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I mean if you have to be 35 to be President, that means her core supporters will have at least 3 grandchildren. Better build a new trailer wing on the White House.
We're sick of your Palin coverage.
Black Man given Worst Job in America.
So how can a fat lazy last generation inhabiting a soon to be unpeopled earth be a bad thing.
The Obama groupies have turned their own fantasies into newsworthy fact. Wait Wait! Al Gore will be named Co-President of the US. Maya Angelou is slated to be Minister of Poetic Information!
He's the guy who hates women and loves to see them slashed and stabbed to death in the nude, right?
Of course there's nothing which will ever change this afterglow. Unicorns and free weed forever.
I'm African American. And I'm white.
We're encroaching on a new period in the US where UV Bennington 5th year sophomores won't really have the luxury of staring out the window all day pining to be Virginia Woolf.
Dear Cary, should I get rid of my pets because I can't afford them anymore?
It's a false statement to say that air travel is neatly divided into pre 911 and after 911. Anyone who has flown through any of the large hubs in the US knows this. If a butterfly flapped its wings in Kuala Lampur then you know there was huge delay in O'Hare or DFW. 1 hour delays at LGA have always been slightly AHEAD of schedule. The delays from Heathrow to CDG and back have ALWAYS been longer than the flights.
The only difference is where you sit your fat ass down to wait. Now it's standing in line 25% undressed with 500 of your new best friends.
They weren't all that successful no matter how Adam Sorokin-like they appear to be.
So in 4 years, the GOP will charge out screaming that the last 4 years were exactly as they predicted in 2008. Doesn't matter that it's not true. People, especially voting people don't want true. They want bread and circuses. Of course the GOP will come back. They came back from Watergate.
I was expecting that after the invisible car they had to go with time travel, or teleportation. Nothing huge just 60 seconds into the past or future and maybe 100 yards teleportation at the most. But the new Bond is decidedly gadget light.
You have to let it wash over you like a mighty mighty stream.
In the new old tradition of having a woman Sec State, I would invest heavily in companies that make designer Hijabs. I can just picture Hillary Clinton as pointwoman in Obama's new openness with Iran.
Just get some infected blokes and fly them all over the world. The incubation periods for Tularemia or Brucellosis are sufficently long to allow for pandemic levels. Neither of them is remarkably fatal.
His fingerprints and those of his government are all over almost a hundred assassinations of political opponents, journalists, ex spies. He tried to poison the leader of Ukraine, he killed an ex spy in London with Polonium. More than 20 investigative journalists have been machine gunned in the last 2 years.
You'd still be whining about Evil Joe Matzah Lieberman.
Sorry lads.
Is everyone else's 'boring'. The Boston Globe practically called it shit.
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2008/11/14/action_reaction/
It might very well be shit. But if the NPRziods love it at least it will play well with the tweed jacket crowd.
I thought we still nominally had freedom of speech here, particularly those views you may find objectionable.
If they can vote they can run unless and until someone passes a law to the contrary. What if Stevens was convicted of carrying 3oz of weed in some other state? Should he still be banned from holding elected office?
Few people will remember or care what 911 was. Who remembers the beginning of WW2 or the Korean conflict or Tonkin Gulf? No one.
Hotter than ever. After her sex tape comes out on YouTube she'll be able to call the shots and be President in 2012.
MRE's & Mac Cheese served on cardboard in the rain?
It's not as if the US is structurally capable of accomplishing anything other than vague well wishing and improving the moods of inane bloggers. What do you actually think the US can do? End all wars, feed the poor, invent time travel, discover a free limitless non-polluting source of power, cure all disease?
Seriously, Africa will still be a cesspool, Russia will still try to recover their empire and super power status, Iran will get the bomb, South America will still be squabbling, China will still be doing whatever it is China does....and so on. All you can hope for is what? Pull out all the troops from Iraq and cut the damn Jews loose in Israel? Ok there's a plan. Leave the middle east and let it implode on its own. Otherwise nothing is going to change.
Venezuela will still make noise while it tries to be a regional powerhouse. Brazil and Argentina will still have the same economic and social woes. Colombia will still be fighting narco terrorism. Cuba will still be Cuba. The undeclared civil war in Northern Mexico will go along like it has. Western Europe is in recession. North Africa is quiet. Central Africa will still be one big slaughterhouse. AIDS will still run wild all over Africa. Russia will gobble up the entire Caucuses and call it liberation........
Gee I could go on but who cares? I don't. I'd like to see the US END, literally end the entire operations of the State Department, rollup the carpets and leave the entirety of the rest of the world. No troops no aid no bother. Just let them all be.