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Jon Gosselin NO-SHOWS At Court Hearing, Loses

Commented Dec 11, 2009 at 20:34:59 in Entertainment

“Jon G stopped "trying to support his eight children" months ago. Any claim by his lawyer is now a lie of his to himself maybe but to everyone else including his kids for sure. He is a stupid man going through whatever he might want to call it but taking his girlfirends into his kids orbit/house while their mother was at least trying to hold the family together was it. Having his fun and games with women across the pages of tabloids will be most of what his kids know when they grow up about him leaving them.... all for some fun and to take them from the life they knew.”

twinskids replied on Dec 13, 2009 at 18:34:26

“Yeah I agree!

If he didn't want to be in the limelight, he wouldn't walk up and down his sidewalks waiting for the Paps to come and Photograph him.

He is going through a rebellious stage like some 18 yr old who just cannot screw up fast enough. It is really sad that he is a grown man.”

Senators Should Visit a Free Health Care Clinic to Really See the America They Represent... and Deny

Commented Dec 11, 2009 at 20:25:19 in Politics

“If I had a magic wand that worked, I would wave it and have those who are so high and stupid about who they are supposed to represent would suddenly find themselves without any insurance for themselves or their families. Maybe that touch of reality would have a insight into the pain and suffering they are so carefully not to look at. If they were to see those they so easily denied and had to look them in the eyes I am thinking that they would lie to them about caring about them and not the money and influence of insurance and pharma. If these people who vote againest us and healthcare for us all are shown to have ties to either insurance pharma or both they should not hold office again.”

How a Few Private Health Insurers Are on the Way to Controlling Health Care

Commented Dec 11, 2009 at 20:12:27 in Politics

“Insurance companies have controlled the industry of medical care and us for as long as we have been saddled with insurance for our health. They have someone at some desk that is usually non-medical deciding if the insurance will pay for whatever the doctor orders. At one time it was not such an issue to get even basic care but as the money grew and control grew they now decide if we live or die based on what care we get. If you don't get the test that reveals cancer until final stages because they wouldn't pay until then, oh well. The tell the doctor what they will pay for no matter what the doctor thinks. With the time restaints the insurance has put on doctors to be able to afford their own practice if they respond to the insurance companies when denied is based more on who the doctor is. 15 minutes to see a patient write the note and any other things needed like a prescription is all most get.”

Senator Bob Corker Praises Police, OnStar For Their Work After Carjacking [AUDIO]

Commented Dec 03, 2009 at 16:51:15 in Media

“While it is a great outcome and a fantastic ON Star ad that the "bad guys" were found might be a more of the group effort because although On Star can find and in some disable the vehicle so the people in it are stopped the On Star people can only guide the cops to the place the car was at on GPS. So if this was a high brow neighborhood how did these bad guys mark her for the steal? Lots of praise and glad she is OK but the story is weak on facts.”

b1rd67 replied on Dec 03, 2009 at 17:04:49

“Penn Quarter is not a "high brow" neighborhood, it's a very busy downtown area near the Verizon Center with the two largest and busiest Metro (subway) stops in the city, and you only have to walk a few blocks to get to lower income areas. Like the area around Capitol Hill, it's really block by block. It's kind of like being car jacked in downtown Manhattan (albeit much smaller), which few people would find shocking.”

Cal Cunningham Will Challenge Richard Burr For Senate Seat In 2010

Commented Dec 03, 2009 at 16:45:50 in Politics

“While I will not blindly support any democrat or Iraqi vet, I do support this guy and will further check out anyone who is a vet and support them if their message is clear and supportive of the military and the country. Something the GOP fails to do across the board now days. Even McCain in his run for presient failed to do or say anything to convince me he cares about what is happening to our troops or their families. While Obama could do more in support of the whole familiy now I believe he will be put into that maybe forced into more soon but the GOP has turned it's back for some time when they back Bush and the lies it said it all.”

