libertron's Comments (117)

“One very telling thing about this case and why Hasan wasn't stopped comes from a Saturday morning round-table type show on PBS. It has the usual liberal-media folks like Nina Totenberg and some guys from Newsweek, WaPo, NYT, and Charles Krauthammer is usually the conservative voice of reason. He was absent on the day after the shooting and all the liberal media people were wringing their hands, upset about how unfortunate it was that "it just happened" to be a Muslim who did this. They were all concerned about how conservatives would "use" this and there would be a terrible backlash against innocent Muslims.

One week later, same group of libs, a lot of new info came out about Hasan over the week, and it turns out his religion was integral in his attack. NOT one of them ever admitted that they might have been wrong to be so PC last week as to think that Islam had nothing to do with it. Or that they are ALWAYS wrong when they predict a violent backlash against innocent Muslims after an Islamic attack on us. They acted like their foolish, naive comments 7 days earlier did not exist. Down the Memory Hole...”

“Are you out of your mind? Back that up with one example or rational train of thought that leads you to that.”

“Yeah, I remember back when our church stoned some adulterers to death. Wait, that was a bake sale to raise money for homeless people. Almost the same, though.”

“Unfortunately, we are in an era where a coalition between government and the "news" media ALWAYS preys on people's fear and ignorance. 9/11 made the PATRIOT Act necessary and WMDs in Iraq made the war there necessary. The new "Great Depression" of 2008 made TARP, Cash for Clunkers, and the bailouts of AIG and GM and Chrysler necessary.

Now the fearmongering about climate chance will force a new energy tax, and people's fears about their own health care will force a "reform" that will benefit both the government and the insurance companies at a greater cost to us.

We know that the elitists in DC and the news media are teamed up against us. Why must we always fall for it?”

“While this article seems to be about a glorious victory against the NRA, it's really a story about how unresponsive our government is. The senators only vote in the interests of their constituents when they are close enough to a reelection for people to remember. What a sick and un-democratic system.


Not that this vote was terribly important, but there should for a "no confidence" vote available for the people of the states to get rid of bums right away. That might make these jaded political operators take their job descriptions more seriously.”

“I'm a libertarian nut-case, so I wouldn't mind the Dems controlling the senate if they would ever do anything good, like: successfully opposing the Iraq war, ending the "war on drugs", crushing the egregious parts of the Patriot Act, and so on.

But they never do any of these things. Look at what they are up to: Pushing us nearer to communism by nationalizing everything. Driving up the price of energy with the global warming scare. Driving our whole country into bankruptcy with ridiculous borrowing and spending.

Did ya hear that this year's deficit will be over 12% - or four times what a "safe" level of 3% is considered. That's one other thing that the liberal media fails to mention because they can't question their hero, BHO.”

“Mr. Begich would have never won the race if Mr. Stevens had not been charged and convicted by an over-zealous, crooked prosecutor.

Mr. Franken was down by about 300 votes on the first count, but in a state with a powerful Democrat machine like Minnesota, they knew they could fix a recount for a lot more votes than that.”

“I hope that Mr. Coleman keeps fighing this forever, because the last thing we need is a one-party super-majority. And what the liberal media never brings up is the fact that there are TWO Democrats in the senate already who don't belong there because of illegal actions: Rolland Burris, and the guy who got Ted Stevens' seat because he was wrongly convicted by a crooked prosecutor. Franken would make three for this dishonest recount.”

“Commuter rail has it's place, especially in densely populated areas, but look here in Minnesota. Where they already have a multi-billion dollar deficit and they are planning to raise taxes across the board (not just on the wealthy or the smokers), they are building another light-rail leg for the metro. These trains don't stop anybody from driving; it starts in the suburbs where everyone has to drive to it. It just supposedly keeps down congestion in the city. The thing is, for the $billions$ that light-rail costs they could build more than enough roads into there.

But that isn't "green" enough for the clowns who run this Blue State. They need to squander taxpayer money on stuff that people don't want to impress folks like the NYT editors, or the faculty at Yale, or pretty much anybody here at H()##P0.”

“A better question is what century do you live in, lizr?

I bet that you want people crammed shoulder to shoulder in little trolley cars instead of driving their nice, comfortable cars. I also bet you think people shouldn't be able to buy fruit out of season if it comes from too far away, shouldn't use AC in their houses, or fly on a jet for a vacation.

Or maybe only the wealthy people who can pay carbon offsets should be able to do these things. You ecos are the ones driving civilization backwards.”

