Letters to the Editor
Baldie McEagle
Published Letters: 992 Editor's Choice: 3
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Update
[Read the article: McCain: Threatening to bomb sovereign countries is "naive"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, Obama told us what McCain is planning to do. That's worse.
Funny how you can't tell the enemy about how we spy on their communications and financial dealings, but articles about how cool the Predator is are A-OK.
Selective secrecy.
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java
[Read the article: McCain: Threatening to bomb sovereign countries is "naive"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]May need to update your Java.
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since we're gabbing about McCain
[Read the article: McCain: Threatening to bomb sovereign countries is "naive"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anybody notice McCain voted against the ban on waterboarding, even though he is on record as opposing waterboarding?
Watch the contortions ...
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I'm sorry, PeeWee
[Read the article: GOP politics in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't know Glenn was critiquing those ads on their style. I thought it was their substance.
I guess I need to go back to grad school.
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The question is, scooter
[Read the article: GOP politics in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is our counterinsurgents learning?
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Keep us posted
[Read the article: McConnell/Mukasey: Eavesdropping outside of FISA is "illegal"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]on Reyes' response to the Peeping Twins Mitch and Mike, please.
I just saw Citizen Cohn last night, and was struck by a thought I have had many times in the past few years. Namely, I found myself wondering, When is one of these poor bastards hauled before the Un-American Activities Committee---who know that their lives will now be ruined---going to jump across the table and stomp Ray Cohn's ass? After all, there are as many opportunities for suicide in prison as there are outside of it.
But no one ever did, until Cohn went after the Army. Only Joseph Welch felt someone had his back, representing the Army. In the movie (which seemed authentic enough in its portrayal of Committee interrogations, not so much beyond that), it took a rich New York divorcee to slap Cohn in the face and have him disbarred.
So, thinking of Democrats, I must wonder when one of them will respond, as Reyes should, with an answer containing the words "damned" and "liar." Even Republicans and NASCAR dads would think more of him.
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Not quite
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You can honestly disagree with another's opinion without pure lying about it.
Not when you're dealing with The Enemy.
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Exactly
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's been less than seven years since 9/11 but it was eight years between the first World Trade Center attack and 9/11. So using their logic, we must have been perfectly safe, without a care on 9/11.
We WERE perfectly safe. Until some lousy kids kids messed it all up.
Remember, the Oriental mind is inscrutable. Who could have guessed that the Islamo-Fundies would pick the most vulnerable US airport to stage their attacks from? They must have used some kind of Islamic kabbalah to decide the date and place. And who knew they were on speaking terms with the Filipino Islamo-Fundies?
I mean, did YOU know they were going to attack? Of course not. So don't throw stones at the whitewashed glass house that is our national intelligence/imperial rationalization community.
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Forget Nader
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is this not all-but-factually true?
if the Dems can't landslide the Republicans this year then its time to dismantle the party and start something new from scratch.
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I voted for John Kerry in 2004
[Read the article: Obama shows that dismissing slimy right-wing attacks is not difficult]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and Barack Obama is no John Kerry.
It's a good sign.
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@omooex
[Read the article: Obama shows that dismissing slimy right-wing attacks is not difficult]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whom are you addressing, exactly, when you say "you people"?
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@L.W.M.
[Read the article: Obama shows that dismissing slimy right-wing attacks is not difficult]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know the real reason for that behavior.
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A Hamas friend of mine
[Read the article: Majority of Israelis want to negotiate with Hamas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]said he'd rather die than negotiate with Israel.
He also prefers stealing to working or going to school.
Yes, that's right---he's a Black Hamas member.
Small world!
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"Justification"
[Read the article: Majority of Israelis want to negotiate with Hamas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let me make sure I have this straight. Following your logic and your Iraq/Palestine analogy, if an Iraqi man came to the U.S. and grenaded a church service or blew up an elementary school, you wouldn't call that unjustified, because the U.S. has brutally and unlawfully occupied Iraq. The moral calculus would be too complex for you to unreservedly condemn his action. Right?
I can't speak for Glenn but I can speak for myself. My answer is "YES."
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@drken
[Read the article: Majority of Israelis want to negotiate with Hamas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You need to scroll down a little. You're missing something big.
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The big difference
[Read the article: Some hateful, radical ministers -- white evangelicals -- are acceptable]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is that Farrakhan hates Jews. Does one really need to know more?
Quite some time ago, American Christianity decided to adopt Judaism as a pet religion, to be "loved" to death. As in, we'll protect it from Iran if we have to destroy it.
Louis Farrakhan didn't jump on that bandwagon.
Anyway, I wish I could have seen such a parade as this one would have been:
And the promise of that parade was that it would was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other gay pride parades.
Anybody have tips on how to start a straight one? I like a good "level of sexuality."
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Not quite
[Read the article: George Bush told the truth yesterday]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush's enemy is not the people of the US.
It's the courts. It's the courts he doesn't want seeing "how we conduct surveillance."
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Funny how
[Read the article: George Bush told the truth yesterday]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Watergate is often held up as an example of the system "working." Yet
(1) Nixon escaped when Ford pardoned him.
(2) No one now seems to want to follow the journalistic standards of the Post circa 1974.
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Not sure what all the fuss is about, really
[Read the article: The McCain/Hagee story picks up steam]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hagee's simply borrowed some rhetoric from the Reformation, or at least the Puritans.
Didn't we already hear McCain embrace the Hundred Year's War?
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@The Major
[Read the article: The McCain/Hagee story picks up steam]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Easy on the whiskey, sir. Your typing is (even) worse than usual.
But thanks for remembering the troops!
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No grounds
[Read the article: The audacity of narcissism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan, you've stated no grounds whatsoever for calling Nader narcissistic. You merely resent him in a childish manner, that's all. Which you HAVE made a convincing case for.
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@nabalzbbfr
[Read the article: The McCain/Hagee story picks up steam]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A plus, nabalzbbfr! You've done an excellent job of copying out your response to today's post in longhand from the Republican Chapbook for Young Boys.
Next year, you'll go on to junior high school, where a teacher or 2, if you're lucky, may try teaching you how to think for yourself. Isn't that exciting!
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Mac shmack
[Read the article: The McCain/Hagee story picks up steam]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn:
The real problem here is consumer-grade HP laptops. They live as long as the average insect (about from Spring to Fall with daily use), and come loaded with muck it almost takes a professional to clean out.
Your data is your first priority, obviously. There are many utilities that can do this better than Windows, and I hope someone's helping you with that.
After that, get an enterprise-class laptop with enterprise-class support. And yes, just about anything from Apple will do.
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@ Susan re: the HP Pavilion
[Read the article: The McCain/Hagee story picks up steam]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Exactly. So was mine. Fortunately, it didn't belong to me but to the company I worked for at the time, and it died in someone else's hands, not mine.