Letters to the Editor

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An e-mail exchange with Michael Ledeen shows that, as always, neocons lack the courage of their implicit smears.
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  • My response

    Adnoto, my response to the vote in the Senate is similar to Arne's; to divert some of the money I'd ordinarily give to the national Democatic organizations to MoveOn; in fact, I'd already started doing that prior to the vote. For example, I pledged $100 to support running anti-war candidates in primaries where the Democrats don't, or aren't, just as I sent Lamont money during the last Connecticut primary. Unlike Arne, though, I still plan to support the DNC. As long as Howard Dean remains chairman, the 50 state strategy remains in place, and for folks like me, who live in AZ, this is crucial.

    As many of us have said before, given our system, fighting this fight within the Democratic Party seems likely to be more fruitful than doing so outside it. I don't have any intention of restricting my support or money to the party alone, however. Just as in the sixties we had the Viet Nam Day Committee, we have MoveOn today; I fully expect there'll be others; I just don't think that this is the time to abandon the Democratic Party, not as it appears to me that we're about to get our issues on the agenda in a big way.

    If there were a draft, this would go more quickly, I think, but even without one, we've done surprisingly well. The Imperial economy and its blind support wasn't built in a day, and barring some help from events -- not all of which, unfortunately, are likely to be benign -- it will take some years to dismantle it, and then only if we can get people to see the need.

  • Yea! O, Aerial Roots. And Oh- pow-wee, Ya''s Leeden's ilk? IOKAY! Is this Total Divine Fun, or No? or yes?

    I'm a believer in sobriety. One day I was in Adana Turkey. I5t was in the late 70's. Okay, I'll go look up Kerfuffle!

    Pow-wee.

    Was I supposed to be afraid?

    I'm a believer that GOP's black bile-vermin seeps Visa/Via the black shined teeth LIE

    LIES...FLOWS BLACK BILE.

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    I feel like a lit-fired-pine Outdoors Hearth! A fire that cooks scallions (no-onions) and dried lintels, and NO waco-weenies [?], and other 'ole silly

    Tarzan Contests- Thumps-Upon-Chest...Yer-owl-hula-hoopla...Too?...Ha-Hey? Ask.

    Ya' are a Fine belly-dancer-gigglers group. Yow. Howl-Hoopla. Poke the belly-button, and yummy, but very gently. So- Okay- A 'ole Yowza. Kizzee-o-Owl...Oh, I feel like thumping off somewhere.

    Glenn: Please enter a Duck-Call EMERGENCY-SIREN...or learn to make a Geese-Squeak call. Okay? You can enter a fall-duck-call contest.

    BTW- The Judaeo-Poor-Christian:... O. Mother Wonderful Misquotation-Maid-OF-Perpetual Help,

    O, Migratory.... OR- will a natural-human-judge, who is the best duck-caller caller around- Pleeze Pelosi-YA-Too...Will Yeah just imitate a black-duck yelp mate-call?

    BTW- Glenn, I entered You in next years contest. So-YA's must A's a Practice?

    Squeaky?

    YOU- Glenn, I say, "PRACTICE!?" oR, DRINK a small glass sip of 'ole fashion tasting, ole' pure-yellow, Honey Meade. Hold yer good dear friends up. NO let 'um walk in the DC pond.

    What Peril?

    We to see the 'ole kill-Regime return? No. Please, Glenn, survive.

    The sacrificial will not be a contribution THAT will BE easily forgotten.

    You are 'in service' to the good ideals, and preserve,,,a dying LAND.

    O, the future readers HERE: Probably, will have fond memories of GG, trolls, shooter's boss's creep, and OLE'- Chris-Floyd, etc.,...in unison, they SING! and in-a-harmony...with the f'er-(Heifer) Salon.

    No let friends,

    Feel too Lonely.

    Call NSA, O, Oh, the Yak's are all-a-hat Tipping & Tapping away? O, "Howdy."...

