Letters to the Editor
-
Ack! Pauliac Attack!
It's time for a "sit down" at the kitchen table.
Yeah, the way he sat down with the guys who were writing his newsletter, and set them straight. Avuncular, paternal even. Just like Shooter.
-
Didn't somebody suggest this earlier?
Sharter28% really needs the "Clockwork Orange" treatment...
-
Opportunity <i>k'nockers</i>
Gawd. (It would save a lot of time and effor,t though, if I could just hire me a good sockpuppet. He'd have to bring his own dictionary, though. I'll need mine for all those epistles I was planning to fire off to Ephesus.)
-- William Timberman
Mr. Timberman, would you prefer my resume' be an attachment, or should I include it in the text of my e-mail. Photos to follow by Fed-Ex.
-
the problem with rose
One can forgive many flaws in Charlie Rose, even - perhaps - his condescension. But what is most telling is how often he repeats points - in effect dumbing down the facts for what he thinks is his audience - to the level of a banality or a truism. Four thousand Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis have died and all he sounds like is a third-grade teacher explaining elementary fractions. It is more than disgraceful and insulting. This is much worse than condescension; it is the degradation of the very possibility of instruction or dialogue.
-
bamage? Did you go to Cornell University be as lame as me?
Sometimes I download if a take a bath.
I'll try the site again. Bring the site up for a smile?
W.T., L.W.M., baa baa, Lady P, etc.,... pull limbs? ow.
out/over. if I wasn't so lamb... who knows if I'd be stew?
-
My Dad smoked Luckies, BTW
Lucky Strike cig contest...
Good Celery
How do you do it, Mr. Celery? May I call you Good? Anyway, yeah I keep on looking at "LWM" and seeing, what is it, oh yeah: LS/MFT Now I know why. Thanks!
-
@WT Re: bucky
I think containment works!
;-)
Shooter? How much of your personal treasure will you give to the Iraqi people? More sacrifice is required on your part. You may even have to go there and man a post. Your wife as well.
-
@ Derbig
You're far too accomplished for such a lowly task. You should have your own column, at very least. (Seriously, your comments are a rare treat. Please stick around, and as yourself. Things've been so dreary since Cocktailhag's new show opened.)
-
How do you measure freedom.
OK, I'll start the list....
Women who used to be free to travel, unattended and without burqas, no longer can do so.
But women's "freedom" doesn't really count, does it Shooter?
-
Breaking- Green Zone -All U.S. Embassy personell instructed not to leave re-inforced structures
That means bunkers.
"Bush detached from reality"
-
Say what?
Cocktailhag? In a show? I can't catch everything. Is there a URL or a name for the project? I always enjoy her comments.
And in spite of RMG's urgings, I can't be anybody else. Not even, alas, LWM. Chainsmoking Luckies would kill me.
-
Not a chance.
The dictator you are accusing us of backing did far less damage than the one you fervently support. The one you accuse us of backing, hung for his crimes. Would you support trying and punishing your monster with the same fervor?-- ondelette
Oh brother. We stopped shooting people on sight in 2003, and we certainly haven't been blowing up the infrastructure we built back over these years. I'm afraid you'll have to hold those nasty Iraqi civil war participants to blame.
On the other hand, those that counsel immediate withdrawal will get a heaping helping of escalation, civil-war-wise. You know, the kind of monstrous behavior you describe. So why do that?
Keep up the good work. -
Shooter is right!
The Iraqi people are more free! To kill us!
It's the U.S. personell who are less free!
Way to go, Shooter!
-
Nope, Pedinska, women's rights are not human rights, after all
Did you notice that Shooter did not answer either my comment or ondelette's? Very telling.
Okay, my turn... How do you measure (the lack of) freedom?
Women who used to be able to work in professional positions no longer can. Nor do they feel safe, however, to continue in the more traditional role of child-bearing, as I mentioned before.
Thousands of Iraqi women (and probably some girls, too) who had to flee along with rest of the million or more refugees, now have to work as prostitutes in order to bring in money to feed their families. (Of course, that's not really a problem, since they've obviously chosen this line of work, now that they've been liberated from the horrors of Saddam's regime and are newly free agents, though in exile from the new regime.)
I'll think of a few more...
-
@ Derbig, about the hag....
Sorry, D. I'm a hyperbolist, remember? Not about you, though. You're a treasure.
(C-hag hasn't been around as much lately. I miss her. On can only hope that the graphics venture -- the phone pads, etc. -- have taken off.)
-
I stand corrected.
He just did respond to ondelette's comment.
-
@ Pedinska
But women's "freedom" doesn't really count, does it Shooter?
Not to American women it seems. I was glad to see some sort of effort regarding the woman in Saudi Arabia, otherwise it seems to be a non-issue.
-
Ah....
New thread, complete with scary picture.
-
We?
"Oh brother" is right. What "we" are you referring to?
What unit are you with in Iraq, again? Golf Troop? That comes right after F troop in the OoB.
Oh brother. We stopped shooting people on sight in 2003, and we certainly haven't been blowing up the infrastructure we built back over these years.
-
@ WT
Cockatilhag's minions are everywhere. I'm distributing phone pads in a hotbed of conservatism as we speak (www.gordyvilleusa.com, and the show we're at is titled the "Freedom Special) and word is people in western wear have been spotted laughing at them already.
Jebbie: too many ponies to count here!
-
Daddy's Home
You can only try to quarantine them in their own little fantasy world - broken legs will slow them down - and hope their poison doesn't infect too many of the coming generations
LWM, I live and commute and generally know people who are on the other side of the dividing line between who pays for it and who gets paid. Military people, former military now contracting, and just those who have taken opportunities, mostly younger workers, in the burgeoning "security industry".
Here are three of the distinctive (from mine anyway) tenets of their thinking, as I am able to infer them:
1) They are America's heroes. The first line of defense against the, well, the whatever, but it's out there.
Okay, everybody should have an idealistic conception of their job
2) They look forward to a long career, and expect to be rewarded (!!!) for their part in the War On Terror! The fact that their job could just be part of a ridiculous political boondoggle is not within the realm of permissable thought.
3) They feel, to a man or woman, that their "contribution" to America's security raises them to some degree out of the maze of laws and regulations the rest of us have to bear.
4) Disagreement is treason- one must never "lose control" of a situation. Starts with a few words, the next thing you know they whip out the suicide vest. Gotta stop it at the words, and that is what the force of law is designed to do!
And yes, God alone knows what they are telling their kids.Admittedly, this is a subjective overview of the things said to me, and around me on a regular basis. Maybe you got to stretch your mind a little to encompass the possibility that I listen as well as kvetch, but I do, honest!