PaceSetter's Comments (104)

“ahhh "petar" as in "one who pets" comme "des pet des soeures"...

stinky nuns

so clever thou art... t'wast a French pun on the Middle English usage that thou (half) quothe - but why not go whole hog and type "owne petar" to clue we morons in?

methinks thou tryest too hard to justify thyself.”

“The Bard didn't mix his metaphors, you did, when you smelled Levin being hoist by his petar(d)”

“heh - wonderful attempt, but methinks by dint of your egregiously mixed-metaphor and lame typo that THOU hast been hoist with your own petard...”

“The Boy in the Bubble , The State Dinner Party Crashers...these folks are a danger to public safety - PLUS all the crap they do every night to shock and appall us and our children on TV - I think ALL reality stars should be shipped off to a desert isle with no supplies to battle each other to the death...oh, wait...”

“yep, "ignorance and negativity" pretty much sums up not only Palin , but all movement conservatives.”

“You had me at Sidoti.

One seriously wonders if she is able to write whatever she wants, without benefit of editors, or if she pitches her stories to have them approved. Either way, it highlights the political slant of AP.”

“Wow.

Bravo!”

“The LGBT community has proven unable aside their differences to fight their way out of a paper bag.

Men vs Women, Are Bi's accepted into either camp, let alone Trans folks? white vs color, able to pass vs out, age vs youth, HIV/AIDS, parental rights, partner rights, hate crime protection, workplace discrimination, gays in the military. Fight one at a time or all at once? Prop 8, DOMA, DADT prove that a divided house cannot stand for long and that the leadership in the gay community has been proven inept, untrustworthy, or unable to set aside their own differences for the common good.

This struggle must be seen as a CIVIL RIGHTS issue, first, last and always.

This country was founded on the principle that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL and laws must not be pass which infringe on an individual's rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, with liberty and justice for ALL.

A white congress voted to grant African Americans equality. An all male congress voted to grant women the right to vote. Congress is no longer, all male, all white nor all straight. If not now, when?

Obama is able to show this to be a CIVIL RIGHTS case in a way and with a force that no white president could never do. If Obama can carry water for this progressive and civil liberties cause, I say, why wait?”

“My point exactly.

Obama can put his money where his mouth (has historically been) and with the power he has NOW, can do the right thing, sign an EO and prove gays and lesbians are a valuable asset to this nation. If he/we wait for Congress for a repeal of DADT, it may or may not happen, and we are once more, beholden to the kindness of strangers. Presented with a fait accompli, I have faith progressives can fight any push to reinstate it.”

“How is saying marriage is a right (rite) to be enjoyed only by a certain group of people NOT a special right in your eyes?”

“It's about civil rights, equal rights and one nation, with liberty and justice for ALL.

DOMA must be repealed. Period.

Obama should sign an Executive Order to stop DADT. There's no way Congress will try to reinstate it after it's been stopped and it becomes clear to EVERYONE that this is the right, sensible, moral, and practical thing to do.”

“Polanski d.r.u.g.g.e.d and r.a.p.e.d a 13-year-old girl and then skipped town. Sorry, there's no excusing that. Ever.

I read the news today. Oh Boy.

Archie Whalen, is facing k.i.d.n.a.p. charges in connection with the alleged abduction of a 13-year-old girl.

Randy Reed stands trial on charges related to multiple burglaries, s.e.x offenses with juveniles.

A s.e.x offender k.i.d.n.a.p.p.e.d a 9-year-old girl as she walked to a bus stop last week, held her at kn1fe-p0int and kept her tied up in a closet.

Phillip Garrido, Brian David Mitchell. Why calls c.a.s.t.r.a.t.e these people, yet "artists" should receive special consideration?

Listen, I'm an artist (my lithos hang in the Montreal Musee de Beaux Arts) and a filmmaker (twenty years in Montreal and Hollywood) and I say NOBODY should get a pass. It's one thing if someone wants to abuse drugs and alcohol and ruin your own life, but when you d.r.u.g and r.a.p.e another human being, let alone a child, it's not your creativity that is in question.

Polanski may be proven innocent (look at O.J.) but he must stand trial. That does not make him a "martyr of a politico-legal imbroglio".”

“Of course corporations are individuals. They can do whatever they want.

Since money equals speech, they have the right to free speech - lots of it.

They have freedom of religion (Ask Scientology)

They have the right to a fair trial (just ask Microsoft or Halliburton)

They have the right to bear arms (Just ask Blackwater)

They have the privilege of traveling (Ask any company which has headquarters and factories off-shore)

They have the right to vote (who needs the right to vote when the write the laws? Isn't Pat Roberts asking for a delay in voting on health care reform so the industry lobbyists can read the legislation and tell senators how to vote? Same diff)

Why don't we just cut to the chase and allow them to run for office? Congressman AT&T, or Senator Citibank...

Zombie banks is right. Corporations are zombies - they can never d13.

Now they're demanding "tort reform" so we MORTAL citizens can't sue them when they endanger or harm us.

Wouldn't it be nice if we can PROVE (and we can) that through their negligence or actions these "health care" companies who have hastened or brought about even one d3@th, we could exact corporate capital punishment on them, same as would happen to one of us?”

