Letters to the Editor
Buffalonian
Published Letters: 371 Editor's Choice: 74
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Really?
[Read the article: Al Gore's win, America's loss]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are we that exercised about an Emmy and an Oscar for a documentary. I liked the movie a great deal and am glad that it won so that it will get more exposure, but I hardly think that an Emmy and an Oscar mean much at all. Cuba Gooding Jr won an Oscar. Al Pacino got one for The Scent of a Woman. That stupid penguin movie won it the year before. It hardly seems to qualify one for anything. And don't even get me started on the emmies. who hasn' won one? geesh the crap we celebrate.
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When Carter won in 2002...
[Read the article: "You don't have to get snippy about this"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush began his day with a phone call to congratulate him. Of course I got this information from the Lex Nex transcript of the press briefing and we all know that Ari Fleischer only lies when he moves his lips, so maybe he didn't call.)
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary October 11, 2002
PRESS BRIEFING BY ARI FLEISCHER
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
12:23 P.M. EDT
MR. FLEISCHER: Good afternoon. I'll give you a report on the President's day. The President began this morning at 7:00 a.m. with a call to congratulate former President Jimmy Carter on his winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The President was very pleased to be able to extend his congratulations to a former President.
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Neville's married?
[Read the article: Dumbledore? Gay. J.K. Rowling? Chatty.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But all the teachers at Hogwarts were bachelors & spinsters, like Oxbridge dons before the 1870s.
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@ thingswesaid
[Read the article: I'm dressing up as a melting polar ice cap]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Holding up the fact that ice sheets melted in the past as evidence that the current warming is not effected by man is literally as dumb as pointing out the fact that person A once fell off a cliff by losing his balance proves that person B could not have been pushed off a cliff by person C, despite massive amounts of circumstantial evidence which convinces us he was.
It is simply logically deficient to argue in such a way.
No one doubts that the globe has warmed and cooled in the past. However, the pace at which this climate change is moving is pretty convincing evidence that this is out of the geological ordinary. Don't worry about the earth; the earth will be fine. Civilization as we know it will be altered irrevocably, but that's okay with conservatives as well. They hate civilization was we know it, hence their constant efforts to undermine it.
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Too snarky by half
[Read the article: Just another "accountability moment"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As usual, Tim is too snarky by half. What's the point of highlighting the use of the word lacuna? Did it seem pedantic? Did it seem cliched? Did you not know what the word meant? It is a very very commonly used term in academia, almost to the point of cliche, but not quite. Color me dumb, but I don't get your point.
There is more than enough about which one can criticize this administration, why nitpick this sort of crap? It's as intellectually dishonest as mocking John Edwards's hair or saying Kerry looks French.
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OK, You're Right...
[Read the article: Just another "accountability moment"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... nitpicking about vocabulary is a great way to critique the administration. It's much better than attacking substance. It's also a double treat because the left attacks Bush for not having a good vocabulary and now you're going to attack Condi for having too good of a vocabulary?
I still maintain that for a political scientist or historian, even a bad one like Condi, 'lacuna' is a perfectly normal word, like paradigm.
I know Tim doesn't respond to questions and critcisms like Glen does, but I still don't get the point of making an issue of the word, when there are actual life-and-death issues at stake. Tactically, it is unproductive.
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Modest Proposal
[Read the article: Jay Rockefeller channels Dick Cheney's fear-mongering to urge telecom amnesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While normally I hate to descend to the level of the GOP in these matters, these are desperate times and perhaps desperate measures are called for. Why don't we just start calling them pussies and whimps and chickens endlessly? Why don't we just start (and don't stop) questioning their manhood for being afraid of a bunch of cave-dwelling nutcases with no army and no ability to really threaten us.
How about at every GOP event or debate, people in chicken suits show up. Or ghosts with signs that say "boo! are you scared?" Every word out of a Democrat's mouth should be pointing out that the GOP are 'fraidy cats, girly men standing on a stool screeching at a mouse with an Afghan hat on.
Couldn't every question be framed around "why are you so afraid?" If it is repeated endlessly and dilligently, eventually it will sink in. Democrats mistakenly keep criticizing the "politics of fear" which is too ambiguous and leaves the impression that Democrats are afraid to speak of harsh realities. NO, NO, NO!
We've got to cut to the quick: no more "politics of fear" nuance. "They are pussies" directness is needed. GWB was brought down for being a whimp. Gore. Kerry. Well, maybe it is time to stand up and fight fire with fire. Let's call a spade a spade, and accuse them of being insecure, frightened, chickenshits scared of their own shadows. Use every cliche in the book; they work with the electorate.
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@Defending Our Freedom
[Read the article: Jay Rockefeller channels Dick Cheney's fear-mongering to urge telecom amnesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People who have nothing hide should likewise not mind the government coming in and searching their houses whenever they want. People who have nothing to hide should not mind carrying internal passports and be forced to stop and show them and explain their plans whenever the police want as well, right? I guess those framers of the Constitution were moonbats, eh?
I think you and every other jackbooted thug who wants to trample on my civil liberties are whimps with small penises trying to overcompensate. What are you so afraid of? Go hide under your bed and whimper like the 8-year-old girl you are, but don't try to take our rights away from us.
Enough is enough.
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He can't be serious?
[Read the article: Jay Rockefeller channels Dick Cheney's fear-mongering to urge telecom amnesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not much of a body of work, but neither of Defending Our Freedom's posts seem to be ironic. I apologize if he was being ironic. But I don't think he was. He has troll written all over his cowardly, fascistic face.