OMG -- read this LTTE in the Cincy Enquirer!

[theHandpuppet]

I didn't know whether to barf or to bust out laughing!! Is it possible to do both at the same time?

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060102/EDIT0202/601020341

(An excerpt)

Bush is role model of strong leadership

"President Bush is a devoted family man, pet owner, and a lover of physical work on his ranch in small-town Texas. He overcame a drinking problem; he believes in God; and he reads the Bible regularly. He staved off economic disaster that threatened late in former President Clinton's term and looked worse after Sept. 11...."

[niyad]

1. okay, I threw up--and all I read was that paragraph--will NOT read the

rest, because then I really will be ill.

[fooj]

2. For shit's sake!

:puke:

[Tigress DEM]

3. Ahhh, Harriet Miers still cares!

Or they paid someone a WHOLE lot to write it.

[beam me up scottie]

6. ROFLMFAO !!!

:rofl:

thanks.

i needed that! :D

[beam me up scottie]

4. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

:banghead:

[Boomer]

5. About that "pet owner" bit...

I rest my case.

[3days]

8. I love that kids face

That's how I looked on election night.

[ComerPerro]

13. That picture probably also refutes "overcame a drinking problem"

[proud2BlibKansan]

35. I want to know what he did to that dog

[jokerman93]

15. This is pure

This pure Norman Rockwell bullshit. Was it staged??? Right down to the expression on the kids face. Just LOOK at it! I'm certain I've seen this before. Anybody know the painting I'm referring to?

[Boomer]

31. If it were staged...

...would Barney look this terrified when Bush held him?

[beam me up scottie]

39. That poor dog.

No wonder he runs away when little w calls him.

[jokerman93]

47. Oh my!

That poor creature!

LOL

You may be right!

:-)

[VolcanoJen]

21. ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL

:rofl:

[madeline_con]

7. PUHleeze!

"Bush gets slandered regularly by the mainstream press and other liberals ..." :eyes:

[beam me up scottie]

9. Here's the rest of it...

(hold your nose)

He works to protect us from more terrorism. He is seeking to rein in the judiciary to within constitutional limits. He led the world in a fight against Saddam Hussein, who thumbed his nose at the United Nations for years.

Bush gets slandered regularly by the mainstream press and other liberals in the most hateful, ridiculous language, but he never responds in kind. I say Bush is a role model.

[FreedomAngel82]

12. My younger cousin

could write a better ltte and he's in fifth grade. :eyes: Oy!

[beam me up scottie]

14. Sad, isn't it?

My neighbor talks like this.

She memorizes the talking points and repeats them verbatim.

But if you ask her why she feels that way, she gets the same look on her face as Chimpy does when he's trying to figure out why everyone's laughing at him.

[theHandpuppet]

10. Just found some more LTTEs by this same woman

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051117/EDIT0202/511170322/1022/EDIT
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050731/EDIT0202/507310316
http://wirecan.blogspot.com/2005_10_16_wirecan_archive.html

[beam me up scottie]

11. A fine example of critical thinking:

It puzzles me why public schools want to follow such a rigid line on teaching the theory of evolution to the exclusion of all other theories. Oh, that's right! It involves God, which is verboten in our schools today, while sex education and all aspects of it are taught as a core subject. If we evolved from apes, then how in the world did we end up with all the different races of the world? Were there Chinese apes, Latino apes, Caucasian apes, etc.? Humans and the universe are far too complex to have happened by mere chance. As the noted astrophysicist Fred Hoyle once said, "The notion that the universe came about by the 'big bang' has the same odds as a tornado sweeping through a junkyard and assembling a Boeing 747."

Chinese apes? :spray:

:rofl:

[theHandpuppet]

16. Here's another example of her stellar intellect

Posted and justly ridiculed at http://wirecan.blogspot.com/2005_10_16_wirecan_archive.html

"I don't understand the questioning of Harriet Miers' qualifications for U.S. Supreme Court justice. So what if she hasn't practiced a lot of constitutional law. It isn't rocket science. You read the Constitution, read what the framers wrote about it, read cases interpreting and applying it, and apply the cases, as relevant and appropriate, to the case before you. It only gets complicated when you make up things that aren't in the Constitution and then pretend to interpret them, all of which the justices aren't supposed to do."

[Bluebear]

18. So Vinnie, my local mechanic can be a SC justice, too!

So long as he read's the Constitution. "It isn't rocket science."

