Letters to the Editor
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Obama Is The LBJ of My Senility!
And warmongering Americans are giving him money!
http://my.barackobama.com/page/contribute_c/sincefeb5_email/graphic
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Dirigo.
Ah, well.
We got a White House with yellow vinyl siding.
There is a black iron fence with a black Barny pooch to lure foreclosure speculators.
The 'inmates' sit in wood carved crest rails. Those Chippendale chairs cost thousands of dollars each. Then the resident thieves call the boy g-string chimps, saffron robed monks, and venial Chippendale dancers for some cheap evening entertainments.
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@Celery
The White House has a yellow tint?
The powerwashers will be on site very soon.
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Interesting
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18137343/the_fear_factory
Also this:
Winter Soldier 2008
A new Winter Soldier event, during which U.S. veterans will speak of their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, is being planned by Iraq Veterans Against the War for March 2008, in Washington, D.C..
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@WT
I live with the hygiene obsession every day because I married a woman from Japan. To say that a guy raised in North Dakota with a farm hygiene culture using outhouses and raking barn manure who’s uncle took a wash tub bath once every two weeks whether he needed it or not, is participating in a challenging marriage is definitely understating things. I introduced my buddy’s Japanese wife to him and our nick name for her is BQ (Bathroom Queen).
What the Japanese do and don’t care about is always interesting and it is what so attracted me to their culture when I left college and my first Air Force assignment was in Tokyo. I have never researched it, but I suspect that the Japanese went through some horrific epidemics and had to become very hygiene conscious.
One cultural trait that is a double edged sword, is they absolutely refuse to do anything half-assed. So, if you want hygiene and modern comfort, you design the most modern, elaborate, efficient, comfortable toilet in existence.
Their is no one with higher craftsmanship. One story that illustrates their love of art, is when a samurai who had been given a beautiful small vase as a reward from his Lord for a previous battle and was about to die in a burning building, cut open his stomach and inserted the vase before lying on his stomach and dying.
I personally got to know Honda and like a dummy, I bought American cars until I wised up and now would never own anything but a Honda.
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@dichdgr
I hope those vets invite all three presidential candidates to that event and tell them the truth on what they believe is going on in Afghanistan, Iraq and our military.
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dichdgr @ 6:58
Keep Salon readers updated.
That 18 year old rusty Honda? My request.
If it's not been driven into a Mukasey ditch,
can you install a 6-DVD radio with two boom box speakers?
W.T., and remember to put me on the free-Honda-car waiting list?
O, but first, will you please fill 'eh up, wash the windows, toss out empty beer cans, and remember to inflate the Michelin rubber bald tires?
LBJ jail in Nam?
No go to there.
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Retired Military Patriot.
I was just wondering?
Just by a lucky chance.
Does your wife have a sister?
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Dirigo.
Those pneumatics would huff, puff,
and blow the fox's den of iniquity down.
What real sharp green teeth you have. Use Sure for BO,
and stop the damn loud snore, senor...What days we do share.
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SAO: New pro-torture campaign was created by accident
According to an SAO ("Senior Administration Official") granted anonymity by Newsweek, the Administration's new pro-torture campaign was created by pure serendipity (as embodied in John "serendipity doo dah!" Negroponte.)
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/todays_must_read_271.php
Today's Must Read
By Paul Kiel - February 7, 2008If it's seemed to you that the administration has blundered its way into its recent pro-waterboarding PR offensive, you're right.
It all started when John Negroponte blurted out in an interview, Newsweek reports, that "waterboarding hasn't been used in years":
Negroponte's comments, which were seen as confirmation that waterboarding had in fact been used before that, were not cleared beforehand and caught White House officials off guard, according to [a] senior administration official. "It was an accidental disclosure," said the official. It also forced a reassessment of whether the administration should at least publicly confirm Negroponte's remarks, if only to reap whatever public-relations benefit could be derived from the slip.
- - NewsweekThat's right: the "public-relations benefit." You might think that admitting to a technique internationally condemned as torture would have no PR pluses. But not from the administration's point of view. [...]
- - Paul Kiel, TPM-Muckraker
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@ RMP
It's past due. Sunlight is a good thing. I hope they will all be credible this time; every claim will need to be valid.
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@Good Celery
Yes, she does. I don't think you want to go there unless you want to take on a challenge that would put the Busheviks to shame.
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sysprog.
The Torch of Chaos and Doubt. by Chaung-tzu.
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The Yellow Emperor withdrew, gave up his throne, built a solitary hut, spread a mat of white ruses, and lived for months in retirement.
The Yellow Emperor bowed three times,
and then said,
"You have been as a Heaven to me!"
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@ BetterCelery!
The car in question never had even a radio -- it was one of those one only at this price loss leaders, and at the time I couldn't have afforded it otherwise. It did have a space for one, though, so who knows what could have been crammed into it if I'd developed a taste for driving a rolling cocktail lounge like my new one. Anyway, for all those years, I did my driving Zen-style -- 600 miles on desert highways with only the buzzing between my ears to accompany me. Now I've got six speakers to play my Hank Williams, and cruise control. I don't even have to be awake to make my annual pilgrimage to the Golden State.
I won't live long enough to pay for it, let alone wear it out, but if I did, and it was a pick-up truck, you'd be first on the list. I'd even throw in the Hank Williams CDs, as I've already ripped 'em.