Letters to the Editor
karrsic
Published Letters: 466 Editor's Choice: 6
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Leahy email:
[Read the article: The art of neoconservative innuendo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Congress made a mistake of historical proportions when it suspended habeas rights a few years ago -- and unfortunately Senate Republicans made another mistake yesterday by mounting a filibuster and failing to allow us to restore it. The good news is we've picked up 8 more votes since the Senate voted to suspend habeas corpus last fall, but we still need 4 more Senators to reach a filibuster-proof 60 vote margin."
"I am disappointed that we did not succeed yesterday -- but we're not giving up, not by a long shot. Defending the Constitution is not always politically easy, especially in a time of war. But our nation is at its greatest when it stands up for the Constitution, during the best of times and the worst of times. That's why I believe in the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act, and why my colleagues and I are still working hard to pass it."
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re:Quoting myself
[Read the article: Columbia to be punished for hosting the new Hitler enemy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The part that was excised?
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The Machines
[Read the article: David Brooks and the deceitful tactics of the Beltway pundit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The objective of both the left and right Party Machines is to stay in power and increase influence. Pundits, MSM, et al serve the Machines. The Machines reward loyalty. Typically, Presidential nominations go to those who are "in-line," rather than those who best represent the constituency or who are truly electable.
Republican Senators and Representatives therefore ride upon Bush's conveyor belt regardless of whether or not they agree with him. Regardless of what their constituency wants. (Are Republicans truly in-favor of nation building? Are they truly in favor of torture?) Beltway Democrats are the same. (Was there really a Democratic alternative to Feinstein last election?)
Cataclysmic events, like war, can disrupt the machine. To stay in power, then, the Machines' cogs and wheels manipulate opinion and manufacture lies. Truth is a wrench.
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@Wabanatta_3
[Read the article: David Brooks and the deceitful tactics of the Beltway pundit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Isn't there a significant efficiency gain of managing emissions at the smokestack vs the tailpipe? In other words at a centralized point, i.e. a fossil-fuel burning utility vs at each automobile?
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does not bode well for the rest
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the reading comprehension here as represented by the offended and their supporters, is abysmal.
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just because there ain't a conspiracy
[Read the article: Douglas Schoen and Hillary's slimy pollsters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]don't mean they ain't all standing agin you.
The genetics of power brokers serve its survival. Clinton acts like she likes Fox. So maybe she does. She has a role to play. Spittle on the double chin on one side or in the graying beard of the other is no matter, long as they're foaming.
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FEAR
[Read the article: "Nazis" and "Hitler" -- the Right's casual, trivializing political insults]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Often the purpose of the label "Hitler" is to paint the followers as being passive enablers or duped supporters of the cause. Hussein is Hitler and those who don't want to kill him are enabling the pending genocide. Ditto Ahmadinejad. It's an emotionally powerful play on fear.
None of us wishes to forget the Holocaust. "Never again." We must be forever diligent in uncovering the next Hitler. An attack on leaders and organizations with no real similarity to the original clearly trivializes the intent and dilutes the diligence itself.
The fear is real, especially among the older generation and is ripe for exploitation.
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Does the right have a formula?
[Read the article: Quote of the Day No. 2]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The life of 1 US citizen = x Iraqis
does the formula change for Muslims, Arabs, Persians?
Is this noted somewhere?
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open closer
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can we open the closer discussion again? What a farce. For eight innings, big league managers choose pitchers "by the book." Pitch counts, lefty vs righty, etc. But not in the 9th. No the 9th inning goes to the Closer.
The Closer is a mysterious player. He can only pitch with a small lead and only in the last inning. He racks up dozens - nay, hundreds of saves with this remarkable ability. Lefty vs righty, righty vs lefty; over-pitched or under-pitched, tired, sick, depressed -- doesn't matter. He's the man to pitch for the final 3 outs of any close game.
Last night J. Thatcher was the Setup Man. The Setup Man sets up The Closer. Thatcher pitched 4 outs last night, striking out 3. Though the Setup Man set the Rockies down in order, blowing fast balls by them, he was unable to pitch the last inning. Nope. Couldn't do it.
On the 29th, in another clinching game for the Padres, 3 pitchers combined to pitch the 7th and 8th innings, allowing no runs, no hits, 1 walk and striking out 1. H. Bell could not pitch the 9th. Sucks for him.
The Closer is a marketing invention.
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@W.E.S.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, that wouldn't have worked very well. :-[
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Good God
[Read the article: Angry, hateful liberal bloggers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A cage was just opened somewhere...
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re: Obama Speaks
[Read the article: Adam Smith and the village's amusement at war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Come now, let's be disciplined about this. Think what you may about Obama, but abstaining from Kyl-Lieberman bill does not mean Obama "endorses war with Iran." Similarly, a plan to withdraw from Iraq at a pace you don't agree with hardly makes him "prowar."
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re:Boycotts and payments
[Read the article: Adam Smith and the village's amusement at war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What about paying the IRS 1$ a month? We could call it "financing the end of the war." Wouldn't that wreak havoc on the IRS? Also points out the lack of funding for the war.