Letters to the Editor
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I can think of a worse SC decision...
...it happened in 1999.
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Lose a city?
You mean, like New Orleans?
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Losing a city
Is that like losing one's keys?
I believe there's empirical evidence that cutting funds for shoring up levees on the lower Mississippi is a better way to lose an American city than getting rid of Habeas Corpus.
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Lose a city?
Heck, we're losing an entire STATE, looks like. Maybe that's it: the terrorists have hijacked the Mississippi River.
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I think you mean "fear-monger"?
"fearmongerer" would be a worser choice, as there is no such word
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ah well
I guess i wasn't too original. And i should have written Preserving Habeas Corpus.
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Fear & desire
What's really scary is that Gingrich is that he's so obviously salivating at the prospect of losing a city. He sounds exactly like all the survivalists & RWAs during the Reagan years, warning about the pending Communist nuking and/or invasion of America, which they were so clearly, desperately, hungrily craving to see happen.
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Lolly beat me to it...
But we already LOST a city, not to terrorists but to Bush-league incompetence, and the goddam Rethugs don't even GIVE a shit. Why would anyone believe they'd give a shit if we lost ANOTHER city? Especially one as full of liberal "traitors" as Seattle?
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Wishful thinking?
Wasn't it O'Reilly who actually said on-air that he hoped San Francisco would get a taste of terrorism because they were so liberal and didn't support the Dear Leader's policies?
I've always thought that conservatives appropriated New York's tragedy even as they reviled New York itself. The Republican convention pretty much showed this. They saw themselves as the victims, and New Yorkers as somehow complicit because they were liberal and therefore in cahoots with the terrorists, or at least deserving of the terrorists' wrath (D'Sousa, anyone?)
Large cities from New York to Los Angeles to Pittsburgh do tend to be more likely to be liberal. Is all this talk about terrorists obliterating one of them wishful thinking?
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Sorry
I meant to write, "What's really scary ABOUT Gingrich is that he's ..."
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I'll take that head-on
Newt is not really (or at least exclusively) a fear monger. He is a coward. Because freedom is so sweet and dear, it is worth dying for. All these so-called conservatives praise the military to the skies without understanding at all why the military has some nobility--it is because those men and women are prepared to die to defend our freedom. And the key point is to defend our freedom, not our money or our lives. The last line of the Declaration of Independence says it well, when the Founders pledge "their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor" to the pursuit of liberty. Stick that in your pipe, Newt, and smoke it!
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The unthinkable...
Has anyone stopped to consider that perhaps Newt Gingrich is a terrorist-collaborator?
He seems pretty certain that if we don't do as he says, we'll "lose a city." I'm starting to think what he's proffering are real ultimatums. If we "lose a city" anytime soon I certainly hope Newt Gingrich is the primary suspect.
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Over The Moon And Back Again
Gingrich also suggested yesterday that a really, really large number, maybe even a majority, of federal judges were "nutcases."
Talk about the cat calling the kettle black (Ooops! I might have violated Mr. Newt's free speech rules.)
Since the former speaker was attacking last week's Supreme Court ruling on habeas corpus, reportedly applied to Guantanamo affairs and operations, and since this morning's McClatchy lead story out of their Washington bureau reports on extensive abuse of prisoners in American-run facilities in Afghanistan; may I ask if last week's ruling on Gitmo might, at some point, apply to Bagram and Kandahar?
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We could lose a city!
...unless we get those nukes outta Cuba! We oughtta nuke Russia before they can nuke us! And, while we're at it, I have in my hands a list of confirmed Communist sympathizers... anyway, where was I? Oh yes, the Spanish. We must fight the Spanish menace, before we lose a ship! Give me a gulf of Tonkin resolution and we'll fight the encroaching Mexican menace and maybe grab some decent land from the heathen Injuns!
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." - Ambrose Bierce.
That may well be, but it sure makes our history confusing. And... repetitive...
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Destroy our country to save a city??
"[I]t became necessary to destroy the town to save it."
February 1968, Attributed to USAF Major Chester Brown regarding the destruction of the Mekong Delta town of Ben Tre
The tortured logic of fear mongerers like Newt Gingrich is mind-boggling: to defeat the enemy we must destroy ourselves!!!
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A Freudian slip? This is exactly what the cons plan to do to gain power. A false flag nuke attack.
Either now or to gain back control after a '08 election loss. Brought to you by Blackwater.
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Lose a city?
We're going to lose the world, due to global warming. The global thermostat is being reset to deep fat fry.
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Back in the day...
...Gingrich stood alone and preeminent as an object of loathing.
But now, there is such huge competition for these limited loathing resources. The "loating environment" is way, way too rich in deserving targets.
Not a good trend.
Thanks for using AP text-block, by the way. I believe it shows proper deference. It's an interesting thing AP is fumbling around with.
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From The Cat's Cradle Man
"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on his side."
---Kurt Vonnegut
---"Mother Night"
---1961
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Mr.Greenwald,
Plant the seed, water the crop, hope for sun, and reap the harvest.
Gingrich may know more than he lets on about the 'loss of a city'. In terms of false flag ops, that is what you would have to do to up the ante after 9/11.
Make enough people concerned that you will 'lose a city', promote fear and distrust against an identified enemy (Islamofasciscts), hope (arrange) for the 'loss of a city', and then reap the reward of increased authoritarianism.
Fear is what improved Bush's opinion polls, and the false flag-op of 9/11 started the ball rolling. The only way to stop that ball is to impeach, and get rid of all those complicit Congress people and Senators. Lots of work. Impeach, Just Do IT!
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my city was gone
We've been losing cities for the last 30 years, in no small part to Newt's preferred economic policies.
I WENT BACK TO OHIO
BUT MY CITY WAS GONE
THERE WAS NO TRAIN STATION
THERE WAS NO DOWNTOWN
SOUTH HOWARD HAD DISAPPEARED
ALL MY FAVORITE PLACES
MY CITY HAD BEEN PULLED DOWN
REDUCED TO PARKING SPACES
A, O, WAY TO GO OHIO