Comments on: Help thy neighbor…

By: Newman

Newman — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:18:11 +0000

(You) Help thy neighbor, yes. Do no rely on thy government to give help or it is no longer thee who is responding to this personal commandment. It’s pretty plain.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:42:14 +0000

And who will pay to build the sewers?

By: bitter troll

bitter troll — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:06:18 +0000

yes, and we should put the old things out to pasture..KILL THE OLD KILL THE OLD THINGS!

By: Anniee451

Anniee451 — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:58:36 +0000

Not very educated, eh? #1 who is talking “unfettered”? That’s YOUR assumption. #2 get a new f*cking line. That one’s really old.

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:06:14 +0000

Read a little history, and see what unfettered capitalism creates: monopolies.

By: amuzikman

amuzikman — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:43:28 +0000

Dude, I’m sure your righteous indignation about child labor has led you to many of the countries in the world who CURRENTLY have such practices, so that you can effect meaningful change. Or do you prefer to simply stay home and bash the USA for something in our past that has been eliminated.
Dude, you should read up on what many economists think is the detrimental effect the minimum wage has on our economy, and how it actually increases unemployment among low level wage earners.
Dude, the cure for monopolistic practices IS capitalism!

By: Trudy

Trudy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:38:27 +0000

For those who think that they on their own and not a single person, situation, culture or experience…let alone sheer timing has any impact on their success or failure, please read Gladwell’s book Outliers. It is the easiest way to stop pretending that success is magical and people did it on their own. Even Bill Gates had help. Furthermore even if you have to pull up your own bootstraps, someone had to make the boots.

By: Darcoi

Darcoi — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:30:29 +0000

Was this just a poor attempt at humor or did the poster completely miss the irony of their comment? Paying for someone else’s benefits (vs. working to support yourself) is exactly what socialism would involve.

By: Sigma

Sigma — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:07:40 +0000

The U.S.S. Enterprise is a space vessel used by the United Federation of Planets, also known as the Federation. One Captain Jonathan Archer commanded the U.S.S. Enterprise NX-01, which served between the years 2151 and 2161.

So… yea. ^_^

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:23:17 +0000

They have to be healthy to be productive.

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:23:34 +0000

TY for your input!
I wish more Americans would be open-minded, but that doesn’t seem to be a trait held by large numbers of us.
:-/

By: KittensRsoft

KittensRsoft — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:19:09 +0000

There is a story of a little red hen living on a farm full of animals.
One day Little Red Hen decides she wants to make bread.
So she goes asking each animals if they will help her plant and water the seeds because she is going to make bread.
“No thanks!” said the cow
“No way!” said the pig
“Go away!” said the horse
“Not today” said the sheep
So Little Red Hen plants and waters the wheat until it grows tall and ready for harvest. She asks the farm animals if they want to help her harvest and gather the wheat because she is going to make bread.
The answers from each animal were the same as last time.
So she harvests the wheat and grinds it to flour. Again she asks if anyone wants to help her make the dough for the bread she wants to bake.
They have better things to do today again then to help Little Red Hen.
So Little Red Hen makes the dough and bakes the bread and it smells delicious and sweet. Everyone comes to Little Red Hen’s house.
They are ready for a bite of the moist sweet bread!
“Now wait a minute, I asked everyone if they wanted to help me make this bread, and no one wanted to help me! Now that it is done, you all want to eat it! Well I don’t think so!” said Little Red Hen.
All the animals looked down in shame and went back to what they were doing the days before, nothing.
Then Farmer Obama came out to the Little Red Hen and said that she needed to share. She asked why?
“Because, it is good for everyone.” Said the farmer.
The Little Red Hen no longer makes her bread, when asked about it today, she replies, “Let someone else make it”

By: Dustie

Dustie — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:22:14 +0000

You are absolutely right. Back when my family was just getting started, my husband was laid off when I was about 7 1/2 months pregnant. We went to the welfare office for help and were told that if we divorced, they would be happy to give ME a check every month, but if we stayed together, we were out of luck.

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:39:42 +0000

What’s that? A bias against other solar systems?

By: Dargus

Dargus — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:52:50 +0000

Uh, yes. I was being Silly.

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:52:36 +0000

First paragraph: Right.

2nd paragraph: Right. Obama has shown no signs of a “supreme being complex”. That’s some right-wing nutjob pundit B.S. you seem to be parroting.

3rd paragraph: Right. Who’s taking your guns away? Is there some new legislation I haven’t heard about? I thought our lawmakers were busy with this healthcare issue.

