Letters to the Editor
Portlander
Published Letters: 309 Editor's Choice: 13
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Weird
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where is Al Kaline? he was a better fielder than Griffey ever dreamed of being.
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Civil Liability
[Read the article: Mike McConnell's clear explanation of FISA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Presidential pardons do not provide immunity against civil liability.
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Don't remember who asked
[Read the article: "Nazis" and "Hitler" -- the Right's casual, trivializing political insults]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But an excellent example of a progressive Jewish group in the U.S. that opposed the Iraq war (and opposes Israeli settlements for that matter) would be Tikkhun. A former leader of Tikkhun would be Michael Lerner.
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Lynx
[Read the article: Vengeance is Brandon Mayfield's]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, Ron Paul is a libertarian whack job. He opposes Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, minimum wage laws, ANY environmental protection, the FDA, agricultural inspections, chilc labot laws and on and on and on. He is the absolute worst possible choice for anything. Under Ron Paul, everyone would be totally free to be raped by corporate predators.
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mattwa...
[Read the article: We must ban secretive U.S. torture]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Geneva Conventions were established as treaties and ratified by the Senate. That makes the Geneva Conventions the law of the U.S. Right there in the Constitution.
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Ron Paul?
[Read the article: Giuliani: Obey the Constitution. Huckabee: Ignore Congress]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please, Ron Paul Is not qualified to be dogcatcher in a village of 2 people. He is a libertarian whack job who opposes Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, minimum wage laws, unemployment insurance, ANY environmental protection, food inspections, anything useful. Paul's vision is a social Darwinist nightmare where everyone is totally free to be raped by corporate predators.
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ElKabong61
[Read the article: Rudy Giuliani's ties to Fox News]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anti-war is good, but everything else about Ron Paul is awful. He is a libertarian whack job who opposes Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, ALL environmental protection, food inspections, and on and on and on. I don't want anything to do with a small-government Rethug. I want single payer national health care financing among other things. Ron Paul is the ultimate anti-progessive. You are on the wrong site to push for Ron Paul's social Darwinist nightmare.
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What?
[Read the article: Facebook drops "is" status updates, poetry dies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why must I pay for this pathetic drivel.
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Sous Vide
[Read the article: The turkey whisperer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Means under vacuum. Enclose the turkey in an airtight plastic bag and cook it in water that's hot but less than boiling - e.g. 160 degrees until it's at the right temperature. I've never done it but that's what it is.
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Anon
[Read the article: The emperor's new peace plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nothing like fabricating history to promote your agenda. The first act in the 1967 war was Israeli air stirkes on the Egyptian airforce on June 5. After that attack, Jordan, which had a mutual defense treaty with Egypt, came into play. Israel struck first - your political agenda and your use of pathetic revisionist sources like Michael Oren do not change the facts.
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Silenced
[Read the article: The case against homeownership]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, it is not. Stalin may have also used the expression, but it comes from Czarist Russia in the 1850s.
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Wow
[Read the article: Mitt Romney's ominous verb]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This 'verb' should provide excellent fodder for Democratic campaigns, but I'll bet not one is willing to use it. They are all too busy trying to pander to religious voters, and they know that 2/3 of secular votes are already in their pocket. So, they will let our 'freedom' hang in the wind, just like always. Plus ca change...
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Thanks
[Read the article: Remembering Bob Watts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you for this. My wife died of cancer on December 22, and I hope her friends and family remember her as well as people remember Bob.
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Most good, some not
[Read the article: Is there a doctor in the mouse?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Physicians, like any other large group of people, are not monolithic. My wife died on December 22 after a 2 1/2 year battle with ovarian cancer. During that period, we dealt with many physicians of various flavors. 80% or so were just what we wanted them to be - smart, dedicated, focused, etc. - but around 20% were just arrogant pukes. Most of these arrogant ones were perfectly good physicians, but they either would not or could not communicate effectively with my wife or me.
With lots of internet research and incredible dedication from our primary care physician, we sorted out the losers, made sure we had all information necessary to make decisions, forced all the doctors involved to work as a team, and, in the end, my wife lived a pretty good life for more than twice the time originally expected.
Without the internet, it would not have been possible to obtain the information necessary to manage the process.
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Something different
[Read the article: Bank of Countrywide America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is about BAC being able to circumvent the 10% deposit limit and move into markets that it otherwise cannot enter, at least on a retail basis. This is a major step in fulfilling A.P. Giannini's dream of a nationwide Bank of America. BAC will now have the ability to conduct retail banking in all 50 states. That's what this is about.
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Interesting
[Read the article: The Toyota Prius outraces the Ford Explorer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I own a 2008 Mercury Mariner which is a somewhat fancier version of the small version of a Ford Explorer. Why did I buy an SUV? Well, because I have 4 Siberian Huskies - no Prius' need apply - and, at the time, my wife had major issues from ovarian cancer that made the Mariner just right for her. BUT, and this is the key stuff, it's a hybrid that gets 28 mpg city, AND I only drive 5500 miles per year. You can keep your Prius, I'll keep my Ford SUV. Unfortunately, my wife died Dec 22, and it's now just me and the Huskies.
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Somewhere else
[Read the article: Holy Constitution!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I own a nice, little cottage in SW France. Before she died a few weeks ago, my wife and I vacationed there 2-3 times per year. I never expected it to become my permanent residence, but I am going to hang on to it just in case.
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Abbybwood
[Read the article: Holy Constitution!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for your comments. I needed that. LOL. Give me a year and then come back at me. I am 60, my cottage is in Pau, about 60 miles from the Spanish border. It is small, about 700 square feet, but it has a nice garden, a view of the mountains and has all the charm possible in a building built in 1648. It was my wife's and my wedding present to each other. Instead of buying a trophy house here in Portland, we bought a modest 100 year old bungalow and then bought the cottage in France. Oh yeah, I have 4 Siberian Huskies and 3 cats. Let's try again in a year. Again, thanks for that.