Letters to the Editor
Lynx
Published Letters: 1595 Editor's Choice: 126
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Ironclad like tissue paper
[Read the article: Rounded up]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You need to learn better reading skills Ironclad. They weren't seeking asylum because of the plane crash, they were seeking asylum because he'd been falsely accused of attempting to assasinate the Vice President of the country.
How did they set up the business? They'd applied for asylum and were making a living while waiting for the decision to be made. Why weren't they expelled when "caught"? 'cause they're seeking asylum and waiting for the decision to be made. You'd probably be the first one screaming if they were living on the government's dime in the meantime.
What should the response have been? The government should have poured resources into investiation and police systems and into making our intelligence gathering systems better. Maybe into actually paying attention to what the systems were saying instead of making things up to justify invading Iraq. Warrentless wire taps, rounding up certain ethnic groups, these are all tactics of people that don't know what the hell they're doing, but feel the pressure to do something so they do what their right-wing, xenophobic impulses tell them.
You've lived an ex-patriate lifestyle? I'm gussing the host country got sick of you and sent you back here.
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Mr. Baker
[Read the article: Democrats: Sí se puede]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Democratic party is not seeking the votes of those here illegally. Those here illegally have no votes. They're showing their understanding that this is a nation made of immigrants and that these people become part of communities and help build the USA. They are doing their best to ensure these people become citizens, get better wages, are working in safe environments and continue to contribute to society. Over time, if reforms are put in place without criminalizing immigrants, wages will rise and the problem of illegals will fall.
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Incoherant or just impotent
[Read the article: The truth dawns on Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Pengryffyn
Perhaps you're right and incoherant isn't the word any longer. Impotent may be the better term. You've given up and all you have left is your angry little "go to hell" at the end of your whinging. I called it incoherant because you didn't seem like you had any solutions and now I know why. You have fun preparing for the "apocalypse" that won't come. I'm sure your energies are better spent digging your hole than on working with your neighbors to fix the problems. You're full of "should've" and that's the easiest game to play. I'll continue working on "should do" and likely sleep better at night regardless of whatever effect I may have. At least I didn't give up.
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Ah, Texas
[Read the article: Democrats: Sí se puede]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So Mary, you're saying that once again Texas is the problem? Wow, what won't that state do to screw everything up? Bush, DeLay and now this.
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Just Science Fiction, thanks
[Read the article: Plague wars and border wars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Political" Science Fiction and "Social" Science Fiction have been around for decades. No need to balkanize an already marginalized genre.
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The angry one
[Read the article: The truth dawns on Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Apparently I didn't have to post at all, he beat himself down.
I love that you posted in your first of three replies that you're not giving up and in the last "I quit" Comedy gold right there.
I do have plans, in case your're still reading, just because I don't post them all in response to your lashing out doesn't mean they aren't there.
Have fun in your little survivalist cave. I'll think of you and your ilk from time to time from the comforts of civilisation for the rest of my life. I wonder how the survivalists of the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s are doing out in their little caves. They were all so certain the world would end withing a few years of their holing up. Someone should go see if their tinned meat has run out...
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Ty
[Read the article: Who should be guardian? Family or friends?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks! I was worried that for a moment we'd get through an entire set of letters on a Cary column without anyone posting "Hey, look at me! I'm clever enough to see this letter is fake" as seems to be all the rage these days. At least, that's the only reason I can fathom for people constantly posting that the letters are fake. That or they're trying to smear Salon in some weird way. You wacky kids and your "fake letter" spotting. I never could keep up with the cool trends.
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Set that record!
[Read the article: My husband says he's "allergic" to me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know what the record is for consecutive columns of commenters claiming a letter is fake is, but keep it up people, you're on the way! I believe the record will be broken tomorrow. Yes, yes, you're all so clever to have spotted that the letters are fake. We admire your keen intellect and blah, blah, blah. Give it a rest after you've broken the record though, will you ?
You're becoming tiresome. Perhaps you should write Cary a collective letter.
Dear Cary,
No One recognizes how clever and perceptive I am. I can tell instantly that a letter asking advice is false. I also recently diagnosed that a woman wasn't in a persistant vegitative state just from a video tape. I can clearly see the good things happening in Iraq despite the damn liberal media like Fox News refusing to report these things. What can I do?
Sincerely
BetterThanYou
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Complete Game
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd have to say that pitchers not pitching complete games probably extends their careers and lets them stay better longer. My grandfather was set to go to the pros back in the 1930s as a lefty pitcher, but threw out his arm pitching a doubleheader high school game.
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Game Show
[Read the article: "American Dreamz"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why does it seem so impossible a president would guest on a game show? Clinton played sax on Arsineo Hall.
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Writer in LA
[Read the article: Before the flood]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love that someone who lives near a giant faultline is saying that these people don't have enough sense to move. Irony isn't dead yet!
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Narcissist?
[Read the article: Caitlin Flanagan: Lobotomy's best spokeswoman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Icorman said: She seems to conflate her own experiences with universal ones, a classic narcissist move, no?
It isn't just a narcissist move, it is what defines a modern Republican or conservative.
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Outrage
[Read the article: Fox cries "Whore!"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is there a woman commenting on Fox? Is she there to find a husband? If she has one, why isn't she at home taking care of the children. This woman is obviously either a golddigger or a whore.
Tha same goes for Flanagan.