[beam me up scottie]

19. I can't stand it...

kill me now.:nuke:

[VolcanoJen]

24. Letters! Oh, she writes letters!

Here's essentially the same letter, sent to the Moonie Times. She just changed a few words around.

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20051022-100239-5748r_page2.htm

Harriet Miers might not have practiced a lot of constitutional law, but how would that disqualify her from being a U.S. Supreme Court justice ("Miers asked to flesh out answers," Page 1, Thursday)? You learn that area of law the same way you learn any other -- you read, you debate, you reflect. It's accessible to every ordinary person with enough time. The complexity arises when justices turn themselves into Wizards of Oz, making decrees that we're not supposed to question, inserting into the Constitution things that aren't there. Where's Toto when you need him?
Pull back those judicial robes and you'll find -- "Oh, my" -- mere lawyers. They really should not think they're smarter than the Framers.

BETH EGBERS
Cincinnati

[long_green]

50. Oh. My. God.

Chinese Apes.
Now that I think about it, Caucasian Apes is a hell of a good band name.
The implication of her theory of the creation of the different races, that they were created independently and separately (but not equal), is chilling.

[beam me up scottie]

23. How long do you think it takes her to write these?

And what color crayon do you think she uses?

Regarding the letter "Theory, not belief, belongs in schools" (Nov. 13): I don't understand why intelligent design shouldn't be taught in public schools as a scientific theory. It hasn't been disproven. And if God did create the world, scientific truth would not contradict that fact but lead directly to it. It seems that squelching the intelligent design theory could be a hindrance to science because it removes a possible piece of the puzzle.

[Left Is Write]

17. I vote barf.

[truth2power]

20. I don't know of any city that has as many knuckle draggers

all gathered in one place.

Read letters 3 & 4. More moronic thinking. :(

[VolcanoJen]

26. Sad, isn't it?

Come to Drinking Liberally and meet the non-knuckle-draggers of Cincinnati!

http://dlcinci.blogspot.com/

[truth2power]

52. Thanks for the invite. Will do. n/t

[theHandpuppet]

27. Remember, these are the folks who voted for Jean Schmidt

Letters like these explain a lot.

[MadisonProgressive]

22. I say Beth Egbers is a friggen idiot and MORAN!

[sakabatou]

25. Holy shit...

What a koolaide drinking asswipe.

Real title: Bush is a role model of a strong DICTATORSHIP

[beam me up scottie]

28. "a drag-queen Mother Ginger" ???

What kind of preverts are you people, anyway?

Modern 'Nutcracker' leaves sour taste

Are we the only family dismayed by the Cincinnati Ballet's "The Nutcracker"? My daughter and I delighted in the production several years ago, and we were appalled by the changes in the current version. Keeping an annual production fresh is a challenge, but does changing the little girl's name from Clara to Marie really accomplish this?

"Pop-locking" mice; a drag-queen Mother Ginger; the disappearance of the rising Christmas tree; a trashy, vaudevillian pantomime between Mother Ginger and the Prince; and less-opulent costumes left us with a bitter taste, not sugarplums, in our mouths.

Please, bring back the dignity and grandeur of this holiday tradition.

:spray:
:rofl:

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

29. This reads like astroturf

I haven't found the same letter in other newspapers -- yet -- but it looks like one of those missives that appear to be written by some GOP flack to keep repeating the Big Lie.

[theHandpuppet]

30. Holy crap -- here's another mind-numbing LTTE by the same writer

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050604/EDIT0202/506040334

"Regarding Richard Cohen's syndicated column "Bush wrongly uses religion to decide stem-cell policy" (May 29): To support embryonic stem-cell research you can't argue from science to justify it, you have to argue backward from it and eliminate those parts of science that interfere with it. You have to say, as I have heard from national politicians and columnists, that there is no life until implantation, that you can't tell what human life is before birth, or that there is no human life until the fetus is born and takes a breath of air (a view "helpful" also in defending partial-birth abortion). I am glad I am not a liberal, because I don't want to have to twist my mind into a pretzel."

[theHandpuppet]

33. And yet another from this RW fundie lunatic

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050731/EDIT0202/507310316/-1/rss

Do you think she gets paid to write these or is there a shortage of shrinks in Zinzinnati and she's in dire need of meds?

