Letters to the Editor
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Yoo Hoo, Pedinska!!
You may come up for air now.
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The poor Pope. Poor Bill too.... a pope and Bill poops. Who don't?
Someone at the 'dunkin' donuts store ask ` Hey Bill, who stuck the Garden Pick in your head?
`Response : Glenn.
Bill is anxious now.
Glenn gives a hug.
deja vu. silly. huh.
drink coffee black.
Obesity.
Goat cheese is fat.
FAT is okay here.
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Glenn,
I read Brook's piece on Obama on Friday and then reread it after seeing what you infered Brooks was saying in it because your assertions don't and didn't match with what I read.
First, Brooks listed a number of points and then asked if Obama agreed with them because if he did then it would place him far on the left when it comes to Hezbollah. He did not say that Obama is in the Chomsky wing of the Democratic Party.
In fact, Brooks says in the piece that he called Obama (or initiated an interview in some way) to ask what Obama's views are and then turned the rest of his column (about three-quarters if not more) over to Obama allowing him to fully explain his position and why it in no way equates to appeasement. From the way it reads Obama did not have to call him, he merely assented to be interviewed, which believe it or not is a fairly common journalistic practice.
Second, Brooks in no way declares Obama suspect. He does the opposite, he all but says Bush is wrong for his attack on Obama.
The entire piece was more pro-Obama than anything else and emminently fair. If you had placed the blurbs from Brooks' piece in context and fully quoted them your readers likely would have seen his op-ed for what it was.
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As it was said in the movie classic "Ghostbusters"...
"Print is dead."
Kristol's column is just raping the corpse.
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As it was said in the movie classic "Ghostbusters"...
"Print is dead."
Kristol's column is just raping the corpse.
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Pedinska? That pincher is like a grouchy doberman.
She's in a trash can with Groucho Marx.
William scares Oscar the Grouch. 'um a crank.
Maybe people need to eat bushels of low-fat cookies.
Cookie Monster will sure express disgust to dirty Krystol.
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Mona's blog back up
Just wanted folks to know that since last anyone here knew it had evaporated; today I address one of DCLaw1's blog posts and include this of Glenn's in a discussion of GOP brand problems.Click my sig if interested.
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"Noam Chomskyland"
Not only is being consistently wrong seemingly a necessary qualification to write for the New York Times Op-Ed page, but when one of these guys needs to disparage someone he reaches for the name of someone who has consistently been right! How's that for detachment from reality?
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Kristol Not in Error
To be fair to Kristol, McCain is still the presumptive nominee, so his statement is not false (barring some other examples). Ditto the other Clinton-Obama examples.
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Io`in the Well.
Maybe YKW saw a ghost. Tim Russert may need to a ambulance to drive GOPS to Meet The Press next Sunday?
Call the Fox.
Fox don't haul away to their fox hole a peanut butter and jam sandwich. Who still eats 'Jif' brand creamy butter?
Grandma Jam!
Homestyle Blueberry Jam for lunch satisfies. O.T. [?] Someone ask me... Are you ever embarrassed? Huh. Who isn't at sometimes. I am curious. How many people read UT?
Is it classified?
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Small correction, Glenn
Sunni Arab dictators
Didn't you mean to say Sunni Arab Freedom Fighters?
They are to be called names like terrorist, dictator, religious extremist, radical, state sponsors of terror, etc. only when they are considered "bad guys". Otherwise the CIA is merely supporting Freedom Fighters:
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=168823
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/abc_news_exclus.html
U.S. officials say the U.S. relationship with Jundullah is arranged so that the U.S. provides no funding to the group, which would require an official presidential order or "finding" as well as congressional oversight.
They say they need a "finding" in order to subsidize paramilitary terrorists organizations inside of Iran? Good thing that has been taken care of:
http://www.counterpunch.org/andrew05022008.html
Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents, "unprecedented in its scope."
Bush’s secret directive covers actions across a huge geographic area – from Lebanon to Afghanistan – but is also far more sweeping in the type of actions permitted under its guidelines – up to and including the assassination of targeted officials. This widened scope clears the way, for example, for full support for the military arm of Mujahedin-e Khalq, the cultish Iranian opposition group, despite its enduring position on the State Department's list of terrorist groups.
Similarly, covert funds can now flow without restriction to Jundullah, or "army of god," the militant Sunni group in Iranian Baluchistan – just across the Afghan border -- whose leader was featured not long ago on Dan Rather Reports cutting his brother in law's throat.
Other elements that will benefit from U.S. largesse and advice include Iranian Kurdish nationalists, as well the Ahwazi arabs of south west Iran. Further afield, operations against Iran's Hezbollah allies in Lebanon will be stepped up, along with efforts to destabilize the Syrian regime.
All this costs money, which in turn must be authorized by Congress, or at least a by few witting members of the intelligence committees. That has not proved a problem. An initial outlay of $300 million to finance implementation of the finding has been swiftly approved with bipartisan support, apparently regardless of the unpopularity of the current war and the perilous condition of the U.S. economy.
Sounds like Tax Money well spent on a sound bipartisan plan, how patriotic. I guess the real question to be asked is, why only $300 Million?
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Agree and disagree
I agree with Glenn that Kristol is an embarrassment and lazy. He does not have the intellectual insight that William Buckley possessed. Even though I disagreed with Buckley most of the time, he was a great intellectual.
I disagree with you that say print is dead. If some of you young whipper snappers just read a newspaper once in a while you might be more infromed. The New York times is one of the great print news left. I read it every day before I do anything else. When I hear ,"I don't have time to read the newspaper " I groan.
Spend hour on blogs, but not reading does not get one informed.
Salon is one of the better online news/opinion sites However most news site,just clip, edit, snip sections out of the newspaper and wires and all repeat the same news. I read most of it in the NYT before I see it online. Why not just read it in print and get the entire story?