible call was an Asian woman. We don’t know for sure what was going on in her head or what she saw. I think she is blind as a bat personally.”

“Zinedine Zidane French soccer player head butted his Italian opponent in the chest at the 2006 World Cup. Zhao Shitong a Chinese soccer player chased and tackled a referee in July 2009. English football fans rioted after a West Ham, Premier League football game a few weeks ago. South African officials did not follow international testing rules and allowed a intersex person to run at the World Champions. Roger Federer threw his racket and got a warning in Miami in March 2009.

If non-Americans are going to judge all Americans based on the actions of Serena, than as an American I can conclude the French, Chinese, English are thugs, the South Africans are cheaters and the Swiss have a bad tempers.”

“Republicans won't be happy until the United States looks like Somalia.”

“What we need is more protests against Big Government regulating our water supply. It protects Americans from skin burns and rotten teeth. *snicker*”

“It was the actions of those male players in the past that led to all the system of warnings and point penalties. Players today can not get away the same behavior as players in the past.

Its a shame the match ended that way. It was a great match and I thought it would have gone into a tie breaker.”

“Serena's behavior was wrong. She over-reacted and it cost her the match. The line judge was also wrong for calling a foot fault at a cruical point, when it clearly was not a foot fault. Why wasn't it given a review?

But to make a vast generalization about US sports being at "the bottom of the barrel on the world stage" because of what one American player did is beyond hyperbole. Its an odd statement that doesn't make any sense. American sports are not shown much outside of North America for starters. Plus its insulting and offensive to all Americans.

I knew Serena's actions would get American haters going.”

“They don't get the Terry Schiavo irony either.”

“Snooze. Ignore these anti-American sore losers.”

“Now if you post a list of who made donations to Hillary's campaign you would get a different picture.

The reason that Americans wanted Obama over Hillary was never about Hillary being partisan. There were two reasons: 1. We want two political families controlling the White House for 20+ years. and 2. We were afraid that Hillary would have motivated the right wing base to come out in droves.

No matter which Democrat got elected we made the mistake of believing the Right Wing would act like rational adults.”

“I love what Maher said, but he's wrong about the non-crazy side getting tv coverage. All those anti-war protests were ignored. I went to Washington with 300,000 other Americans to protest the Iraq War and it was got about 30 seconds worth of coverage on the major networks and cable news. The Corporate Media will not let our side be heard. Its time to storm the headquarters of the corporate media.”

“No one denies Europe's colony past, least of all Europeans. But the current situation in Zimbawe has nothing to with neo-colonalism and everything to do with internal corruption. Dictatorships and corruption knows no race or ethnic boundaries.

Everything you just posted is not rooted in reality. The people who could afford to leave the country have already done so. Those that weren't capable of leaving starve or live in fear of the government. A leader that actually respects human rights would not allow his own people to starve in the streets.

I'm a 100% certain that you have not followed what has been going on in that country at all.”

“I hope she will not be hurt as a result of this news. There is a sad trend of beatings and killings of the LGBT community in South Africa.”

“Oh happy day. :)”