Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 410 Editor's Choice: 9
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revisionist history yet again
[Read the article: Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"On a related note, Iran's willingness to support islamo-fascism;
Iran supplying the Taliban"
Uh, I don't know whether the folks who take this position ar just too young, or whether their memories are spotty, or whether they just never knew Middle East modern history that wasn't fed them by the media, but
1) The US (under the Great Liberator Reagan) was the major supplier of arms to the Afghan Islamic fundamentalists and their ally bin Laden when they were terroristing the Russians. Apparently, terrorism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice.
2) The US not only propped up the shah long after it was apparent that the Iranians wanted him out, within the memory of very many Iranians now in powerful position; but followed that up by (under the Great Liberator Reagan) providing military and financial support to Saddam Hussein in the war between Iran and Iran.
From this, we are apparently to conclude that somehow Sunni Islamic fundamentalists, secular quasi-socialist tyrants, and Shiite Islamic fundamentalists were and are all in on it together; and furthermore, the Iranian government has a totally groundless fear and hatred of the US for no reason, just because they're crazy, and besides, they have a history of unjustified attacks against innocent us when we didn't do anything.
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too distracted.
[Read the article: Apathy rules?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, marching morons aside, it's been a truism in the not quite hard sciences for a while that slow-acting human genetic evolution has been shunted aside for the last few thousand years by the fast pace of cultural evolution. So, it's not necessary to breed idiots, when you can simply create them with schools and the consumer culture mass media.
Not like this hasn't happened in one way or another to every country which became a 'superpower' in the history of the world.
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oldest trick in the book
[Read the article: Apathy rules?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The first is the destruction of any spirit of community in the workplace. We have been brainwashed into believing that if we view everyone at work as a competitor, we will get ahead. "
"Because the finance man's gonna be at your house on Saturday, right? That's exactly what the company wants - to keep you on their line. They'll do anything to keep you on their line. They pit the lifers against the new boys, the old against the young, the black against the white - ANYTHING to keep us in our place."
-"Blue Collar"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077248/
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leave us not forget
[Read the article: Is Star Simpson's "fake bomb" just an art jacket?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]of course, the case of Jonathan Burton, who became unruly and was beaten to death "as an act of self-defense by frightened passengers" with their bare hands on a Southwest Air flight, August 11, 2000, over a year BEFORE 9/11.
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use teenage rebellion to your advantage,
[Read the article: Should I tell my kids about all the drugs I used to do?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Friends of mine take the kids camping every year and share a ceremonial joint (with each other, not wih the kids). The net effect on the kids is to convince them that marijuana is something lame old fogies do.
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dream debate
[Read the article: Ahmadinejad, big man on campus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Man, wouldn't you like to see Ahmadinejad and Bush debate? Could make it a Pay per view event.
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is this a surprise?
[Read the article: The war president "at peace" with himself]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is there anything we now know about Bush that was not apparent when he first became a candidate in 2000? How do you reach the almost half of the voters who thought he'd be OK?
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dead end
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It won't last... as somebody somewhere pointed out not so long ago, there are reasonable work arounds for when the oil crash comes for most things; you car may be electric and feeble, but it will still be a car. Your house may heat itself with wood chips but you will still have heat. Your electricity may be solar, but there will still be electricity.
But there's no substitute for petroleum for aircraft power.
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rightwing jews
[Read the article: Follow-up to the silence from the ADL regarding Fox News and right-wing talk radio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's ironic that Jewish-Americans, still one of the most consistently left of center, liberal, progressive segments of the US population (and so often vilified for it by the fringe right) should come to be personified in the public eye by rightwingers, from the "neocons" to the ADL, AIPAC, et al. When people think of gay people's politics, the Log Cabin Americans isn't the position which immediately comes to mind.
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look out! the pendulum is swinging
[Read the article: Israel's rising right wing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's swinging to the right, because the past administration's dovish stance didn't make progress towards peace. And they got elected when the previous administration's hawkish stance didn't make progress towards peace. At least the voters are 1) looking for peace and 2) willing to get rid of any administration/approach which isn't working.
I'm more concerned about the US' swing to the right which has been ongoing for quite a while now, and is no longer hampered by either of the above two restraints.
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Hard premise to swallow
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Pushing Daisies" has a giant, "Moonlighting"-style self-destruct device at the center of its plot."
Yeah, it strains credibility a bit to believe that her attraction to her childhood sweetie is so great that she would not get as far away from him on the globe as possible, given that she knows he has the touch of death for her. other than that, his ability to bring people back from the dead seems reasonable.
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teenage rebellion
[Read the article: Sex, drugs and my 15-year-old]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the surest way to keep your kid off weed is for him/her to see his/her parent smoking it.
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Say what?
[Read the article: Israel's rising right wing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Israel's a theocracy? A place where you can eat bacon on Yom Kippur, even if you're Jewish? Precisely which laws restrict which religions, if you wouldn't mind being specific?
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Next year, on 24
[Read the article: An open letter to Karen Hughes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Jack! Terrorists have locked their plans for attack inside a safe, and this baby has swallowed the key!"
"Damn those liberals and their laws against cutting open a baby to retrieve a key it swallowed! How can we fight terrorism when our hands are tied like that!"
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shocked, i tell you
[Read the article: Is Bill O'Reilly sorry now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bushite rightwingnut going after an 11 year old kidnapping victim? I'm amazed. Next you'll tell me they would go after a 12 year old girl who was injured in a car accident and needed public help to pay for her medical care.