Comments on: The weekly Daley: The new national agenda

By: James E.

James E. — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:25:46 +0000

Evelyn, no, not pressure from Republicans, just the acknowledgement that why have an office if Congress won’t authorize the closing. You read my comment backwards — wouldn’t you think Republicans would cheer the closing of a government office? They want a smaller government, and this is one step in that.

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:20:57 +0000

James: Seriously now, pressure for reduced government is responsible for the office closure?

By: James E.

James E. — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:25:26 +0000

Evelyn, no need for the office as the Congress wouldn’t allow the prisoners to be removed to the United States (even though there is a brand new empty prison available). So, in support of those who want a reduced government, the office was closed. I await the attaboys for the president from our local Republicans.

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:50:25 +0000

Cerebral Humor: "Government to Dispose of Radioactive Waste By Putting It In Our SILVERWARE" - HERE

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:41:07 +0000

Pre-election 2012, weren't there suggestions of closing Guantanamo? Well, fuhgettaboutit. "Obama Closes Office Working to Shut Down Gitmo", signing on to the belief that individuals can be held forever without due process. - HERE

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:02:37 +0000

If it’s any comfort, I don’t find this column too “cerebral” by a long shot.

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:00:37 +0000

Regarding our "freedoms": On March 8, 2012, President Obama signed into law the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. This law permits Secret Service agents to designate any place they wish as a place where free speech, association and petition of the government are prohibited. - HERE ********** Posted in the interests of a more reality based assessment of what we have become.

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:50:33 +0000

THE UNTOUCHABLES: HOW THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PROTECTED WALL STREET FROM PROSECUTIONS - "PBS' Frontline program on [January 22] broadcast a new one-hour report on one of the greatest and most shameful failings of the Obama administration: the lack of even a single arrest or prosecution of any senior Wall Street banker for the systemic fraud that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis: a crisis from which millions of people around the world are still suffering. What this program particularly demonstrated was that the Obama justice department, in particular the Chief of its Criminal Division, Lanny Breuer, never even tried to hold the high-level criminals accountable. What Obama justice officials did instead is exactly what they did in the face of high-level Bush era crimes of torture and warrantless eavesdropping: namely, acted to protect the most powerful factions in the society in the face of overwhelming evidence of serious criminality. Worst of all, Obama justice officials both shielded and feted these Wall Street oligarchs ... as they simultaneously prosecuted and imprisoned powerless Americans for far more trivial transgressions." - HERE ********** Personally, I don't give a damn what President Obama says. Look to what they do. Or don't do.

By: Jack Martin

Jack Martin — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 02:18:58 +0000

Voice of reason? Let’s consider: Reagan granted blanket amnesty in 1986 to approximately 8 million illegal immigrants. He did so against the cautions of some close advisors because they said it would send the wrong signal to prospective illegals and open the floodgates. It did. Now we have approximately 20 million illegals. If Obama was to have his way, he’d grant amnesty to all of them, this is not a secret. The next wave will be 50 million. We’ve had universal equality before the law since 1965 and no one is asking to repeal that. What we object to is “special treatment” for certain persona merely because they declare themselves to be somehow not 100 % mainstream. I’m left handed, living in a right handed world. I deal with it, and I do not expect or even want the government to intervene so that everything is “neutral.” Gun Violence? The two cities with the harshest gun restrictions in the country also have the highest rates of gun crimes. Furthermore, the national Academy of Sciences found NO correlation between gun restrictions and gun violence in their 2004 report. http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2004/12/17/naspanel/ Climate change? 1998 was the hottest year on record and we have, on average, been cooling ever since. And the ANTarctic sea ice is expanding at the fastest rate we have ever measured. Global Cooling (1970′s) Global Warming (1990′s) and Climate Change (2000′s) is the greatest economic and social hoax ever perpetrated on mankind. Now, to a greater or lesser degree, I can find some common ground on the discussions of green energy and infrastructure. As for Daley’s ridiculous assertion “Critics evidently think the president should only have talked about the national debt…” well, that is simply false. But he should have at least MENTIONED it, since it is now the greatest threat to our economic recovery. Daley reveals himself with each successive article to be more and more of a hard bitten Obamist, just as much in the tank for Obama as the alphabet news sources. I’m surprised Daley didn’t reveal that he got a “thrill up his leg” (ala Chris Matthews) when he heard Obama’s speech.

By: Terri Kline

Terri Kline — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:23:10 +0000

Thank you so much Mr. Daley for being the only voice of reason in todays edition of the Mountain Democrat.