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AnnieW
[Read the article: Only America-hating traitors believe in due process for journalists]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You make a valid point. It often seems like the mainstream media is waiting for some lefty blog to break a story so that they can report on what the BLOG SAID, not have to go out on a limb and report the issue themselves. In that regard, these discussions and the support that they show for our blogger-saints are invaluable.
However, I still make my point. The reason Bush won the executive the second time around--literally with the country and the world on fire--is because no one really does care about any of this but us. Thus we'll always be picking one little turd out of a raging river full of crap and hoping for the best. Just saying. There has to be some way to get more turd scoopers out there.
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@Nulla Sallus
[Read the article: Only America-hating traitors believe in due process for journalists]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Negativity for its own sake is hardly more action-oriented than blogging. I have no idea what you do in your life to make the world a better place, neither do you know anything about me or anyone else on this thing.
To assume that you either blog or go out and protest is false logic--there is no contradiction. I myself do both; and I read blogs so that I have arguments to present to people on the sidelines so that they will join me.
I myself earlier implied that often it seems we are tilting at windmills created for us by the right wing. At the same time, the great thing about blogs are that there are no rules. Please let us know what the battles are that we should be fighting, as it appears you have an inside track. I would read any letter you wrote on the topic. I would even visit your blog.
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Nulla, agin
[Read the article: Only America-hating traitors believe in due process for journalists]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nulla's arguments sound an awful lot like the basis for most of the right wing cable and radio dismissal of anything progressive.
Why are you doing this?
You shouldn't do anything.
Doing things makes you look stupid and like a girly-person and always brings up the point that whatever you're doing comes at the expense of something I assume you're not doing.
If you were an adult, manly or womanly type, you would do nothing and let Republicans do everything for you. Then you would never look stupid, which is the most important thing in the world.
Also, even though its not important and silly, I will read every word you say and examine every action you take so that I can find anything that sounds like a contradiction so that I can prove that no one should listen to what you say. Because even though everything you say is stupid, people might actually listen to it instead of doing nothing.
And, oh yeah, conformity.
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Ron Paul As Good As it Gets
[Read the article: The Ron Paul phenomenon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I mean that ironically. And it is indeed this phenomenon--that out of a mediocre set of people you simply cannot take seriously, Ron Paul is the only one who you could probably have a conversation with at a party and not feel like you just swam in a lubricant. (And MSNBC was running a bare bones minute or so piece this morning on Paul, actually making the connection that he broke the Repub financing record on Guy Fawkes day.)
That being said. I think the comparison between Paul and Dean is a stretch. Dean was actually polling much higher than any of his competitors, while Ron Paul is radar-invisible. While most media want to forget this, it was in fact a media war against Dean that fragged his chances at the nomination; while Paul, having no status to lose actually gains from the negative attention. Yesterday, Tim Russert went on Hardball and actually claimed that no one knew why Dean's trajectory suddenly went south in his first caucus in Iowa.
Not to hype my own blog or violate any moors or policies here (and If I am a simple warning will do-- don't ban me, my feelings are easily hurt), but I just wrote something about Dean and the media war against him; no one's really talking about this anymore, but it certainly is worth discussing right now. You can link to it by clicking the little omooex icon at the bottom of the letter
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And One More Thing...
[Read the article: The Ron Paul phenomenon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think there's nothing wrong with defining life as beginning with conception. I do in fact think of it as starting around then, when I get around to thinking about it; I have no basis for that belief--its certainly not Christian in origin--but it makes me feel better about the world.
As for abortion, a woman's life is intertwined with that of the thing in her womb. Its not viable, it can't live outside of her body, it does not pass the most minimum standards of being a human being--and most importantly, it needs her body's nutrients to live. By any rationale she is the custodian of that organism and if she chooses not to bring it to term for any number of reasons, that's her decision by any objective measure.
And one last thing about the constitution. Thanks to the constitution we had slavery for over a century. The constitution made no mention that there was nothing wrong with segregation, so thanks to that brilliant document, we had segregation for another hundred.
It didn't come out of a burning bush, you know.