Letters to the Editor
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William Timberman
Don't worry W.T.. Not everyone who reads here believes you are a petulant creep. They skip over readers...good idea!
Your probable tossing around in bed with a big lovable bear who is wearing pink hair-curlers. I hope you took your hair curlers out before going to sleep so your not a cranky geezer with a headache? You can keep the long mink trench coat on today while your out shopping if you keep it zippered up.
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A walk along the Potomac River on any day is 'ole good-time
enough as a dunk in the Jordan River. If you ever need to be immersed, maybe Mona will baptize-dunk you? Holly can assist? Don't let the A.G. do it because he baptizes citizens with skis and snowboards.
The River:
Legend says if you listen carefully you can hear the Indian Potomac cry at the river bank. She loved someone that her brothers did not approve of...I must reread so I'm not
starting any rumors but,
I think the legend tells,
she drowned in the Potomac.
She died from grief? Careful.
Soon the slow moving turtles,
snakes, toads, and peepers will be crawling across the Chesapeake and Ohio Tow Path. The C&O Canal's History is a must read history, IMO. The farmer, woodcutters, and women bread bakers etc., worked like the proverbial devil around. The neighbors descendents around here in Western Maryland worked the fingers to the bones.
Living close to the river has advantages. It was also the commercial merchants of the past who were always speculating about how to exploit the manual labor 'salt of the earth' folk.
The GOPS blood link creeps were always wanting to squeeze beet-juice. It's the same idea-thing. It was just in a ere before the combustion auto.
~ William Timberman.
I hope if cocktailhag sent you a gallon of barroom dill pickles, one gallons of smoked (yuck) sausages, and 10-pounds of dried beef-jerky, that you don't eat all of it in one evening.
I'll not talk about 'adversity' nor try to define...But you will be as cranky when you finally wake up as dang Pol Pot.
Today, let's hope the chipmunks leave my Dell computer printer, Glenn leaves the gabling casino, and you rake some leaves to pile in big piles outside the White House outhouse? P.S. W.T. may need some donated corncobs? O, read the Gideon bible and write graffiti wherever you go...like totallyblaze warns: Watch where ya's step.
Look respectable. But don't attend the Trolls Donald Duck and Pluto convention. All they talk about there is how to get civil citizens to act stooped. Ya's hate to be so despicable and forced to stoop but, it's necessary during historic days when the Loathsome seem to be around and wish to abound.
I need to clean up around my homesick shack site before the NSA does a thorough housecleaning? One think that's good about guest stopping over...Ya's clean up the house.
I hope the chipmunks soon depart the Dell Printer. There is a limit to my philosophy about Hospitality and tolerance, and the Freeloaders must go.
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The Banality of Evil
Sol Invictus at 4:05pm and the non sequitur counter-terror arguments Mike McConnell presented in his recent New Yorker interview (linked by Glenn a few posts ago) defending torture and warrantless surveillance brought This to mind:
The Banality of Evil is a phrase coined in 1963 by Hannah Arendt in her work Eichmann in Jerusalem. It describes the thesis that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths but rather by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal.--From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Where's my tinfoil hat? Is Rockfeller on medication?
Isn't the safe haven on the border the same place Al Qaeda has been for decades plotting attacks against Afghanistan, Pakistan and the US? And isn't Bush the one who has so badly botched routing out terrorists that the Taliban is again destroying Afghanistan & expanding ops in Pakistan from the same border area? While we blame it all on NATO, of course.
My personal favorite Jayspeak was when he pointed out that the wiretapping had already prevented several attacks "...that cannot be discussed openly" or something like that. He's such a coy ol' fox!
He neglected to say that even if true, the legal FISA wiretapping was enough to do it, with the necessary "hole plugged" in the legislation.
If terrorists smuggle themselves in shipping containers (disguised as contaminated Chinese dumplings) into our unprotected ports, does Jay think they'll call home first?
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Gordon.
Thanks. I hope to not be around 'babbling' too much here today.
I may be fined for wearing out the red welcome mat in a whore house district?
Did you hear the latest rumor? A lawyer was picked up for jaywalking and telling the street walkers to listen to the green grass grow.
Yea. He was also taken into custody for selling Knish without a Legally approved food vendor license. The Knish's outer rolled-dough was stale. The brown-copper-color of the part bitten Knish's the attorney was selling for $60-bucks a piece was viewed as too exorbitant. Inside the Knish the cops said was powdered sweet, cold yam goo potato's mix. The chops of red-meat was picked up from Lost Vegan road-killed squirrels.
The lawyer outside the casino was hear declaring:
The Knishes were supposed to be labeled as 'Knatwurst' ...
He had a lame defense. He said ..."like scotch consumers know...a required taste appreciation grows on ya's." He ask to try again...Eaters will appreciate the Knish Knackwurst with some good scotch.
He may need a bondsman.
He may kneed a bonds-lady?
Send rolled copper pennies from heaven.
Let's hope the rolls of pennies don't hit him on the head.
We have too many terrier threats to worry about as it is.
It cant get much worst? I hope not...no eat snackwurst like that. O, Knock knock. "Who's there?" The NSA bratwurst snoops. No eat that! shut up. okay.
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Help! Help! The government is getting the same info as ATT's marketing program! Aaaarrrgghh!
Since Glenn is recycling columns ideas, I guess it's OK to recycle comments as well. The one point I'll add is the observation that conservatives have continuing examples of Islamic extremism to point to. OTOH just one attack in the US of nearly any size destroys the liberal view that we have nothing to fear. Beware the "black swan."
It's times like this that makes commenting here really, really, fun. From the comment by POW WOW cited by Glenn....
This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews. For the customers of these companies, it means that the government has detailed records of calls they made — across town or across the country — to family members, co-workers, business contacts and others. (SNIP)
"This sort of analysis of calling patterns and who the communities of interests are is the sort of things telephone companies are doing anyway because it's central to their businesses for marketing or optimizing the network or detecting fraud," said Professor Blaze, who has worked with the F.B.I. on technology issues.
So the next question is, why aren't you people torching ATT kiosks in malls for doing the same thing you're freaking out about here? Heh.