Letters to the Editor
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perfect.
cracked me up, man.
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Chris Matthews: Obama must stab Wright in the chest to prove they are not the same person.
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@L.W.M.
I don't think you're a dork, but you got something going on.
The source of the story is not Fox news, nor wikipedia.
All the presidential candidate's views re. foreign policy should be debated. This idea of obama's might get some Republican votes, maybe appeal to the center.
Why do you refuse to believe he proposed it?
Another link. Chicago Tribune:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-obama2aug02,0,5330469.story?coll=chi-newsbreaking-hed
or, google obama invade pakistan
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WT and Pedinska
I missed most of this thread, but I did pick up bits of your airport discussion.
I'm still offended by an occurrence in baggage claim (I think at LAX) over 25 years ago when a young, enthusiastic person bearing a sign eagerly kept thrusting it under my nose so that I would see the instructions for the physicists they were collecting for a conference. I was so offended: I'm a biologist. I wasn't lost in mental calculations, I was merely ignoring the sign after I saw it didn't pertain to me. How could they mistake me for a physicist on looks alone? (Let's see: rumpled clothes, glasses, beard...)
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@ Pedinska
If this song was memorised and sung each morning by healthy, strong-boned, large-breasted, maidenformed, corn-fed, milk-washed country girls, why, I'd be amazed!
Actually, I think they were singing it that day in Columbus. I couldn't tell for sure, though, because it was being sung in the weird German they speak in Austria.
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spot on
Nothing left to say,
thanks Glenn!
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WT
Actually, I think they were singing it that day in Columbus. I couldn't tell for sure, though, because it was being sung in the weird German they speak in Austria.
LOL! My husband speaks decent German (in a mangled Czech sorta way) and even he complains about the Austrian dialects, and that after living as a refugee for two years there when he first defected.
I, myself, didn't catch that the day I was observing, but the interesting parade had inspired me to have a rather strong cocktail on a rather empty stomach, so maybe my ears weren't working all that well by then.
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NOboy
or, google obama invade pakistan
-- NotOrbitBoy
You can post or "google" a million f'ing links of the same Obama speech and you will never find the words "invade Pakistan" transcribed as having come out of Obama's mouth.
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NORbit you f*cking retard!
Were you referring to Obama's comments about the necessity, given firm intelligence about Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts, to take him out with or without the cooperation of the Pakistani government?
You remember Osama Bin Laden, don't you, eedjit? Or are as as brain dead as your dimwit-in-chief?
Take your RWA talking points and shove them. Right before you shove off yourself.
"Problems with the link". Moron.
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@ Jim White
Those people with signs can be annoying. I tend to treat them like any other proselytizers I come across, I avoid eye contact and just keep on moving. It is unfortunate that they tend to hang around the baggage claim area where you are, more or less, a captive audience.
rumpled clothes, glasses, beard...
That pretty much describes my husband, who would be mistaken for anything but an academic of any sort. ;-}
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@bamage, @kitt
kitt - you're splitting hairs. obama suggested military action inside Pakistan w/o the paki government approval. I'd like to hear more debate about obama's NOT AN INVASION plan, as opposed to Wright's AIDs+Genocide theory.
bamage - I like your use of the words "necessity" and "firm intelligence". Reminds me of the debate prior to the Iraq war. Including debates that pre-date the Bush presidency. Similar to billary's argument in favor of military action as well...She left out the cuss words though.
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No, doofus
You're the one equating a tactical strike to hit Osama Bin Laden w/ an "invasion". It's the difference between the cruise missile strike that attempted to "decapitate" Saddam at the beginning of the Iraq War, and the total clusterhose the followed. Even you ought to be able to grasp that distinction.
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NOBoy
kitt - you're splitting hairs. obama suggested military action inside Pakistan w/o the paki government approval.
-- NotOrbitBoy
I know what Obama said. He said about what you, finally, just paraphrased. That 'paraphrase' does in no way equate to what you originally wrote, "Obama says 'Invade Pakistan'". I'm not "splitting hairs". I'm calling you a fucking liar.
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BUT, to top off a crappy night...
I just won tix to see Diane Reeves and a band inc. Chuck Mangione at Bass Hall in Fort Worth. So, not a total loss this evening.
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One last anecdote
Recently some of my crazier neighbors and I -- five of us altogether -- held a Berlin Alexanderplatz festival at my place. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, two weeks in a row. (Fourteen hours of Fassbinder, including the epilog.) Even with plenty of wine and good food, it was grueling.
By the end of it though, I was actually beginning to believe that I could understand Berlin dialect. Wat ik Gloobe iss doke etwa koomisch, nit?
Fun, but the neighbors must've thought we were plotting something awfully perverted and European, seeing that flickering light night after night, hearing 14 hours of drunken otherness coming through the window, along with snippets of Die Wacht am Rhein, Die Walküre, Der Rosenkavalier, and finally, Elvis.
Only in America.
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@bamage
Fair enough. Cruise missiles only. No troops.
If Sen. Dodd's worst fears come to pass, and the actions you describe destabilize Pakistan, radical islamists seize control of the government, including the nukes...then what?
We would have to be ready to invade, to try and secure the nukes if nothing else.
After listening to Sen. Dodd, and others, talk about the implications of Obama's NOT AN INVASION plan, including the who cares what Musharraf thinks part,...I don't think he's ready to be president.
I think this is an excellent topic to debate.
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@LWM
Mona,
We need more than the Fairness Doctrine and it should be implemented immediately and cable and satellite programming should be subject to the regulations.
LWM
Holy mackeral, that Mona nearly made me have a plotz last night. Did you catch that? I went to bed hating myself.
First Mona disparaged any notion of "fairness" in broadcasting.
She then absolutely refused to understand the nature of "free spech" within an adversary political and cultural process.
In that context, I mentioned Asperger's Syndrome.
She then wrote in, mentioning that her child may be dealing with this challenging Asperger's Syndrome, and begging for, you guessed it, fairness!
And if there is a venue in which "fairness in broadcasting" can really help, it's information about these conditions, information which will encourage understanding and help people dealing with people who have Asperger's Syndrome.
Asperger's Syndrome, by the way, if recognised and treated, is no bar to high intelligence, high-level function, or even extraordinary acheivment, if there is a certain amount of understanding. Without the concept of "fairness" we will be left with the oh-so-kind-and-fair information dispensed by sensationalistic news and dramatic TV shows. Not helpful at all.
If there is anyone, anyone who needs some fairness, and if there is anyone for whom even money is not a substitute for fairness, it is the parents of children who may have mild or manageable neurological and behavioral challenges!
Or would they rather we get no information but what Rush tells us- that these syndromes are all fake, invented by lefty parents and doctors to get disability benefits. Or that "crazy people" are maniacs and killers.
But the hell of it is- I did go through her letters, and I knew good and goddam well she a) can simply refuse to understand something she doesn't want to, and b) has a habit of demolishing her own arguements out of her own mouth, to her personal cost, if you let her.
And I did it anyway. Jesus, when I type, I turn into Lucy with the football.
But why the hell does she do that? I knew as soon as I started, it would turn out she was the one most in need of fairness. Why the hell would she do that?
She is more afraid of societal co-operation, then she is afraid the world will be a living hell for her kid. Are they that afraid of those awful "negative unexpected consequences of altruism"? (You know- "welfare saps their character" type of thing) Or are they just so afraid to admit we live in a world where we need each-other's help? Beats me.
But I should have known better.