Letters to the Editor
HighPlainsJoker
Published Letters: 28
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Dirk N.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]King:
Pretend that I wrote this yesterday. Dirk is a great go-to guy, just watch how he handles himself in game seven tonight. He is the kind of guy who can go for the basket, down three, make the basket and draw the foul, to send them into overtime. Then put it away with time to spare.
Give hime the chance any time. He should have done better in game six, but with any game on the line, and I'm the Dallas coach, I draw up a play for Dirk. Big enough to take to the paint or talented enough to pop the three pointer.
...JS
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Free and Democratic society???
[Read the article: Stopping the surge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No Name Given is still drinking the neocon koolaid. Please describe for our readers how you see any real possibility that this Muslim country can develop into a democratic society. In the face of reality, what society in the mid-east do you offer as an example? Lets use Lebanon (it might have been with US support prior to the war)? Palestine? Turkey?
After US intervention, Iran's pressure, Saudi counter-pressure, you think there is a realistic democratic solution? I suggest that the Salon staff has dismissed that notion for what it is: impossible, and gone on from there....JSwedlund
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Funding
[Read the article: The U.S. attorneys scandal gets dirty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The lack of funding for staffing and other work by US Attorney's Offices is due to routing money to the war. This is another important failure of this administration to do its job. How is letting criminals prosper protecting our nation????? Its time for Bush to "support the troops" at home.
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Impeachment
[Read the article: Why Bush hasn't been impeached]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I cast a vote for impeachment, herewith. Our Congress needs to do its job. Stop funds for the war; revoke the Military Commisions Act; enforce warranted FISA surveillance. Congress needs to do its job by first putting aside the excessive amount of political reasoning behind its lack of decisive action. Then do the job the Founders intended that Congress do.....highplainsjoker
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Find an authority
[Read the article: The Salon Interview: Elizabeth Edwards]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reference WRONG, by one of the Anonymous contributors:
I would like to advise her/him that the bible is just someones opinion, and its at least 2000 years out of date. And there is no god, so get off that santimonous crap. You cannot prove anything by quoting the bible; its not an authority for a growing number of thoughtful people....
And the gay issue: so what. Its 2% of the US populaation. What's your problem? Go help some poor people in your neighborhood. Thats about 30% of the population. Get a grip.
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Back on track
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]timbuktom:
Thanks for getting this whole thing back to baseball(sports) on page 4. Enough of the braggard feeling himself up. Sheffield has never been a hero of mine, but true fan that I am, I now love him with the Tigers, my lifelong AL team. Ya gotta have one in each league, and the Cards are my NL. Last world series was nirvana. No lose situation.
One of the reasons I subscribe to Salon is that KK provides commentary outside the normal rather blah and bland overly serious normal stuff. This is not a site for just regular tripe. If I don't always agree with his take on this or that subject, I at least am made to think about race, or drugs, or odd statistics, or whatever. And my prediction: Thrasher won't be offering up and fill in commentary while KK' and family head west on the Oregan Trail (Santa Fe trail would have put him in LA, and not where I think his spirit lies).
highplainsjoker
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Give credit
[Read the article: Rudy and Romney: Artful dodgers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To C.Mosby:
You jerk. McGovern flew combat missions in WWII, and put his ass on the line more than George W. Custer ever dreamed. Or actually, he did dream it. McGovern contributed to accomplishing the greatest mission of the last century. Maybe you did not know that because George did not flaunt a banner in his campaign. Stephan Ambrose wrote about it in "The Wild Blue". Yeah, I'm from SD.
But you are right, Americans don't want reality, they want a "guy". Something about your whole idea reeks of perversity, as truthful as it is. Only in America.
highplainsjoker
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Character counts
[Read the article: Rudy and Romney: Artful dodgers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]C.Mosby:
I meant to say "loveable jerk" in my last post.
eccelias(sic) and Steve in Buffalo hit it right. I served with infantry divisions in my 21 years with the US Army, and the best leaders I had were mustangs who served as enlisted and then officers, rising to general officer is more than one case. I once served with a Colonel who was promoted into all nine enlisted ranks before becoming an officer. I never found one of these men who did not have a profound sincerity toward the ordinary soldier, and also a full understanding of international relations (most of these men I met while serving in Germany and VietNam, so experience contributed to this). I might add that we will soon have women with this experience.
We are not likely to have one of this type run for president any time soon, at least until some private serving in Iraq reaches the age of 45. We must take the candidates for the kind of person they are, and how they conduct themselves in the run-up to the election. We will not have a soldier running for president this time around. We must chose based on intelligence and character. Positions taken now mean little in 2009 and after. Whether the "guy" type will always win or not, we surely need to start sorting out the Guiliani's and Romney's who are bluster and "guys", and the poll watchers like Hillary. I can wait for another year before really forming an opinion, but I am still including Richardson, Obama, Ron Paul, and John Edwards in the shortlist of those who have not yet totally blown the character thing. Gotta leave, off to France for two weeks.....highplainsjoker