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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: at least one celebrity has no sympathy for rapist Roman Polanski.

"If it had been my daughter who was barely a teenager - my daughter is 15 - Roman Polanski would be missing ... period," [actor Jamie] Foxx stated in an interview with Parade magazine. "It wouldn't even get to the court case. But, that's me and I wouldn't want anyone else to follow that because you should let the justice system work it out."

What do you think? Street justice for Polanski?

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i agree

polanski would be like elvis.

 

RB/411acrossamerica.com

Or Jimmy Hoffa!

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

 

oh NOW he cares

I thought Jamie was going to tart up his daughter and get her to start having sex with boys. Isn't that what he said should happen to Miley Cyrus? Why, all of a sudden, does he think it's not right? Yeah, another liberal hypocrit.

Yeah, but he's speaking

Yeah, but he's speaking like a father would. I would be pondering the same thing he said he did if it had happened to any daughter of mine.

As far as his earlier comments about Miley Cyrus, well, let's just say people say and advocate things for kids most wouldn't normally wish on their own kids (if they have any).

"You just don't get it." - Pa Grape, "Veggietales"

Check out my blog.

You make a good point AJB

You make a good point AJB and I expound on it even more.  I don't think Foxx really has a problem with Polanski but is trying to make up for what he said about Cyrus.  He's nothing more than liberal trash and if he didn't make it as an actor, he'd probably be on one of those ACORN videos defending underage prostitution.  I ain't buying this at all. 

an American hero

I think the twit Leslie Stahl was interviewing "Jessica's" father. Despite her comfort that he would really "do something" if he had a chance he said; approx; "No maam. We have a system to deal with this sort of thing". Put me down for one vote for him as an American (system) Hero. 

well, that kinda changes things

This might brand me as a racist according to the libs, but I guess that means I can't cheer his character's death now in "Stealth."

Oh well.  Guess that means he's an ok guy after all. 0;-)

-Jon

I guess Foxx is reverting

I guess Foxx is reverting back to his Texas heritage where pedophiles just dont have a long lifespan if they get caught ith the wrong kid.  I give kudos to Foxx for speaking out but he still has the mentality that its ok with other peoples kids.  He only said "If it had been my daughter who was barely a teenager - my daughter is 15 - Roman Polanski would be missing ... period" which doesnt take into account for others daughters or sons.

Basically Foxx is still a pinhead to put it in Bill O terms. 

Know how to keep a Troll in suspense?  Ill tell ya in the morning.

OK, open mike today.  I

OK, open mike today.  I am a bit confused on what the congress is voting on for a healthcare bill.  From what I get they have a skimpy outline of principles and statements and have no meat in it yet.  And this is what our congress critters are voting on.  Supposedly this is so they dont have to post the meat and taters of the bill and have people pour over it.

Basically they and we the people are being handed a blank piece of paper and asked to sign it saying we have read and agree to the terms.

Now what fool would do that?

Know how to keep a Troll in suspense?  Ill tell ya in the morning.

Don't ask - Don't tell

The Dims changed the DADT policy. It now applies to the Healthcare bill. We are not allowed to know what is in it and if we ask, they won't tell. 

"Maybe if we keep our heads buried in the sand, this will blow over" - The Congressional Republicans

Heads Exploding

Fox looking to buy out NBC/MSNBC?

http://www.reuters.com

This is great

 But they will figure out a way of preventing it. I have faith in the hysterical left

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

I had heard about that too,

I had heard about that too, but I do not think it would happen since there might be some anti-monopoly laws that would prevent them from acquiring it.

Though it would be fun to see bathtub boy go apoplectic and Chrissy feel the tingle of fear.

The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER

They'll call FOX a racist,

They'll call FOX a racist, sexist, homophobic, network...and they'll offer all kinds of twisted out of context circumstantial evidence to prove it.

      If it were my

      If it were my daughter, he would be dead.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Street justice for Polanski?

I've often thought that "fitting justice" for men who do this to young girls would be to lock them in a room with three guys who have daughters (Doug Giles would certainly be one of them, if I had my way).

