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USE YOUR DELUSIONS, JOE
My favorite part of the Klein statement (re: your NRO post) is the “on them” part – especially with the emphasis. Possibly the worst fallacy perpetrated on the public is that stimulus money is essentially created out of thin air. Every dollar the government spends must come from a dollar of taxation. It just so happens that the taxes are currently being postponed to some vague point in the future.
What boggles my mind is that it is only 3 out of 4 Americans thinking it was wasted! I need to talk to those 25%...
Dave
DUDE, WE’RE SO WASTED RIGHT NOW
Joe Klein says:
"There have been very few documented cases of waste so far."
1. Could it be that not much has been spent so far, so of course there would be few cases of waste?
2. The folks doing the documentation are the same folks reporting the jobs saved or retained, particularly by congressional district. The high degree of inaccuracy with respect to that information may suggest that the reporting of waste could be as equally inaccurate.
3. Depends on your definition of waste. I think the whole thing may be viewed as a waste!
Karen
TAKE THIS FREE SUBSCRIPTION AND SHOVE IT!
Thank you for pointing out Joe Klein’s magnificent article at Time.com. It prompted me to write the following to the editors of Time:
Dear Time Magazine:
Please cancel my subscription. Even though it was a free subscription, I can no longer tolerate your magazine in my home, even if received free of charge. Since Joe Klein, your political columnist, considers me “too dumb to thrive” for not properly appreciating the wasteful stimulus package, which is throwing around billions of our tax dollars, I suppose I am likely also “too dumb” to appreciate the rest of your magazine. If this was simply the attitude of one of your columnists, that would be bad enough, but over the past few months, I have been treated to pap such as your October 19, 2009 front page article basically telling me I am also too dumb to manage my own 401k plan.
Ironically, Mr. Klein refers to people such as myself as part of a “nation of dodos.” How appropriate, considering the dodo became extinct— a fate likely to befall your magazine if you continue to insult your readership. By the way, you might wish to inform the brilliant Mr. Klein that the planned stimulus package spending added up to $787 billion, as opposed to the $787 he mentions while insulting me.
There’s only so much lunacy I can take, and this pushed me right over the edges, so thanks, Mark.
Keith Hogan
LEFTISTS OF A FEATHER...
Mark, this is a Kinsley gaffe on Klein’s part. He has just stated clearly what is implicit in The One’s own words. How could one possibly be “a very good one-term president” unless the electorate were too ignorant or stupid to detect his very goodness, and thus reward him with a deserved second term?
Robert
THAT’S WHAT TELEPROMPTERS ARE FOR
Regarding wasted genius: It's always impressive how quickly some can go from speaking for the American people to speaking to them.
Neal Wright
Florence, Alabama
I BET YOU LAUGHED AT THE END OF BAMBI, TOO
I really enjoy listening to your insightful remarks on the EIB network. You are an excellent fill in for Rush.
I must say, however, that as a conservative and conservationalist, I was very sickened and saddened to hear your description of hunting. I do love animals and appreciate nature. Anyone who has ever had a pet or observed animals knows that they are thinking, feeling beings and actually quite bright. They have their own social hierarchies, methods of communication, complex emotional lives, the ability to invent and create, etc. They are also capable of love, pain, anger and loss, among other things.
If I may be so bold, you were extremely callous in your description of hunting. I cannot fault you for the sport itself, which I find abhorrent, but your giddy delight over the corpses of dead animals was sickening. I can't remember the precise words -- but something along the lines of “blood spilling all over the back of a Prius car with a dead moose head sticking out and a young doe's corpse flapping in the wind.”
You were basically cheering and gushing over the wanton slaughter of animals. People do hunt for meat or out of necessity, but I cannot imagine why the image of a dead wild animal, drained of all its life— as opposed to seeing it alive in its natural habitat— would be preferable.
Imagine a dog or a cat, which many people consider to be extensions of their family, described in the same way: "Oh, what a great day to drive a car! I picked up old Spot with his eyes rolled back into his head and his tongue hanging out! Haha! You should seen the skid marks on his fur!”
All this time, I thought you were one of the wittiest and most thoughtful Rush substitutes. However, your commentary on hunting was enough to turn you off. It will be hard for me to listen to you now, knowing that your voice is attached to someone who rejoices in the wanton destruction of animals and thinks that blood splattered everywhere— emblematic of the pain the animal suffered before its death— is hilarious.
So many animals are abused and/or hunted to extinction as a result of mentalities like yours. I hope you will try to be more sensitive and, hopefully, more aware and enlightened in the future.
Sue
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