Posts Made By: david elosser

Floyd Blue said:

To me the big shame was that there were no armed citizens at the corner, to return fire on the idiot that shot the congress woman, instead it took two very brave men to jump and restrain him, but only after his gun stopped firing due to a clip spring malfunction.

A North Carolina State legislator just announced on camera that he is going to start carrying a firearm to all his public events. (He's a Democrat, so he won't get any criticism from the left. ) I admit I have not read every news report on this event, but so far I have not heard one word about the failure of the law enforcement agency whose job it was to protect these people and the crowd members. I don't know who was supposed to be doing that, the Sherrif, local police department or what, but in my mind that is where the real failure was, not in some lack of gun control or making rediculous claims of targets on a webpage.

David E

A great victory yes, because 26 of the 57 states ( ) were involved with this case. But it's not time to pop the champaign cork just yet. Still, this gives more momentum to the repeal. It's clear that this is a very corrupt law- to date over 700 "exemptions" to Obamacare have been given, and it's only the first year!

David E

Good question, I think no one really knows right now. Someone on a talk show made an interesting point about Egypt. The protests we are seeing in Cairo on our TV's are the young, jobless but well educated youth and middle-aged hungry for jobs and political freedoms. They are more likely to vote for a more moderate candidate (assuming free elections of course). However, they are more than outnumbered by the dirt poor population elsewhere in the country that are very religious Muslims, and the mosques they attend have nearly all the wealth in their areas. They are more likely to vote the way their imams tell them to, which of course would be for a more radical candidate. If that happens, the smaller, more moderate educated population is screwed. I also have a feeling, and this is just a feeling, that a lot of people are underestimating the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, and also they do not understand just how radical and potentially dangerous they are. There is historical precidence where radical Islamic groups use the lure of democracy and political freedoms to get themselves elected and once they take power they literally take over. The people end up with a very radical government that they did not want and cannot get rid of. I have a real fear that this could happen in Egypt.

David E

Rod Kaufman said:
The Republicans reject the independent report.
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I do too. There are plenty of economists, including those in Obama's own administration, that know that the current fiscal policy of uberlarge deficits and a growing national debt (that now equals our entire economy) is not sustainable. Want some hard evidence? Look at Europe. The only real question is at what point is the point of no return. We are not there yet, which is why we need to act now. The Republican's economic plans will reduce the growth of government, yes, not the economy. That's a good thing.

David E

David Cotterell said:

It is well known that Public school funding in the USA is highly dependent on the income level (and the resulting home values and the property taxes) at the county/district level... Dave

Actually David, that is a bit simplistic. The 50 states all fund public schools a bit differently, but all funding comes from three distinct sources: local (or county) level, state level, and federal level. So all public schools are funded by a variety of different ways (in addition to charitable fundraising, mentioned elsewhere in this thread). In my state, North Carolina, for example, yes we use property taxes (which go for a number of uses, not just schools), but state sales taxes, income taxes, an "education lottery," and some corporate taxes all go to our schools. Although distribution is certainly a bit unequal, the real problem is mismanagement of those funds, not the total amount of funds that goes to each individual school system.

David E

They've also killed tens of thousands of birds. Anything else committing this kind of carnage and the animal rights crowd would be going whacko.

David E
(But Obama is a great guy and if he says we need wind power then we need wind power!)

Doug Matulis said:

Now here is a worthwhile cut, NPR. The government should not be funding a biased and partisan media outlet.

Biased or not the real issue with me is that a government that has in two short years run up a national debt greater than our annual GDP has no business funding any business that can exist on private money.

David E

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_PALESTINIANS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-03-19-10-02-15

"Palestinian militants in Gaza fired more than 50 mortar shells into Israel on Saturday, the heaviest barrage in two years, Israeli officials said, raising the prospect of a new Mideast flareup."

Will Obama and the UN come to Israel's aid?

David E

Ya know I cannot imagine any other president leaving the country and ordering strikes on a foreign nation at the same time. Certainly a Republican president would be catching hell in the MSM right now. As it is, there is legislation being introduced by a Democrat in Congress to defund this operation. He was saying much the same things the Republicans were saying about defunding NPR.

David E

Thomas Holst said:

If the Federal government shuts down, among other things, US Military Personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan will not be paid, or at least not on time.

Call your senator, especially if they are Democrat. The Republicans in the House have passed legislation to continue military pay if there's a shutdown. Senator Harry Reid at this time refuses to bring it to the Senate floor for a vote.

David E
(Of course, he'll shut the government down over the funding for Planned Parenthood...)