Letters to the Editor
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I nearly wet myself laughing so I have to share..
Found at balloon-juice.com
“Maybe you cross the commander-in-chief threshold when you taste another woman’s lipstick on your husband’s dick.”
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Go see DiFi!
Go See DiFi.....
"There may not be a Q&A"....
WHO THE HELL CARES???????!!!!!!!!!!!!
STAND UP AND SCREAM AT THE BITCH!
REMEMBER: You are RIGHT. She is WRONG.
How hard is that?
What ever happened to civil disobedience?
(Uh..... it might affect your credit rating....)"
I just wanna be smart, is all.
I've done my share of screaming at DiFi's staff on this specific issue, and--to all appearances--it hasn't nudged Feinstein's stance on the FISA one iota.
If me calmly asking DiFi a respectful question that puts her in an awkward position in front of hundreds of witnesses puts more constructive leverage on DiFi than me screaming something at her and being hustled out of the room like a homeless guy who just peed on the carpet, then I suppose it'd be smarter for me to do the former rather than the latter.
But, you're right, if she says "No Questions" and bolts for the door, I'll have a decision to make. Damn. Hope it doesn't come to that.
Patrick Meighan
Culver City, CA
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Charming...
I have supported NPR for years. Not a lot of money, but at least something, and in recent years $100 each to the two local stations, one news and talk, the other a real Treasure of Classical music broadcasting.
I have kept up with the administrations attempts to put that goofball kook in charge, and he was exposed, and blah, blah, blah,
BUT - tonight they were repeating that Pew garbage about how opinion about the war is changing now that "things are going so much better", and I'm thinking:
IT'S THAT F***ING PROPAGANDA AGAIN.
It has been a true education to see how smoothly they changed the subject, post-surge noise, to the economy, so now the news of the war is buried on page three and people are fretting about $4.00 a gallon gas.
So - No more money to NPR. I think I'll send that $100 to the ACLU.
Ahhhh, Philanthropy!
Nice to know that even NPR wasn't leftist enough for your tastes. 23.5 hours a day of liberal talking-points is not worth your support? Anyway, I can see how in years past, NPR would have earned your support.
It is a damned shame that your national public radio station would trouble you during your busy day with some very moderately good news about your country's military in action abroad.
I really feel for you. By all means, withhold that NPR donation...
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Note about phrasing
Instead of saying that the bill "denies retroactive immunity" can we see the bill "upholds the rights of citizens to seek redress in court for major violations of the law" or something like that?
The phrasing of "denies" makes it sound like retroactive immunity is the norm and that Democrats are restricing some existing rights. Typically denying things has a negative connotation.
Republicans want to deny citizens their rights to use the jsutice system as intended and deny justice to the wronged. Democrats aren't denying anything, they are upholding basic American values.
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Harman
"The reason I've always been so hard on Jane Harman in the past is because she's very smart and exerts a lot of influence in that caucus -- among Blue Dogs especially -- on these issues."
Another good reason to be hard on Jane Harman is that she represents a very liberal district (Venice [!], California... the city in which I lived up 'til just a few months ago) and she's a Blue Dog, center-right Democrat. There were many times I'd read about a vote my congresswoman had cast and I'd feel compelled to look out my window and verify that the congressional district in which I lived wasn't situated in Provo, UT or Camas, WA.
Now I'm represented by Diane Watson. She's unremarkable, to be sure, but at least she's a reliably progressive vote whose voting record actually is in accordance with the general will of the constituency she's been elected to represent. It seems like so little to ask for, but after life with Harman, I'll take it.
Patrick Meighan
Culver City, CA
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Also thanks to Glenn and Jane
McJoan and others for helping to make this happen.
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Warrantless searches that even Elephantman might find slightly disquieting..
http://tinyurl.com/27kegk
Washington, D.C. police to conduct warrantless searches of houses for guns.
Guys, this is down right frieghtening. I cannot even begin where to start with this story which comes from our nation's capitol.
Police will be doing door to door "consent" searches for guns. That means they knock on your door and ask if they may search your house for fire arms banned under the current law being contested in the Supreme Court.
Residents will be asked to sign "consent" forms while being promised "amnesty." If weapons are found, they will be tested to see if they were used in any crimes. If the results come back in the affirmation, the the police may take futher steps to investigate the crime.
Whats worse about the matter is that this strategy is also being tried in Boston and considered in other parts of the nation without much question to civil liberties.
Bad boys, bad boys, watch'a gonna do when the come for you?
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E-man back to take a different tack...
when everybody laughed at the first post. So much fun watching the right-wing authoritarians in a tail-spin. It obviously isn't over, but E-man just makes me smile more and more over the last months.
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Aycharaych
Another fantastic evisceration of the Supreme Court for Bush v Gore:
Ronald Dworkin in the New York Review of Books. "A Badly Flawed Election"
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/13954
Also, he replies to a critic here:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14004
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True news vs. good news
Elephantman,
I'd love to hear good news about the war in Iraq -- if it is true! Unlike you, I have noticed how they keep changing the standards of what we're trying to accomplish, and the news still keeps coming up short. And that's with the news they let us hear about -- there's lots of evidence that they hide anything they can that would make them look bad.
The notion of widespread liberal media bias is bullshit -- even the NY Times regularly repeats what Bush & his cronies say without fact checks. It's a pity that you seem to think that truth is a sign of liberal bias -- and it's a miracle that finally some news agencies (and also Fox news) are reporting facts when they contradict what Bush is saying.