Letters to the Editor
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monica69
Just how stupid can you be? Family oriented? With a divorce rate well over fifty percent? Generous? By sending our military to brutalize country after country? Is bombing kind? Eisenhower's prophecy about the military industrial complex has come to pass, and you morons buy the whole thing. Pax my veteran ass. Since World War II ended, we've been in war almost constantly. We love it. Or, rather, you belligerent bullies love it. Peace at the end of a gun barrel. The thing is, thimblewit, I actually love America, what she stands for, her founding documents, the good intentions of many of her people. What I don't love is blind patriotism, arrogance, egocentricity, xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, and idiots like you. McLame had the misfortune of being shot down. That's not heroic. He did endure six years of captivity, for which we owe him a lifetime of gratitude. It has nothing to do with his politics, or his personal morals, or lack thereof. You do know he was schtuping his current wife, then mistress, when he was married to his first wife. Oh, of course you don't. Or that his campaign manager is a paid lobbyist, not on McLame's payroll? Of course not. That would require reading, a skill you either never had or have allowed to rust while sitting in your trailer drinking Butt Lite. Semper fi. love, Heywood.
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Brand Aid
Leave it to the marketing expert to fall back on focus groups and polls. The presidency has become a popularity contest without substance. Our confused primary - caucus, everyone - no one representation is a feel good response to a revulsion by the electorate, an anti-establishment vote.
We would do better to take advantage of modern scientific advances and vote for the body parts, the personality, the race, gender, of the candidate, then add experience to the list.
Should this biotech piggy go to market? It would do better than the hit or miss choices we have made.
We are able to match genetic sequencing to physical traits. We can select from among these the subjects with intelligence, education, training and experienc those best suited to serve. Then the political parties can choose a number of candidates that best represent their views.
These candidates must pass review by an electoral collage to determine the honesty, the beliefs and convictions of each candidate. A lie dector and an MRI can indicate the kind of thinking and the areas of the brain involved,
Of course, as the butcher asked the customer who wanted to smell every chicken to see if it was fresh, "Could you pass this test".
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tom payne-in-the-ass
"...Just how stupid can you be?..."
What, my post went over your head? Perhaps a remedial course in reading comprehension would help you. I'd like to remind you that your nick name on this board was a learned firebrand, not a running dog sycophant of the loony left spouting hollow slogans all over Boston.
"...Family oriented? With a divorce rate well over fifty percent?..."
Shit happens. Our serial divorce rate doesn't negate the deep bonds and responsibility most of us feel for our kin, divorced or not. Families endure in America. I hope you've had the experience of deep and lasting family bonds.
"...Generous? By sending our military to brutalize country after country?..."
Man, we sure brutalized Japan, didn't we? And Germany? They respect us because we have been as generous and kind in peace as we were dangerous in war. They've flourished while we could have just sat there sucking up their GNP. Did we brutalize Serbia? Korea? Rather, we have tried to stabilize regions and foster democracy all over the world. Democracy, Tom Payne's cherished flame. I imagine the marines who died at Iwo would kick your ass up and down the beach, then pick you up, dust the sand off your pouty little face, and say, "You got your right to free speech, son."
"...Eisenhower's prophecy about the military industrial complex has come to pass, and you morons buy the whole thing..."
Mmmm, maybe. (Actually, "military industrial complex" is a tasty chestnut you dragged out of the '60's closet. I begin to see where you come from.) The military production facilities we've built have preserved American freedom and made it possible to spend the Soviet Empire into shambles. Or, perhaps, you long for the days of Stalin and the Cold War. I don't. They were rather depressing an uneconomical, not to mention deadly for millions of innocent people. The last twenty years have been much better, and I don't feel victimized at all by the "military-industrial complex". They are designing and deploying methods to take out the bad guys without having jar heads take incoming fire. I thought you might appreciate that.
"...Pax my veteran ass. Since World War II ended, we've been in war almost constantly. We love it. Or, rather, you belligerent bullies love it. Peace at the end of a gun barrel..."
Well, here you demonstrate your liberal education. Soft on history and facts. Read up on Pax Romana and then we can talk. It's not just war. In fact, it's not just "one" thing anymore at all in most human edeavors since the Bronze Age. In leading nations, men have to manage a combination of intelligence, diplomacy, war, threat, perceived threat, resources, trade routes, energy supply monopolies, negotiation, alliances, covert action, technology, blackmail, strategic advantage, culture, propaganda, and all the tools that leaders have employed to advance the needs of their nations. We happen to do it a hell of a lot better than any other country at the moment. Hence, Pax Americana. A world with vital trade and economic growth, burgeoning new democracies, incredible science and arts.
"...The thing is, thimblewit, I actually love America, what she stands for, her founding documents, the good intentions of many of her people..."
Can't argue with that. I'm sure even the Rosenberg's loved their country.
"...What I don't love is blind patriotism, arrogance, egocentricity, xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, and idiots like you..."
I'm sorry you suffer such self-hatred. You forgot to mention agism.
"...McLame had the misfortune of being shot down. That's not heroic..."
I thought it was heroic that he told the North Vietnamese to fuck off when they offered to send him home because his daddy was an admiral. I hear the same kind of spirit from the guys who've been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. They want to go back and fight with their buddies. Between what six-pack of Colt 45 and a big fat dooby did you forget that feeling? Semper Fi?
"...You do know he was schtuping his current wife, then mistress, when he was married to his first wife. Oh, of course you don't..."
I'm not interested in that crap. It's rumored, it's true, it's not true, it's exagerated, it's the breathless utterances of media gossip mongers. What the hell. People do people things and I don't live in a glass house. Do you?
"...Or that his campaign manager is a paid lobbyist, not on McLame's payroll?..."
Are you talking about Rick Davis? Hmmmm. What's he been doing for the past four years? Lobbying? Perhaps you'd better check your facts, Heywood.