alanMK wrote:

But most interesting....the camera pans back to show him standing on the corner, alone, the streets deserted. Perhaps the same corner where Omar stood his last stand, alone, the same streets deserted (albeit during the day). I wonder if this irony was intentional. Anyone notice this as well?

-- alanmk

[Read alanmk's other letters]Permalink Monday, March 10, 2008 03:24 AM

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I may well be wrong...but isn't the corner where Marlo has his little dust-up the same corner where Bodie was killed?

Worth checking to see. That would make a lot of sense, if it is.

would someone please explain to me why people keep giving Roland Emmerich millions of dollars to make such absolutely crappy movies? "The Day After tomorrow" had some great FX in it, but that was the sum total of interest.

I suppose his movies must make money for the producers...but, god, what awful crap.

they can't decide if they just like power, and integrity be damned...or if they actually want to do some good in the world.

The abnegation of responsibility in the House when it comes to impeachment of Cheney and Bush, is a perfect example of this problem. Pelosi *knows* they should both be impeached for their crimes. Everyone *around* her knows it too. But, in order to insure power for Pelosi and her pals... she took impeachment "off the table." One of the more cowardly and vile acts in modern political history.

As long as the Dems have this basic problem of integrity (something the GOP solved long ago by making it clear that they had none), the GOP may continue to beat them like a gong, unless voters are willing to take a chance on a party that likes to think it's only a little bit of a prostitute.

would you have wanted the McCain of today as President during the Cuban Missle Crisis?

Based on what I've read, I would not. Had he been President then, there's a very real chance we'd have had a major nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

As it was, we're damned lucky Kennedy was in the office, because he stayed cool..kept his eye on the ball. Whatever his faults, Kennedy deserves nothing but our undying gratitude for what he *didn't* do.

And that's the problem with McCain. He might have taken out those missles in Cuba...and that would have precipitated war. We can avoid any chance of that kind of thing by sending him packing.

tell me Glenn..how have you avoided getting on a no-fly list. I'm very curious about this. Seems like you wouldn't be able to fly anywhere, writing this stuff.

I mean it. We're headed straight to a police-state, because the aristocrats are getting distinctly nervous. They have been for a long time. I expect it'll get worse too, as will the consequences.

a dick. That seems clear enough. A disengenuous dick, to boot.

but that's not the interesting part of all this.

The interesting part is..I think there's a distinct possibility that Obama has the *potential* to be another Reagan...in this regard: he may be made of teflon.

All this gutter-spew may well slide off him like water off a duck...and simply seep back where it came from, to taint the spewers.

Now, I know it could go another way. I'm not some naif. But Obama is not stupid, and he's not innocent, and he's not unaware..at least based on what I've seen. Anyone who came up in Chicago politics knows exactly where the bread's buttered.

He's no Dukakis. And he's no Kerry, and he's no Gore. I think he could very well make it a very bad year for the GOP and it's crypto-fascist water-carriers.

So, I at least have hope that he is going to prove to be a deeply frustrating target to the RWA assholes out there. They *may* (I say may) be about to have a very rough ride, of their own making.

I can hope. Obama sez so, anyway

As a long-time wire-watcher and fan I am perplexed by something: wouldn't freamon and mcnulty have *known* that anything they acted on as a result of having a wire-tap without a warrant would be thrown out of court?

I mean, this is Prosecution 101: any fruit of a warrantless wiretap would be tainted, and unusable.

So, I'm puzzled: how did Freamon and McNulty figure ANY of this would be actionable? They don't have an un-tainted source of information...unless I missed something. Generally you develop a formally legal source for an investigation when you're in a situation like this, but I see nothing like that here.

Marlow and his crew will walk. Partlow might too, if the taint of the Marlow investigation seeps into the Partlow evidence. I agree with someone else who wrote about this that Simon's hobbesian view of institutions suggests that redemption is individual...there is no redemption for institutions.

hell. everyone in media understands the real issues here. They'd have to have an IQ lower than a rutabaga's not to.

Nope, Glenn, they ALL get it. But they don't want to offend all their right-wing friends, associates, bosses, employees.

Nearly the entire MSM has been infected with "don't-offend-Dick-Cheney-itis." That's the disease that makes you desperate to fawn at the seat of power for as long as possible.

You've convinced me. The MSM and it's lackies are nothing more than a bunch of fawning lap-dogs. And that's an insult to lap-dogs.

why don't the dems just buy Nader off? Offer him a plum job policy job in the new administration, in return for supporting the dem in November.

Offer him enough, something that will give him national exposure, and he might think seriously about it.

Surely both Obama and Clinton are masters of this kind of manipulation. The DNC should be thinking about it.

Time to take off the gloves, come up with the cash, and give the guy something that'll make him go away.