Letters to the Editor
randron
Published Letters: 100
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Thank You!
[Read the article: Al-Qaida does it, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Before I turn in for the evening, I just wanted the lot of you to know how much I appreciate the mental and spiritual stimulation you provide. Even Shooter242 causes one to wonder how any human being can come to the conclusions he reaches on a daily basis (unless, heaven forbid, there's more than one of him/her). Many wax poetic for page after page, making sense and nonsense from the words uttered by others, providing links to the wisdom of the ages and of contemporaneous thought. Glenn's site is a great place to "hang out" and share ideas. Your collective intellects put mine to shame, but I still enjoy commenting on the your ideas, thoughts, and passions. To put it simply, thank you for caring about things that matter; our country; our past, our present and our future. May our collective efforts make a difference in a most positive way. May we find strength in our differences and in our similarities. May our love for truth and justice help us to find common ground and may we find that real estate, take up residence there and not only survive, but thrive. When all is said and done, you give me hope and for that, I say, "Thanks and goodnight!"
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The great fraud is...
[Read the article: The great right-wing fraud to repudiate George W. Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The truth is that today, there are really three parties: Democrats, Republicans and Corporatists. George Bush is NOT a Conservative and NOT a Liberal, but his IS and always has been, a Corporatist.
All you need to do is examine his picks for the Supreme Court. Strict constructionists!? Not hardly! They will legislate from the bench in a heart-beat if it means increasing and extending the power of corporate interests over the people (see recent ruling on Ledbetter v. Goodyear). Just wait until cases come before the SCOTUS involving big pharma, workers' rights, women's rights, minority rights. If it's big business v. "the little guy," big business will win ... EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
The problem is: there are Democrats who are corporatists and Republicans who are coroporatists. What they AREN'T are liberals OR conservatives .. they just CLAIM to be ... just to get elected. Then, after they've been ensconced in office, they become for sale to the highest bidder and who has the most money??? Why big corporations, or course! Bush, most of the Republican party, and an obscene number of Democrats sold out YEARS ago! Why do you think these great, embarassing, tax cuts for the wealthy and the corporations were so easly passed? And why do you think their repeal is so unlikely, even with the Democrats in the majority?
So Bush really has NEVER been a "Conservative," but he has been what the Republican party has morphed into over the past many years ... a party "Of the wealthy, for the privileged, by the corporatists." He is theirs - lock, stock and barrel. They deserve each other and even though they may wish to "divorce," what GOP has joined together, man will not put asunder.
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Bush & the "Known Unknowns"
[Read the article: New disappearance revelations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I generally don't like to engage in comparisons between the Bush Administration and Nazi Germany (since Republicans are so adept at comparing Dems to Nazis), but I seem to recall that citizens of Germany, many of whom lived within a stone's throw of the concentration camps, either didn't know or didn't CARE to know what kinds of atrocities were being committed "in their name." I fear that when Bush's "known unknowns" become "known knowns," that many Americans will be as "shocked and sickened" as those Germans who stood silently by while 6,000,000 Jews, Gypsies, Gays, Mentally Challenged, and others were ruthlessly disposed of. I hope that whomever is in charge at that time will do what Eisenhower did ... namely, to walk our citizenry through the carnage and force us to bury the dead bodies of those we've rendered, tortured and killed.
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Harry Reid's Shame
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman, warmongering centrist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reid MUST strip Lieberman of any and all committee assignments IMMEDIATELY. Lieberman is an embarassment to Reid and the Democratic leadership. He is playing them for fools and they, foolishly, go right along with his antics. It is precisely this kind of stupidity that makes the Democratics appear weak and clueless.
Also, I've been saying for some time that we ought to be keeping close tabs on those, among the top military leadership, who take early retirement. I believe those who do, will be the ones who oppose Bush/Cheney/Lieberman's fixation with military action against Iran. The more who leave, the more likely it will be that Bush's plan against Iran is about to come to fruition. i hope those who retire will speak out instead of "fading away" so that we the people have a chance of stopping the insanity that is George W. Bush.
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Tweety "Butt Sniffin'" Matthews
[Read the article: Chris Matthews on Fred Thompson's sexiness and smells]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I watched, mouth agape, as Matthews went on and on, drooling over his personal fantasies of Fred Thompson's olfactorial attributes. Immediately following his "stinky" remarks, I shot off a letter to Hardball inquiring as to what kind of sick, twisted, "daddy-fetish" would cause any respectable "journalist" to determine a candidate's worthiness by how he smelled! His rant really did remind me of how our canine cousins "greet" one another.
First, Tweety fawned over McCain in 2000; then it was GWB in the role of "Commander Codpiece" that got his attention; next, Rooodeee became his "daddy" with his tough talkin' Tony Soprano imitation; and now, it's Fred "Law and Order" Thompson's English Leather, Aqua Velva, and cigar smoke effluvium!
What's next, choosing a President with the IQ of a Post-It note, who's only been successful at failure, and is seemingly incapable of stringing together a series of words into a coherent sentence? Boy! What an embarassment THAT would be!