Recent content by blobbohen

So I leave for a little less than a month to come back and find that my thread about Obamacare became the site of a cthulhu-esque altar with a photo of Ron Paul in his release form found at its nexus. Getsuga Tenshou? Interestingly enough, I also found that the thread had been locked...

What's up, GR? Though I imagine most of you have already heard about the Supreme Court's ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (colloquially known as "Obamacare") I figured that some of the posters on this forum may not be all that familiar with the actual content of the...

If you were trying to sound like the psychotic guy from Norway then you did a good job. And by the way, Lamar Smith didn't introduce this bill so you may want to reign in that berserker rage of yours before you get too far ahead of yourself, my indignant friend. If any rational people are...

There's a reason for that 8% approval rating, and something like this doesn't really help Congress much. Maybe they could use some testimony from Duke? Or would one of you volunteer?

Some solid chatter here, which is nice to see, and a tough act to follow with the onslaught of .gif images, though. I'd almost swear I was lost in the world of YTMND or something. Before I chime in more about the OWST movement I've gotta do a bit of house-cleaning first regarding a very...

Hello out there. This will be quick. What have your thoughts and level of involvement been with this global phenomenon of Occupy Wall Street and its splinter movements, world of GR? I can recall more than a few threads in here that lamented how lacking in disruptive passion the population of...

(Continuing to laugh at the agitation from the resident tweak bearing righteous indignation & libertarian ire. Absolutely adorable.) For anyone still curious there's some very well-done, objective reporting that went down on the situation in Tripoli on Democracy Now!. There were some...

The rebels have taken Tripoli and Gaddafi's sons have been apprehended. Live coverage is going down now on BBC. And they also appear to be randomly reporting on the weather.... interesting. It looks like the revolutionaries are going to get the win for this one. Gaddafi is freaking out...

This is absolutely surreal to watch unfold from the Reuters and Twitter feeds. The anti-Qaddafi forces are making their challenge to this dictator that much more serious minute by minute. Reading about this via the random and piecemeal updates is damn awesome as a revolt unfolds on the other...

Good to see some varied responses and 1st hand accounts, which is what I was looking for. I was just curious because the riots in Vancouver seemed to bear some similarities in terms of how certain people amassed to put a stop to the looters and pricks. That kind of defense impresses me it can as...

Haven't heard much about this from a Brit's perspective and was wondering if anyone of the UK crowd here on GR had actually seen any of this chaos going down in front of them. It's rather nasty from what I hear. So, has anyone here actually witnessed any of this mania while it was occurring?

Good to hear from you, Joe. I was a big fan of your reviews back from your GR days and wanted to let you know that they had a big influence on my writing style, as well as the GR Rants N' Raves. Where are you churning out reviews these days?

And you have nailed the key point in this whole debate. It was not public sector unions that created the sinkhole of an economy we find ourselves in. The reckless banks, tax cuts, and dumbass wars of this country created this budget crisis across the states. The greed in the private sector...

So the final vote went down in the Ohio Senate and this union-busting bill passed- by one vote. It'll go back to the House pretty quick and almost certainly get the okay there. The public unions took a big hit to the heart today. Most of the people that were there today were from fire...

There were over 20,000 people at the Columbus statehouse today that disagreed with the idea that they would be just fine without public unions. Turning Ohio into a "right to work" state was something that they didn't seem to want any part of. No final vote went down because the lawmakers were...