Comments on: We the People…or I the President

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:16:46 +0000

Mr Lazlo:
I have not seen your links to factcheck.org. I highly doubt the webmaster of this system would be discriminating against you as you insinuate.
You say I should support my “rants” with facts. Please use factcheck.org to follow up on my “rants”.
I think I have my “rants” fairly accurate.
One of my “rants” claimed Mr Obama, ‘made three appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, even tho it was the Senates responsibility to do so. Oh, but he said the Senate was in recess, yet the Senate said they were not. A direct violation of the Article 1 of the Constitution. That was the Senate’s job.’ Well…guess what today, according to reports put out by USA Today, and I quote “A federal appeals court said Friday that President Obama overstepped his authority with a series of recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board.” as I suggested in my op-ed. (which somehow turned into an attack on myself for being racist, and a tea-party radicalist) Yes I am conservative, and FYI, I supported Ron Paul.
I stand by original views in the op-ed I wrote.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:41:44 +0000

Black Man??? This op-ed has nothing to do with racial tones…..UNTIL someone racist bringss them up!! Get real!

By: Lazlo Tu what?

Lazlo Tu what? — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:02:12 +0000

Why do you continue to bring up that he is black? What does that have to do with anything at all? nobody on here has said one word about his skin color other then you Lazlo Tu so why is that even being brought up?

By: LazloTu

LazloTu — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:13:54 +0000

Jon – Thanks you for your reasonable post. I’d like to share a post from a collegue from elsewhere:

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“You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.

You didn’t get mad when Bush’s VP allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.

You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.

You didn’t get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.

You didn’t get mad when we spent over 4 trillion (and counting) on
illegal war.

You didn’t get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in
Iraq.

You didn’t get mad when you saw the Abu Grahib photos.

You didn’t get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn’t get mad when the national debt doubled under the previous President from $5.674 trillion to $10.024 trillion and has added over 4 trillion in ongoing expenses and interest since they lost.

You didn’t get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping
Americans and the President lied about it.

You didn’t get mad when we didn’t catch Bin Laden in Tora Bora.

You didn’t get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter
Reed.

You didn’t get mad when we let a major US city drown!

You didn’t get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark and 800,000 jobs a month were being shed, You didn’t get mad when GDP hit -9%

You finally got mad when the black man decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. And you became livid when Obama caught up with bin Laden. So you get 4 more years to burn out all of your remaining credibility.”

By: LazloTu

LazloTu — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:52:22 +0000

I responded once, with links to factcheck.org, to dispel several of your mis-truths; however my post was scrubbed, (for whatever reason).
I’ve concluded that it’s you who should support your rant with facts. Additionally, I’ve concluded that you are merely a tparty guy, with no willingness to be reasonable.
I don’t carry a copy of the Constitution with me; I really don’t feel the need to do so – I have a fairly good comprehension of the Constitution, and live my life accordingly. However, you and the tparty folks feel patriotic by carrying the abridged copy of the Constitution. If that feels patriotic to you, carry on.
You’ve taken issue here with any person challenging your original comment, and I suspect that was your intent. Not surpringly, most of the favs are to be expected; after all, as you well know, this corner of Iowa is going to support you. Yet, there really are others, a bit more liberal, willing to stand up to your ultra-conservative talking points.
You’ve twisted my response to your comments (i.e., getting out of town once in a while…).
Best wishes to you as you maintain the rigidity of your mentors.

By: Lee Ann

Lee Ann — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:41:54 +0000

When Gabby Giffords was shot, the only reason they stopped him, was because he stopped to reload. He had 31 bullets in that weapon. He had a few more magazines he could pop in the pistol, but they got him down while he was trying to reload.

I agree that “where does it stop? is a logical question. I have also thought what happens when someone who previously had an arsenal of weapons comes down with a severe mental illness. What do they do then? Go to his house and take them away? THAT could start a real slippery slope. Someone that is paranoid, mentally ill could logically want to amass an arsenal for protection from whomever is after him in his paranoid delusions. So the cops show up, and prove to him that the government REALLY is after him. It could start some real problems.

There is really no good answer. People are going to get hurt and killed throughout the world for different things. Look at the number of car accident fatalities. We just live with it, because we all drive to places. People are sometimes afraid of airplane travel. yet you are much safer in a plane than you were in the car.

I always hunted with a Parker Hale 30.06. Bolt action. I don’t think a semiautomatic weapon would be good for hunting. A semiautomatic weapon with a large magazine is used for one thing, killing people. Not deer, elk or bear. Just people.