Letters to the Editor
saintzak
Published Letters: 1459 Editor's Choice: 147
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"Society will be judged by how we treat our animals" --Gandhi
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Michael Vick wasn't smart enough to say, "I wish I could do this"
This has nothing to do with being or not being smart. This has everything to do with being evil. Animal cruelty is especially hideous because they are completely dependant on us for their survival...their day to day survival. The despicable treatment of animals in the Michael vick case shows a complete disregard for life. There is no emotional termoil or unrest , or desperate personal situation that results in violent and cruel behavior here. Just a complete, evil disrespect of life
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I'm sorry, but their offenses are greater than killing dogs.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Michael Vick will be called upon to pay for the crimes HE commited. Its rediculous to get into a pissing match over whether this crime is worse than that crime. Vick's crimes were cruel, brutal and inhuman. He needs to be held responsible and pay for those action in their own right.
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Pets = Family = Animal
[Read the article: Pit bulls are innocent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't own a dog. I have a macaw and I'll sit outside with him throughout the summer so he can get some sun and fresh air, also its good for him to be around a variety of people. Alot of people passing by will see this huge bird and stop to ask questions or get a close look at him or take his picture with their cell phone. The vast majority of people are delighted to get a close look and are curious and interested about him. There have been some (not alot, but enough for me to find it odd) who will stop and say, "Does he bite? Is he vicious, I mean can you get him to attack someone?" So here's this great big outregeously beautiful, sweet macaw and some people only want to know if I can make him attack someone. I'll never understand why some people are so fasinated with owning a vicious animal.
Macaws are well known for being good natured, but if improperly socialized or neglected or abused they can become very mean and very dangerous. I would say if someone has a vicious macaw blame the owner. I don't know if pit bulls are more easily moved towards agression than most other breeds of dogs, but I would guess a pit bull that is a true menace is the result of the owner's actions.
I'm one of those people who consider pets to be family, but they still are animals with their natural instincts and behaviors. Its a pet owner's responsibility to learn and understand those behaviors and to create an environment that is safe and enriching for everyone.
I think its sad and inexcusable that there are people who aquire pets and encourage their most agressive behaviors so they can own a vicious animal. Unfortunately, pit bulls have become the "poster child" for this crowd. I would guess many breeders do not properly socialize the dogs they sell or properly screen the people who buy them.
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I always enjoy...
[Read the article: USA! USA! USA!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...when Laura Bush crawls out of her opium den to drop a pearl of wisdom.
A couple of years ago I was watching some horrible Michael Jackson special. He was being besieged by fans in Germany where ever he went. I noticed something funny about the 'crowds": it was the same people. He wasn't being besieged by adoring fans, he was being accompanied by paid extras. Maybe he was fooling himself, who knows.
Bush's advance team accomplishes pretty much the same thing. They can surround him by carefully selected and coached audiences, but the truth lies outside the doors...and he's hated. Maybe like Mr. Jackson, he has been able to delude himself, but that doesn't change the reality. Bush's personal appearance tactics have been know for some time now. If he is fooling anyone, it really is just himself.
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$ If the Democrats passively allow this attack on Iran to happen $
[Read the article: Carl Levin reveals the Democrats' Iraq "strategy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Politicians (Democrat or Republican) drink from the same filthy tough. There is too much money being made by the guilded few for any politician to dare step up to stop any of this disaster in Iraq (or further disaster in Iran).
By the time the primaries actually roll around the Democratic candidates will be fighting with each other over who can best "stay the course."
As long as Iraq/Iran remains an open cash faucet we'll be there.
"America" ceased being about the people a long time ago. "America" = Big Corporations.
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tempered with the knowledge that he must answer to God for his actions and decisions
[Read the article: Spare the rod, spoil the wife]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And when he gets to heaven I hope he finds that god is a big muscle leather daddy who rams his fist up to his divine elbow up the good husband's ass.
Utimately, I hold these screwy women completely responsible for their tortured, sad, pathetic, abused little lives.
Christianity has a strange way of being the pathway to the most outlandishly degrading and inhuman actions.
I've said it before, and I'll say it a gain, somewhere right now Jesus is shaking his head saying, "Elvis, what did we ever do to deserve this?!"
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I won't say it's the wives' fault, as the poster above did, because DUDE. It's the husband wielding the paddle and doing the damage.
[Read the article: Spare the rod, spoil the wife]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]go through the wbsite and read their blogs. they're every bit as screwed up and creepy as their husbands. they've placed themselves willfully in the situation. I don't pity them at all.
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Mr. Pillhouse
[Read the article: Spare the rod, spoil the wife]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm very open minded about sex, and I'm not shocked by much. I knew a couple who liked to crap on each other, and I thought, "if it makes you happy..."
The difference here is that thisw goes beyond the sexual and becomes abusive in everyday life. Getting beaten with a heavy belt because you scorched a pan is alot different than liking S&M sex. These women's live are being constricted.
Because these women are actively promoting and encouraging this treatment of women through websites. etc. makes me say they are every bit as bad as their abusive husbands.
Drink piss, get fisted, tit-clamps, ball stretchers, go for it. But a life style that stunt's and cripples and relegate's a person to a sub-level is wrong.