Robert McIntosh

Blog: Prepare To Be Offended

Articles:

• Is this how the democrats see our flag? on 2009-10-29 11:42:00
• Medical students show ignorance on 2009-10-16 18:49:00
• American flag seen as offensive on 2009-10-14 14:02:00
• Drafting doctors into public health care on 2009-10-13 13:55:00
• Farmer's daughter shoots terrorist with terrorist's own AK47 on 2009-09-30 14:15:00
• Saudi Arabia OKs airspace for Israel attack on Iran on 2009-09-28 12:14:00
• Qaddafi may be on to something on 2009-09-23 12:18:00
• Poland calls Obama's missile defense announcement treason on 2009-09-18 15:21:00
• Democrat warns of "Big, Big Tax" on 2009-09-16 13:37:00
• Frank Trigg to return to octagon on 2009-09-16 12:50:00
• 45% of doctors would quit over public health care on 2009-09-15 21:19:00
• Susan Estrich makes conservatives case on health care on 2009-09-04 15:11:00
• Small business owner lets congresswoman have it on 2009-09-03 22:30:00
• Should software patents go away? on 2009-09-02 16:34:00
• More troubling indoctrination from the white house on 2009-09-02 13:05:00
• Screenshots of Firefox 4 released on 2009-09-02 12:01:00
• Secret white house health care meetings on 2009-07-22 17:31:00
• Cap and trade job killer on 2009-07-02 12:26:00
• Sharp rise in negative views on economy on 2009-06-22 12:18:00
• What Obama won't tell you about paying for health care on 2009-06-11 13:13:00

• You completely miss the point of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). First off, there are anti-ballistic missile measures out there, so not all warheads will even get out of the silos, let alone hit their target. Second, not all nukes are strategic ballistic missiles. Some are tactical and dropped by aircraft. Other are launched by submarines which can be sunk. So you have more to account for any conceivable loss of inventory, especially a surprise first strike. Third, there is the concept of overkill for a reason. Some people, like deranged dictators, don't understand that it only takes one hit to wipe his city off the map. Others would consider it an acceptable loss as scary as that sounds. So having "too many" is the point. If we were ever to be attacked by nuclear means, no matter how big the incoming attack, there will be enough surviving weapons to kill the enemy as well. No, not a pretty scenario, but it kept another world war from happening.

  for Liz Cheney's 3 Minute Destruction of Obama's Foreign Policy on 2009-12-28 15:58:19

• It is just a movie, let it go. I didn't see any anti-Americanism, what I saw was normal human behaviour, which is sad enough. The same could be said of the Romans vs. countless others, Spanish vs. Aztecs, Europeans vs. native Americans, etc. Besides, Cameron has been on this project for more than 10 years in some form or another. What the first link misses in the quote is "Cameron said yesterday that the theme was not the main point of Avatar, but added that Americans had a “moral responsibility” to understand the impact that their country’s recent military campaigns had had." To me that equates the same as "the glaciers are melting" with "man-made global warming". I went for two reasons. One, the story was decent enough, but mostly because it was a technological marvel as most Cameron movies are. I'm not defending any liberal views Cameron may have, but Sicko this isn't.

  for Avatar: the most expensive piece of anti-American propaganda ever made on 2009-12-28 14:45:00

• the US is proof that throwing money at education doesn't help. The mentality of "we own the skies" is a very dangerous one. Both Russia and China have very formidable fighters these days which they sell to everyone else. Our current best fighter aircraft was designed in the 60's. Even the F-117 stealth fighter (which really isn't a fighter at all) is late 70's technology.

  for The Invisible F-22 Raptor Will Kill 'Em All on 2009-11-21 17:58:17

• a duel on the Potomac? Now that would be good reality TV.

  for The Legislative Dogfights of 2009, and Why the Dems will Crash and Burn on 2009-11-11 13:18:03

• It still baffles me how people can believe this can be paid for when the government is going bankrupt on every other social program it has. Truly baffling.

  for Liberal Concedes Health Care Bill Will Create New Entitlement "Impossible to Rescind" on 2009-11-10 12:54:41

