Comments on: Overheard on an airplane

By: JMB

JMB — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:20:34 +0000

I wonder how many people who are unhappy with Bush, are unhappy for the same reasons as this fellow. The Dems think it is because they are against the war, but I know many who would agree with this guy’s sentiments.

He’s not the only one who needs something to maintain a stable blood-pressure.

By: DANEgerus

DANEgerus — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:34:08 +0000

I don’t listen to Michael Savage, because he sounds like that guy, but the longer these issues go unresolved the more things happen that make the ‘Savages’ extreme predictions accurate.

Specifically, if extremism exists in the mosques, and undercover video in the UK & Checkoslovakia illustates is does there, to ignore it is to nurture it.

After 9/11 even CAIR couldn’t trump-up examples of real Islamophobia but after Van Gogh’s murder in Holland the Dutch retaliated with over 100 fire-bombings of Mosques.

Shouldn’t we pursue transparency with honesty now rather then invite that inevitable excess later?

Oh… and the ‘Wind and the Lion’ was a great movie.

By: bps

bps — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:34:41 +0000

I think people are too focused on increased power and activity in the executive and not alarmed enough about inaction (or more appropriatly only pointless action) from the legislative branch of government.

Bill Clinton was ableto bomb Kosovo without any legislative action. Bush 43 has done what he’s done with no legislative action (And no, non-binding resolutions don’t count). Executive departments simply change Federal rules now as often or more than the legislature actually changes the law.

I’m also irritated about activist judges, but by the same token all too often they are being activist on topics our elected legislators refuse to touch or take a meaningful stand on to avoid re-election problems.

I wonder if the executive and judicial aren’t simply filling the void of the ever more irrelevant legislative.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:32:31 +0000

If you’ll pardon me being entirely subjective and squishy, the upcoming elections are starting to “feel” to me less like electing the next president, and more like choosing the first emperor. “Emperor” is probably not the correct word, but there’s something fundamentally different in the wind.