quest44's Comments (489)

“There most definately is someone running this country and its not the President ,the Senate or the House .Its some very wealthy giants like the Morgans and its that connection that needs to be broken if we are ever going to change the system. I do believe that the Republican party for the most part are all for these wealthy individuals running our country because that is what the Republican party has always stood for A Corporate USA .

Personally I believe our President has to stop catering to the right and use the majority he has to pass a single payer health program that doesn't hold profit as its bottom line as the insurance companies do. The big boys who run these corporations won't like it but their has to be a break from the big insurance industry if we are ever going to have good health care in this country.
Canada has long used a single payer health care plan where its a right for all their citizens to have health care and its worked fine for them. So why is the Republican party acting like Social medicine is such a horrible thing ? Because they get kickbacks from the Insurance companies to promote thier plan. I think if something doesn't change we might see a revolution in this country because if those leaders we vote for can't rid of us these barons then sadly us citizens might have to take matters into our own hands .”

“lfoweaker ,,First of all I started my post with FOR ALL THOSE NAYSAYERS WHO DON"T BELIEVE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS GLOBAL WARMING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So in which catagory are you in because it doesn't seem like you know yourself ?”

“For all those nay sayers who don't believe there is such a thing as global warming , I would rather take the Henny Penny road and be safe rather than sorry. BTW what do you people have against clean water and air ?
Do you honestly think we could pollute the earth for as long as we have without the earth reacting to our carelessness and stupidity ? I guess some people would rather be part of the problem than they would change their polluting ways and be part of a solution.
Big corporations are making a bundle polluting our earth so you know they will do and say anything they can to stop the truth from being told .”

“I totally agree with you Bob the news media is rediculous in the way they are making news out of Palin and calling her famous ,,infamous maybe but not famous.
This woman was the Republican parties joke on the Democrates who already had a woman on the ticket ,"Hillary," they knew she was a air-head but figured the public was too stupid to notice. The joke was on the Republican party but now these news ( reality shows ) are once again bringing her into the public view much to the distaste of all of us who voted against McCain and her and only wished she went back to Alaska never to be heard of again. Shame on the New media for putting us through this torture all over again.
The Palin followers think we are scared of her but the truth is we just can't stand to see anyone so foolish to not realise they are making a public specktical of themselves pretending to be something their not . Her lying about saying things that she clearly has said and is documented on video makes her look not only stupid but also pathological .”

“I wonder . If I told you I was a talking dog would you believe it ? OMG don't you people ever do any of your own research before you state something is fact ? I have been seeing this stuff repeated over andf over again when this was proven to be an untruth long ago.”

“Can you imagine if her book were not edited ," poor edoitor must have spent a good year on this book ," It would take a first grader to decifer her words to find out just what she is trying to say .
Oh God please don't let her run fro President in 2012 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“I wonder if the tea baggers are on the same thing Palin is on because your right they all live in Never Never Land ! I will take that a step further to say the Christian right are on that same planet !”

“I think your missing the point here overdog1 .The question is ,Is religion absurd or good for the world ?
I gave examples as to the harm its done .
The question here is not,, Is athiestism absurd or good for the world !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First of all Mao wasn't a Christian but I really don't think he is an athiest but even if he were this article is not about athiests its about religion and its effect on the world .”

“I think religions past can answer that question as to whether its good or bad for the world.
How many people has it hurt ? Well thinking of just two incidences where religous fever led to genocide I give you #1 .Hitler and the genocide of the Jews .Hitler was a Christian and he believed God was on his side . #2. I give you the mass genocide and persecution of the Native American people .
This last example is the most recent as the early 70's and the closing of the last Christian school to house Native children and whose bodies have been recently unearthed .

Now in these recent days we have these new right wing christians who clearly are hypocrites since they show no empathy for anyone ,"whose not one of them," they don't even follow the bible they claim to believe in . In fact they have twisted the words in their own bible to justify their imoral actions .
To me its these so called christians who are the most dangerous to society because they are involved in politics and law making !

So I would have to conclude that religion will die out because of its followers actions that totally contradict what their bible preaches !
In short nobody likes a hypocrite . How long can Religion fail to answer questions by using the words ,the devil is talking through you to avoid giving an answer ? Not much longer I suspect !”