• I don't know if I would agree with that. Not every soldier needs to have a weapon with them at all times. While all military personnel are trained in firearms, not all use firearms for their basic everyday duties. Think clerical, medical, maintenance, etc. An Air Force installation is even lower. I would venture to say that 99.5% of the USAF does not have a firearm issued at any time in their career. Add to that, that the military probably doesn't even have enough weapons to issue to every soldier. Besides, there is a reason that there is security police/military police (name depends on which branch). That isn't to say that personnel shouldn't be allowed to carry firearms, but issuing every one is probably not practical. What I would like to know, and granted I haven't kept up with it too much, is why a regular police officer was the one who responded? Where were the MPs? Why was a civilian police offer allowed to have a firearm on a federal installation? I'm glad she was there, but something is wrong with that picture.

  for Stop the Silliness: Arm Our Soldiers and Marines on 2009-11-10 12:48:00

• how could we quote that image? Did he just burp? Did TOTUS just play another prank and "make" him say something stupid?

  for Is Obama an amiable dunce? on 2009-11-03 11:19:00

• Which brings the question, if conservatives make a big impact in 2010 and if Palin runs for 2012, would she run as a conservative or as a republican? My guess is she would run as a conservative.

  for Conservatives to challenge a dozen GOP candidates on 2009-11-03 11:16:58

• The sad quote there: "Despite the protests, most of the workers don't blame Chavez or his revolution, but individual managers of the state oil company."

  for After takeovers, Venezuela oil area languishes on 2009-10-31 21:26:32

• That is the way it should be. Oklahoma did something similar (not so much for gang control), and illegals fled for other states.

  for Virginia's crackdown on illegals pays big dividends on 2009-10-28 10:46:02

• yep, fingerprints for buying ammo. no buying over the internet, etc. just another way to hammer the good citizens.

  for Is California AB 962 a precursor to 'ammunition accountability' laws? on 2009-10-25 13:09:18

• What was it that HIllary said? "No crisis should be wasted?" not quite sure what they stand to gain by all this other than forcing vaccinations on people and looking like they are handling some national emergency. Kind of like people at work pretending to be busy so no one asks them what they are really doing.

  for More info on the health emergency 'extraordinary powers' on 2009-10-24 19:38:56

• There is one of these here in Tulsa and they are marketing it big time. Street legal golf carts.

  for The electric golf-cart loophole: It qualifies for O's 'electric vehicle' tax credit on 2009-10-22 13:27:35

• are you serious? Politicians start them and should set the end goal, but running them should be left to the people that know what they are doing, i.e. the military.

  for Kristol: Gates Blindsided by Rahm on Afghanistan on 2009-10-20 14:38:44

• I saw on the news this evening that he spent almost a quarter mil this summer alone. That's gotta hurt.

  for Rangel's legal fees top $1 million on 2009-10-16 21:33:37

• I saw it yesterday and it was quite good. It is absolutely amazing the number of people like her that are in the administration and no one in the MSM says a thing.

  for In case you mssied Glenn's show: The radical truth about Anita Dunn on 2009-10-16 15:42:33

• seems the article links to that same article :)

  for Is this true? Bill Ayers said he wrote Obama's book? on 2009-10-06 16:33:10

• about this time last year I came across this article that compared O's book to one of Ayer's book. I'm not literary genius, but the findings were very interesting.

  for Is this true? Bill Ayers said he wrote Obama's book? on 2009-10-06 16:30:53

• my wife is native american and it is a long running joke amongst many who are about their health care.

  for Video: Federal Health care on Indian Reservations on 2009-09-21 13:03:02

• I can't confirm, but I heard on the news that Hillary is ignoring calls from Poland and Czechoslovakia.

  for Poland calls Obama's missile defense announcement treason on 2009-09-18 17:58:05

• I'm not sure what dictionary you use, but I have this meaning: "A political regime, usually totalitarian, ideologically based on centralized government, government control of business, repression of criticism or opposition, a leader cult and exalting the state and/or religion above individual rights" Hmm. sounds much like what is happening now, doesn't it?

  for Rush: 'Fascism is Exactly what we are getting under Obama' on 2009-09-15 10:41:44

