Comments on: What’s wrong with America

By: deguello

deguello — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:43:40 +0000

America,like every Western natiion,is choking in its own toxic, cultural BS. You cannot exist without acknowledging reality,and Western ideologies of personal freedom,ie;brainless consumption,and gratification,
pc,multiculturalism,relativism,”progressive”-education,post modernism,are all dedicated to evading reality.The enthusiastic handibng out of mortages to the unqualified,and the subsequent buying of that debt by supposedly competent finaciers,not only constitutes another example of criminal reality avoidance,but shows that absent a moral-ethical code,whoring for short-term gain,replaces all other activites,and ultimately destroys the society that fosters it. The U$A is NOT coming out of this;nor does it deserve to.What did Americans do about the financial thugs who sunk the economy? Why they re elected them with large majotities in congress,and voted for one of them for president..Decadence:Live it!Laugh at it! Survive it! A national deguello is coming!Let’s lock and load!

By: Talnik

Talnik — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:38:27 +0000

Re Horace @ #s 34 and 35: If you ignore the little things, they grow to be larger things. The “far worse problems and tragedies” of which you write were once on a “little list” of things that people ignored.

By: Will Becker

Will Becker — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:28:04 +0000

It’s Socialism people,wake up!

By: Steven Earl Salmony

Steven Earl Salmony — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:42:34 +0000

See the “Horsemen of the Apocalypse” ride during “blitz” of Wal Mart in Valley Stream, NY.

“Blitz” lines are a sign of the times. These ‘lines’ are designed to evince rampaging greed. How many other ploys can you think of that surreptitiously exploit human avarice?

Here and now we behold the chimera, the “paint horse and its pin-striped-suited rider, named GREED” being followed closely by a pale horse ridden by Death.

By: Micha Elyi

Micha Elyi — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:54:07 +0000

This holiday season, help starve a feeding bureaucrat. Go John Galt.

By: Tom Paine

Tom Paine — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:24:20 +0000

Dear AdrianS, (comment #19)

MoveOn moron. That round is over.

You lost.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:50:24 +0000

Almost forgot to mention: the NROTC program doesn’t tolerate people who waste their time and the taxpayer’s money. We need technically competent people, especially engineers. We have a shortage of nuclear officers, and when half of our nuclear arsenal is based off of nuclear powered submarines, nuclear officers are a must. So where would you prefer to recruit them from, and how would you go about recruiting them, Jason? Aren’t you glad there are people willing to accept a scholarship to attend college in exchange for cutting themselves off completely from the rest of the world, including their own families, while they drive a submarine around for three months at a time, all for the purpose of making sure that anyone who would want to kill us knows that we have fourteen submarines each armed with 192 475-kiloton nuclear warheads with a precision of 15 feet scattered all around the world, and nobody but the Captain, XO, Officer of the Deck, and Navigator of those submarines knows where they are. You sleep soundly in your bed because our enemies know that if they dare to use nuclear weapons on us, we will rain down a nuclear holocaust on them from those SSBNs, and they are powerless to stop us. If you want peace, make sure any potential enemy knows that war is suicide.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:38:40 +0000

Jason,
The ROTC scholarships the military hands out are part of a contract. They are money the students have earned, just as much as anyone who accepts a signing bonus has earned that money. Wages need not be payed at the same time they are earned. True, most compensation is earned within the pay period for which it is payed, but there is nothing wrong with things like signing bonuses (advance pay obliging you to work for the employer for a specific period of time) or pensions (deferred compensation taken in lieu of higher pay, so the individual doesn’t have to worry about saving for retirement). Every graduate of the ROTC program is obliged to at least four years of active duty service upon graduation, with certain specialties having obligations of eight years or more. By the way, if you’re going to spell out an acronym, get the name right! It’s Reserve Officer Training Corps.

Full disclosure, I am a Midshipman in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps, Wolverine Battalion (University of Michigan).

By: Horace Wells

Horace Wells — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:50:24 +0000

Another point, to be a stickler to purpose, was adding teh Ezra Levant HRC flap. I thought Mr. Kimball was hand wringing about America, I guess he is too deep to remember Canada is another country. But he is such a fun loving, optimistic American so why burden him with little things.

By: Horace Wells

Horace Wells — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:46:16 +0000

While this flap by the unions over a sign is both self serving and contemptible there are far worse problems and tragedies to wring hands over than the little list Mr. Kimball set forth. Sometimes, I think people have it so darn good that they obsess over the smallest things.