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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Flintsteel
Published Letters: 10 Editor's Choice: 2
Your assessment of Nip/Tuck was completely accurate; you forgot to mention how gross and unneccessary the operating room scenes are.......
I was worried that I was never gonna relate to this column again. I don't watch most of the shows that HH mentions. I started watching 24 this year and its OK, but that's it. The plot device of a ticking digital clock has gone from being a trite contrivance to the entire show. Any show where all the action involves talking on cell phones or typing on computers has a limited amount of potential. That being said I still watch it.....So I actually wondered if the Shield was ever gonna come up. Right now, this show has my interest more than anything else on TV.
I wonder if the whole "this season isn't as good as the last" thing would be there if there was no break between seasons. The break allows for heightened expectations and inflated memories.
I am grateful for HH's column. She can make me read about shows I would never watch, which is pretty amazing, really
The Democrats have an opportunity now which came as more of a gift than an accomplishment. Unless they actually DO something or appear to be willing to do something they will garner the same disgust that has been heaped on the Republicans. Energy independence, health care reform, immigration, income disparity and campaign finance all loom as issues badly in need of work. This is where the Dems can cement their future. It's time for a new "New Deal". The baby boomers are concerned for their old age and Social Security isn't going to get it done. A dramatic restructuring of priorities from materialistic to humanistic would be an appropriate comeback strategy for the party of Roosevelt. A new approach to foreign policy is necessary. Negotiations with Iran and Syria would be a good start. Iraq is Bush's albatross, unless he is willing to change course let it stay that way........
The first, and arguably most important, skill a politician learns is how to count. Nothing else matters if you don't have the votes. Votes that get you elected, votes that get legislation passed. Sidney displays an impressive ability to count.
In olden days the argument was that you did what you had to get the votes to get yourself elected so you could do the right thing once you were in power. Now, getting elected so you can do what you have to do stay in office (suck up to lobbyists for campaign dollars) is the typical political strategy. Doing the right thing has been lost from the equation. I know this sounds sappy but voters would respond to leadership, a politician who putting leading first ahead of counting. Old school rule:do the right thing and the votes will take care of themselves. sigh.....
Look, Colin Powell is African American and he sold us all down the river in the name of some soldierly crap. Harriet Miers is a woman with approximately the same qualifications as Hillary. Condolezza Rice is a female African American. Alberto Gonzales is hispanic. They all four have sucked at their jobs as much or more than any white man (except George W. Bush, mebbe) and no one has brought up their race or gender. This is a close to equality as we are gonna get in this country.
So let's skip all this stuff and debate the issues. Hilary is the same old same old. Obama's message is thin and naive. It is time for a new "New Deal" and Edwards is talking about it, not that you could tell from the media coverage
I've been saying we needed a new "New Deal" for a while but I was speaking of expanding health care and retirement benefits for baby boomers. Regulation of financial markets was not the component I had hoped for......
Obama and Clinton might spend some time recalling McCain's connection to the S&L crisis.The idea that a Republican candidate would have any chance whatsoever is mind boggling.
IF every subprime loan that was in danger had been subsidized to stave off foreclosure would it have cost as much as the current approach is? Especially if you factor in falling home prices and the decimation of the home building market?
We (the US) have become a third world country. The weak dollar has reduced us to selling natural resources as our main export.
The financial system collapse, oil prices, the weak dollar, housing price deflation are all pretty serious but when you combine these things with the hole in the bucket that is the Iraq war you have a pretty serious shitstorm...........
If both McCain and Palin knew that Bristol was pregnant before Palin was selected as the VP candidate, then they both decided to turn her into the most famous pregnant teenager in America-on purpose.
In what universe is this a compassionate considered idea? Family values, my ass.
Dismiss her as an unworthy lightweight and move on. Every second we talk about Sarah Palin we are not talking about what a disaster the last eight years have been and how much better the next four can be.
I just can't shake this story out of my head. On every possible level it's just bizarre. I read that the grandmother (who is taking care of the six original kids while the 8mom is in the hospital) told her daughter that she would be gone when the new mother came home from the hospital but then I read that the kids and mother lived in the grandma's house.
It really seems like the doctors have some explaining to do.
I feel no need to pass any judgement on this woman; she will definitely be made aware of what she has done. I had three kids spread over eight years and that was demanding. sheesh......
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
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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