• Wow, that is big, and big hit to the dems (hopefully)

  for BREAKING: Census Bureau cans ACORN on 2009-09-11 18:54:31

• I didn't say I liked the SSN system, just that we have it. Personally I think social security is just a government run ponzi scheme. To piggy back on what Bill said, yes employers use insurance as a competitive measure. Now, they won't all drop insurance immediately, but over time they will. Which would you rather have, employers dropping employees as a cost cutting measure or insurance as a cost cutting measure? Not only will employers cut insurance to save costs, but the employees will slowly opt out as well for the same reason. Why pay a portion of an employer system when one can get it "for free"? The more that opt out, the more likely the employer will cut it as costs will rise with fewer employees and thus it makes sense to drop it completely. This same scenario happened last year in Hawaii on a smaller scale. They offered child insurance. People opted out of their own coverage for their children in exchange for the state run version. The verdict? The state canceled it because it cost too much. As for that common denominator you speak of, again you only have to look at other countries to see how bad that setup really is.

  for AP fact-checks the speech: Obama was pretty much lying through his teeth on 2009-09-10 12:25:00

• and of those 30 million, half can afford insurance but choose not to buy it. Which of course leaves 15 million or so uninsured that can't afford it, and that number is what the CBO says as well. A far cry from the "10's of millions" that the president said last night.

  for Obama's speech: What's good for the goose is apparently not good for the gander on 2009-09-10 10:17:38

• I don't think many will suggest that employers mandate that they cannot change insurance. That is silly. However, what the democrats don't realize or don't want to say, is that many employers will drop insurance altogether. Why shouldn't they if there is a public option? When that happens you will no longer have the coverage you once had. The president keeps saying you will be able to keep your doctor. That's nice, but you won't be able to keep your same coverage. We have a national identity system already, it is called the social security number. It doesn't take more government to prevent non-citizens from getting insurance they shouldn't be getting.

  for AP fact-checks the speech: Obama was pretty much lying through his teeth on 2009-09-10 10:12:41

• even if he did say it and meant it, he couldn't get it passed his party in congress.

  for Obama to tackle tort reform tonight on 2009-09-09 17:22:25

• reasons like that, along with high taxes, are why so many CA companies move to Nevada.

  for Small business owner lets congresswoman have it on 2009-09-04 16:08:02

• I like that :)

  for More troubling indoctrination from the white house on 2009-09-02 15:41:27

• On the surface it doesn't seem like that big of a deal. However, why is the president asking students for this? Doesn't he have more important things to do? Second, he refers to him, the president, instead of saying "write about how you would help the country" or something along those lines.

  for More troubling indoctrination from the white house on 2009-09-02 15:22:27

• Even BHO isn't that stupid. The riots would get so bad DC would probably get burned down.

  for Limbaugh and Beck open up a can of Whoop-Ass on Obama on 2009-08-27 12:14:57

• You who it is helping? Foreign auto makers. Most people are trading in their domestic cars for foreign ones. That will help the dealerships, but not detroit.

  for Cash for Clunkers puts the brakes on used car sales on 2009-08-24 13:50:40

• Saying the car is stupid is, well, stupid. The tesla car is a sports car and not an everyday driver, meant as small production run 'fun' car. Sure they are over priced, but every new technology is. I'm sure many thought the car was stupid when their horse and buggy were just fine. The volt has a 12 gallon fuel tank. The 40 miles on a charge was determined because most people only drive ~40 miles a day in the city, so therefore you would never hit the gas engine (which unlike other hybrids, is only a generator in the volt). So in theory you could have infinite MPG if you never went more than 40 miles in a day. The 230 MPG is a play on math, no doubt and GM is actually at odds with the EPA about how to rate the vehicle. I can understand that and no matter how it is officially rated it won't be correct. It all depends on driving habits. The EV1 was ahead of its time. The Volt is expensive for sure, but a lot has changed in technology since the EV1 and people are actually buying hybrid/electric cars these days.

  for GM Volt 230 MPG. But it takes 6 recharges to do it on 2009-08-12 12:09:15

• I've read that Hillary was that way with a lot of law enforcement types. Sheriffs, SS, etc.

  for Secret Service hated Jimmy Carter on 2009-08-06 18:00:38

• That depends on how much it is cut down. We have far more air and sea nukes, so if some of the 1600 land ones are cut down it won't be too big of a deal. Going too far though will threaten security because of the mutually assured destruction concept. It used to be only Russia, but today that also includes China.

  for O holds fire sale of US nuke defences in Moscow on 2009-07-08 15:18:23

• I'm ok with wind farms and such, There are large windfarms in western Oklahoma and Texas that I've seen. Pretty impressive. just needs more work than they are willing to tell, and they aren't as efficient as fuel powered plants either. Not by a long shot.

  for Winds shifting for Pickens' wind farm plan on 2009-07-07 17:09:32

• It is certainly working out that way, but you never know...