West Point Cadet To Chris Matthews: We Are Not The Enemy

Commented Dec 03, 2009 at 16:41:08 in Politics

“Chris Matthews is 4/5 republican on a good day and anything he says should be taken in that context. He has not been the friend to the USA he likes to believe that serving in Congress automatically makes one to be. While on MSNBC he backed Bush to the death and then changed his mind when he was shown the truth about the Bush war and the lies told. Until he changed his direction thee it was hard to tell how much he promoted Bush and how much he actually "thought" for himself. He changed to become a person who thought Obama had a good message all the time still promoting the republicans banters and issues. I seriously doubt he will ever have "fair and balanced" written on anything he does.”

LMKay66 replied on Dec 03, 2009 at 16:43:40

“These guys, these political pundits with their own shows, aren't journalists, so they're not going to be "fair and balanced." They're giving their opinions.”

Princess Tiana, Disney's First Black Princess, Brings 'Change'

Commented Dec 02, 2009 at 18:41:37 in Entertainment

“I think it is long past time when Disney co should put out a "colorful version of a princess" and it is sad that it makes news when they do. when people from the South USA can talk about their own parents and grandparents telling the stories about the "seperate places and fountains" still this is a sad but a good thing to actually have gotten this far. Now is it because we have a man of color in the white house or is it because it's long past the time it should have happened foor all girls to see themsleves as a princess.”

KIVPossum replied on Dec 03, 2009 at 06:31:32

“Oh, yes, the days of separate places are not that far in the past. I remember palling around with my buddies on Saturday but when we got to the theater they had to sit in the balcony and hit the concession stand and toilets at different times. If we wanted ice cream two couldn't go in and buy a cone each, the white guy went in and got two cones to carry out.”

Susan Boyle Has Best-Selling Female Album Debut Ever

Commented Dec 02, 2009 at 18:31:21 in Entertainment

“It should show the outside package is not the most important part but it will not as the human nature says the outside must match for us to buy it as talent. She has made quite the show as she came out when no one would expect someone whose outside was not as pleasant as we'll demand of them to be. So now with the album winning the prize for sales will it change human nature and allow for her to be on top? When you see the posts and they are not all very kind I have to wonder but her voice is a great one who not only was not discovered by a someone who was looking for the outside but a talent contest she had to fight to be on, I hope this makes us as humans decide we have to look inside first and wonder why we demand perfection all around. Too many "singers" male and female have been sold to us on their looks and they cannot sing a note and yet we bought their "singing" for a time.”

Meredith Baxter From "Family Ties": I'm Gay

Commented Dec 02, 2009 at 18:23:00 in Entertainment

“The market rags used to be jut that but when National Enquirer came out with substaniated stories which made people have to tell the truth it brought people to the place where if the story is true it is better to say yes it is rather than to be fried to the bone by the National Enquirer making it's case againest you. That was the proof of it when John Edwards has done all he did to be hidden from the truth they dug up on him only to pay a much higher price upon the denials. If the story is the truth they will stop at little until they prove it to everyone. They do not accept anything as being a private nor personal thing and this is sad in the effort for some like this really nice woman who had always done her best to be private and to let her family be private only to have the "truth" set the Enquirer free not herself. She has to pay the price for the tabloid to say "see it was true".”

Roman Catholic Cardinal: Gays 'Will Never Go To Heaven'

Commented Dec 02, 2009 at 17:56:12 in Politics

“I hope God has mercy on this guys soul. There is not a man alive who can judge his fellow human but only himself and God will do that.”

Lou Dobbs: 'Who The Hell Does This President Think He Is?'

