Letters to the Editor
BillG
Published Letters: 9 Editor's Choice: 1
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A suggestion
[Read the article: I clean green but the dishes don't gleam!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I like adding 20 Mule Team Borax to my dishwasher (and the washing machine) along with whatever detergent I usually use. Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers were right-- it's amazing stuff. It's also inexpensive and it's "green" to boot.
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About-face on the Patriot Act
[Read the article: Another conservative has a change of heart]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So Mr. Barr now avers that the Patriot Act was a bad bill that should not have been passed because it has led to untold numbers of civil liberties abuses. Gee whiz, Bob, what was your first clue?
All this tells us is that Barr voted for that horror in his customary lockstep, goose step GOP fashion without reading it first. Problems were created by granting an administration unfettered power all right, but Bobby-boy, you led the goddamned charge to give the Bushinistas those unfettered powers! That you now plead shock and awe at how it has all turned out, and that you expect the public to believe you, is the very height of arrogant disingenuousness. That bill is the least conservative legislation to run through the Congress in the last 200 years, yet Barr, the avowed conservative lighthouse, only now admits that his support and his vote for it were big boo-boos.
Barr's remark that the Clinton impeachment was justified because it was another time and another administration is so deeply beneath contempt that it merits no consideration. Barr and his boys spent eight years and a billion dollars trying to snag Clinton in some horrid crime or misdemeanor, and the worst thing they could come up with was an adulterous sexual relationship between consenting adults. If you had any character, Barr, you'd be excoriating your fellow "statesman" Newt Gingrich for his own heresy in this very topic.
Admit it Bob... your kiss-ass relationship with the current GOP got you in tons of trouble with your conservative constituents. Now you are casting about for a tidal wave that you hope will wash your sins from the ever-myopic public view. What else are you trying to leave behind in your run for the exit?
Note to the Libertarian Party: if you people truly believe in Barr's renunciation of his GOP sins, then your party richly deserves a very special place on the ash-heap of history.
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Part of the problem is that this is playing out in short attention span theatre
[Read the article: A Gonzales resignation is not enough]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"While we need some accountability in this administration, I think the public tires easily of long, dragged out special prosecutions..."
Well, AC76, that is precisely the problem. The American public has regressed to an attention span that would embarrass a petulant 4 year-old, which is why our nation has come to the crossroads at which we find it. So much has already been unearthed (not to mention hinted at) about the reprobate actions our government--all 3 branches of it--has taken over the last six years that it is high time that We, the People, put American Idol away and demand some long, dragged out special prosecutions. Impeachment resolutions and criminal trials would be appropriate as well.
We need accountability all right, not only from this administration, but also from Congress and the judiciary. Throw in the press, too-- hell, all of the Four Estates are responsible for this miasma.
As in 1789 France, the Third Estate (that means us, the public) must rise up and demand action. Unlike monarchical France, however, the United States has the means to achieve a peaceable revolt. It means, however, that the nation must use the system (the one it that it has sacrificed thousands of lives to preserve) as it was designed to be used, and as well be steadfast in our willingness to go through what will be a moderately wrenching process.
Consider the alternative: think Murrah building, think World Trade Center, think Virginia Tech, think Second Amendment-enabled citizen-militias in the streets, and then wonder how much longer we citizens can allow this crap to go on.
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I'm shocked... shocked...
[Read the article: Storm over "penis" in Va. Tech shooting photo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm gonna pile on the side that says "so what if it was his penis."
The disturbing thing is the disturbed people who, as Clark-Flory points out, are more disturbed by the sight of what they (hope) is a man's genital than they are of the reason they got to see it in the first place.
So let's see, we are more offended by the sight of an instrument of procreation than we are of the occurrence of a wanton massacre. Yep, Bush & Rove were right to get rid of the Salt Lake City U.S. Attorney because he wasn't hard enough (on pornography.) But since Fredo needs a home run right now, this student shouldn't be surprised if he gets indicted as a pornographer. That would be just their style-- Abu Ghraib meets New Orleans. Doin' a fine job there...