Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 178
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-- tonia67
[Read the article: What I wouldn't do for my cat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You titled your comment on p. 53, "I can't stand my cat's" (which by the way doesn't require an apostrophe). It is an emotionally unhinged screed demonstrating something deeply disturbing about you.
To characterize that insane diatribe as 'simply agree(ing) with the article" is ludicrous.
In that post and every subsequent one, you've attributed arguments to me that I've never made, made observations about my personal life and behavior that you couldn't possibly have knowledge of, and claimed to know my opinions on subjects wholly unrelated to anything discussed here.
And most unsettling of all, after fabricating these items you use them as tools of argument as if they are real and factual. This goes beyond functional idiocy into the realm of psychosis.
Seek help.
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Two-class system
[Read the article: The WSJ editorial page lies about our surveillance laws]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bestowing retroactive telecom amnesty is nothing more than the latest step in creating a two-class legal system in America, where most citizens suffer grave penalties if they break the law, while our most politically powerful and well-connected actors are free to do so with impunity.
Another seriously alarming manifestation of a two-class system where private industry insiders receive special treatment and immunity from prosecution under certain circumstances in return for government cooperation is brought to light in Matthew Rothschild's piece in The Progressive;
http://www.alternet.org/story/76388/
I don't want to take this thread off topic but I think those of you who haven't already seen it, might want to check it out. Here's the opening paragraph:
Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does -- and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to "shoot to kill" in the event of martial law. InfraGard is "a child of the FBI," says Michael Hershman, the chairman of the advisory board of the InfraGard National Members Alliance and CEO of the Fairfax Group, an international consulting firm.
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"It hardly got a mention in the media" (Horton)
[Read the article: CNN's John Roberts helps out Mike McConnell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But it would have been hard to find a cable 'journalist' or a pundit - left or right - in the last week who didn't intone about the coming catastrophe for democracy if the Democratic primary were to be decided by "superdelegates". Some of these media people were nearly apoplectic about how "undemocratic" and "against the people's will" it would be for those kinds of "back room deals".
Some invoked "Florida 2000" to analogize the gravity of the possibility, although, strangely enough, I couldn't remember that the ones invoking it in retrospect as a great injustice had actually voiced that opinion in 2000.
So our media spent the week that Mr. Horton thinks may mark the "destruction of the grand design of our Constitution" outraged over a percieved injustice yet to happen which reminds them of a real injustice that, when it did happen, never really seemed to outrage them at all or enough.
Thank God those watch dogs are on alert for "back room deals".
By the way, Wolf Blitzer, who I remember responded on air after the 2000 debacle to an angry e-mailer by replying "Get over it", just a while ago introduced a segment on the FISA legislation by calling it "a way to help us spy on terrorists."
No need any longer to be at all artful with the propoganda, just structure it at about the level of banality George Bush himself would be comfortable with.
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To The Armchairians
[Read the article: The fun and excitement of civilization wars (fought from afar)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A perfect milieu you have found
Your militancy to expound,
As bloated pompous words resound
And phrases like “boots on the ground”.
How macho posturing you sound,
And that they’re said without chagrin
Shows who you are, Armchairian.
And what about the wars you missed,
Not moved by honor to enlist?
You showed up with your anal cyst
Or wearing pants in which you pissed,
Your future too good to resist;
Let others go – it’s plebeian
They’re not like you, Armchairian.
And all the notion that you’ve got
Of George S. Patton’s George c. Scott.
For you the line that’s best forgot;
Assuring soldiers that they’ll not
Be shamed one day to say their lot
Was shov’ling shit in Lousian’
Of you he spoke, Armchairian.
All know the word but few the name;
One wounded sixteen times again.
The word now issued with disdain,
The man himself though not to blame;
His words and actions both the same.
That’s sixteen wounds for brave Chauvin
And none for you, Armchairian.
The icon loves to celebrate
Past deeds – a Generation Great.
But when it’s time to use his weight,
To hold up what they held so straight;
He keeps his seat and fills his plate:
Reflects the glory – takes no stand;
A variant Armchairian.
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-- GoodCelery!
[Read the article: The fun and excitement of civilization wars (fought from afar)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Last time we shared the environs you were schooling me in horticulture (sort of). Elephant Dung melon's even better.
Do you have an Elephant Dung melon baller?
By the way, I sent you a greeting last time, did you get it?
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Good Celery!
[Read the article: The fun and excitement of civilization wars (fought from afar)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Take away the tin cans and give them copper to chew on.
And dolomite - but not the Rudy Ray Moore movie.
And cut back on protien.
You already know all this. I hope she gets better and that's the best job offer I've had in years.