Letters to the Editor
Northwestwoods
Published Letters: 401 Editor's Choice: 1
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Shooter:
[Read the article: Chris Wallace: Probing, hard-nosed journalist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]'Since the thread is flagging, and I have to wait for a phone call...
If the Goverment is a car setting out to give every one a ride to work, then for 40 years the Republicans have been puncturing the tires, pouring sand in the gas tank, stealing the distributer cap, and,
This is a good reason for conservatives to vote Democrat this year. We need a convincing demonstration that one cannot tax the country into prosperity.'
Why? The Bush regime hasn't been demonstrative enough? I expect that there will plenty of taxes to go around for the next few generations of dems and cons alike to pay down that 2 trillion in long-term war costs. And the Bush 'tax cuts' surely equal tax hikes for the middle class, so it seems to be turning out...
Perhaps the economic disaster unfolding today could be Bill Clinton's doing.....
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@wiatrol
[Read the article: The WSJ editorial page lies about our surveillance laws]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A valid point....
'Pre 9/11
The dirty little secret that no one mentions is the fact that the Bush administration requested these extraordinary surveillance powers prior to 9/11.'
...and largely overlooked, even here. How could this program be justified as having been incepted under the justification of 'fightin' the turrists' when in fact, Bushco was and is known to have been grossly negligent in failing to heed or act on numerous warnings from all quarters, including their very own national terrorism chief, Richard Clarke, about imminent terrorist attacks resulting in 9/11, though they had their little telco arrangement underway BEFORE 9/11?
Very telling, that. This domestic spying program has always been about the 'Permanent Republican Majority' program of Karl Rove and not at all about security.
Nixon: 18 minutes of missing tape.
Bush: 10 million missing emails, wars of aggression under false pretenses, failure to protect the country from actual threats resulting in a national disaster, universal spying on Americans everywhere, war crimes, torture, loss of a major American city through negligence...a mere sampling of their transgressions.
Sadly, the world would have been better of with Nixon in office....
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@Elephantdung
[Read the article: Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We will address that shortly. After January 2009 you will hard-pressed to find any Repugs in power anywhere...
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But Shooter...
[Read the article: Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Putin's Torture Colonies
February 12, 2008; Page A16
"The protest began after OMON [riot police] had been brought to correctional colony No. 5 (Amur Oblast, Skovorodino Rayon, village Takhtamygda) and started massive beatings of the prisoners. People in camouflage and masks were beating with batons inmates taken outside undressed in the freezing cold. . . . As a protest, 39 prisoners immediately cut their veins open. http://tinyurl.com/yr2blt"
Was that the same Putin that Dubya was speaking of when he claimed he looked into his eyes and saw he had a good soul or some crap along those lines? Where was your hero, the Draft Dodger-in-Chief's judgement that day? Oh, and isn't head slapping (beatings), temperature extremes, isolation, stress positions, sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation and rape, attack dog intimidation, genital electrocution all part of the US torture program? I invite you to differentiate the two...
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Elephantitus:
[Read the article: Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Re: That creepy whining Senator from Connecticut that you Repugs so admire...
No paperwork required. He's yours.
Oh, and I guess McCain will be needing a running-mate, unless anyone believes his squirrel-eating redneck Baptist minister colleague has a chance at that or beating McCain to the nomination. Which he of course does not as the math clearly shows. But, hey. He didn't major in math, he majored in miracles. And we all know how the faith crowd rejects science unless it furthers their political agenda, right?
Since Huckster won't be the choice for running mate, perhaps NormPod might be up for it.....
I can't wait to see the nominee, Barack Obama's campaign ads complete with video of McCain singing, "bomb,bomb Iran, hehheh just kiddin'" and "Hell, I'd stay in Iraq for a hundred, no a thousand years" and "Janet Reno is Chelsea's father".
That should resonate with Americans.
The public can then see how immature and unqualified this fool is. I think the cons will have a little difficulty unearthing anything similar on Obama since he is an actual statesman as compared to a foul-mouthed, short-tempered, great-grandpa, statesman wanna-be.
Good luck with that.
BTW: How does it feel after that drunken 8 year crime spree to be going down for good?
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@-Proctology Warming
[Read the article: Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]An example
"Go Cheney yourself."
Ah - a frothing hater and case in point.
Do try to clean the dribble off your shoes when you're done.
There is that classic projection again....
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@Jkalos
[Read the article: Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I will never understand
all the invective that comes out in these kinds of forums. It's just flat out strange to me. I have heard the theory that it is because it is anonymous so people feel free to vent, but that doesn't make sense to me, because I would know, at least, what I was saying: I am not, after all, anonymous to myself. If someone calls me an idiot I simply would feel like I was an idiot if I replied in kind. There are some really smart folks posting here: why do you do it? Get into these exchanges of invective? Don't you find it a total waste of your time?
What is the point of all this back and forth invective? It is tedious to have to start to read it and then scroll down once I realize what it is. It's not worth reading these things if it is going to be so full of this venting or whatever it is like it is today. If you think someone is a troll then why not ignore them? And if you disagree with them, why not argue with them?"
It has been especially harsh today, its an emotional moment.
Though this has been like an unstoppable train that's been barreling in this direction for many weeks with a tragically predictable outcome, it is nonetheless a bitter pill.
So the residents and guests are taking it out on the trolls.... fair enough?