“heh

well first of all, I'm Canadian

but let's see...my great great great great great grandmother's family were Cree and have lived here in North America for thousands of years. Her family met my great great great great great grandfather's family when they arrived on Lord Selkirk's first ship, from the old world, before The United States, Canada or Mexico even existed. My ancestors were the first Premier of the province of Manitoba as well as that province's first sheriff, so they wrote, passed and enforced our immigration laws.

My family welcomes your family to the new world.”

“Of course Dobbs, Rush, Hannity, Beck et al have a right to free speech. The thing is, Dobbs' speech is not "free" in that advertisers pay the network, and the network in turn pays him, to spew his vitriol.

Remember, the Supreme Court decided that money is speech.

We also get to say if we want our dollars spent in such a way - i.e. we communicate (freely) with the sponsors and tell then unless they stop using our money to pay for the xenophobic garbage, but instead on programming that allows for true dialogue, we'll stop paying them.

We cut off his tongue. He can continue spewing his hate all he wants, for free - I'd just refusing to pay him for his privelidge.

It is quite literally a marketplace of ideas.

He just doesn't subscribe to the adage that the customer is always right.”

“Histoically, them's that got there before's always upset about them's that's got there last.”

“me three!”

“"Save American Jobs" they shout from the rooftops. "Buy American" Don't offshore jobs!" except that the reason, speaking on a global scale, that we have our disproportionately wealthy standard of living is that many of our "American" jobs are being done by illegal immigrants, and damned if we'll pay more for our Chicken McNuggets

http://www.workingimmigrants.com/2006/04/the_tyson_foods_illegal_immigr.html

our tshirts

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/september-3-2009/american-apparel-fire-1500-illegal-alien-workers.html

our nannies, gardeners, construction labor, cooks maids and housekeepers...

http://www.workingimmigrants.com/2006/03/new_march_2006_report_from_the.html

These businesses either pay foreign workers on foreign soil by setting up their factories abroad or pay peanuts to undocumented workers here.

Despite the fact that we cry for corporations to become more ethical, honest, humane, and socially responsible, corporations are legally mandated to make money for their shareholders as a primary goal.

The Dobbs of this world are racist on one hand, yes, but in the pockets of big business on the other. These two ends are increasingly at odds. We can hit Dbbs where he lives; in the pocket book, by doing what we are doing to Glen Beck - tell his advertizers we will not give them another red cent until they stop giving that money to Dobbs for him to insult and incite hatred any longer. They'll pay attention to that.”

“I was just having lunch with my eleven year old daughter who was explaining to her nine year old brother that "everyone will eventually die, and so what's the big deal? I mean, it's natural. Don't be afraid of death. If you want to be afraid, be afraid of pain."

She's so cool.

I helped my mother die - at home, in her own bed, surrounded by loving family, with medication to ease her pain.

It was a beautiful death.

This society needs to come to terms with sex and death. They are both natural. One inevitably leads to the other.

I'd rather have my doctor help me die well than live poorly an extra few months.

my 2 cents.”

“Lewis is more concerned with a health care providers' right to decide who they will take on as a patient than the rights of a person to receive that care.”

“Just because a particular phrase or specific series of words do not actually appear in the constitution do not mean a right doesn’t exist. There are many basic rights not spelled out in the document:

The Right to a Fair Trial, Right to a Jury of Your Peers, The Right of Women to Vote, The Right to Travel, The Right to Marriage, The Right to Procreate, The Right to Privacy, The Right to Education. There are more.

"If we're going to have a successful democratic society, we have to have a well educated and healthy citizenry". - - Thomas Jefferson

Can there be a better way to "promote the general welfare" than to ensure the good health of the ENTIRE population?”

“This is Obama's Whitewater.

This is the issue the GOP will hammer and hammer 'til the cows come home, in an effort to undermine the administration, evidence be damned. It is a placeholder pseudo argument being used as a parry to the Obama thrust, to be used until a "real" crisis can be found (a la Monica Lewinski).

With no policy nor legislation of their own, the GOP game plan (as leaked last week) is to s-l-o-w everything down in order to ensure the Democrats get nothing done. The point of this movement is not to prove Obama is, or is not, legitimately the sitting President. The point is to keep the shiny bauble glittering so the MSM keeps talking about it, rather than about the lack of a GOP plan on health care, their ruining of the environment, their lack of a plan for peace in the middle east, their part played by Cheney's father in manipulating the price of oil, the ruining of the world economy and historically high domestic unemployment figures, loss of manufacturing jobs, the dead in two wars of aggression, torture, illegal wiretapping and their attempt to stonewall a competent new Supreme Court Justice. Lynne Cheney needs to be put out of our misery.”

“"Pay or Die" as a descriptor of the status quo is an excellent meme, which should be used in every argument for universal health care.”

“I think that's what I said...”

“The cop came to Gates' house, figured out that he was not a burglar, words were exchanged, and then the cop asked Gates to step out his front door so he could be heard better and then arrested him for disorderly conduct.

Cops understand is that a person cannot violate statute 272/53 by yelling in his own home. The crime of disorderly conduct, beloved by cops who get into arguments with citizens, requires that the public be involved. Crowley set Gates up for arrest when he asked him to step out his front door onto the porch.”