tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post4771302032380152596..comments2024-03-05T19:50:31.497-08:00Comments on World O' Crap: John Stossel: Give Me Liberty AND Give Me DeathScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-4465574606217593182012-05-19T18:08:42.367-07:002012-05-19T18:08:42.367-07:00So your rhetorical brilliance is exceeded only by ...So your rhetorical brilliance is exceeded only by your laziness? Ah, what might have been...Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-11930757559094306322012-05-19T17:35:32.145-07:002012-05-19T17:35:32.145-07:00As usual the liberals among us fail to understand ...As usual the liberals among us fail to understand what conservative positions are as evidenced by the insane hubris in the comments that oppose them. While there are a couple of mildly clever statements in the writers ranting it is little more than parroting typical liberal propaganda. I would offer a retort, but there is too much to detail to people who are obviously not open-minded enough to understand it.Jaimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13424107447579752022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-2947248040585163242012-05-18T23:40:27.323-07:002012-05-18T23:40:27.323-07:00Screw Cafe Press, go to StickerJunkie.com!Screw Cafe Press, go to StickerJunkie.com!Anntichrist S. Coulterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415084181464098543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-61673377903692696012012-05-16T18:37:05.290-07:002012-05-16T18:37:05.290-07:00"Liberty is what America is supposed to be ab..."Liberty is what America is supposed to be about. <br /><br />But defense contractors discovered there was more money in Death."<br /><br />OK, you HAVE to make that into a Cafe Press bumper sticker. I would TOTALLY buy one.StickIthttp://stickitblog.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-52314611415935116772012-05-15T19:23:37.878-07:002012-05-15T19:23:37.878-07:00I love you, too, D. --- but I haven't writte...I love you, too, D. --- but I haven't written code since BASIC, so I doubt that I'd be much help there.<br /><br />XOXOXOXAnntichrist S. Coulterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415084181464098543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-252353578407775762012-05-12T14:31:04.533-07:002012-05-12T14:31:04.533-07:00Annti, I love you, and I'm really hoping thing...Annti, I love you, and I'm really hoping things get better. Maybe you and Jay can collaborate on his ap idea. Personally, I'd like to see someone hold Stossel down and shave him and get him to admit he's just jealous of Geraldo Rivera.<br /><br />TBP: Well, shoulder belts are a pain if you have big boobs. They can constrict every time you breathe out, and you end up feeling like you're being hugged by an anaconda. A fat ass can cause similar problems. My solution is to wait till the car has stopped and release and rebelt myself. But, I have big boobs, surgery notwithstanding, and I've always worn a seatbelt, long before it became mandatory. <br /><br />I assume there's no similar upside for a guy like Stossel, who simply is a big boob and an asshole.<br /><br />HMDK, check out FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, not the horrible racist rag. They have a whole section on How John Stossel Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love The Invisible Hand. Or, google Stossel and "can of peas". <br /><br />He really is a tool. I suspect he litters, too.D. Sidhenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-83862446675196731622012-05-12T12:59:13.917-07:002012-05-12T12:59:13.917-07:00Stossel's got a good point about the recreatio...Stossel's got a good point about the recreational drugs. Obama's less than stellar on pot, so maybe it's time to throw in for the otherwise totally shit Republican for an ounce of relief, and...<br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2012/05/marijuana_mitt_romney_doesnt_like_your_questions_about_cannabis.php" title="mitt and his mouth in 2012" rel="nofollow">Oh.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQH8jDoLoV8" title="mitt and his mouth in 2007" rel="nofollow">Shit.</a><br /><br />There's really no reason for anybody to vote for Mutt, is there?Kip Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751319031224838771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-18019367796702559262012-05-12T08:50:41.929-07:002012-05-12T08:50:41.929-07:00As I commented over there, leaving aside the issue...As I commented over there, leaving aside the issue of whether or not seat belt use should be mandatory, what in the world is potential benefit that justifies the risk of not wearing a seat belt? We do risk/benefit analyses all the time, both consciously and unconsciously (is the benefit of going to work to earn a living, or going to the movie, or shopping, or out to dinner, worth the small but non-zero risk of being killed in a traffic accident on the way, would be one that we make unconsciously all the time, but we might make a more conscious analysis about going out in really bad weather). I don't see that anyone over there has articulated what such a benefit might be in the first place, let alone how said benefit outweighs the risk.TBPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-46890651799562722152012-05-12T00:48:09.924-07:002012-05-12T00:48:09.924-07:00Just noting Stossel quotes that eminently reliable...Just noting Stossel quotes that eminently reliable scholarly outfit, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. In fact it's a bunch of rightwing loons, founded by a member of the John Birch Society and dedicated to fighting "socialized medicine."Snarlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-14564696353763705512012-05-12T00:02:59.526-07:002012-05-12T00:02:59.526-07:00"That relieved auto companies of the need to ..."That relieved auto companies of the need to compete on seat belt safety and comfort. Drivers and passengers haven’t benefitted from improvements competitive carmakers might have made."