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The Blame Shame

11.18.08 @ 6:01AM

Social conservatism's easy target. Consumed with h8. No 007, he. Plus more.

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But once again, you come up with mush on the issue. Pure emotional mush, and not one shred of intellectual rigor. Have you, the editors of your otherwise fine magazine even considered this issue? It is clear that your contributors don't.

Why not delve into these issues? Surely, since virtually every issue you published for the nearly 30 years of my reading you has had some commentary on gays, you would venture to devote a little more thought? A little more reason? A little more science?

If gays are this threat to the body politic you claim we are, then it behooves you to do so. Otherwise it is the bitter screed of malcontents who are afraid that someone, somewhere, is having fun. And that enrages and alarms you.

Cheers, and have a nice day, and try, just try for once, to think this out more concretely.
-- Jim Hlavac

INTERNATIONAL MAN OF INANITY
Re: Ken Bond's letter (under "Out the Window") in Reader Mail's Expletives Deleted:

Gee Ken, can you express your hated of Bush for us? Let's get the facts straight; Bush never claimed "victory" on that aircraft carrier. You are obviously referring to the banner that was hung on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln displaying "Mission Accomplished." That banner was requested by the crew of the Abraham Lincoln to denote the ship's successful 10 month deployment during major combat operations. The public went wild, Bush's popularity soared, and the Democrats and the liberal news media were panic-stricken that this Republican president's favorability ratings were so high. So the Democrats and the corrupt media disingenuously reinforced the idea that Bush was claiming total victory in Iraq and did everything they could to minimize the initial gains that we achieved instead of allowing the country this huge morale boost it needed after mourning our losses from the 9/11 attacks.

Furthermore I assure you Bin Laden isn't laughing as you suggest; his plan for religious war to defeat the U.S. and her allies not only failed but resulted in the extermination of Iraq's corrupt leaders and many of Bin Laden's faithful terrorist followers; converting that country to a democracy and diminishing fascist Islam's influence in that region. I'm sure packing up and moving to a new cave every day or so to avoid discovery and seeing the financial network that funds his war interdicted and the continuing shrinking of numbers of al Qaeda fighters isn't inducing any belly laughs from the "bearded one."
-- John Nelson
Hebron, Connecticut

Mr. Bond, from down under, apparently doesn't think much of our current president and his efforts since 9/11 to protect us. Fortunately, not everyone in Australia believes as Mr. Bond does. Indeed, many of us here in America greatly appreciate the Aussie military support provided to the United States in the war against islamofascism.

Mr. Bond apparently doesn't understand what is at stake here; thankfully wiser minds are in charge.
-- Garry Greenwood
Gearhart, Oregon

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Letter to the Editor View all comments (11) | Leave a comment

frost| 11.18.08 @ 7:57AM

Garry apparently has a low opinion of our present president? As do I, and a pretty large bunch of others who see him as a totally inept betrayer of what 'way too many of us voted for; he did cut taxes, appointed a few judges.... and, everything else has been a big far Blah! Couldn't discipline his own party's spending, wouldn't or couldn't shut down the Illegal (NOT "undocumented") Alien crap, allowed even more inane government growth; and, why, pray tell, are we still paying for the Iraqi mess? First, he completely mishandled the war for too many years (until Petraeous) because of the McClellans in the Pentagon and his inability to get Victory, and now he allows the Iraqi government to reap the benefits of oil revenue while we're still paying the freight?!?
Yeah, Dubya ranks right down there with Jimmy Carter as the All-Time Worst Ever -- his (and Bush-the-Elder's) hairbrained "Compassionate Conservatism" is nothing more than Liberal Lite. His ethanol/lack of ANWR-offshore drilling ('til oil topped $100-a-barrel) was yet another miserable exhibition in his lack-of-leadership.
Face it, it's been an awful president, and I haven't even scratched the surface!
Democrats HATE Dubya with a passion – we Independents and conservatives bash Bush for a reason! Incompetence cubed, and the rest of the party ('cept Ron Paul and a very few others) also sucks. Guess that about covers it -- for the moment...
There's plenty more, but now, think I want to throw up...

frost| 11.18.08 @ 8:01AM

That "far" in the 4th line should'a read "Fat," okay?

