Letters to the Editor
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pig wrasslin' !
For all those trying to carry on a debate with kenai9 and his various other online personas, here's some advice from my pappy:
Never wrestle with a pig. You both get filthy, and the pig enjoys it!
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gene's pappy would know
Check out the offspring from such a rasslin' match. ew.
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Gene
So, you want to stop trying to carry on the "debate" huh? Then why are you still referencing me in this forum?
Typical that you and your fellow "conservatives" would assume I am a male.
At least Imike had the guts to answer my question. He finally owned up to the fact that he isn't in the military. You (Gene) and Richard refuse to answer that simple question.
Like I wrote earlier, this is entertaining...it's great to see your kind become hysterical because you are unable to play nice. But that is to be expected when you consider that you people have been listening to Rush for years. We here at Salon accept the fact that you have been so dumbed-down for so long, that you are helpless in your own tragic situation and that you cannot think for yourself, because Rush has been doing all your "thinking" for you.
I hope you guys keep it coming, as it certainly helps to remind the readers here why the country is in the mess it's in. You people have had control over Congress for 12 years, and now you control all three branches of government...your monkey-man pResident has been in charge (if you can call it that) for 5 years. It's not the Dems who fucked this country up. We didn't generate false intelligence. It wasn't the Dems who purposely looked the other way in Tora Bora when we could have had Bin Laden. That was the incompetence of the Neocons.
I mean, I can understand why you people are so upset. If I realized I had been duped because I voted for a monkey twice, and things still suck as bad as they do, then I too would feel like fool and be very ashamed. But the difference between you and us, is that we're at least able to admit we're wrong. Your pResident couldn't even admit one real fucking mistake when asked at the debates. Tragic that you expect so little from your national leaders, while American troops die in the desert for a lie.
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Thanks Nina
Ambivalence is one of the healthier and more honest of human emotions. I admire Nina Burleigh’s willingness to explore in print her evolving response to the teaching of “American values” as they figure in elementary public school education. We need more of this kind of balanced consideration of issues, and less knee-jerk posturing of the kind exhibited by previous respondents to Burleigh’s article.
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oh, brother!
Okay, I'm going to violate my pappy's advice this one time:
You (Gene) and Richard refuse to answer that simple question.
I most certainly did answer your question. I told you quite clearly that I served in the Marine Corps 35 years ago, tried to see what I could do in this war but was turned down for both age and a gimpy leg. Remember?
And then because I met your sole criterion of not being a chickenhawk and was therefore allowed to discuss the war, I asked you a series of questions that your promptly ducked.
... okay, I'm done now. Sorry, Pappy.
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Country boy
What a bunch of liberal bull. This lady is off her rocker. The victim here is her child. She's now brain-washing him with liberalism. Loves America? I don't think so. She loathes America and anything wholesome.
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Great, Gene
Oh, sorry, my bad. Yes, technically you did *finally* answer my question, however your credibility was somewhat tarnished by your reluctance to answer the first 100 or so times I asked you. You are also the same liar who claimed that I wished Saddam was still in power, and I'm still waiting for you to point out exactly where you see that.
BTW, my husband served in the Marines for a relatively short time - something he was not cut out for. His father was a colonel in the Marines, 35 years of service. My father was in the army in WWII for four years in France and Germany, he drove a tank. Like I told Imike, my response is on page 46 if you care to read.
Just wondering if you care to elaborate on your service?
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France Awaits!!!
Small classes with all White children? You and hubby were pleasantly surprised? What a racist!
If France was so good, why not go back permanently?
God Bless America!
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Thanks, Salon!
As soon as I saw the article, I thought (a)How elitist!, and (b) Oh, crap. Some righty blog's gonna post a link.
It has been sooooo long since I've had the chance to see just how off the deep end some people are, and you brought them here for me and others to study.
By the way: The article is still elitist crap, Burleigh hates the working class, and I mad at you for putting me and others into a position where we have to defend her nattering or else come off as Rushies.
God does not belong to conservatism, and neither does rural America.
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Indoctrination
Nina, you've made it clear that you're not willing to let your child grow up and decide for himself whether or not this country has provided more freedom, more prosperity, and more hope to the world than any other nation in history, you don't believe he's capable of seeing the world around him and deciding for himself...so sad, you not only don't believe in the country that made your safe comfy and free life possible, but you don't believe in your own son's faculties. Like the old Soviet Union, you feel you have to indoctrinate him to the "correct worldview", the class struggle, the wrongness of capitalism and freedom (is your point that "We shouldn't have freedom and other good things because we can't guarantee them for everyone in the world" or "We are rich and free because everyone else is poor and enslaved, so we are all bad"...? You'll tolerate any faith and culture except your own native culture and the faith by which your grandparents and parents lived. Clearly you've moved on past the delusions of patriotism, which always lead to fascism in your book, and Christianity, which to you is a sad superstition. Your pseudosophistication would be humorous if it weren't so sad.
You are such a sad excuse for an American and such an unfit mother.
James D. Huggins