Letters to the Editor
shooter242
Published Letters: 1748
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Beaver, Beaver Cleaver, is that you?
[Read the article: Fred Thompson, "tough guy" and "folksy cultural conservative"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, boy. Your parents were quite f*ck@d-!p, weren't they?
Gee jojo, taking my description of the prototypical party inclinations and making it personal? Tsk.
My mommy and daddy were full human beings - they played both roles. When I had a boo-boo, if daddy was around, he'd put on a bandaid and kiss my forehead. If I acted like an ass and needed some straightening, my mommy didn't wait for daddy to come home. The entire dichotomy is so childishly juvenile, it really is wonderful! I got hugs and kisses from both, and ass-kickings from both. So now, I don't have to cry that daddy didn't love me, or that mommy turned me into a narcissistic twit.-- jojo++
I'm going to avoid the obvious joke and remark on what a perfect childhood you must have had. Storybook perfect in fact. Hmmmm. It's not that I don't believe you, but it seems out of the ordinary. Can we put you on record as being in favor of a two heterosexual parent family as the best possible situation? Something that we should encourage?
Do you think Democrats should be the Daddy party, or shall we just throw out the concept of guidance from our leaders and declare anarchy? I think that would make Timberman happy at least. -
Big daddy? No, big mommy.
[Read the article: Fred Thompson, "tough guy" and "folksy cultural conservative"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If your idea of heterosexuality is fantasies from '50s TV, maybe you were an orphan? There just have never existed that many families so screwed up that they fit those repressed S&M fantasies. The strong but distant father - the soft, nurturing mother. Are you completely delusional? --jojo++
Repressed S&M fantasies? About the Cleavers? Yikes!
OK, this has gone far enough. Listen up you supercilious twit...you people brought up the whole "Daddy" theme with the idea that Republicans are solely focused on being RWA's. If you don't like the idea of sterotypes or archetypes for that matter, don't talk about them. OTOH that would render most here speechless. Interestingly, Rosenberg denounces libertarianism as insufficiently mommy-like. Maybe you should be talking to him about your "issues".
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Left Wing Moron spams again.....
[Read the article: Fred Thompson, "tough guy" and "folksy cultural conservative"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even George will acknowledged recently that the free market IS a government program. It doesn't "spring up spontaneously, like crabgrass from suburban lawns". Or words to that effect.
I think he means "regulated" free markets. Barter is the default economic system of humans since time was written, that is to say a free market.
That said, I've noticed a marked increase of posts from you, with an increasing tone of denunciation, and attempts to regulate others with verbal belligerence. That pretty much makes you a Right-Wing Authoritarian, doesn't it? Heh.
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Did Glenn actually say something bad about Al Qaeda ?!?!?
[Read the article: Al-Qaida does it, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The reason that it is news that the U.S. tortures, but not news that Al Qaeda does, is because Al Qaeda is a barbaric and savage terrorist group which operates with no limits, whereas the U.S. is supposed to be something different than that. Isn't it amazing that one even needs to point that out?--Glenn
No, the amazing part is the admission that Al Qaeda is "a barbaric and savage terrorist group which operates with no limits."
Almost exclusively, it is the US that merits such language. How often do you bash Al Qaeda in the same terms you do Bush or the war? I suspect that the ratio is 1000:1 or more. The volume of criticism toward the US is so great that any thing about Islamists if actually written, is drowned out by the tsunami of vitriol about our efforts to combat Islamic fundamentalism and how fascistic we are in the process.
Krugman is famous for having gone years without one nice word toward Bush. That's not politics it's personal bigotry and prejudice. This blog has nearly the same record, as does a few others. In such a sea of personal hatred, it is amazing to see written that maybe, just perhaps, Al Qaeda is a bad group. I don't think you've said they are worse than Bush, but that is asking too much.
The real reason Al Qaeda's torture isn't mentioned here is because it would be acknowlegement of at least one reason for the war to continue. Not because it is obviously bad. Should anyone ask why Bush Bashers are occasionally despised as enemy sympathizers, it's because your hatred for Bush is demonstrably greater than hatred for terrorists. Like Queeg and the Strawberries, Bush is the real obsession, not terrorism. Bombings you can live with, but not Bush.
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Bless your heart....
[Read the article: Al-Qaida does it, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's a straw man (in my opinion) because you read it and you say, "What the hell does that have to do with Glenn's argument?" The answer, of course, is "nothing." We all know and understand that highlighting the hypocrisy or wrongdoings of the Bush administration does not equate to preferring "the terrorists." --tastycakes
OK, quick question...who do you think Glenn considers more threatening to the country, Bush or Al Qaeda?
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Hmmmmm.
[Read the article: Al-Qaida does it, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First point: It isn't a lack of information that allowed 9/11/2001 to happen, it was lack of action on information already available. -- Jonathan Hoag
It would be interesting to hear what info you thought was available that wasn't acted upon. I'm betting we won't agree, but that I'll be able to back up my assertions better than you will.
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Well gee. As Glenn might say, this sort of thing isn't news.
[Read the article: Al-Qaida does it, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some of you may wonder why this WMD story never made the national news. You would think a plot to place sodium cyanide bombs might be of interest to the MSM.
Ever since McVeigh, people knew that white militias kill people. So what?
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Well gee, that makes Rudi's personal life a mirror of Bill Clinton's. Surely that's a sorce of joy?
[Read the article: Al-Qaida does it, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The party of "family values", eh?
Maybe they value family so much because they have so many of them
-- Jonathan Hoag