Letters to the Editor
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I'm late. bahhumgrasshopper? I tease?
William Blake and William Wordsworth wrote of the Gaggoongazoo (sp) vile places.
Who knows how to spell that? It was the antithesis to the notion of a good DC city.
Capital Hill is a modern Babylonian whore house. It's been like this in past vile history.
I just repeat it. William Wordsworth was the author of 'Grief and Sorrow' and other works.
He knew well a garrison soldier who shared war's misery and remembrances. I do like W. W.
Maybe Read: 'Tintern Abbey'... 'Lyrical Ballads'.... and maybe, "I wandered Lonely As A Cloud."
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omooex, PDA, et al.
I agree, it mostly likely is and has been a lost cause from the very beginning.
But sometimes, a man's just got to go down swinging.
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It is now clear
that the intent of both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, the Media, and Corporations is that of malicious ill will towards the general population.
Does this confirm that they indeed all are the enemy of the people?
Just asking, because if they were the FRIEND of the people, they would not be acting this way.
Would they?
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Swing away, Bamage
It can't hurt.
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GC - some lighter fare...
Have you come across any of Jasper Fforde's "Thursday Next" series?
She is a literary detective, and in the first of the series, The Eyre Affaire is assigned the task of saving the integrity of that novel. (She first had to learn to jump both into and out of fiction."
At one point Thursday's uncle's wife finds herself literally wandering around in the Wordsworth poem, feeling a bit melancholy.
Many puns that might amuse you, perhaps not as well as you amuse us, but... what are we going to do... Not everyone is a GC or a bebop-o.
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It's not easy to understand Everybody. The neighbors here are milking moo cows... in the country.
I dun't agern did fergits whuts i's wuza goner sez?
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RETROACTIVE IMMUNITY FOR THE TELECOM 'EVILDOERS'
I E-MAILED THE DNC AND TOLD THEM THAT THERE WOULD BE NO MORE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ME IF THE TELECOM 'EVILDOERS' ARE GIVEN RETROACTIVE IMMUNITY! John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta
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Anonymust
I got a candy kiss in my pocket?
I'll have to look into your books.
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Hey!
Just asking, because if they were the FRIEND of the people, they would not be acting this way.
Would they?
-- brightstar65
Corporations are people too!
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Which democrat?
"I hope against all evidence that the Democrats will find a way to take back the White House and rescind the dictatorship of the Rethuglicant Party" Cry Havoc
I guess the question is which democrat, Hillary or Obama? If it's Hillary, forget about it. She's just more of the same corporatist/fascist garbage. It's was Bill that started extraordinary rendition. It was Bill that gave us NAFTA. Along with media deregulation that has allowed 5 companies to own everything. If it's Hillary, nothing will change. If it's Obama, can't say one way or the other. He talks a different game but who knows what he will really do.
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forever and forever?
Anonymust?
That's more than a week?
The weak creeps are icky-flops.
Watch where ya's do walk? Big dung piles.
Holy mackerels the sky is grey. Grey Sky? Howdy!
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Wow, are the True Believers waking up from their hypnosis?
Whoa... wtf is going on here? Are these the same people that couldn't get enough of Feinstein and Friends with the "Impeach Impeach Impeachment is coming! Democrats are going to save us from the Neocons and End the War" chorus that has been going on for the past couple of years?
I think forcing him into a veto in which the message is that he just doesn't want to follow the law is a situation that possibly will get more people paying attention to the issue.
Keep thinking, because you'll be doing a lot of it while coming up with new apologies for their future failures and capitulations.
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Kabuki Kapitulation . . .
Nobody here is really shocked, are they? At this point we play an ever diminishing role in our own self governance (presuming that at some point in our shared history we played a larger one--which I tend to doubt). So until and unless we begin electing citizen candidates "funded" only by living breathing preferably "working class citizens" (or we have an economic meltdown--entirely possible) our system will continue NOT to serve our interests but those of the capital class. That we are but bit players in this grand political play is unsurprising and nothing new. So long as we continue banging our heads against the interior walls of the system we are contained and zero threat to the status quo.
Our system of government and the rule of law is designed for precisely one purpose--maintenance of the class status quo. It is constructed so as to create the illusion that citizen input can affect change. Anyone who thought this would play out differently has never been to the theatre before or borders on the delusional.
There are a few honorable citizen legislators but they are the vast underachieving minority with little of the actual political capital necessary to sustain positive change or serve the interests of "we the people" except on the margins.
This couldn't have gone any other way because the vast majority of the populace simply doesn't have the time or wherewithall to generate sufficient political power to hold anyone accountable. Hell most think casting a vote is the end all be all of civic responsibility. I'd be willing to bet that the Congressional staffers go out for beers after work and trade stories of the "loonies" that call in demanding accountability and guffaw at the very notion that citizens making phone calls, faxing, e-mailing, and writing letters influences legislation.
Seriously though. That FDR was considered a class traitor and in serious jeopardy of being bumped off because of the changes he implemented should be proof positive of the above points. The system exists--at all costs--to perpetuate itself and the status quo. As for the "rule of law." Read most legal decisions of importance and the overriding value to be served is, wait for it, "predictability." You rarely see justice or fairness mentioned but you always see predictability. Well sometimes you see the inverse which is "not opening the floodgates of litigation." How utterly scary it is to give the little people real legal recourse. That's only for the aristocrats and corporate entities.