Letters to the Editor
Baldie McEagle
Published Letters: 992 Editor's Choice: 3
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Sidney is great. but
[Read the article: "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]3. Broken Logic - "Many liberals, Democrats and other opponents of this right-wing faction have been squeamish in the past about engaging these low-life Freak Show tactics" . . . apparently you haven't read sidney blumenthal's columns.
is he "many liberals" now?
Did he clone his bad self 20 times?
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Remember, peewee
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, the left really knows how to play to its weaknesses.
Weakness is strength.
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Um, no, but what's your point, peewee?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Classic lefty crosstalk on race:
"You didn't mention it, but since it's the only thing I ever think about, let me project..."
It's far from the only thing I think about, even when I'm wearing my lefty political thinking hat. Stuff like war and taxes and the Constitution tend to trump it most of the time. That's not to say it's ever far away, but that's different, isn't it?
Peewee, may I ask if you think you might have some preconceived notion of the people you are addressing? And do you wear your white hood when you sit at the computer and read Salon?
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@NOB
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're Right Jebbie
I shouldn't challenge RMP.
He ain't up to it.
Er, maybe RMP hasn't bothered to answer because the connection between Dick and Halliburton is, uh, well known?
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Now we know
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]what PeeWee's into.
You gave your self away, son!
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Tempest in a teapot
[Read the article: Why doesn't the 9/11 Commission know about Mukasey's 9/11 story?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Isn't this all really just he said/she said? Mukasey probably just misspoke. He wasn't even around in DOJ before 9/11. He didn't make any report to the 9/11 Commission.
Besides, didn't Democrats just scramble to defend Hillary's "misremembering" of her Bosnia visit on basically the same or weaker grounds?
Let's give the new guy a break, and focus on what's ahead. American troops are dying in Iraq, and Obama still hasn't said how he's going to get them out.
(Did I leave anything out, Shiter?)
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N.O.B. is totally right on
[Read the article: The DOJ comments on the Mukasey controversy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know how the technology is being deployed. Without an understanding of how the technology is being used, it is harder to determine legality. For the government to discuss how it is being used in public, would lessen its effectiveness. We're in the dark here.
The less you know, the better. For the same reasons, there's no need to know what happens to the neighborhood prostitutes to go down into my basement.
Oops! Said too much!
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No he's not
[Read the article: The DOJ comments on the Mukasey controversy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The ideal Republican government would employ only security forces (military, paramilitary, guards, and police) and lawyers.
Lots and lots of lawyers. And prosecutors. And jailers.
Because less actual "governing" would get done, it would be called "less" government.
No contradiction there at all.
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probably not
[Read the article: The DOJ comments on the Mukasey controversy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Presumably, he believes he's one of the rich white people the rump government will serve. Or else he has no idea what he's sold his soul for.
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further ...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's your welfare queen. One woman scammed 8 grand, got busted and probably did 20 years. 9 billion down a hole in Iraq and no one will ever get a slap on the wrist.
That's not even a welfare queen---that's a welfare cheat. If we were to shut down every part of the government that allowed itself to be scammed, we'd ... w
ell, we would be well on our way to eliminating everything but the NSA and CIA.
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never mind Mukasey
[Read the article: The Associated Press fails to reveal Mukasey's favorite color]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the Clintons are rich!
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@bystander
[Read the article: The Associated Press fails to reveal Mukasey's favorite color]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Excellent detective work, Lieutenant Bystander.
But is "Mike" a guy you'd have a beer with after parasailing?
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the People's Pentagon
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]SHAILAGH MURRAY: Would you want a department store manager or orthodontist running the Pentagon? I don't think so. . . . A withdrawal by year's end carries enormous, very serious implications.
Shailagh raised an excellent question. Could an orthodontist possibly do a worse job of running the nation's armed forces? Let's face it, the military's job is not that hard even when there is a war to fight. Smart people with enough resources and time will always figure out how to win. (See "World War II, History of")
Most of the hard part of what the military does is logistics. We've shipped nuclear triggers to Taiwan, almost sent nukes to the Middle East, embarrassed ourselves in the Strait of Hormuz, lost billions in cash, forgot to bring the body armor to a shooting war, forgot to armor our Humvees, deployed an IED-resistant vehicle that is vulnerable to IEDs, sent transport battalions astray into ambush, failed the GAO's inspection, and on and on.
Besides, Rumsfeld was a civilian, and what was his profession? Drug company CEO, that's what. And all he did at Searle was evade responsibility and get rich.
By all means, bring on the "shopkeepers."
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Nicely (if geekily) stated
[Read the article: Cokie Roberts speaks out on the war on behalf of the American people]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Winning in iraq is like dividing by zero now: it's undefined. It's not really, really hard, as the Republicans say, or impossible, as the progressives say. It's meaningless.
If you ask an engineer to built a motor, she will make one. If you ask her to build a faster than light drive, she will say it's impossible. If you ask her to build a gorntbuk (and that's all you say) she will just stare at you.
We are not in the second case in Iraq. We're in the third.
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Pachyperson
[Read the article: Cokie Roberts speaks out on the war on behalf of the American people]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Forget about counting talking heads. Whenever I accidentally tune in to NPR, I inevitably notice how skewed the reporting is. Certain obvious questions are never asked. Challenges are never raised. The interviewers are all young and timid.
It's subjective, so I'll provide an analogy. Every single time I read about some technological advance from AP, no matter what it is (nanotech, gene tech, digital tech), the closer always follows this rule:
The innovation may be used to (a) cure a disease (b) spy on terrorists (c) spy on criminals (d) fight future military opponents(Pick one, no matter how absurd).
It's almost as though AP sees no uses for technology beyond generating profits for huge corporations.
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@peewee
[Read the article: Cokie Roberts speaks out on the war on behalf of the American people]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So the blogs shall save the media from itself? They are the "mechanism" that keeps journalism honest? Lucky the Internets came along about a decade ago, just as the media bagan to sink into the swamp withoput a trace.
And yet you come here to call GG "hyperpartisan"?
Either you are pathetically confused and logically challenged, or the blogs you have in mind are only the ones that you agree with.
Which do you plead?