By: asdf

asdf — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:10:37 +0000

What is good in one place isn’t always great in another place. One of the issue is, many of the specialist doctors in the states don’t even bother with insurance anymore. The system is so convoluted that making it more so would drive practitioners further away. Socialized health care would do nothing for you if you needed to see a specialist that operates outside of healthcare. The doctor could be government paid (anyone that works for the government knows how great that is) or they could operate on their own, the choice is simple.

More importantly, debt. Socialized healthcare sounds great but it takes money. People are always quick to say that the government can cut spending somewhere else but the reality is that health care would require major cuts and currently, we, as a nation, are in debt. I don’t understand how people always miss this fact, there is no money.

By: asdf

asdf — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:55:49 +0000

accept dental

By: asdf

asdf — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:43:42 +0000

igor…you just trolled, and so did i, go eat a cookie

By: buahahah

buahahah — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:09:52 +0000

hmmmmm the fact that youre 999! and I’m the 1000th commentor! So… what do I win Bob?

By: woo!

woo! — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:06:06 +0000

Woo!!! 1000th comment!!! What do I win Bob?

By: Igor the Vigorous

Igor the Vigorous — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:27:21 +0000

It’s a picture of me that was taken in the dark. My friend edited the color into some bizarre form of sepia, then captioned it as “I f*cking GLOW.”
Sometimes they like to make jokes about me being the second coming.

By: charro

charro — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:48:43 +0000

*hands off more treats*

You’re just adorable!

By: CatManToo

CatManToo — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:04:39 +0000

@matt
I’m British and am proud of our Nation Health Service, however, I lived and worked in France for a number of years, and think that the French system offers more choice, is more flexible and should be adopted throughout Europe. The US would do well to look at it and not dismiss it out of hand, free health care may not be for America, you have a different set of ethics to most Europeans, but its worth a look with an open mind.

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:17:03 +0000

My fiance was just in the hospital for 3 days = $19,000+

By: Sud_Vicious

Sud_Vicious — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:37:38 +0000

“Rampant capitalism” lol. Tool.

By: Sud_Vicious

Sud_Vicious — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:36:10 +0000

And that’s just the income taxes. That does not include embedded taxes.

By: Laq

Laq — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:33:33 +0000

solarism! >:(

By: Valiant Defender

Valiant Defender — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:23:24 +0000

the Right to bears arms to meant to empower citizens against a tyrannical government. The founding Fathers were dealing with a situation where the ruling monarchy didn’t listen to or care about the individuals. THey had no rights to rule themselves…they had no way to resist that rule.

SO, they set up a govt with checks and balances. Which is why Obama needs to knock it off with the supreme being complex.

They also wrote in the right to bear arms. Taking that away takes us one step closer to being under tyrannical rule.

By: CyanEyed

CyanEyed — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:21:39 +0000

Plz tell me you’re not serious…

By: CyanEyed

CyanEyed — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:13:25 +0000

Perhaps you misunderstand the word ‘explicitly’.
‘to keep and bear arms’ does not explicitly state hunting weapons only… that’s just as close as the government interpreters could get to taking guns away completely.

By: CyanEyed

CyanEyed — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:10:20 +0000

… what? health care is not a right… where’d you get that idea?

By: CyanEyed

CyanEyed — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:07:02 +0000

It would work fine if only the goverment would stop spending the money on whatever they want… srsly, the government couldn’t pinch a penny to save their lives…

By: CyanEyed

CyanEyed — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:55:46 +0000

it would work better if they kept the money in a personal account, instead of tossing it into the government’s general fund…

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:23:11 +0000

Just like stereotypes. That douchebag looks great on you, by the way.

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:21:20 +0000

Yeah…I miss him!

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:19:58 +0000

You’ll get treated, and then billed.

My ex was charged $4,000 for 9 hours in a Las Vegas hospital. They didn’t even diagnose him correctly. It was the same hospital where Tupac died. Now I know why.

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:16:13 +0000

Naoyusimi, there’s no evidence that your fears have come to fruition in the countries which have nationalized health care (every developed country except the US).

The government can’t even stop people from using illegal drugs, imagine how hard it would be to ban cookies. Not to mention completely bat shit crazy.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:27:15 +0000

Covered in the part about owning weapons other than hunting pieces “as part of a State militia” (not exact wording). maybe?
Or since you have a socialised army, maybe that part just shouldn’t apply any more?

