Letters to the Editor
saintzak
Published Letters: 1459 Editor's Choice: 147
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"But he is the Fuehrer Adolf Bush the second, or worst!"
[Read the article: What was the plan again?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, he's the President. the President that was elected TWICE by the American people. The American people need to look in the mirror if they want to find someone to blame for this mess. And please don't whine to me about Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004. Neither of those elections should have been anywhere near that close in the first place. Bush SHOULD have lost in a landslide in either. In 2000 how many times did we have to hear people say, "I like that he sounds stupid. It makes him a regular guy." And in 2004, when we were solidly in a crisis state due to his failed first term, people said they trusted him to keep us safe!
No he's not the Fueher. He's a monster of our own making.
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I must say it again
[Read the article: Clinton sets withdrawal deadline; Lieberman issues a warning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I posted a comment earlier about George Bush and that the responsibility for his disastrous precidency must fall on the American people for electing him TWICE. My same comment applies to Lieberman. Connecticut voters knew exactly what they were getting with him, and they threw their votes to him anyway. Shame on them.
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stevio
[Read the article: Clinton sets withdrawal deadline; Lieberman issues a warning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lamont's support among Democrats took a big drop after the primary. Republicans voting for Lieberman wasn't the reason he won. Democrats didn't support Lamont in the general election.
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Bush will "make his case" and bomb the living daylights out of Iran very soon. Bet on it.
[Read the article: Obama on Iraq: Troops home by March 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not betting on it. Any attack on Iran would cause gas prices to skyrocket to unimaginable levels. Next time you're in your car notice how many SUV (huge ones), big gas guzzling Dodge Chargers are outnumbering fuel efficient cars. Americans aren't willing to give that up. Bush is an oil man. $3 a gallon is bad enough to make people bitch. $6 or 7 a gallon, and he's got a revolution on his hands...plus an economy sent straight to hell.
Tough talk and alot of "Why I outta", but no moves on Iran. They've got Bush by the balls and he knows it.
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"with new clauses that oppose the cutting off of funds for the war"
[Read the article: The senators vs. the president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Any Democrat that votes for a resolution that castrates them in such a manner should be held accountable in the next election cycle.
This is useless, absolutely useless. Democrats, Republicans, there is no difference. They are all spineless accomplises in this disaster.
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So, honestly, shut up about how there "no difference."
[Read the article: The senators vs. the president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When the Democrats do something to get us out of this mess instead of enabling and cowering THEN you can tell me to shut up.
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Marcel
[Read the article: Pack your long knives and go!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's a contrived passive/aggressive little creep who made unappealing and pretentious dishes throughout the season. You could see the judges doing a major tapdance in the last few shows to justify his place in the finals.
I know its the producers' responsibility to put out an entertaining product, and keeping the freaks around past their shelf life is part of the business. In the end, though, it seems like the drama should take place to talent, and the finale should showcase the ones with the most real ability. This whole season of Top Chef seemed like a sideshow with too many of the freaks sticking around too long.
Sam, you got robbed, but you'll definitely have a very successful career. Ilan and Marcel welcome to the reality show trash heap.
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"Diamonds, I don't mean rhinestones..."
[Read the article: Giuliani moves closer to White House run]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder if he'll pull out his Marylin Monroe drag to make the official announcement.
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2008
[Read the article: Senate Republicans block debate on escalation resolution]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]hold them accountable
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The ad was clearly making fun of guys afraid to be seen as gay.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fine. Now please find someone else to use as the butt of your jokes...I'm sick of it.
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unbelievable
[Read the article: Another U.S. copter down; are we securing Baghad yet?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As we noted earlier today, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday that the U.S.-Iraqi military campaign to secure Baghdad was supposed to have started Monday but hasn't yet. "It's probably going to slip a few days," he said, "and it's probably going to be a rolling implementation." But in Bagdad today, U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said that "there's no start date per se" for the operation. "The plan is being fully implemented as we speak," he said, even as he cautioned that "not all aspects are in place at this point."
You know, after reading all of this I firmly believe if Monte Carlo decided to stage an invasion of the US we wouldn't beable to stop them. If the consequences were so catastrophic this would all be high comedy.
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Holy better way Batman!
[Read the article: Anti-escalation resolutions? "24" is the real problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remember when Batman brought the Penguin to the batcave and sprayed him with that truth spray? Afterwards the Penguin wasreturned to his lair unharmed and remembered nothing.
Why don't they make the troops watch Batman reruns?
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"Rome" is based on solid historical research.
[Read the article: History that hurts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Huh? The "history" is nowhere near accurate. Take out the flashes of nudity, occassional blood and four letter words and you have a Victor Mature movie.
"Rome" does not not stand in the same league with "I, Cladius" (the BBC production or the original book). I, Claudius was a true history lesson (although most modern historians dispute Livia's scheming contemporary histories leveled those charges against her). Claudius brought history to life in a fresh and original way. "Rome" is about as Hollywood cliched as you can get. I'm not impressed and I'm not suprised HBO pulled the plug on theis bloated production.
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to The Nit Picker
[Read the article: History that hurts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Read your history...for example: Attia bore absolutely no resemblence to the fiction presented in "Rome," and she would have been dead by this point in the story. There is very very little historical accuracy in the HBO series.
Graves' depiction in I, Claudius was very accurate to the ancient sources. His "fiction" was telling it in the form of Claudius' autobiography.
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But the depiction of Livia in I Claudius is as devoid of factual context as the fictional depiction of Atia.
[Read the article: History that hurts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The ancient sources leveled those charges at Livia. Modern historians dispute them. Attia as depicted in "Rome" is a total fabrication. "Rome" uses history the same way Gladiator, Ben Hur, Spartakus, etc. did. A woman I work with loves the show and believes its all fact. I gave her some histories to look through and she said they were wrong, that "Rome" was accurate.
"Rome" might be a glitzy sword and sandle soap opera, but I think its very dangerous when people start looking at it as history. Its a fiction. Robert Graves stuck very close to the history presented in the ancient sources when he wrote I, Claudius.