Columnist wrong on religious conscience

"Regarding "When rights collide with responsibilities" (July 29): Jane Eisner believes that conscientious objectors in the war over abortion, contraception, embryonic stem cell research, and other culture-of-death matters should be forced to become aiders and abettors of the very things they object to. There's supposed to be freedom from religious discrimination in the work world, but she thinks anyone with the skills and desire to be a pharmacist who happens to be pro-life should be forced to either betray his or her faith or leave the profession.

"It always surprises me how freedom of religion, the whole reason for the start of this thing called the United States, is given second-class status."

[mr blur]

49. So this is the "reason" for the US?

""It always surprises me how freedom of religion, the whole reason for the start of this thing called the United States,.."

I'm not an American, but I thought you had better reasons for your pride in your Constitution.

[TNOE]

55. How ironic

that Cincinnati is getting the laughs it wholeheartedly deserves. The Cincinnati Enquirer's Editor is Peter Bronson who is the biggest Bush asslicking repub I have ever seen. I've heard more comments lately here about how people can no longer even read him. His last masterpiece was justifying the torture. So, needless to say - letters disapproving of our little King rarely get printed and I do mean "rarely". They also changed the rules to where letters have to be under 100 words, so its really hard to refute or say much in 100 words.

Maybe a letter writing campaign to Mr. Bronson is in order, but I doubt it would change anything. Me thinks this guy is another Armstrong Williams on the Bush payola. He can't possibly be as dumb as he writes.

[Straight Shooter]

34. It's difficult to twist swiss cheese into a pretzel.

The woman desperately needs a course in logic.

[proud2BlibKansan]

36. You can't argue from Science to justify a scientific process?

WTF?

She never took any Science, right? Dropped out in about 5th grade, maybe earlier?

[yorkiemommie1]

32. she must drink a LOT of koolaid!

bathes in it, sprays it on. but to my dismay, she exemplifies the perfect bushbot and the mindset that allows this man to continue to destroy our nation.

[crizzo5137]

37. i live in cincy and just emailed the editor

Beth... Dear sweet Beth.. Stop watching Fox 'news'. The world is far more complicated then you think. Yes, Beth, Mr. Bush is a devoted family man. He asks that the press not hound his daughters drinking binges. He is also a pet owner.. Well Beth... YAY!...And that means? And I agree Beth, he loves to work on his small ranch in Texas. He has spent 365+ days there on vacation in 5 years. He has taken more vacation time in 5 years then any president in 8 years (the last holder of the most vacation time in office was Reagon). Wow Beth, I wish I had that kind of benefit in my job!

Beth, he did overcome his drinking, I am sure. However, I do remember in 2000 when Laura said he was going to relax on election night with.....a.....BEER...Unfortunatly Beth, our great guru, our savior, our humble man who invaded Iraq because he 'talks to God' did not feel the need to take a 12 step program.. He only needed to disregard intelligence, and send our boys to a quagmire of death, pain, and injury.

Beth, will you change your mind when you get to see the pictures of the dead and injured coming back from Iraq? Sweet dear Beth, Mr Bush won't let you see that.

Beth. Get a CLUE.




I doubt this will be published... you guys are too comfy to actually do your job...but anyway...
Ron Clark
Terrace park.. Oh

[beam me up scottie]

38. I doubt they'll publish it either, but Bravo anyway!

:applause:

ps: Is the ballet that bad?

[crizzo5137]

41. oh yeah... its THAT bad...:)

[beam me up scottie]

42. ROFL!

Thanks for the warning!:P

[buff2]

40. More proof he is the ANTI-CHRIST

Nuff said.

[peacetalksforall]

43. This person graduated with honors from the Robertson or Dobson Univ.

So be kind to the pitiful.

[Craig3410]

44. n/m

[Craig3410]

45. Geez; and Paul Hackett almost won THERE?

How'd he even get that close? It seems the freepers outnumber the liberals 2 to 1.

[Boomer]

46. Kick

:kick:

[Dr. Death]

48. A role model for morans everywhere

[CBHagman]

51. PET OWNER!

Gee, that makes everything all right. I've nothing against little doggies and kitties and goldfish and the like, but any sociopath can also have a pet. :rofl:

[OnionPatch]

53. And that person still believes

in Santa Claus and has probably spent a fortune on weight-loss gimmicks and get-rich-quick schemes. :eyes:

[Brewman_Jax]

54. I've noticed that the freepers say everything good

about Mr. Bush*, but none can say what he has actually done for them. They spew the party line, but can't produce any facts--because there are none.

The Bush* worshipping freepers make me want to