Commented Dec 02, 2009 at 17:50:26 in Media

“President Obama knows he is the President and he is making decisions we either don't agree with, don't know why he makes them or he is doing the very best he can with the info he has. While I know Mr Obama is a human who does the best he can, I do not know that about Lou Dobbs. I as an American support my country and my President and I know that is how we as a country have gotten through many times. I totally dislike Mr Bush the second but he was our President at the time he did some very bad things and yet Lou Dobbs said nothing of value then and now he believes we should listen to him? Not a chance. Obama is doing the best he can and while it might not be all we expected and some of the things he promised have been put aside I still have faith in him. Bush lied and therefore killed off many sodiers under our flag in a war based totally on lies for his buddies and Cheney's to make tons of money from our gov almost to the point it collapsed. So Dobbs too late for me to even care about you.”

doctordoubt replied on Dec 02, 2009 at 17:56:14

“Thank you. It needed saying, if only to remind the gnope ers they lost.”

The Forgotten Cost of War: Caring for Veterans

Commented Dec 02, 2009 at 17:43:18 in Politics

“If you get deployed without having put enough time in to get the full GI Bill for the education and come home messed up bad you have to apply for a med board to hope you get enough to cover medical and school.... It is not a "for sure" as thr soldiers say that you will get "squat" for what the war did to you. If you don't claim PTSD and leave for whatever reasons the military you have 6 months to go to the VA and work out something with them. Funding is all it comes down to when they know how many soldiers are broken when they come home. Many soldiers with over 5 deployments under their time active as they have to reenlist to get that many will deny they have any problems at all until PTSD wins the battle they rage without their being aware. I have yet to meet anyone I have worked with who doesn't have PTSD and the majority will deny it as their world falls apart and they end up in such massive troubles in their lives they lose everything and decide to kill themsleves. PTSD if you are not aware will take your support people because you no longer can relate to them. Your credit because you spent everything trying to fill the hole. And the list goes on and on.”

Military Divorces Edge Up Again In 9th Year Of War

Commented Nov 28, 2009 at 02:07:29 in Politics

“Those who volunteer for the military do it for many reasons but the majority join as they need a ob or a way out of the areas so depressed there is not much choice. Out of high school without a job or way to get to college hopes are put on at least having wages to pay to live. Most are not prepared for what is asked of them and the boot camp is so much easier than it was in previous wars but too hard for many. Those who get as far as deployment it happens to them up to 5 times and counting because they made it that far and others did not for many reasons as in mental illness or suicide. There would be many divorces if all had to take jobs which sent the one or both spouses on deployments up to a year-eighteen months then expected the two people married to reintergrate back into a life they have been away from so many months that the stay at home spouse who had a job and childcare as well as the bills and house to take care of while the deployed one was a world away...how do those tha survive the deployments do it? Then those who are injured by enemies have the additional burdens added to both spouses and the kids how does married couple survive that?”

Vicki Kennedy On Oprah: I Can't Share Teddy's Last Words

Commented Nov 28, 2009 at 01:58:19 in Politics

“While it was a ploy at best to get Mrs Vicki to say something "sensational" as the last words might be for some, that the world should not have to know or hear every private moment or things said by anyone who is dying. We are so quick to grab on to something as private as the last words of anyone and yet we are still afraid to talk about death and use the word death to threaten people as in "death squads" Teddy was blessed in many ways includin the type of insurance the Congress members get and was wealthy enough to afford the better "good death" than we can afford on the streets. He became a better man than his brothers had time to be and for that we should all be grateful for. As we are each born we will die and we should measure our lives on the good done and said.”

hischagal replied on Nov 28, 2009 at 13:34:02

“Teddy was a great man.”

Palin Confuses Iraq And Iran In Hannity Interview (VIDEO)

Commented Nov 19, 2009 at 17:09:29 in Politics

“Alaska must be really glad she quit her job for them as she embarrassed them so much while still their Gov. Now she embarrasses herself and the GOP a better deal for the state of Alaska anyway. I am starting to believe the Mayans saw her coming at us in 2012 and she must be the reason the world might end then as she is still playing like she might actually run for President then......”

ak girl 79 replied on Nov 19, 2009 at 17:19:54

“Yes we are! She in NO WAY reflects the people of Alaska.”

