Letters to the Editor
mr snoid
Published Letters: 146
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Were you a leftist in 1963?
[Read the article: WSJ Op-Ed page decries hatred of the president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm late to the thread and am going back to one of the earlier postings. In 1962, when I was 17, I was one of 150 people out of Metropolitan Chicago's 4 million to feel compelled to demonstrate in downtown Chicago against John Kennedy's bringing us to he brink of destruction in the Cuban Missile Crisis. I thought that as long as I was going to die, it might as well be "on the picket line." The 150, of course, included a large FBI presence. There was no New Left yet, and those of us who were there were basically sons and daughters of the old left. We did not care for Mr. Kennedy. When he was killed I was in the dining hall of a freshman dorm. I felt absolutely no remorse. I only hoped it had been done by the right rather than the left because "there would be hell to pay" and I wanted them to pay it.
In those days we leftist kids congregated in various summer camps. Mine was Circle Pines Center in Michigan. Circle Pines had had to add the word Center to its name to avoid having the initials: CP. I personally got Phil Ochs kicked out of camp for alcohol policy violations. In those days we were LWAs. At any rate there was a comparable camp in Tennessee, the Highlander Folk School. It's true the gov't shut it down in 1962, but a few of the Highlander dudes were undoubtedly still hanging around and maybe didn't mind the "offing" (as we used to say later) of JFK. Of course, the rightwingers who welcomed this event outnumbered us at least a thousand to one.
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Tales O' Fun, Rest
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Benito '08? What you been smokin', dude? Quick, get the frogs out of your pot!
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With Whom
[Read the article: Political Christmas wishes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm surprised no one has mentioned Malkin's closing "peace among men with whom he is pleased." Hadn't heard it put that way before. She means "not us." Merry Christmas.
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Of course we need a giant military budget...
[Read the article: The bipartisan consensus on U.S. military spending]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]because of the "Law of Combined Development" of poor and rich countries, we need approximately one trillion dollars in expenditures for the cost of each one dozen box cutters for the enemy. Corollary; beware of Bushevicks quoting Trotsky.
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@Ondelette
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It did break. It broke into:
Here is a feast of solitude
A fiddler grim and tall
Plays to dancing kings and wives
Assembled in the hall
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WT
[Read the article: Illustrative New Hampshire snippets]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thrasher got back on his meds. Fooled you.
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One good thing...
[Read the article: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Their constant poetry-in-motion has disgraced the right-wing in America for the foreseeable future.
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Iranian Swift Boat Veterans for Truth!
[Read the article: The grave Iranian threat to world peace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, what's going on here? Presence of US ships not unusual (provocation normal). Presence of Iranian swift boats not unusual (provocation normal, I believe). Boris Karloff very unusual! Why did US release this clip? Because the Karloff guest appearance made it so compelling. So who booked Karloff? As cynical as I am (I am a Snoid. I live in an asshole. I get very cynical), even I can't believe that the US propaganda machine operates so transparently as to just graft Boris on, and then have us believe that the guys on the boats told the Navy guys to "prepare to be blown up" and then "turned away" just as the Navy guys "were getting to their guns." And they were not shot at. Does anyone believe this? Anyone?
I think the CB radio theory makes the most sense. Where did the voice come from? Who knows? Does Boris work for the Iranians? I don't think so. But I think the American authorities found the voice on the tape and were so impressed by the magical guest appearance that they had to release it to the world. And the rest is hysteria. If anything, the point the US government wants to convey is one of restraint.
Meanwhile, the ships in the Gulf. Olmert and Barak (not to mention Dershowitz and Podhoretz) were awfully disappointed by the NIE. That Israel might be safer than previously thought didn't seem to cheer them up one single bit. Olmert is right now trying to convince Bush that the NIE was wrong. Maybe he's even threatening that if Bush doesn't do the job, he will.
Kinda puts the risk that swift boats provide to those ships in perspective, huh?
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Various Items
[Read the article: Barack Obama: "Committed Christian -- Called to Bring Change"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) @Paul Daniel Ash 3:39 - All didlers wingle. It's their nature.
2) If there are any little ol' ladies listening, watch out for Thrasher.
3) I tend to agree with Majorajam: Obama is finished. So is Huckster.
4) And oh yeah; WT - that's sticky bud, not sticky buds.
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@ What if a bomb goes off?
[Read the article: Will the Democratic presidential candidates adhere to their rhetoric?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Meanwhile, don't miss Stormin' Norman's big new post-NIE essay in wsjonline on why US bombs have got to go off pronto-tanto in Iran. It's all still there: Churchill, Hitler, 1938, Islamo-fascism - the works for those fun-lovin' Wall Streeters. All capped off by the brilliant Bernard Lewis theory that Iranians feel that killing off their own people is "doing them a favor." So unlike Israelis who don't really care to die, which is one reason we should do it to Iran rather than their doing it. Conclusion: between the danger of Iran getting bomb and our bombing them "there is no contest." Furthermore, Norman doesn't want to be wrong in his prediction that we would attack before Bush leaves office. So there.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120103739264407641.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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Paid to Post
[Read the article: Republicans have become the credibility-free party]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Me, I'm paid not to post. Govmint program.
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Naming Contest
[Read the article: Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I got one...Pinocchio! But it's for nasalfibber.
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Two theories...
[Read the article: The courts and Congress affirmatively conceal and protect lawbreaking]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]about all the gaps between posts:
1) All the advertisers have pulled.
2) If a post is awarded a red star it is automatically deleted.