Letters to the Editor
Lynx
Published Letters: 1595 Editor's Choice: 126
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How do you know when a Republican is lying
[Read the article: How will you remember Tom DeLay?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"As far as we can tell at the moment, DeLay appears to be yet another victim of the Democrats' politics of personal destruction -- the only politics they know."
I've often said, want to know what a republican is doing wrong? Look at what they're accusing others of. They don't have much of an imagination, so they just take what they're doing an scream that other people are doing it in the hopes that it'll distract people. This even extends to things they aren't doing wrong, but that would alienate their narrow-minded constituancy, like the Washington repub that was having a homosexual relationship while campaigning on demonizing gays.
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Approval rating
[Read the article: Hammer blows]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They aren't referencing Bush's approval rating, they're talking about people satisfied with the direction of the country. Clinton's popularity was higher. It was that low in 94 because Republicans had finally gotten a large enough audience for their lie machine in the media and had been hammering on how horrible healthcare for all would be. That and letting gay people defend the nation.
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Smoking Gun
[Read the article: Will Ralph Reed crap out?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"We want to bring out the wackos to vote against something," Abramoff's partner Michael Scanlon explained in a proposal to one Indian tribe. "The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the Internet and telephone trees."
This should be the democrats center piece in elections from now on. Conclusive evidence that Republicans don't actually share the "values" of the Right Wing Christian voters and see them as idiots to be duped and used.
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Bond is Bland
[Read the article: Scotland the Grave]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't be so upset, Connery went on to make that classic movie Zardoz!
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Let me know
[Read the article: Daddy dilemma]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you decide you want kids and she still doesn't. I'd be more than happy to see if she and I are compatiblein other ways too. You're happy now, yes? You want kids, maybe 'cause you think you might regret not having them, maybe?
Worst
Reason
Ever
The last thing the world needs is more people. Hell, having kids when you're this ambivalent might split the two of you up. Why ruin a good thing over nonsense like your maybe maybe maybe?
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Do some research
[Read the article: Libby says Bush and Cheney authorized leaks of classified information]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Before stating that he cam probably out whomever he wants, do some research on it. From what I understand, the authority to declassify material depends on who classified it in the firstplace. The president may have the authority to declassify anything, but maybe not and perhaps not unilaterally. Also, if he didn't declassify it, just leaked it, then that is indeed a felony and in endangering America's security, tantamount to treason.
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To Peggy Sanger
[Read the article: Daddy dilemma]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While we may need more people like them, we don't need them to be breeding. Let them adopt in your scenario of being able to afford children. We don't need them in the "hellholes" of the third world including Texas. The planet has over 6 billion people now. 6,000,000,000+ We don't need more just because someone is affluent.
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Why a divided Iraq would be bad
[Read the article: The truth dawns on Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Rifkin asked what's wrong with letting Iraq split up.
In the north, there'd be a form of Kurdistan which is opposed by Turkey to the point that they might invade to prevent it.
In the South a Shiite nation could be nothing more than an extension of Iran, which would exacerbate tensions with other nations in the region.
In the center, there'd be an impoverished Sunni nation (most of the Oil is in the north and south) that could end up as a Syrian puppet.
In addition, there are Kurdish factions that would likely fight one another in any Kurdistan, Shiite factions that would likely fight one another in the south and Sunni factions that'd fight one another in the center. That's in addition to the fighting over where the borders between the potential states would be and any of this fighting or creation of states could draw neighbors into the war as well.
In spite of all this, it could still end up being better than the alternatives.
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Ok, you're angry, we get it
[Read the article: The truth dawns on Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Pengryffyn
Now that you've cursed whomever you were speaking to and hopefully gained some catharsis, what do you suggest be done? Your post made clear that you're upset about some part of the whole mess, many of us are. What aspect specifically? The US pulling out? What do you suggest would be better? You state that we ignore the rest of the world, what would you have us ask the rest of the world to do that they'd consider doing?
Ideas, not more incoherant rage are what are needed now.
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Less Talk, More Action
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do it next year, King. You're a writer that I read and enjoy regardless of my interest in the sport you're talking about. Pro baseball? Don't care. Olympic curling? Really don't care. Boxing? Almost no-one does. I read your articles on these all the same. Pro football? I love that, but you don't write about it much. Even so I wait for your article every day. If anyone can write interestingly about the events you mentioned today, you're it. So don't keep saying "maybe next year" and wake up at 65 wondering why you never did it. Next year should be the year! Heck, this year if any of those events are still to be played.
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Feelings yes, incoherant rage, no
[Read the article: The truth dawns on Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ms. Schwarz
While emotion can be helpful I don't believe lashing out aimlessly serves any purpose. If emotions back up viable plans, all the better. The dead will get nothing out of either ideas or emotion, but perhaps ideas or ideas backed by emotion can prevent their ranks from swelling.