michael429's Comments (239)

“SARAH IS A SOCIALIST!!!!!!

Check it out....Alaska receives more than 5X in Federal Tax dollars than their citizens pay....NY about 20Cent on the dollar... Per capita federal spending in Alaska highest in nation at more than $13K NY, NJ about 7K....she has been sucking at the Fed t*t and biting the hand that feeds her.......

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/09/red_states_feed.html”

“what a clever observation....maybe you might want to turn it into a three act play....”

“i think if you try again, not to many of us would want to stop you.....then you can defend yourselves, fund your own roads, subsidize your farmers and take care of the poor and elderly without our help....Good luck!”

“you receive more than $1.00 back from the federal govt. for every federal tax dollar you contribute...NY receives about .80 cents on every tax dollar we contribute....don't take my word for it...look it up....your K-12 schools are a disgrace....and your state has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the country.....also, your state has one of the highest obesity levels in the country....which contributes to the health care mess.....would be delighted to see the Tennessee (cept for Nashville and Beale Street in Memphis) along with Georgia, Miss. and Alabama....leave the union...i don't think we would try to stop you this time.....”

“no state income tax because you don't fund your schools and your state relies on New York, California, Illinois, Mass. and many other "Blue States" ....to provide your essential services...you are on welfare and likely are not aware of it......the least you can do is send us some Smores once in awhile....”

“If your not angry, then you are not paying attention....”

“i like the music!...i like the spirit of so many of the people that are still oppressed....Black and White.....”

“last time i noticed, Mr. Freeman is a fairly successful and wealthy person....and deservedly so....wealth transcends race.....you can check it out....there are many parts of the deep south that have ramshackle schools with textbooks that are outdated by many years....where housing is third world, the illiteracy rates are some of the highest in the country...unemployment, underemployment and household income among whites and blacks are below the poverty line and political corruption are open secrets.....and many people still refer to the Civil War as "The War of Northern Agression".

So please, Tell this content New Yorker about "Happy Land".”

“nonsense, with the exception of La. and Tenn. (i will get to them later)....these states are either tourist or retirement havens....young people and those with active minds who don't spend their days golfing or going out for the early bird special...would most likely be miserable living in these places (maybe Hawaii is an exception)....La. and Tenn. well, they are in the deep South a culture which deplores direct communication of one's negative feelings....i also doubt if there were many poor people or minorities living in any of these states that are part of this "survey"”

“speaks to the point of how dysfunctional this government is....Thank you Al for ruffling the feathers of an albatross.....”

“How about keeping religion out of politics. if we really had separation of church and state in this country it would mean no more prayer breakfasts at taxpayer expense and no more oaths on Bibles, Korans, or copies of Mad Magazine....in fact it would mean no more oaths....when i get a job, i don't take an oath....i may get an employment agreement or contract.....then i go and do my job or i get fired.....How about contracts for elected officials and civilian review boards of directors for them to report to?....if they want to take an oath on a religious document let them run off to their church or mosque and do it on their own time......”

“I like Jay Rockefeller, but he can always be counted on to support the status quo....he did a great job on the Iraq study group.....but never pressed the case to the public or the Whitehouse.....so in many respects he is an example of the dysfunctional government that gets nothing done and then rationalizes..and spins a non accomplishment as "better than nothing"....Howard Dean may be naive, but we could use a lot more of that quality along with the determination, discipline and organization that the republicans brought to the senate when they had only a one vote majority....they got stuff done.....Roberts, Alito two examples, where where the filibusters or even the threat?...dems are bought off by lobbies and/or spineless.....no more votes or $$ for me.....Mr. Nader you are correct sir. I finally get it....”

“who the F**k cares....some of us beat you to it....Dude...”

“venal little man.....disgusting.....”

“The republicans threaten the "Nuclear Option" with a two vote majority in the senate......and each time they did the democrats ran scared....with a nine vote majority....they could play hardball...problem is, too many of them don't want to pass this or any other progressive legislation.....”

“is this worthy of attention?....”

“i wish the shopkeeper success....Cohen did worse than lie to and exploit this individual for monetary gain....he has endangered him..and wrongfully branded him a terrorist....not the run of the mill "gotcha" stuff that was rightfully thrown out of court contained in Borat....CBS and Letterman not to blame.”

“i don't think i will get over it....America is supposed to be about critical thinking, questioning authority and dissent....perhaps you might consider "getting under it"....”

“>It is positively Orwellian that this president, after choosing to address the complexity of the Middle East by caving in to his military advisors, will soon trot off to accept his Nobel Peace Prize.”

“seems like the ex Governor has fallen off the diet wagon...looks like his shirt contradicts his statement about "Big tents"...”

“Sarah, you are the American Eva Braun with a nice a**...which becomes heavier and less attractive by the day....go fish.”

“sorry to inform you but display advertising is less than 25% of all revenue...advertisers do not get the results nor see the value.....search is king and then classified and recruitment.....the traditional business model of print will not translate to the web.....this is a huge problem for conglomerates and a great opportunity for upstarts that can figure out how to carve out a niche business.....”

“All the right points....but you neglect the reality that without a successful business model, credible content cannot survive on the web....somebody has to pay for it....the statistics regarding percentage web advertising increases are misleading because they are mostly tied to search and Google is the winner....i love the Huffington Post....but i doubt that it is making a profit..(some of us will pay to access it if you convert to a paid subscription model)..one of the most difficult business challenges is converting a customer that is used to getting your product for free, to paying for it.

traditional media made a many dumb decisions at the beginning of all this by not controlling their content on the web and ignoring the power and potential of it....it may be too late now to change habits...but it has happened in the past when superior content (HBO) successfully converted network television viewers to a paid subscription model....what s occurring here is an age old battle of content vs. distribution....and the answer is that they are dependent upon each other....if old man Murdoch pulls his content from Google there is a (slight) erosion to Googles value and Bing gains a marginal advantage....whatever happens, advertiser supported content is likely finished and the game is very interesting.”

“Yup, meet the new "Decider"....”

“One year into the presidency of someone who captured the imagination and capitalized on the best of our collective instincts and where are we?...there are exactly 4,000 fewer troops in Iraq than on the last day of the Bush administration. Gitmo...not closed....the stimulus money...unspent.....a pathetic senate with an overwhelming majority unable to do anything....and now as Yogi Berra would say, it is " deja' vu all over again"...as we embark on another chapter of mindless military exercise....it is indeed Orwellian when this president wins a Nobel Peace Prize...."War is peace"....If GWBush were still in office, people would be taking to the streets in protest.....the actors change, the script remains the same.”