Letters to the Editor
mr snoid
Published Letters: 146
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@Kitt
[Read the article: Obama advisor Greg Craig: Adding insult to injury]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since this thread is just about dead, I'll indulge in a little DFH nostalgia. I checked your link and dug your girl. I missed Woodstock (though Mrs. Snoid caught it) because it was on the wrong side of the country, but spent two days at the anti-Woodstock and thus got a cameo in Gimme Shelter. As a '66-'95 devotee of all things Jerry Garcia, hung with more hippies than imaginable, but somehow the impression left with me was that these were really intelligent people. How much of that was do to stoned inflation I'll never know. Your girl qualifies, too. And now the Greenwald scene... Glenn's been on such a tear that it reminds me of certain Dead periods. He's an "x-factor" blogger.
And on a related note, Kitt, just got me an Ome Sweetgrass openback. Maybe we'll run into one another sometime down the road.
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The mysterious thread
[Read the article: The political establishment and telecom immunity -- why it matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]of three seemingly disparate tragedies needs to be drawn together. The first is Obama's capitulations on so many fronts to such weak opposition. The next is the non-allowance of the Greenwald-Holtzman-Ellsberg panel at Netroots (But Pelosi will speak!)which promised to bring many of us together in a perhaps momentous face-to-face. Now kaput. And the last is WT's disappearance taking with him so many of the prettiest koi from the UT pond ("thanks for all the fish"). It seems like there's going to be a real dearth of shiny objects in our future.
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Did you hear about the Emperor?
[Read the article: Beltway myth: "The left-wing base" vs. "the American people" on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He allegedly has no clothes.
And why do these facts and conditions on the ground keep reminding me of certain allegedly illegal settlements?
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@ Obama
[Read the article: Democrats' strategy: Strength through bowing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Strength through bowing. Well he already tried strength through bowling. How'd that work out?
But the real question is - What did Shooter know that we didn't?
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@ myshooter242.com
[Read the article: Interview with ACLU re: constitutional challenge to new FISA law]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) UT is one of the more "powerful" anti-administration blogs in the country.
2) We know that there are Republican-paid trolls charged with disrupting such blogs.
3) Shooter; constantly here, constantly posting, never really engaged or engaging, never learning or modifying positions, constantly repeating RWA talking points.
4) The surprising "I'm really voting for Obama" claim is the perfect cover for a paid Republican operative.
One question, Shooter. Did the RNC contract you signed stipulate that WMD must be continually be emphasized as the reason for the war? Even if it makes you look like an idiot and blows your cover? 'Cause WMD is out. The new explanation is OIE (oil, Israel, empire).
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Glenn
[Read the article: The motivation for blocking investigations into Bush lawbreaking]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your posts recently have kicked up a notch in both intensity and writing style. I'm wondering if you might contact your editors at Crown to see if they believe (as I do) that they could be issued, relatively unedited, as a book by the end of the year. Could Salon be amenable to this? I know you've got a lot on your plate, but this could play a constructive role in the year-end political follies coming up. At any rate, congratulations on the increasing coherency and impact of your work.
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More confusion
[Read the article: Tom Friedman doesn't understand why America is unpopular in the world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Friedman's position simply cannot be understood without heavily leveraging in his comments about the pizza parlor in Israel. Friedman is one of many influential neocons who have in their hearts and minds taken definite sides in the Israeli-Arab "feud." That the other side has so little voice in the US skews the "commentary" so that the whole political conversation about the ME becomes baffling. The Iraqi government paid $25k to the families of suicide bombers. Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9-11, but because of their record of overt hostility to Israel, it doesn't matter to Friedman if a million Iraqis die. Real men are headed to Tehran anyway. The taboo aspect of the Israeli connection makes Friedman look stupid. He is not stupid. He is biased.
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@ Glenn
[Read the article: Bob Barr endorses Accountability Now/Strange Bedfellows coalition]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A similar resolution in the Senate -- sponsored by Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh -- now has 32 sponsors, a list that includes, in addition to Joe Lieberman and some of the most extremist GOP warmongers in the Senate, 13 Democrats as well.
You mean presumptive VP candidate Evan Bayh? That should "shore up Obama's national security credentials" for sure. And give us our very own Lieberman!
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@ Derbig
[Read the article: Rendering public opinion irrelevant ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did you hear the Tibster: We should stay neutral and let Israel take out palestine. Problem solved. He's got the same solution to the Time Bomb as you do only better! If more Israelis took out more Palestinians (P-Date) the demographic bomb could be, like, totally defused! Perhaps romantic boat rides on the Galilee outside Tiberius would facilitate things.
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Political Evolution
[Read the article: Leaders of the free world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Spotted dick has morphed into spotted george.
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@derbig
[Read the article: The honorable centrist Joe Lieberman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No such luck.
@adnoto
Congrats on besting the disinfo artist and its yammering word smithing sidekick.
Chris Sinnard
Timberman is old. He got tired. The (real) Pauliacs and revolutionaries wore him down. He has a political job to do. The undialectical nature of the exchanges here bored him right out of here. Myself, I enjoy Adnoto and Sinnard. But I do miss WT.
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Oh No!
[Read the article: Debut of Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald: An interview with Dan Ellsberg]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good luck and good by!
you win.
First Timberman and L.W.M. and now Bernbart. What's this board coming to?
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@ derbig
[Read the article: Debut of Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald: An interview with Dan Ellsberg]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You say shrewish, I say ingenue-ish
Let's call the whole thing off.