Letters to the Editor
Derbig Mooser
Published Letters: 1536
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A Shondah!
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you want to blog and give gratifying strokes to Glenn Greenwald then do that.
There, Electro, you got me. I don't write in to stroke Glenn for his excellent, incisive and accurate columns as often as I should. I could probably begin each letter with my appreciation for his work, and even if I wrote in every time you wrote something stupid, it wouldn't be enough.
It's a shame I haven't mentioned it. I've been taking Glenn for granted. Your mind, Electro, I just take for granite.
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Add Another Star to the Flag
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's a thought; imagine Americans with guns who help to prevent violence in America everyday.
Iraq has become the 52nd State! Hurray! Gosh, they'll need a State Flag, and Flower, and all that stuff. Can I write the State Song?
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You Ought to Hear What Your Mother Calls Me,
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Electro. Most of it is unitelligible moans, but she gets her point across. I can "roll my own", too, brudda. She rolls over on her own, of course.
Happy now, stupid?
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Sorry
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, all, I'm taunting the mentally ill. I should know better.
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Glad you Asked!
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Stay classy. What next?
Got a great story, it happened Thursday. I met two younger motorcyclists on the ferry, coming to the KittySap penninsula to ride on our uncrowded, twisty roads. One had a new "old" (retro-looking) triumph. A replica "Thruxton", for those who remember. The other had a genuine old-time Moto-Guzzi, a V-750. It was so old it had a "collector plate" (8480?).
So I asked them could I tag along, show them through town, which is all chopped up construction, and get them started on the good roads, which I knew where they were. I would peel off, I told them, after a few miles, I had things to do and couldn't ride all day.
Oh they let me come, but one could tell, from their glances and whispers, they were very suspicious of my motives. I mean, c'mon, old guy just begs to ride along with two young guys, deep into the woods? God alone knows what I wanted, eh?
So we get going. After I slowed down enough they could keep up, we were going along, and the Guzzi stops, and is dead!
So we are stuck at the side of the road. After waiting a decent interval (gave me a chance to get a smoke) I stepped in, got my glasses and a little halogen light, and traced circuits. The points were completely dead, pitted to death! neither of them had never so much as seen a set of points, let alone knew how to set them. I had to file these, they were dead, but I got the Guzzi going! Told them it would run, but not for very long, and got them back to the boat. Oh- I was the only one who had tools, too.
And the two guys thought maybe I wasn't quite so useless. (I had tripleA, too, if it came to that)
On that point, however, each of us must make up his or her own mind.
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Oh Really, O'reilly?
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some little prick
is deleting my posts. Shame on his trampling of my free speech.
Please, tell us how he is doing it Proximity? I don't want it to happen to anybody else? Who is doing it, and how?
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@Good Celery
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Say, Celery, did you read that "Dear John" story? Jesus, what a way to treat a guy. And what a guy he was. From Iowa.
I did what I could, but man, what can you do? He kept on asking me if he was doing the right thing by getting divorced!
I'm the wrong guy to ask that, I'm very pro-marriage.
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Tanks a Lot
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A Tank Scooter? Is that made by Caterpillar?
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@Proximity
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Funny how those post appear, disappear, and re-appear! What could possibly be causing that.
Look, I just got a phone call. You will have to figure it out on your own- I gotta go. Everyone have a nice evening and drive safely. Leave No Turn Unstoned!
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@-- Aycharaych
[Read the article: The media, the right and 1988: Endless deja vu]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Listen, my friend, don't you worry your Aychy-breaky heart about one thing: Your buddy Mooser is fighting the Drug War as hard as he can, every day!
I risk acute underdoses every day, and very often, the level of blood in my drugstream reaches dangerous levels.
But it doesn't stop me! I'm always ready to fire one up on the enemies of euphoria!
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Go Ask Alice
[Read the article: The media, the right and 1988: Endless deja vu]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And Aychy, baby, before you want to talk about legalising rafts of drugs, you really need to Google "toxic psychosis".
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The Invisible Candidate!
[Read the article: The media, the right and 1988: Endless deja vu]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The same dynamics that might win him the D nomination, will surely sink him in the general.
You don't think that Obama's long and very sucessful effort to register and mobilise new, Democratic voters, instead of going after those "swing voters" or "independents" (otherwise known as political morons; "low information" voters)
as the Democrats have been doing to their own undoing for so many years, will make a difference?
You might try reading about what Obama is actually doing, rather than making it up in your head. That way you may not be as surprised by stuff.
Oh, that's right, I forgot! Nothing surprises you! You're a regular political roue'!
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A Windsor Lose Proposition
[Read the article: The media, the right and 1988: Endless deja vu]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Aha, you have been here two weeks already and you still think a tie is a tie."
I know what you mean. The 2000 election could happen all over again.
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Eggs-Ackley
[Read the article: The media, the right and 1988: Endless deja vu]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have to laugh when I read comments like this. What ever made you think the Clinton's were representative of "The Left"? Even Obama is a moderate conservative. Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we've had since Eisenhower and even Milton Friedman thought Nixon was more of a "socialist" than Clinton. There is no "left" in America, except for maybe Bernie Sanders.
LWM
Yup, yup, and yup. That's right.