Letters to the Editor
Aycharaych
Published Letters: 2087 Editor's Choice: 3
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@ Paul Dirks..
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you're going to harangue Kitt over some unanswered question, at least have the courtesy to remind us what the question was so we can judge for ourselves who's being a jerk. Most of us are insufficiently interested to go back to old threads and without that context the default position doesn't look good for your side.
The issue is this, Kitty said I was wrong about many things on a previous thread.. Since then it has absolutely refused to elaborate on what it was that I was wrong about.
What I want to know is exactly what it is it thinks I'm wrong about.
I already explained this in a previous post not all that far downthread.
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@ Ondelette
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since you brought it up, can you please assuage my curiosity: is one of them hrh?
Nope, I was Jonathan Hoag for a while and something else before that. And then something else before that that even *I* can't remember. Too many boards, too many handles and waaaaay too many posts.
One long time poster here recognized my style and obsession and welcomed me but I can't remember who it was.
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@ aeschylus
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sometimes Nazi references are appropriate.
When speaking of Right Wing Authoritarians for instance.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. -Mark Twain
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@ bulletboy
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry but the failure of the German people to oust Nazis is part of the overall evil just as Democrat acquiescence here allows said evil to "flourish".
Actually I agree with you here.
"The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke
The reason that America is such a force for evil in the world now is power. No other nation on our planet has the power, both for good and for evil, that America has.
The other regimes you mention are indeed more evil in some ways than is the US, but they lack the power to project their evil to the extent that the US does.
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -George Orwell
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@ bulletboy
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry but that isn't true, our influence revolved around money and military. Should you doubt that, look at how many nations are gravitating to the orbit around China.
When was the last time China won a war against a major power?
China may have a powerful army but they entirely lack the ability to project their power.
As for money, a lot of that money came from the wasteful and profligate ways of America and Americans.
America is the land of conspicuous consumption and waste.. It will eventually lead in large measure to our downfall. In my basement shop I still have three nine foot mahogany veneered solid core office doors that I rescued from being thrown in the dumpster at a job I was working on. I have given away two more and two are now extremely solid workbenches, the legs of which are made from yet another mahogany veneer door.
There was nothing wrong at all with the doors, they were simply being thrown away as part of demolition of one office to make another.
Waste not, want not.. It's one of those truisms that we as a people have thrown by the wayside.
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@ sajwan
[Read the article: Romney and Huckabee's religious intolerance ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That atheists are descriminated against is despicable, I don't know if returning the favor in kind helps though.
Please explain how, in the USA, atheists discriminate against theists.
Attempting to rhetorically defend one's philosophy of life against constant vituperative attacks is hardly discrimination.
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@ L.W.M
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And the list does provide a better example of a few actual police states for Achey-Achey-Headachey. Prison population alone is a poor metric.
What percentage of the population would have to be in prison for you to consider the US a "police state"?
Would 25% do the trick for you?
If there is a better metric I'd love to hear what you might think it is.
The number of people in cages is a poor metric of a nation's repressive tendencies indeed.
"Straight away there is a problem with a society that locks up one in twelve of its workers. Can it be true that there is a criminal in every family group in America? The facts show that you have a relative or friend that has had a serious encounter with the law, if in fact it wasn’t you, yourself.."
- Robert Murray, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
If you do not see a mind bending irony in the country that prides itself on being "The Land of the Free" having the highest incarceration rate in the world then you are quite literally as brain dead as Terry Schiavo.
If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron." -Spider Robinson
I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free -Lee Greenwood
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L.W.M
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your authoritarian tendencies are starting to show.. I'll post what I please when I please.
I know why I give you a headache.. You can't answer my simple questions and everyone here is watching you bob and weave trying to evade undeniable truths.
For instance.. When I stated that, in my mind, the percentage of citizens locked in cages was the best metric of a police state, you claimed that there was a better metric.
And yet then when asked what that metric might be you refuse to answer. I know why that is too, you cannot think of a better metric.
You are as pellucidly transparent as intergalactic vacuum.
I'm an obstinate, hard headed, obsessive jerk and you have just made yourself a focus of my obsessive tendencies. I'm going to ask you what your "better metric" is until you either answer or go away.