didereaux's Comments (88)

“Rubbish. Do you think the President was *consulted* before the Justice Department folks declined to testify? Do you think he even knew about it until he was told later?

The DOJ has over 110,000 employees; those who are to testify about the events of 2001 are unlikely to be Obama appointees. And while the President is nominally in charge of the entire executive branch, he does not have dictatorial powers; his actions have to follow existing law.

Bottom line, using this story as an excuse to cynically snark and snipe at the President is not only intellectually dishonest, it's also incredibly stupid. But as you deserve the benefit of the doubt, I will assume you are just dishonest.”

“So much for transparency!”

“Thank you for your expert opinion, but Panetta was appointed by Obama, and is a former member of the Clinton administration - not a Repub.
Though his actions of late do raise eyebrows.”

“It must be great to be appointed by God to be the judge of other based on half-witted tales from rag tabloid losers.
You have no idea why the burial has been delayed or even if the date reported was factual.
Please show some respect and stop referring to Mrs.Jackson and the family as a pervert. The family have not spoken very much about there plans; so, give them a break - this is their son, brother, and the children's father. Your so call history of the Jackson including MJJ's is based on lies and exaggeration!”

“Nonething is wrong with the Jacksons but there is somethilng wrong with tabloid tv.”

“Nuns wear a habit BY CHOICE, not simply because they were born a woman in a muslim family. There is a huge difference!!”

“LOL.”

“I agree. I was suckered also.

I gave money, worked all summer and half the fall as a team leader on the the campaign, held house parties, did GOTV, phone banks, persuasion universe, got chased out of red neck trailer parks - the whole deal.

It was all a bunch of lies by the biggest slickster since PTBarnum.

FYO - four years and out”

“Sure ya did. Do you honestly think we believe you voted for Obama. Stop tr0l-ling!”

“I propose that, were you to photograph "hungry" people getting free food at food banks, a large percentage would be obese. It worked that way with the "free cheese" a couple decades ago--did you see the fat folks crowding around to get their free cheese?”

“No better place to start than Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" to learn all you need to know about the Chicago School of Economics and Milton Friedman. If I'm not mistaken, Larry Summers was/is a big supporter of Friedman's seriously misguided theories.”

“But there is another test, that of public policy. In order to enforce a contract, you must take it to the law. In most jurisdictions, the law sets out what it will and will not enforce, and doesn't enforce anything just because its in an actual contract. Most jurisdictions would find it against public policy to enforce a contract provision that would force you to shock somebody if you didn't want to, whatever contract you signed.

For example, in Ontario, Canada, every lease contains a no pet clause. But it has been public policy for decades in Ontario that such clauses are unenforceable, but severable (which means that the entire contract doesn't fall, just that clause). Still the landlords include them in the lease, and still the tenants sign them, and then go ahead and have pets anyways. Maybe the landlords hope one day public policy will be reversed, and then they can enforce all those no pets clauses at their leisure, who knows?

There are many, many twists and turns in contract law, don't ever let anybody tell you you are bound to their contract until you check it out independent of their advice.”

“Can you back this up?”

“How erudite. Here's a question: "When did you stop beating your wife?" Legitimate question, right? All questions are not created equal.”

“How erudite. Here's a question: "When did you stop beating your wife?" Legitimate question, right? All questions are not created equal.”

“And didereaux, you come off as the picture of tolerance, civility, and thoughtful discourse with this comment?”

“And didereaux, you come off as the picture of tolerance, civility, and thoughtful discourse with this comment?”

“Bingo! I wish I'd had her savvy at her age. It took me years to realize that I didn't have to answer every question put to me in life. :)”

“Freedom of the press does not make any question asked legitimate. That is just silly. Freedom comes with responsibility. That was not a good question and whoever asked it deserved to be shut down.”

“Freedom of the press does not make any question asked legitimate. That is just silly. Freedom comes with responsibility. That was not a good question and whoever asked it deserved to be shut down.”

“How erudite. Here's a question: "When did you stop beating your wife?" Legitimate question, right? All questions are not created equal.”

“How erudite. Here's a question: "When did you stop beating your wife?" Legitimate question, right? All questions are not created equal.”

“And didereaux, you come off as the picture of tolerance, civility, and thoughtful discourse with this comment?”

“And didereaux, you come off as the picture of tolerance, civility, and thoughtful discourse with this comment?”

“Bingo! I wish I'd had her savvy at her age. It took me years to realize that I didn't have to answer every question put to me in life. :)”

“Freedom of the press does not make any question asked legitimate. That is just silly. Freedom comes with responsibility. That was not a good question and whoever asked it deserved to be shut down.”

“Freedom of the press does not make any question asked legitimate. That is just silly. Freedom comes with responsibility. That was not a good question and whoever asked it deserved to be shut down.”