By: Mary Ellen

Mary Ellen — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:26:20 +0000

Help thy neighbor – absolutely………..BUT I should be able to help who I choose in the amount I choose; I should not be forced to help who the government wants me to help because they take about half of the money I work very hard for (by the time you figure income tax, sales tax, property tax, and everything else). If they didn’t steal so much from us, we could all give more to charity and to our friends and family that are having a hard time and welfare would become obsolete.

*steps down from soapbox temporarily*

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:13:32 +0000

That’s what he was going to build: a quad .50.

Actually, about this “spirit of the 2nd”-thing: I think that the Founding Fathers wanted the people to have weapons in case of situations like the former British rule, so they wouldn’t be unable to resist, right?

Well, in those times (besides cannon), a musket was a musket. In these times, what’s a shotgun going to do against current military weaponry? I think in order to resist an oppressor, the weaponry would have to be more equal. So, maybe there is support in the 2nd for that type of ownership.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:39:13 +0000

I know military grade stuff is fun; if you have the cash and a suitably large live fire range firing off a quad 50-cal AA turret just for the noise puts a major smile on your face (and anyone else who can hear it too). I just don’t believe that it’s within the letter or spirit of the second.

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:20:52 +0000

Ya know, I’m torn about that one. Even though I’m a raging liberal , I do believe in gun rights. I can’t imagine full-auto weapons being hunting equipment. I used to rail against such things as completely “unnecessary”. However, my fiance used to be a gun dealer, and used to collect guns. He loved to take his guns to the shooting range, and just blow off steam. He had AKs, an M-60….all kinds of stuff. He had four 50-calibers at one time. He took them to a friend’s farm a couple of times, and shot the $hit out of cars (once, a Pontiac Fiero with incendiary rounds–I saw the video–THAT was funny). He was in a accident a few years before that, and nearly died. He was told he’d never walk again, he’d better sell his business, etc. He walked, he still owned and operated the business, but he had some health complications. The shooting range was really his only outlet. He wasn’t a danger to anyone. He wasn’t stockpiling food in an underground bunker.

So, though I believe extreme background checks should be in place to own such military-grade weaponry, who am I to say what’s “necessary”? I think lots of people still have that little kid in them that just likes to make things go “boom”.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:47:24 +0000

I’d agree with you, at least to some extent. I do know Christians who do give to aid charities which actually are making a difference in the nations aided, but I’d have to say they’re a minority of self-professed Christians, never mind of all the people I know.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:43:35 +0000

“I use a handgun to deal with close-range (and inedible) threats” – I don’t really think that’s hunting within the spirit of the second. By that argument, anyone who goes hill-walking (true hill-walking, not just following established and marked trails) should carry a handgun. For the record, I use a gun-camera, not a projectile weapon, and have never encountered anything vicious enough to attack me or even that hunted back.

And I notice you can’t think of a hunting scenario when auto-fire is necessary either.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:23:30 +0000

{Naoyusim}

Someone managed to understand that I wasn’t referring to living in the USA, but to US foreign policy!

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:45:46 +0000

” … crazed fundamentalistS”.

I don’t know of a way MANY Christians could be ONE single, crazed fundamentalist . . . . unless you all stood under one big, big coat.
[I saw that in a cartoon, once.]

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:38:49 +0000

Once again, God has missed the mark.

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:27:42 +0000

You don’t believe that politicians, on either side of the ideological fence, often appeal to emotion, just to get elected?

Can I borrow your glasses? My vision is just not pink enough, today.

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:12:34 +0000

What I don’t understand is how you miss the meaning.

No one is suggesting that hard work WON’T get one ahead of the pack. What we might be suggesting is that you are ignoring a very simple, glaringly obvious fact that huge numbers of people work very hard, every day, and vast millions of them just eke out subsistence living. So, your oh-so-simple explanation just doesn’t cut it.

But I understand. People LOVE simple explanations. Fat people are lazy gluttons. Poor people are lazy and/or criminals. Life as Morality Play. Hard work = success. Success = happiness. So, successful people are good people.

Simple makes the world nice and tidy. Wake up. It’s not nice, and it’s not tidy.

Just because *your* hard work may have equaled success, others may not have had the same result. You assume that it’s because they didn’t work hard enough? How arrogant. How insulting you are to so many.

I’ve often said that those with such uncharitable attitudes must be without minds creative enough–open enough–to imagine other possible outcomes. Ever hear, “There, but for the grace of God, go I”?