Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 1824
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@ Paul Dirks
[Read the article: Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](sometime you'll have to give a seminar on how to do all the special characters.)
Cut'n'paste works for most ("<", ">" and "&" are notable exceptions), you just have to find (or have handy a text file page of) all the special characters. Then there's this:
See, e.g.: http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/basics.html
Basically, it's decimal code in the middle of:
&;
or:
&; (if you happen to remember the name better, e.g.:
® for registered trademark: "®"
™ for trademark: "™"
ü for umlauted "u": "ü"
For the specifics, see these pages:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/charset/iso160-191.html
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/charset/iso192-223.html
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/charset/iso224-255.html
Cheers,
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@ Paul Dirks
[Read the article: Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ooops. Need to quote myself....
This:
Basically, it's decimal code in the middle of:
&;
or:
&; (if you happen to remember the name better, e.g.:
Should have been this....
Basically, it's decimal code in the middle of:
&<code>;
or:
&<name>; (if you happen to remember the name better, e.g.:
The ampersand and the angle brackets are done as:
"&" is &
"<" is < ("l"ess "t"han)
">" is > ("g"reater "t"han)
Cheers,
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@ Paul Dirks
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please don't feed nabalzbbfr ...
He is one creepy SOB.
One should compile a comprehensive list of all Moslems in the USA, publish it extensively on the internet and elsewhere and develop individual initiatives for combatting the malevolent influence of ethnic Islamic jihadism.
Once we have a database, we can efficiently keep track of them by monitoring their cell phones, which have many capabilities which unfortunately aren't being fully exploited. Besides providing precise location information, they can also be used as surveillance devices. Most cell phones can be remotely activated and can be used to surreptitiously eavesdrop on illegal or subversive conversations....
Nabby's too stoopid to be dangerous. Imagine a Trekkie in his 50's....
Cheers,
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Watch this!!!
[Read the article: The Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch frauds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill Moyers tonight. A "Must see":
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/25/buying-the-war/
Cheers,
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@ shooter242
[Read the article: The Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch frauds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shooter042 says:
If you're going to ignore the real heroes, I guess fake ones will have to do.
Well, doesn't that sum up in one simple sentence just what the Dubya maladministration has been doing with manufactured cr*p like the fake Tillman and Lynch stories?
They ignore real, but complicated and complicating, heroes (like Kevin Tillman and even the real Pat Tillman), and present manufactured Cpt. Hinderackers and Lt. Derbyshires that fearlessly mow down legions of brown-skins until, with their dying breath, riddled with more holes than a F100 turbine blade, they succumb singing "God Bless America"....
Their heroes are Dubya of the famed TANG, who prances around within sight of the San Diego coastline (but carefully framed so as not to show this "inconvenient truth" ), declaring, "I won, I won!!!"
This is the profound ugliness of the Dubya maladministration and its sycophantic "dead-enders".
Cheers,
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@ Ché Pasa
[Read the article: The Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch frauds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"DoD account of her capture in Iraq in 2003 turned out to be inacurate"
They knew from the get-go it was "inaccurate"; actually, they knew before the "rescue" that it was inaccurate. How do we know this? They freakin' staged the "rescue", complete with video rolling....
Cheers,
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@ Blue Meme
[Read the article: The Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch frauds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have no first-hand knowledge of this, but I have heard that if a Navy captain ever runs a ship aground, his/her career is over. No parsing of words, deflection of blame, or room for spin. It happens on your ship, you're done.
Not always. Depends on if you have friends in high places. After Robert Falcon Scott managed to ram another ship (another big "no-no"), someone figured that they could send him to Antarctica instead, and keep him out of where the big boys were playing. Of course, in the due course of time, Scott managed to kill himself (and a few others) there. But no battleships were lost in the filming of that story....
Cheers,
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No shame
[Read the article: The Bill Moyers documentary on our failed and barren press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of the most important points came at the end. The institutional decay which Moyers chronicles is not merely a matter of historical interest. Instead, it continues to shape our mainstream political dialogue every bit as much as it did back in 2002 and 2003. The people who committed the journalistic crimes Moyers so potently documents do not think they are guilty of anything -- ask them and they will tell you -- and as a result, they have not changed their behavior in the slightest.
Throughout, the coctail-weenie crew was showing no sense of shame. Russert, buttonholed about being a willing conduit for the "leak and cite" crapola, just tried to avoid and evade the question as to his complicity.
None of the MSM was showing much contrition, much less the anger they should have shown, for letting themselves be taken (or worse, being willing and knowing accomplices).
Nothing will happen, no reforms will be made, until they do start taking responsibility, and vow to change their ways. And that they haven't done. Russert is just the biggest name amongst the bunch.
Another thing that needs to be shouted to the rafters is the demonstrated directives from on high in the corporate media on "shaping" the stories. I don't know how we can cyre this, but we sure can expose it for the dishonesty it is. Corporations have no conscience, and it's evident.
Cheers,