Letters to the Editor
Frank Smith, Bluff City, KS
Published Letters: 131 Editor's Choice: 15
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Bogus letter, bogus writer
[Read the article: The minimum wage went up, so the owner cut my hours!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This "fast food worker" letter is a transparent fraud and Cary Tennis should be ashamed for pontificating on it, instead of sending it straight to file 13.
The writer, who is supposedly too stupid to find a better job, and who supposedly finds satisfaction in a "job" where the turover is probably over 200% per year, is precisely parroting the National Chamber of Commerce line intended only to increase profits and create a larger pool of wage slaves. Why do you suppose that is, Cary?
Coincidence? I think not.
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Why trust Aramark?
[Read the article: The challenge facing local food]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sodhexo was the largest investor in Corrections Corporation of America before students nationwide embarrassed them into ending their majority position in the dangerous corporation. (The Not With Our Money, capaign.) However, Aramark, which has prison feeding contracts around the nation could not abandon the same sordid business.
In New Mexico, Aramark had a registered lobbyist who was the deputy director of a state prison in southern Illinois. Apparently the only thing that she brought to the "job" was her relationship with the married ex-GEO Group Warden, and now director of Corrections in NM, Joe Williams. She was his, er, traveling companion, according to public records and newspaper articles. She was also the registered lobbyist for Wexford Health Services, of Pittsburgh, PA, which provided abysmal medical care for New Mexican prisoners. Wexford just had it's contract cancelled.
Cell phone records showed that DOC Director Williams was on the phone to her for almost a hundred hours, loging hundreds of calls.
Will tripe specialist Aramark be next to get the bums' rush? Stay tuned.
(More info at www.privateci.org )
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"conservative intelligentsia?"
[Read the article: How the left caused 9/11, by Dinesh D'Souza]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"For almost 20 years, Dinesh D'Souza has been a prominent force in the conservative intelligentsia..."
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha...
Well, most everything that could be said about this helium-huffing, chirpy voiced spin merchant has already been covered by Salon letter writers, particularly the "Editor's choice" selections. But here's a bit more...
If this is the best face of "affirmative action" that conservatives can muster (the same nitwits who gave us Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court), there's not much to fear.
Blaming Carter for "losing" Iran is the height of idiocy. Iran was never "ours" save for those periods of corporate and imperialist domination attained with the help of U.S. and British-imposed stooges.
When the democratically elected Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown by the CIA in 1953, and replaced by the Shah, it set the stage for the eventual ascendancy of theocrats. Carter didn't arrive until the last act of a script that had been written decades earlier.
When the First Nitwit declared Iran to be of the "Axis of Evil," I winced as he stumbled through his teleprompted nonsense. Iranian moderates, who had slowly been returning some sense of rationality to their country were instantly doomed, and were in fact disempowered within weeks. It was just as inconcievable as when some bozo had Dumbya proclaim the forthcoming Near Eastern slaughter a "crusade," as if every Muslim had forgotten that their progenitors' blood had run deep in the streets of Jerusalem (along with the blood of Jews, who had been getting along quite well there).
If d'Souza managed to get through an entire book without mentioning the role that Abrams, Wolfowitz, Perle, etc., played in these fiascoes, he should never be allowed to destroy trees again for the purpose of disseminating his hogwash.
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Logical conclusions
[Read the article: The NY Times returns to pre-Iraq-war "journalism"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While reading this article, I wondered if Michael Gordon was a CIA plant or his integrity was otherwise compromised? What he is pushing is certainly not journalism, by any stretch of the imagination. One wonders who the editor was on this piece of garbage?
It has been documented that Miller allowed personal relationships and perhaps other causes to corrupt her reporting.
The Times did a lot of breast-beating over taking so long before giving Jason Blair the heave. Blair's lying, however, unlike Miller's (and frequent co-author Gordon's), didn't get anyone killed. Miller was a prime player in promotion of an illegal war and occupation which will certainly cost the lives of a million Iraqis before it's over.
One hopes Salon will communicate directly with the Times' Ombusdman about this disgraceful situation, as well as other media watchdogs. This can't wait until after the beginning of another war and additional cause for further nuclear proliferation.
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Sharpton: An unrehabilitated prostitute
[Read the article: Sympathy for the devil: Leave Rev. Al alone!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read all of Salon's "Editor's Choice" letters and couldn't find a single mention of the "debates" in New Hampshire, 2004, when Sharpton was apparently on the pad for perhaps Kerry and Republican Swift Boaters both to damage the Democratic party and Howard Dean. Then I slogged on and read all 58 letters. Just three mentioned Sharpton's nationally televised attacks, and then without the ugliest details.
Sharpton is an articulate and bright guy, fortunately about as much of a "Reverend" as I am. (Thank you Kirby Hensley and the Universal Life Church, circa 1971. For $10 more I could have been a "Bishop.") Oh, if I only were but half the entertainer Al is.
Sharpton, for the historically challenged, castigated Dean for not having enough blacks on his staff when governor. The 2000 census indicated Vermont is .6% black. He continued his attacks on Dean in Iowa. Republicans underwrote and managed Sharpton's "campaign."
For all the good things Sharpton has done, post-Brawley, they've been heavily leavened with the bad, whether it's shaking down the pathetic Michael Jackson or pimping for predatory lenders.
Sharpton can't escape the clutches of his youth, when he was milking black churchgoers for their widow's mites. With the scent of money in the air, he's as reactive as Strangelove, struggling but losing the fight to suppress the Hitler salute.