Letters to the Editor
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"Shooter042" is hallucinating....
[Read the article: The al-Marri decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who here thought they'd see the day it was illegal to pray at all in some places of the US? In our lifetime that would have been labeled a paranoid delusion as well.
Who here thinks that "shooter" has lost his marbles when he thinks that there's any place in the U.S. where it's illegal to "pray at all"?
Cheers,
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@ L.W.M.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You can always visit Bart at Marty Balkin's blog, unless Arne has wore him down to a nub yet...
http://balkin.blogspot.com/
"Bart" is the Trollinator™. He just keeps coming back, no matter how many pieces you've hacked his putrid corpse into.
Balkin's blog is Jack Balkin, Marty Lederman (and a big cast of others such as Mark Graber, Sandy Levinson, etc.....
Ciao,
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Neocons and/or Dubya suckophants lack introspection...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"shooter042": Better trolls please, heh.
You could help remedy that yourself, Shooter: Make like a tree and ....
Cheers,
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@ bebop-o
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]...The lyrics to the song by Peter, Paul, and Mary. "The Garden Song:...We can sing together...
...inch by inch, row by row, someone help this garden grow. All it takes is a pick and a hoe (hint) and (hey) a piece of fertile ground. And there is always that thieving black crow...
With all due respect, sir, the author of the "Garden Song" is David Mallet:
http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2176
Then there's this fine version:
http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=8103
which comes a bit closer to reality. Happy gardening!
Cheers,
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@ bebop-o
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Peter, Paul, and Mary do sing "The Garden Song," and I've sung it, acapella, while sitting on a ceramic toilet bowl. honest.
My regards to you as well, our poet laureate of Greenwaldia.
Yes, PP&M did sing it (as did Arlo Guthrie). Just wanted to give David Mallet his due (and a heads-up to those that may not have heard of him. He's a prolific songwriter from Down East:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mallett
Speaking of music and porcelain thrones, there was a folksinger in Boston/Cambridge when I was there (the name escapes me, but I think it was Paul somethingoranother) who did a "one-man-band" type of gig, and he would also invent musical 'instruments'. One such was the Sousaflush, a type of 'wind' instrument which consisted of one of the above-mentioned commodes hooked up to a series of tubes and a mouthpiece. Amasing timbre from that thing. Because he used public transportation to get to gigs, he'd get quire a leery eyeball from the more pedestrian riders on the MBTA....
Ciao,
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@ Tiberius
[Read the article: The al-Marri decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not worried about the Constitution because I believe in our system. But it only works if it is tested constantly.
Tiberius would approve of the "stress-testing" they did on airplane wings during the 50's or so, loading sandbags on the wings until they fell off.
Since then, they've learned a bit about metal fatigue, and have a more realistic view of what constitutes proper "testing"....
Cheers,
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@ bebop-o
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was wondering if Arne is a plumber? When I sit on a porcelain king's throne, each time a giggle the handle flusher, the house lights go out. Why?
The old codger told his friend, "Don't you worry about me, God's looking after me."
His grizzled friend replied, "Really? How so?"
He replied, "Well, nowadays, He's watching over me. When I have to get up a night and take a pee, when I open the bathroom door, he turns on the lights for me."
The old man's silver-haired wife whispers to his friend, "He's pissing in the refrigerator again...."
Ba-da-bump.
Cheers,
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@ William Timberman
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Was Paul somethingoranother the guy who'll ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston? (As long as we're doing folksongs.) :-)
No. That was apparently Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Lomax-Hawes:
http://www.mit.edu/~jdreed/t/charlie.html
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_MTA_Song
That was written before I was born.
Ciao,
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@ Frankly, My Dear
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[Read more letters about this article: Here][certifiedprepwn3d]: Furthermore, Tiberius doesn't seem to grasp the fact that all this shredding of the Constitution has shown no evidence of actually physically making us any safer at all. Ports? Borders? Nuclear facilities? Electrical infrastructure? Information security? Mass transit? Where exactly are we on these things?
See, Bush has it all figured out. We don't have to worry about protecting those things because we're fighting them over there so we won't have to fight them over here. Why would the terrorists want to come here to kill Americans when it's much easier to kill Americans in Iraq without having to put in all those travel miles. Besides, Bush seems convinced that the terrorists couldn't find America anyway.
Not quite. Another terrrist attack here would be just the thing to haul Dubya's a$$ out of the wringer (didja see that the Justice IG is looking into whether AGAG committed OOJ ... and Scooter's going to prison?), they're thinking. Get the folks rallying around the flag with Dubya all wrapped up inside again (and now they can even blame the Democrats for sumptin' or another, which they would surely do).
Or even better yet, they could then, in case things are looking really bad for them politically, even try and invoke martial law....
First Reichstag fire has been burning down, and they're starting to feel a bit chilly right now.
Cheers,
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Thank goodness for Viagra ...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here][Glenn, from the post]: Rush spent the week hailing it as the antidote to what he calls the "Emasculation of America."
A serious assault already with many walking wounded. As I said, thank goodness for Viagra and Dominican ... uhh, "girls" ... or whatever they were. Without this miracle of modern medicine, all the stalwart Republicans would be down for the count.
Cheers,