Letters to the Editor
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William Timberman:
With all due respect to your intense writings. Did you hear about the mad cows at the Canadian border. Well, W.T. if you got in the 18- wheeler truck to calm down the moo sounds. I bet you have enough compassion to give each mad cow a kiss and a hug? They are cute moo cows.
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Slower coups work best
The Nazis called it "salami tactic." You know, a little slice here, a little slice there. Pretty soon the whole salami is gone.
Uh-oh. I'm sorry, I mentioned Nazis.
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Oh but don't worry
Just vote Democrat in 2008 and it will all be fixed REEEEEL GOOOOOD. What they cannot do with a majority, they will certainly do even MORE of with a bigger majority. Count on it.
Show of hands. Who here actually believes that a President Hillary Clinton will fail to use a single supermagic power that Bush has claimed for the Presidency? Who actually believes that a President Hillary Clinton will give up a single power or "program" that Bush has initiated? Who thinks that Hillary will end rendition? Now consider that it was Bill Clinton himself who STARTED the rendition program...Bush just extended it to the logical conclusion. Who here thinks that torture and secret prisons will end with Hillary? She tacitly approves of torture in the BULLSHIT "ticking timebomb fantasy" and her hubby, big Bill, admires Jack Bauer (????!!!!) of the TV show 24 for his use of torture. His words, honestly. And only just recently, as in the last 30 friggin' days.
Who here thinks that Democrats in the majority in Congress will reverse a SINGLE thing they've enacted while they suffered...in the bereft state of a majority since 2006? Oh yes, PLEASE, let the Democraps revisit FISA again! They can add MORE abuses and unconstitutional bells and whistles with each revisit!
Keep giving those bastards money and promise them your vote. It sure is working wonders don't you think?
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Yellow Dog
Did you hear about the tractor trailer filled with pigs with red lip stick?
O, Forget it.
I do wish you were the White House pet dog named Barney, and inherited 12- million smackers. You could eat ground beef every day and pork loin too. I'd vote for a black dog.
No eat any dear critter that formerly had a anus and ran for political office and LIED to American citizens. They opine they care in congress.
I'm so tired of hearing, "The American People want to be protected." O, I say: Protect from a GOP GWB- mentality...That's Who!
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The myth of electronic eavesdropping
It would be very interesting to read a report stating how many actual terror plots have been filed through electronic eavesdropping. My suspicion is that the answer is:none. 9/11, the Cole attack, the African embassies bombings, the Marines barracks in Beirut, etc, none had been prevented or intercepted through eavesdropping. The Israelis use agents on the ground to find out about terror attacks, and according to an Israeli friend who served in the IDF military intelligence, it's the only way. Eavesdropping is actually about limiting civil liberties and the intimidation of the American public.
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tempus
You're assuming a couple of things that cynical as I am I can't agree with.
First, that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee. I think that is far less than an even-money proposition at this point. Iowa and New Hampshire are going to kill her candidacy.
All the other dem possibles are far less likely than Hillary to continue Smirky's un-Constituional crimes.
Second, that real Democrats recruited by the left to challenge the Bush-fellators will either lose or fail to be any better than their predecessors. This is possible, but surely a worst-case scenario.
I feel your cynicism, and I've been there more than once.
But this time I think, as another poster said earlier, the worm really is turning.
Give it one more chance.
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@ bebop-o
Well, B, climbing into an 18-wheeler filled with large animals -- even fairly docile ones -- to do anything, even if it's just to give each one a peck on the cheek, is a task best left to experts.
More to the point, mad cows are of no concern to Dick Cheney. He isn't going to eat 'em, after all. He prefers folks with flowers in their hair. Dines on 'em daily, I understand. Not a good person.
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They live in caves for good reasons
They may be living in caves but they are a helluva lot smarter and more sophisticated in many dangerous ways than most of the people in our current government.
No. They are not smart in any way. Even though I know what you mean, I disagree with you, first, because of the undue credit it gives the terrorists, and second for how it makes their us feel and act.
Terrorists are base, murderous criminals and nothing else. They are also too lazy to do the thinking and the hard work to find their way out of a predicament. Just violence. On philosophical groundss, I refuse to accept anyone whose solution to a problem is violence as smart.
Second, thinking that we're dealing with a smart enemy is what makes us act out of character. WE wouldn't be having this discussion about spying on each other, or torture, etc. if we had been confident that terrorists were no REAL threat to us. As it is becoming more and more evident to some of us, the real existential threat doesn't come from two-bit murderers on the outside. It could more easily come from our own fears inside.
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Serious:
I'll stop clucking around. The computer is as good as shutoff.
It is so hot ya's can type with the shirt-off. okay. I shuffle off. Tell them the truth each phone conversation, stateside or domestic, and via snooped e- mail.
apologies.
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This one's easy
asked for someone to provide an opposing explanation. To explain what is motivating the Bush administration.
Shortly after 9-11, the Bush administrration realized that they had been completely blindsided. They then proceeded to panic. they rounded up thousands of Arab Amerricans for the crime of being arab-americans and they implemented a clearly illegal wiretap scheme without considerring the consequences. As the smoke cleared, and the feeling of panic subsided they realized two things. !: that they were criminally liable for the behavior they had already engaged in and 2: that they had a rare opportunity to undo the damage to executive power that Nixon and watergate had done.
Everything they have done since (including perhaps, starting a war of choice) has been in the service of covering their own culpability and reclaiming dictatorial powers for the President. The notion of providing immunity to the telecoms, fits right into the grand scheme with ease.