Letters to the Editor
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errors. not 6:36, and 6:37. 9:36, and 9:37.
Semantic shifts? No one is perfect. O. caress.
Maybe soon? Kind A.G.? Honest A.G.? O hugs.
Keep up the relentless effort at transformation.
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An excellent counterexample
And Baldie, I would say that the use of Douglas M. on the bonus marchers was a far more typical use of the military here at home than was defending the black students at Little Rock High. I don't disagree with L.W.M.'s basic premise any more than RMP does, but I think his defense of it is -- shall we say -- overly ardent.
Along with Kent State, although that was due more to poor training than anything else.
At any rate, I feel sure that neither example is intended when the militarists argue (as that poem does) that we owe all our freedoms to "the soldier." We owe our freedom from Britain to the citizen-soldier, and I think that's as close as one can get to a case for that argument.
The army IS a tool, and for the most part it behaves that way---and it's probably dangerous to argue differently, just because we fear its further misuse.
Derbig is right to wonder---and worry---about the corporate "paramilitaries."
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On the t-shirt: Homeland Security Fighting Terrorism since 1492
Geronimo, Yahnoza, Chappo and Fun (Geronimo & some of his relatives)
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Ta-ta for now
I hate to miss the rest of this thread -- it's a good one -- but I'm off to Costco; I'm running short of pork fat and jumbo paper towels. Since my local big-box emporia are fifty miles away, I'll have to catch up later.
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This is a good point.
Homeland Security
Fighting Terrorism Since 1492
-- Kitt
If Jefferson had been in the WH instead of Jackson when Marshall's ruling came down, we may well have had a free state of Cherokees instead of the Trail of Tears. Jefforson may have used force against the State of Georgia instead of the Cherokees. Can't say.
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Pedinska..
Hell, I'm 48 and I'm still learning how to pay attention carefully. ;-}
Heh..
I'm too broke to pay attention. :-)
You are absolutely right about learning more from disagreement than agreement. Honest discussion of disagreements forces one to really get down to the essentials of one's argument.
I didn't realize Asher S. was still in college..
I'm reminded of the old saying: Hire teenagers while they still know everything.
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real courage ...
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/30/7974/
ANTI-WAR SHIRT GETS MAN, 80, PULLED FROM WHEELCHAIR, ARRESTED
An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall yesterday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War.
Police said that Don Zirkel, of Bethpage, was disturbing shoppers at the Lake Grove mall with his T-shirt, which had what they described as “graphic anti-war images.” Zirkel, a deacon at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Wyandanch, said his shirt had the death tolls of American military personnel and Iraqis - 4,000 and 1 million - and the words “Dead” and “Enough.” The shirt also has three blotches resembling blood splatters.
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"I can't quite fathom the connection between "rights" and bras. --Jebbie"
Just call it the right to breathe.
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Oil on the flames..... ;-)
[Mona]: And I can think of at least two issues other than prostitution Glenn has written about that engendered significant disagreement from many commenters. But I won't cite the subjects, lest we renew those conflagrations.
<*sotto voce*> *Psssst!* "Israel"....
<8runs and hides*>
Cheers,
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A little family time...
I'm away for the afternoon now, too.
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GC
Opus has some shweeeet lingerie!
Don't know about the panties, but I'd fight for that bra. ;-}
Kitt - apparently it's much easier to mistake a psilocybin for something poisonous than a morel. The consequences of partaking of a "counterfeit" Magic Mushroom are probably what keep most on the trail of the Mere Morel.
It is well known that a few species of the non-psilocybin mushrooms are dangerously poisionous. Ingestion will cause the body to flush itself through the bowels and by vomiting, with extreme cramps varying from mild to severe discomfort to death.
I've had salmonella before. The "flushing" part alone was enough to keep me from experimenting with anything else that could cause a recurrence, or worse.
And, if you've ever had morels grilled in butter and garlic over a campfire, well, I'm pretty sure there's more than enough magic in that for anyone's taste. Yum!
