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14 years ago @ Big Government - It's Time to End the W... · 0 replies · +2 points

The war on drugs hasn't been a war, it's been an exercise in political domestic, foreign, and financial policy idiocy. You want to shut down the drug cartels, you don't hand a bunch of money to the Mexican or Columbian governments and say "now go stop the drug kingpins in your countries". You cut off foreign aid and acceptance of immigrants from countries that are exporting drugs to our shores. Clean up your mess or you don't get paid. Domestically money has to stop being wasted on the petty folks who get caught with a single joint and it can't be wasted on some police department trying to buy new Camaros to chase drug users. Focus assets on points of entry and clamp it closed. Drug runners should not be returned to their countries of origin when they're caught.

14 years ago @ Big Government - It's Time to End the W... · 1 reply · -4 points

Personally some grown adult wants to scramble their eggs on dope all day, as long as they don't leave their home and endanger the rest of us, i could care less. BUT, here are some other arguments to consider.

1) Legalizing is not going to put the illicit market out of business. Goverment regulated marijuana will either end up being too expensive with the taxes and state/federal money grabs attached to a new market that the current cartels will probably not have as much trouble underselling as would be believed. Not to mention if you get into the "government regulated pot is X% pure vs this Columbian stuff that's even better". The black market is not going away, it will evolve.

2) Marijuana is a gateway drug. Legalizing proponents want to say over and over that it isn't but bottom line is that statistical data has shown it in repeated studies. Whether it is strictly the pharmacological properties of marijuana or more interelated to the environments and behaviors of drug use societal segments ultimately doesn't matter. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1360...

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Trailer Talk: 'John Ca... · 0 replies · +3 points

Think i'll be pulling out my old paperbacks of this series and starting another read through. :)

14 years ago @ Big Government - Leftist Activists Conv... · 1 reply · +4 points

Operative word should actually be "she WAS an unrepentant communist organizer". Call it karmic justice, but she died less than a month after release from cancer.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Today's Open Thread: #... · 2 replies · +4 points

I think it has a lot to do with your point of reference. I was a young boy at the time, not even a teen, and I loved the show. What young child wouldnt love to dream about being gifted with a super suit to turn them into a superhero? I watched the series again on Netflix about 5 years ago (i'm 37 now) and as dated as the sets, effects, etc are, i still found myself enjoying the show. But then i could say the same about me re-watching Knight Rider, Buck Rogers, and Battlestar Galactica. ;) Sometimes its more than just what the show was, it was who we were when we first saw it.

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Obama restates opposit... · 0 replies · +7 points

"can't give $700 billion away to some of America's wealthiest people."

Um...Mr.President, you aren't GIVING squat, you're TAKING less away from what they EARNED!! How about this Mr.President, we can't afford to give away billions to those who get 100% of their income tax withholdings back as well as get extra they never paid in the form of earned income credits and child tax credits. Take that one to the bank.

15 years ago @ Big Journalism - El Paso City Hall Take... · 0 replies · +4 points

they'd probably blame Tea Partiers.......

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - FILM REVIEW: 'Last Air... · 1 reply · +4 points

Transformers, Xmen, Spiderman, Fantastic Four, and Iron Man, Superman, and Batman, all had animated series before live action movies (even though all had comic books before animated series).

I haven't seen the Avatar: The Last Airbender animated series, but thinking i'll be checking it out before seeing the live action.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - FILM REVIEW: 'Karate K... · 1 reply · +2 points

I can go with the idea a little bit of "The movie should be able to stand on it's own,and a reviewer having not seen the first one might be ideal for that." BUT!!!
It does become significant in its' comparison to the original one because while the new generation hasn't seen the original, parents taking families to it probably have. So a reboot for a new generation, that's fine, let's distill it down to whether or not it evokes the same emotions in the viewer as the original? The power of the original Mr. Miyagi wasn't his katate prowess, it was his humor, his humility, strength of character, and his humanity (i.e. when to fight and when not, jokes about his belt being from JC Penny, him being drunk and reliving the pain of losing his wife and child during child birth.). The viewer was emotionally invested in the characters, and their relationships to each other. Either the reboot brings that to the table, or it doesn't. It was not a surprise ending in the first one, folks knew he would win, but we all willingly rode the roller coaster to the end where the climax felt climactic.

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Jobless aid, tax bill ... · 0 replies · +3 points

Bottom line is that they sold the Healthcare bill as being cheaper than it actually was BECAUSE they were counting savings from making these cuts, and would not add into the price tag, the cost of then undoing the cuts in reimbursements to doctors. So my feeling is "Sorry seniors! Hate for you to suffer, but allowing this administration to hide the reality of what they have done by making little changes here and there to cover it up is unacceptable." When Joe and Sue Liberal has to contend with their elderly parents not having a doctor, then perhaps they will need to reconsider the wisdom of letting the government control so much of healthcare.

Find a way to pay for the reimbursements, or let the cuts go forward. Find a way to pay for ongoing eternal entitlement jobless benefits, or let them expire. PERIOD.

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