Letters to the Editor
AnaHadWolves
Published Letters: 486 Editor's Choice: 26
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Bloomberg Bolted Because Bush Bollocked
[Read the article: Mike Bloomberg could buy the White House]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]George Bush has so besmirched and tarnished the name "Republican" that Bloomberg...no dummy he...felt that if he were to be competitive in a national presidential race, he could NOT do that as a Republican. (See Wikipedia: rats leaving a sinking ship.) He didn't become a billionaire by being stupid.
Hillary Clinton issued a "no comment" when asked about the implications of that move by the Mayor. Actually, she need make NO comment. It is what it is: pretty damned obvious. I think it says more about the albatross that is the onerous label "Republican" around his neck than anything else.
I'd say that Bloomberg is only the first rat to leave that sinking garbage barge that is the Republican Party. Susan Collins? Olympia Snowe? They, and others, could be next.
With Dubya and his cronies, the "Party of Lincoln" looks more like the "Party of George Lincoln Rockwell" lately.
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The Ghost of Lee Harvey Oswald
[Read the article: A tragic legacy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reading Glenn Greenwald's insightful and yet disturbing dissertation on the Bush/NeoCon/Religious Right cabal, I was struck by how few legal and ethical options we have as citizens who are opposed to this autocratic and absolutistic oligarchy. The Republicans are not restrained at all by legalities nor ethics; they are proponents of an illiberal democracy only.
The scurrilous Republican vote estoppal...depriving minorities of their votes by requiring voter ID, voting machine hijinx in traditional Democratic wards, challenging the absentee ballots of our soldiers as well as other tactics...is designed to do just one thing: prevent those opposed ethically and morally to the policies of President George W. Bush from exercising their constitutional right(s) to vote.
Short of a coup d'etat, a putsch or a wholesale uprising by a majority of the populace, what other options are available to stop Mr. Bush and his NewAmericanCentury co-conspirators before there is no more Jeffersonian America left?
Wonder if anyone can channel the ghost of Lee Harvey Oswald for an opinion?
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A Beer With Bush?
[Read the article: Yeah, but who among us wouldn't love to have a beer with George W. Bush?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK...I'd have a beer with this numbnuts, but, I draw the line at a line...of coke...with this dunderhead. He rules this country as if he had half of Columbia up his nose. No thanks!
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Hoist By Their Own Petard
[Read the article: Number of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Umm...they'd have even MORE Arabic/Urdu speakers if they wouldn't conduct anti-gay witch-hunts, throwing out perfectly qualified Arabic/Urdu-speaking soldiers...who may or may not be gay.
Being discriminatory toward patriotic Americans who may be gay has consequences for our country; now, our country must live with those consequences.
Hoist by their own petard, indeed!
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Nothin' To See Here, Folks; Move Along...
[Read the article: Giuliani's loyalty to an accused priest]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So...Rudy Giuliani is loyal to his pals to the detriment of the law, ethics and morality? What else is new?
Giuliani is a "politician"...having all the worst attributes of that label: he wants to win at all costs, he cares little for the legalities of a situation and his ethics/morals come second..or a distant third...to simply doing the right thing.
As for his friendship with Alan Placa...along with his "cafeteria Catholic" religious persona...it reinforces the reality that Giuliani is a wheeler-dealer who plays fast and loose with the truth. We already have one of those as President.
Giuliani is simply George W. Bush with a lisp.
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Remember The Admonition About Short People
[Read the article: Bloomberg's ambitions]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When it comes to Mayor Bloomberg, Randy Newman had it about right in his anthemic tune "Short People". Whether Napoleon, Danny Divito or Bloomberg, that over-compensation for under-sizing can be annoying at best and dangerous at worst.
How much of Bloomberg's hubris can be traced to his stature...or, lack thereof? Solving that conundrum is a "tall" order...pun intended.
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How DARE They Diss The Born-Agains With This Movie!
[Read the article: "Evan Almighty"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am apoplectic that this movie so disses the Born-Again community! How dare they leave out important characters in this sham Bible story!?
I mean, with the "Creationism Museum" opening in Kentucky, I'd like to know why they left out the dinosaurs from this movie?
Noah and the story of the ark, indeed! They have no brontosauri, tyranosauressessess or velociraptors? Shocking!
I'm waiting for Dr. James Dobson or Rev. Pat Robertson to weigh in on this motion picture that so obviously disses the Born-Again version of creation.
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New "Lows" For The Bush Maladministration?
[Read the article: How low can Bush go?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How much more "news" can we continue to absorb about this cabal of evil clowns without either requiring Thorazine or storming the White House as if it were the Bastille? The continuing novella that is the Bush Maladministration continues to amaze, terrify, nauseate and anger to the point of numbness; one wonders to what level of Hell we have descended from one day to the next.
I'm not sure which is worse: the Bush Maladministration's continuing pogrom against the American people or the people who voted for Bush having no "buyer's remorse".
Either way, we're screwed...and we're not even getting a courtesy "reach-around."