Letters to the Editor
Cocktailhag
Published Letters: 483
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@shooter242
[Read the article: A nation of Rich Lowrys]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All of us know that worthwhile things require ugly work, and accept that it must be done. But the question is whether the thing is worthwhile enough to kill enormous numbers of other human beings to obtain it. Even those of you who discount the value or number of Iraqi deaths cannot help but notice that nearly 4000 thousand Americans have been slaughtered as well. To my mind, an imagined, possible depression would be preferable to continuing, ad infinitum, to multiply this crime, which is what you seem to want.
Those of us you would gleefully call "traitor" are "prepared" for it to the point of being bored. We've been hearing it from your kind for six years.
Check your O'Reilly ticker tape machine for the next memo.
"Don't like it. Too bad."
Who writes your material? It kind of makes you sound like a wife beater.
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a point of law
[Read the article: Joe Klein's defense of warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]During the Watergate hearings, John Ehrlichman was asked whether the right to be secure in ones papers and possessions meant anything to him. He replied, dismissively, "Well, that has considerably eroded over the years."
His questioner replied, "Back where I come from, it's still considered an important of law."
Applause ensued, and Ehrichman was ever after considered a sneaky authoritarian, and went to jail, along with many others.
Those were the days.
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@ Retired Military Patriot
[Read the article: Joe Klein's defense of warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have it exactly right. This has been an ongoing (oh, how I now hate that word...) project since Nixon. The massive corruption, the secret corporate money to favored corporations, threats and outright government action against those who would dare to differ, it's all part of the same steaming pile.
I think it stems from the fact that if they were to openly say what they wanted to do, all but the 30%ers would summarily toss them out, and they know this. Bad intentions require secrecy and intimidation to carry them out. Although they seem self-assured and arrogant, what they really are is afraid. Afraid to show themselves for what they are.
I'm not a psychologist, but this fear and self-loathing is at the root of it all.
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@ retired Military Patriot
[Read the article: Joe Klein's defense of warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're right. But as with an abusive personality, they only see their own faults in others. That's one reason that I am usually able to tell what they're up to by listening to what they accuse others of doing. How many times have you heard a Right Thinking American say that liberals think they're better than everyone, are only interested in power, or, most ludicrously, they're in it for the money. (Like those hippie scientist trolling for lush research grants....)
I can't help but think that such disordered thinking is a product of deep insecurity, however deeply submerged.
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Freedom
[Read the article: John Edwards' dark leftist America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We really have fallen down the rabbit hole when someone like O'Rielly can cite basic American constitutional principles as though they were a bad thing.
Is it really possible that his audience, doddering and gangrenous as they are, consider such principles "far left?"
Or that Fox News, our very own Pravda, would know what far left even is, unless it tossed them in a Gulag?
Thanks, Glenn, for making such a disturbing subject funny.
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Miss Manners
[Read the article: John Edwards' dark leftist America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now Shooter is the manners police. That's rich. Here he is, the only place he has left that remains unmentioned in his various restraining orders, where he responds to each rebuke with such trenchant retorts as "too bad" and "get off your fat ass," critiquing others' behavior like he's Emily f*cking Post.
Honestly.
Shooter, has it ever occurred to you that an ideological opposite such as yourself would not be allowed, for a second, on the sites or programs of your side?
It's nice you found us all, for you anyway, but please don't expect anyone to take your "arguments" seriously when they're tired, angry, and self-discrediting.
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With friends like these....
[Read the article: The conservative vision of America, by National Review]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's funny how this concept of "enemies" is so absurdly stretched, that listening to these cretins, you would think we were within seconds of being overrun. Or, as one commenter revealingly put it, "begging for mercy."
Do they understand simple arithmetic?
The terrorists would have been the least of our worries, had the Bushies not fulfilled their wildest dreams, and splattered our image of invincibility accross the sands of Mesopotamia.
Also, it helps if one maybe puts in a few hours of work, after reading that "Bin Laden determined to strike inside the US."
It all smacks of self-justification, that dictatorship is their dream, a FoxWorld where never is heard a dissenting word. Their worldview can't stand on its own, so repression is required. And if the terrists disappeared tomorrow, they'd invent something new so fast your head would swim.
After, we've invested a lot in those prison camps.
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@anonymous
[Read the article: The conservative vision of America, by National Review]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, that was fast. As soon as I mentioned the possible need for a replacement, in the unlikely event that "terrists" stopped working their magic, anonymous provided it.
And lo and behold, the new islamofascists are even the right color.
The Immigrants are coming!
Don't be fooled, that leaf blower is really a SAM, and that drywall mud has anthrax.
Jeez.
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Et tu, Shoote?
[Read the article: Nepotistic tough guys and their coddling parents]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shooter. Say it isn't so. I agree with you. I was a born and raised Republican, and I always thought war was bad at least in part because it was too expensive. I really thought the peace dividend might enable us not to have to pay for hubristic BS all over the world.
Of course, I became a liberal when I began to realize that conservatives had been wrong about the revolution, slavery, child labor, food and drug purity, monopolies, WW II, civil rights, women's rights, etc, and didn't want to back history's dodo birds.
So I took my chances.
But I respect conservative ideas.
I just don't like totalitarianism.