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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-02-06 04:58 PM
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Idiot LTTE
http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060101/OPINION05/101010002/1139

President protects us

Molly Ivins has brought us back to Sept. 10, 2001. Thanks Molly.

As usual, Ms. Ivins has been given the opportunity to spew half-truths in your paper. The First Amendment gives her the right to speak, and maybe her columns are of interest to al-Jazeera.

Ms. Ivins, you are one of the ACLU’s finest soldiers. The president still has the prevention of another Sept. 11 attack foremost on his mind, even as much as the rest of political culture has lapsed back to Sept. 10, when we hamstrung our own surveillance and law-enforcement capabilities in blissful unawareness of the enemy that was about to slaughter 3,000 Americans.

After Sept. 11, Congress declared that “the president has authority under the Constitution to take action to deter and prevent acts of international terrorism” and authorized “all necessary and appropriate force” against all threats to our country. Let’s not forget, the Senate subcommittee was briefed 12 times regarding national security operations.

The Democrats think they are on a beach, but it’s actually quicksand. Maybe they’ll get back in the game of defending this country instead of offending it.
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tx_dem41 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-02-06 05:00 PM
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1. Hopefully the Administration will enter the game of defending the
Constitution instead of offending it.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-02-06 05:15 PM
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2. Don't hold your breath
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-02-06 05:16 PM
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3. Obviously this fellow doesn't believe in the Constitution
or its rights, or he wouldn't be lambasting the ACLU. He also is ignorant of the fact that Bush had information that something was going to happen on 9/11 and did nothing about it. He also has no clue what the Congress authorized Bush to do. If he wants a dictatorship, fine-but not in my country, thank you.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-02-06 05:19 PM
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4. It's not even fucking ORIGINAL....It's "Talking points!"
Just take a moment to check this Google search:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22lapsed+back+to+September+10%22&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&filter=0

You may want to advise your paper that they should use Google on a phrase or two of their LTTEs before printing them.

Redstone
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-02-06 05:26 PM
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6. So, is "September 10th mentality" now the new canard?
Personally, I thought September 10 was pretty good. I don't see why it is they hate going back to it so much.
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bammertheblue Donating Member (391 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-02-06 06:20 PM
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7. Apparently....
As I recall, it was a pretty okay day for me too. I believe it was my first day of college...
Meaningless phrases like that just piss me off.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-02-06 06:43 PM
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8. Yup, its auto-astroturf.
probably comes off of an email generating page from a right-wing website. You choose your phrases from a list.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-02-06 08:26 PM
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9. Hey, haven't crossed paths with you in a while. Happy New Year to you,
TS. Haven't seen any "pick-a-Phrase" RW sites out there, but I have NO doubt that they exist.

And there's probably more than one for generating those "burly E-6" urban-legend rightwing stories that all the RW assholes e-mail to us, as if we don't have enough spam to deal with.

Redstone
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-02-06 05:21 PM
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5. One sentence was edited from Jeff's LTTE, and here it is:
"Kool-aid is so deeee-licious."
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stepnw1f Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-02-06 08:30 PM
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10. So Servile, Blind, and Brainwashed
How pathetic... and they have the gall to point fingers... lolololololol. Clueless... just clueless, or extremely bad at lying.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-03-06 02:51 PM
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11. Pick and choose argument style
Picks facts that support what he wants to say, and pretends the facts that negate it don't exist.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-03-06 02:57 PM
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12. Three Comments
First, i don't want an idiot like Bush "defending" me. He's incompetent.

Secondly, "all necessary and approrpriate force" doesn't even semantically approach "spying". They're two different things.

Lastly, the letter writer is the one "offending" this country. I know his lack of intellect is offending me!
The Professor
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