  for Cap and trade job killer on 2009-07-02 20:46:23

• And we appreciate that trackback!

  for Congressional Motors 2012 Pelosi Ad on 2009-06-12 22:47:31

• Not only that, but would an employer provide health insurance, which costs them a lot of money, when their employees can get 'free' insurance? Employers provide insurance for one primary reason, to get and retain employees. That incentive will be lost. Then as more people get on the free bandwagon the taxes/cost will skyrocket. I've pointed out before that it happened in Hawaii last summer. lasted all of six months. People dropped their own coverage (it was a childrens plan) and went for the free one. Bankrupt in six months.

  for Robbing health care to pay for more health care on 2009-06-05 13:22:58

• I don't see burning the flag as "speech". It is vandalism. And vandalism of our country at that. The "expressing myself" argument is BS too. If drive 100 mph I can't claim that I was expressing myself and call it free speech. If I go and throw rocks at all the windows of your house and say I was expressing myself and therefore protected as free speech, that wouldn't sit too well with you now would it?

  for Legislation to protect the American flag on 2009-05-07 12:40:27

• Thank goodness it isn't me. I hate being called Bob :)

  for Patriot Room Joins the Millionaires Club on 2009-05-05 19:38:06

• Anybody who says it is all luck is an amateur who can't get over losing all the time. So one guy defrauds his customers and they are all the same huh? What a crock of shit. The big sites go to a lot of trouble to protect their users. They know just how easy it is to jump ship to another site if anything goes wrong. That's the beauty of the free market. As for the states or federal, both are pissed because they can't find a good way to tax it and steal people's money from them. The only way the current law got passed was because it was tagged onto a national security bill.

  for Economic Liberty Should be our Issue on 2009-05-05 16:43:57

• LMAO! that is too good. Just shows what a bitch she probably is.

  for Video: If you need a laugh on 2009-05-04 22:56:37

• we'll end up having to do what the Europeans do now, buy private insurance so we can get the care we want, or when we want it. Isn't it ironic that the part that claims to be for the people, for the "little guy" are going to basically let the old die off instead of treating them, not allow companies to produce new medicines. Hey, wait, maybe that is how they plan to save Social Security, don't let the old live! Brilliant!

  for Obama: Terminal Patients May Be Denied Some Treatment Under Health Plan on 2009-05-01 01:00:06

• I agree. I rather miss Alex around here. Disagree as I may, at least he had a since of intelligence and honesty without all the blatant hate and hypocrisy that most libs seems to embrace.

  for 100 Days: Obama less popular than Nixon on 2009-04-28 19:28:30

• LMAO. now that will be an inside joke for some time...

  for 100 Days: Obama less popular than Nixon on 2009-04-28 19:26:43

• what a coward.

  for Specter bails on Republican party on 2009-04-28 12:38:47

• No, not really. stock cars touch and bump all the time. The thing to remember is that these cars are very, very sensitive to any disruptions at the speeds they run. A minor tap can send them into a spin pretty easily. About the only time a driver would get into trouble was if he intentionally rammed his car into another like you see in the movies. Bumping is a different thing and happens fairly often. What you see with these two guys is quite common. Moving that close together actually makes them both faster, then the guy behind tries to slingshot around the first guy. He was moving to get position and bumped the first guy causing the spin. I highly doubt it was intentional though.

  for Carl Edwards airborne - nasty crash on 2009-04-27 12:12:03

• That could be, but given the high number of democrats saying the government has too much power and money, I suspect it is more of a recent thing. Could be wrong though.

  for 60% of Americans think government has too much power on 2009-04-22 17:48:12

• Some people will trade fuel efficiency for other features. Such as a car that looks halfway decent. Or has a lot of room. Or has a bed in the bad with some towing power.

  for Obama Deals Death Blow to Auto Industry: States to Regulate Emissions and Fuel Efficiency on 2009-04-14 11:56:17

• To a certain extent I agree with both Clyde and Scott. Clyde is correct in that Obama didn't really do anything. He didn't come out and sound like the leader of a nation who's vessel was just taken over. It doesn't matter that the commanders on scene already had authority to do what was necessary. Obama did nothing. Scott is correct in that we shouldn't rip into Obama when does good. However in this case I think he was 'present'.

  for Pirates embarrassing Obama on 2009-04-13 18:27:12