And believe me I'm not easily fooled, cynicism oozes from my very pores.

You have a funny kind of cynicism, which gets very doctrinaire and bullheaded whenever anyone challenges your heterodox theories.

I think it's great that you question the official story on just about everything. The world needs more people like that. You should just be equally questioning of alternative viewpoints as well. Truth is always provisional.

What I want to see is the warrant

A law that says "There is hereby imposed ... a tax" is not what you're looking for?

Help me understand what - if anything - would answer your question.

Where then is this mysteriously hard to find "seed law"?

If by "mysteriously hard to find" you mean "on the Internet," then I understand your confusion.

Go back and read ondelette's post. The black parts this time.

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/24/criticism/permalink/638496736ac40b9925b9faca479e7bd0.html

(if you click on my name, the post will "mysteriously" appear)

If however there was no seed law to begin with

What ondelette and others have been telling you is that there is this "seed law."

The movie you watched was in error.

Who decides what is the right thing.

I've often felt people like adnoto who said you were stupid were being unfair. I just stopped feeling that way.

If you really can't understand that what Glenn was referring to in that passage is that the "right thing" would be what you, the voter, thinks is "right," then I can't help you. If you do understand it but are pretending you don't just to have something to argue about, then you're a troll.

Either way: Jebbie, here is where we part company. Much as I hate to say so, cher.

smug, self serving and supercilious

Conservatives understand that human beings are fundamentally flawed, but spiritual beings who can strive to be better than apes, and who must work to provide for themselves and the others they care about.

A masterstroke of self-referential irony. The mind fairly boggles.

I usually only write to point out inconsistencies, hypocrisy, and to explode the myths of the left. There's not much point in coming back again and again. You aren't changing my mind or influencing me.

Write shit, watch people freak out, don't engage.

What's amusing is that he always gets the effect he wants. Every time.

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if you find these cultists (I think the Onion did something on them recently), I (as a Big Glenn Greenwald Super-Fan-Ra!), or even just people you think you can crucify as such

I get these kinds of comments on my WordPress blog all the time.

If the next one is a Viagra ad, you'll know for sure.

wrote:

The right didn't have much reason to criticize President Bush because he had campaigned honestly, and then did what he'd said he'd do.

"I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building."

The repetition of the same quibble over and over again is tiresome. If you disagree with the response you've received multiple times now, please explain why. Otherwise, you're just spamming.

There's a discussion underway here. Participate or move on. Thanks.

the line about the cartoon;-)

Gotcha. I misread that as being "cartoon" in the figurative sense, i.e. a distorted version of one's writing...

The use of quotes by Mr. Greenwald in the post I referenced is grammatically incorrect. It was obviously meant to demean.

What is the relationship between your mindreading abilities and English grammar?

Because the term "Commander-in-Chief" was used as a synonym for "President" during the past eight years. It isn't.

Now stop. Please.

In particular cases [...] it might be indicated to keep one's criticism of a leader with whom one is basically in agreement, [...] confined to matters of policy only, not of person, personality, or persona.

I would say "in all cases," whether you agree with the guy or not.

"Person, personality [and] persona" are criteria for beauty queens, not politicians.

Is this Russia? This isn't Russia.

Kitt, don't assume we're not "losing our faculties."

I don't know about rrheard, but omooex and myself have one foot in the fricking grave, and greenbriar's post might just have been in some new incomprehensible young person cant. Some gibberish that the whippersnappers use on their Twitters on the way to their World of Warcraft with their iTunes stuck in their ears.

Or something.

get off my lawn

What did Glenn mention? In what post? Why do you object, and in what regard? Who is A-sul? What is a DD? Are you, perhaps, related to pieceofcake?

I mean, it doesn't even make sense.

it seems you may be able to relate to my mystification.

Please keep the "Various matters" comments thread open forever. Zoltan, calamine and Steele are locked there in mortal troll combat: perhaps they can be trapped there like it was the "Phantom Zone" from Superman: The Movie...

thx pda