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Published Letters: 162

  • Cups for beer. Beer Beer cups.

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    I apologize for this post. I have been drinking.

    Take the hypothetical: If we knew that there was a nuclear bomb, hidden, in an American city, and we believed that some kind of torture, fairly severe maybe, would give us a chance of finding that bomb before it went off, my guess is most Americans and most senators, maybe all, would say, “Do what you have to do.” So, it’s easy to sit back in the armchair and say that torture can never be used.

    If we are going to play Scruples, let's at least make this interesting.

    Let's say that same terrorist will not bend under torture but says he might be willing to reveal the location of the bomb if one of the following happened.

    Would Schumer have a three way with his parents? Would he have sex with a four year old? Would he put his children in a giant blender and puree away? Would he agree to not be on television for one week?

    Why limit our absurd hypotheticals to the pedestrian?

    So, it’s easy to sit back in the armchair and say that sex with a four year old shouldn't happen.

  • L.W.M.

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    Gang of Four RULES!!!

    I am going to have to question your knowledge of music if you really think of them as "Pauliac poetics."

    My ambitions come to nothing

    What I wanted now just seems a waste of time

    I can't make out what has gone wrong

    I was good at what I did

  • L.W.M.

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    I'm inclined to disagree and that's the problem. There are some very uncomfortable similarities between Pauliacs and Maoists. Factor out economics and you have your typical lame-brained anti-intellectual cultural revolutionaries. I may be a social democrat but I'm not a Maoist.

    I will give you credit for taking large steps. Just so I can follow:

    Andy Gill==Maoist. (He might disagree with this characterization.)

    Maoists==Pauliacs (because they are both anti-intellectual and want change from the status quo.)

    At least I can't say you are not ambitious with your leaps of logic.

    May I suggest that your criticisms of Ron Paul would be much more effective without using the word "Pauliacs", which honestly is high school at best. May I also suggest that dragging everything you don't like under the rubric of Ron Paul, no matter how absurd the logic, is not a very effective technique.

    Partisan politics. Bringing out the best in us since 1963.

  • L.W.M.

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    God forbid Glenn should be saddled with the filth I write just because I post here.

    God forbid that whoever you vote for president has to answer for what you write.

    If you want to criticize Ron Paul, harvest the grapes to criticize Ron Paul. To attack his "supporters" by proxy is intellectually lazy and dishonest.

    Whenever I get bored - like I am right now - I can always entertain myself by looking for Pauliac commenters' gems on various threads.

    Hell, if you are just trolling then I am all for it. I thought you were serious. I salute you and your tackle box and hope my fate is not the stringer.

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    Confess your bloated self, willful and indignant,

    in the face of somebody's lord!

  • L.W.M.

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    I'm sure all the "Good Germans" felt just like you do, after the fact.

    My fate is the stringer.

    80's post punk dance music ==

    Pualiacs ==

    Maoists ==

    Nazis

    I am glad you have discovered the underlying conspiracy that ties together all the best known bogeymen of our time. I am assuming that the klan, neocons and folk music fit in there somehow.

    Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

  • The art of the deal

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    This post is is going to do to you: What Dylan did to folk music, What Hendrix did to electricity, What Pollock did to the canvas, What Ali did to the ring, What a juiced up Bonds did to the Home Run, What Paine did to revolution, What Jefferson did to democracy, What Bush did to stolen elections, What Einstein did to the atom, What Darwin did to evolution.

    After becoming an underground phenomenon and developing a cult following built solely on word of mouth, this post is now available to the public exclusively on this website.

    I am for the first time making it available on the internet. It will be available exclusively on this website, I’m not even going to make it available on Amazon. I want this to be something that only people who seek it out will get. When it comes to things like this, it’s best to keep a low profile and stay out of the mainstream.

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    SEND ME MONEY!!!!

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    Three things are certain:

    - The pain will not stop.

    - You will remain conscious.

    - In the end, you will sign.

  • Pedinska

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    My bookshelves will testify that I would rather buy a bad book than miss a good one, but I find it hard to believe that an expert in psyops and propaganda would write such terrible ad copy. Local car dealerships display more subtlety.

    If he is real, we have nothing to worry about.

    But, what the hell, treat it like the slots and tell us which pixels illuminate.