On one side we have the liberal modern let's hug the people who want to kill us culturalists and on the other we have the conservative South Park they takin ur jerbs culturalists.

Believe us Glenn when we say 'those people' have more to fear from you than they claim to fear from dusky brown car bombers. And visa versa.

..... if we don't ask a blind Lady to pull guard duty at the 24-hour Homestead Observation Post.

The men can sing 'Chestnuts Roasting on a Open Fire'.... if it's not sung around a homebuilt cardboard fireplace... that Mr. GOP handy man can-can made with grey duck-tape

We people can build a hay scarecrow with web feet?

Maybe there are some leftover GOP rubber flip-flops?

The straw-man Security System can blare Perry Coma?

Or Pat Boon DVD's can be replayed in a soprano bellow speaker parked in the driveways?

The truck radios come these days with 6-player DVD's and GPS's (global position systems).

We will be okay...

A angry bee will fly up to two miles and return home

Have a matriarchal bee apiary surrounding every home.

Each colony can have 20,000 females with painful stingers.

The drones can be kicked out if they are politico lazy and real loco.

The female will grasp protein gold pollen and sip blossom sweet nectar.

There are chores to do. Between duties, I'll stop off and ask the local Ivy League Yale scholar

expert gerontologist therapist if there is any reason to fear GOPs.

The GOPS are killing everybody and they are afraid to live and die.

Sad. And I'm out of Valentine chocolates. I'll pop open a beer can?

No. I'm no teetotaler. Drink raw milk. Don't send inebriates to jail.

So far human history has found no substitute for the rule of law with respect to the rule by one (wo)man.

Dogfather

I know just how you feel, Dog, my man! I'm married, too. Long time married, long, long time.

as far as "those people"...do you mean the one's that can't make $$ in texas oil? bike ride through katrina? show absolutely no competence what so ever?

or just the one's that place politics over the national good...

Because I was bored, I played Halo 2 online for several months. Almost every night I'd sit down with my little headphone on and do virtual battle with people from all over the world. It was a great adrenaline rush to stalk, outwit, and shoot others who were trying to do away with me.

Online combat games provide a living comic book / cartoon world of unlimited and unrestricted violence- the kind of dream world I believe many who promote war are living in. In Halo 2, when one is killed, he or she simply waits a few seconds to "respawn." There are no lifelong disfigurements, no years-long rehabilitative regimens, no mourning family members, no lost potential, and no finality.

The problem with Halo 2 and other online games is that they give an incorrect representation of war and its consequences. While hatred, racism, and sociopathy are omnipresent in the virtual world (I often heard people say the most vile things imaginable online), real blood, the stench of death, and the sounds of lamentations are not.

I would urge anyone who promotes aggressive war as a solution to political difficulties to visit a veteran's hospital, a morgue, or a cemetery as a tonic to such thinking. A good activity for a militant "patriot" might be to change the diapers of a young man whose battle-induced head injury has prevented him from controlling his bowels. Or perhaps driving a man and his children to the grocery store because Mommy is dead would serve as an instructive exercise.

I don't know whether there is a genetic predisposition for aggressive tendencies, but I do know there are circumstantial similarities among the friends, family, and comrades of the victims.

Yes, this post was about domestic American culture wars; no one is claiming otherwise. However these culture wars have immense impact on the rest of the world.

On one side we have the liberal modern let's hug the people who want to kill us culturalists and on the other we have the conservative South Park they takin ur jerbs culturalists.

Believe us Glenn when we say 'those people' have more to fear from you than they claim to fear from dusky brown car bombers. And visa versa. -- some-ennui-ridden twit

I suspect he, and most of his U.S. commentariat already knows this, as many have said as much (repeatedly) in the past.

Your self-important, dull-witted display of anti-American bigotry is not a contribution to this letters page -- it's a display of ego without purpose.

Hmmm, appologies to King Richard for the pun.

Indeed. It seems to me that it has to be a precedent that a sitting SCOTUS justice is out out there playing pundit to promote torture. Disgusting, unethical and reprehensible politicization of the (once) most respected office in the Republic. I refer, of course, to the BBC interview with Scalia.

Has it really come to this?

http://www.mycatharsis.com/2008/02/12/scalia-defends-torture/

-- Northwestwoods

The country has indeed sunk to new lows seemingly each year and now we find ourselves in the sad state that our own government may well be our greatest danger. At the very least, I would never expect that my constitutional rights to due process are a norm any longer.

It seems that many of my fellow Americans now believe that obedience to governmental thugs is the American Ideal. Blah!

It's a shame that these sideline warriors can't see the blatant attacks on our Constitution as the war they need to be fighting. After all, it's the rights afforded by our Constitution that we're fighting to protect, so if we lose those rights, what is it that we're fight for again??? Are we fighting for Bush's right to secretly detain, torture and obtain forced confessions from anyone he, and he alone, has labeled as being an enemy combatant. We're certainly not fighting for our right to privacy since we've allowed Bush to illegally spy on us without the oversight of the FISA court, and with the help of the Telcos, for several years now, and we’re debating whether or not to let Bush and the Telcos off the hook (even though we don’t really know what was so secretive that it necessitated them keeping Congress and the American people in the dark). Does it not mean anything to anyone that the Bush administration first approached the Telcos about their cooperation in February of 2001 – 8 MONTHS PRIOR TO 9/11!!!!!! We can't be fighting for our freedom of speech or freedom of the press since those two things have gone by the wayside (just try wearing a "Peace" t-shirt while Bush is in town; and the only thing our press seems to be free to print any more is its whole-hearted agreement with everything Bush says).

I am not willing to give up any constitutional rights to fight an endless war on "terror" because with this administration's shifting and selective definition of what a terrorist is, any one of us could suddenly fall into this category just for questioning the president or for any reason or no reason at all because he's/she's the Executive. Did you ever notice how Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph have never been referred to as being the terrorists they are, and that it's never terrorism when Israel does the bombing? But this administration wants to label people in animal rights groups, peace groups, environmentalists and any group who questions (his) authority "precursors to terrorists to be watched and studied."

Don’t be too blind to the fact that sometimes the enemy is from within... And sometimes we are our own worst enemy.