    GSA, FBI, NSA, GSA, OR, 'ole ...Be nice...

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    bamage- I use my "wife's" former e-mail... She has her own personal e-mail (T.J.), and also a BANK account...etc., SO- and as Glenn may have said @-~.~.,,,.~.~

    NO MISQUOTE.

    As in the Last-Post-WHO-Sorry?

    But, Guess What? Wow. SO- IF yam's see a un-invited "T. James" e-mail...NO Trappable...Who adores...Pedinska...No Problem? i HARMLESS. I WILL stop this:

    bamage: Okay. I must say: I enjoy the mornings. A quiet walk. A stroll, via woods now- and a runty...Mood-in-Air?

    O, Ya need to Cuss. Scream.

    OKAY & FORGIVE me- The saloon. Send ONLY-ONLY-ONLY a legible hand written...hand written....hand written...HAND WRITTEN...

    ...LERGIBLE: A hand-legibly-written...Yam's Letters & Thoughts. Confidential? Ask the NSA.

    I'm NO blog or farm boss. I nO cut Beautiful Trees and Where [?] can I Exploit? NO- Way-No!

    Benevolence is Everywhere, YA!

    Greed is in some Ugly-Places. Y.

    O-Yuck! And Somewhere in Plato or Socrates (?), some "weird" guy, mentioned how humorous were the bad-back-stabbers, IN HIS DAY- can BE- enlightening!

    SO- LISTEN bamage: hand written notes-only! 'Um, I Isa' saying', I'll read only Hand-written- notes! I love a hand-written private writ-thought.

    I opened a anti-war opposition Letters in the Ollie-North, *80's, Reagan deception days...,Oh, The "evil" Contra. The notes I read @ the anti-Contra arms-for-weapons-days...was fragrant and rose-in-fragrance.

    FRAGRANT?: Only in THAT: I met MOH0 recipient, former Catholic priest, Charlie Litkey... Charlies is passing Visa town.

    A pink wild-rose bush blooms @ The N.S. Roseway Beach. HERE: IF I am sorry, I'll accept responsibility? The wild dogwood was beginning to form red flowering clusters, THERE...

    bambage: I use my estranged wife's e-mail address (no ask?) e-OH...snail-mail is okay. I've only learned from slow-her... and everybody I can---IT'S-OKAY to BE slow.

    SO: E-MAIL @:

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    wildflower05@earthlink.com

    Socrates said, it can-can gets-A-bit 'weird' & a bit-Wiener-wacko? O, @ TIM$ES?

    S- meant...to hear what others say about you all...YA, O, YA, Good Liberals!&!

    Peewee-Smack- O, all--right, in the facial smacker's soft-lip kisser?

    okay- a repeat: No Be NO NOT- serious! And E-mail-NO! Send poke-mail, snail-slowly, to:

    Art James

    PO BOX 101,

    Clear Spring, Maryland. 21722. USA.

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    There is something about un-folding the hand written paper-note...in a private place.

    And thinking,

    Then, Asa...a...no'a-a-answering.

    Yowee-Holy-Hoopla. O, Assay, yes...

  • I think what we are seeing is the culmination of anti-intellectualism in America...

    So, according to Michael Ledeen, the world's greatest expert on Iran, there's "no intelligent answer" to that question of whether to bomb Tehran tomorrow . . . but hey, wink wink wink, the oppressed Iranian proletariat might really love us if we did that, wink wink wink.

    -- sysprog

    These people not only lack scholarship, but any critical thinking whatsoever. People who are trained in a discipline can only diverge so far and still be peer-reviewed. This is because the actual facts can only be interpreted in so many ways without dishonesty being afoot. No such limits deter the neo-con liars. Since they know nothing at all, they can spout any foolish argument that strikes their fancy, and fattens their wallet. That the Versailles media ignores their deceit is by far the larger crime.

    We are clearly here:

    “The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”


    —H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920