FALLING PANDA

thanks for expressing some blatant truths. I cann...

2012-02-14T10:01:23.924-08:00

thanks for expressing some blatant truths. I cannot tell you how many times I have been tempted to pull my hair out listening to Obama make contradictory statements, one sentence after another. Illogical statements can only go unnoticed for so long.

I'm a new Dan Joseph fan! I enjoyed your &quo...

2011-10-11T22:42:39.874-07:00

I'm a new Dan Joseph fan! I enjoyed your "Debate Tips For Rick Perry" post and I want to add something...
Governor Perry needs to work on his facial reactions. I would cringe every time he raised his eyebrows or widened his eyes in reaction to Romney. It seemed so immature and I hope he ended up getting some coaching. I love Perry and I hope he steps up his game!

Amber Hart

Most excellent recap Mr. Dan. As a resident of Ft...

2011-09-10T05:20:22.394-07:00

Most excellent recap Mr. Dan. As a resident of Ft. Worth and Texas I probably have a more intimate knowledge of Perry's history than most of America and have often times seen him bend with the wind on issues. Still however, with accountability and the watchful eye of the many Tea Party's I believe he will make a strong conservative President and return America to prosperity.

Personally I'd like to see Michelle Backmann win the nomination but as Mark Levine said given the choice of NOBAMA and anyone else, "I'd vote for a can of orange juice". grin

Your last comment about "Obama care" com...

2011-09-08T12:18:06.278-07:00

Your last comment about "Obama care" completely discredited your whole argument. Your arguments may have been valid, but you're so obviously a left wing extremist who still secretly believes in white superiority that no one wants to listen to you.

As a Louisiana native that is in serious inter-rac...

2011-05-06T13:04:55.963-07:00

As a Louisiana native that is in serious inter-racial relationship its to see the truth spoken. If six white men had beaten up one black person marches would have happened to lock up the "racist" white men. Glad not everyone got blinded by media and self proclaimed Reverends.

Having just read another obviously left leaning ar...

2011-04-29T05:18:18.863-07:00

Having just read another obviously left leaning article by Jeanne Sahadi, "What happens if Congress blows the debt ceiling", I did a search on her to find her email address and ran across this link revealing even more of her liberal/socialist propaganda. She is nothing but yet another CNN minion that claims to be balanced.

Because the youth of today is so totally brainwash...

2011-04-15T15:38:29.404-07:00

Because the youth of today is so totally brainwashed lacking any independent thought. If MTV or the MSM says its true then it must be true.
The only plus side is that they are so stoned out and stupid they vote in low numbers.

The first article I read by Jeanne Sahadi on money...

2011-04-06T07:57:12.547-07:00

The first article I read by Jeanne Sahadi on money.cnn.com made me roll my eyes because of its blatant attempt to be left leaning while sounding financially savy. I couldn't tell you the article. But when I read it, I thought, "Wow, your average working everyman would really eat this up." I now can spot her headlines on money.cnn.com without reading her articles because they always seem to defy the conventional wisdom of the money.cnn.com audience. ...Assuming that audience consists of readers who have actual investments or own a business and is not looking to Suzy Orman to help them live debt free.

ahhh the Restore Sanity rally. The things you see...

2010-12-20T17:28:51.265-08:00

ahhh the Restore Sanity rally. The things you see when the C-S gas and rubber bullets are out of stock.

I do agree that we should empower the people and t...

2010-11-19T07:15:18.187-08:00

I do agree that we should empower the people and the security agents involved to maximize safety. However, I do not understand your overall position. It resembles other opinions in favor of the TSA's procedures which says people are over-reacting without thinking (strikingly similar to the opinions people have about the Tea Party). In the words of William Shatner, "I can't get behind that."

Here's my beef with this argument. There is a trade-off with the new current state, which is less individual liberty for the sake of the common good. And, there is a trade-off for the procedures preferred by those objecting to the intrusion, which is less security for more liberty or convenience. But, those arguing in favor of the current procedures appear to feel righteous and to be justified by the idea that those who object are not aware of the trade-off, are too naive to understand it, and, therefore, are in need of protection from it (doesn't sound too trusting of individuals).

There seems to be this blind faith that the threat of violence (police and government derive their power from violence) and use of force via a bureaucratic organization will provide security. I think the track record for this paradigm shows it to be the most costly and least effective(look at Iraq and the war on drugs). There doesn't seem to be a comprehensive comparison of the costs and benefits or an objective analysis of the true threat. Instead solutions are determined by a few in the political class (very prone to group think), and issued by mandate with little flexibility or opportunity for feedback. I can't help but wonder if we might have come up with better, more effective solutions that were centered on empowerment as opposed to fear and violence.

A government by the people and for the people, believing all men are endowed with certain inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, should be more vigilant in the problem solving process it uses.

I cosider myself a conservative individual. I enjo...

2010-11-18T19:08:05.943-08:00

I cosider myself a conservative individual. I enjoy my freedom. That said, I am not riding on the anti-grope anti-x-ray porn party bus. My wife and I had this conversation over dinner, much to the dismay of my quesadilla eating son. While I am not threatened by a little radiation or the warm grope of a government employee who may have the worst government job, with the exception of Sheila Jackson Lee's legislative assistant, I do understand the hubbub. There is a group of citizens, a large group, that have had enough. We are in an environment where any threat to liberty, real or perceived, heaped on top of the gruel that has been forced down the throat of the citizenry over the last several years is going to generate some resistance. I don't hate the grope or the groper, but I understand where the anger comes from.

