Letters to the Editor
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How would I feel?
"How would you feel if you were to find out that everything you were ever passionate about was based on myths and lies?" -- Chris Sinnard
"All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)
I was raised in the Baptist Church; but then I studied the early church, the pagan philosophers, the Gnostics and the Sufi. Then the archeology of the era. I was already aware of all that modern physics has to say about reality. (and also evolutionary biologists like Lynn Margulis)
So, I have some notion of changing one's belief system based on facts, even if It calls into question dear loved ones and what they taught you. I have discovered that actually reading and thinking about a topic is far better that just "believing" what is popular at the moment. Many here, not so much. :-)
"Human Action" by von Mises is to be read, not just talked about. The Austrian School (often very close to the Chicago school) is the study of what makes a man act. lwm once made fun of the word Praxeology without even knowing what it means!
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@ Electro Dork
Or Cassandra, or whatever your name is:
Prove it. Show me my secret Jewspiracy pay stub and decoder ring. Prove it.
Prove it.
Damn. How freakin' old are you? Prove it? Easy: Click on "Read Electro Robot's Other Letters"
Here:
http://letters.salon.com/9d788698c82a1fbaf72a7825ac642eff/author/
I'll ignore the forthcoming juvenile quote from the Superman II movie. You're already kneeling before me.
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sock-puppet says ...
"And he has a horrible habit of coming up with quotes and links to support his argument! Cab you imagine"
No. I cab not.
Links to kids posting from momma's basement and other things that have nothing to do with the point? Sure.
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emblematic
Harry Reid has come to embody, single-handedly, everything wrong with today's Democratic "leaders."
He will hopefully soon be an anachronism.
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General Zod
So he can't can he. He can just wave his dick around making threats. And you have his back. How;s the cool table in the high school lunch room, 'zod'. Are you going to the prom this year with a drunk cheerleader?
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the celery's words ...
Mr. Celery's posts "attack" people? Wow, you're reading comprhension is better than I thought. You can even find things that aren't there!
I suppose you must miss a lot since he flatters the sock-puppets. I guess he never told you that you drink from a toilet or eat dung. Odd that.
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bloomsbury
Care to demonstrate anything you've written with a single credible fact? No I didn't think so.
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Well done, Zod
but the quivering slimy beast still lives and squeaks.
Use your proton blaster, man!
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Lieberman is vital; otherwise, Reid looks the most stupid.
Dear Glenn,
Harry is a little scary in his own right--look how he votes. And yes, unless he is sleeping with Lieberman I see no objective basis for this love affair. Harry, pretty clearly, is not really the man for the job.
Most of his efforts remind me a little of Hillary at the torture hearings on Abu Grahib where she snipped at rumsfield to generate a couple of sound bites but really just came off like some obese person in the drive thru complaining because she didn't get enough freedom fries. Never really did anything about the issues of American torture just whined for the microphones so she could claim to be "fighting for ordinary Americans".
I enjoy seeing the vote tallies presented in the way you did here for Mr. Mainstream. Not much to say after that history and certainly those issues transcend the "war" because without all those criminal manipulations the hoax would not have worked initially and would have been revealed so much sooner, maybe even soon enough for Kerry. Alas, forward is the only direction that shows promise; lets go there.
Conrad C. Elledge
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Dunno
Electro,
Yes! Would you go to prom with me?
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As far as France and New Orleans
Just think. If Jefferson hadn't reversed himself and borrowed all that money for the Louisiana Purchase, New Orleans being washed away would be France's problem today.
That theory would require the assumption that France would be as stupid as the Army Corps and Louisiana were when they proceeded to do everything they could to make Katrina a virtual certainty.
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Nah but feel free to wear your SS uniform to yours.
I'm sure it's natty. Did you know they were tailor made by Hugo Boss?
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Gosh, I Feel Stupid
I was already aware of all that modern physics has to say about reality.
Buckyl
I guess how it is. Some of us can intellectually encompass "all that modern physics has to say about reality" and some of us are stuck here on the ground with everyone else.
I genuflect as you pass, Buckyl.
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Glenn Greenwald on Electro Robot.
No way will I ever forget that one.
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@Electro
Electro, after exchanging just a few words with you, Glenn had this to say about your comments:
"It's hard to believe that any sane, psychologically healthy person could write this. In fact, it's so hard to believe that I actually don't believe it."
Do you care to comment on that?
Do you think there is any reason why other readers should not consider Glenn's judgement?
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@Baldie McEagle
My pleasure, Baldie. Me, I would tend to consider Glenn's judgement pretty good. He's read a lot of comments, and replied to a lot of readers.
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@cross1242 Re: "Can't Afford to Lose Him Now"
cross1242:
Can't Afford to Lose Him Now
Right now, the penalty for kicking him out is loss of control of the whole Senate.
- - cross1242 - - 03:19 PMThat's not how it works.
http://hnn.us/articles/34708.html
If the Democrats were to lose a Senate seat or two, would the Republicans be able to take over the Senate? The answer is in the organizing resolution that the Senate adopted on January 12 [2007].
- - http://hnn.us/articles/34708.htmlThe current organizing resolution runs through January, 2009, and keeps Harry Reid in control of the Senate. Even if the GOP picked up a majority, it's highly unlikely that they'd be able to change the current organizing resolution.
The Democrats picked up a majority in the 1953-1954 session, but the GOP retained control of the Senate.
2001 was a special case because the organizing resolution said that control could shift if either party picked up a majority. The 2007 organizing resolution DOESN'T have such a clause.
Also, as Glenn Greenwald pointed out, there are more than two options.
The options aren't simply to either kick Lieberman out of the caucus or to build up his reputation by giving him unwarranted praise.