Newsmonger's Comments (679)

“So, how much tax payers money are they wasting by storing the blackberries in a basket? Or are you referring to the video that was shot using a camcorder?”

“But McCain, it is not that the $2.4million that have been set-aside to support surgical operation will be put in a bag and sent to space.

It will be people here in the USA who will be paid those money to do the research and build the necessary mechinery & devices that will make that possible, and it will lead to job creation and direct stimulate the economy.

Think of the alternative, the cost of aborting a space mission prematurely because someone need urgent surgery is much more costly, because that mission will have to be repeated at a later date at a cost greater than $2.4 millions.

Though another argument for the people who are against this, is how likely is it for someone to need urgent medical surgery in space? I do not think it is happen, but the possibility of been strike/hit with a fast moving object in space is very real.”

“So how will carrying a gun, even the with permit going to safe you from the government?

I did not understand your logic, you mean owning a gun will prevent the government from hunting yu down if you break the law, or what is your reasoning?

I think that owning a gun escalates confrontations with the government or law enforcement agents of the government e.g. Police, FBI, ATF, etc...

Or are you thinking that the government will use her heavy military might to attack her citizens and when the citizen own a gun or own many guns, they will effectively repelle the government's attacks?

There have been many ATF, Police & FBI confrontation with citizen who have multiple guns under their control and they were willing to use them against the government forces, as I recount each of those incidents, none of them ended well for the gun-carrying & gun-shooting citizen. You can see why I am confuse how this is going to help anyone be "safe from their government".

Please explain.”

“This is too controlled and it does not micmic real life crashes or represent the worst-case scenario. One will think if you want your data or result to save more human begins, you should go for the worst case scenario.

Most real life crashes loses balance before hitting the ground, they do not hit the ground at 180 degrees. If you want to simulate a near-real-scenario, at least allow the craft to hit the group at 90 degrees with the nose going first and not the belly; due to the large surface area of the belly, it is more adapted to absorbe more blows thus diverting it from the passengers.”

“I think you got your "facts" wrong.

The GOP weren't and are never in favor of medicare period! They are just using the proposed medicare cuts as a political tools to achieve their goal which is killing the reform bill.

The GOP are against anything Government-run, be it medicare, social security, etc and they hated the single payer because it will be government run despite the fact that it has been shown to be the most fiscally thing to do. They really want to reduce deficit, they should embrace the single payer.

I am all for a small government, but I also know that we have referees or lines men in a soccer or futball game for a reason. They set the ground rules, even the playing field for everyone and provides basic necessary environment & condition for everyone. If you leave everything to market-forces, there will be only two classes....the very very poor and the very very rich.

The health of the citizens is very important, it is only a healthy country that can compete; a country where basic health care services are the exclusive rights of a few is not a balance society and it is very necessary that government step-in and remove health as road-blocks to individual progress just like God have even the intake of oxygen.”

“Another game the Lakers deserve to loss; then come the spoiler in Kobe Byrant.

Nice shot overall, Kobe Bryant is a very skillful, but that does not change my perceptions that Lakers deserve to loss this game.”

“In terms of lung cancer; assuming both pot & cigar have the same level of carcinogenic substances.

I believe since the level of exposure to this substance plays a greater role in one getting cancer or not; pot smoking will not be such a high risk compare to cigar; because I do not think people will be smoking as many pots a day as they do cigars.”

“I have not tried neither will I do it....

But what people keep saying is that drugs have the opposite effect of alcohol; when you are drunk, you feel invincible, he feel as if you are on top of the world and you can take on anyone.....Yes you also feel you are the best driver there, that "empowers" to take the keys and want to drive.

When with drugs, I heard that the effect mellow you down and you feel like you want to relax, sleep; driving is the last thing that come to mind; even if you drive, you do not feel invincible or as if you are the best driver....

Both alters one's reality, but it looks like being drunk had more potentials in as a leading indication to other crimes than being on drug.

The only difference is that, since drugs are illegal, the processing of obtaining it leads to a lot of crimes (i.e. buying/selling) but for alcohol & spirit you can walk into any supermarket and get as much as you care to get.”

“"..have been smoking something pretty strong.."
- John McCain.”

“That is 20% interest; you can't even get that kind of return in the stock market, money market account or savings account.......

Even Bernie Madoff, at the hieights of his ponzi scheme did not even promised his investors that kind of return, had Sohail put that money in the stock market, you would have been "seeing" or if he is wise enough, he would have cut his losses long time ago and run.

Sohail is right, it was a good investment.”

“I do not believe this actually happened....look at the guy in the piture, he is not even putting on a seat belt?

And I can belt you that the seat belt on this flight is not long enough to go round this guy.

Is the Airline telling us that, they allowed someone to board their plane without putting a seat belt during take-off or during normal cruising at 33,000 ft above sea level?

If this is remotely true, the airline will be in some serious safelty violations.”

“I am very surprise at people who are still in the campaign mode; common, we have to be realistic here....there is difference btw campaigning and the actual hold office....something that all Presidents should blindly fulfill all their campaign promises.

Sincerely speaking, lot of these people make these promises with pure motives and honestly; but when they come into office, reality kicks-in; now they start receiving daily intelligence & security briefings they knew nothing about when they were making those campaign promises?

No one governors the way they campaign. I will give the President some credit here, I know he did not come to this decision lightly. When you really come to think about it; who was the alternative to Obama? McCain...had McCain won, it would been a different story altogether...it is possible we might have been at war with Iran by now and the North Korean issue would have escalated further....so you still made a better choice by voting for him.

Yes, you might not have gotten all you wished or hoped to get from him, but who on earth gets all they wish or hope to get?

