How can you unquestioningly accept this bullshit?

Our MILITARY problem is our deficit problem! Over half the government budget goes on this. The three biggest Federal Departments are "Defense", Veterans Affairs, and Homeland "Security". And Obama's committed us to war till 2019.

Where does our huge deficit of the last eight years come from? Not health care but a failed war in Iraq!

It astonishes and depresses me that progressives appear to have completely forgotten this fundamental fact. If we were to spend just a little less on the military, we could any sort of health care system we wanted.

Has no one in the Administration ever read a history book?

I did laugh out loud at that one!

You certainly don't have to believe in missiles hitting the Pentagon to believe that there are a lot of unanswered questions about 9/11.

The investigation started a year after 9/11. It was crippled by lack of money, lack of time, lack of power, and very public obstructionism by the Bush Administration. All the physical evidence had already been destroyed before it started (and I mean literally shipped to China).

My personal belief is that the true 9/11 story, if we could ever find it out, would be quite close to the "official" one. But no reasonable person could believe that the 9/11 Commission's investigation was even vaguely close to adequate.

You're in the middle of physical competition, full of adrenaline - a possibly bad call, suddenly you lose your temper and yell.

She lost the game because of it! The correct punishment, it could really happen to anyone, the world is full of honestly evil people, this is no big deal.

Amazing.

This is such a strong theme, you should try to rewrite this all week.

If you could come up with a three paragraph version of this in simplified English that was nearly as powerful, you could change the world with it.

You should put your tip jar out! I'd throw a few $$ for this...

This once great company, damaged by morons.

finally reaching out to the people who actually voted for him and supported him - nine months later, but better than nothing.

"Perhaps future attacks on the US will thereby be able to be prevented!"

One of the characteristics of the Republican party is its absolute cowardice. Torture, murder, no crime is so morally abhorrent that it shouldn't be committed on the off-chance that it might help America!

If we stopped torturing random people in foreign countries, many of whom have done nothing wrong, perhaps that would prevent further attacks.

...is that they are legally required to prevent people from doing all these bad things, which boil down to "having mortgages they cannot afford."

You are sick. You go to a licensed, reputable doctor, who tells you, "This is what you need." Most people don't - and can't - second-guess their doctor, someone who's trained for years to do this.

You need a mortgage. You go to a banker, who tells you, "This mortgage is what you need." But even more, the banker comes to you and aggressively solicits your mortgage business.

Now, I happen to think that individuals should question the words of their doctors and bankers a lot more aggressively. But the fact is that the bankers went through an orgy of lending, where they deliberately tried to recruit the old and stupid to accept loans that the bankers knew would never be repaid, and the bulk of the blame absolutely rests upon them.

Do you somehow have an infinite supply of oil somewhere you're going to whip out at an opportune moment?

There is a finite amount of oil. We will "run out" one day . And, assuming the oil company's estimates are accurate and there's no other disaster, most of us reading this will be alive to see that day.

If we're lucky, we'll make a reasonably smooth transition into some other source of energy - it's not yet clear what that source of energy would be, which is disconcerting - and if we're not, there will be major dislocations. No one is saying, "We'll all die," but there will be major changes unless we're very lucky.

There's health care, two wars, the restructuring of the banking system and the economy in general.

The Olympics is just another excuse to transfer money from the Treasury to businesses that suck on the public teat. Most cities that have the Olympics end up deep in debt.

It's just bread and circuses! There's this general idea in the US only that the role of the head of the country is as a morale booster and entertainment center, which is incredibly dumb.

I'm getting really sick of Obama and it's not even a year. (Disclosure: I'm fairly far to the "left".) This endless sucking up to "the people" on minor matters like this and screwing them over on major things like banking, health care and the like leaves a very bad taste in my mouth...

Generally one should present some sort of facts or reasoning when insulting someone else, particularly when that person is eminent and you are some anonymous Internet poster.

And I have to say I'm confused. Do you mean that Mr. Keillor is a Republican?

...but eventually we are all dead.

Let us hope TerreStar manages to pull it off, I'm rooting for them anyway.

...on corporate crap like the Olympics when the economy's in shambles and the US is fighting two wars (this progressive wants to know)?

It's YOUR team that killed thousands of them for nothing.

Your idea of "supporting the troops" is "sending them off to be killed for nothing". Our idea is "only risking the lives of our young men and women when we have no other alternative."

We've been demonstrating to try to save these soldiers from your madness for generations now. But your team just loves that killing so much...