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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Peggy Carey
Published Letters: 36 Editor's Choice: 4
Dear Editor:
I actually find it more disturbing that Woodward felt that Valerie Plame's name was leaked 'accidentally' as gossip. These are the men who are in charge of our country, our security, and our military. If they are gossiping with reporters about classified information, tht is horrifying. On top of that, many of them are lawyers, and should have a lot of practice at keeping confidences.
How does Woodward explain why LIbby would lie about something that's 'just gossip.'
Mr. Luskin may be in serious ethical trouble himself. No story has yet said where the intensive search for emails took place. If all of the emails had been forwarded to Luskin before his conversation with Novak, I would suggest that he may be investigated for concealing evidence himself. I'm not sure what Luskin is thinking, but he needs a lawyer.
Several years ago, a friend of mine had her dog put down at her husband's insistence after the dog began 'leaking' urine. As they face their inevitable divorce (not because of the dog . . .but because their inability to resolve their difference on the issue without one of them 'caving' was just an example of how they handled many issues) the dog's death comes up again and again as a source of terrible resentment. In face, I can honestly say that his insistence that the dog be euthanized is going to cost him prettily, . . .and I don't mean emotionally.
As I've watched the debacle that is the implementation of the Medicare prescription drug program, I have had to wonder whether it was the intended consequence of the people who voted for it. When I read that the Republicans thought Medicare should "wither on the vine" I become convinced that it was.
I think they have miscalculated. I live in a staunchly Republican, conservative part of the country, and I can tell you the political will exists for national health care at this time. Old people vote in vastly greater numbers than any other group, and I think the Republicans will pay dearly for this fiasco.
I don't know why, but Gingrich reminds me of the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Maybe its just his name.
I don't think Bush can do a pardon because of the 2008 race.
But he so crassly ignores everything else, maybe so.
Does anyone hear a violin and smell smoke?
Peggy
Excuse me, but I don't know where else to post this. Reading Prime Minister Aziz' comments about the CIA counter-intelligence report of the airstrike in Pakistan (It's absurd he said) made me think . . .
Who was it that decided to bomb a NUCLEAR ARMED country without the knowledge of its government?
Before I was just dumbfounded, now I'm getting scared.
Peggy Carey
Before this woman can begin atonement she still has to set aside what appears to be an overwhelming narcissism. The husband and children in her letter are depicted as little planets revolving around wise mother until she makes a mistake, and then their lives are "irrevocably spoiled"? I don't think so. Life has pain, from many sources. And while this woman was incredibly selfish, her family, her ex-husband and her children, WILL get over it. Which is what she really can't stand, so that she must, must, make herself the center of attention AGAIN, by bemoaning the fate she has brought upon them all.
Better she simply find a quiet way to make amends to HER OWN FAMILY before seeking atonement through anonymous prisoners. The energy she would spend at that task would be better spent determining if she is capable of having an honest conversation with her children, which one would assume are grown, and her ex-husband about her remorse. Not in a theatrical 'all is lost' mode, but in an 'I fucked up, and I want to make amends. Can you help me understand how to do that' mode.
She could probably start by disowning her theatrics, and refusing to make her situation a writing exercise for publication in Salon.
This is probably the most depressing story I've read in a long time, reflecting, as it does, the completely sanctimonious, knee-jerk reactionary society we've become under our theocratic ruler and his religious zealot minions.
Ohmigosh! After all these years, a new defense for my clients.
"I'm sorry your honor, that gentleman walked right in front of my client's rifle, and he didn't call out that he was there."
Let me think, what was it they said in my firearms safety class? Oh, yes, "Never cover anything with the barrel of your weapon that you're not prepared to lose."
Okay, I have to respond to Poco. I have hunted, both with a rifle and with a compound bow. I have hunted: deer, elk, pheasant, ducks, geese, and a bird served under another name, but which is famous for living on statues in city parks. I have taken weapons safety classes, and competed in pistol shooting.
To minimize the shooting of a hunting companion is to overlook the basic rule of using a weapon . . .we are responsible for making sure the barrel of our weapon is pointed only at things we wish to hurt or kill.
To say "it happens" is bullshit. So do many other things, including negligent homicide (accidental shooting of a person resulting from careless use of a weapon) . . .that does not mean that it is not a serious event.
Bird shot is little, but there is a lot of it, and if it Whittington was close enough to get hit . . (within 25 yards) two things are clear . . .he was visible, and he got a faceful.
We'll see what he looks like when and IF a picture of him appears.
CNN has just reported that Mr. Whittington has suffered a heart attack from a piece of bird shot that traveled to his heart.
Sounds like more than skin wounds to me.
If he dies, should the VP be charged with negligent homicide?
I know my clients would be.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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