togashiyokuni2001

The Assad regime has killed over 100,000 people using conventional means, but 1000 people die due to a chemical attack that nobody can really tell who launched it, and that's the heinous act?

Between that, and the fact that attacking the regime means emboldening Al-Qaeda, what the eff are we doing thinking about getting into this confrontation? It's entirely possible that Al-Qaeda set off this gas bomb themselves, just so that they could challenge Obama's "red line". I think if we do anything, it should be humanitarian in nature. Help the refugees.

"It takes a village" is a proverb attributed to many African cultures. While it has practical applications in a hunter-gatherer tribal society where there are things outside the village that will kill and eat you with a smile on their face, it has become an excuse to meddle in other people's child-raising in a modern industrialized society such as ours. I submit that the proverb was co-opted and bastardized to fit the world view of community responsibility for children, when responsibility for children begins and ends with the parents. Discuss.

In Hamilton County, Ohio alone, there have been over 50 cases of voter fraud discovered from the 2012 Presidential election. These range from parents sending in absentee ballots for their adult children living in the house, and people sending in absentee ballots for dead relatives that lived in their house, to people going to the local UPS store, renting a PO Box, and using the store's address, with the box number as an apartment number to register to vote in that precinct. There was even a nun who admitted to voting 6 times for Obama. Do you still think that requiring photo ID to vote is an attempt to disenfranchise voters? You have to present a photo ID to buy beer, cigarettes, and guns. Why don't you have to present photo ID to vote?

The only thing I see happening is that private sales will need background checks. The problem with that is, so few states register their guns. So without a way to track it, what's stopping me from selling it to someone I know without a background check? That, and doctors now have executive blessing to ask if there are guns in your house. You're under no obligation to answer, but they can ask. Everything else just looks like a bunch of new government programs that will eat up a bunch of money (half a billion according to Yahoo). What could these new executive orders possibly accomplish?

...this year they went up 17%. How can this be, if Obamacare was supposed to make everything more affordable?

...what else can the government force us to buy through threat of tax penalty on our 1040s? And how will they enforce this? Will they violate the 4th Amendment protections against illegal searches and seizures to make sure we're all using CFL bulbs, or perhaps breaking in to each state's vehicle registration database to make sure we all bought a hybrid, or other low-emission vehicle?

Deo Bombs? Check.

Molotovs? Check.

Incendiary Grendades? Check.

So why the frick can't I stack exploding knives? They're smaller than Molotovs, and more streamlined than Deo Bombs, so I should be able to stack them, yet I can't get that to work. Why? I'd farm stuff for hours just to be able to go around with 100 of them and blow stuff up.

Hack Job Ollie's new movie will be coming out soon, and in a departure from tradition, he's sending a smear job of a movie to theaters featuring the current President. Time was, even the most liberal nutjob Hollywoodite respected the office of the President enough to wait until the subject of their smear was out of office.

Did the moderator let the Democrats' candidate have the last word 75% of the time?

Why is it that the left will only consider conservation and alternative energy when it comes to solutions for the energy crisis? Conservation will only go so far, and it won't give any relief to the people paying at the pump. In addition, conservation doesn't solve the problem of meeting the energy needs of a growing population. The answer should be to increase supply, but the left seems to be terrified that we're going to destroy the environment in doing so. When this kind of fear invades our politics to the point of enslaving us to foreign interests, it needs to go the way of the dodo. Conservation is short term and individual. Alternative energy only works when you don't cause an energy defecit to create it (corn-based ethanol). We need real solutions, and we need them fast, because I don't know about you, but I'm sick of gas prices where they are while we have the means to lower them.

We've spent trillions of dollars on this war, and we're not seeing any progress, or an end, or an exit strategy, or any possibility of winning, and yet we still dump money into it. Why?

The war I'm speaking of, naturally, is the War on Poverty, started by LBJ in the 60s. When are we going to admit defeat?