Letters to the Editor
mr snoid
Published Letters: 146
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OT @Ondelette
[Read the article: Debut of Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald: An interview with Dan Ellsberg]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I post mainly in dead threads and this one seems deader than a proverbial doornail so here goes. I signed Ondelette's petition with pleasure. I not only did this because I strongly support the stated purpose of the petition, but I consider this action to be my ticket straight to the premium first circle of the Main Core. When rounded-up (a long held DFH dream), I thus intend to be placed with the actually interesting, principled people to engage in fascinating conversations because I doubt they'll have room to put us all in solitary. Otherwise, I feel I was just going to be in the great undifferentiated middle of the Main Core with a bunch of no-goodniks yelling "Why am I here? There must be some mistake!" That would be an incredible drag. Thank you, Ondelette.
But for those of you who seemed to take GG to task for not being more personally supportive of the petition - come on guys. GG is "strongly informed" by libertarianism. It's frankly a major part of what makes this board work. He's not exactly thrilled by the notion that gov't abuse here should best be countered by greater gov't somewhere else. He actually believes that abuses should be countered from within the system as designed (checks and balances).
But not me. I want the frog-march.
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@ heru-ur
[Read the article: Debut of Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald: An interview with Dan Ellsberg]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, it's not exactly a plan. I'm on the West Coast. There are usually over 100 comments by the time I read the post. Then I read all the comments. I think about if I have something to add (usually hopefully amusing). By the time I decide to post the thread is usually just about dead. Since what I have to say is often somewhat OT, it seems appropriate.
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On second thought
[Read the article: Debut of Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald: An interview with Dan Ellsberg]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe it's because my comments automatically kill the thread.
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I disagree
[Read the article: Things I learned today about democracy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that right-wingers are invading here. Everyone's just getting a chill from the Overton windows being left open. Those are angry liberals, folks. We usually don't get too many of them (bernbart excepted). Glenn has had the nerve to challenge their beloved Democratic party just when they were smelling victory. Nobody can rain on their power parade with impunity. They're just itching to get corrupted. It's going to be so much fun! The fact that the Blue Dogs will still set the tone when Harry has 60 peckers in his pocket doesn't trouble them at all. Get out of Iraq and into Afghanistan. Words to live by (if you don't bother to read Juan Cole). Liberals! Good to see you.
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OT: Joe Klein hounded by neocons!
[Read the article: Those privacy-hating Chinese communist tyrants]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But he calls them Jewish neoconservatives. Does he know something we don't know?
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/07/when_extremists_attack.html
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Hope this clarifies things
[Read the article: Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've used bentonite many times. It's used to clarify my claret. I never tried using anthrax. But I did dump a few grams of coke in the barrel in my time. That's almost as good, isn't it?
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Dead thread - time for sick jokes
[Read the article: The FBI's selective release of documents in the anthrax case]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We all know that therapist = the rapist, but hang down your head, Tom's sister couldn't be one of those because the kappa kappa gamelans are all still dewy-pantied virgins (after 27 years).
That's where "theripist" comes in. Because the gov't treatment of this whole matter is the "ripist" pile of BS I have read in a long time. This is similar to 3 day-old fish (LWM), but I believe Timberman took all of those with him.
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Aid to Israel: $75 billion; Iraq war: $1 trillion; Halperin interview: priceless
[Read the article: Salon Radio: Morton Halperin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gosh folks, does power corrupt quickly or what? Here's my gloss, or rather, my pangloss. We get Halperin rather than Mukasey as AG and Obama rather than Bush or McSame as president. This is not perfect but the alternative is far worse. And would provide as much protection as possible to civil liberties. It's just, suckers, not much protection is possible! Remember the apple-carts. Don't insult them or they might become upset. The interview is a reminder of Glenn's "stinking lily" caution about Obama. It seems that the shelf-life will be past before we get to buy the product. Then again, just think, a past director of the ACLU as high government offical. And all you have to do is Orwellisize™ the concept of substance.
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@Bystander
[Read the article: Salon Radio: Morton Halperin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Great quote, but I must disagree. To my ear Tibbie, Shooter and Alphantman all consistently sound like employees of the RNC who are paid to intentionally disrupt online communities. But bernbart sounds totally convincingly naive, dense, and foolish. If she's putting it on, boy has she got my number!
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Owed to a Moose
[Read the article: Salon Radio: Morton Halperin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You remember progressive: the idea that conditions might be moved in a popularly beneficial direction by political action. Kinda like WT if you recall. Well, like you, I now find myself a regressive: one who believes conditions are much more likely to get worse whether any political action is taken or not. And, like you, I've drunk far too deeply from the Roth Broth where sex either goes back in the closet with your sister or is served cold straight from the refrigerator. My dear boychik, there couldn't be some kind of connection here, could there?
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@Jim M.
[Read the article: Rice: Military power is "not the way to deal in the 21st century"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or, it's Bayh and he doesn't want anyone to know!
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Kadimaization™
[Read the article: The decay of serious journalism and Rachel Maddow's new show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I used to read TNR as a magazine of thoughtful compromise. The Overton Window shifted decisively for them in the run up to the Iraq war. It now gazes out upon the Ariel Sharon-inspired landscape (hey, he's not Bibi!) where the compromise is between the center and the right only. Any attempt (no matter how rare) by mainstream media in America to move out of this window must be condemned.
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Folks
[Read the article: AT&T thanks the Blue Dog Democrats with a lavish party]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why engage NOB? Do you believe he's sincere? He's a registered Rethug. His Nader routine is to play on your principles to assist his candidate, McLame. He's probably paid by the RNC to disrupt here.
Omooex - you can't vote for Mickey Mouse in Arabic because he's Hitler; he's killing Jews. Don't go there.