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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
argonne
Published Letters: 37
Well Laura could you not think of Anything
clever, insightful, informative, stylish maybe
even inspirational with which to open?
Do you Have No insight or style to express?
This is the Don Imus school of writing --What?
--No racist or sexist slur? Just disgusting
pus? You could have raised your skirt with
a dirty little dirty sex anecdote, but
I think you know that you have a lot of 'stiff'
competition there.
What sickens me more than your choice of 'opener'
is that writers think that this is a valid
tactic to shake the reader into attention.
It is a cheap quick trick which is used in
place of an intelligent even brilliant
observation. Why not start with Fuck You
or something similar to avoid the pus,
the feces, and vomit, to get the attention
you want?
Does ANYONE expect the democrats to
oppose anything that Israel wants,
near a presidential election??
Israel wants the US to stay in Iraq.
Israel wants the US to bomb Iran.
Expect Lebanon III. Expect 500 more
houses in the west bank, expect a mega
depot of military hardware sent to Israel. expect more $$$ "aid". Expect US policy to be twisted into a shape preferred by Israel.
Cluster bombs? Phosphorus? Napalm?
Sure, why not, we did it before.
The vast majority of the US public who
want an end to the war can goFetch.
Argonne
Whatever happens in America in the next two years has
nothing to do with Rome. These speculations are, really,
a laymans parlour game (which on other occasions gave us
"The Rapture" and "The Iraqis will-greet-us with flowers")
historians don't mess with this stuff. Hitler was not funny,
nor was Stalin, nor is deathbed bankrupcy.
Regarding the question implied throughout : Que sera
domani ? (the parlour game hook), --If the US is run by
a bunch of jerks next year, we will be worse off than now.
If run by bigger jerks than now, we will be driven deeper
into the ditch. Period. Rome is irrelevant, except in one aspect:
".......policy prescriptions based on the Roman historian Livy's injunction hat: what makes a society strong is the well-being of its people -- basic justice......." (from the article)
Basic justice ? --Economic justice? Habeas Corpus? NOLA?
We burned all the safety nets, offshored everything but
big macs and Nascar, causing 9 social layers of Rustbelt from
C programming in SF, on down to widget stampers in
Ohio. Look ma, No Net: -and no extended benifits, and
no retraining allowance and no health care, and no....food.
So the mullas in Iran, and the preachers in the US
gathered up these grapes of wrath from the disposessed,
and made Jihad, and Armaggedon. No
Bolshevism or NationalSocialism, but the result is
the same; Deprivation, then Screwyou, we'll bring
it All down......
Livy's view...(above).....: War reparations during the
Depression destroyed Germany's economy and
middle class (as ours is being destroyed) Destroyed
to the point of insanity.. (which followed).
re 'que sera domani?':
--You take a stack of regular investment grade paper,
and mix it with some B and C stuff, --then with some real
stinkers: SubPrime mortgages, then SubSubPrime, ..then
..yeah, there is no bottom to this.....in the biz its called
toxic waste: you dont recycle this stuff, you call the environment
people. You keep on slicin' and dicin' and leveraging till,
like ratshit in peanut butter, no one will taste anything bad or
get reportably sick. Pension funds love it. There is 20-30 TRILLION
of it out there. Nobody knows the ingredients.
So it will collapse, and Herbert Hoover will say that the
economy is strong, and Franklin D will have to deal with
the grapes. Bigger jerks did not exist in '29.
--But It could save the Constitution.....It did for FDR/USA.
Argonne
(CaVaC?)
The lack of comment on the Content/subject doesnt
speak volumes; Not even 1.
We are not amused.
Argonne
oooh-wow; Mr Owen (and pro and an -tagonists), you made my day. -and have
improved the whole month. I like curry sauce with chutney on my eggs and, also prefer
women who can kick ass, (they seldom do -why damage That infrastructureÉ ). We could compare notes over 47 beer, -but I wont Say that, -it could dilute my credibility.
Folks, Gary O has a point, which I have read in several otherwise cautiously
pessimistic columns: Where Is The OutrageÉÉ. (I ask myself this several times a
day, in disbelief at what I see as an untypical passivity). Will we discuss political
military and historic -points- foreverÉÉ No, we wont -we will express our outrage
in a clear and simple expressions of rage that will sweep through the halls of
power like an endless Arctic storm, trembling the columns, the minions, the usurpers.
Or will weÉÉ History has a timetable for Fateful events, and if late, we miss the
opportunities and live under the whim of others.
Gary has a point. The fact that his point was not considered I find very depressing
---readers seem to want outrage expressed in polite, delicate,sociable terms,
and only against Their chosen targets, with no collateral damage.
Is it so much to ask citizens to lawfully express their outrage To the Limit of the
LawÉ. We are nowhere near those limits. 800,000 protestersÉÉ Where is
the OutrageÉÉ. LeCastor, tell us about Moscow 1989. We need it.
(----BROKEN KEYBOARD é = a question mark :-))
Argonne
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
