Letters to the Editor
Stellaa
Published Letters: 186 Editor's Choice: 14
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Refreshing!!
[Read the article: John Edwards live]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Things I like about Edwards:
1. Not part of the Ivy league country club.
2. He is smart.
3. He is a fighter.
4. He is charming.
5. He has what Clinton had, he is genuine when he talks to people that are not part of the Ivy League club.
6. He was talking about the two Americas before anyone else was.
7. It has nothing with him being a white male. Dems will self destruct if they choose based on that.
8. He feels like an honest to goodness populist.
9. I want him to win and or stay in the campaign for a long time to stir up whoever the top runners think they are.
10. I hate dynasties, whether it's the Bush's or the Clintons. Out with the old blood. Out with the Neoliberals who are just as disgusting as the Neocons. Opportunistic social climbers who will use our nation for their vision of free markets at any cost.
Go John.....!!!! STay in the fight.
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A face to mental illness.
[Read the article: A tale of two horrors]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We humanize one set of victims and dehumanize another. The VT victims are given families, dreams and futures. The people in Iraq are not granted the same luxury. Frankly, Bush was the shooter in Iraq, walked in with his fantasies and started killing in some fantasy of justice. Our National mental illness that we are the unique and supreme power on the planet.
Regarding Cho, the issue that is not being talked about is Mental Illness and how ill equiped we are to diagnose and treat it. Cho was mentally ill. As any parent knows who has had a child with severe mental illness, there is a fantasy that the doctors will know what to do and will tell you how to treat your child. They don't and if they do, it's your health insurance that prescribes the treatment. Some meds and go home. We need to seriously look at how mental illness is being treated in this country. If someone with cancer or a broken limb was treated the way we treat the mentally ill we would all be up in arms. Some investigative reporter should explore how the health insurance influenced his treatment.
Blame the internet, blame guns, blame video games, blame, blame blame. In the long run, some 24 year old insurance company clerck makes the decision: no coverage for hospitilization of the mentally ill. All we do is contain people with cocktails of medication. Mental illness is real and it's not being treated. We spend more energy and resources treating the unhappy people with drugs than we do to treat the people that are truly suffering.
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Better than novels!!
[Read the article: The private war of Chuck and Tom Hagel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, this is another example why it does not make sense to read fiction anymore--true life stories seem to be more compelling and more amazing. Eat your heart out novelists.
In short this is the great American novel, two men from the same roots, same experiences taking such polar views on politics. The only thing I can say is that Chuck's experience opens him to potential redemption, whereas the likes of Cheney, Bush and all the neocon bastards, have no window of redemption--they skated on the backs of millions of Americans, drank at all the wells of opportunity and imagined that they did the work to get where they are.
Dear Chuck, keep your heart and mind open about those who lead us into war for gain and those who forget the millions of Americans who suffer daily. Don't forget your roots, don't forget your experiences, because you saw the other side of America--keep the window open.
Dear Tom, keep struggling to keep your brother real.
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Sycophant!!!
[Read the article: George Tenet, spook for all seasons]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]According to Wikipedia
In modern English, the term has come to mean one who seeks to please people in positions of authority or influence in order to gain power themselves, usually at the cost of pride, principles, and peer respect. However, in modern Greek, and also in modern German, the term has retained its ancient classical meaning, and is still used to describe a slanderer or a calumniator
Georgie fits both definitions. I read once of a sycophant during the Hellenistic or Byzantine time who was so vile, that he would lick the droole of the emperor to prove his obedience. I must say the current day Bushies are proving to be really good at drool slurp.