Letters to the Editor
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You're ragging on Ron Paul?
then YOU are the problem that needs to be exterminated if this REPUBLIC is to survive.
Because I sure as hell did not sign up to be ruled over by a bunch of know-it-all punks (left OR right) in Washington who want to create the inevitable fascist state that is currently so fashionable amongst you oh-so-sophisticated politerati.
Ron Paul is the only solution to the current Constitutional crisis. Anyone challenging this is an enemy of the state.
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William Timberman
I am too angry to read the likes of letter writers like you that put us into outer-orbit, bad-boy-moods. I want a bumper sticker sold here at the Salon that demands to ban you, Arne, Glenn, Pedinska, SusanMc, P.R., and a bumper sticker that can add many more to the list.
I just read Arne Cheers-
If he thinks he can change our bad moods, Let's QUIT and boycott www.Salon.nuts!
I want to remain cranky. No read Arne's kind. Or kovie for that matter. He wants readers to unclothe and take a bath in a creek.
Next the lawyers will write laws peep-holes so we can't pick wild mountain tea.
Tea-Picking! gads.
Lawyers and possums like Arne spin, spew, and make innocent readers spit hombre-brews on black keyboards that remind me of black crickets with white tatoo letters on them. O, so all winter when we stew tatter spud-soup, some "liberal" south-paws-typist, will rule we got to go to a freezing cold mountain creek for our public bath time?
Oh, Achoo to 'um!
W.T. We are getting too old and gray to loiter here anymore with these damn Jungians kids who want us to be swept-away so they can take out white hair wigs, pick-up trucks, and warm wool-sheep, sweaters.
I am about ready to retire to a secret mountain hut with No telecoms or electronic fast-speed hook-ups. I QUIT! GADS.
WT- Ya's know any girls in Arizona who'd I'd be compatible with in a hundred years from, Today? I'd gladly act more mature in dry arid weather climate. I hope. Suppose I buy a red mule and work my way out there, immediately? okay. I'll saddle soon.
I need a dear Lady to walk,
side by side, to harvest tea!
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Diane Rehm Show - Jim Angle atrocity
Dear Aerial Roots,
Thank you for pointing out how Jim Angle was able to monopolize the air space on Friday with no rebuttal. I was extremely disappointed with the program, which usually provides at least one voice of reason. Unfortunately I can't even try to participate in the discussion anymore since I'm at work in a non-private setting - listening with headphones. I've always been annoyed at Diane's knee-jerk defense of all journalists, but on most other issues she provides some occasional tough scrutiny. I miss her when she's gone.
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Second Guessing the Democrats
Perhaps we should inspire, rather than second-guess, the Congressional Democrats to do the right thing on this issue. I think many of them want to vote against telecommunications immunity - certainly Conyers presented it that way. But the pernicious lies of the Republicans immediately saturate the airwaves and Democrats think nothing else is being heard. Let them hear us! Let us lead them! I know it often fails, but not always.
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American Hubris
I love how blithely Americans talk about listening in on calls between foreigners, like it's the most natural - and warrant-free - thing one could do.
This is a country in which our media and government elite think absolutley nothing of talking in public, debating in public, about how much money to spend to topple the governments of other sovereign nations they don't like. On news panel shows American pundits talk openly about funneling money to foreign groups, even terrorists, to effect "regime change" in foreign countries.
Condi Rice just the other day was saying how the US was going to "support" Russian "oppossition" to Putin.
It was an actual headline in the Boston Globe a couple days ago about how talks with Russia were not going to include "democracy" in the agenda- as if the US should be dictating to foreign governments about the form of their government. It was "news" that Condi wasn't going to lecture Russians on how they should run their country- as if that were somehow weird for an American diplomat not to do.
And yet- if a check for 200 bucks from a "Red" Chinese donor makes into the campaign coffer of some DC hack- that is "foreign meddeling" in our "Internal poltics" and Americans (particularly Reich wing Americans) go besserk over it.
The hypocrisy of Americans thinking it is only natural for their government to be eavesdropping of foreigners willy nilly is the least of it.
But they hate us for our freedom . . . . LOL.
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Gentlemen don't read other gentlemen's mail
I love how blithely Americans talk about listening in on calls between foreigners, like it's the most natural - and warrant-free - thing one could do.
When Americans listen to foreigners' calls, they call it "intelligence gathering". When foreigners' calls are listened to by Americans, they call it "espionage". It works the other way around too. So the US has laws for "intelligence gathering" and against "espionage". It's another of those what-you-see-depends-on-where-you-stand thingies.
But the days of gentlemen don't read other gentlemen's mail, as allegedly expressed by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson 1929 when he shut down the State Department's code-breaking section, are long gone.
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Some of us tried to tell you...
Perhaps now you'll listen.
Proto-fascist populists. Same old wine in a brand new bottle.
You're ragging on Ron Paul?
then YOU are the problem that needs to be exterminated if this REPUBLIC is to survive.
Because I sure as hell did not sign up to be ruled over by a bunch of know-it-all punks (left OR right) in Washington who want to create the inevitable fascist state that is currently so fashionable amongst you oh-so-sophisticated politerati.
Ron Paul is the only solution to the current Constitutional crisis. Anyone challenging this is an enemy of the state.
-- brightstar65
Samey-same.
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No...
I believe it was Matthew Arnold who wrote:
"Do not go gentle into that long night,
rage, rage against the dying of the light!"
I think it was Tom Arnold. Or Bob Dylan. Or maybe Dylan Thomas.