Rev_Beezer wrote:Speaking of, one of my kids from youth group essentially said that at our meeting on Wednesday. I didn't know how to say what I wanted to say without belittling him in front of the class, especially because he's like 11 years old, but I really wanted to punch his dad in the face when he came to pick the kid up. "Hitler was misunderstood, Pastor Brian." "Uh, I don't think that's true, Conner, unless you think that it's okay to murder millions of people because of their religion and ethnicity, which, by the way, it's not."

"Oh."

I wanted to chokeslam him something fierce.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:Who in the hell is this idiot?

President Obama Commemorates the ‘Senseless’ Holocaust
By Eliana Johnson
January 28, 2013 1:18 P.M.

President Obama issued a statement yesterday to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. He noted that survivors who bore witness to “the horrors of the cattle cars, ghettos, and concentration camps have witnessed humanity at its very worst and know too well the pain of losing loved ones to senseless violence.” (We noted below how some in Europe chose to mark the day, which takes place each year on January 27, the day Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz.)

The idea that all violence is “senseless” violence is one that has taken deep root on the left; it’s also, unfortunately, one that poses a major impediment to understanding the world.

Nazism may have been an ideology to which the United States was — and to which the president is — implacably opposed, but it is hardly “senseless.” By the early 1930s, the Nazi party had hundreds of thousands of devoted members and repeatedly attracted a third of the votes in German elections; its political leaders campaigned on a platform comprising 25 non-senseless points, including the “unification of all Germans,” a demand for “land and territory for the sustenance of our people,” and an assertion that “no Jew can be a member of the race.” Suffice it to say, many sensible Germans were persuaded.

On September 12, 2012, President Obama also lamented the “the kind of senseless violence that took the lives” of four Americans in Benghazi. That, you may recall, is the day the president supposedly said the murders occurred as a result of a non-senseless terrorist attack carried out by jihadists.

This sanitized version of events, both past and present, is surely more comforting. It’s also truly senseless.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/339003/president-obama-commemorates-senseless-holocaust-eliana-johnson

I have to say, the comments are pretty awesome.

What you won’t find in the comments are responses to the proposal “designed by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski” for the federal government to “create super Wi-Fi networks across the nation.” There’s a reason for that: The proposal exists only in the rich imaginations of a handful of cyber-socialists, who just can’t come to terms with the fact that America’s largely market-based communications policies are working, and instead see broadband as the next battlefield in the progressive war against private ownership. There’s a lot we can argue with the Obama administration about—but so far, nationalizing the Internet doesn’t seem to be on the list.

Soren wrote:just my opinion, but being upset someone compared healthcare reform to the holocaust isn't a trivial thing. There's a reason a lot of people in here think you're a dick jh.

mozartpc27 wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:Who in the hell is this idiot?

President Obama Commemorates the ‘Senseless’ Holocaust
By Eliana Johnson
January 28, 2013 1:18 P.M.

President Obama issued a statement yesterday to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. He noted that survivors who bore witness to “the horrors of the cattle cars, ghettos, and concentration camps have witnessed humanity at its very worst and know too well the pain of losing loved ones to senseless violence.” (We noted below how some in Europe chose to mark the day, which takes place each year on January 27, the day Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz.)

The idea that all violence is “senseless” violence is one that has taken deep root on the left; it’s also, unfortunately, one that poses a major impediment to understanding the world.

Nazism may have been an ideology to which the United States was — and to which the president is — implacably opposed, but it is hardly “senseless.” By the early 1930s, the Nazi party had hundreds of thousands of devoted members and repeatedly attracted a third of the votes in German elections; its political leaders campaigned on a platform comprising 25 non-senseless points, including the “unification of all Germans,” a demand for “land and territory for the sustenance of our people,” and an assertion that “no Jew can be a member of the race.” Suffice it to say, many sensible Germans were persuaded.

On September 12, 2012, President Obama also lamented the “the kind of senseless violence that took the lives” of four Americans in Benghazi. That, you may recall, is the day the president supposedly said the murders occurred as a result of a non-senseless terrorist attack carried out by jihadists.

This sanitized version of events, both past and present, is surely more comforting. It’s also truly senseless.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/339003/president-obama-commemorates-senseless-holocaust-eliana-johnson

I have to say, the comments are pretty awesome.

It's like she started to make a point that I think I sorta get and is not wholly without merit, but then got lazy about explaining herself (and lazy in her thought process). The end product is remarkably poor writing.

Soren wrote:I don't have an issue with your political/economic view points. This is 'MURICA, god bless the fact that you disagree with me on almost everything and all that. I (and others) think you're an ass because you don't see the analogy as inherently abhorrent and feel compelled to defend it.

thephan wrote:Navy released its position on sequestration effects. Employee furloughs 22 days per year, elimination of contracts, and across the board reduction of flight operations to get to a position $3B lower then today's budget.

Luzinski's Gut wrote:I just got the Army's as well. Very similar approach.

thephan wrote:Navy released its position on sequestration effects. Employee furloughs 22 days per year, elimination of contracts, and across the board reduction of flight operations to get to a position $3B lower then today's budget.

thephan wrote:I had my fill of hearing how government employees are unnecessary over the weekend. I guess it is sold in some segments that these people are incompetent and very happy to take tax payer money... almost like they steal it rather then work for it. Where there is room for efficiencies and improvement, which will reduce workforce, the attitude that had been spoon feed by some source is that the percentage reduction should be unimaginably huge, like 75%!!!

thephan wrote:

Luzinski's Gut wrote:I just got the Army's as well. Very similar approach.

thephan wrote:Navy released its position on sequestration effects. Employee furloughs 22 days per year, elimination of contracts, and across the board reduction of flight operations to get to a position $3B lower then today's budget.

I think the Army's is a bit more drastic. Isn't it 20% furlough, which is 52 days a year on the bench for civilian employees. The maintenance deferrals and training reductions are troubling as well.