Letters to the Editor
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This is the silliest thread
in the history of UT
And it's cause a me, isn't it? Okay then LWM you won't have Mosser to kick around anymore. I'm leaving with my dignity intact.
Okay, so I'm just leaving. But if imploding the remains of my shattered self-image has provided a moment's diversion for you intellectual demolitioneers, I have been well repaid for coming. Goodbye, until later, and thanks.
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About that butter....
Ghee is available at your local Indian market. Slightly more caramelized than the stuff called for in European recipes, but addictive in its own right. There's also schmalz, which I know you can get in the Pacific NW, although I wouldn't recommend it for your sole meunière.
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Who picked up the Check?
IF YOU SEE AMY GOODMAN, PLEASE ASK HOW MANY LUNCHEONS, DINNERS SHE AND ROSE HAVE SHARED.
Yeah, like her thighs don't tell the whole sordid story!
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bird94
The focus of the panel should be, and may actually have been, on who's got the best qualifications to solve the current situation, and their past positions should be irrelevant.
Why do I think that if the positions were reversed you would not be holding this view?
From where I sit, being utterly, completely and wildly wrong about going to war is a major disqualification for the position of deciding what to do about the aftermath of that war.
That every single panelist was disqualified in that manner is clear evidence that people with better qualifications (ie: they correctly predicted disaster) were systematically excluded.
If a surgeon, through a combination of ignorance, stupidity, overweening arrogance and a refusal to listen to others, removes the wrong testicle from your body .. Are you going to let him go after your other testicle too?
His past fuckup should be irrelevant, eh?
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Derbig
that is well and clearly said:
"what I mean to say is that the changes which occurred to make homo sapiens sapient and not just sentient were just that: changes It was us, William, who called them advancements or progress. This ability to manipulate the environment to a greater degree, both mentally and physically, than any other species, were evolutionary changes, that is, they worked and they happened to be available. They were not necessarily better. Nor does evolution have the ability to peer into the future and comprehend consequences. The things that make us men may turn out to be an amalgam of destructive tendencies, in the long run. Nature doesn't care."
Thus you baldly state my secret fear before all the world (well, part of it). If it is all quantity and no quality then I move way beyond horror. And it may be you are right. Bob Dylan said it best for me: Oh Mama, can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again?
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Better butter
Ghee is available at your local Indian market. Slightly more caramelized than the stuff called for in European recipes, but addictive in its own right.
That's interesting. I'll try it. We have a good Indian Restaraunt here in Bummertown. I wonder if they use it there.
I'll ask 'em when next we eat there.
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So where has it worked?
WT on politics: "It's an art, it involves other people, many of whom are just as cranky as you are. It takes patience, flexibility; hell, you might even have to learn how to be lovable."
I have read a lot of history, I had to do so. The stories there tell me that there has not been a whole lot of patience, flexibility or lovableness in governments.
Perhaps Timberman only refers to democracies, but even they do not have a wonderful record. Where is the shining example of mankind making government the servant of the people rather than the master? Where is one that does not brutalise its own given enough time?
Being white and upper middle class in 1950s small town America may have been peachy; being black and poor in the same town -- not so much.
So sweet willie, where does politics work?
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No, I don't think she does.
I wondered how this got started - LWM
We are all androgynous, as is the ineffable one. You will come back in the next life as male or female depending on your need. As one gnostic sage asked, "do you really think God has a dick?" (circa 165 if I remember off the top off my little head) -Bucky
Sorry, LWM, that one was intended for me. The androgynous one, according to Bucky, who has never even met me. But seems to think that he/him will suffice for all of us, but never she/her. Hmmm....
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Against my better judgment....
Stick with the ineffable one, Bucky. She's the only one I know who'll let you win the lottery without buying a ticket.
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@Jkalos
To be stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again?
Oh fer krists Sake' J, I alway thought it was "To be stuck inside a mobile with the memphis blues again"
You know, like, who was it, Calder(?) makes. Pieces on strings, all balanced, you've seen 'em.
Are you sure? Cause it makes more sense...
Listen Kalos, if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. And if you can remember the lyrics, well, I'm not buyin it! Are you a narc?
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@buckyl
Where is one that does not brutalise its own given enough time?
What, are you in a rush? Cause I'm not.
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keep up ...
The androgynous one, according to Bucky, who has never even met me. But seems to think that he/him will suffice for all of us, but never she/her. Hmmm....
-- Anonymust
You missed the point again. I need not see you in the flesh (God forbid!, and Wife forbid!) since the body is not you. You are the androgynous entity that may or may not come back next time as female. No one knows if it will be your choice, but I rather doubt it.
Of course, it is slightly presumptuous of me to think you will not escape this hell and be bound back to another life -- but hey, "I calls em as I sees em."
:-)
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I don't miss <i>your</i> points, Bucky,
but you are persistently oblivious to mine.
And I wasn't the one who brought up body parts... you were.