Letters to the Editor
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"shooter242" concedes the point.
[Read the article: Iraq: American public opinion vs. a "small but powerful group"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]P.S. to Sysprog.... Sure, Congress can vote verbiage to surrender all it likes, but getting it past a veto and public humiliation is another story altogether. Good luck with that, heh.
Thank you. Now crawl back under your rock.
Cheers,
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@ shooter242
[Read the article: The warped reality of our media stars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That said, my veracity and integrity have been impugned by several here. I invite any and all to submit anything they think I lied about, and I will be happy to set them straight.
It ain't the lies (today, at least). It's da stoopidity. Yaknow, like citing an "online poll" for ET adherence....
Now that's settled, care to comment on the "most likely" results of the WaPo poll and what it means for the 25% "dead-enders" like yourself, and the enablers and myth-makers in the SCLM?
Cheers,
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@ shooter242
[Read the article: The warped reality of our media stars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually Glenn originally used that idea to lampoon some other poll. I'm just using the same basic idea of a poll's worth....
Huh? You're trotting out a self-selected "online poll" to give a "basic idea of a [legitimate] poll's worth"?!?!? Are you claiming that Glenn did such a thing previously so it's OK for you to do this too (the ol' tu quoque fallacy at best, if Glenn actually did such a thing)?
... As for "stoopid", did you read the post you requested from me, outlining why Congress can't unilaterally surrender the US during a war?
As for "lazy", why don't you get off your fat a$$ and freakin' look?!?!?
Cheers,
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Karen M
[Read the article: The warped reality of our media stars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You guys are really on a roll
Nah. Dem's da unyuns....
Cheers,
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@ tiberius
[Read the article: Our benevolent surveillance state]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][to Glenn]: Touchy today are we? Glad to hear it. Based on your other hysterical rants about the boogey man government I wasn't sure how far your fear would take you.
Yeah, Glenn's got a thing about people that put words in his mouth (or thoughts in his head). He puts a lot of effort into his writings to make it clear what he's saying.
But if you'd wanted to be presumptuous, and guess at his views on something he'd not covered, perhaps it would have been best to use the evidence at your disposal (as you seem to have done above; see bolded) on collateral matters and use that as a basis for forming an opinion. Then you wouldn't have looked like as much of a jerk.
But, if it gives you any solace, you'll find in me (a distinct minority of one, as I speak only for myself) a person who does think that a registry of gun ownership is not a bad idea. We do it for cars. Why not guns? The mere fact of ownership should not be particularly annoying (or furtive, perhaps?). I think that it would be even better if we had a physical means to tie the bullets fired to the guns they came from. Seems like an eminently useful thing to police that are trying to do their job and find out the whys and wherefores of a bullet lodged in some stiff's thorax.
I think everyone also agrees that one big problem is that criminals get guns. If we have a means of finding out how they got them (and where), don't you think we might be able to find out how to keep some of them out of the hands of people that most rational observers say shouldn't have them? <*PSSSST* "gun shows" *>
Cheers,
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Medical records....
[Read the article: Our benevolent surveillance state]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of the first things out of my partner's mouth this morning, on hearing the news, was that this medical information being spread all over was a clear violation of HIPA (she's in a position where she's got to know this kind of stuff...)
I can appreciate the public's intense curiosity here, but there's ways to get the information that is needed to those that need to know it. And do it lawfully.
Cheers,
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@ Glenn
[Read the article: Our benevolent surveillance state]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's odd because substances like valium and xanax are no more serious (and probably less so) than prozac, lexapro and that whole family, but perhaps there is more abuse of the former than the latter.
Dunno about Xanax, but Valium is a known drug of abuse ... and it is addictive. When I worked with quads, pretty much all of them were on Valium for its muscle-relaxant anti-spasmodic properties nominally, but I think a fair number of them were psychologically dependant on it as well, if not addicted (albeit addiction wasn't their most serious problem). Some of them just had to have their Valium....
Cheers,