Letters to the Editor
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ELEPHANTMAN
Good news about the war?
Here's my take on that:
It's like the excitement a gambler gets when he owes the house twenty million dollars and wins a five dollar pot.
And that's giving you assholes the benefit of the doubt that there's anyone on god's grey earth that can straighten out what these assholes have so royally fucked up.
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Elephantman
Nice to know that even NPR wasn't leftist enough for your tastes. 23.5 hours a day of liberal talking-points
-- Elephantman
Do have transcripts of any one single day much less everyday from NPR to show evidence of your claim of 23.5 hours a day of "liberal talking points"? Or are you just talking out of your blow-hole again?
Save it. I already know the answer. You're talking out of your blow-hole.
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Thanks to Glenn
Following this issue since August, I've learned to really appreciate Glenn. Without him, many of us would have had no clue of the importance of this issue.
Reading the paper and watching TV news is an exercise in suffering fools. Mercifully, the world has Glenn.
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@Patsweetpat
Remember when you see DiFi that she voted in favor of the exclusivity clause -- that there is no law other than FISA that governs surveillance of foreign intelligence, and that she voted for (and proposed) SAmdt.3919 certification of the telecom's authorization in FISC instead of immunity. Her's wasn't as good as the House bill but had some similarity.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/amendment.xpd?session=110&amdt=s3919
And remember that she voted against the Senate bill on February 12. You are asking her to vote for the House bill, please don't chastise her for voting for the Rockefeller bill in February, because she didn't.
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Go see DiFi!
"Remember when you see DiFi that she voted in favor of the exclusivity clause -- that there is no law other than FISA that governs surveillance of foreign intelligence, and that she voted for (and proposed) SAmdt.3919 certification of the telecom's authorization in FISC instead of immunity. Her's wasn't as good as the House bill but had some similarity.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/amendment.xpd?session=110&amdt=s3919
And remember that she voted against the Senate bill on February 12. You are asking her to vote for the House bill, please don't chastise her for voting for the Rockefeller bill in February, because she didn't."
Okay, good to know, ondelette. If you got more for me to keep in mind as I wade into the fray in Long Beach, please pass it on!
Here's my email address, in case you wanna contact me that way:
patsburgh (at) yahoo (dot) com
Thanks,
Patrick Meighan
Culver City, CA
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Well, then!
Please DON'T scream at DiFi..
Thanks Ondelette for setting us straight. I was getting all up in arms like Abby Hoffman or something.
I was promoting public disorder and I WAS WRONG!
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Agony
Glenn Greenwald could have not achieved over the last few months were his energy and resources devoted to other hopeless crusades!
Yeah. Like Newt "The Fornicator" said: We're all just a bunch of "Pathetic Losers".
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Patsweetpat and Tomhere
That doesn't make her an angel, she is on the committee that wrote the Senate bill, and she voted to confirm Mukasey (you know, the latest torture apologist). But you'll get dismissed as shrill if you're complaining about something she didn't do. Other than that, tell her whatever you want. Just keep your desired outcome in mind. Another thing, they tend to latch on to a key word if they want to segue away from what you are saying, so write your questions down ahead of time and have a friend check them, and then practice a little.
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Thank You Glenn Greenwald
thank you, thank you, thank you....
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A few questions
Glenn, thanks for the journalistic leadership on this important issue. Could you clue us in on the next steps you see for the lawsuits against the telecoms? Will disclosure reveal who was listened to, give details of the programs, etc. do you believe? In your experience how long will those cases take before details are available to the public? Before the next President or years down the road? What else do you expect if the Congress cannot agree on a bill and FISA stays as is, and the cases trudge their way through court? Thanks again.
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Where's Shooter242? Maybe his head exploded.
Wishful thinking I know. Self immolation in protest of his unprotectedness and imminent doom at the hands of the Taliban?
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Where's Shooter242? Maybe his head exploded.
No great loss except to the ozone layer.
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He Appears to Have Been Admirably Replaced By Elephantman
He can read but cannot comprehend. A real chip off the old blockhead. Cast in the broken mold of Shooter242 his bad self. Pity the ozone.
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Perhaps we should go easy on Elephantman.
Save it. I already know the answer. You're talking out of your blow-hole. - Kitt
Isn't that being just a bit cruel to the poor animal? I mean, he's watching his species go extinct in real time. Naturally its going to leave him a tad...unbalanced.
Then again, he has been unforgivably rude lately.
To heck with it. Break out the brick-bats and have at 'em.
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Scientician
Ronald Dworkin in the New York Review of Books. "A Badly Flawed Election"
That was good..
The title lacked oomph though.. I like Bugliosi's better..
Thanks..
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Left me Fix that for Mr. Goldfarb
UPDATE VI: Two weeks ago, after Chairman Reyes went on CNN and suggested Democrats might be open to standing firm on telecom immunity, The Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb pouted as follows:
Defeat on Telecom Immunity, Greenwald Hardest Hitter
Fixed His Typos.
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Good news!
Thank you for all your work on this, Glenn.
And indeed a good start to the weekend.
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Elephantman hates us for our freedoms
the point isn't whether this bill gets passed...the point is preventing the bill that limits our freedoms from passing.
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@ patsweetpat
Another good reason to be hard on Jane Harman is that she represents a very liberal district (Venice [!]
Her district extends a little further south, though, into the South Bay (not quite so liberal) and it contains an Air Force Base and covers a section of town where (so my husband tells me) there exists the only place in the country (other than Washington DC) where every large defense contractor has a major corporate presence. She represents many of their employees, too, and must serve many masters, but I think has made some good decisions lately.