Letters to the Editor
GeeJay
Published Letters: 117 Editor's Choice: 19
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Childpower
[Read the article: Don't be a morose teenager]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It’s great to have the gap-toothed nine year old around. A young child unknowingly offers a vitality that is gratefully and sometimes guiltily absorbed by an older parent. The older and wiser the parent, the more he or she wonders if the youth-soaking is taking something away from the child. Fortunately, the child seems to replenish her supply effortlessly. ...Until one day the cheerfulness and fist pumping are replaced by boy and girl chasing, as sex rears its ugly head. Wonder is replaced by wander. Then the parent hopes for the best, wondering about lost innocence, as the child flees the nest.
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Tragic history
[Read the article: Bush's stairway to paradise]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Certainly President Bush is described in the article as someone delusional and in complete denial. Based on Bush’s pronouncements, he cannot fail in Iraq. All responsibility is passed to his successor. He himself can only be judged by “history” after he has left his temporal existence.
The article describes a very lonely man who can only use fantasy to prop himself up. Were he to see the true person that he is he would see someone who has wasted opportunity at every phase in his life. This is unbearable to someone who has abandoned personal accountability at an early age.
Of course history will judge Bush, as history judges all U.S. presidents. But unlike Bush’s wishes, history does not pass favorable judgment on leaders who are idealists, whose practices are based on hopes and wishes while dismissing the reality around them. History especially condemns leaders who are incapable of receiving counsel, who are bewitched by their own scent of supremacy. Bush is a very selfish man, one who will be mourned only by those who will be embarrassed by the lack of mourning for a dead president.
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The race is on
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let’s consider every position but the quarterback position. Are lineman, linebackers, safeties, cornerbacks, running backs, long snappers, kickers, punters, linemen, tight ends, and wide receivers scrutinized more so because they have dark skin? I don’t believe so. Then to counter your argument, why should this be the one corner of American life where society is colorblind?
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This is why we have the civil courts
[Read the article: Dan Rather stands by his story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Having heard Dan Rather speak a couple times in the last year or so, it is apparent that he has a few things to settle before retiring for good. He is in a position where he can devote his considerably energy and resources to right what he considers a basic wrong. People should not underestimate the resolve one can get as one approaches one’s later years. It is considerably more difficult to threaten an old war horse than it is a young colt who is still trying to establish credentials.
People who have studied the current national political practices can easily see the footprint of coercion, manipulation, stonewalling, disinformation, and obfuscation by the Bush White House in regards to this issue. Bush’s people can claim success in blocking the truth of this matter because Bush is holding political office. However, victories in the past do not always compensate for losses in the present or future.
Being very cautious and perhaps cynical, the only advice I can offer to Mr. Rather is that he should provide for the continuation of the law suit in case he is incapacitated before the suit is resolved. Clearly the suit will go forward, whether through the current court or another, as it should, but it will have a long life. Betrayal of public and private trust by powerful media corporations should be damned in a free society. The media bedding with political powers leads to copulation that births fascism.
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Blackwater black ops
[Read the article: The dark truth about Blackwater]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is such a long and tortuous story and cannot be addressed adequately in a short letter. Blackwater and their ilk are the evolvement of illegal Republican/CIA/Other Agency covert operations into above board operations. Blackwater makes what was once illegal and a death knell to a presidency now deniable by administrative offices. (I am referencing their black ops, which are not mentioned in the article) To use an analogy, the Republicans installed a private email system within the White House so that that system would not be accountable to the law of the land. However, the email system was used intentionally in the same manner as the public system was used. Thus accountability and the law are discounted, though the spirit of the law is desecrated.
Essentially, Blackwater has a license to kill, rape, and pillage, given to them by the current White House administration. In turn the White House is given plausible deniability. All the while, the members of Congress pee in their pants.
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Didn't blow it yet
[Read the article: How the Democrats blew it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with most of the article and I appreciate the straight talk from Mr. Kamiya.
I understand that the Democratic candidates are toeing the line because of the fear of Republican attack ads that will spear the eventual Democratic candidate for President. But they seem to not be aware of the way to beat these attacks. You beat negative attacks by attacking the attackers. You expose them for what they are, chronic whiners, cowards, and liars. The Democratic candidates must speak their minds. If they are currently speaking their minds, well, then there is no need to support timid souls when there is fearless work to be done.