Letters to the Editor
Cocktailhag
Published Letters: 578
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The Daily Oops.
[Read the article: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I guess the upside of this whole incident was how pathetically half-hearted it seemed; as if they don't even bother with quality anymore when inventing scary docudramas for us. We are now being ruled by "short-timer" Imperialists, tossing out a desultory threat or two while they work on their resumes. The only ones fooled, and only for a day or so, were the MSM, and even those doe-eyed innocents didn't stick with it for long.
The beauty in this is that it shows that basically nobody believes any of them: the admininstration, the military, or the MSM.
Unfortunately, the sad part is that no one can.
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The 64, 000 cricket question
[Read the article: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tomhere, you just asked the one question no righty can answer. Be prepared for an avalanche of misdirection and projection, or equally likely, the sound of crickets.
They're trying to think of something, though.
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It's in the mail....
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tomhere, you shouldn't taunt so. They must be a little humiliated, albeit not in the Gitmo sense, but still, my liberal heart bleeds.
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Fun House Mirror
[Read the article: The grave Iranian threat to world peace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]..."Iran is ruled by warmongering militants and religious fanatics who are a grave threat to world peace and threaten other nations." GG
Remember one neocon's famous words for Iran, "Get in line?" It is remarkable that our home-grown warmongers can utter such lines with a straight face.
They've lost two wars; is the third time really the charm? And are their followers so stupid as to fall for it again?
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What Next?
[Read the article: McCain spokesman John King of CNN]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now that it's plain that the Surge hasn't worked, and the Pentagon embarks on yet another ghastly, desperate round of air strikes, not unlike Nixon's deranged behavior when he knew Vietnam was lost, CNN is handing out gold stars to the "victors."
I guess the "victory" is that the can's been kicked a little further down the road, and ProWar and Shooter are showing more false bravado than usual because of it.
Fortunately, being a wingnut means never having to say you're sorry; you fought that war so zealously at your keyboard. And because the real war was a made for TV entertainment designed to cow the media and fool the bloodthirsty and stupid, we have two proud little symbols of its success, right here with us this morning.
The death toll rapidly approaches 4000, and nobody even cares about why, and Iraqi deaths are dismissed as "inflated" when they're mentioned at all. We are being told we've won, and McCain himself says another 10,000 years might be about right. If it's not the job of the media to ask about this, whose is it?
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A Big Mac of Stoopid
[Read the article: McCain spokesman John King of CNN]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McDonald's is the most "popular" eating establishment in the US. Does that mean the food is good?
Please remember, you're dealing with the reality based community here, and therefore at a distinct disadvantage.
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The Enemy of the Good
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Talesofunrest....
"Shoulds" are indeed a lost cause in many ways, but the badness of food and politics are not entirely unrelated; both are products of slothful giantism and the misdirecting hype and hogwash that sustain it.
The vaunted "market" invariably degenerates into lazy, uncompetitive, behemoths that shun innovation and quality in favor of relentless marketing and buying the political system.
The problem is not that about half of us like bad food and bad journalism, but that with ever fewer players in the market, why cater to the expensive, finicky half, when you can simply tell them to like it or lump it. Better yet, if the menu of all Britney in one column and all Big Mac on the other fails to win all hearts, imply that it's snobby, elitist, and probably un-American to want more.
The problem isn't "should," the problem is a failed political system that has fallen victim to corporate giantism and a society that suffers from the mediocrity, and indigestion, that results.
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And bad would be?
[Read the article: McCain spokesman John King of CNN]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sajwan... Not just good, but "very good." Pray, what would such a discerning palate consider bad? Dumpster juice?
It does explain a lot more than it intends to.
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Maverick Memories
[Read the article: McCain spokesman John King of CNN]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My grandmother bought one of the first Mavericks in the city in the Fall of 1969. It was advertised at $1995.00, and dammit, that was all she was going to pay. She scored herself a powder blue one with blackwalls and hubs, dark blue plaid (!) seats, and an interior in which painted sheet metal was a prominent feature. In place of carpet, it had this rubbery crap, which came in handy when it started leaking. I thinks she finagled an AM radio for no cost. They did give her a little embossed leather dashboard plaque with her name for her daring embrace of this cutting-edge new product.
As she lurched around town in second gear with the 3-speed on the column transmission whirring and jerking, honks would be answered with a vague, "I know him," and tickets with a subsequent tantrum at the police station. The child in the passenger seat sunk below the window sill.
I used to get a creepy feeling every time I saw one, years after her death. Thank God their inherent crappiness has finally cleansed the roads of those things.