Letters to the Editor
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Win Smith
boo-hoo, everyone is picking on you. These mean libruhls, why don't they just bow down to your intellectual superiority? No, they have to call you names and refute your shallow nonsense point by point. Why don't you ask Rush to give you some of his genius? After all, he's got talent to spare.
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Truth Seekers
Thank you for the link, my friend.
And por supuesto, for the incisive commentary and analysis, as always.
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ADL and motives
I am known for calling out people who use racist, sexist and homophobic slurs. This is well-known to every group of people I interact with.
I have confronted one neighbor, in front of other neighbors, for his anti-gay comments. It has happened multiple times (he never learns). If I then, take my father aside, and privately chide him for using the same type of language, am I not showing favoritism?
Yes. This action then creates questions about why I would apply such favoritism, does it not?
Does this mean that my past record on publicly confronting such behavior is meaningless?
No, but it may raise questions as to how I will procede in the future in similar circumstances.
It is the hypocrisy of methods that Glenn is condemning in the ADL. He has not mentioned distant history, he is dealing with relatively current behavior.
His critique does not in any way deny that anti-semitism exists. Nor do the commenters here deny that.
The ADL's motive to seek out and address anti-semitism is laudable and necessary, but to deny that they are, of late, doing so in a manner that also tends to support those who advance a political agenda they approve of is to deny the evidence that exists for that premise.
Now, I really must go pond-wading.
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But this is a seriously flawed degenerate age.
A say, 'no virtue is safe if hot-pepper jalapeno juice is sprayed.
I know a little girl who thinks a skunk smell is okay and not bad. okay.
A primitive innocents should be vanished. I'd-not judge or fight plain simple differences of opinion like that. A torrent of bloody violence precedes the neocon hate seed dissemination. Now I am not antisemitic. I am anti-Hate! It is essential to oppose a torrent of hate, which leads to daily-killing of children in weasel bushes delusions. Honest friends point out such malice, premeditated, murder, and slaughter aforethought. What's wrong with that!?!
You neocons ought to acknowledge what is obvious truth. And thank, with utmost humility, what is as obvious as that. It is bewildering.
I want to go somewhere on a day like this and eat a squash or 'mater and be attentive to beauty.
Ugly!
Right!
Silence for one's betterment sake can't hurt. Sure, freedom to think, I agree. But a skunk does stink. A skunk only sprays the perceived threat or "enemy" and the insane tripping up the Capital Hill crowd...Well,
kill.
They spray bullets and scream, "Bombs away!" That's a big difference.
I'll go uncork-some Kvoldsol 'vin' for everybody. Arne, Cheers.
I just learn something here? Who was it that mention vim/vin for vigor?
One of my middle names is Vinton. O, Welsh, I'll drink to that any-day. Squelch the LIE FIBS.
I'll share with honest bibbers.
The fibbers who kill gotta get!
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21st century anti-semitism
Oh, by simply pointing out that the ADL has refused to condemn the right wing bloviators, GG is an anti-semite. I'm dense, I don't get it.
Is Win Smith really Julius Streicher reincarnate?
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Umm?
I heard various communists say that capitalism will render many poor people without the most basic needs. You agree with Communists?
-- GlennGreenwald
It depends on the capitalism. I tend to agree with the social democrats. The U.S. government will tell you there are poor and starving homeless people in Cuba but no impartial person who visits there, Canadians I know for instance, ever sees them.
It is interesting how almost "mainstream and moderate" an extremist like David Duke can become in the U.S. So much so that he can be quoted here and this fellow ask us if we agree with him. These extremists have toned down and refined their rhetoric and hate speech over the years. Their messages have been carefully crafted to sound reasonable and sensible to the unsophisticated. Code words are used, "dog whistle politics".
Ever since Lee Atwood perfected the "Southern Strategy" during the Nixon and Reagan years we've had to suffer the indignity of having Klan members run for office in this country. He actually got into office once.
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Pond muck between toes....
...is a Pond heaven sensation.
Go in bare feet.
No drink pond water.
Drink vin-juice.
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Wow, another nerve hit!
Brooks is delusional! He is hardly capable of writing a "perfectly reasonable" article.
”over the past six years, the Republican Party has championed the spread of democracy in the Middle East.”
They did no such thing! They have killed around 1 million Iraqis for oil and to protect Israel. At Brook's urging during 2002, when he said the Iraqis would greet us a liberators, and when he was one of the most significant cheerleaders for the war, the administration did what he wished. Now he says we didn't provide enough troops. If we were going to greeted as liberators, having the people dancing joyously in the streets, and throwing flowers at our troops, it sure looked like we didn't need many troops.
"But American conservatives — from Hamilton to Reagan — have never taken that path precisely because they believe in the power of the American creed, precisely because they have an Enlightenment faith in the power of reason to change minds."
They republicans don't believe in the power of reason, "the American creed," as he states; they believe in the power of American Greed. Reason my ass!
He's a hired lapdog of the Bush administration. What galls me is that this article is one of the most read and emailed. Like it is # 3.
He annoys me so much because I have loved the NY Times my whole life and I tremble as I watch it disintegrate. With the likes of Gordon and Healy and Bumiller.
He consistently writes about the depth of Bush's intelligence and how much Bush reads and the difficult readings that Bush undertakes. That Bush's IQ is 20 points higher that it appears.
I guess Bush fooled him once. "My goodness," to quote Rummie, but how does that old saw go again? Fooled Twice, or something like that.
I appreciated Glenn's response to a poster:
"But what if it's true? What if there are Americans urging war because they think it's good for Israel and don't care about the effect on the U.S.? Are we not allowed to say that?"
Walt-Mearsheimer are also getting lambasted for stating the obvious. We went to war, primarily to protect Israel. There were many subordinate reasons, some of them sort of worthwhile, but the main reason was the influence of AEI and AIPAC. I don't understand the reluctance to admit this. I am an American first so it troubles me, but I can understand their motivation.