However, we are still a country of laws, not of men.

So, although it's a tempting thought, No. 

I'd like to change the topic

this guy Polanski could die tomorrow and ta ta

As to Bunker Busting Bombs and the rush for them by our military.

I don't think the primary use is for Iran as the news media suggests.

I think they will be used for taking the tops of mountains in Afghanistan in an effort to flush out the enemy and to destroy their hiding places.

WE need the HIGH GROUND!

NEVER again should our commanders leave our brave fighting men as the BASE on MOUNTAINS while the enemy has the higher ground using their advantage to use our troops like ducks in a shooting gallery.

Even if we get those bombs we don't have an administration wiilling to use them. 

What have the voters of this country done?

I am sick! 

I join you in your illness,

I join you in your illness, Delsa.

How can a Peace prize-winning President order the use of bunker-buster bombs?

In fact, how can such a man send more troops, or do anything other than withdraw in the name of "peace"?

Don't tell me this isn't what the Nobel committee intended. 

It sickens me that The First One is taking credit for "ending" the war in Iraq....what the heck has he done?  

All hail Barack "Peace in our time" Obama!

You know what Mother

I am sick and tired of a mother may I military command!

If we are going to go to war, then dam it GO TO WAR!

If we are going to send our bravest to die in combat, then give them everything they need and make their missions clear!

Take out the hiding places of the enemy including the Mosques!

If the above is not in the plan, then bring our guys home!

If fighting to win isn't the plan the get the Hello OUT!

Whew!

This shrubber will sleep much better now that some of the Nobel jurors explained why Obama got the Peace Prize...

The money shot:

We simply disagree that he has done nothing," committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland told the AP on Tuesday. "He got the prize for what he has done."

Jagland singled out Obama's efforts to heal the divide between the West and the Muslim world and scale down a Bush-era proposal for an anti-missile shield in Europe.

"All these things have contributed to — I wouldn't say a safer world — but a world with less tension," Jagland said by phone from Strasbourg, where he was attending meetings in his other role as secretary-general of the Council of Europe.

Have tension? Get a massage. Happy endings are usually negotiable.

Now we know

What Putin bribed Obama with.

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

"He got the prize for what he has done"

Well then, it's apparently been a REALLY crappy year for peace.

Oops, I meant 11 days, not year

!

nobel appeasement prize

I'm so glad the prople in Strasbourg are relaxed and pleased with themselves.

so are Iran, NKorea, Venezuela, Russia..

____________________________________________ 
The Emperor, he has no clothes

That is a welcome statement...

Now that I’ve been enlightened as to the flaws in my reasoning my tension is way down and I should be able to skip my meds tonight.

I was under the mistaken assumption that a system designed to thwart the hostile action of one of the worlds bad actors, (by positioning little missiles where they could shoot down big missiles) was a good thing.

Now these wise and benevolent sages have told me that curtailing the deployment of such a system constitutes “making peace” and that very soon several centuries of Muslim animosity toward the West will simply evaporate.

It all makes sooo much sense now.

Hmmmm, maybe just a half dose.

Here's more liberal

Here's more liberal incompetence:

U.S. Begins Official Effort to Destabilize Pakistan

...Holbrooke is canceling successful programs run by U.S. contractors
and preparing to bypass them by giving large sums to local
organizations with shaky financial track records.

Holbrooke, the top civilian overseeing Obama administration policy
on Afghanistan and Pakistan, has asked to personally approve every
project funding renewal involving U.S. contractors, Callison wrote —
and “the disapprovals already received are shockingly
counterproductive.”

This is typical of liberal agendas, divert government money to your friends, allies, campaign contributors and yourself if you can, in the process nothing constructive gets done.  So it looks like in 2012 a Republican POTUS will be elected to once again clean up the mess left by self dealing Democrats, the party of sleaze and corruption.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.

Re incompetence

That kind of incompetence is extremely dangerous. We are still dealing with the mess left by the merdivorous Jimmy Carter. The Bamster is just beginning his reign of incompetence. Let's elect Presidents based on competence, not to make some kind of a feel-good liberal gesture.

