Letters to the Editor
timbuktom
Published Letters: 2583 Editor's Choice: 141
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One Way To Nail G.W.Bush Et Al.
[Read the article: Bush's criminal confessions]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They rely on the idea that terrorists do not deserve fair treatment. And, indeed Americans do not care whether terrorists suffer.
But, it is plainly obvious that they have imprisoned and tortured many innocent people, people they swept up by mistake. This immunity will not hold up after the stories of the innocent detainees get out.
George W. Bush has been so audacious that Americans are just beginning to catch up on the story. Soon, though, the truth will out. And it will soak in. And then we can send him up the river.
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We Need This
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is exactly what we need to remind people, and to provide perspective. Battle Bush's cartoon thinking with cartoon truth.
Keep it simple, stupid. Keep it simple AND stupid. Amen!
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One Day At A Time
[Read the article: A drive to oust al-Maliki?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]G.W. Bush just gets through each day as it comes. He says preposterous things (lies usually), and the rest of us discuss them for a few hours, until about teatime. Then Bush is off the hook until tomorrow.
His people come up with another twenty-four hours' worth of dopey words, the cycle starts over again bright and early, and G.W.B. makes it through another day...
While blood runs in rivers and the screams of Guantanamo reach toward heaven.
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Parallels Only Go So Far...
[Read the article: Farewell to a torturer in chief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]G.W. Bush et al. seem to have all of Pinochet's barbarism without any possible redeeming virtue. e.g. The economy here was better before W.Bush, and it will be better after he leaves.
Pinochet did things we might expect a South American dictator to do, and he hurt his own country. Bush and company have surprised us with their breath-taking ruthless audacity, and they have injured the whole world.
Let's get after Bush and Cheney and their pals. Expose them, prosecute them, lock them up.
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AIG is a little better than Enron...
[Read the article: Sold! Dubai Ports World's chunk of the red, white and blue]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...because it actually is a successful business.
But AIG just (last year) paid the biggest fine ever in history to get out from under its legal cloud. And AIG will not run these ports.
Anybody can buy AIG stock or get involved in AIG's investment services. This is not "American ownership" in the sense that your American mom and dad own their house in Grand Rapids.
This is American-controlled financial brokership, or some such situation.
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An Answer and A Question
[Read the article: Bush's criminal confessions]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A: The new US Torture and Dungeons Law gives immunity for anyone who tortures an Alien Unlawful Combatant.
(But I hope we still can get them for torturing the people who turn out not to be Combatants, the taxi drivers, goat herders, and shoeshine boys they took to Guantanamo.)
Q: Did G.W. Bush really buy land in Paraguay?
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Monday Night Political Football
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]King: Barack Obama (spelling? He will have to change his name to Chuck if he wants to get elected.)...
Anyway, Senator Obama is going to appear on Monday Night Football tonight. We will expect snappy comments from King Kaufman tomorrow.
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Some People Adore Torturers
[Read the article: Farewell to a torturer in chief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am looking at the BBC Evening News, and they are interviewing Chileans who still love the Dear Old Fingernail-Puller.
We may face this problem here in The Homeland. Will people still love George W. "Waterboard" Bush, even after we document his cruelty?
We are in the Post-Campassion Era. We have sunk to Banana Republic level. The 2008 election is our last chance.
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Salon Needs A White House Correspondent!
[Read the article: Message: I listen]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Honestly, not as hype, I ask: Why do you NOT have a White House Correspondent?
Is it hard to get a spot in the White House Press Corps? (If I were fooling around, I would have written, "White House Press CORPSE." Git it?)
Tim Grieve would be a wonderful White House Correspondent. Is it extremely expensive to put somebody into that spot? Why have you not done it?
Tim could ask Bush if he really just bought a ranch in Paraguay, for example. Or Tim could just keep on doing what he is doing, but add some Inside-The-Geltway insights.
Somebody, please pay attention here, or at least give me a red star.
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Back To Simple-Minded Specifics
[Read the article: Save the rain forest -- boycott organic?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am on the organic side, but I am not a farmer, so I have questions:
1. All this talk of using cattle manure for fertilizer? Did we not just have a Poison Spinach Crisis because cattle poop ran down into the Imperial Valley spinach crop?
2. I lived in the country for a while. My neighbor Art tried to grow some corn on the cheap, but he ended up with a field full of scrawny cornstalks and healthy, Schwartzenager-like weeds. Is this organic? If so, it does not work. You could compare Art's corn with all the other great, flourishing corn fields in Michigan.
3. No matter what you say, real home-grown tomatoes and raspberries kick the butts of the little orange baseballs and packaged blood-worts they sell us in the supermarkets.
Where do we go from here? City people need direction.
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George Costanza Was Right
[Read the article: Self-fulfilling stereotypes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Girls: Be Architects!
Then, when people ask you what you do, you can say, "I'm an Architect," and you either can glory in the artistic Beaux Arts idea of "Frozen Music," or you can geek out on the technical nuances of wind-sheer loading ratios.
And the people who you are talking to can pick whichever side they prefer. You can't fail to impress, and you need never define yourself, even to yourself.
As a matter of fact, now that I see this written out, I recommend that you tell people you are an Architect, no matter what you really do for a living.
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Proof That Americans Are Just Waking Up
[Read the article: Farewell to a torturer in chief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A couple of posts down, Ennervated Liberal says he or she believes that Threatening With Dogs is the worst sin of our American torturers...
I wish that were true! It is pretty apparent that Americans have gone all the way with painful torture, and even have tortured people to death. You can look it up.
And, the Bush Administration has tried to immunize its people with odious circumlocutions that let them apply pain right up to the point of death. Again, please look it up.
Americans just can't believe that other Americans already have been so barbaric. But we are beginning to understand. And we must not let it continue.