Letters to the Editor
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a 'ca dao' lyric for a better mood. I feel yucky. a 'ca dao' can't hurt.
I am a Mo Village girl. I wander, sell beer, happen to meet you. Good jars don't mean good brew.
Clothes well-mended are better than new threads ill-sewn. Bad beer soon sends you home.
A torn shirt when mended will become new.
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That girl wears her hair in a chicken's tail.
Grab her tail and ask where her house is.
Her house is under a mulberry tree, over some green beans, looking out over a bridge,
looking across a field of the old corporeal. There'll be dried fish, pumpkin, tasty chicken.
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Looking up into the sky, I see thick rain clouds.
Looking down into Hell, I see crowds of faces.
People thrash and churn. You never dare love.
Do you know that I love you? from 'ca dao'...
Looking out in all directions....
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On is the new off; topic, that is...
I remain curious as to whether the persistence of this story in the blogosphere will finally seep into MSM coverage. Clearly, laws were broken on the part of the Pentagon side, and equally clearly, the networks who trotted out these shills feel comfortable hiding behind their first amendment "rights" while hoping the whole thing blows over.
Having checked their credibility at the door during the Clinton impeachment, gotten by without it during the 2000 election, and left the premises without picking it up after 9/11, the networks feel entirely comfortable simply assuming the public they obviously hold in deep contempt to forget, yet again. This is a somewhat understandable strategy; it's worked so well before, all of them are playing along, and opening Pandora's box benefits none and discredits all. Worse, of the segment of the public who are aware and rightly disgusted by this shameful abuse of trust, most aren't surprised, and at any rate expect them to get away with it again.
In a cold, "heads we win, tails you lose" calculation, those responsible at the networks have decided to stick with the usual strategy of preaching to the choir, distracting the congregation, and the nonbelievers can go, well, Cheney said it best.
It's a disturbing situation, where the government and media can join together to deceive the majority of their constituents/consumers, while rendering silent and ineffective those who would counter them with the truth.
One can only hope that as the Bush Administration slinks away, despised by the vast majority of those it once purported to "serve," the media that enabled will be consigned to a similar fate, that of a contemptible irrelevance.
The enormity of the catastrophe they've left in their collective, overlapping wakes, will go down in history, when unfortunately, as Bush said, "We'll all be dead."
All of us should dedicate ourselves not to let them get away with it.
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Shepperd Bio & Contact Info
National Guard biography:
http://www.ngb.army.mil/ngbgomo/library/bio/shepperd_dw.html
His consulting firm:
http://shepgroup.com/Meet.htm
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As Jose Chung learned, it's all part of the Military-Industrial-Entertainment complex.
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Email Don at: ShepDonald@aol.com
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Cocktailhag
It's a disturbing situation, where the government and media can join together to deceive the majority of their constituents/consumers, while rendering silent and ineffective those who would counter them with the truth.
This has been going on for far longer than just the Clinton impeachment.
Harry Anslinger and William Randolph Hearst were playing this game back in the 1930's..
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@Mona, Glenn
@LWM re: Oh, and Alan Stang.
Is he still around!? My parents dragged me to hear him speak when I was about 15. He wanted them to send me to John Birch Society camp, no kidding. Fortunately the folks were not quite so nutty as to think Stang had a sound handle on things, or that JBS camp was exactly what I needed.
If you look hard enough, you'd be surprised who will turn up, and where. Is Stang a libertarian? I don't think so. I only discovered his current internet presence recently. He lives in Texas and is still quite friendly with Dr. Paul, not that Paul advertises that association too loudly. I certainly wouldn't, but Stang does. I am somewhat convinced he was involved in the Newsletters. I think the recent admission the Paul campaign wanted to make vis a vis Rockwell, and then withdrew, was an attempt to diffuse the controversy with someone who may have written some portions, but was less disreputable than Stang. You can read his 2004 trashing of MLK, Jr. here:
http://www.etherzone.com/2004/stang011604.shtml
Even that is modulated a bit from some of his more recent stuff which sounds just like the Newsletters. Nothing but sexist, racist and homophobic ranting and wild conspiracy theories. I don't see any point in providing the links but if you want further evidence I can do that.
Glenn, I don't hate libertarians. I disagree vehemntly with many of them on a wide range of economic issues most of them do not seem to understand. I tend to ridicule them for that because in many ways they are like Bush in Iraq. There are n ponies where they want to go. They just won't find them. I don't consider certain people to be legitimate "libertarians". They are more like neo-confederates and Christian reconstructionist theocrats masquerading as libertarians. You could say that I dislike some of them intensely, Gary North for instance.
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@bucky1
I am having trouble with this 'you can ignore him' stuff. In my mind, allowing him to propagandize and smear without rebuttal smacks of intellectual cowardice to me.
As they say, discretion is the better part of valor. That is, if one respects Glenn's superb work (especially in the post giving rise to this thread). Turning his comments section into inane flame wars is not "courageous."
You are not alone, and I have also let my temper get the better of me in terms of posting insulting comments consisting of little to no substance, tho I've not done so in a long time. But you and some others (again, not all miscreants are involved in the libertarian wars), haven't yet figured out when it is better to let go, and maintain the integrity of this site.
I'd like to see that change, as obviously would Glenn, if his recent comment about the burdens of being "hall monitor" is any indication.