<br /><br />That's a nice story, but here on the planet I live on (We natives call it "Urth") they tell a second story, one where auto companies take a good look at things, decide "seatbelt comfort and safety" are low on the list of things customers want, and direct their money towards flashier, non-safety improvements.<br /><br />It's always fascinating to me how, in politics, dogma can override the evidence of your own senses. Stossel surely must be familiar with at least one useful product that was either discontinued or never found investors in the first place.<br /><br />It's kind of like people who complain about bureaucrats being put in charge of our health care decisions, even though most of them must've dealt with health insurance.Christophernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-17544346007660602522012-05-11T22:45:46.971-07:002012-05-11T22:45:46.971-07:00Wrong post, I know, but I wanted y'all to see ...Wrong post, I know, but I wanted y'all to see this anyway:<br /><br />Fucking Google motherfuckers, murdering my comment. Perhaps my last night in NOLA ever, wish I'd met you sooner, Suttree, and thank all of y'all for sticking with me through the hardest times of my life. There was more but the "accidental" deletion of my comment has blown it away like my money and meds have been stolen from me, all whilst trusting a stupid mofo from JERSEY to help me find an apartment. I leave tomorrow, if I've got the gas money, to head up to the 9th sigmoid colon of HELL, aka the Fallen Uterus' Incest/Baby-Rape Ranch, where her no-neck rapist fucktard rules the roost. Sorry to be a bummer, yet again, but them's the breaks when you've been illegally fucked out of ALLEGEDLY FEDERALLY-MANDATED SUBSIDIZED HOUSING, and can't find SHIT-ALL ELSE that you can actually AFFORD. Tried a nice rooming house w/no elevator today, but she wanted $400/mo., which wouldn't let me keep paying for my storage unit or my truck insurance. How I'll get back on the 18th for the dr. appt. or the 26th for bullshit traffic court, I dunno, but I'll figure shit out.<br /><br />I'll always miss the New Orleans that we all lost, but it sure as hell ain't HERE no more, that's for damned sure. Racism rules the roost, along with sexism, breederism, and cult-freak fanaticism. "Community values," they call that shit. Suck a communal fart outta my ass.<br /><br />But most of all, the bestest Crappers of them all, I love y'all and I won't be disappearing from HERE, no matter what. And fuck Stossel sideways with his moustache in rusty hepatitis, the idiot fucktard.Anntichrist S. Coulterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415084181464098543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-75868735394455018902012-05-11T15:59:12.715-07:002012-05-11T15:59:12.715-07:00Hey, anyone remember this brave anti-seatbelt rebe...Hey, anyone remember <a href="http://www.snopes.com/autos/accident/seatbelt.asp" rel="nofollow">this brave anti-seatbelt rebel?</a>GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-15988154093765402272012-05-11T13:47:54.781-07:002012-05-11T13:47:54.781-07:00I concede that government action expanded seat bel...<i> I concede that government action expanded seat belt use faster than would have otherwise happened, but by interfering with the market, government also stifled innovation. That kills people.</i><br /><br />I'm working on an app that will murder John Stossel in his sleep. Is he in favor of it, or against it? I could sell millions of these apps...Or is he just some kind of statist pussy who'll sap innovation from the market?Jay B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-70647546226368733782012-05-11T11:08:14.403-07:002012-05-11T11:08:14.403-07:00Shorter Porn Stache Stossel: My tolerance for risk...Shorter Porn Stache Stossel: My tolerance for risk includes going head first through a windshield and spilling my brains on the pavement, but not paying a fine if I'm caught not wearing a seatbelt.<br /><br />He's not a poor man. You don't want to wear a fucking seatbelt, don't wear a fucking seatbelt. You can afford the fine, just consider it another risk, part of the thrill of defying the law. Fight the power!<br /><br />I get the impression that the first draft of everything Stossel's ever written was "X is for pussies".D. Sidhenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-66626981674082318732012-05-11T03:00:58.387-07:002012-05-11T03:00:58.387-07:00Shock Corridor, or The Snake Pit, or Harvey
Best....<i>Shock Corridor, or The Snake Pit, or Harvey</i><br /><br />Best. Triple. Ever.<br /><br />I can't imagine why anyone would complain about safety regulations that have been proven beyond doubt to prevent deaths unless they were just wanting attention. Geraldo Lite (tm) must be lonely lately. So lonely.Staciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05250238254417726987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-17759916364564635112012-05-11T02:37:34.181-07:002012-05-11T02:37:34.181-07:00@Joel, et al