The Financial Times pointing out the Bamster's dangerous weakness:

Obama Must Start Punching Harder: http://www.ft.com

Unfortunately the writer suggests that "Mr Obama now needs to pick a fight in public – and win it with a clean knock-out."  How idiotic; pick a fight just to show how tough you are? How many times have you seen a bully try that, and then lose? What if the Bamster picks a fight and loses, and I'm not talking Fox News here?

We are going to see a ratcheting up of challenges to the Bamster internationally. Thus far he has spectacularly failed every one of them. 

It is being reported that SOBama is sending 13,000 troops to

Afghanistan.

He is sending them to their death and is doing it gleefully.

The field want 40,000 to 80,000 and the ONE is sending 13,000?

OMG

Here Delsa

This may calm you down a little bit.  Apparently this uptick in troop numbers is part of what he announced last spring, and is comprised of mostly support troops. 

From today's UK Daily Mail (naturally, not a word in our press).

The additional forces are primarily support forces - such as engineers and medical personnel - bringing the total buildup Obama has approved for the war-torn nation to 34,000.

'Obama authorised the whole thing. The only thing you saw announced in a press release was the 21,000,' a defence official told the Washington Post.

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Thank you Blonde

I am traveling via the web to the UK right now.

 

More Rush Stories please

Is it just me or are is every other story about Rush Limbaugh lately?  And everything Rush seems to say has to be defended at all cost and it's almost as if it's all Rush all the time.  And every Rush Limbaugh past quote has to be explained away as if he was taken out of context and Rush is always right and never says anything wrong.

 

Reactive not Proactive

NB is a reactive website, commenting on stories in the Main Stream Media.  If the MSM wasn't talking about Rush Limbaugh, NB wouldn't be posting stories about Rush Limbaugh. 

"I've sentenced boys younger then you to the gas chamber.  Didn't want to do it, but I felt I owed it to them."  Judge Smails 

And

Every"quote" attributed to Rush that he never actually said in any context needs to be refuted.

Chai

“It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.” —1906 Nobel Peace Laureate Theodore Roosevelt

Umm, Carl...

Surely you don't disagree that all these recent Rush attacks represent an organized, unprecedented demonization of a private citizen?

And I don't agree with everything he says/has said, but this is out of control. 

Has NB done a story on

Has NB done a story on Savage being banned from England?  It appears he was invited for a debate via a phone link.  Then he was told that the debate was cancelled for something like technical difficulties or something like that.  Sounds like something strange may be going on in Oceania. 

 

 

Carl

I remember it being discussed here, but not sure whether there were any blog posts on it.

Try "search".  :)

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Carl...

I hear ya, but Savage is no Rush and the UK is not the media.

On the other hand, the UK has no problem allowing radical Islamists to emigrate and pretty much won't deport any of them no matter what they do. 

Snowe Full-RINO

Both Olympia Snowe and Blanche Lincoln announcing support for Baucuscare in committee, even though the text of the bill is not available. Wanna bet that the liberal media will sell the bill as 'bipartisan' if it has only one Republican vote?

been done before

It was done in the House of Representatives even though it was a very small number of Republicans.

I'm not surprised that Snowe decided to do it, I think she was giving us a Snowe job in making it look like she's considering it.  Bolshevik! (rhymes with Bull-$h!t!) Traitors all!

-Jon

How about a little Trash Talk?

October and the Open Thread is devoid of baseball chatter?  What gives?

To all the Yankees fans out there, I can not wait for my Phightin Phils to crush your spirits in the World Series!

Philly is unstoppable and I will be dancing in the stadium after they win the WS just like I did last year.

Ryan Howard is the most clutch player in baseball

Phils will crush the Dodgers in 6.

Arguably greatest baseball game I've ever seen.  Did anyone else get as much enjoyment as I did watching the Rockies fans' tears freezing on their cheeks at the end of the game?  LOSERS!

*crickets*

*crickets*

Roger the Shrubber - I

Roger the Shrubber - I suppose that's what happens when a post is indisputable.

or one too moronic to

or one too moronic to justify a response. 

