Letters to the Editor
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Can someone please translate hunthorse into English? Please?
We have page after page of actual, and disguised visceral hatred of the president. Never mind John Yoo Some of you are actually jealous of the guy, born to some wealth, a Yalie, legacy or not, Harvard B school AND, he did not turn out to be an East Coast liberal like Teddy, and John Heintz Kerry and the over educated ( university of Louisville Law) Chris Dodd. He beat that fat Tennessee boy who believes that global warming is our greatest problem. Thse birds consider the man a traitor to their class and they have enveloped all of these liberal posters to belive this stuff.
I really can't make sense of this spew but it sounds like he's trying to make a valid point.
Can someone translate it into English? Or Uzbek for that matter?
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re: Can someone please translate hunthorse into English? Please? -- Iokannan in the Well
He is saying that Bush II is a Winner and we are all just jealous of him. I think this may be the worst piece of garbage ever posted at UT; and that is saying a lot.
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Academic Freedom vs. civil society
I support the absolute value of Academic Freedom just as much as I support everyone's right to Freedom of Speech in this country. The University should not take any official action to censor or remove this employee. However, when speech in an academic setting of a tenured faculty member becomes so absolutely odious, one recourse is the ancient practice of publicly "shunning" the individual. Prof. Yoo's colleagues, the Law school students, and the associated staff should both publicly and privately refuse to have any interactions whatsoever with him, his family, and any supportive advisees or acolytes he has in the University system. Make it permanent until he and they either voluntarily remove themselves from their Academic society, or make a true and sincere apology and denounce the actions that have so offended the decent people of the world. Others are free to act in response just as he is free to speak.
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Hunthorse has a valid point
There are a lot of mental patients on the loose who see themselves as saviors of this Nation. They often describe themselves as Conservatives, Neocons or/and Federalists. Hunthorse is urging us to beware and to re-commit them before the whole world is in flames. He's got a point. One of them thinks God gave him a mission to save the world. Instead he lead us to the Apocalypse.
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Its not really that bad, bucky1.
I think this may be the worst piece of garbage ever posted at UT; and that is saying a lot. -- bucky1
Actually the unlamented Bart DePalma insisting Bush and the GOP have always been supported by the majority of Americans was worse, if only for the sheer intellectual dishonesty involved.
Hunthorse is just plainly delusional. Not to mention badly uneducated if their sentence structure and spelling errors are any indication.
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The messianic nihlist isn't big on revelations, I think.
One of them thinks God gave him a mission to save the world. Instead he lead us to the Apocalypse. -- oratorio
Properly speaking, he's lead us into "Armegeddon".
An 'apocalypse' is usually the revelation of some hidden truth to a select prophet or the like, leading to a profound change in consciousness once the message gets out.
Its been obvious to everyone for some time the GOP has no soul and no morals; hardly a revelation there.
Besides, even if President Bush received such a revelation from the Metatron itself, he'd likely invoke "State Secrets" on it and we'd have to wait for some whistleblower to let us know about it.
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Screw Yoo
Glenn, great post.
The Post's front page is positively abuzz with Barack's Q&A gaffe from Friday. The hand wringing here in town is enough to cause carpal tunnel syndrome, and every fainting couch is groaning under the weight of certain pundits and Dubya apologists. You'd think Obama had told Senator Leahy to go *&%$#@! himself.
Regarding the earlier equine posts on this thread...
No offense to the rest of you, but I am not horse fan, myself. I would rather have a 250 cc dirt bike any day of the week.
If I drop the bike, it won't be because the front tire got spooked by a garden snake.
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Translation Exercise (hurried and perhaps incomplete)
Don’t be hating, Hunthorse reminds us, whether you are upfront about it or disguise it. If you are jealous of another’s wealth or achievements, don’t be a hater. He also reminds us that if someone is not like us or did not turn out like we thought they should, we should not hate them. He is thinking of Bush, of course. He also thinks Chris Dodd has too much education. He thinks Al Gore was fat and believes that global warming is our greatest problem, and that Gore was beaten by Bush in the presidential election. He thinks some liberal posters on this thread have been hoodwinked by Ted Kennedy, John (married to Teresa Heinz) Kerry, and Chris Dodd, amongst others, because these people consider Bush a traitor to their class. I can infer from this, legitimately, I think, that he must conclude that some of the posters claims here have no merit because they are motivated by this complicated state of mind.
Were he in my logic class, I would ask him, with all respect, to consider the arguments that the posters are making, and not the hypothetical motivation for those arguments. I would tell him that arguments stand or fall on their own merits.
I would also tell him that I, too, do not want to be hater.
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Addendum
Insert more clearly phrased sentence:
He thinks some liberal posters on this thread have been hoodwinked by Ted Kennedy, John (married to Teresa Heinz) Kerry, and Chris Dodd, amongst others, and that these aforementioned people consider Bush a traitor to their class, and that is why they have set out to hoodwink these people.
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Perhaps Rendition is in order
American society will not prosecute its war criminals, that seems to be a simple fact given the laws that your congress has passed. That being said American law does not mean that international law has been overruled.
One day in the future, much like other war criminals your current president, vice president, and other members of the senior staff may be sitting at the defendants table at the international war crimes tribunal.
American society will not send them there, but with luck one or all of these "leaders" will go abroad and a forward thinking country will arest and via a Rendition process take these men and women to face the justice that they should.
America has tarnished it self. Trails for these people would put some shine back into your image.