Letters to the Editor
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re: the ad
Make sure Hamsher does the blackface on her opponent again. It worked out so well for Lamont. Heh.
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@hrh: Do you disagree with my analysis of the situation with respect to coincidences on 9/11/2001?
Yes, I disagree.
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Mike Sulzer
I take it then that your disagreement means you think that there were just a normal number of coincidences in relation to the events of 9/11/2001?
Just trying to clarify exactly what your position is, not trying to put words in your mouth.
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Anonymust
Both men were similarly inspiring, despite their differences in race, age, background, perhaps because of their continued optimism, despite seeing clearly how many things are still the same 40 years later.
Not the same, far worse..
Forty years ago, there was little racial disparity in incarceration rates and the US incarceration rate was very similar to that of other industrialized Western nations.
Forty years ago, piss testing was unheard of.
Forty years ago, your bank accounts weren't being monitored for suspicious activity.
Forty years ago, cannabis was not the largest cash crop in America..
I could go on, but I'm weary.
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True, some things are far worse...
but they also took note of some things that had improved, as well as those that had improved, but then in the Reagan years began to lose ground.
I wasn't trying to detail all of the specifics, but just pique enough interest that others would watch it.
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HRH
If you do not, then by your own standards you are applying a weak methodology that is subject to personal emotions and prejudice.
That's some fabulous reasoning. I can begin to understand the genesis. I choose to believe or disbelieve (Mukasey in this instance) based on the evidence and the sources.
Troofers, on the other hand, choose to believe in a particular theory, based on "coincidences" and contrary "evidence" that "doesn't add up." There's no actual proof the government did anything to carry out 9/11.
I happen to find the fact that GG cites FISA law and Mukasey quotes to support that Mukasey was not being truthful easier to swallow that the fact that the curator of Waco Holocaust Museum believes NORAD sent the suicide jets.
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karrsic
Troofers, on the other hand, choose to believe in a particular theory, based on "coincidences" and contrary "evidence" that "doesn't add up." There's no actual proof the government did anything to carry out 9/11.
I don't have any particular theory, however I strongly doubt the government explanation.
Where does that put me?
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9/11 Truth
"Sometimes a cigar..."
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HRH
Where does that put me?
Put that way, I'd say reasonably skeptical.
But when you roll out the "evidence" in the form I described above, i.e., coincidences that may or may not be true, unanswered questions treated as something concrete, etc., well, then you lose me. And well, when you start lumping me and many others here way smarter than me -- while I appreciate the company -- into the realms of the deaf, dumb, and blind, than I aoum further lost to your POV.
Though, I must say, for the most part, I read what you have to say. FWIW.
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karrsic
Put that way, I'd say reasonably skeptical.
But when you roll out the "evidence" in the form I described above, i.e., coincidences that may or may not be true, unanswered questions treated as something concrete, etc., well, then you lose me. And well, when you start lumping me and many others here way smarter than me -- while I appreciate the company -- into the realms of the deaf, dumb, and blind, than I aoum further lost to your POV.
It's been my experience that there are many forms of intelligence and that for every gift one gets one usually also gets some sort of handicap.
You sell yourself short when think that there are others here who are so much more intelligent than you are.
I used to be intimidated by people who appeared more intelligent than I am but then, over the course of many years, I came to realize that everyone has their own particular blind spot or spots.
As I've mentioned several times on this and some preceding threads, overcoming cultural biases that we learned at our mother's knees is so difficult that few are successful in doing so to any great extent. That is why I lump so many people as you say it "deaf, dumb and blind", they have not overcome their cultural biases.
Of course I don't claim to be perfect in that, or any other, respect.. But I've spent all of my life that I can remember seeing things from a different perspective from that of virtually everyone around me. Part of it comes from being raised by non racist, immigrant parents in a very racist society. I learned from the earliest age to distrust and discount the attitudes exhibited by my peers.
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@Anonymust
I caught only the Corey Booker interview and every time i listen to him, I am more impressed. The most important thing he said was we have to stop talking about problems, finding blame and instead find ways to solve them and he is doing just that in Newark. He said the solutions have to come from the bottom up.
That is another reason why I like Obama. He started working at the bottom, got his education at Harvard and returned to the bottom and then realized that he had to work within the political system to bring about the kind of change he felt was needed. When Obama is elected president, I hope he finds a place for Booker. Booker can really relate to the younger generation and to the people that most need help in our society and then find solutions.
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@WT
Thanks for the article. Our Serious foreign affairs experts are seemingly incapable of seeing through another cultures eyes and situation and insist that the American way is the only way. We do that with China, South America and everywhere else. As I have said before, if we had 1.3 billion people and were in the process of taking on capitalism and industrialization in such a short time frame, we would need a different approach in today's global world than the American model and our form of empire, previously known as a republic democracy or whatever other label could be used.