“Have you ver watched that show because it sure doesn't sound like it ? Have you seen how Jon was the one bathing the children and dressing them and Kate did the cooking .TLC it is learnedeven provided a cook for them and took care of all their needs besides giving them a big fat check for the episodes .
Kate was the one always whining and biching about everything Jon did and ever once did I hear her give him any credit.
iI think you were cheated on and lost your objectivity that must be your problem otherwise you would have seen just how controlling Kate is. I used to cringe every time I heard her berate Jon ,,which btw she seemed to enjoy doing . Have you ever thought that maybe his out of control actions right after the separation was because he was angry at Kate for the way she treated him. Good god he must have watched the reruns and seen how bad she really is.
I had a cheat for a husband but I can be objective ! At least Jon didn't cheat until they wer separated mine cheated while we were together.”

“Kate was an RN before she became a stay at home mom suppoted by her children .RN's get paid better tha the average person ,,at least enough to help support the children and Jon was a ITT tech which also is a good paying job. These two have skills to fall back on that isn't the proble the problem is Kate loves the fame and the money and doesn't want to give it up.
Jon had a good pointwhen he asked where the millions went that they were paid from TLC when TLC pays for all their needs and as he said heknows what the mortgage is ? Kate has been squirreling that money ay bets ?”

“BTW TLC should be a little more responsible for what they air on TV as so called entertainment.
I really don't think watching a woman with 18 children and pregnant with another one while her sons very young wife has her first child at home is entertainment . Wher is the responsiblity here ?
Isn't this world populated enough without TLC airing some foolish show about a husband a wife who don't believe in personal responsibility . So when will TLC pull the plug on that show ,when the womans uterus explodes on TV ?”

“Maybe if Kate would have listened to Jon long ago when he said he wanted to quit the show she could have saved her marriage ,,,or not .
Many times the children looked sad when they were on the show and frankly I think this is the best thing that ever happened to these children although it will take therapy to help them throug it. The quintuplets have spent their entire life on TV so learning the difference between real life and acting might take some help.

You know what I don't understand . How Jon went from the victim to the villian?
I can only imagine that Jon felt like a prisoner who was finally free and went a little crazy with the freedom ,but that doesn't change the fact that Kates controlling ways and not wanting to compromise in her marriage was the cause of the split .
TLC should have pulled the plug as soon as they saw Kate getting out of control with the attention she got from doing the show .
It didn't surprise me that both Kate and TLC wanted to do a show without Jon since these two don't really have the best interests of those children in mind . Its all about the money !
BTW Jon had a point ,what did Kate do with the million + she got for the show ?
I don't believe a word that woman says and her crying with dry eyes doesn't cut it either”

“When Obama took office and started to pick his staff he said he didn't want yes men beside him he wanted people who would question his decisions ,people who were free thinkers.
So now here we have Joe Biden against a build up of the war in Afganistan and you are saying because his views might differ from President Obama 's he should resign . What kind of logic is that ?
First of all let me say I agree with Joe Biden we should get out of both Iraq and Afganistan .
Its draining our economy for one and its not even a war that we could win !
Before Obama took office the word was out that the war in Afganistan was not a war we could win for several reasons , because there will always be terrorists ,if not in Afganistan then in Africa and other countries also as Biden said the terrorists cross the boarder into Pakistan where they are hiden and protected and a war with Pakistan could turn out to be a nuclear war and something none of us want .
Now as far as Bin Laden goes he died long ago and since Bush is no-longer president and putting out those videoss of Bin Laden to scare the American people well we haven't heard from or seen Ben Laden . Someone must have put out the wrong video of him because instead of him aging in the video he looked younger,,oops .
Who”

“Should the Jews forget the genocide of their people ?
At least nobody made a day commemerating that genocide as America has with Columbus Day and the genocide of the Native people .”

“Excuse me ?????????????????? Who gave who syphillus ? It was the Europeans who not only raped the Native woman and gave them syphillus but also Tuberculosis with those tainted blankets .
The Natives never had such deseases until the Europeans brought them into this country .

Yes some Native tribes were not pleasant, but the Aztec were only one tribe amoung many . I don't think any people can be judged by one person as all tribes can't be judged by one .