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"Eh, maybe. Can we fight over the lingerie?"
Did Jebbie just say it's too cold to not wear a bra where he is? I've heard panty hose keep your legs very warm.
I saw Some Like It Hot a bunch of times. Uh oh. I've said too much.
Legacy
Wilder holds a significant place in the history of Hollywood censorship for expanding the range of acceptable subject matter. He is responsible for two of the film noir era's most definitive films in Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard. Along with Woody Allen, he leads the list of films on the American Film Institute's list of 100 funniest American films with 5 films written and holds the honor of holding the top spot with Some Like it Hot...
Both Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond were born in Eastern Europe.
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Let's not let the past or today, blind us about tomorrow
Frank Rich in a NYT op-ed piece today titled Hillary’s St. Patrick’s Day Massacre, said this:
That Mrs. Clinton’s campaign kept insisting her Bosnia tale was the truth two days after The Post exposed it as utter fiction also shows the political perils of 20th-century analog arrogance in a digital age. Incredible as it seems, the professionals around Mrs. Clinton — though surely knowing her story was false — thought she could tough it out. They ignored the likelihood that a television network would broadcast the inevitable press pool video of a first lady’s foreign trip — as the CBS Evening News did on Monday night — and that this smoking gun would then become an unstoppable assault weapon once harnessed to the Web.
http://tinyurl.com/2dx6jn
Rich talks about a very significant change in our politics that although it has been talked about, understanding and recognizing the full impact of it is still in its infancy stage. Lying, scheming, tricky politicians/pundits/M$M/Serious foreign affairs "experts" are in more trouble than they ever could have imagined. Truth, fairness and the rule of law will be the beneficiaries.
There are now so many expert eyes like Glenn’s who watch everything you say and do with your history immediately available, that transparency in government will become popular and common. True corporations and government will use classification and encoding to try and keep their secrets, but when public support is needed, they won't be able to do their smoking room plotting and then expect to fool the majority of the people. They will find that the truth could set them free if they have the courage to realize it.
When I think about the full impact of what I just proclaimed, I am reminded of a 1973 college paper I wrote in a master’s degree class about how computers would change the world. Although I didn’t keep the paper, I was quite accurate on predicting much of what has transpired and was more wrong on how fast it would transform society than how much it would transform it.
I didn’t predict in 1973, my just proclaimed transparency-truth change. It is rather amazing how life-changing advances can be happening and we don’t pay them the attention they deserve. I maintained in my 1973 paper that computers and the Internet would be the most significant event in the 20th century surpassing the raping of our energy and natural resources. I didn’t know about global warming in 1973 and I would have to say that has surpassed the raping because it could be far more devastating to the world.
But, if we don’t wipe out human life, there was something else that happened in the 20th century that surpasses everything else. I believe the unraveling of DNA will so transform our medicine and other aspects of human life, that today’s children will live far longer than we can even imagine. At some point, not that far away, we can grow back lost parts and organs and eventually any part of the body. It is already being done. I just saw on TV a story about as man who lost the tip of his finger, a scientist-researcher mailed him a pig’s guts concoction in powder form that after application, grew back the tip including a perfect nail. Solving life’s mysteries and prolonging life surpasses any other advance in the 20th century.
So I encourage all the pessimists out there to recognize that we should not only be learning from the past, we should also be paying attention to the present and the fact that major changes like what we are engaged at with Glenn and other bloggers is having far more impact than we can realize at this time.
Let me repeat what Glenn posted this morning:
In any event, the ability of a column or blog to exert influence isn't confined to "number of readers." That's one important metric -- and some columns and blogs have readership numbers that exceed or come to close many cable television news programs -- but as important as sheer numbers, if not more so, is the question of who is reading.
When your readership consists of journalists, television news producers, columnists, editors, etc., it's not true that the audience is composed only of like-minded people. If the column includes persuasive arguments, unique facts, usable research, etc., the influence can be both direct (exposing that to one's readership directly) as well as indirect (shaping the presentation of their programs/segments/columns to their audience/readership).