Comments on: The Dark Knight

By: Jessica Taylor

Jessica Taylor — Wed, 05 May 2010 04:38:55 +0000

Looks like this “Robin Hood” movie would be a great movie to watch just like the movie about King Arthur..*:

By: Byron Audler

Byron Audler — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:49:40 +0000

Skippy, I’m surprised that an intelligent man like yourself would put forth an argument like that. I’m just a dumb shipfitter with a high school education (with a major in girls) and even I know the pursestrings are held by Congress. The most the President has is the power of the bully pulpit, something I wish President Bush had used much more often over the years.

By: MaxDamage

MaxDamage — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:17:56 +0000

Skippy, I’d like you to very carefully read article 1 section 7 of the US Constitution. A president can propose, can present a budget, can sign what is passed but it is the US House that authorizes the spending of every dollar and the Congress that creates the tax code. Let’s place the blame where it is due, not on the figurehead but on the bone-heads. We’ve been asleep at the switch for 40 years on our budget, conveniently ignoring the entitlement portions. That’s 40 Trillion coming due as the boomers retire, and it’s off the books.

It’s interesting to note that the Constitution requires Representatives to be at least 25 years old, and the President to be at least 35. In 1800, the average life expectancy in the United States was age 36. Were the Constitution to be updated, one would have to be 77 to run for the POTUS slot, and 50 to run for a representative position.

I guess they wanted elders in office who’d, you know, seen a few winters and weren’t likely to make rash decisions knowing their kids would have to pay the bills for it. Doesn’t seem to have worked out quite as planned, has it?

Hard to believe we went to war with Britannia for excessive taxation — almost 12% — as the main cause.

– Max

By: Skippy-san

Skippy-san — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:23:29 +0000

Someone still has to show me how Bush lowered my taxes-I’m not seeing in my W-2 every year. My taxes are percentage wise the same as they were when he took office. Plus I did not get a stimulus check because of the chicken s**t way the law was written.

Plus , any tax reduction that may or may not be there is offset by a higher cost of living because he has pursued policies that :a) make the dollar weaker-b) things I buy more expensive and/or harder to get.

By: ELP

ELP — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:13:15 +0000

Holy re-do Batman!

By: blackeagle603

blackeagle603 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:51:35 +0000

Guess us old whitehats just aren’t as sophisticated and jaded as all ya’ll “critics of the critic. ”

Yeah sure, it’s “only” a comic book character. Seems to me that other man in tights said it pretty well back in the day.

“Truth, Justice and the American Way. ”

Covers it pretty well today.
I thought the WSJ analogy rocked. Thanks for the link Cap’n.

Guess me and my mine have a genetic disposition to be swayed into volunteering as cannon fodder. Great granddad^n was a fool at Valley Forge. Probably sold on some simplistic “noble cause” by that silver tongued, wooden toothed “other George.”