Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 1638
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Mona
[Read the article: Anonymous Liberal for Glenn Greenwald: Giuliani on torture]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wintin the boundaries you have described, Mona, you are correct. People remanded to insane asylms and institutions for the intellectually challenged would and did benefit from alternative settings. And, that was very much a progressive initiative. If memory serves, it was under JFK's administration that deinstitutionalization was first proposed. The advent of community mental health had its origns there, I believe. But it was woefully underfunded the day it was proposed. State, county and municipal governments stepped in to take up some of the slack. The initiative managed to limp forward in spite of itself. When and if I get time, I'll try to research specifically which of Reagan's initiatives cut it off at the knees. But, as for many social programs, Reagan's administration is not held in high regard, and it was nearly ordained at that time the corrections system would become the last resort provider of "mental health services" as alternative community system slowly starved to dealth.
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Martin Gifford
[Read the article: Chris Floyd for Glenn Greenwald: People get ready -- one shoe away from war with Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With all due respect... It took me a couple of quick re-starts to grasp that Chris' post was largely hypothetical. And, maybe that's the point? We are already pre-conditioned to see war with Iran as a reality, since the post didn't strike us as absurd from the beginning. Instinctively, we know BushCheney are capable of doing this. Instinctively, we know how the drill will go down. It is precisely because it is so plausible, that we're drawn in as though it is real.
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Ah, Chris
[Read the article: Chris Floyd for Glenn Greenwald: Dissent or disgrace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well said. So very well said.
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various
[Read the article: Chris Floyd for Glenn Greenwald: Dissent or disgrace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@ Bebop-o
It too early for a cold bier,yet!?!
Hell, no! It's gotta be after 5 PM somewhere. After this week at Unclaimed Territories, however, I'm going to reach for a bottle of scotch and chug!
@ Ché Pasa
If anything, we need more of Chris Floyd's patented brand of fire breathing and less -- far less -- hankie wringing and fainting dead away.
The latest in right wing and 'centrist' defense tactics. It do get old. Very old.
@ Kitt
Learned helplessness is one way to get through, but it doesn't help you get out.
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Thanks for everything Pam!
[Read the article: Pam Spaulding for Glenn Greenwald: More Obama campaign miscalculations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]IMHO, In order to stop drawing the lines we need to acknowledge when, where, and how we draw them. A good deal of that information is still invisible to us. No amount of self-monitoring will make those lines evaporate. I find it's painful, and potentially divisive, every darned time someone uncovers another one of those trip wires. But, I'm guessing that to glide over those wires allows those who do not want to acknowledge their existence, to slide through in the safety of the crowd without having to face the fact the wires exist. I think some of us are doomed to feel clubbed bloody, and senseless before the most thick skulled get around to sayin', "You talkin' to me?" If that's what I have to contend with, so the more callous can evolve, then - for me - it's a small price.
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Vlad the Impaler (Dracula?)
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt's concern over "costly litigation" for AT&T and Verizon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I believe at least some of taxes, costs, interest payments, overhead would be considered sunk costs which business is encouraged to ignore when making a business decision; the most significant of which is whether to continue to operate or not. If you'd like to provide the number revenue net of costs, both implicit and explicit, I'm relatively confident it would still be a very big number. Were the telecoms under investigation to be found guilty, as noted before, their largest cost may well be their loss of customers. Your argument seems to rely on an accounting shell-game, which you might be very good at, to allege Glenn's dishonesty. So far, your argument goes on its nose.
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I vote try to chase it down and create a ruckus if you can
[Read the article: A bizarre, unsolicited e-mail from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was kind of ambivalent about RMP's earlier suggestion to send Boylan's email to various entities within the chain of command, but consequent your 3rd update, my ambivalence has evaporated. Lots of possible explanations are rolling around in my head, but they all take me to the very same place. Regardless, of any explanation I can conjure, it would seem to me that the military would want to get to the bottom of the email's origin, sender, and focus. All of the implications identified by others upthread ought to be a concern for all the reasons noted. Sorry, RMP. I ought not to have doubted you. You're pitch perfect on this I think.
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my 2-cents macgupta
[Read the article: A bizarre, unsolicited e-mail from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]e. Here comes the problem - why would they do this trace for Glenn, or inform him of the results?
They wouldn't unless it was going to cost them not to. Which is why following RMP's earlier suggestion to circulate the email among the various oversight groups makes sense. It creates an incentive for them to trace and inform. Could be the threat of circulation might be enough, but then you'd wonder if you could trust the results. That's part of the reason I no longer doubt the wisdom of RMP's suggestion. Particularly, if as IndianaLiberal suggests, it's definitive the email originated within the DoD.
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RMP
[Read the article: A bizarre, unsolicited e-mail from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I feel certain that he has a lot of people trying to help him get out of this serious emailgate
If only.... For the moment, I'm enjoying the heck out of the mental visuals and accompanying audio your speculation has triggered.
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update 7
[Read the article: A bizarre, unsolicited e-mail from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good job, Glenn and 'associated tech support.'
But, does this mean you'll take tomorrow off, Glenn? If so, you'll have earned it.
It's been an interesting Sunday.
Maybe RMP, will 'spoof' what he imagines ocurring behind the scenes right about now. ;)
Otherwise, it do look case closed.