Voting for someone because you believe or hope that they will keep all his campaign promises is naive void of reality and it is delusional thinking. I vote by comparing the people presented to me and choose the lesser of both evil; if make that your voting attitude you will never be disappointed.”

“You do not need 67 votes to use the nuclear option; you need 67 votes to change a senate rule.

The Nuclear option is not changing the senate rule; it is in essence an attempt by the majority to call-off the bluffing of the minority and dare them to actually carry out their filibuster threat.

Read about the nuclear option here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option”

“The Insurance company paying for vasectomy makes business sense...by that singular action they have effectively negated the possibilities of paying for countless maternity bills down the run...”

“"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
-Mahatma Gandhi

I know deeply understands what Gandhi met; Will Jesus sit on the fence he is asked a question about killing a Gay? I doubt he will...because when the woman who was caught in adutery was brought to him...the Scribes Pharisees(note: these were the pastors, reverences, evangelist, deacons, etc during Jesus' days) said according to our laws, she must be stoned to death....

What did Jesus did? Did he seat on the fence?...read about it at John 7:53 - 8:11”

“"If I could have known nine years ago that this guy was capable of something of this magnitude, obviously I would have never granted a commutation. It's sickening," Huckabee said on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor."

What a stupid and an uninformed statement from someone I really have some respect for...

Huckabee, what about this?

"If I could have know last week today's winning lottery numbers, I would have catched in on the jackpot been annouced on the TV right now"

No one have a crystall ball but as a leader all your decisions have consequences - good or bad; this is one of those bad ones; simply say you blew the opportunity to leave this guy behind bars for decade and move on....”

“Even in those jurisdiction, it is only when the call is about domestic violence and not about an accident.

The officers that responded in this case have stated that, domestic violence was not involved in this case.

So even in those jurisdictions you mentioned, I do not see a Police officer hauling anyone to a jail-house when they have concluded that domestic violence played no role in the accident.

The purpose of sending one partner to jail or away from the house for the night is for the safety of both.”

“Take some time to look at the picture of the vehicle & accident scene posted on the internet.

The tree was block one view of the vehicle and it makes perfect sense to bust a rear window. You do not want to bust the front window because the occupant can get injured by flying glasses.

I believe you also know that even in minor accidents, if the car is deformed as can be seen in the picture, opening the doors without specialized equipment help is futile, so busting a window is the only best alternative.”

“This article made it seem that dying by asphyxiation is like a walk in the park.

Agreed, there are lot of people who for one reason or another want to commit suicide, but underneath all that, every human being have the survival instinct that kicks in involuntary when we are at risk. This instinct induce overwhelming amount of hormone in our that enable us to things that will save us.

If this man's knees were bent and by standing up, he would have eased his pains, I think his survival instinct would have override his intentions and he would have struggled to stand up.

The report also indicated that there was no struggle; it is quite strange that a human being will die in that fashion without putting up a some of struggle, the fact that that person inflicted that pain on him/herself not withstanding.

I will give the investigators the benefit of a doubt, I was just thinking aloud above; but they should seriously see if there was a co-conspirator; was he dead before he was hanged?

Depriving oneself of oxygen while you slowly die is an excruciating pain & experience and knowing that one have the ability to stop that pain, but did nothing about it, is very very strange.”

“We are the greatest & strongest nation in the world and we cannot house one of the world's dangerous people?

What do we do, ship them to some weaker or smaller nations?

Americans, we cannot have it both ways, greatest and strength comes with some responsibilities...

We currently have some terrorists in our prisons today, e.g. The Show bomber, even Charles Manson, if had the knowledge and access to planes; he would have dobe worse things than Osama Bin Laden.

And we still want to capture Osama Bin Laden? The GOP are all in scare tatics mode becos the Administration want to try some terrorist in NYC....I now see why for eight years we dither on capturing OBL, we are afraid to try him in and should he be convicted, we are even afraid to imprison him in the US because the terrorist will target the host city.....

What a bunche of losers and cry babies, please lets change that slogan from....

"America is the greatest nation on earth" to "America is the Weasel nation on earth"”

“Under the America Justice System, they MUST be represented by someone if they so choose; If not this lawyer someone must represent them...

If no body represent them or every single lawyer refused to represent them...guess what? That justice you are seeking will be stalled....there will be no trial, no conviction, no sentencing...”

“"They admitted they were guilty..."

Where did you read that? Why are their lawyers saying they will take a "not guilty" plead once the trial starts?

Even for a confessed killer; a guilty plead cannot only be taken in front a Judge and not in some cell or prison.

If they want to plead guilty, they should do that in front of the Judge and all these will end as quickly as it started.”

“The Administration is the one prosecuting them and it is okay if the head of the administration takes sides or is biased about the outcome....this is not of those trial involving an America citizen where the Administration of Government will be neutral.

In any case where the AG is involved, the Government and Obama have already taken side because they are the prosecution, there is no point going into trial if the administration on the fence or what to portray themselves as being on the fence.

The Jury & the Judge are the ones who suppose to be neutral.”

“You can only use reconciliation on budget related issues and as such, most of the reforms in the HCR bill will be cut down e.g. pre-existing condition denial, capping health benefits, etc cannot be included in a reconciliation bill.

But the Dem can pass the whole bill with just 50 votes+The VP; they can do this by using the Nuclear Option, I am disappointed no Dem. Senator is mentioning the Nuclear Option.”

“Is that not a faster way of encouraging people to start moving their money away from the Banks and start storing them somewhere?

Where will the bank get its reserve capital from if that happen? This is a catch-22 and it have some inherited risk to the Banks, except they are counting on the consumers to keep coming. Hopefully if the community banks & credit unions do not follow suite, this will be a further catalyst that will push people towards them.”