ORSunshine's Comments (96)

“There are many on the right who are just as appalled by Palin and Limbaugh. They see the ignorance for what it is, as well.

The fact is that the ultra-right makes loud noises, but they don't represent everyone on "the right" any more than the extreme left represents "the left".”

“Most likely the reason the military does not appear to be very responsive when there are clear signs that, in retrospect, seem like they should have obviously foretold a catastrophe, is the macho thing.

The military is the ultimate macho paradigm. Suck It Up is the standard advice for any problem. To actually recognize that there are issues stemming from the core purpose of militarizing people, is to impost values on the macho paradigm that go against the grain.

Thus, we see a long history of various incidents, all related to the paradox of military conditioning in a civil society context.

Somehow, that paradox needs to be addressed. Some individuals are just not able to handle it without help.”

“There are indications his views were known by his peers and superiors in the military, so I fear this may well have been a case of them just hoping the guy would never act out.

Not good enough. For the safety and protection of all our military men and women, anyone espousing any similar views, either couched in religious terms or not, should undergo intensive screening to see if they are fit, and if they're not, should be sectioned.

As with the Virginia Tech killer, whose parents, fellow students and professors knew he had violent fantasies, it might be we, as a society, suffer from difficulties with offending the sensibilities of people based on race or religion. The problem with keeping information to yourself when confronted with a ticking time bomb is, not only do innocent people die, but there is always a backlash by association.

The best thing the moderate Muslim community can do is flag up extremists in their midsts. I have read that many Muslims at Fort Hood knew of Hasan's extremist views and had all tried to talk sense into him. But these soldiers and the imam at the local mosque should have recognized they were not dealing with a sane person. You can't reason with the insane.”

“The military is in no way "politically correct", hence the "don't ask, don't tell".”

“agreed! and faved. I see this happen countless times with my nieces and nephews. Luckily they have their uncle around to tell them the truth.”

“The problem is that the pharmaceutical companies who produce it lied about how much they would get out.

They're only turning out half of what they promised to Sebelius, but I'll bet they're still churning out Viagra and Rogaine at full speed.

The punishment for this capitalist betrayal (yet again) should be that Obama revokes his deal with the pharma industry.

These monsters had their chance, and they chose money over our children.”

“I agree. I have sent e-mails to many members of Congress and the White House saying that a priority has to be to establish a facility, owned and run by the NIH OR THE CDC, which would be able to respond quickly, with the best technology, and to be located here in the United States, along with all manufacturing of ancillary supplies. It is a National Security Issue and should not lie in the hands of private enterprise.”

“And how he got OUT of Yale....”

“I think you give the American public way to much credit, I'm not so sure that will work because many of these people don't care and don't understand­..maybe Obama is playing a game I don't know..and I don't know if our country or the public will stand for it. what we need is results not bipartisan­ship....fo­r the sake of bipartisanship, if reaching out to the republicans benefited the country and that would be fine, but it doesn't reaching out to the republicans only benefit the republicans.

I don't really care what Obama does so long as it works for the better so far I'm not seeing that!”

“took the words right out of my keyboard! NOt fighting their skirmishes while remaining, as the President said on Monday, civil and rational will only expose the ugly pettiness of the party of the old guard.”

“I saw someone post the opinion that if the AG saws torture is torture, it is illegal and the Justice Dept. will be obligated to investigate. I am not sure how true this is, but if it is true, the ball is already rollin'.”

“Sorry. Probabilities don't work this way. There's exactly the same probability of it happening tomorrow as happening today. Fortunately for you, the probability is extremely small.”

“I heard the plane fly over my building on 9/11, then I heard a crash.”

“Cheer up.

You did the right thing.”

“Sorry but I beg to differ.

For tax purposes the basis will be pegged according to the formula stated above, $280,000 in the example. For market purposes the house is worth whatever a buyer is willing to pay for it.”

“I second this. Aside from LongIslandHousingBubble.com nobody has been talking about how bad it is to prop up housing prices. On Long Island, of course, most people actually still believe their house is truly wroth the inflated value it's at still and refuse to believe that prices on Long Island will deflate -- not here, not us, we're special, we're different (you hear this all the time).

This is a great common-sense solution to the housing problem and that's why it will never be taken seriously. All I keep hearing about in the MSM is we've got to prop up housing, people are losing value in their homes. Yes, it's artificial, it's a value that never in reality existed in the real world.”