tssent's Comments (211)

“I GIVE YOU:

* Juan Corona:
California killer convicted of murdering 25 men in 1971
* Charles Cullen:
nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who killed as many as 40 patients through lethal injection
* Andrew Cunanan:
murdered five people, including fashion designer Gianni Versace, in a cross-country journey during a three-month period in 1997, ending with Cunanan's suicide, at the age of 27
* Jeffrey Dahmer:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin cannibal who kept heads, skulls and body parts in his apartment for sexual gratification; convicted of 15 murders, but believed responsible for at least two others
* Albert DeSalvo:
AKA "The Boston Strangler"; convicted of unrelated rapes; DeSalvo was never indicted for the Strangler murders, although he did confess to them
* Westley Allan Dodd:
raped and murdered three boys in 1989; executed on January 5, 1993
* Ronald Dominique:
confessed to raping and murdering at least 23 men in Louisiana; sentenced to eight life sentences in 2008
* Nannie Doss:
AKA "The Giggling Granny" and "The Jolly Black Widow"; serial poisoner who killed 11 family members
* Paul Durousseau:
murdered seven in southeast United States between 1997 and 2003; may have killed while stationed in Germany with the Army”

“I GIVE YOU:

* Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris:
kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered five girls in 1979
* Terry Blair:
Kansas City serial killer and rapist; active 1982–2004
* William Bonin:
AKA "The Freeway Killer"; with several accomplices, claimed the lives of 20 boys in California
* Robert Charles Browne:
convicted of two murders in Colorado; confessed to 48 murders
* Jerry Brudos:
AKA "The Lust Killer" and "Shoe Fetish Slayer"; killed at least five women in Oregon
* Ted Bundy:
law student who raped and murdered more than 35 women in six states; executed in Florida State Prison on January 24, 1989
* David Carpenter:
AKA the "Trailside Killer"; murdered five women on San Francisco-area hiking trails between 1979 and 1981
* Michael Bear Carson and Suzan Carson:
nomadic hippie killers involved in the counter-culture movement; suspects in 12 homicides; sentenced to life imprisonment for three San Francisco Bay Area murders in 1983”

“And right you are, they should and do have our support.
But it's not the subject of my rebuttal which is that the
military is a war machine and you'd better expect the
worst if you're going to join one -- which by the way is
strictly voluntary.

Our kids are blinded by the honor and shiny metal their
service will bring them. They don't know how the machine
works or they'd never join it. Pakistan knows exactly where
Bin Ladin is. Afghanistan is charging us $400 per gallon of
gas to fuel our tanks and other vehicles. I'm not signing
up to be a part of anything THAT stupid and it sickens me
that mere children are encouraged to.

In a world of about 550 countries, thus 550 leaders making
all the decisions, the leaders don't die or get maimed or
blinded. No, our sons gets that '"honor".

Leaders should sign a piece of paper on taking office
willing to sacrifice their own life if it comes to it. Should
the Emperor of China or the King of Denmark get mad
and want war, the 2 can step into a ring and face off to the
death. Quick war, 1 death, maybe 2. Or sign a peace
and no one has to die.

Until and unless that happens we can mourn all we want.
It's education that will free us from the false beliefs that
otherwise entice us into war machines.”

“Wait, wait, wait.

As I now understand it, we have an all-volunteer military now, right?
No one is forced to join any of the branches, no one is forced to
re-enlist in it.

This is precisely NOT about drafted Americans who have been forced
into military service.

Anyone who believes he has a leg to stand on after having joined
a MILITARY group (they have guns, fight wars, put down rebellions,
get shot at, bleed, get maimed, mentally jilted forever and killed)
has joined the wrong organization.

Mind you, I'm as against armies and wars and killing as anybody,
but I don't understand all the noise about the fallout surrounding
military organizations.

Let's get a grip, fellows. If you don't want your sons and daughters
to be maimed or go looney tunes or possibly get killed, then start
teaching them from youth to join anything else in the entire world
BUT the military.

We are not going to maintain a perfect record -- here or abroad.
There are nuts everywhere (yes, even at our "town hall meetings"
where some have carried guns with them).

Maybe a good start would be to attract our children from an early
age to the non-violent, guns, 4-hour video game killing sprees,
camouflage clothing, etc., and direct their attention to, oh, I don't
know, education? Books?”

“Meatatarian?
I FKN LOVE IT”

“See, I have a problem at the second level. Killing is killing. I don't thing you can
"kill humanely."

On the other hand, I make no apologies for Nature and therefore no apologies
for the fact that I eat meat. Dude, that's what I am. That's what we all are. We
weren't in on the design.

On the other hand it seems to me these same holy people are the ones who
are ok with the death penalty. Wars. To me, you kill or you don't. You either
allow abortion, the death penalty and jump all over wars, killing as many
people as you possibly can, or you don't kill.

It's like colors to me. There's blue and red and yellow and green and you
can put all the labels you want on them and the mixes they make but in
the end they're all colors. It's simple. I don't get how many people don't
get that.”

