[vannrox]

....hum.

[Willie Green]

ping

[Smogger]

Funny, Newsweek ran a piece saying how all the Euro scientist are coming to America and Europe can't complete. Their article was very in depth and anecdotal like this piece.

[sauropod]

"My friend says it is like trying to research and do business in the 21st century in a culture that wants to live in the 19th, empires, bibles and all."

Oh the horrors!

The feral Republican Party? President AWOL? Smirking fratboy?

This twit that wrote the article sure convinces me! /s

[anniegetyourgun]

Waddabunchahooey.

[sauropod]

"It's hard to understate how little influence these senators have with the Bush White House and in the GOP-controlled Congress."

Maybe its because they are completly clueless political hacks?

Naah...

[sauropod]

You can e-mail him at bruce@brucegarrett.com

Please do.

[William Tell]

From the article: "... and a tolerance of diverse lifestyles."

The liberals are talking about tolerance for liberal lifestyles. And nothing else.

They are so intolerant of my lifestyle that they have outlawed rifles simply because they have a plastic handle on them. My refusal to register my rifles leaves me threatened with felony conviction.

Their ignorance knows no bounds. The sooner they leave the US, the better off we will be. Let them go to France in August.

Much of the economic success of Kalifornia has come about in spite of liberalism and not because of it. There is no shortage of liberals in Kalifornia today, yet the state is on the brink of ruin.

[NotQuiteCricket]

Wow. So, like, since I'm going to vote for Bush, I'm a racist? This author is soooooooooooo tolerant of my lifestyle. ~gag. No, really. I think what is fairly interesting, is that for the most part, a conservative is "do what you want to do, just don't shove it down my throat, and leave me alone." Where as the accepting (so called) liberal is "what are you doing? you can't do/think/act that way, you need to think/do/act MY way." So, who is really more tolerant?

I hate posting when I don't know if a thread is about to be pulled or not.

[LenS]

Using The Lord of the Rings production is not really a good example. First, it's temporary and has already cut back to minimal staff with the final DVD and the Extended Version of the final film. And I doubt that King Kong will have anywhere as big a production staff.

Second, it's the movie industry. The fact that Hollywood with it's high-priced unions and California anti-business climate has driven away much of the business is not news. Much of the industry has already gone to Canada (one of the few industries where Canada is still competitive) or overseas or just out of California to other states. CGI and other post-production work really can be done almost anywhere these days.

In fact, making a film in Hollywood can kill a film on both it's bottom line and in it's quality. Arnie (anticipating a run for governor) took a pay cut and moved T3's production back to Hollywood. This drove the cost up, yet when you watch the film you really don't see any really jaw-dropping effects as seen in LOTR or the Matrix sequels. The cost of the film isn't seen on the screen. But that's what union labor combined with overpaid celebrities gets you.

[Argus]

This is good for a laugh, but the author's just another blogger with more time on his hands than brains. Who cares?

[LenS]

Of course, to the Democrats, Hollywood is one of two industries that matter (trial lawyers being the other). *g*

[sergeantdave]

Since the socialists want to leave America, let's help them out, and show them how smart we are.

Now, Marxists are ecologically minded, so the best way to get rid of them would be to build a slide from mid-America - say Kansas - to Paris. Then we tell them to climb the slide, sit down and slide away to Fourth Reich Europe, all without using any energy. We could call it the "Socialist Slide to Hell."

Now, how tall would the slide need to be at the top?

How many miles long?

How many hours would the trip entail?

What would be the top speed on descent?

Should we build a trap door at mid-point and plant sharks?

[FITZ]

the greatest single project in recent cinematic history was internationally funded and crafted by the best filmmakers from around the world, but not in Hollywood...

The two examples in this article seem to be us losing Hollywood (good riddance) and us losing stem cell experimenters (another good riddance). Not really much brain drain if your talking about Hollywood.

[RightWingAtheist]

The sole reference this guy provides is Richard Florida-yet I distinctly remember a very long and well-researched rebuttal to Florida's thesis which was posted to the forum. Does anyone remember the title?

[Cicero]

The only firm fact I get from this article is that the writer and his leftist friends hate George W. Bush. So what else is new?

[Quix]

Censure for no barf bags provided.

Actually, the HYPORATS tend to live off the creativity of "fundamentalists," conservatives, etc. while blaming them for 101 ills the selfishness and greed of the HYPORATS have fostered.

It is wishful delusion contrary to statistical facts that more creativity, innovation and genius has arisen from the rebellious, God-hating, hedonistic, selfish, lazy, living-off others socialists who's major claim to fame is Olympic class whining.

Check out Jewishness and Nobel Prizes as well as other major inventiveness and scientific progress in your favorite search engine.

It only stands to reason, those walking closest to THE CREATOR tend to be the ones demonstrating the most creativity.

Besides all that . . . talk about stereotyping . . . I thought socialist commie liberal idiots were against stereotyping--oh, that's right--only when it serves their selfish or globalist tyranny goals and priorities.

Sigh.

/rant

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

For the same reason [that]

poor white racists will reliably vote into power politicians who they know will keep them poor and their children illiterate, so long as they share their racist views,

The "poor" (meaning, people whose material standard of living does not compare favorably to that enjoyed by Queen Victoria) have been notably willing to vote for Democrats whose bread is buttered by unions which are adamantly opposed to improving the management of schools which are notorious failures at educating poor kids, and poor black kids in particular.

the American right will cheerfully accept a banana republic America that lowers their standard of living year after year after year,

Since it is Democrats and not Republicans who are opposed to profit from success in business, it is hard to see a basis for that canard, either.

so long as their government keeps the faces of anyone with a shred of creativity and intellectual curiosity shoved firmly in the dirt.

It is not Republicans but PC enforcers in academia and in journalism who endeavor to accomplish that, with unconstitutional "hate speech" codes.

[spodefly]

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[BobS]

"You don't have to be a Democrat to recognize that the political polarization of America and GOP dominance of Washington are not necessarily good news for America's economic future."

And RATs won't bring us into international socialism and UN rule?

[GOP_1900AD]

"The contempt for art and artists among the reactionaries and fundamentalists that are now the aggregate bedrock of the feral republican party is well known." What a joke. A mini life story in one paragraph. I was raised in the Blue Zone (heck, still live here) by very Liberal parents. I went to the Marxist Univ of Calif at Santa Barbara (where they burned the bank). I was groomed to become one of these idiots who are now "fleeing oppression." In retrospect, I was never more oppressed than when I still felt juvenile urges to fit in with the hip Che Guevarraesque cliques. How liberating it was when I finally grew up. To those who would rather leave it than love it, I say "good riddance, don't let the door hit you in the a&$!" ;)