Letters to the Editor
Lynx
Published Letters: 1595 Editor's Choice: 126
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Xanthro
[Read the article: Repeal the Second Amendment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your argument might carry some water if militias weren't an archaic, outdated, unused concept. There are no more militias, no-one that is called to defense of the country is expected to bring their own gun. Though the way the Bush Administration has been "supporting" the troops, they probably will soon. They already have to provide their own body/humvee armor.
Lets just look at the second and third words: well regulated. The NRA and others seem to think any regulation is anathema to the second amendment. Even if you conceed that it is intended to confer the right to bear arms on individuals (which I do not), regulation is definately a key. Why not allow individuals to own guns, but require they be registered and that all owners must buy insurance, take classes, etc... In fact, why not have all guns kept in central repositories. If people want to sign their guns out, they can. No problem. After all, this is so they can form a militia when needed, right?
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Hell's Liberal
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why else is it that all the most violent cities are located in states with the strictest gun laws? I've lived and traveled all over the country.
Actually, there was a study done recently that showed that the more guns there are in a state, the more violent crime existed in the state.
I've heard more gunfire in New York, Boston and Oakland, Ca. than I ever did in living in Florida
Remember Sesame Street? One of these things doesn't belong? You're comparing 3 cities with a state. Where'd you live in Florida, a swamp? Heck, since you just heard it, I'm betting 1/2 of it was backfire from cars.
Also, you're not providing any context. I've heard MUCH more gunfire in rural PA than I ever heard in NYC, Washington, Boston, Chicago and Columbus combined. I've spent lots of time in all those cities too. I think I've heard shots once or twice in the cities and been to shooting ranges and near hunting grounds in PA.
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RealName
[Read the article: "Dearly beloved Bushes"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Me? Multiple citizenship and watch the fleet burn from afar when the time comes.
Right, so you're a self-described coward that runs when the going gets tough. Good to know.
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Bad memory
[Read the article: Giuliani pulls a Cheney]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Democrat in the White House actively persued terrorists and binLaden. The Republican threw away the preperations and warnings 'cause it was far more important to go after pornographers and to use the justice department against Democrats. The Republican president allowed 9/11 to happen through negligence and ignorance. The Democratic president is the one that kept the terrorists at bay, the Republican is the one that created a new haven for terrorists in Iraq. The Republicans in congress are the ones that kept the Democrat in the White House from persuing terrorists more actively. Giuliani is running on a campaign of 4 more years of disaster? Just what we need.
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Outsourcing
[Read the article: "The myth of high-tech outsourcing"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My brother-in-law is outsourcing his programming to the Phillipines, since the bill for his new system would be $1mil here in the states and he's getting it for $350K. ($500K was the estimate from Russian programmers.)
Good luck on him getting what he actually wants from either the Phillipines or Russia. Between time differences and language/cultural barriers, he'll be lucky to get a system that is 50% of what he actually wants within a year of the deadline. And support, modifications or trouleshooting? Good luck! By the time all is said and done, he'll likely have spent far more than if he'd hired some good programmers in the USA.
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tiberius
[Read the article: "The president heard the call"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you'd bother to look, you'd see plenty of plans for the future. Dems and liberals fight about the past because that's when your ilk (conservatives) committed the crimes. I'd think that as a member of a group that considered itself about "law and order" (at least until you realized you were committing the bulk of the crimes) that you'd be in favor of "fighting the past." That's where the evidence is.
Of course, that's why you don't want to talk about it now, you're all guilty as can be.
Remember tiberius: Conservative = return to past (one largely imaginary anyway)(also see "regressive"), Liberal = look to future (also see "progressive")
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Hysterical Eagle
[Read the article: Last refuge of the scoundrel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First, find an "Islamofascist". Then maybe we can ask him. "Islamofascist" is a silly term made up by wingnuts like Limbaugh. It doesn't actually define anything and is used for nothing more than railing against people and groups wingnuts don't like.
As an answer to what you meant to ask, no they are not at "war" with anyone. I don't think you understand what war actually is. The individuals and even groups that commit terrorist acts are criminals and should be treated as such. We've plunged Iraq into a civil war and while they are attacking us there, if we left they'd get on with the business of attacking each other and not concern themselves with us very much after that, except that whatever state(s) finally arose from the mess would hate America much the way Saddam did. Our staying isn't going to change that outcome.
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Wow
[Read the article: Yeah, but did Hitler invent the Internet?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I knew Glenn Beck was an unmitigated asshole and a moron who belonged on Fox. I had no idea he was also insane! How is CNN letting him get away with this?
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Not just pain from the needle
[Read the article: Will Schwarzenegger's new death chamber actually help inmates?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Two articles from Scientific American's web site about the problems with Lethal Injection
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=20704AC3-E7F2-99DF-3C1F0FEFB917B387&sc=I100322
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=executed-in-us-may-be-awa
Some prisoners are alive and in pain, but immobilized as they suffocate, fully aware of what is happening. Some also feel like they're being burned alive while it happens.
To the person who said Why is it so difficult to euthanize a human being when we do it successfully with animals every day?
This is adressed in these articles. Part of the problem is that they don't adjust the chemical doses based on the weight/metabolism/age, etc... of the condemned. It is one dose fits all and that doesn't work properly.