sinophil49

Although I was not born in this country, I emigrated here in my teens. I have adopted this land as my home and revel in the opportunities and the freedoms I have been given. I was raised a Catholic and have been active for most of my life. Am liberal in just about all issues except abortion. Have visited 23 countries in my lifetime. Hope to see another 23 before I die.

Submitted Comments (162)

FLASHBACK: Fox News Supported Bush White House’s War Against NBC »

• Fox can continue spewing out its hate and bias and slanted news. Within large leeway, that is protected under the rights of free speech and ...

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Larry Klayman, Conservative Attack Dog, Slams Fox News And Bush »

• Now here's a conservative columnist that I could respect. I had never heard of this Klayman fellow before today. But he is one a few ...

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• FairNBalanced - Does popularity equate to correctness and integrity?
  
  Osama bin Laden is wildy popular among Muslims. Does that mean he is right?
  Adolf ...

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CNN Can't Have It Both Ways: It Can Either Broadcast Hateful Lou Dobbs or Have a Latino Audience »

• Birds of a feather flock together.
  
  That aphorism also holds true for humans. If Dobbs wants to find a comfort zone for his biased, ...

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Why mistrust Fox? Let me count the ways »

• Georgia - "Standards of journalism do not apply."
  
  Then why do they use the corporate slogan "Fair and Balanced"?
  
  If they want ...

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• You are right that Beck and Hannity are opinion shows. What are missing are any presentation of opposing points of view and any semblance of ...

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• Certain news programs have talking heads that are determinedly perky and bright at all hours of the day. Some others are warm and chatty. Others ...

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• Klarissa - Wrong! Locky is the one making the accusation. Locky has the burden of proving it. When will any of you neocons show that ...

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Conservatives unable to put hatred of Obama aside »

• Very true and insightful. Thank you for interesting comments.
  
  You are absolutely right. Although government entities like the FDIC and the FSLIC were created ...

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• rttr - Pure socialism has been a failure.
  
  But so has unrestrained, unregulated, laissez faire Capitalism. As the Great Depression and the Great Recession ...

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Vaccine revolt! Swine flu vaccine support crumbles as flimsy rationale for H1N1 shots becomes apparent »

• Slate - Good for you and your family. The active one (nasal spray) is a weakened virus. So although it can give flu-like symptoms, it ...

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• This is a dangerous article that could convince some individuals to forego both the H1N1 and the seasonal flu vaccines.
  
  H1N1 is a new ...

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Obama's Nobel Prize triggers another wave of America-bashing from right-wing media »

• ADAGUY - Actually Bush and Cheney did NOT contribute to Blackwater.
  
  They made the TAXPAYERS donate to Blackwater.
  
  So I guess the dynamic ...

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• OOPS! The second sentence of my post should have said - The problem is that the improvement has primarily on the side of AIDS treatment ...

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• slate - That is a valid question. I, too, feel that Obama has not as yet merited the Nobel Peace Prize, even as I became ...

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• No. We were bashing Bush for lying about the so-called evidence of WMD's, for instigating an illegal invasion of Iraq, and for abandoning the hunt ...

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• Progressive - There indeed has been some advance in the AIDS problem in Africa. The problem is that the improvement has primarily been in the ...

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• slate - Look. Obama never asked for the Nobel Prize. He did not submit his own name (that is not allowed). He did not campaign ...

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• endo - "SOROS SPEAKS AND LIBERALS PARROT!!!!!"
  
  You know, capecoral just exchanged a series of posts with me about how unified the Republicans are ...

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• Unfortunately for the rest of the world - yes.

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• Slate - So you are trying hard to write sarcasm or satire in your feeble attempt to insult Obama and ridicule his Nobel Peace award. ...

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• Thank you. A beautifully written post.

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• Klarissa - The worldwide recession was triggered by the collapse of the American economy.
  
  The global recession could not and will not recover ...

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• The only Republican to have won the Nobel Peace Prize was Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating the end to the Russo-Japanese War. But then he was ...

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• I forgot to mention this. I believe Obama is the single most influential person in the world in stopping the ever downward death spiral of ...

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• And ridiculing and insulting President Obama, our leader, for winning the Nobel Peace Prize is not America bashing?

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• GLee - The issue is not when Obama was nominated. We still do not know who submitted his name for consideration.
  
  The issue is ...

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• pokydoke - I think you misspelled the word "spitting." The "p" should be an "h."

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The Point: GOP Pins 2010 Hopes on Nancy Pelosi »

• CHAM - "Coalition Party"
  Ah! Now that would be definitely something I could look forward to.
  
  I actually voted Libertarian in our state elections ...

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Insurers Mount Last Minute Attack Against Health Reform »

• A small addendum. In all the lists of profitability of industries, pharmaceuticals always came ahead of insurance. The year that Insurance came in 2nd, pharmaceuticals ...

