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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Utena H.
Published Letters: 390 Editor's Choice: 5
Now I wonder what Bush will think of privacy issues and wiretapping now.
Lance, you ride bicycles. You're not a good television award show host. Go back to riding bicycles please. As for the gay jokes at the expense of the very handsome Jake Gyllenhal and Brokeback Mountain. They just weren't funny. Even Dave Chappelle or even Carlos Mencia could have wrote better gay jokes that attempted to appeal to a supposed straight audience than this. And we know that they make them out of fun not making fun of an entire group. Go back to bicycles.
This is just another line of very embarrassing things that our president has done. Just like the first one where a reporter asked about the US role when the Isreal/Lebanon conflict was just beginning and he thought the reporter was going to ask about the pig being served for dinner. Just like when he said that he hopes Russia becomes like Iraq since he assumes Iraq is now a perfect democracy complete with freedom of the press. Where smartly replied Putin replied "I'd rather it not." Now this? Thinking he can freely touch the Prime Minister of Germany because she is woman? Blah. This president is becoming a joke throughout the world who starting to show more of his ignorance and stupidity in very public places. Laura Bush says that none of her husband's good news appears in papers anymore. That's because, Mrs. Bush, everything that your husband does isn't good news to begin with. And it's a all a joke...and not the good kind of joke either.
please do not include Mary Kay LeTourneau into that celebration. I do not place her in my feminist heroines list and don't think that a child molester deserves to even be considered to be put on that list. She is not a feminist hero and will most likely be remembered for still having sex and getting impregnated by an underaged/uneducated boy, when she should have known better. Feminists help other women, all she did was help herself. Just because she was an older woman having sex wih a younger man, doesn't mean that the act she did was a celebration of the subject matter.
The is clearly gulity of the crimes he committed and yet, he acts like the mugshot taken of him when hs was put in custody. All smiles and rainbows on the outside, but probably a big black hole in his soul. He said he was going to retire and now he wants to be put on the ballot again? He is calling judges to act in ways he clearly fought against years ago since he thought they would be against him and now he wants them be more "activist" and listen to the petitions being sent to him on his behalf. Damn, I wonder what exactly those petitions say since I ponder good in left in Mr. DeLay anyway. The moral of this story is that some people never learn. I only hope the people of Texas know different now.
With the conflict between Lebanon and Israel, there has been near zero news on Iraq on CNN, MSNBC and (of course) FOX. Thanks to Salon.com (whom is now becoming my main source of news online), I finally found out how Iraq is doing and as expected, it's not any better and looks like it's not getting any better any time soon. When war started between Lebanon and Isreal, I was wondering what was going to have to the American military in Iraq. Would the US get involved in that conflict as well? The answer looks to be no, but thanks to the Bush/Cheney doctorine of pre-emptive war, the near future doesn't look quite clear. With the Iraqi authorities giving up on trying to put the country back together, the US military definitely won't have good time trying to pick up the pieces...if there is any pieces left that is. The way things are going, the troops look to be staying until 2016 or establishing permanent bases there as well. It is very clear that Bush wants (or wanted to now) to let Iraq be his legacy since he thought he would get rid of a monster tyrant and free a country all under an administration under his name. That attempt definitely feels like a backfire and the backlash of his plans will probably be felt for many years by the people both in Iraq, the rest of the Middle East, and the militaries of those countries as well the U.S. The only people who look to benefit from this mistake are those who profit from war and weaspons. Oh, those people are having a field day now.
Oh Fox News! My #1 source of right wing propaganda and my favorite reality show (and almost on the same level as that stupid Fear Factor and all of those Real World clones).
Stephen Colbert is proving time and time again how comedians like Jon Stewart and himself are actually becoming better journalists than the actual journalists. Bravo Stephen! You definitely have a loyal fan in me. He also proved how stupid and mindless all of those morning shows are becoming. Clearly, if I want stupid humor, I should go to Good Morning America and the Today Show.
If this church ruled our country and really, really enforced bible word by word, kids would be slaughtered because they disagreed with their parents (which probably happens quite a lot). Perhaps because they follow the bible word by word, that little church could probably have a lot of nasty little secrets that goes against the rule of law and the constitution. And all in the name of religion as well. Slowly, we are getting closer to burning witches again.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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