Greetings

Stunning

Damn awesome writing about the national tragedy that is the Neo-Con's Miss S.

thanx for sharing

this is a gem

Just because of Garrison. Thanks so much.

The problem is that a lot of those guys at Gitmo want to kill us. One of them left Gitmo, went home, later found his way to Mosul and killed a bunch of others in his own suicide bombing. Some of those lawyers that Keillor listed authored the charging documents for the Gitmo detainees, and they proudly stand by them. Gitmo is not a torture center. There are some extremely dangerous terrorists there. What would GK do? Hire Guy Noir and read 'em their rights?

Government doesn't work in Chicago, or Washington the way it does in Lake Wobegon. In Washington, you have Fannie Mae millionaires like Franklin Raines, Jimmy Johnson and Jamie Gorelick. In Chicago, more people have died violent deaths than have Americans in Iraq this year.

stfu, you Repugnican cipher - you're a disgrace.

till people like keilor stop moaning about human failings, and start making it hard for the baddies to profit.

'if only every one would behave' has been tried, it doesn't work. time to make the slickers work in public, for the public. not hard, start with an amendment establishing citizen initiative. then require public officials to do their job in public view. require them to put plans and policies before the electorate before the election, not after. fire them if they leave the plan. prosecute if they try to profit through malfeasance.

before long, you have a whole new culture. since co-operation and public spirit pay, more people will be good citizens. since it will be really, really hard for crooked or incompetent peopleto get or hold office when working in public, public officials will be competent and honest.

and people like keilor won't have to wish the baddies would behave, because those not in jail will keep their heads down.

Because there, all the children are above average.

Elephantman is stuck with the job of defending the idiot choice of Snowjob Squareglasses for the rest of his pitiful life.

>> The problem is that a lot of those guys at Gitmo want to kill us.

"Elephantman"

If I can just finish your thought.....

"...and those that didn't want to (kill us), now do after losing 5 or more years of their lives, and those in the Middle East who once couldn't have cared less and who have been watching that sad charade take place, also now want to do us harm.

Brilliant job of recruitment.

As always, like the ever gentle but succinctly direct professor you tell the painful, obvious truth without meanness. Thank you for your continued wise and articulate observations.

Garrison is right as usual. We need to be outraged by this Palin circus. Our economy is evaporating before our eyes and yet John McCain is offering nothing but red meat for the right. McNero is fiddling while Rome burns. But, hey, check out dem gams on Palin! She's spunky!

Elephantman's paranoia is only eclipsed by his cowardice: so as I said in a previous response to one of your faux patriotic "they-all-hate-us-out-there" posts: All four branches of the United States military are recruiting, so sign-up now and visit Afghanistan, a country filled to its very mountaintops with people who hate us. BTW: the Afghani government is just about the size Grover Norquist would love: it can't leave Kabul without taking bullets. Spread freedom and liberty, Elephantman! Take a bullet for George W.!

Am surrounded by them and they greeted her nomination with glee, because McCain was never their choice anyways. Romney would have been 1st choice;some even went for Huckabee (the most likable of the lot;just imagine a Huckabee-Palin ticket).

Nevertheless, I am crossing my fingers that the gods are on our side this time and

"It Won't Be Too Late To Save The Country!"

GK, I agree with you about the real heroes. The MCA act of 2006 still has me out of sorts with my Congressman and it is that moment when I realized that McCain and Graham were faking moderateness and saneness and had the backbones of jellyfish. McCain fell in line behind Bush and obviously is doing what he has been told to do during this campaign.

For a perceptive take on McCain-Palin and American Democracy (from an outsider) go to this link:

http://www.agenceglobal.com/Article.asp?Id=1748

Oh, the power to see ourselves as others see us! A characteristic sorely deficient in the Republican ranks.

Garrison Keillor I love you and I agree with you 100%, but it was actually Tina Fey who first said the now-infamous line "I can see Russia from my house". Sarah Palin did say that Russia and Alaska share a maritime border, and that that somehow constitutes foreign policy experience, but that plum sound bite belongs to Ms. Fey. Not surprisingly, it's getting harder and harder to separate fact from satire.

Yes... read them their rights.

Try them. Execute them, if it seems called for.

If they are such bad people, why not give the evidence that proves it? If there is no such evidence, on what basis do you believe it?

to Ellastu90:

Palin did absolutely say "You can see Russia from Alaska". She did not say "from my house" but she did say "from Alaska". Either way it is a dumbs**t thing to say.

It's funny because just a few weeks ago over on UT, our pachyderm friend was lecturing us all about the presumption of innocence. Guess that only applies to Americans.

USA! USA! USA!

"Republicans .... are pranksters at heart and love the consternation of grown-ups."

So well observed, and perfectly put. I lived in Republican country and found the most rabid of them also had a predilection for those Calvin-peeing-on-various-things window decorations on their trucks.

It all makes sense now. But how to reason with juveniles?

After reading his posts for sometime elephantman represents to me exactly why the conservative movement as we know know it is a complete failure. Let's recap shall we? The economy under GOP control for over thirty years has caused a tidal wave of failures throughout the world. Our military and foreign policy is bogged down looking for weapons of mass distruction, bringing democracy to the middle east, not talking to anyone we have issues with and our status in the world has fallen to the point where no one accepts the Bush solution and we have a President who trots out every morning to the Rose Garden to tell us this problem will take awhile to solve. Good Lord man how blind are you? The conservative game plan has taken a nose dive and has been utterly and completely discredited in the entire world! Elephantman wake up! Your guy lost, your philosophy is dead and Bush has the lowest ratings in history! Its over man. McCain has employed an erratic risky game plan that includes a Governor of a state that claims she has foreign policy experience because she lives next to Russia? It's sad and the American people have realized it and the polls are turning towards a landslide 30 days from the vote. You really need to look around. What did Ferris Buehler say?" Life moves pretty fast

If you don't stop and look around

once in a while, you could miss it"