Letters to the Editor
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IVAW Bus burns - possible arson
The bus for the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) very suddenly and mysteriously burst into flame on the night of the 11th. The owner/driver had just gone to sleep when he woke up to find the whole back end in flames.
A buddy of mine wrote with the following: "When the IVAW Yellow Rose of Texas bus was trying to pass the McCain bus on the road in New Hampshire, the McCain driver very dangerously drove in front of the IVAW bus, straddled the line for a couple of miles, then got in the left lane and slowed down, requiring the IVAW bus, and probably other traffic, to pass on the right."
Believe us, WHEN the new IVAW bus gets on the road, it's gonna have much better security both in terms of wires/alarms and human guards !!!
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Back To Reality, Such As It Is ...
CNN, home of John King, the intrepid interviewer of presidential candidates, reports polling that indicates either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton - don't matter which - would BEAT, as in PUMMEL - any Repub who chooses to stand up for same.
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arthurdecco.
On the Salon's front page there is a vainglorious photo posted about celebrities.
The article is by Heather Haverslerky.
The photo is Glenn and Dirigo? I think.
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bash, batter, belt, clout, club, crush, cudgel, flog, hammer, hit, knock, lash, let one have it*, lick, mash, maul, pelt, pound, punch, ram, slug, smack, strike, swat, thrash, trounce, wallop, whale, wham, whip
I work the polls in L.A. County, we were told that at this election we may need two days just to pick up our supplies. They are expecting an absolutely huge turnout. Its all but over for Republicans, unless of course they decide to cheat (again)
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bebop-o
page down. Is that you with the trash bags around your wrists?
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Jimenez Cricket Montague.
You can't fool you. Yes.
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@bop
I am a wrestling god. Believe it.
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Dirigo
We love your silver suspenders.
Would not it be fun to leg wrestle Beth and a few other unmentionables?
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silver suspenders?
you mean silver bra no?
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@bop
How did you know I was the Blonde Bombshell? Beth was asking?
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It's entirely possible...
to ask useful, serious questions without
"Proximity Warning said: “The idea that every time a member of the press speaks to a candidate on air they should douse themselves in the kind of cynical disdain Greenwald purveys in this blog is just silly.”
One could always take cover behind those ever-useful "critics," saying "Well, while some of us supporters love what you're doing, critics suggest that..." or "Gee, Mr McCain, isn't it a fair criticism to say that...?"
BTW, the link for IVAW's "Yellow Rose of Texas" bus bursting into flames (The driver and only occupant at the time got out unharmed) is:
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/2008/01/44128.shtml
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Jim Montague
It's gonna be 'hard' sleeping tonight?
Do you think Dirigo's breast are real?
Do you have a suspicion that those mild,
chubby...jello...
'pumped-up' looking pasties, are pastries,
or come from silicon implants? Who cares?
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Pasties?
I'm as real as the mighty Rockies are real!
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Dirigo
Beth was respected until she began reading you here.
I'd say to her, "Run!"
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I don't know
maybe we should ask Roger Clemons what he thinks when we see him.
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Dirigo real?
Rockies? A cervical vault implant?
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Jim.
He sleeps under rocky Dirigo's box springs.
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Jim Montague.
Michael de' Montague nicknamed Dirigo "limp parsnip"...
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Probably rambling again...
That interview is worthless to me. I say 'to me' because it gives me no information upon which to base my vote. Yet it is typical of our 'press'. I qualify 'press' because our media seems a mere shadow of what the founders envisioned and strove to protect (going so far as to include such protections in the very first amendment to the Constitution). Democracy requires information to have any validity whatsoever. I've asked it before: what good is a vote based on no information, much less a vote based on false information?
It is impossible for every person in America to know exactly what is happening in our government - we simply cannot be everywhere at once. Therefore we are forced to rely on others, in this case the 'press', to provide us information so we can cast our votes accurately. Unfortunately for us, since we often cannot verify truth, our votes are influenced the same amount by bad information as well as by good (absent a third party exposing the difference between the two).
That is what confuses me... some of our resident trolls seem to relish in false information (or the lack of any) whenever it relates to the war on terrorism (and, to my cynical nature, any Republican causes 'du jour'). Billions upon billions upon billions have been spent (not to mention laws enacted) so they can feel 'safe'... and they do not ask whether that money has (or those laws enshrined have) been well spent . They digitally curse and spit when someone asks if those efforts are in vain, much less counterproductive. Why?
Isn't it in their interest to see that our efforts work towards making them truly 'safe'? I've seen countless words preaching doom if we so much as doubt the efficiency of our elected leaders. If the government is as inept in waging the war against terrorists as those trolls seem to believe it is in tending to its citizens, shouldn't hard questions and accountability be at the top of their list, same as ours? Yet the trolls here deride Glenn's efforts to shed light on worthless and false information. Why?
Information controls votes. Votes award power. Information is power. Regardless of ideology, accurate information is a right, and should be demanded at every turn. Again - what good is a vote based on no (much worse wrong), information?
My understanding of history may be slight, but it is enough to know that failures of the press are not limited to recent times. Striving for accurate information has been a constant struggle, but it is (and has been) a worthy fight. America was founded on the belief that the power inherent in information should not be removed from the governed. Freedom of the press is about knowing what, exactly, is being done in our names. Abuses can, and must be, brought to light, else every other effort is misguided, and most likely counterproductive.
The battle cry of the newly founded America was 'taxation without representation'! What exempts the 'war' (if it can even be deemed as such) on terrorism from that birthing cry? Representation implies information. With things such as they are, perhaps a more appropriate refrain would have been 'taxation without reassuring platitudes!' Call me a cynic, but somehow I doubt colonial Americans would have rallied behind such a banner. I wonder why 'Americans' surge behind it now?
Your thoughts and beliefs are yours, I demand only prompt and accurate facts upon which to base my own. Anything less is unfit of the label 'democracy'.