Letters to the Editor
Aycharaych
Published Letters: 2103 Editor's Choice: 3
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@ Kitt
[Read the article: Our serious foreign policy geniuses strike again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I called you out on your statement to someone about 'no one knew the planes would be flying exclusively out of the NE'. I told you that I thought your whole premise was that Bush Knew!. You called that nitpicking.
Please show me anywhere that I claimed in any way that "Bush knew". That you cannot do so is why I called your comment nitpicking. In fact I never made any claims at all.. What I did was ask a simple question regarding why the Secret Service failed to react to an already established threat of attack from the air.
All one has to do is watch the video of the current resident in the classroom at Booker elementary that morning to know that something exceedingly strange was going on.. The man showed absolutely no reaction whatsoever to the news that America was under attack. Franklin Delano Roosevelt would have surged from that chair and demanded to know everything there was to know about the situation.
As for this being Glenn Greenwald's blog, I'm fully aware of that. I'm also fully aware that thread drift is a very common occurrence here. I was willing to let the matter drop until *you* brought it up again.
And in response to your apparent point that more than one person reads every single newspaper printed I'll just point out that if every newspaper is read by two people then 20% of the population of the US reads a newspaper every day.
Which works out to the 80% remaining ignorant that I originally stated. And the figure is that small only if every single newspaper carries the NIE story.
On most online forums (fora) the lurker/poster ratio is around 9 to 1.. That means a lot of people are watching you slinking away from a debate that you deliberately resurrected simply to offer me insult.
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Conspiracies..
[Read the article: Our serious foreign policy geniuses strike again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is there anyone here who thinks that the SCOTUS decision by the felonious five for Bush in Bush v Gore was not a form of conspiracy?
Does anyone truly believe that the felonious five never consulted with each other or with others outside SCOTUS on the matter of how they would vote in what Vincent Bugliosi called treason?
Does anyone believe that the coordinated series of lies, half truths and exaggerations concocted by the current administration to win support for their war with Iraq was not a form of conspiracy?
http://www.answers.com/topic/conspiracy?cat=biz-fin
conspiracy
(kən-spîr'ə-sē) pronunciation
n., pl. -cies.
1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
Were the actions of the felonious five or the White House Iraq Group "wrong"?
"I dissent" -Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Lurker/Poster ratio..
[Read the article: Our serious foreign policy geniuses strike again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Upon further reflection I have decided that due to the normally high level of discourse on this forum a lot of would be posters are discouraged from posting by fear of embarrassing themselves with poorly thought out or expressed posts.
I conclude therefore that the lurker/poster ratio here is more than likely considerably higher than the normal average of around 9 to 1.
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@ DJO
[Read the article: Our serious foreign policy geniuses strike again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of course the current resident fears knowledge, humans (and I use the term advisedly in his case) fear that which is unfamiliar.
As an aside, plutonium is not a naturally occurring substance and must be created in nuclear reactors. It is U235 which is separated by centrifuges, this is possible because the fissionable 235 isotope of uranium is very slightly lighter than the 238 isotope which does not support fission.
The Clancy book which details the construction of a nuclear weapon is "The Sum of All Fears", in which "terrorists" discover an Israeli nuclear weapon accidentally lost during the Yom Kippur war and use the plutonium core to construct a crude thermonuclear bomb which "fizzles" at the Superbowl. A fizzle being a thermonuclear weapon in which the fusion portion of the weapon fails to properly detonate.
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Moral Courage
[Read the article: Our serious foreign policy geniuses strike again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain
One aspect of moral courage, the almost total lack of which among those on the right I see derided constantly on this forum, is the ability to admit when one is in error.
Having been married for over three decades now I have had myriad opportunities to admit error. ;)
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@ Kitt
[Read the article: Our serious foreign policy geniuses strike again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The fact that you just make shit up is why you aren't worth dealing with. Still counting every child in America as a possible subscriber to the 'first one hundred' of the thousands of newspapers throughout the country in order to make your 80% claim hold up is so blatantly stupid and dishonest that it ends any possibility of you having any integrity to offer to a conversation.
I never mentioned children at all.. I took *your* *own* figures and simply extrapolated them.
Your words verbatim: Oh, and if you add up all 100 of those top newspapers by subscription it comes out to something like 32 million subscribers
Thirty two million subscribers times two readers for each paper makes sixty four million readers. Sixty four million divided by three hundred million equals twenty one point three percent. Close enough to twenty percent for a BOTE calculation.
Innumeracy is a huge problem in the US, the almost universal use of calculators to do even the most trivial math problems has lead to an extremely widespread inability to estimate magnitudes of scale.
The universal law of holes is that when you find yourself in one, stop digging. It's good advice that you should heed.
I have two local papers delivered to my home, they both are so far to the right that they make Orrin Hatch look like a flaming liberal and neither publishes national news on anything other than an extremely rare basis.
I note that other than Pedinska none of the regulars here have chimed in to help you out. Since piling on is a common behavior on this forum I have to conclude that there are few who agree with you.