Criticizing someone's grammar on a comment thr...

2010-11-18T08:24:35.470-08:00

Criticizing someone's grammar on a comment thread is the last refuge of an individual who knows they've lost the argument.

In the fourth comment: The word is foresight, with...

2010-11-17T23:58:41.458-08:00

In the fourth comment:
The word is foresight, with an e. And
*Your is possessive. You mean
*You're as in 'if you are a high school boy'
Though it appears you really have much more to worry about figuring out than elementary school grammar, Panda.

I agree with you completely. I can feel the veins ...

2010-11-16T13:26:40.494-08:00

I agree with you completely. I can feel the veins protesting against the skin on his forehead as I read his rants. I am oddly drawn to them because I believe his intolerance and disgust of mainstream Americans will cause him to snap into irreversible madness. I would enjoy seeing that. His style is playful and clever, but not thought provoking or original, unless you give credit for the application of top-notch prep school wordplay that is engaged in either to make Steve feel unusually gifted or insightful or make us believe that he is. Certainly, the fact that there is no meat beneath the gravy should be evidence enough.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=88763...

2010-11-12T09:32:01.086-08:00

http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=887639760762

The best part? You spent 707 words essentially rai...

2010-11-09T16:50:53.428-08:00

The best part? You spent 707 words essentially railing against someone else using 444 words to state something simple. Thank goodness for that First Amendment, eh?

@twingonaut He did not give out those signs. They...

2010-11-03T13:01:17.790-07:00

@twingonaut He did not give out those signs. They were made by people who attended the rally. Perhaps it would do you good to "tone it down a notch for sanity."

The term "teabag" to mean something sexu...

2010-11-01T20:15:29.221-07:00

The term "teabag" to mean something sexual existed long before the Tea Party. The left didn't create it as an insult; the existing insult was used to insult them. Kind of like calling Obama a "socialist," for example.

Also, the GOP as Hitler is a REACTION to the all the talk in the last two years of the Dem's being the Nazis. Glenn Beck makes Nazi comparisons to the Obama Admin on, like, an hourly basis.

Signs and signifiers. The act of sending tea bags...

2010-11-01T14:41:08.335-07:00

Signs and signifiers. The act of sending tea bags to Congress by the Tea Party was inherently sexualized, and certainly before the Left put in its two cents. "Tea-bagging" had sexual overtones before the Tea Party was ever a thought on the mind. And while the Tea Party would like to think it was making an overt, literal gesture (hindsight is 20/20), that gesture came with connotations. That's the nature of innuendo.

Please read Roland Barthes. I'll spell it for you: B-A-R-T-H-E-S.

As usual you're kina little bit right but most...

2010-11-01T13:22:19.577-07:00

As usual you're kina little bit right but mostly wrong.

Yes the Tea-Party coined the phrase Tea Bag Congress, but they literally meant it as in 'We're going to send tea-bags to congress'

So they didn't have good forsight.

But, It was the Left that sexualized the term. Sure it shows a sense of humour, if your a high school boy. But it mostly shows that the Left is incredibly immature. Which is probably why they don't know how to run the country and are about to lose congress after holding it for only 4 years.

When you say "expert on the subject," do...

2010-11-01T13:06:57.062-07:00

When you say "expert on the subject," do you mean spelling or anatomy? For a second there I though you were gay-baiting me with a sideways homophobic slur. But I know better, Panda. You're too tolerant for that.

Speaking of President Obama referring to Tea Partiers as Tea Baggers, the Team Party coined the term to describe what they would do to the President's agenda generally and the health care bill specifically. So the problem with the term rests with them. Either they don't have a sense of humor or they don't have any foresight.

Thanks dude. It's a word I rarely use. But I...

2010-11-01T12:25:39.685-07:00

Thanks dude. It's a word I rarely use. But I'm glad I had an expert on the subject around to point out my mispelling.

Falling Panda, A free country doesn't fight a...

2010-11-01T12:23:34.887-07:00

Falling Panda,

A free country doesn't fight a war on drugs. Please be logically consistent.

Please learn how to spell scrotum (not "scrod...

2010-11-01T12:22:22.671-07:00

Please learn how to spell scrotum (not "scrodum") before commenting on the Tea-Bagger signs. Incorrectly spelling this body part in this context makes you sound like a meathead when you are doing your very, very best to sound intelligent.

All this about rallies--Left or Right--and the Rig...

2010-11-01T08:54:14.493-07:00

All this about rallies--Left or Right--and the Right's hope for control of Congress come Tuesday/Wednesday. Well, I hope the Right takes some control of Congress this week. (Sometimes you have to take a step back in order to take a step forward.) If history serves to teach us anything, the Right will be forced to bear some responsibility for decisions made in the next two years as well as all the politicking we're about to see through 2012. In the meantime, we'll be able to gauge just how much cannibalization will take place between the Tea Party Right and the GOP. Let them eat each other over issues like extending tax cuts for the wealthy, extreme v. intelligent budget cuts, and "insider politics." After Karl Rove and Trent Lott co-opt the Tea Party out of the Washington insiders' "scene," it will only push the movement closer to Jim DeMint & Sarah Palin. And moderate/independent voters won't have the stomach to ride the Tea Party Express.