Appleby| 11.18.08 @ 10:23AM

For those who hate President Bush more than they hate the Mommy who would not let them wear hot pants to church, I advise that you get back to me once bin Laden has blown up the Sears Tower and King O stands wringing his hands and crying in the ruins because he can't believe they don't love him unconditionally the way his handlers told him everyone in the world was now required to do.

In six months you will be looking back on the last eight years and wondering how you could have been as stupid as you were before the firebombing of daycare centres started and King O did nothing ...

garry greenwood| 11.18.08 @ 12:09PM

I sincerely hope "frost" is not referring to me in the first line of his comment. If so, he is sadly mistaken. Although I have many problems with what President Bush has done (e.g., amnesty for illegal aliens and out-of-control spending) I honestly find little fault with his actions against islamofascism. My family has not been attacked since 9/11; neither has "frost".

What is also sad is the obsessive and pathelogical hatred the left has for President Bush. It will be interesting to see how history records the contributions of the Clinton administration and the current democrat leadership in congress versus that of President Bush in the war against islamofascism. Somehow I don't believe it will come out the way "frost" would have liked.

frost| 11.18.08 @ 3:11PM

Sorry Garry. You're correct in that we haven't been attacked, but, all things considered, my guess is that that's because of the various failings by the world-be terrorists -- not anything Dubya's done (look at the TSA next time you're in an airport for an illustration). Mine isn't hate, and, God knows, I'm sure no leftist! But I sure do feel betrayed by a guy most of us thought would do a whole lot more to secure this once-great country.
There are two quotations that express those feelings rather eloquently: "We have a two party system. The evil party and the stupid party."
Annnnd, "I don’t trust the GOP; most politicians are pandering whores. BUT, the Republican Party contains fewer certifiable maniacs."
Those pretty much say it all. Hate saying this, but, when it comes to our not having been attacked, two things come to mind: (1) we lucked out; their ineptitude is worse than ours, and (2) in this age of Political Correctness, they're winning without any shots being fired -- Minneapolis foot-baths anyone?

Marc Jeric| 11.18.08 @ 3:12PM

"Liberal elite" (oxymoron, with the stress on moron) ridicules Sarah Palin as a non-believer in evolution. No, Sir. Evolution exists perhaps, even though its proof is a logical idiocy: the variant of a specie survived because it was fitter - this can be also stated as the variant was fitter because it survived. Aristotle warned us against such circular reasoning. Quite another matter is the creation of a single living cell out of that darwinist primordial soup; that has been shown as a mathematical impossibility by various scientists - not once could such a cell, however simplified, be created in the whole known universe by however long it could have been tried, to and including the infinity.

ruth| 11.18.08 @ 4:20PM

The Bush hatred in this country is off the charts. So much so, that he isn't even given credit for his courageous and brilliant national security strategy which has protected us from further horror. Such a fool's errand; it is also sick and ungrateful. I worry for our future.

Quartermaster| 11.18.08 @ 8:01PM

Alas, Lincoln was not a product of the Great Awakening, nor was he a product of the second great awakening. The man was a screaming infidel. The only thing that saved his political career was Herndon, his law partner, seizing a manuscript mocking Christianity from Lincoln's hand and hurling it into the stove. Herndon said that Lincoln lived and died an infidel, and John Hay stated that Lincoln did not change his religious opinion after he came to the District of Corruption.

As to him being the greatest President, I'll allow you your delusions. He refounded the country, destroying the Republic that was founded in 1787, which led directly to the serious problems we have politically today. Without the unitary Federal Government, paying only lip service to the constitution or the position of the states, the left would be completely irrelevant.

If you don't like what the left has been up to these past 70 years, just remember, Lincoln made it all possible.

ruth| 11.18.08 @ 9:50PM

As a social conservative I am not going to accept responsibility for the 2008 election debacle. BS! If a strong, articulate conservative had run, I believe he/she would not only have won the nomination, but would have had a real chance to win the election.

David Govett| 11.19.08 @ 1:39AM

Imagine, some people want to preserve the lessons of 8000 generations of Homo sapiens society. How silly of them.

Michael L. Hauschild| 11.19.08 @ 7:57PM

I would vote for Sarah Palin in a second. She could be the perfect candidate; leading by example, not governmental fiat, would probably satisfy the Social Conservatives, and her simple approach to cleaning house with a partisan broom would satisfy many like myself.