Letters to the Editor
Aycharaych
Published Letters: 2087 Editor's Choice: 3
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PW
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Contrary to what Glenn's victimhood complex leads you all to believe, the vast majority of Americans are not false conciousness drones who'd warm to such people's ideology if only they weren't kept from being exposed to it by the MSM. I don't know anybody who doesn't know what Ron Paul thinks.
Ever wonder why companies run the same commercial time after time after time after time?
Because it takes a lot of repetition to get people to even notice something let alone remember it.
Pro War is repeated ad regurgitam, Anti War gets a tiny blurb every now and then.
You'll have to come up with a better argument than that.
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You have a name, Aycharaych, and at least 90% of your comments are horse shit.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't *tell* me I'm wrong.
*Show* me.
And the lurkers..
If you can.
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Nulla Sallus
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wanted to ask you all what you think you will say when
The Democratic candidate of your choice, or the one that gets elected and at least you're not convulsing in hatred over, and that person doesn't or can't or won't end the Iraq war during their first or only term?
Three words.
I was right.
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Cocktailhag
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just calls 'em like I sees 'em.
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The Debates..
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are not worthy of the name.
They are not debates but rather joint press conferences.
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Mona
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I work too.. often till the wee hours.
I do what Orange County Choppers do, albeit on a far smaller budget and with no arguments since I work alone. Unlike OCC I do everything except chrome..
In my shop I have an old laptop set up with Pandora.com as my jukebox and I go and check out the websites I'm interested in from time to time.
My laptop is my connection to the world, I don't watch TV or listen to the radio.
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Anonycoward..
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have to realize that you're dealing with a type of infantilism frequently found in the precincts of the nuthouse Left. Everything is always someone else's fault, and conspiracies abound.
LOL.. Everything was Jimmy Carter's fault until well after Reagan left office..
Everything is still Bill Clinton's fault.
Look at this graph of the national debt from 1950 to the present..
http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
Nixon and Ford did OK debt wise.. From Reagan on though, the Republicans have racked up debt like a drunken sailor using a stolen credit card. Which is pretty much what they are and what they have done.
Rather than just hurling insults, explain the slopes of this graph.
It will be a miserable existence for you when your children and grandchildren are pointing their fingers going: j'accuse.
I have very little truck with the feckless Democrats but the stench of offal from the Republican party would gag a maggot.
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Eating the seed corn
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]What agricultural societies have done sometimes in really severe winters after a bad harvest.
We don't even have the excuse of a bad harvest and we aren't eating the seed corn, we are burning it to kill and destroy the lives of people halfway around the world who have never offered us any harm.
It's even worse than that, we are borrowing seed corn from those who will be our enemies soon enough to burn in a jihad for which no one can name a real purpose beyond further enrichening those who already would make Croesus green with envy.
When the seed corn if finally all gone and our enemies call in their debts the architects of this insanity will escape to their villas and compounds defended by Blackwater and the rest of us will be left for the jackals and vultures to flense.
You who planned and executed this unspeakable horror and those who cheered it on had better hope that there really is no just God, for on judgment day He will ask you why you treated your fellow man in this manner and your answers will be sorely lacking.
"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
The irony here is that those who engineered this calamity claim to believe in a just and vengeful God.
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Anonymust
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Flattery will get you nowhere. ;-)
I was listening to U2, Bruce Cockburn and Steve Earle a little while ago.. And then I read some Stan Goff..
If I had a rocket launcher some sonofabitch would die..
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Anonycoward
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps you would like my address?
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In order to have MPD
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have to have an actual personality in the first place..
I suspect a Turing machine with a tangled tape myself.
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PW
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think you were talking about Mona in your last post.
If you read her previous posts you'll find that Mona is a good bit closer to a libertarian than your run of the mill lefty.
I'm strongly libertarian also and somewhat left of center on he economic/social justice scale.
If you haven't taken the Political Compass quiz I recommend it, by far the best political test I have seen in almost twenty years on teh intertubez.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/
I think self knowledge is a good thing, I'd be interested to find out where you stand on the PC, the Dalai Lama and I are just like that ll, something which surprised me because I'm about as spiritual as your average turnip.
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Shooter
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]This refers to chieftains watching from the sidelines, that is to say outside the borders of the conflict. Today, that is not allowed and any border transgressions will be met with global condemnation or even physical confrontation.
War is continuation of politics by other means. -von Clausewitz
The corollary of which is that politics is a continuation of war by other means.
There are other means of war than strictly force of arms.
Economics for instance.
A dollar put into a tank has no economic return, a dollar put into a bulldozer has economic return for at least a decade.
And so on and so on.