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

 

MightyM - 1 LeonDuh -

MightyM - 1

LeonDuh - still too dumb to understand.

 

Sarah Palin Is Absolutely

Inspector Clueless/Janet Napolitano is on the case

Napolitano Says Al-Qaeda-Style Terrorists Are in U.S.

By Jonathan D. Salant and Jeff Bliss

Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said law-enforcement authorities are tracking terrorists with al-Qaeda leanings in the U.S.

“It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs,” Napolitano said in an interview with Bloomberg Television today.

"I have directed law enforcement agencies to investigate any links to right-wing extremists, such as conservatives, Tea-Baggers, returning veterans and other suspicious groups which protest against the President..."

NO no no. I made up the last paragraph! Gotcha. You can hear her saying it, admit it!

 I know that's what she really said. Boy.

Chicago's 2016 Olympic Games bid... one more example of Obama's SMART diplomacy. 

The Full Monty

I don't know how many of you checked this photoshop out late last night (not many since there's only been 67 views thus far; most of my shops get between 400 and 1500 views)- and now it's already past the 24 hour news cycle, but I actually thought this was one of my more humorous ones- mostly because of Biden's coy smile. Anyway- the context was the Gay March on DC, and the wrath heaped on the administration for apparently not being gay enough. No offense intended- that's just the way it seemed to be presented.

Well, since the WH doesn't take criticism lying down, and always feels the needs to patronize their base, I put this little shop (of horrors) together depicting their pushback on the charges of non-repsonsiveness toward the LGBT community. Here's Axelrod, Barry, Jennings, Biden, Rahmbo, and Gibbs showing their support- by way of the full monty. Oh, this may not be safe for work.

BK~~

I saw it and it was one of your best.  :-)

Re BK

Agreed; and nevermind the timeliness. This is not a one-time issue that won't come back.

Wicked good stuff BK...

Did you add all the footwear? The socks on Gibbs? Perfect!

I'm still laughing at the "Smart Car" item.

Stroke of Luck?

Some reports out of Iran that Khameini might be in a coma:

Khameini Said to be in Coma:  http://pajamasmedia.com

If he were to die, half of the country would rejoice, and the other half would be simply relieved. I would hope then that support for Ahmadinejad would evaporate and a new regime would form up. On the other hand it might be an opportunity for Ahmadinejad to consolidate his support. Hard to say. It might come down to the Army deciding who to throw in with. 

I heard he was all depressed

I heard he was all depressed and bummed out over his arrest and possible extradition for justice.......Anyone know how I can send him a rope and a bottle of sleeping pills?ICABOD

Re extradition

Some bloggers are calling him 'Roman Pedophilanski'. Catchy.

~DOLLAR LOSES RESERVE STATUS

I've been waiting for this to happen.

Kossacks hate me. And yes, it does feel good.

R, Obama intends to take us all the way to the bottom

And it appears the stoopid American sheeple are going to sit on their asses and let him do it.

How sad.

-Dave

This is the crisis

 
They have been waiting for. They created it, so they can claim we need to have a single currency. This is all preplanned.

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

gc,

I agree.

None of what is happening these days is by accident.

I hate to be the Hal Lindsey of NB, but I think we are far closer to losing America than most people think.

-Dave

~Hi Hal,

I'm Cassandra. Nice to meet you.

Kossacks hate me. And yes, it does feel good.

Brilliant

Glenn Beck has installed a White House hotline phone in his studio, and Anita Dunn has been given the number to use if the White House wants to challenge any of the facts presented on his program. Of course the phone will never ring because the Halfrican-in-Chief cannot challenge Beck on facts. So there the phone sits...silent.

slickw

Your right that is Bloody Briliant.

He should refer to it daily

With a hand to ear, while saying "oh my, that must be true too"

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Fact checking

I want a red phone to the white house. Fact:  Nov. 2012, there is a new congress of  all rookies. Not a single incumbant has won re election. This trend began with the Nov 2010 elections.  I'll wait for your call.

EEIS

That is all.