Families, Caregivers Bear the Biggest Burden

Commented Nov 15, 2009 at 19:57:57 in Politics

“Bob: You are so right about it all as the families not only bear the brunt of it when the loved one is deployed and have to go about life hoping nothing happens to their loved one and they don't home home the way they left. NAMI says 1 in 3 soldier suffers a mental illness problem when they have been deployed to the war zone and the reintergration into family and work life is too hard for many to deal with and it shows up somewhere. When the soldier suffers a large loss of function or limbs then who will take care of them? If they are not married and single who takes up the burden? These soldiers are put through the VA system but who guides them and holds their hands to make sure they get the benefits they deserve? Often times the older parents are not equiped to handle the injured as the economy has them on the edge if not in the hole. The "Volunteer Military" is made up of not the most well off families but many of the poorest so what needs to be done to fix this?”

Holder: Unfair To Blame Greg Craig For Gitmo Failures

Commented Nov 14, 2009 at 08:07:34 in Politics

“It is looking more like they are moving toward the stated objective to close Gitmo but after Congress has been only able to focus on one item rather than a full agenda as they should be doing it has been much more difficult. I agree with Holder that one man cannot bear the brunt of the failure to close Gitmo in the record time it seemed everyone has wanted but those who understand that it takes a while to undo what 7 plus years of Bush administration blunders on the top of the lies and war the US should never have made in Iraq (Now the friends of Bush/Cheney are getting rich off the oil there). When you have cluster _ as we have had with all of the torture and the innocents inprisoned at Gitmo who really believes all those amounts of issues can be resolved in one year?”

hhayden replied on Nov 14, 2009 at 10:03:14

“How long does it take to put these bad guys on a bus out of Guantenamo and lock the doors? (Not that they should) Keep up the excuses.”

TheIndependenceParty replied on Nov 14, 2009 at 08:52:25

“Gitmo is a military installation, and its disposition is at the discretion of the Commander in Chief. Senators and representatives from specific states notwithstanding, it is the President who will order what happens at Gitmo. Having Congress micromanage the coimmand of the military is a recipe for mayhem.

As for a report I heard this week that South Carolina politicians don't want detainees in the brig at Charleston, I have to ask why they believe they should have ANY say about the conduct of operations at that Navy facility? Did they complain when Jose Padilla was brought there by Bush/Cheney? That base is not their property, and not technically part of their state.

Others have said that bringing the detainees onshore will make us a target to terrorists. Quite the contrary, ... Our detention of these men has made us a constant target since Bush created Gitmo from whole cloth. Holding them for nearly a decade without charges or a trial makes us a target around the world, and despised by even some of our former allies.

In the end we have to decide if Gitmo detainees are criminals, ... or "hostages" we hold in Bush's "War on Terror". There are few instances of such detentions in American history, and every one is fraught with shame. The shame will not end until we close Gitmo's gates forever.”

Stewart Responds To Hannity's Apology: Nothing's Worth Sitting Through His Show (VIDEO)

Commented Nov 13, 2009 at 18:24:18 in Comedy

“Always will trust Jon to tell the truth and the correct version of the news. Sad to say he is on the comedy central channel and not on the actual media channels so really not too many beyond Jon lovers know the truth and correct news.”

Army Says Morale Has Fallen Among Troops In Afghanistan

Commented Nov 13, 2009 at 18:13:29 in World

“NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) recently reported that 1 soldier in 3 having been deployed is in need of mental health assistance. Many of the soldiers are taught to not tell their degree of stress or to admit to any PTSD as they will be called multiple names and declared the weak link etc. Where does this lead to but to no mental health assistance as who will want to fail their fellow soldiers. This leads to suicides across the board in many ranks as the feeling of failing our brothers or putting them at risk because you are not able to do 100% to stand with them at their back. When this system is relied on because we have run out of soldiers in the ranks to take the deployments and so the ones deployed until they are too broken to go back to the war is hard to look at. This I hope is being heard and looked at by the top brass but who will fill the boots of those who are needed?”

xlntcat replied on Nov 13, 2009 at 18:28:29

“The stigma the follows Mental Health issues is prominent in our society and most have reservation about admitting problems in the employment environment. I have been stunned since the Ft Hood shooting that the public ignorance that remains regarding mental and emotional disorders.”

