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TRIB TALK [Columbia Daily Tribune (MO)](Columbia Daily Tribune (MO) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Jim Robertson, managing editor "Patriotism in this country took a nose-dive as soon as these patriotic tea party people came along saying don't tread on us while we tread on you. The problem is there's too many morons like these tea party people whose only sense of pride is these corrupt Republicans they've got in there, and God knows they're not going to do nothing for nobody at any point. If our president would tell one of them the wind blows in one direction, they would say it blew in the opposite just to be hateful." "If Moses, when he went to Mount Ararat to get the Ten Commandments, had been a member of the today's tea party, we all would be praying to Exxon-Mobil Co." "With regard to Mona Charen's criticism of Stephen Hawking for not appearing at an Israeli academic conference: Apparently Mona Charen doesn't know that British academics in general -- like academics from many other countries -- have ceased all cooperation with Israeli academics because of what they consider to be the Israeli cruelty toward Palestinians. So it's nothing unusual about him not showing up. None of the British academics would have shown up." "I'd like to put a new spin on dealing with these military commanders who ignore the rape of our fighting service women. I'd like to bust them down to privates, put a freeze on any pensions they have coming, have their uniforms stripped of all rank and then fire them from the Army. But justice will never work as long as there's cronyism and as long as we've got these rotten commanders." "This tea party we've got is our American Al-Qaida. Since they took control of Congress, it's like a bunch of puppets on strings. Human rights in this country have really taken a nose dive. The corruption is rampant. It's really pitiful we have to have this kind of enemy to our country and to our Constitution itself. I believe their main goal is to attack our Constitution and our human rights. The evil of these American terrorists is really bad." "Just why are the pharmaceutical companies allowed to advertise on television when the common layperson knows nothing about pharmaceutical supplies and what a drug does to their body and what it doesn't? I think that should be left to the doctors." "Once again the city is putting way too much chlorine in the water. It's overwhelming when you turn the faucet on and it smells like straight Clorox. I live on the east side of town. Maybe that has something to do with it. Anyway, it's fun when I turn the faucet on and my eyes burn, and I can't hardly get my breath. And it's really fun bathing in that horrible smell." "A brief history on the 'Obama phone': It was a program originally started by George Bush the First that paid for landlines for poor people. George Bush the Second expanded the program to include cellphones for poor people. That is your 'Obama phone.' It's a 'Bush phone!' " Robertson replies: Actually, the idea of providing low-income Americans with subsidized phone service has roots in the Reagan administration after the breakup of AT&T in 1984. Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton expanded it to include cellphones or landlines and formalized it in the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Telecommunications companies pay for the service through an independent not-for-profit -- no tax money involved. "I believe there were several inconsistencies and inaccuracies from a Trib Talk caller regarding Benghazi. First, a high-ranking State Department official testified before Congress that a lack of funds had nothing to do with the denied request for additional security. She testified that there was not a shortage of money. The day after the attack, the president made a one-sentence statement saying terrorist attacks would not be tolerated. But then, for days - - even weeks -- later, the only thing he had to say about the incident was to talk about the YouTube video. And the question of not sending immediate military support has been hotly debated by military members, current and retired. At least one critic of the handling of the affair before, during and after has been demoted. And yes, people were rescued from Benghazi. Members of Congress, much less the American public, have not seen these people and heard their stories. I find it strange that in this day and age of constant news coverage we have not seen or heard from these people. We haven't seen them on '60 Minutes.' Three of them did appear with their attorneys to testify before Congress, but we haven't heard from the rest of them. That's weird." "I like how everybody is getting so excited about the government collecting data on us. Everybody is so worried about our privacy, but every day we tell our local grocery store when we check out what kind of toilet paper we bought or what kind of toothpaste we have. We don't worry about all the times we are asked online about our mother's maiden name and/or what groceries you buy and where you live and what your son's name is and what your local address is. I've decided that people just don't think very much." "You people who are insulted by low opinion, unintelligent, uneducated calls to Trib Talk just stop reading that part of the paper. Either that or admit it: You are addicted to Trib Talk. Otherwise you wouldn't know all the responses that are in it. That's just like smoking a marijuana joint, but you didn't inhale." If you are getting this message, it's because your browser is blocking cookies. For free access to this full story, please enable cookies in your web browser. 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