Letters to the Editor
Amerigo
Published Letters: 955 Editor's Choice: 60
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Just in...
[Read the article: Are you there, God? It's me, Rudy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And further to my prior letter in which I said that I don't think any of these jokers are really willing to say what they REALLY think on religious issues, come reports (elsewhere on Web that Huckerby is unwilling to release transcripts of sermons from his preaching career.
Now really, you would think he would be only to happy to oblige, so that we can see exactly what his public utterances were before he was politically on the record, but even Mr. Preacher Man, it seems, does not want anyone to know what he really thinks about religious issues, so what hope can there be that the secular candidates will spill the beans.
Anyhow, we know they are all praying for a miracle!
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[RED STAR GOES HERE] Living amongst the proles...
[Read the article: My ex-con neighbor owes me money]
[Read more letters about this article: Here].. is all very well, but this is what happens. This is why so many people want to live in gated communities with zoning regulations that say that no ex-cons are allowed inside unless they are working for a landscaping contractor who gets ex-cons on the cheap.
Ex-cons tend to be stupid, and as the LW has already diagnosed, this guy is a drunk. Probably he has other substance abuses issues eating a hole in his budget, if not his nose, as well. He probably owes money all over town, and repaying the LW is low on his list of priorities, a great deal lower than his drug dealer for sure.
He is stupid, because now he cannot use you again for discount car repairs, which he will mostl likely need.
Others have said it only too well. Write off the money, because you will never see it.
Yes, LW, you are in the right and he is in the wrong, no doubt about it. But you made a mistake in the way you did business with him.
In future if you do car repairs on the side, at least get payment in cash for the parts before you do any work, and preferably a down payment on the labor.
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American tribes...
[Read the article: Judge: 10-year-old "probably agreed" to sex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would also like to remind readers that here in the U.S. we have had our own tribal sexual abuse scandals.
AKA Smith
Catholics are not an indigenous tribe; they came with Columbus, so I guess you are refering to the tribes of Congress--Mark Foley and his ilk.
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Test of character
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This will be a test of character for Vick. No one knows for sure whether he will return and play professional football again or not. It will depend on how he handles incarceration, whether he retains ambitions to shine on the football field and how sorry he is for his prior actions.
If he truly desires to be remembered by posterity as a great football player and not as a criminal, then this could motivate him to make a come back.
Many people comment on his cruel behavior to animals, and that seems to be what got him nailed, but the whole dog-fighting business is really all about illegal betting which is a problematical area since professional football is also a sport on which many people bet. When someone who is in a position where their performance can influence the result of a sporting event, then they have to be seen to be cleaner than clean, and certainly not to have criminal associates.
Thus the challenge for Vick will be to disassociate himself from his criminal associates on the outside, as well as from the criminal culture on the inside.
This will not be easy for him, but every one who falls from grace deserves at least one chance to climb back up and I have no doubt that all readers of Salon wish him well.
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Nice article
[Read the article: A question of faith]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good article. I think we can all agree that candidates are entitled to a range of religious beliefs, but the question always ought to be about how those beliefs might influence policy.
If Huckabee sincerely believes that Adams and Eve were real people, then does he believe that painful childbith and frequent death in childbirth caused by the child's head being too big for the mother's pelvis were designed by God as a punishment for all women because Eve tempted Adam to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (as stated in Bible "In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee [Genesis 3:16]), and how might that influence the way he would veto legislature, handle issues related to abortion, marrige, divorce, and so on?
These are not trivial questions.
In a free democracy Rev. Huckerbee and all the other candidates have every right to their beliefs, but surely we have a right to know what those beliefs are inasmuchas they may influence future policy decisions.
Why the secrecy?
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Addendum
[Read the article: A question of faith]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of course to ME the fact that Huckerbee believes that Adam and Eve were real people (or has said so in the past) indicates that he has the intellectual maturity of a child and is unable to distinguish a myth or fairy tale from factual history.
From this I would deduce that he does not have the necessary understanding of history and politics to make the kind of judicious decision required of the leader of the free world, so I would not vote for him.
But that is my opinion and I only have one vote, so I see no need for him to hide the lamp of his religious convictions under a bushel.
Of course, if he admitted that he was not telling the truth when he said he believed Adam and Eve were real people, but that he was pitching his remarks to the intellectual level of his audience, then he would rise a bit in my estimation--but probably not enough to get me to vote for him, because I would suspect that he was just telling me what I wanted to hear!