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• Quentin Tarantino Scolds Reporter for Asking About Movie Violence in Tense Interview: ‘I’m Shutting Your Butt Down!’

  January 11, 2013 at 2:39am

  In reply to sparkyrules.

  Decided years ago I would never waste my money on another movie by QT. Watched Pulp Addiction and didn’t understand what the movie was trying to say. Then after a few years of everyone talking about what a great movie it was, tried watching again. Still didn’t get it. Only point I got from was it was “Let’s see how violent we can make this movie.” Then not knowing it was a QT movie, saw Reservoir Hogs. Give me a break. Let’s see him make a meaningful movie with at least some sort message and see whether his so-called “Genius” label will stick. His movies will never get any more of my hard earned money.

• Publish Gun Owners’ Info? Ann Coulter: Release The Records of Women Who Have Had Abortions, Too

  January 4, 2013 at 11:00am

  In reply to sizzlinsexybeckster.

  @EAST – but isn’t it ironic that the current law says that abortion is not murder, but if a criminal kills a woman and her unborn child, he/she can be charged with a double homicide. So it’s murder for the criminal, but just abortion for the woman?

• NYC Officially Bans Super-Sized Sodas & Other Sugary Drinks

  September 13, 2012 at 6:23pm

  Who has spotted the irony of this man’s policies and positions?

  He is pro-abortion, supposedly professing to protect a woman’s choice. Then he proposes laws and pushes for hospitals to eliminate or limit a mother’s choice to feed her baby formula, forcing her to breast feed. So, you can kill your baby, but you better not feed him/her formula!!

  “Sorry ma’am, you may not feed that baby formula. It would have been better if you had just killed it while you had a chance.”

  Better yet — NY city hospital pre-delivery admissions questionaire:
  1. Do you plan to have your baby in a NY city hospital? Yes or No
  2. Do you plan to breast feed your child? Yes or No
  a. If you answered No to this question, please see the attached listing for the nearest abortion clinic.

• ‘A Lot of Ado About Nothing’: Villaraigosa Defends ‘God’ Vote at the DNC

  September 9, 2012 at 3:44am

  In reply to who_is_john_galt_in_RI.

  @JZS
  First I think Christian conservatives want to help the poor by their own free will, not by being forced into it by the gov’t. Charitable giving actually rises when not forced by other means. Second, the gov’t does an absolutely horrible job of providing for the poor. The amount of waste is staggering (I’m not talking fraud). With over a dozen programs to help fight poverty, enough money is allotted that could provide $20K cash for every person living in poverty. For a family of 3, that would be $60K. Yet they are receiving only a fraction of that in real terms. There’s plenty of gov’t money going to help the poor. The problem is managing the programs and how that help is structured are failing. I want to give to a charity that I can evaluate how they are providing assistance and how effective their programs are. And if they are doing a terrible job, I find a better charity. When the gov’t takes my taxes for the programs it wants, it has a “monopoly charity” and I have no choice in how to help the poor. You no doubt make many choice based on efficiency. I doubt you drive a gas guzzler. You probably insulate your home, etc. Why? You want the efficiency. I want the same from our gov’t programs. And if they’re not efficient, don’t just throw more money their direction and declare everything is fine. Fix what’s wrong.

• Judge: Family’s $80 Million Gold Coin Collection Belongs to Uncle Sam

  September 9, 2012 at 3:03am

  If the intent, as the judge points out, was for the coins to be melted, then I think the family should sue to force the government to follow through with their portion of the law and melt them down. If the gov’t is not willing to do that, then return the coins or compensate them appropriately.

• President Obama: ‘If You’ve Got a Business — You Didn’t Build That. Somebody Else Made That Happen’

  July 16, 2012 at 11:39am

  In reply to rfycom.

  You’re joking, right? So when a business hires someone, that person receives nothing in return for his/her services? How often must we hear arguments like this?
  Nobody forces someone to work for them. If you work for someone, you do so willingly. You have made an arrangement with your employer that you accept a salary in return for the services you provide. It is an arrangement that benefits BOTH sides. It is NOT A ONE WAY transaction. If you don’t like what you get in return for your services, you are free to seek employment elsewhere.
  Any business that isn’t paying its employees a fair market salary WILL GO OUT OF BUSINESS because no one (other than maybe the unqualified) will be willing to work for them.
  Spare us the line about not being able to leave a job because you need it to support a family. In such a case you are opting for the security provided by the business in the form of a job over the risk of leaving and not finding another source of income.
  So let’s turn your own words around. People leverage businesses in order earn a paycheck instead of having to build a business on their own. Simple.

• President Obama: ‘If You’ve Got a Business — You Didn’t Build That. Somebody Else Made That Happen’

  July 15, 2012 at 1:55pm

  @JZS
  Absolutely they are using the roads and gaining benefits from public infrastructure, etc. BUT SO ARE YOU! Those same roads allow YOU to take YOUR child to the hospital when they are injured. The same fire dept will put the fire out at YOUR home. The same power grid provides electricity to light and heat YOUR home. The same roads allow YOU to drive to work to earn a living.
  The point is, to use that as an argument to belittle their success and somehow justify that they deserve to be penalized for their success is just unbelievable. It can’t be included as part of the equation because EVERYONE has those same benefits. Our military and the police protect YOU as well as the successful. Just because you weren’t as successful, doesn’t mean they don’t deserve FULL CREDIT for their accomplishments.
  I just find it incredible that so many people want to penalize and demonize the very people who provide them (and me) jobs. Certainly there are some greedy rich people out there. Bad apples are part of any demographic, be they Catholic priests or blue collar worker. But the successful provide far more TO society than they take FROM it.
  For the leader of our country to say such a thing would be misguided and simply childish. But that’s not what I believe is going on. This is why most conservatives believe that BO is purposefully saying the things he does in order to incite class warfare.