Letters to the Editor
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i see GG got back and obeying the vox populi is excising my posts
well, you didn't think much of what i had to say anyway.
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It would be better if neocons actually read about Churchill...
Pick up any actual history book about Churchill. I happen to have an excellent one here by William Manchester, "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill ALONE 1932-1940".
Good. Now, please turn to the page where Churchill ever proposed making a pre-emptive strike against Nazi Germany.
You can't find that page?
Well, my wingnut friends, that's because there IS no such page.
Churchill NEVER proposed making a pre-emptive strike on Nazi Germany. This would have been an idiotically suicidal idea.
What Churchill DID advocate was that England and France should make a DEFENSIVE alliance with a well-armed Eastern nation, either Czechoslovakia or the USSR or both. This way, if Germany started a war, it would have to fight on two fronts as it did in 1914.
In other words, what Churchill proposed was NOT unilateral action, but quite the opposite.
Sadly, Churchill's proposals were ignored, and in 1938 Germany marched into Czechoslovakia unopposed, thus getting the Czechs' considerable arsenal cost-free.
Since Britain's Conservative government refused to entertain the idea of an alliance with the USSR, the USSR made its own non-aggression pact with Germany.
This guaranteed that Germany could go ahead and fight a single-front war against France and England as soon as it had finished off weakly-defended Poland.
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genuflect, genuflect
ah paul daniel ash @ 3:22...anybody who quotes tom lehrer in this day is clearly pure of heart. thanks!
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ironic capitals
raphlinus:
That's a lot of ironic capitalization
Watch out, Glenn, or you're going to end up turning our Glorious Language into German. It's a slippery slope. Next thing you know, you won't be able to avoid the temptation to ironically the Verb at the end of the Sentence put.
Of course, Hitler would be most pleased to see that.
- - raphlinus - - Tuesday, October 30, 2007 08:28 AM
Democ-rat moles in GWB's press office have been inserting ironic capitals into GWB's press releases from 2001 onward.
e.g.
- the President
- his Administration
Subtler than air quotes.
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patg, here's my tom lehrer favorite (Quick! read before i'm deleted!)
it's called National Brotherhood Week and it's to the tune of Tip Toe through the tulips.
Oh the catholics,
hate the moslems,
hate the hindus,
hate the pro-tes-tants
and they all, every one of them
hates the jews.
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Just To Clarify the Whole Munich Appeasement Thing
When Germany annexed Czechoslovakia its armies had less than 48 hours worth of ammunition - of ANY kind. Hitler knew that if the British and French attacked those armies in force he would have to sue for peace or see Germany invaded and the Third Reich curtailed if not strangled in its crib. He was nervously counting on them to fold, which of course they did.
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-- shooter242
"I doubt Rhodes is going to enhance his "seriousness".
Shooter, Old Pal, if being acquainted with you hasn't ruined his "seriousness", a couple of hours with her won't do it.
How's your FEMA flack doin?
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david sugarman...
...as i've stated before, should be allowed to post as long his posts are not blatently offensive. at the risk of of having several respected (by me) posters come down on me, i don't see the problem. he is prolific, off the wall and annoying, but i don't like censorship of opinions because someone is annoyed. or so i try to tell my kids...
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i'm doomed
honest. i did not see david's response to my genuflect post before i wrote in his defense (that stands)...but i have deflected the thread and i apologize for that.
btw, thanks for the lehrer david...i like that one too.
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thanks patg,
not only for defending my "right to post" but for having kids - who you will undoubtedly bring up in the same way.
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the "right" to post
The way I approach it is that a blog is like a private home, and the "owner" sets the rules. IOW, everyone has the right to free speech, but spout racist bullshit in my living room and out y'go.
All that being said, I don't much care for banning and even less for deleting posts once they're up. That last in particular is very disconcerting, when one side of an argument goes in the bit bucket.
If my opinion were asked (which of course it has not been), I'd just say that, so long it's not one of those times where every other post is from David, I'd see no reason why he should be any less welcome to post here than, say, a shooter or a nazalbbfr.
$0.02
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patg...
Maybe you should check out his archives, just so you can see how blatantly offensive some of his comments are. Most of them are still standing; they have not been deleted.
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just some woolgathering from 50 years ago
i 'ad th' misfarchune a' bein' reezed in un Eyerish neighbor'ood. to me, that pat stands for patrick. i remember it fondly now. i'd get called "christ killer" and i'd say "holy names? [the parish was the "church of the holy names"] like mackeral, smoke and shit?". and of course we'd fight. i wasn't strong enough to win but i wasn't too weak to lose - and in those days all you had to have was heart, you didn't get stomped. it never got so far as to be called "friendship" but a grudging respect is really quite good enough.
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anon@6:06
actually, i have checked out his past posts and again, while you may be offended (and me) there is nothing blatent.
i don't mind his defense of his jewishness, lenny bruce would be proud...
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is that you, Karen M?
hiding behind the skirts of anonymity? who else would have the patience to go through all 1280 of my posts? and thanks, Paul Daniel Ash, that's really all i want - and yes, it is disconcerting to see, suddenly, all my posts erased. still, *yours* will be left and perhaps GG will change his mind. "Mister Marker" it's really poignant to realize how easily WWII could have been averted. i HOPE we don't make that same mistake in Iran. (and no, knowing what i do now, i wouldn't say "go to war" but i AM afraid of shari'a and i *do* see the same lack of Will(courage) in both the american left and the entire european polity)
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On appeasement
Of course, the one thing the whole rah-rah-we-can't-be-like-Chamberlain crowd forgets is that the United States sat on the sidelines for two years, which is arguably quite a lot worse . . .