I once was less than methodical abou...@Joel, et al<br /><br />I once was less than methodical about wearing a seat belt, until I had a head-on with a K-rail center divider pn a New Jersey highway. I hit the wall at nearly 50 miles per hour, broke the steering wheel off with my hands and left a nifty dome in my windshield.<br /><br />When I realized I had about three or four mph leeway before I ended up a red smear on a road, I started religiously wearing my seat belt.<br /><br />The Federal government made the passive restraint laws for auto companies but it was the states who required them in use, because the Feds would withhold highway funds. While that''s still a government rule and Stossell is making hay of it, his column is disingenuous on this pointCarlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-77623791883916511892012-05-10T23:17:10.261-07:002012-05-10T23:17:10.261-07:00Also, Stossel ignores the research conducted by pr...Also, Stossel ignores the research conducted by private insurance companies on this. Believe it or not, they have a commercial interest ingetting to the bottom of this. Google "risk homeostassis" and find out that the Peltzman Effect is a repeatedly-debunked urban legend.<br /><br />And Stossel is an LSOS.James R MacLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14721224895163793981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-73514216780405890622012-05-10T14:46:19.101-07:002012-05-10T14:46:19.101-07:00so the government saying the car companies had to ...so the government saying the car companies had to install seat belts stopped the car companies from inventing better seat belts??? That may be the most stupid thing I've read all week, and I just finished grading 100 undergraduate term papers! Johnny Boy here seems not to get the idea that the car companies STILL have the incentive to develop more comfortable, more effective, and, in fact, do. Or does he think the seat belts in his 2012 model car are just like the ones in his 1985 ride???Woodrowfannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-42858159140554378752012-05-10T11:05:55.002-07:002012-05-10T11:05:55.002-07:00"In a free country, it should be up to adult ..."In a free country, it should be up to adult individuals to make their own choices about risk." Yes, and clean up their bloodstain and strewn body parts after an accident -- oh, wait, the government does that !<br /><br />I recall that seatbelt laws were introduced in the 1980s because the Feds required passive restraints in cars. Instead of installing air bags the auto companies lobbied to get states to impose mandatory seat belt laws. Thus the mandatory seat belt laws are the product of free enterprise buying the state legislatures !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-31331325445355657612012-05-10T09:00:03.426-07:002012-05-10T09:00:03.426-07:00Hey, I say LET John Stossel drive without a seat b...Hey, I say LET John Stossel drive without a seat belt. One good accident--or maybe even a real hard stop--and another nutter gets the Darwin Award...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-39466030052519158502012-05-10T08:59:57.326-07:002012-05-10T08:59:57.326-07:00Treacher may not be old enough to remember WHY the...Treacher may not be old enough to remember WHY the law was enacted. Who paid for the horrible injuries caused by people smashing thru a windshield, or even "just" flying over the seats and down onto the floor? Public Hospitals, usually, since insurance was ALSO not mandatory.<br /><br />Even small fender-benders could cause serious injuries. Back in the 70's a friend & I were rear-ended "gently" (the car behind maybe going 10 mph) at a stop sign. She was flung forward into the steering wheel smashing her glasses and really banging up her face & torso. I was wearing the lap seat belt so I whipsawed forward and then back, nearly snapping my neck because the car owner had removed the ... head rests? because he thought they were "ugly". Boy was I happy when the shoulder seat belts came on the market. <br /><br />My brother bought an old Datsun Z, and one of his first actions was to install modern seat restraints.<br /><br />I also remember how common it was for house fires to kill families, because no smoke alarms! And everybody smoked cigarettes and then, apparently, fell asleep and dropped the cig onto their <i>highly flammable</i> sofa or mattress. Seems a story about such fires was on the evening news every night.<br /><br />Oh that Nanny-boo-boo state, mandating smoke alarms and fire-resistant furniture! Infringing on my right to burn down my house with kids & pets sleeping inside it!Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-15020827103747877582012-05-10T08:51:09.211-07:002012-05-10T08:51:09.211-07:00Oooh, Stossel won't do what the Nanny State te...Oooh, Stossel won't do what the Nanny State tells him, so there!<br />Aaaah, what a manly man (except for the pornstache).<br />Is that mandatory for all Big Boy wingers now?<br />SuezbooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-81992608763681755972012-05-10T08:35:05.243-07:002012-05-10T08:35:05.243-07:00Trust Jim Treacher to throw off the grading curve....<i>Trust Jim Treacher to throw off the grading curve.</i><br /><br />Lol!<br /><br />Baron Elmo! (<a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/05/rightbloggers_c_10.php" rel="nofollow">in the comments</a>):<br /><br /><i>I dreamed I saw Jim Treacher last night,<br />Alive as you and me,<br />Says I, "Say Jim, what brings you here?"<br />"Obama eats dogs," said he, <br />"Obama eats dogs," said he.</i><br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-58676900487523466492012-05-10T08:31:36.818-07:002012-05-10T08:31:36.818-07:00John Stossel, consumer advocate?
Yeah, and the sun...John Stossel, consumer advocate?<br />Yeah, and the sun is a snowball.<br />Fuck, insane libertarians are worse than insane republicans.HMDKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-1623614829169878742012-05-10T08:11:07.680-07:002012-05-10T08:11:07.680-07:00I too remember the pre seatbelt days. You didn'...I too remember the pre seatbelt days. You didn't have to be going fast to go through the windshield. At 50-60 mph you went through the windshield and kept going for a long long way. Toddlers would stand in the front seat and a quick stop sent THEM flying as well. And for drivers there was the ever present possibility of being impaled on the steering column.(Seen once, never forgotten.)<br />These days I always wear a seatbelt. Even my effing dog wears a safety harness. And John Stossel can take a long walk on a short pier. What a tool.Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11827236343578670299noreply@blogger.com