“Saide, you will LOVE this audio at www.thesmokestop.com,
which is very much along the lines of your great article.”

“Your association of the president's will power to solving the country's
problems is a total disconnect. He is not kept from making decisions
and acting upon them by cigarettes but by idiot wingnuts who vote
against anything he says or does or tries to improve because he is
Black.”

“I have recently send President Obama an amazing 100-page book
called "The Smoke Stops Here," because while it will blow your mind
in concept it never once admonishes or even says, "you must quit."
I'm not related to this book but I would recommend it to anyone who
has any habit. It's a laugh a minute and filled with inspiration. It
certainly worked for me.”

“Touche, my friend, touche.”

“Great point.

The thing is, as the European and South American and
Central American and Mexican and Canadian and Australian
and other models of Socialism continue to outgrow us in
both concept and application, causing us to slide further and
further into subpar status world-wide ((we're not even in the top
20, let alone the top 10), we run the risk of disenfranchising the
next great mind, the individual who might have cured Alzheimer
or solved the energy crises or even united the world in peace
for the next 50 years.”

“10 whole months to do this and zero, nada, zilch, nothing.
I was personally expecting him to have repaired everthing
much sooner, like, by the end of January 2009 or at least
before Easter. Dude, what is it with this guy?”

“I saw it too and I was instantly convinced.”

“Don't hold your breath.
Give the man his 4 years instead of 10 months, however,
before you give up "terribly disappointed".”

“When Obama's first 4 years have been completed, you can make your
accusations and charges then.

Or did I miss something? Was it his promise in his campaign to fix the
nation and world in 10 months so he could relax the remaining 3 years
and 2 months?”

“Yes, 10 whole months and he hasn't fixed the nation,
let alone the world. I think we need have a recall and
put Palin in charge.”

“Since when does a generalization speak for the majority?

In case you missed it, the INCUMBENTS were kicked out,
Democrat and Republican alike.

That speaks heavily in favor of Obama's continued high
54% rating.”

“Yes, even an incremental man should have fixed the nation and
the world at the end of 10 whole months.”

“Well, considering more than 3 of those 4 years are in the future,
I for one am ready to say we can't know, at best. You have to
decide for yourself whether to be a turncoat or not. The vast
majority of us are still behind Obama and will be till the end.”

“You can't preach BIPARTISAN
and then not practice it.”

“I agree. The nerve that Obama should take a day off or exercise a little
self-therapy on a quiet green where he can just be alone and thing.
The nerve he should sleep at night or stop for meals or go to the
bathroom. Dude, spot on.”

“So far you're not sure? And already 10 whole months have passed.
Wow dude, how magnanimous of you. How patient. I'm inspired. Not.”

“Ah ye of little faith, but worse
ye of little patience.

10 months into the catastrophy left behind by 8 years
of Bush, and you want everything to be fixed. Get a life.”

“Let me first say I'm a huge fan of and of Adrianna Huffington.

I'm a much bigger fan of America and of our president,
however, and I'm very concerned that good and important
people like Adrianna choose their words with
utter care, remembering they can fall on our largely
stupid citizenry in a way that suggests they have
fallen off the Obama wagon when they are only trying
to help.

We cannot expect a single man to make more of an
impact after the scant 10 months he's been in office
than President Obama has. We have to remember -- no
matter how much he was helped to victory by the likes
of the David Plouffes of the world -- that we largely
voted for Obama, the man.

That said, I would like to submit that the real
situation we're facing Obama and America today is being
discussed under a dozen names from Wall Street Mafia
to corruption at the highest levels of industry and
government to rape of the Constitution to a pitifully
waning educational system, to a deplorable state of
health care to a ruptured economy, etc.

We don't want to address the real situation,
Capitalism and its losing face-off with Socialism.

We're in absolute denial that Socialism is perhaps
the more beneficial model, despite the growing
evidence as our rankings in math and science
and health care,etc. slip further and further to positions
of 20th and 37th and 54th.”

“Part 2 of 2

The fact is that this has happened because we have
modified Capitalism to take on characteristics that
are disturbingly like theocracies. Under this model
we use religion and the Bible just as Islam uses
the Koran to instill fear and patriotism in the
masses while a handful of men rake in the wealth
and the power.

I don't think Obama is one bit lost. I think
our slipping position in the world is on his mind
night and day in a way it does not bother most of
our dumbed-down, stupid citizenry. He doesn't want
to go down in history as the president who began
the conversion of America to Socialism but he
doesn't want to be the president who perpetuated
our current, disgraceful form of Capitalism either.

I believe "while everyone else is playing checkers
he's playing chess," as someone said of him, and
that he's trying to forge a new brand of Capitalism
while also requiring Capitalism to be its brother's
keeper.

I for one believe in him 100% and will defend
him to the end. I implore Americans to give
the man some breathing room. I am grateful
for the space allowed here by Huffington to
exercise our most precious liberty, freedom of
speech.”