Paying Peter to Kill Paul

Commented Nov 13, 2009 at 18:06:07 in World

“Thanks for accurate info guys! You both are well versed and know your stuff as I know fron all the posts previously. I just wish/hope/desire that those in charge and those of any part willingness to push the information to the front of the media and make these truths known. Our soldiers or Natos do not deserve any more death or injuries as the direct result of our own DOD funding anything which harms them! Jon you have been on MSNBC with Keith and Rachel so drop this on them too!”

Government Rushes Towards Gitmo Plea Deals With Few Strong Cases

Commented Nov 13, 2009 at 17:59:55 in Politics

“As I heard just yesterday from someone who had been there in the military, most of these guys have been there for so long it will be hard on them to go home to their own countries. When Gitmo has reduced them to a place where their worries are pillows and outside rec time then who are we sending home and what will the outcome be?”

abouttime replied on Nov 13, 2009 at 18:21:57

“Yes! - the hundreds of innocents who spent many years of their lives without charge; tortured and deprived of life and liberty. What will be their justice?
And who will be charged for violating thier lives, spirits and souls?
Will it be Bush, Chenney, Rumsfield, Baybee...?
Or will Holder and Obama deter further US abuses by bringing charges against the sadistic and cruel violaters of human decency and laws exacted in our name?
Will Holder and Obama become co-conspiritors of torture and rendition?
Or will we, the people demand justice?”

Anita Dunn Takes Parting Shot At Fox, Hannity And Beck

Commented Nov 13, 2009 at 17:56:49 in Politics

“I do a funny little test when I meet someone new, I ask which news channel is their fav. This helps me weed out those who don't want to actually know what is happening around them. Fox News Channel I learned about years ago and have little or no contact with those who prefer that channel. For obvious reasons. This lady said her truth as well as many who prefer other "news" channels. So let the lady leave in peace and go home to her kid and job she loves.”

Palin: I Did Katie Couric Interview Out Of Pity

Commented Nov 13, 2009 at 17:33:36 in Politics

“This person continues to be a strnger to the truth so why does she or what she says matter? Some never want to hear the truth so they still like and want to hear from her mouth the lies they want to believe.”

Bush Oil Buddies Divvy Up Iraqi Oil, Now Joined By "Liberal Scion" Peter Galbraith

Commented Nov 13, 2009 at 17:30:51 in Politics

“The amount of American blood lost and lives lost totally of all countries involved in the Iraq war Bush/Cheney built on their lies shames them if they had any but they do not. The war was always about their desire to be "someone in the history books" and money/oil for the friends of Bush/Cheney. One only has had to see that apparent through Haliburtin and the many names they use to provide still in the middle east the security and whatever they can. The facts have always been out where people could see if they wanted to but the GOP is also part of this. One thing we do not have to cry conspiracy over as out in view this was when Bush was in office and even more since. That we have lost so many soldiers in body and spirit because these folks did these things is hard to bear in my mind and heart. Suicides and loss of body parts and the lives these soldiers have left bothers me every time I hear about another one gone. Bush/Cheney should be tried for these things...but never will.”

The First Ten Lies from Going Rogue

Commented Nov 13, 2009 at 17:23:08 in Books

“It still is amazing this woman matters as she could not be honest and truthful throughout her time in the spotlight and was not even capable to finishing the job as Gov in Alaska when she was voted in to that position...why does she matter? Too many still believe her when she says anything as they never bothered to "vet" her and actually hear what she said other than to whip up hatred for Obama and the dems. She has the value system of one we would not tolerate in office in the lower states and because she came from Alaska which is not the strongest state represented in our history books here she got away with too much and McCain is to blame for picking this one.”

azdbac replied on Nov 13, 2009 at 18:11:23

“Well said Demfriend!”


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