I'm not sure he's taking his estrogen.

College is maybe what she meant. O doubled Mc there. Still a stretch.

Only someone in the media could have written that without collapsing in laughter!

Hi there, Bo Stinks.

First off, let me say what a witty and profoundly telling username you have.  It is understandable that one with the wit and intelligence to come with such a stinker as that would need to mispell other's usernames in order to attempt to belittle them.

Secondly, thanks so much for your concern for my welfare. However, like this whole tempest in a tea-bag pot you folks are attempting to stir up over these letters to the editor(s) it is sorely misplaced.

I still have all my arm bones intact, thanks.

"all Libs. get: removal of their funny bone."

My sense of humor is apparently as intact as my skeletal structure as I find your attempts at punctuation and writing in general hilarious.

Once again, you generalize and attack progressives for that which is only true of your regressive selves.  I think your conspiracty theories around the letter are funny as hell.  You, on the other hand, have no sense of humor and go so far as to admit that the idea of one is frightening to you.

As to your permission or denial of permission for me to "come back" when you deem it okay, get over yourself, Bo Stinks, develop a little sense of humor.

And finally, I find the concept of quoting Ann Coulter in an attempt to display erudition wit and/or wisdom pretty damn hilarious as well.    

All in all, I'd have to rate your entire post as a big fat FAIL.

Feel free to try again, though.

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CappyQ

"Hmm, tea-bag tea-pot tea-party pot-party, hmm.  Obviously by drawing a straight line through from one to the other we have proven beyond all doubt that all tea baggers are pot heads.  Shame on you."

 
Lib certainly do need a new playbook

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

I do indeed say that what the letter writers, or more likely copiers and senders, did was really no big deal, but in doing so I've certainly not ignored the reality of what happened.  I just am not buying into the pseudo-conspiratorial claptrap when in reality, it is no big deal and for all you really know the letters were sent in by staffers on the Rush Limbaugh show seeking to help Rush in his attempts to ensure that the present duly elected President of this country fails. <sarcasm alert> 

The letter was simple and only suggested that people should really relax a bit, calm down, give the government a chance to govern without all the extremist and hateful reactionary rhetoric being spewed from the right and the left.  The writer did point out that in essence the duly elected President of the United States had not really broken any promises and had in fact warned people that economic recovery and a return to a peacetime America would not be easy and would take some time.  If you find that imminently threatening then you really should get your medication adjusted.

The disingenousness of trying to base your complaints on the dishonesty of placing the letter into multiple "letters to the editor" sections and employing the ruse of changing return addresses to fall in the general circulation area of the newspapers it was sent to is simply a deflection on your part.  You aren't challenging the letter or what it says, you are the ones seeking to deflect from the simple message in the letter and make the dialogue all about the messenger.

Making this worse, of course, is the fact that you transparently are seeking a smoke screen.   The regressive tea-party astro-turf organizations have been exposed again and again as being funded not by grass roots funding but by big businesses with a huge financial stake in the pot.  The regressives are now throwing the term "astro-turf" around as if it applies here, it does not.  The letter isn't seeking to organize or to put together any sort of movement, it is a letter of opinion.  An astro-turf organization is one that seeks to organize people around a cause under the guise of coming from the individual citizens, the grass roots, while in fact it is organized by big business with a large scale agenda.  You know, like the "Al Gore's Penguin Army" film on YouTube that was exposed as not being amateur but done by a Washington PR firm with ties to big oil corporations.  You know, like when Bonner & Associates, a Washington Lobbying firm got busted sending forged letters to members of congress to attempt to influence voting.  Or the corporate funded Freedom Works organizing "grass roots" health care reform protests with no agenda to help our government come to a good decision, just an attempt to disrupt our government.  

The list goes on. . .

Yet you want to whine about how "Ellie Light" is so dishonest and this decietful conspiracy to defraud everyone should be investigated and ... and then what?  "Ellie" gets denied priviledges to post any more letters to the editor?  Letters that almost nobody reads and that, were it not for the manufactured and silly outcry of regressives online, would more than likely have simply gone unnoticed?

You ask if I could support them if Ellie Light were supporting a Conservative...

Do you mean like all the conservative (more accurately regressive, they have actually co-opted and soiled the term conservative, just like Beck has co-opted and soiled the term libertarian) media, most admittedly from one source, FNC, who come out daily with unsupportable and previously debunked lies and rumors in order to try to sway people's opinion?  No, I couldn't support them.

However, if you wrote a thoughtful and concise letter to some newspapers expressing a true conservative and pro-American viewpoint (as opposed to speaking in favor of and trying to bring about the failure of my country's government) and did whatever you needed to do in order to get it published as widely, say, as your comment posts get published...I'd be okay with you doing that, yes.

If you really do believe that something of this nature is really an insiduous plot by the liberals in the federal government whose only agenda is to turn the country into a communist state and turn all your children against you in state sponsored schools...then you really do need a much bigger and thicker tin-foil hat.

Again, the letter was about 250 words of feel-good pap that simply presented a more calm and reasonable view of what is happening in Washington than either the far right or the far left has come to be spouting.  If that is all it takes to bring down YOUR country then your country is much more weak than the America I know and love.

The United States that I live in has a strong government, based on a document written more than 200 years ago by some men whose bravery, honesty and intelligence we could use more of today.  This government is a Democratic Republic which means that, since we hold elections to decide who gets to be the boss for a while, sometimes our very favorite choice doesn't win the election and we have to suck it up and try to do better next election. However, with their wisdom, and supported by more wisdom from our government along the way, we have a system where no single branch of our government runs the whole thing.  We also have frequent elections and, if the new boss is worse than the old boss, we get to throw the bums out after 4 years and try again, all the while having faith that our government and our country and her people are strong enough to withstand four years of imperfect government.  However, the strength of our government and our country depends on our people standing strong on that one point, this IS OUR country and we are all in this together.  If we spend the next three years like we spent the last one, fighting amongst ourselves and allowing the rhetoric to get more and more venomous as time goes by, then perhaps our country will not be strong enough to withstand that.  Perhaps in three more years the next great hope will be elected and will be handed a country in even more of a mess, if possible, than ours was in 2008.  Or perhaps Beck will get his way and he will incite enough people to enough violence to whatever end his deluded brain has in mind. 

You will get to spit out the sour grapes along with your venom and Rush will get to go on the air crowing about "I told you so".... but do you really hate our country that much that you are willing to be a part of that?

I wonder.

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CappyQ

"The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart."
Kurt Vonnegut (in Sirens of Titan)