Letters to the Editor
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-- quickstrategy
"... my wife is from Sandusky,..."
May I ask whether she is SHS, SMS, or PHS? Might I also inquire the year of her graduation?
I have an extremely close friend who also is from Sandusky - SHS Class of 63.
Small world.
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@quickstrategy
I guess I should have said when it comes to Foreign Policy...
Can't we all just hold hands, dissent against war, oppression, and the plots of the Banksters, promote the Golden Rule, and hate Jews?
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Gay rights? Wha?
The bot had better check his own couplings.
When "the gays" set up a foreign country and manage to gain disproportionate influence over American politics and foreign/military policy, then maybe you'll get a nibble, Electra.
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They already have Baldie
Haven't you been to the west coast???
*rim shot*
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re: Small Town Hick
"For the Republicans, Israel comes first."
I wonder how THAT would play in the Carolinas?
I was wondering the same thing, though I perhaps put it a little too inartfully.
How has the anti-semitic undercurrent that exists in rural America been ignored? Or maybe all the Pentecostal support for Israel (e.g. from the Rev. Hagee's of the world) has done away with it?
I'm thinking of all the conspiracy theory nuts that buy into the "Protocols of Zion" type stuff. As Neo-conservatives have courted these people to be their cherished, coddled voting bloc, they have to realize they are playing with fire.
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I'll boil it down.
Anybody: "I disagree"
Somebody: "You're a bigot"
Anybody: "I'm confused. I disagree with you I didn't say that I hated you.
Somebody: "You're still a bigot."
Anybody: "Again I'm confused. I think you are wrong about X. Not that you personally should be discriminated against."
Somebody: "Bigot"
Anybody: "I don't get it."
Somebody: In thought bubble above Somebody's head. "That's the point."
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Rumsfeld - another attack is the cure for what ails us.
Rumsfeld On 2006 Election: "The Correction For That...Is An Attack"
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But by far the most extraordinary part of this luncheon is the antipathy the gathered members exhibit toward the American people for having the temerity to vote the Democrats back into power. When Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong bemoans the lack of "sympathetic ears" on Capitol Hill, Rumsfeld offers that the American people lack "the maturity to recognize the seriousness of the threats." What's to be done? According to Rumsfeld, "The correction for that, I suppose, is [another] attack."
DELONG: Politically, what are the challenges because you're not going to have a lot of sympathetic ears up there.
RUMSFELD: That's what I was just going to say. This President's pretty much a victim of success. We haven't had an attack in five years. The perception of the threat is so low in this society that it's not surprising that the behavior pattern reflects a low threat assessment. The same thing's in Europe, there's a low threat perception. The correction for that, I suppose, is an attack. And when that happens, then everyone gets energized for another [inaudible] and it's a shame we don't have the maturity to recognize the seriousness of the threats...the lethality, the carnage, that can be imposed on our society is so real and so present and so serious that you'd think we'd be able to understand it, but as a society, the longer you get away from 9/11, the less...the less...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/13/rumsfeld-on-2006-election_n_101537.html
Less than a week ago, the Department of Defense did a document dump on their program to use retired military analysts as surrogates on network and cable news to pimp the administration line on the Iraq War - something we now know they did on at least 4,500 occasions. Over at TalkingPointsMemo, a thread has been opened for those who want to sift through the material and highlight key discoveries.
So far, dedicated TPM readers have unearthed a number of noteworthy finds, of which this audio recording of this luncheon is perhaps the most astounding.
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My bad
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/13/rumsfeld-on-2006-election_n_101537.html
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Ahhhh...Electro is back
First he/she/it was too busy? I was about to thank whoever finally gave him/her/it a job. It needs one - other than stuffing envelopes full of childish CAMERA and AIPAC sounding rants.
- Now if you'll excuse me there's power coupling acting up on our nuclear orbiting battle station and it's affecting our mind control ray projector.
Apparently it's working fine on ElectroTroll.
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You give the "small town hicks" too much credit David Larry D.
I'm thinking of all the conspiracy theory nuts that buy into the "Protocols of Zion" type stuff. As Neo-conservatives have courted these people to be their cherished, coddled voting bloc, they have to realize they are playing with fire.
You seem to be assuming that Americans like to do a lot of thinking for themselves.
I know a lot of religious people who drink the Kool Aid, and it isn't "Protocols of Zion: Jews = Bad" Flavored. It is "Scared of Subhuman Barbarians Following us Home" Flavored. Most people are too ignorant and uninformed to even locate Israel on a map, let alone know about the "Protocols of Zion". All they know is that Israel is near bad people that want to "follow us home and kill us all merely because they are bat-shit crazy nihilists", and so they perceive Israel as a good guy fighting the War on Terror, like our other Democracy Spreading Friends in the region. Most people don't think any deeper than that, and will only repeat these Establishment Memes, because there is food to eat and a TV to be watched.
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Thanks, Glenn.
Reading your blog is like going for a root canal: painful, but necessary. Though your prose makes the content of what you're saying slightly more palatable, it's still hard to force oneself to read the daily compendium of abuses of power raging on in our government.
A question: What happened to the analysis of ABC you promised us in your CNN post? I was so looking forward to another evisceration.
Thanks again.
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@Jebbie
Small world, indeed.
I think it was St. Mary's, would have been probably '75 or '76. Then, Kent State.
You're not a Pere Ubu fan by any chance, are you?
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@ electro
Please give us your definition of anti-semitic. It's important to define terms. I would then very much appreciate some concrete examples of Glenn's antisemitism.
Glad to hear the confirmation about the orbiting Jewish nuclear platforms and the mind control rays, I always suspected as much. Too bad about the power coupling, I suspect Palestinian infiltration, they are, after all, like 'cockroaches'...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11479.htm
I am a little surprised about the mind control rays though... I thought that was FOX news' job.