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• This is a disgusting, unethical counter-attack by the insurance industry against health care insurance reform.
  
  I have read several lists of most profitable industries ...

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'Kill Obama' Painted On Phoenix-Area Campaign Signs »

• BB - How would you explain away the 400% increase in death threats against Obama compared to those against Bush? This is a datum put ...

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• cape - Do you realize that the post above and on many other discussion boards you have simply put up a lot of sarcasm and ...

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REPORT:‘We Will Overthrow The Government’—Calls For Violence Repeatedly Stoked By Conservative Voices »

• fiftynine - I totally forgot about this fenced corral business.
  
  Well if Bush did it, it must be the right thing to do. ...

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• beavith - Why are you trying to downgrade the danger this truly reprehensible caller presents to the integrity of our government? Why are you trying ...

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• Love - I do not think you are racist. You are crazy, stupid, paranoid, delusional, violent, unreasonable, and bizarre.
  
  But racist? Nope, not ...

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• Again with the anti-semitism. Stop it!

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• hyperbola - Your incessant rants against Israel and jews is really getting tiresome. Are you then going to claim that Obama has sold out to ...

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• tattooed - Do you realize that your entire post is a series of personal beliefs, cliches, and propaganda statements. You have not stated a single ...

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• beavith - Why are you trying to downgrade the danger this truly reprehensible caller presents to the integrity of our government? Why are you trying ...

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Civil War on the Right »

• I have no problem with other voices joining the debate and offering alternative solutions and ideas. We long for the civil and honest discussion with ...

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• wolfie - Do you ever think while you type away? Do you even do any research prior to arriving at your ideas and beliefs? If ...

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• cape - If everything you posted is accurate and valid, that bodes well for the Republicans. I have no basic problem with the ascendancy of ...

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• I fail to see why you say that Obama threw Van Jones under the bus. It was more like the rabid neocons ran him over ...

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• cor - "You mean like the united country that Obama preached about in the last campaign? What happened to that?"
  
  The answer is easy. ...

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• NNOOOH. Actually I was glorifying the use of free speech by all involved, including the people who complained about Beck. Those who support Beck have ...

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• beavith - "i suppose being crybabies constitutes freedom of speech. trying to shut him up for saying what he says is anti free speech."
  
  

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• endo - That's right. It was just a campaign tactic by Hillary Clinton. That's ALL it was. There was no truth to the matter. Clinton ...

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• Cape - Does this mean that in your mind, he is not a Republican?
  What does a rift among the left and right WITHIN the ...

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• endo - No, you folks on the right have got to take stock of your own philosophy and party direction.
  
  Conservativism was and should ...

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Did We Elect a Beta Male As President? »

• I would also consider FDR and Dwight Eisenhower. Ike, remember, cautioned everyone to beware the military-industrial complex in his farewell speech.
  
  LBJ was also ...

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• pc - My, my! What a simple mind and simplistic world outlook you have. Must be comforting to have one solution for every problem in ...

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• outlaw - "Given that you don't like Bush's approach, how do you feel about Obama's? This is his war now."
  
  What you say is ...

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• He will be less aggressive and listen more to commands after he gets neutered

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• Tasine - "George Bush gave them a life, a good object to hate because he is too decent to call them on their lies"
  
  

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• beavith - I just thought of an option C.
  
  This is where Obama and the US government unites with England, France, Germany, Russia, and ...

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• I've thought about my dilemma.
  
  I can only conclude that Obama is a meek and submissive president, who is power-hungry, egocentric, despotic, socialistic, fascist, ...

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• I am not sure now which Republican accusation to believe.
  
  On the one hand, many Republicans accuse Obama of being so arrogant and cocky ...

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Obama, The African Colonial »

• To DenCuddy and BTV - Thanks for pointing out what I should have done earlier. There are still so many new, mysterious little details about ...

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• With all due respect to the African heritage and to the hard work of the authoress that earned her a degree of success in the ...

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OpEd: GOP Celebrates U.S. Defeat »

• In what way is this episode embarrassing to Obama? The bid by Chicago was obviously weak and not desirable enough to the International Olympic Committee. ...

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• TOD - "I am honest when I say I would have respected him more, if he had stayed behind..."
  
  Okay, if that is your ...

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• TOD - "Is there a timeline when we can stop comparing everything to the past president?"
  
  Okay. How about 8 years?
  
  If you ...

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• endo - Blathering again, aren't you? The Olympic bid by Chicago was not Obama's to win or lose. The winning or losing was the job ...

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• TOD - Oh, by the way. You did not answer MY question of what you conservatives would have said if he had not made the ...

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• I never said that the ONLY reason these respective nations won the Olympics is because of the presentations of the presidents. After all, for this ...

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• TOD - London won the bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics after Blair spoke up to the Olympic Committee. Moscow won the 2014 Winter Olympics ...

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