Letters to the Editor
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When I think what is coming later this election cycle from the GOP....
.... I think of John McCain as just a seventy-ish, balding, hunched over man that needs a fucking cane, like the following >
"Discontinued delightful crook handle, wooden, walking canes, hand painted in Black, silver, & Gold 36in in length. Comes with rubber tip & one extraSuitable for Lady (135 - 220lbs) . Comes with tip and one extra."
(available here Senator McCain - http://houseofcanes.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12&products_id=39)
> just like any confused, unsteady-gaited, pre-dementia voter can get for a mere $35.00.
McCain = McCane, old, tired, used up, and absolutely fucking confused about life.
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@ Rowan Berkeley
Weaseling? Is that characterization of my argument really just? No, I wouldn't characterize AIPAC as being composed of Jewish Nazis, a formulation which is yours, if I may so, and not mine, but I'd be perfectly happy saying, for example, that their official view of Arabs in general, and Palestinians in particular is roughly equivalent to the NSDAP's official view of Jews. Then again, I'm not running for national office, either here or in Israel, and so it costs me nothing to say so, in private or in public.
Once again, your paradox isn't one at all, no matter what you find hard to explain.
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IOW
As soon as the occupation ends, that Scot Horton and Jonah Goldberg will be BFFs again.
I'd bet money on it.
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He doesn't say anything about gov't policy, twit --
Oliver Twist: "Please Sir, I want some more"
It may be the new national slogan under President Obama.
Obama:
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.
Source
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w
Here we have a presidential candidate suggesting that the federal government should control how much we eat, what we drive, and what temperature we set out AC.
Total federal control anyone? And he is the best of the three by far!
Doom, thy name is government!
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Note to twits before you write: I go to work on a scooter that gets 85 mpg. I eat mostly fruit and vegetables --- and all meat very lean. My AC desire is a constant 82 degrees. This is about freedom verses control and the fact the Fed destroyed the dollar not the idiot American consumer.
-- bucky1 Sunday, May 18, 2008 07:17 AM"
He is simply speaking to reality -- which is itself a limit on "freedom," ass. In fact, the US, with a population of 6 per cent of the total on the planet, consumes 30 per cent of the annual total of energy used on the planet.
And how is that energy obtained, twit? By the "freedom" exercised by the gov't-corporate alliance to go to war to STEAL it from those to whom it rightfully belongs.
Your "freedom" at other's expense is a despicable immorality, especially as it requires the deaths of hundreds of thousands of others to sustain.
You "don't care" how your "freedom" is sustained at others' expense is at your own peril, fool.
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@glenn greenwald
I haven't gotten through all these letters so maybe this has been addressed but I second (or 3rd or 4th) the suggestion that you write your own op-ed to The Post. I'd actually like to see you writing op-ed's all over the place (you know for the people who don't read Salon).
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Timberman's problem: The illusion of purity
You are the one who does not think your fellow man can be left to form voluntary associations with his fellow man; you think only a strong central government is able to keep him in line. -- bucky1
When it comes to foolishness, this statement of yours is as good an example as any. ... as an example of your flawed judgments in social as well as political matters, this serves at least as well as any rebuttal I might offer. ... Bucky, I have nothing whatever against voluntary associations. I'm rather fond of them, actually, and have participated in many during my life. ...
What a lot of bluster and no proof or even reasoning. Just saying "bucky is dumb" does not answer the question on the table.
You have never offered even on example here on UT of a thing that government did not do better than laissez-faire freedom of people to do for themselves. Willy, you even offered up the Post Office as a wonderful institution that no private group could match!
Jebus H. Christ on a stick! The post office can not even better beat by anyone over your precious government, and yet you claim I am misreading you every time I point out the obvious. You do not trust people unless the government protects you with armed thugs.
That notwithstanding, I believe that if we abolished all forms of government, and obliterated all memory of them in those now living, what would arise in their stead would resemble them in all important respects, and would in time evolve into a governing apparatus no different in its essential qualities from those which we now have. I ask you, bucky, if voluntary associations suddenly became the only governing principle possible, do you honestly believe that you'd be the first person asked to found one?
-- William Timberman
This shows the lack of you ability to understand anything outside that little box you are so tightly caught in. The voluntary association that would deliver the mail already exists and is called UPS. Yes, if UPS wants to make me their chairman of the board --- I will accept the honor gratefully.
You see Willy, the "laissez-faire market" is people interacting and making bargains with each other about who should do what and who gets what.
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I've run out of emotional energy for the day
take care everyone. goodnight.
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Ah, bucky....
The Post Office? Really? It doesn't sound like one of mine, this Timberman doctrine you're referring to. Perhaps you could dig through the archives and provide a quote?
Meanwhile, Mr. voluntary-associations-are-always-better-than-any-government, here's a quote for you: Et in Arcadia ego.
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-- quickstrategy turns out to be a whiner ...
Thanks for proving my point to Rowan about being thin-skinned. One request for substantiation, a gentle jab about having had one too many, and here you are right on cue squealing about slinging insults and some nonsense about s&m orgies.
What? Just get back from one or did I let the cat out of the bag?