Letters to the Editor
Tideswimmer
Published Letters: 389 Editor's Choice: 47
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@Anonymous 9:44 Civility?
[Read the article: As California burns, the right fumes over Boxer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Civility, huh? As in:
"Oh, dear, pardon me. I did not see you there, sir. I hope I have not disturbed you?"
"Not at all, dear chap. I hope I didn't startle you. I've been on a bit of a tramp around the stadium, looking for a place to take a crap in relative privacy, with no plumbing and all that bother."
"Two minds with but a single thought, old bean, for I, also, have been seeking a place where one might, so to speak, find bodily relief."
"Say no more! It seems to me this slightly darkened corridor should do the trick. What say you, new friend, if I may dare have the honor of addressing you as such?"
"You may, sir, you may, if you will allow me the honor of granting you the privilege of going first whilst I stand watch and hold my coat thusly to afford a little more privacy."
"No, sir, I insist, you first; for I see by your hopping from one leg to another that your need is dire."
"It is, sir, it is. But gadzooks you astound me and make me blush! You are the very model of civility, sir. The very model!"
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RE: Plame's outing was not revenge, it was REBUTTAL.
[Read the article: Fair Plame]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now we're getting somewhere, Elephantman; it's a misunderstanding of terms.
A rebuttal is when one person makes a claim in defense of their argument, and an opponent finds and offers countering evidence which seeks to logically negate or lessen the original claim.
Joe Wilson's position was that he found no evidence of Saddam Hussein attempting to obtain yellowcake uranium from Niger and the administration claims were weak at best.
The administration rebuttal (a real rebuttal) would be to put their countering evidence on the table: "He did, and here's why we know that."
They didn't. Instead, they countered with something equivalent to "Oh yeah? Well I hear you wet your bed until you were five! Bed wetter! Bed wetter! Wilson wets the bed!" The birth of a typical Republican talking point.
If Cheney's aim was not to build a case for a predetermined outcome (Invasion) then his only rational response would be to seriously investigate Wilson's report so as not to blunder into a war which would claim a hundred thousand lives. If you're going to go to war, you better have a damn good last-resort reason to do so. Cheney didn't. Wilson's report was not informative to him, it was an irrelevant inconvenience. Plame's status at the CIA was also irrelevant to him. No matter who went to Niger, the report had better damn well echo the official party line, or that person would find themselves paying the price of insubordination.
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Hey, Dana
[Read the article: $2.4 trillion for Iraq and Afghanistan?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The president just called me and told me his plan. He says he can make the country safe and secure, but unfortunately you will have to take a pay cut. Your new yearly salary is $50 (fifty dollars). No health care or other benefits either, I'm afraid. Too socialized. Quit expecting government to do it all for you. Maybe you can pick up a graveyard shift at the Quick-E-Mart.
Thanks in advance for being on board with this plan. You're the best!
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Sorry, but this one escaped me as well
[Read the article: Outer space or spaced out?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Kucinich saw a UFO — a genuine undeniable craft from another world — and it sparked nothing in him, no emotional reaction at all, then I'd be worried. But even if he had seen it, it's still not the same as the candidates who don't get put up for ridicule when they claim a direct communication pipe-line to God. Why? Because if the story is even true Kucinich actually SAW THE UFO!! If he witnessed such a thing, what does he have to atone for?
If he HAD NOT seen a UFO, but through a leap of faith had arrived at an evangelical mission to tell the world about our Omicronian overlords (they come in peace and love for all mankind), then this would be a story.
It's puzzling to me that the candidate who has been most consistently right about the consequences of so many policy decisions in the past few years is the same candidate who is so consistently cast as being some cute little guy in the corner, saying stuff.
Plus, I'd love to see his wife become First Lady. Man, she's a looker.
Anyhoo, I'm assuming this post was supposed to be more whimsical on your part, and ended up being taken too seriously by those of us, like me, who are teetering for too precariously on the brink of madness and despair to laugh much at anything.
Plus, I'd like to hear more about this "cabbit" someone wrote about earlier.
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This one is brilliant
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This one is brilliant. Hilarious! Superb. Super sharp. I laughed my ass off.
That is all.
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Tom the Dancing Bug
[Read the article: When Rudy goes waterboarding]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you saw the recent "Tom the Dancing Bug," I think Rudy has giving us another good marker for the new gay stereotype: "Waterboarding? If you think that's torture, then tie me up! No, really! Just tie me up!"
Of course, in a real scenario, there is no safe word.