Letters to the Editor
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calbears....
Why did PBS give Podhoretz airtime?
Sometimes I wonder if they aren't just letting him (and/or others like him) have enough rope to hang himself with...
Because of their deadlines, I suppose they are also subject to using whomever is available, as well, but I prefer to go with my previous thought.
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patg and Paul Daniel Ash, either you actually influenced GG or he just hasn't gotten back yet
all my posts *before* your plea to leave them undeleted, *were* deleted. first order of business, even before thanking GG is to invite Karen back (now, ellen, whom i miss, said i've said this before - and it's true. i am both infinitely forgiving and eternally hostile). there must be *some* letter you can add to your name. as one who hated being driven off the board, i even more HATE that i seem to have done so to you. what we do is to ignore each other. no snide lies on my part and no "don't feed the trolls" on yours. perhaps that regimen could even work in the middle east.
the rest is a large and lengthy and tedious commentary on commentary. you can skip it if you so desire. just getting up to speed.
totallyblase, that's how to play! (pg 22) you give as good as you get - then go one better. that's schoolyard, and necessary training for the academy.
William Dalton(22), it probably wouldn't have made much difference to you - jews would all have been totally exterminated rather than largely and europe would have been totally destroyed rather than significantly so. if not by hitler then by stalin (at the time of the "doctor's plot" he was planning the extermination of the jews) yes, america would have saved a quarter million lives. what is your impression of the utility of the civil war? that cost fully ten times as much as a percentage of population. we could have saved them by splitting up and letting the South remain slave. but that is applying reason to unreason. if the nazis had made a deal with france and invaded the U.K. you can bet william would have urged the U.S. to help the little daltons back home - it's just that he cares not a whit for anyone else and as far as for the jews, their extermination was a positive good - in that respect he agrees with churchill and roosevelt.
Cow Head Soup, sad story, would that we knew the future! Weimar wasn't so bad - just weak. Anonymous, if you disagree, stand up!
patg! you turncoat! you now form an alliance with arne! oh well, informers have a place in Irish History too.[this was written *before* i realized you seem to have changed GG's mind. in the interest of truth, i left it in]
bebop-o is back! in cranky mood though, no paeans to vegetables
_zack_ talks reason - as if this were a "debate". there IS no debate. what will be done has already been determined. the only debate in the administration is how to present this to the public. whether the folks who give the stage to podhoretz have been cued by the administration or are going along with what they *think* is the administration's plan is the only really meaningful question.
thanks to Ché Pasa for the historical meaning of Progressive. i for one found it very informative. the modern day equivalent must be the Greens, no? seems to be the closest anyway - but i look at the world through hebrew eyes and that might blur my vision.
yes, shooter242, god bless us all - every one of us. and i would be interested to as to what happens when bush leaves. assuming hillary, will they take the tack that she is "impure" or will they be her toadies. it seems it will be seen so, that is, black and white. or maybe such are the only ones that write. -
The "H-Bomb"
Holy smokes. That guys drops the Hitler reference about as often as Guiliani drops "9/11". The only thing missing is Podhoretz having his wife call him in the middle of the discussion.
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Here A Hitler...There a Hitler...Everywhere A Hitler, Hitler...
Old McBush sings the same song...eeeiiieeeiiiooooooooo.
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AND NOW, from the Flaming Radical Far Center .... a few words of Wisdom.
this so-called "thread" seems nearly spent -- until this month I'd never spent a half-moment of my life in the Realm of the Blog -- but how very quickly I discovered that Blogland is, in fact, filled with smarmy, rabid, frothing Ninnies who understand very little of life ... peppering their Rant with "facts" they badly mismanage in order to puff-up the hard-line politick they patriotically cling to with such Bug-Eyed Zeal --- One can only stand back, smile and ... marvel.
Well, here's the skinny on "Reality" --
Without fail, I've always sized up the Zealots on both the Right and Left with equal contempt. (both of ya's actually fanatasize that you're so very different from the other, when you're really out of the same narrow-minded press --- merely tainted in different colors). as was properly dictionary-defined earlier, both Wings of the Political Spectrum are filled to the brim with "BIGOTS" who wave the Flags of their respective Cause with equal Fury.
Listen up -- in "Two-Paarty America" there is & always has been a Political Pendulum that has dependably -- and without fail -- knocked the "Powers That Be" into a temporary holding bin labeled, "The Powers That Were". Such will always be -- and there ain't nuttin youz can do abouts it, Biggots. tick-tick-tick-tick ... hears it ??
The Great American Bigots (whether Die-Hard Republicans or Die-Hard Democrats) have, in fact, been quite powerless to decide the future four years of ANY ELECTION in American history, since the days of Burr & Hamilton. Such is not a difficult equation for any with even the most mediocre understanding of mathematics to grasp.
Both the Noisy Far Right and Noisy Far Left represent little more than a dispersed Ocean of Voters that time & again vote the same party line. They can be easily, and forever are, dismissed by the Party Leaders. Their support doesn't mean diddley-squat. And, as such, they're forever taken advantage of, like Cows in a Left Field or a Right Field, with Rings in their Noses --- pulled along by the Carl Roves of Each Party.
However, neither the Self-Serving Buccaneers of the Right nor the Well Meaning Bubble Heads on the Left will ever have hold of the Membership of my faction, the flaming Radical Far Center, whom each must depend on for Victory (always have, always will)
As for myself, I have been voting for Ralph Nader since I was a teenager (not for his seatbelt politics, but for his call of clarity that BOTH national parties are awash in Filthy Money Politics. Matters not if they be a bunch of Texas barbeque Halliburton-Enron stockholders or some State Dept official dashing out of the State Secrets office with damaging evidence up his pantlegs that might inform the People of where the Guilt lays over the Iraqi Question.
My bro's & my Sisters in the center are less inflexible than me ... and whenever the Jesus People on the Far Right or Loudmouthed Idiots on the Far Left speak up .... the Siblings are quick to run to the John Andersons, the Ralph Naders or the ... who was that other guy ... Popeye ... oh yeah, Ross Perot.
Bill & Ronald understood this paradigm perfectly ... and were rewarded with it. Herr Hillary has been coached to understand this too...
but the Dimwits of the two Wings ??? ... they'll never learn .... because they's stOOpid ..