Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 158 Editor's Choice: 40
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Does the Forbes 500 refer to the collective IQ of their whole editorial staff?
[Read the article: Unhappily ever after]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The story about careers was taken down so we could put up a new, enhanced package," said Forbes. Perhaps they could enhance Michael Noer's package. Maybe then he wouldn't feel so threatened and insecure.
I look forward to reading more of Forbes' helpful marriage hints, including, "Don't Marry a Lazy Black Guy," "Steer Clear of Those Greedy Jews," "Hide The Explosives From Your Muslim Husband," "By All Means Avoid The Drunken Irish," and "Be Prepared To Beg For It From Your Frigid Catholic Wife."
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For some reason...
[Read the article: Talk dirty to me, please?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...when I was reading Cary's response, I was imagining it being read by Craig Ferguson (who often calls his viewers naughty little hamsters, while making a hamster face). I was truly hilarious. People, read the letter again and try it!
Thank you for getting my day off to such a stimulating start. (And a reassuring one--for years, I thought I was the only one who did that thing in front of Father Tom...)
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Yup, no one could have predicted 9/11...
[Read the article: Well, we could have predicted this]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...except the Phillipine government, which intercepted al Qaida documents detailing a similar plot in 1995; the CIA, which issued the PDB about bin Laden determined to attack the U.S.; the FBI field offices, one of which warned about Middle Eastern men enrolled in flightschools who showed no interest in landing planes and another of which desperately sought access to Moussaoui's computer in the summer of 2001; the NSA staffers who were criticized by Bushies for being "obsessed with bin Laden"; and, oh, um, anybody who remembered that al Qaida had already attacked the U.S. and its installations repeatedly.
And no one could have predicted Katrina except the U.S. Weather Service, which warned that the levees could give way, and the Army Corps of Engineers, which sought funding to shore up the crumbling levees and was denied by the Bush administration. That would have cost a staggering $75 million, as opposed to the multibillion-dollar tab wrought by the hurricane.
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If someone left a copy of the Constitution in the White House bathroom...
[Read the article: OK then, it's unanimous]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...reading material isn't what they'd use it for.
Also, the 22nd Amendment says:
"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."
Bush was clearly not elected twice, and can anybody say with a straight face that he's ever acted as President? Seems to me he's eligible for at least one more term, if not two.
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Who knew Bush had groupies? Please, God, tell me he doesn't have a plaster cast
[Read the article: How the other third lives]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fawning over the worst President in history? $100. (Or whatever the price of admission was.)
Buying a new suit for the occasion? $50 at Wal-Mart, America's store.
"Digressions and interpolations"? Priceless!
He got one thing right on the money, though: "If I summarized what he said, it would all sound familiar."
He's also right to wonder about "how President Bush can withstand the Washington snake pit." Rats generally don't fare very well in those. And the way Bush prances around in flight suits, he clearly does think he's "participating in a pageant."
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There is a religious connection, but it's not what she thinks:
[Read the article: Katherine Harris in heaven? It's more likely than the U.S. Senate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When I heard Katherine Harris was running for Senator, I screamed, "Jesus Christ Almighty!!"
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The Bush administration was aggressively uninterested in al Qaida ...
[Read the article: Warrantless wiretaps and 9/11: A tacit admission from Karl Rove]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...before 9/11. Bush could have had unlimited power to wiretap out the wazoo, with no authorization necessary at any time before, during, or afterward, and al Qaida still wouldn't have been on his radar screen. In fact, Richard Clarke said he had to explain to Condi Rice what al Qaida was. And Bush's only interest in the Taliban was to set up a pipeline deal with them.
The Bushies were in fact openly contemptuous of Clinton holdovers who were "obsessed" with bin Laden. (Perhaps the Clintonites should have referred to al Qaida as "the Commies" -- maybe that would have goten Bush and Condi's attention.)
The Bushies were so ignorant, in fact, that their only attempt to secure bin Laden consisted of a "plan" (and I use that word extremely loosely) to ask the Taliban to hand him over in exchange for some business perk or other--the Taliban being the same group that was not only entusiastically sheltering bin Laden, but to whom he was connected by marriage, as one of his kids had married one of Mullah Omar's kids. They were freaking in-laws, for God's sake.
Under FISA, all Bush would have had to do was ask the court, which has pretty much been a rubber stamp for every administration, for a warrant AFTER initiating a wiretap. Bush had all the power he needed, and was surrounded by people, to use Richard Clarke's term, "running around with their hair on fire" warning of imminent danger. But there was all that pesky brush to cut in Crawford...
The problem, of course, is that most people don't understand this issue, so when Bush says "the Democrat party wants to tie our hands on wiretapping," they believe him. The Democrats need a very simple statement on this, that they can keep repeating over and over. Something like, "any President can wiretap anyone whenever he feels like it. He just has to alert the court afterward. Bush was never interested in wiretapping al Qaida before 9/11." Just keep saying it, over and over, every time these clowns insist that the Democrats are a bunch of civil-liberties sissies. Otherwise, I fear they'll get away with this canard again.