“Is it really "too bad all countries don't have laws like this"? Because something is lame doesn't mean you should go to jail for it. If you are a Jew and you approve of the ways Israel deals with Palestinean terrorists, there are some people in the UN who wand you in jail and compare you to the Nazis. I'm not saying you do or don't approve, but nobody should go to jail for their dumb opinions.”

“I am by no means a member of the Global Warming Doomsday Cult, but for those of you who are, I should point out that biofuels are not carbon neutral. To say that they are assumes that if the acre of land was not used to grow soybeans to be crushed into biodiesel, then that acre of land would be empty instead. Nothing would be growing there. This is false. It would be used for some other crop, or weeds would be growing there, if nothing else. So some plants would be exchanging CO2 for O2 no matter if they were burnt, creating more CO2 or not.”

“I would say, that's because you are pure evil. The world is turning away from any concern about freedom, to socialist censorship. From people's individual rights to a Borg-like entity where everything is controlled by the government.”

“Has anyone ever pointed out that just the act of being naked is not a crime? Porn has to be overtly sexual. If a 14 year old girl has her b00bs showing on camera, that is not a crime. These prosecutors should be held in contempt of court for bringing these kind of foolish charges against kids.”

“He's not gonna take away anyone's guns... But it is a near certainty that a carbon cap and trade system will be in place and you would be a fool not to think that those costs on big utility corps will not be added to the bills of middle class people.

Socialism? Hardly. As I said in the very first post, it's regressive. The opposite of socialism. Poor people pay a larger % of their income for energy (and tobacco) that rich people do.”

“Sorry, I should have pegged you for an ex-smoker for your psycho hatred of it. my bad. You still can't say why it is not a broken promise when Obama said no one making less than $250 will have to pay more taxes. He didn't qualify that with anything about sin taxes for the good of society, or anything else. Understand, he meant to do this kind of stuff all along, he just lied to people all through the campaign for enough of the victims to vote for him believing they wouldn't be victims. Mark my words: this tobacco thing is just the beginning.”

“So you don't like smoking or tobacco companies much; fine, I agree with you.

You fail to mention HOW it is not a broken promise even though you think he was totally right to break the promise.

Also, the part about smoking being optional is a joke. You must not know too many people who have tried to quit 35 times like several of my friends”

“If she wants to try, I volunteer

NCC-1701 LOL :-)”

“You must be a gullible one, klandish. Obama has ALREADY broken the promise that nobody under $250k/year will be taxed more. Smokers are way more than 1% of the population and they just got hit with a massive (and regressive) tax increase.

Add to that the carbon tax that they are calling a cap-and-trade system, (also regressive), and you have every middle class American paying more taxes.”

“Ann Coulter had the best ever remark about the right-wing domination on AM talk radio. She said: "Conservatives have a captive audience that liberals will never get; people in their cars on the way to or from some kind of JOB!"

HAHA, get one and move out of your parents' basement or the projects, you libs, and then you will know what it's like when the gov takes 1/2 of what you worked really hard to earn. And you thought they were only gonna tax the rich people. HAHA that means you if you have any digits behind this: $”

“As if the British royal family weren't the undisputed most useless people in the world....


This one needs to jet around the globe telling working people they need to consume less and live smaller lives...


I have to admit, this is one area where the French and the Russians got it totally right.”

“Are they kidding, making this a sexism issue? Why are men required to wear a suit, jacket and tie in the same buildings?

For anyone who doesn't know, there is a war about where the thermostat should be set; between men in jacket and tie, and women who wear half of that amount of clothes, mostly by their own choice.

Point is, men hate attire that women and businesses force on them, but we mostly deal with it without whining.”

“Love America and like free markets... can't worship them. Some regulation has to exist to prevent chaos. You can't have a football game without rules.
And why am I deemed a republican, because I dare to dissent here at Huffpo? libertron stands for libertarian. But when someone has to decide how to use finite resources that can be grabbed from different angles, it has to be the be the government and they have to be very careful.
Government capriciously deciding in the favor a small group, either the wealthiest people (Rs), or the poorest people (Ds), messes everything up.”

“I'm not stupid or uninformed. If something can be property of the public, then the gov has to decide how to allow use of that property to best serve the most people. In my case, I get over the air tv and the picture is way better with digital. I also get wireless internet and the quality/sp­eed/reliab­ility sucks.

These days, less people are using O-T-A TV, but way more are using cell and wifi devices. And the people using broadcast TV don't have to suffer; its $10 after the gov coupon to get a digital converter. So it's much better public use to spread the bandwidth out as tech allows and uses change.”

“So I exaggerate :) Or the article does? 6 million people are 2% of the population and they are either oblivious or procrastinators. Either way they need the shock to do something. I don't want them to go without TV forever, but a week or a month until they get their act together won't kill them.”