Letters to the Editor
Tone in DC
Published Letters: 135
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The rivers
[Read the article: The ongoing exclusion of war opponents from the Iraq debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I keep mentioning that PBS American Masters series on Pete Seeger... because things keep reminding me of it, this time WT's post on Symbology and TiDC's response re: the Potomac.
So, I did a little searching to see if I could find any pieces of it, and there is actually a preview available, and it does show a little bit about the Hudson River, where he has lived for so many years, and the enormous lengths he went to in order to get it cleaned up. He promised his daughter, for one thing, that she'd be able to swim in it as an adult. And, then he convinced a bunch of folks to spend a year or two building a sloop so they could sail up and down the river. And they did that. Lots more music.
The preview also includes one of his former students crediting the FBI with the resurgence of American folk music. One of my favorite anecdotes.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/seeger_p.html
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Thanks for the heads up. I'll look for that.
Union Carbide and other companies have been dumping industrial waste into the Potomac since FDR's time, I figure. And very few people have shown any inclination to do anything about the state of the river. Very few species of fish are found in its waters. There is a preponderance of catfish, because they are bottomfeeders and hardy fish.
Seeger is a good interview, I've heard him on the local Pacifica station on occasion.
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The Rose interviews
[Read the article: What can and cannot be spoken on television]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with other comments, Charlie interrupts too often, and sometimes asks stupid questions.
Amy Goodman is better, as are Ted Koppel and Tavis Smiley.
At the Washington Post site, there's a commenter who shamelessly parrots neo-con talking points: BobMoses. Several of us Post readers have taken to mocking him unmercifully. Very few attempts to engage his talking points are made. The casting pearls before swine argument isn't particularly apropos regarding BobM; it's clearly an insult to pigs everywhere.
The commenters here who want to correct, inform or otherwise edify neo-con apologists who post the usual (insert derogatory description of said rhetoric here, per styles similar to Sadly, No! or other blogs), more power to you! You have more patience than me.
Glenn, great post.
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Outrage threshold once again exceeded
[Read the article: John Yoo's war crimes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I saw the Yoo story at the Washington Post site a few minutes ago.
I can't believe the shit this people have pulled (and keep pulling) since 2001. I just cannot. And after they get caught, red handed, they skate.
Like Libby. Like Gonzales. Miers and Bolten still have not testified before Congress (or anywhere else). At least during Watergate, some of Nixon's people actually went to jail.
Glenn, great post.
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The whorehouse must be near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
[Read the article: John Yoo's war crimes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And the tone in DC best not be that the elected members continue to sit back and be idle.
No. The situation will get better? No. It won't.
The inner beltway in DC can't just sit and sing.
The Capital Hill membership thinks to sing lyrics,
a person will burn away pork-loin fat and calories?
Never. Be an accomplice to war, lies, and fraud? No.
In my opinion, if the politicians don't work to protect,
then fed-officials sit at a loco-train driver-conductor!
They are the architects and death engineers.
The runaway Capital Hill 'cluster' is surely.... collectively responsible.
The Loco's are barreling off the tracks toward a dirty ditch whorehouse.
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And the DC madam better tell her girls to use EXTRA protection with this administration's diaper wearing, toe tapping wide stance artists!
The conservatives, aka right wingers, have nothing to say about Yoo's enabling?
BIIIIIG surprise. The law, to paraphrase Leona Helmsley, is for the little people. And democrats.
Off topic: At least Siegelman (sp) is free to pursue his appeal. Finally. Took Alabama's courts long enough.
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Jim White
[Read the article: John Yoo's war crimes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A number of former prisoners have been released from Guantanamo. I doubt that the International Criminal Court would have any difficulty getting each of them to testify about their treatment.
Also, the law students at Seton Hall (note that one of Murat Kurnaz's lawyers is from Seton Hall, see the Kurnaz story at the link on my name) have uncovered evidence that it is likely that there is a video record of every interrogation at Guantanamo (see http://law.shu.edu/news/captured_tape_2708_with_appendix.pdf).
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I hope Scott Horton, Amy Goodman and Rachel Maddow get hold of this, Jim. Good on the Hall.
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Enough with the bowling
[Read the article: The Obama difference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's telling that the M$M has to almost manufacture negative stories about Barack Obama.
I see many folks here posting about Rezko and his prior drug use. I see posts regarding his "racist" disparagement of Hillary and her campaign.
No one ever provides a quote to back up this "racist" screed.
I read salon.com almost every day, and I haven't seen one direct Obama quote that denigrated Hillary's ethnicity since G. Ferraro opened her yap.
I have seen Ms. Power get fired for the "monster" wisecrack. I have read about Obama's house and Rezko's deal to sell that lot at below asking price.
Positively scandalous, that. Rezko should have demanded 99.9999997 pure gold bars as payment! Next thing you know, Barack will have dinner at Pizzeria Uno and want his pizza without anchovies. The nerve of this guy, I tell ya.
Don't conflate Jeremiah Wright's sermons with Obama's policies and thought process. Wright can (and does) speak for himself. Obama's speech two weeks ago showed that he can most assuredly speak for himself.
If the Hillary fans think he's too liberal... SAY SO. Tell the country he taxed and spent in the Illinois state government, if that is the case. His votes and speeches in the US senate should all be easy to find in the Congressional Record or the Federal Register. Some actual substance to all this disparagement... would be a change.