CommentsDisplaying Glenn in Virginia's 10 most recent comments.

• These ‘Stutistics’ Explain What Obama’s Economy Really Looks Like

  May 23, 2012 at 9:56pm

  “Facts are stubborn things.” – John Adams

• Going for the Triple Crown: See the Best Photos of ‘I’ll Have Another‘s’ Second Dramatic Win

  May 19, 2012 at 10:12pm

  Why can’t they have simple, easily grasped names for race horses nowadays, like “Seabiscuit” or, my personal favorite, “Secretariat”?

• Family Spends $1.5 Million on College for Five Daughters

  May 19, 2012 at 6:18pm

  In reply to Glenn in Virginia.

  Thank you, Hauschild. The story is aided by the fact that it’s all true.

  When people say nowadays they are or grew up poor, I want to ask them:

  Did you (or do you) have cable T.V.?

  Did you (or do you) have air conditioning?

  Did you (or do you) have indoor plumbing or did you (do you) have to slog through the rain, wind and snow, contend with spiders and black snakes just to use it?

  Did you (or do you) have to eat pinto beans, potatoes and corn bread for days or weeks on end?

  Did you (or do you) have to carry two buckets of coal upstairs every late fall and winter day and one every other day for the cook stove?

  If they didn’t (or don’t,) they don’t have a clue what poverty is. And WE were considered middle class and this was in the prosperous ‘50s and ’60s.

  I’m terribly afraid this country has lost its soul.

• Family Spends $1.5 Million on College for Five Daughters

  May 19, 2012 at 5:41pm

  From 1966 through 1970 I went to a very inexpensive small college in a state bordering Virginia. I went on full scholarships from two separate sources and got a very good education, in spite of the fact the college faculty was dominated by liberals. (They hadn’t all become Looney Leftists in those days.)
  While I was there I worked 15 hours a week, starting at 68¢ an hour. My parents were living on $163.00 a month in Social Security the first year and Mom had to get a job in a sewing factory after that. Still, they sent me ten or twenty dollars a month.
  When I graduated, I had a B.A. degree in history and 21 semester hours in philosophy, $50.00 in my pocket, a 1964 Mercury (parents’ car) trunk full of books and didn’t owe anybody a dime.
  Four years later I got into law school in Virginia, carried 17 – 18 class hours most semesters, 16 hours in the 1976 summer session, worked 20 – 25 hours a week (my wife working full time,) took the bar exam that July after a six week, every night bar review class. If you wanted it bad enough then, you could do it.
  I pity these kids now, indoctrinated for 12 years, sent off to college to be browbeaten and indoctrinated for the next four years and the typical law school grad owes $100,000.00+. They all wind up in serfdom to the government, via some bloodsucking giant bank and various evil (literally) collection agencies, for the rest of their lives. Sometimes I regret being 64; but I got some of the last breaths of freedom.

• Could Tasers Soon Be Outlawed? Supreme Court May Hear Case on Preserving This ‘Useful Pain Technique’

  May 19, 2012 at 1:19pm

  In reply to Smokey_Bojangles.

  It says on all warrants that signing and promising to appear in court is NOT an admission of guilt. The alternative to signing is to go to jail and have to post a bond to get out.

  The pretty obvious alternative to using a taser in many cases will, in too many cases, using Herr Glock to reel them in.

• Leftist Walkout Protest Against ‘Racist’ Terrorism Expert at Portland State Fails Miserably

  May 19, 2012 at 1:00pm

  So young, so idealistic, so committed…so utterly devoid of rational thought.

• ‘My Two Dads Support Obama’: Campaign Sells Baby Onesies After Same-Sex Marriage Reversal

  May 11, 2012 at 9:18pm

  Best I can say is:

  I’se regusted!

• Gaffe-Prone Biden Strikes Again: Calls Mitt ‘President Romney’ and Obama ‘President Clinton’

  May 7, 2012 at 7:00pm

  Biden is God’s gift to Republicans!

• 9/11 Defense Attorney in Hijab Asks Court to Order Other Women to Wear ‘Appropriate’ Clothing

  May 6, 2012 at 2:03pm

  She is from Chicago, Illinois, is apparently a sole practitioner, a member of the Bar since 1988, and has NOT been rated anything by Martindale.com, the most prestigious law directory in the U.S.

  That raises the question:

  Why does she not even have a “CV” rating after nearly a quarter century of practice?

  I had a “BV” after just three years of practice and that’s not even at the top of the prominent, i.e., widely publicized, lawyers food chain? (It probably has something to do with the fact that I don’t play golf with Judges.

• Jar Jar Binks in Tehran? Iran Caught Using Photoshopped Missile Image

  May 6, 2012 at 1:46pm

  Now, instead of playing “Where’s Waldo,” we’ll all be playing “Where’s Jar Jar.”