Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 35
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American public opinion
[Read the article: The D.C. establishment versus American public opinion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And so what are all these "majorities" going to do about it? After all, there's only one kind of poll that matters: the kind called "an election". And these "majorities" haven't shown much inclination, never mind initiative or creativity, to get rid of the Republican war party or its Democrat enablers.
My conclusion: keep your assets liquid, your passport current, and your interest in that overseas time-share paid up. 'Cause there's a long, hard time a-coming.
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Mike Huckabee
[Read the article: Holy Constitution!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Never mind the God-botherer talk, I just want to know if this guy really believes that the Canadian Parliament Building in Ottawa is made of ice.
Google "huckabee canada parliament igloo" if you think I'm kidding.
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Numb senses?
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Considering how much TV I watch, you'd think that eventually my senses would become numbed to the insanity of the small screen."
Maybe it's like allergens: the more you're exposed, the more sensitive you become.
Or maybe you're watching it with a functioning brain. You need to drool out like the average viewer to get the correct effect.
As for me, TV is the best absurdist lunatic idiocy I can get for free.
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McCain: yet more proof ...
[Read the article: McCain's misguided role model on deficit reduction]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... that there is no idea so idiotic that a politician can't be found to believe in it.
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Three possible outcomes for Iraq
[Read the article: What will they really do about Iraq?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. A divided, violent country (the near-term option)
2. A divided, violent country occupied by exhausted, demoralized American troops (the mid-term option)
3. A divided, violent country occupied by exhausted, demoralized American troops from a divided, bankrupt America (the long-term option)
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A joke with legs
[Read the article: Ken Pollack: Al Qaeda is a great "catch-all" term]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shortly after 9/11 I told a friend that "it's going to be al Qaeda al the time." So here it's 6 1/2 years later & still going strong ...
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"For the last three hours I've tried to spend $3 trillion and I barely cracked a trillion."
[Read the article: Antiwar site lets you spend $3 trillion your way]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obviously you've never worked in the U.S. "defense" industry.
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America, you were told 30+ years ago
[Read the article: Media's refusal to address the NYT's "military analyst" story continues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here, you're beginning to believe that the tube is reality and your own lives are unreal. You do. Why, whatever the tube tells you: you dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing, WE are the illusion."
-- Howard Beale (Peter Finch) in "Network", 1976 Oscar for Best Picture
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The Yamato, 21st century style
[Read the article: City of lost children]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"When the Red Team sank much of the Blue navy despite the Blue navy’s firing of guns and missiles, it illustrated a cheap way to beat a very expensive fleet. After the Blue force was sunk, the game was ordered to begin again, with the Blue Team eventually declared the victor." -- "Iran Encounter Grimly Echoes ’02 War Game", by Thom Shanker, New York Times, 1/12/2008
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Bradleys used to be considered impregnable
[Read the article: Bradleys used to be considered impregnable]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah - by fools.
From a review of "The Pentagon Wars", by James Burton (1993):
"Burton recalls the fuss he raised over the Bradley Fighting Vehicle's vulnerability to anti-armor weapons ..."
If you don't have time for the book, see the HBO movie (1998).
And for a VERY un-establishment view of anti-armor weapons, read the War Nerd at www.exile.ru for 29 April 2004 and 13 May 2004.
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War with Iran?
[Read the article: Tom Friedman's latest declaration of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, please! The average annual return on my energy stocks seems stuck between 20% and 25% ...
And I wish Bushie would do more to get his MSM flunkies to talk up the virtues of large SUVs (or as I call them, Dividend Generators). Daddy wants a new bicycle!
And to all those people in cars that I pass every day at the stop-lights: just why DO you pay over $4 per gallon to spend hours sitting in a fume-spewing metal box while your arteries harden?
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Network news anchors praise the job they did ...
[Read the article: Network news anchors praise the job they did in the run-up to the war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And the number of viewers for network news programs keeps going down.
Gee, could there be a connection?
(Promote mental health: kill your television.)
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Scott McClellan reveals:
[Read the article: A Scott McClellan flashback]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Pope is Catholic. And bears sh*t in the woods.
Washington a-twitter. Repubs outraged; Dems see advantage for election.
President Bush dismissive; "Scott was never really in the loop."
Homer Simpson: "Doh!"
Astronomers continue search for planet on which Washington is located.
Physicists say: proof of existence of alternate universe.
Rest of world yawns.
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Congress: dump them all ...
[Read the article: Obama's support for the FISA "compromise"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here].. Dems and Repubs alike. Vote independent, Green, whatever. Give McBamaBush a Congress that will make his life hell if this kind of crap continues.
-- Somtimes the best thing to do is just stir things and see what happens. Then take advantage. - Stan Goff, "Full Spectrum Disorder"
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A mocumentary
[Read the article: Good night and good TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The first time I saw "The Newsroom" - I came on it by accident - I thought it was one of those "day in the life of ..." documentaries about a real newsroom in Canada, run by a guy who was just a little on the dim side. Then I realized why the self-obsessed anchor looked so familiar: he played the clueless "Ranger Rick" on "The Red Green Show" ...
The comparison with "The Office", either version, is unfair: "The Newsroom" is much funnier. For example, the argument about whether to say that the victims of the accident in Africa were eaten by piranhas, which exist only in South America, is truly inspired - and uncomfortably close to reality.
Another show in the same style: "The Games", an Aussie comedy about idiots trying to organize the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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Lots of product placement $$$ going to waste here
[Read the article: The AT&T Convention in Denver]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Delegates should wear jackets with sponsors' logos on them, like NASCAR drivers.
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Social reformer?
[Read the article: What Sarah Palin means]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So McCain passed over an older, more experienced woman, such as Jodi Rell, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, or Key Bailey Hutchinson, for a younger one ...
Isn't that kinda like what he did with his wife?
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"McCain introduces Palin, asks for money"
[Read the article: McCain introduces Palin, asks for money]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Washington in a nutshell.
And how come, when I get some young woman to stand up next to me, and then I ask for money, the cops get all agitated?
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Disappointing
[Read the article: Should Obama have picked Hillary?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The other Palin would have been sooo much more interesting - and a great comment on the absurdity of U.S. politics.