gdp's Comments

Big Journalism : Liberals Hate Mormons

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:19:32 +0000

So...there are two types of conservatives: overt bigots, and closeted bigoted. Duly noted, Mr. Blow. (Which reminds me, I need to pick up my Klan outfit at the cleaners.) I learn so much reading the NYT.

Big Journalism : The War On Women, By Women

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:16:42 +0000

And the War On Normalcy continues. The beat goes on....

Big Government : Political Moneyball: The Conservative Strategy for Winning the Fight Coming After the Election

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:30:10 +0000

The major wrinkle I see in this is the fact that we are right down the middle as a nation, blue/red, takers/payers, Left/Right. Ignoring this basic fact (more of an ever-accelerating trend, really--it's going to keep going that way as we become, more and more, as was said elsewhere, a nation of moochers) will lead us to make make foolish mistakes.

Big Government : Charles Sykes Makes the Case That We Are a 'Nation of Moochers'

Sat, 4 Feb 2012 22:01:16 +0000

Shame may not be dead, but it is definitely on life support.

Big Government : DSA Marxists Take Over the Occupy Movement: Plan 'Spring Offensive', With Widespread Occupations o

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:10:14 +0000

Amazing what happens when we elect a DSA/DSOC/New Party liberation theology Marxist President. Oh look, vulture capitalism, let's obsess on that!

Big Hollywood : Series Finales Show Hollywood Still in Same Old Rut

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 01:29:11 +0000

Rather wordy. #caring. I got about halfway thru. However: "The only ones who don’t get treated as utter slime are the black churchgoers, mostly because Hollywood liberals always depict African-Americans of faith as harmless, childlike believers while everyone else who professes a belief in God is insane, evil or both." Um, er...BINGO! Perfect, perfect encapsulation. And that insight gives redundant confirmation bias as to where racism resides in America, generally, when it does. Flipping well said.

Big Peace : New Report Accuses Both Obama and Republicans of 'Intellectual Vacuum' on Iranian Influence in Iraq

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:17:32 +0000

I got a bit of dyspepsia finding my personal views on Iran/Iraq nexus to be somehow allied with the Left, but that's probably a failure of my own attention to have missed it. I have largely kept my mouth shut while troops were in harm's way. And once committed to war, there is a coming together to prosecute it effectively. But I have been saying for a long time that Iraq was not the problem--Iran was, and is, and will be--and it has been since the late '70s. And that removing Saddam as a counter-balance was, to put it charitably, flipping insane. And now we need to immediately repatriate all the Iraqis who bought into this clusterflip of nation-building and hubris, and have been vouched for by military and intelligence and diplomatic sponsors. NOW!

Big Government : Gingrich Also Disqualified from Virginia 'Super Tuesday' Primary

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:46:26 +0000

Pathetic.

Big Peace : The Iraq War Did Not End on December 17, 2011--But the Peace May Be Over Soon

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:15:45 +0000

The most immediate and pressing necessity is to get Iraqis who have worked with the US the hell out of Iraq before we see a remake of Saigon in the mid-70s.

Big Government : Libertarianism Is Crony Capitalism's Nightmare

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:04:43 +0000

The idea that the only opposition to crony capitalism comes from libertarianism is abject nonsense on stilts worthy of the Left.

Breitbart.tv : Reid: 'Millionaire Job Creators Are Like Unicorns...They Don’t Exist'

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:15:18 +0000

Please make the stupid people shut up. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-org-6eukre4/TZNMonR4cxI...

Big Government : Et Tu, Beck? - Part III: Erratic Multimedia Star Pulls Race Card Again

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:13:46 +0000

Cui bono? Dems. Grow up.

Big Government : Et Tu, Beck? - Part III: Erratic Multimedia Star Pulls Race Card Again

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:12:46 +0000

I am deathly tired of divisive, snarky little snit-fits from far too many pundits, talkers and pols. I like Andrew, to a point. I like Beck, to a point. What I don't like is this counter-productive circular firing squad nonsense. We don't give a rat's behind about your professional rivalries and your outsized egos. Grow up. The Bigs have their place, Beck has his, Levin has his, etc. Enough. This is not team sports. This is the future of the republic at stake. Act like it.

Big Government : 'Occupation' Is Not 'Speech': #OccupyBoston, #OccupyDenver Lose in Court

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 00:35:46 +0000

"Help! I'm being oppressed! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!"

Big Government : Scott Walker Taunted with Nazi Salute at Christmas Tree Ceremony

Fri, 2 Dec 2011 22:45:06 +0000

Fascism: the marriage of Big Government, Big Business and Big Labor. Oh, wait....

Big Government : Thursday Open Thread: Occupy Edition

Fri, 2 Dec 2011 17:41:45 +0000

They're all about sustainability, dontcha know!

Big Journalism : The New York Times's Paul Krugman Vigorously Embraces Occupy Wall Street's Stupidest Ideas

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:56:47 +0000

Another wonderful evisceration, Lee! Keep up the good work! :-)

Big Government : Barney Frank to Retire from Congress

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:55:34 +0000

I'm all verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves.

Big Government : Occupy Black Friday Protesters Hand Out 'CUM-sumer Whores' Fliers to Walmart Shoppers (Video)

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:34:17 +0000

Winning hearts and minds. Awesome messaging. Keep digging!!

Big Government : The First Amendment DOES NOT Protect #OccupyWallStreet

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:28:23 +0000

My blog post, "Anarchy is to Free Speech what a Bicycle is to a Fish": “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” If you’ve gotten this far into this post, you probably possess rudimentary reading skills. So please indulge me: Please point out, in the preceding paragraph, any possible inference as to the efficacy of the destruction of private property–let alone executed by a movement that advocates the destruction of said property as its explicit goal. Tie that in for me, how that works into Petitioning. It’s a rhetorical question.