Letters to the Editor
essbee
Published Letters: 19
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RE: JimC
[Read the article: The American media's fringe ideological view of Pelosi's trip]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I believe with all my being that homosexuality is wrong, unnatural, immoral, and perverted. When I see homosexual people proudly displaying their “gayness” it feels painful to me."
Sometimes tumescence can be painful. If your symptoms persist for more than four hours, please call your doctor.(Or Ted Haggert)
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MTP Transcript
[Read the article: Iraq: American public opinion vs. a "small but powerful group"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18094428/
MR. RUSSERT: The Democrats have proposed legislation which would set benchmarks or guidelines for the Iraqis to meet in terms of stepping up, but also a firm date for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. Is that wise?
GEN. ZINNI: No. I mean, you know, people that talk about benchmarks and withdrawals, what are we going to do, disband Centcom? You know, this was created in the, in the early ‘70s when we assumed most of the foundation for the security in this region. Centcom was created by President Carter because of our interests in this region—economic, political, security interests. They haven’t changed. If anything else, at the end of the Cold War, they were actually, I think, heightened in many respects.
We’re going to be in this part of the world. We aren’t going to leave. Now, we can readjust our strategy for Iraq. We can extricate our troops from the sectarian violence. But we’re going to have to contain the problems that could spill over and the—and cause this critical part of the world to spin out of control.
We need to rethink that kind of strategy, that kind of positioning. But more importantly, we need to rethink our relationships in that region. We have to build a collective security arrangement, a coalition arrangement to replace the one we destroyed by going into Iraq now. The, the Gulf coalition was fragile, it supported our containment of Iran and Iraq before. Most of the leaders in this region that I talk to are asking me, “What’s the new arrangement?” They are at least thinking past Iraq. They’re thinking in strategic terms, and no one’s engaging them on that level of, of discussion. There should be more in the way of burden sharing, more in the way of cooperative defense, more in the way of security assistance programs that help build the kind of region that can take care of itself with our help and with our involvement. There’s no way out of that.
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Flippin' n a floppin'
[Read the article: Iraq: American public opinion vs. a "small but powerful group"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]242 on 4/8/07
“Is it superior to surrender the field of battle while losing? Fundamentalists won't care, they will have won. Meanwhile, the superior intellects haven't come up with anything better to address our problems than "Run Away!". You can put lipstick on the proverbial pig, but it still won't make muslim grocery store clerks in Minnesota scan packages of pork. LOL.”
242 on 4/16/07
“That said, I'm also a big fan of isolationism. Pull all the troops from everywhere.”
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@shttr242
[Read the article: Charles Krauthammer takes rank hypocrisy to new lows]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Doing so reduces this shooting to a mnemonic way too quickly."
unless we reduce it to:
"Gun control"
"the consequence of not being "judgemental"
"the girlification of the males at VT"
"apparent liberal talking points of his "manifesto".
because those are the real issues, don't you see?
"PPS. Sockpuppet, good on you."
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@ Paul R
[Read the article: The Dan Gerstein sham]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When you say that Gannon /Guckert was outed by the liberal blogosphere,do you mean outed as in "out of the closet" or outed as a shill for the Bush Administration?
As I remember it, there was alot of finger pointing from the right on how his outing proved that liberals were really the intolerant hypocrites, etc.
As he had a self published website offering his services as a man whore, he could hardly have had his orientation outed, only that he was a press whore as well.
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@ Paul R
[Read the article: The Dan Gerstein sham]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Paul R:
The outing was an act against the public person, and was intended to unmask their hypocrisy, so as to destroy their political effectiveness as a deceiver. Of course, this couldn't be done without exposing the private person as well, since they are one and the same person. But the intent, the logic, and motivation were all about the public realm, not the private.
Thanks. That clarifies it.
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paid vacation?
[Read the article: The right's explicit and candid rejection of "the rule of law"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I HEARTILY ACCEPT the motto, — "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."
If you really believe "That government is best which governs not at all" you should hurry down to your local recruiter and sign up for an all expense paid trip to your stated Utopia, Iraq.
No abortions or gun control or pesky judicial activism to soil your beautiful mind, although you might be distracted by some of the antics of those well regulated militias.I'm sure a copy of The Fountainhead or two jammed on the floorboards will be all the armor your Humvee needs.
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Buzzcut?
[Read the article: The Politico: Exhibit A for our broken political press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Edwards should get a military style haircut? Or go to MoDo's Dad's barber?
All that would do is give the "pundits" more cause to attack him and give this non story legs.
Right now they try and tar him as an elitist, faggoty fake populist.
With a crew cut it would be elitist, faggoty fake populist with a butch haircut.
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obvious
[Read the article: The Politico: Exhibit A for our broken political press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]shtr242:
(3) National journalists wallow endlessly in vacuous, vapid, empty-headed, petty gossip, obsessed with meaningless chatter and snide, personality-based assaults more appropriate for a junior high clique than anything else. And they do so while ignoring the most substantive and consequential political matters.
This is a pretty good description of this post and quite a few others lately*...
*(and all my posts.)