Letters to the Editor
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Do we need a fainting couch in here?
Wait..is this really Chris Floyd or did Glenn forget to change the by-line? I am undone.
Smelling salts? Even Shooter and Cloud Cuckooland got the vapors.
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Take A Nap, Chris
You can tell that the Democrat Party is getting desperate when they run a hysterical article like this one.
No wonder their approval ratings are through the floor.
Now that we are winning in Iraq, the liberals have nothing to gripe about. But they will anyway.
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Oh dear. Mario Savio has been reincarnated.
What are we to do? ;-)
Naomi Wolf has been going around all creation lately advocating some kind of uprising or civil disobedience or what have you before it is too late and the consolidation of the Autocracy is secure.
The haute blogmonde may not be the most receptive venue for actualizing dissent institutionally or in the streets, but so what? The message has to get out and it has to be repeated over and over and over again until it becomes integral to the process of blogging and day to day living.
Refusal to cooperate with The Machine is fundamental.
The Regime is still terrified that dissenters (who are now overwhelmingly in the majority) will realize their inherent Power and bring this catastrope to a halt. Dodd's hold -- which may not even hold, who knows? -- has got them all feverishly frothing over the possibility that the Opposition, which has no history of opposing anything for long, might win one. And if that happens all bets will be off.
Mario ought to be a hero, but he's still often looked at as something of a Commie low-class rabble rouser who got out of his place at Berkeley back in the day and by rights should be ignored like all the other low class demagogues and populists. His kind really didn't belong at Berkeley back then, and they don't now.
Just remember, though, what he spoke for was called the Free Speech Movement. Without which we might not have a blogtopia where we can vent our spleens today.
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Smelling Salts?
Why? Skunkeye? Poor L.W.M.
He no like mustard farmers.
Maybe he can be a skunk skinner.
Chris, I hope the tax payer isn't picking up the tab here today? Is the State Department here?
Chris, I hope you are licenced as a pesticide sprayer of organic Dypel to rid the Republic of looper worms too. They destroy green Romenesco califlower plants. Well, everybody is still civil for now.
Civil Disobedience, eh, and I'm the one who has been all wet earlier today. Cold shivers. I need to crawl under a blanket...
Anybody else want to go outside and pick looper wormd and get the cold shivers?
I'll share some Blue Ridge Dairy Company Ricotta Cheese and some roasted mushrooms. T
here is always room YKW- (not you Floyd) for jello and mushrooms....
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L.W.M.
Very good, you win the prize--sort of. The word is Greek, literally, for "cloud cuckooland." Only figuratively does it mean "looking for shapes in clouds."
I chose the name because reading Salon is like living in Aristophanes' play.
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http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17628/99999999/
mental illness.
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Maybe the bushies last weasel tails are fed up with all Salon readers.
Nepheloricotta or Nephemacaroni
straws with feta for a better mood?
As William Tiberman always says:
Don't take a damn wood nickle.
Feta Cheese.
Cheers.
Remember: You may dissent.
But, or, get disgaced in a day,
But: Glenn is not here. mice play.
But: Who knows yet what is next?
It too early for a cold bier,yet!?!
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But
impeach!
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Also note with interest all the trollish "concern" and pearl clutching
(h/t Digby) that, oh my, Our Chris has descended into, oh!, hysteria and, well, we can't have that. No one will pay any attention to us. We will be laughed at. Denounced. Treated with contempt. Once again, WE will suffer if Floyd's hyperbole is allowed to stand. I'm surprised there aren't calls for Salon ("Joan!!! Joan!!! Waaaaaa!") to pull this piece as "inappropriate."
In fact there are almost more troll posts here than any other, from people who haven't been on the Registered Troll List in the past, which leads me to suspect that Chris Floyd is a designated target for RNC trolling, and posting nonsense about his "hysteria" and how no one will pay any attention to someone who is, gasp, so "over the top." And quotes Thoreau. EW.
And somebody has the temerity to accuse Chris Floyd of only speaking out NOW? "Where was he?" when speaking out might have made a difference? Hello! Cluephone. I realize not everybody can keep up with everything all the time. But Jaysus Christo on a Ritz Cracker, Chris Floyd has been one of the MOST outspoken and most prolific writers contra the Bush Autocracy since before their installation. He has never stopped. To suggest he wasn't there when it mattered is simply loopy.
If anything, we need more of Chris Floyd's patented brand of fire breathing and less -- far less -- hankie wringing and fainting dead away.
But that's just me.
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@adnoto
Direct action is the only avenue at this point. It doesn't matter how long it takes. It doesn't matter the outcome of coming elections. It doesn't matter how long it takes precisely because the elections will simply empower the status quo. How can people not see that?
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We never get there by begging the criminals to police themselves and everyone knows it.
-- adnoto
Do you have a concrete example of your actions in your history to educate us with that gave you the results you seek and wish we would seek?
Let's say your father began beating you and your mother since as long as you can remember. Age 4 or 5 or so. What would you have done, or what did you do by the time you were old enough to realize that the beatings would never stop unless you did something dramatic to make him stop? And then, by the time you were old enough to realize that you weren't big enough to take him on physically, you had to think of some other way? So, I suppose, the alternative to your mother and you getting beat again and again due to your lack of size, would be to either call the authorities, or to get a gun or knife or howitzer and use it on Dad. Right?
WTF is it you are so heroically and cynically suggesting we do, Adnoto, in comparison to anything that you have done in and with your life, to solve this enormous problem that we find ourselves facing?