Funny though how this article brought out those who are on both sides of the issue ,those whose ancestors were persecuted by the coming of Columbus and who feel Columbus Day is an insult to their people and those who defend Columbus because they refuse to look at reality .”

“Actually your version of what makes you a native American has flaws also because this land was never called America to begin with until the Europeans named it as such . So going back to the origin of America before it was called America native people were those who were here before Columbus ,,not the children born from the Europeans who raped and stole the land.”

“Gee neither did I starwolf ,lol. seems these people never heard of us ? Now I wonder why that is ?
Can't look at the truth I guess if you don't want to feel the shame for what really happened back then.”

“OnReflection I totally agree with you on that one .
Native people and the Mexican,Peruvian etc . people roamed back and forth across what is now a border between America and Mexico . You had one open continent so yes the latin people were here before the Europians .How anyone can call these people immigrants is beyond reasoning when it is those with Europian ancestry who are actually the immigrants here.
Funny how truth becomes turned on its head to satisfy those who have great financial or religious gain to hide the truth .”

“I heard both views in school as to why Columbus set out to find America .
In Catholic school I was taught it was to prove the world was round and later I heard it was to escape religious persecution in Europe and to find a new trade route .

But I am disappointed that noting here was said about the true meaning of Columbus day ?
To the Native people who inhabited this country ,"America ," it was the worse day in history when Columbus landed bringing along with him a wave of Christian settlers who were set on converting the natives who they thought were savages. Those who wouldn't convert weren't trusted and therefore killed . It was the begining of the genocide of the Native people !
It was also the end of our clean air and water to make way for industry.
This is what Columbus Day means to the native people and all those people whose eyes are not shut .
So if you want the truth then seek it from those whose ancestors lived here and really know why Columbus came to this land and what it has meant to their people ever since that horrible day .
Does the German goverrnment celebrate the day the first Jews were killed in those death camp ovens ?
No they don't !
So why does this country make a holiday out of the day that began the genocide of the Native people and the take over”

“I say let them all know there on notice that come 2012 we just might vote for a third party !”

“As long as we have politicians taking money for votes we will never see any Health Care bill or anything else that benefits the average person in this country.
Somewhere along the line our elected offiials sold out our country to the highest bidder and we are paying the price for their greed.
Get rid of the whole lot of them who are on the payola and keep only those who really want to do what is right for this country and its citizens.”

“I think Obama has to stand up against those Big Corporations pulling the strings in Washington . He needs to say no more and get down to the business of passing a Single Payer Health Care Bill , paassing a Clean Energy Bill,cleaning up our water , Making sure the FDA works for us and not against us and ending wars for profit .

If he does not make a stand soon then I am sad to say many of the people who voted for him will fall by the wayside discouraged with the whole voting process and what is suppose to be a government by the people anf for the people .
I know the Republican's want to see Obama fail but he won't fail if he fights back against those industries that have been running the show far too long now .If he makes the secrets public then those industries lose their power over him and Congress .
Our elected officials who have enjoyed all the extra perks these industries have given them for their vote need to take a good look in the mirror because they have sold their souls for pieces of silver ,its time they fessed up and started doing the job they were elected to do .
Have all government officials been bought off and lost all their morals ?

The Republican's want smaller government ,"so they say,"but do they really or do they want government to step aside so those big Corporations can”

“I think your wrong about us voting for the same criminals year after year . I would have said you were right if another Republican were elected but not after Obama a Democrat was elected . The fault is not Obama as much as it is those behind the scene pulling the strings in our government .
Obama is not only up against the Republican party that wants to see him fail he is up against big corporations that have run our government now for many years . That is why we can't pass a Single Payer Health Care Bill ,because the Insurance industry has a piece of our government that is why we will forever be addicted to oil and gas the Oil and Gas industries own another piece of our government ,The military machine owns yet another piece of our government and so on and so on . Our government is not by the people and for the people as it was meant to be ,,no that changed many many years ago ,now it is industry owned and until we fight back and change that no president will ever give us what those large corporations don't want us to have like Single Payer Health Insurance ,Clean energy ,clean water ,safer food etc.”

“Great ideas Beca . I vote for these amendments :)”