Letters to the Editor
Paul Daniel Ash
Published Letters: 662 Editor's Choice: 2
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@SusanMc, I LOLed!
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If only you'd included something about the prostitutes in Israel
Actually more of a snort. I SNOLed!
Hookers and Jews, nothin better for getting the peeps all riled up. Goddess, I love this place.
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@rodian, you're out of your element
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The natural concomitant to your hypothetical is "Some people drive 80 MPH and kill people - so let's outlaw cars."
Out of your element, Donnie!
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I'll whinge...
[Read the article: The Politico claims the Iraq war will help McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you guys can whine.
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my turn to do this
[Read the article: The Politico claims the Iraq war will help McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]new post
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"when the president does it that means that it is not illegal"
[Read the article: The principled, honest House Republicans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][DAVID] FROST: So what in a sense, you're saying is that there are certain situations [...] where the president can decide that it's in the best interests of the nation or something, and do something illegal.
NIXON: Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal.
FROST: By definition.
NIXON: Exactly. Exactly.
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@omooex
[Read the article: The principled, honest House Republicans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, you can swear your fuckin' balls off here. It's one of the few things I like about the commenting system, and it almost makes up for the goddamfuckindumbass lack of support for the <a> tag...
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@P51mus
[Read the article: The principled, honest House Republicans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not really sure what to think.
That's IMHO exactly the way to read GC! I miss his old name "clownsense." Goddess knows we need a lot more clownsense in this world...
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@nasalbarfer
[Read the article: The principled, honest House Republicans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Make your case.
Not supporting amnesty for lawbreaking corporations is support of terrorism why? Exactly why?
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Illogic 101
[Read the article: The principled, honest House Republicans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I accept as an indisputable axiom...
You lost me at "indisputable."
But thanks. I thought your argument would be probably be thin as tissue paper, but I try not to form opinions based on nothing but belief. Appreciate the validation, and the acknowledgement that "there is no point in further discussion."
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@brightstar
[Read the article: High-level right-wing discourse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The vast majority of Americans sit somewhere in the middle on most issues.
That's an interesting assertion. I wonder if you know of any evidence to back it up. That's not a taunt, by the way: it's a genuine question.
My own observation - which I freely acknowledge is based in nothing but my own unscientific experience and observation - is that most people who have an opinion at all are quite far to one "extreme" or the other (as defined by our conventional discourse). Quite a large number of people don't give a flying fuck about many things which I think most of us would consider rather important.
You may be referring to that last group as your vast majority. If so, however, I'd call those people "apathetic," rather than "centrist. "
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@Jack
[Read the article: High-level right-wing discourse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The standard position of gay sex being doggy-style
It'd be so nice if you weren't here.
kthxbai
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@Aych
[Read the article: High-level right-wing discourse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]“Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.” -- Antonin Scalia
Google is yer buddy...
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@LWM
[Read the article: High-level right-wing discourse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is no left in America. There should be.
Word.
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the Petulant pachyderm strikes again!
[Read the article: A sickening truth at Guantánamo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyway, this allegation like most of the rest of your claims (including the ones that your client was an innocent merchant, much as Don Corleone was an olive-oil salesman) rests entirely on the veracity of your client, true?
See, E-Man, it helps if you actually read the article rather than cherry-picking the parts you feel like sniping at:
in Al-Ghizzawi's status review in November 2004, the tribunal unanimously found him not to be an "enemy combatant" (as was determined to be the case with some 35 other prisoners). The U.S. government proceeded to convene a second tribunal using exactly the same "evidence" against Al-Ghizzawi found to be worthless the first time around. One of the officers who sat on the first tribunal, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham of the Army Reserve, testified to Congress in July 2007 that the evidence against Al-Ghizzawi was "garbage.
However, I guess that assumes you give a shit about anything other than grinding the same old damn axe, which is hardly borne out by my experience with you on these boards...
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@CMN
[Read the article: How photos support your own "reality"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you ask yourself the question: "who benefits?", and you ask it honestly, then the answer must be Islamic extremists.
How? How on earth did they benefit from 9/11?
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@jdjeffreys
[Read the article: Obama and Clinton plan to cool it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You do know that there's a difference between rhetoric and science, right? Science has to do with rigorous, repeatable, documented and reviewed experimentation.
With rhetoric, on the other hand, pretty much any of us could make the case that the sun goes 'round the earth, but that don't make it necessarily so.
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@CMN
[Read the article: How photos support your own "reality"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you being daft or adversarial?
Um, daft I think.
When I think cui bono, I don't think of the people getting hit by the bombs or crushed under the wheels of the tanks.
Quit the opposite.
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@conslayer
[Read the article: Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush's domestic spying abuses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I so love sentences that start "You would do well to remember..." Don't you?
I imagine this guy fancies himself a character out of Conan Doyle.
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@IOWA DEMOCRAT
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought they have Imans
You're thinking of David Bowie.
kthxbai
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@stuart
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was sarcasm.
http://tinyurl.com/yuqbht
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@red_gti2000
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Repubs aren't going to attack Obama because of White's anti-American comments, they will attack because of his anti-White comments.
First, they are attacking on the "G.D. America" quote, and second... I'm wondering just what you think Rev. Wright said that was "anti-[w]hite?" Cause I haven't heard anything like that... unlss saying that America is a "culture that is controlled by rich, white people" is "anti-white."
I would, rather, call that an inconvenient truth.
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@Chris Sinnard
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Huh?
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@Chris Sinnard
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"anti-white" is A-OK!!
Did someone say that? Other than you, I mean?
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@stuart_zechman
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Also, welcome!
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@Chris
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I guess I didn't realise that "KKK" was a slur for "white." It rather to me sounds like a term used to describe racists.
Just at a guess, I'm going to posit that Rev. Wright was saying that America is a racist society. That seems pretty uncontroversial to me.
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@Chris, again
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]America is a "culture that is controlled by rich, white people"
Are you saying that it's not? Are you really saying that?
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@Aych
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone who doesn't toe the ideological line gets picked on.
There's an ideological line here? Where on the goddess' green Earth is it? Is it Libertarianism? Anti-libertarianism? Reform-from-withinism? Aux-barricadism?
I'm serious. Where do you think the line is?