Letters to the Editor
L.W.M.
Published Letters: 5810 Editor's Choice: 5
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"Holly... Is my view of this matter impeded by my extra chromosome"
[Read the article: GOP presidential debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think that's fair to your extra chomosome or our lack of it. Perhaps we males are the ones with an occluded view. I don't think that's true either but it's uniquely western. I think you will find better explanations in EvPsych and eastern philosophies. This is why I will never vote Republican as long as I live. It's just too dangerous and unAmerican. No big sacrifice. I never have. None of the decent ones made it past the primaries and have all left the party, mostly long ago.
From TPM
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013970.php
A prosecutor from Washington state weighs in on today's Comey testimony ...
I've read TPM for years, and appreciate your work. I email you because I read something today about the firing of John McKay that finally put me over the edge.
Apparently during Comey's testimony today he said that one of the reasons McKay got himself in hot water with the DOJ heavyweights was because he was pushing for additional resources to investigate the murder of Tom Wales, who was an Assistant US Attorney in Seattle. Tom Wales was shot and killed in 2001. What nobody has talked about, and what you may not be aware of, is the fact that Tom Wales was extremely active in attempting to get tighter gun control laws passed here in Washington.
Think about that for a second. A pro-gun control federal prosecutor was shot and killed. John McKay was agitating for more resources to bring his killer to justice. That pissed off DOJ, who apparently thought that McKay should spend his time going after bogus voter fraud prosecutions rather than solve the murder of a guy who was in favor of gun control. If you don't think the fact that Tom Wales' political views weren't taken into consideration by the higher ups at DOJ when they decided to punish McKay for fighting to find his killer, you haven't been paying attention to the way these guys have operated for the last 6 years. Every single thing they do is about politics, and the political views of those they help or hurt.
The bottom line of this whole McKay firing could be summed up in this way: try to catch killers, you get fired. File BS charges of voter fraud, you keep your job.
It's a slap in the face to every prosecutor in the country. It's our job to seek justice for those that aren't able to seek it for themselves. None of us should give a damn what the political views are of the victims we try to protect. It's beyond reprehensible for them to punish McKay for doing this. But for this administration, it's par for the course.
One quick note: the point about Wales was actually brought up first by Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) while Watt was questioning Comey.
The rest of the reader's comments, I think, speak for themselves.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003692057_webmckay03m.html
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And please...
[Read the article: The right's explicit and candid rejection of "the rule of law"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you don't know the difference between a "holocaust denier" and an "historical revisionist," don't use terms you don't understand. That website you found so objectionable falls into the latter category, and just barely, because it employs a frequent "revisionist" assertion calling into question the generally accepted estimates of Jewish victims (and by way of statistical comparison) of the Holocaust and does so in an effort to obtain reparations from the British, not because it is necessarily anti-semitic. In fact, if either of you had read it carefully, or had the level of reading comprehension required to graduate beyond crayons and lollipops, you might have noticed that the site in question is actually "Zionist" or "Zionism" of a form, claiming as it does that proclaims the Boers as "the only White indigenous tribe in Southern Africa". But then both of you seem to have a Reader's Digest grasp of history so I doubt either of you could draw the comparison between those Boers or Afikaaner nationalists, The Zionists in Palestine and our own treatment of the indigenous population here.
I'm talking to Forbes Bork and Tommy Pain in the Ass, here.
For myself, I take the Biercian view of history and historians, that all history is "[a]n account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools" relayed to us as hearsay by those some may call "an historian" but might just as well be known as a "broad gauge gossip" while bearing in mind that the accepted version of history is most always that written by the victors.
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Cheers!
[Read the article: Have Bill Frist and right-wing bloggers plagiarized their new Iraq plan?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't make fun of Arne. Whenever he says "cheers" you can be sure it involves a drinking game.
As TBogg said, Oh.Dear.God.
http://tbogg.blogspot.com/2007/04/oh.html
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We are still trying to win hearts and minds...
[Read the article: Have Bill Frist and right-wing bloggers plagiarized their new Iraq plan?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The old fashioned way, with bombs and ground troops...
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A bit more about Patrick Ruffini...
[Read the article: Have Bill Frist and right-wing bloggers plagiarized their new Iraq plan?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Webmaster for the Bush/Cheney 04 campaign, From A Tiny Revolution
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/000724.html
Y'all remember they take their cheerleading more seriously than their football down in Texas, right?
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107861/