Letters to the Editor
Lynx
Published Letters: 1773 Editor's Choice: 127
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Heffalump (Elephantman)
[Read the article: Don't accuse them of being "fair and balanced"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The BACKBONE? Federal and state funds account for something like 10% of NPR funding. That's a backbone? Well, you are a conservative and that's 10% more of a backbone than most conservatives have.
Clear Channel probably gets more than that in tax breaks and other federal subsidies anyway.
And how are you considering public universities to be part of it? Because some college stations carry NPR?
I don't think NPR is the Left Wing boogey-man you think it is. They regularly trot out right wing idiots (many likely your idols) to spew their bile unchallenged. Hell, they still use that famed traitor Grover Norquist as a source on stories. Like he's some kind of rational expert on taxation instead of a loon who wants to overthrow the government.
I know, I know, your masters have told you NPR and the NY Times are Left Wing and must be railed against, you can't help that as you don't actually think for yourself. But give this a shot: listen to them, read them and realize just how far right both have been pulled by your lords and masters.
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Ignorance is Bliss
[Read the article: My Christian daughter says I'm going to hell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have no idea what the difference is between physical reality and fevered dreams, do you Cary? Equating the make-believe nonsense of church with the physical event of a football game makes even less sense than when your advice is no more than one of your stream-of-consciousness poems.
Go to a football game and you see a football game.
Go to your local god-center and you will not see god.
Not unless you're hopped up on your goofballs or whatever it is the kids are calling it these days.
If you want to tell the guy to go to church 'cause you think everyone should, then tell him that. Don't use some idiotic tortured analogy to pretend to yourself that there's some rational reason for doing so though. You just want everyone to be like you, just like every other religious idiot.
If you became religious as one of those 12 step programs to help you kick drugs then it seems clear that drugs continue hurting you long after you stop using them. They've killed your brain one way or another.
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Casual Bigotry and Intolerance
[Read the article: My Christian daughter says I'm going to hell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cary Tennis:
And apologies to atheists who feel they didn't get a fair shake. Atheists never get a fair shake. So what's new?
Make that
And apologies to Jews who feel they didn't get a fair shake. Jews never get a fair shake. So what's new?
How does it sound now?
And that nonsense about how I think atheists ought to have more clearly marked buildings with scheduled meetings and tax-exempt status.
You're clearly missing the point. Atheism is not just another religion. We don't all gather together and agree on what we don't believe in. We don't all desperately need to belong or have someone tell us what to not believe in.
If you want to jokingly call football that, have fun.
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bcvsmith
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How about letting us smoke again?
No thanks. Why should I suffer because you have an addiction? You're welcome to your personal addicition, despite it causing cancer both from first and second-hand smoke, but don't impose it on the rest of us. Here's an idea for you, if you're going to be making long flights like this, kick the habit. You'll feel better after the flight, won't be causing scenes in airports as you won't be acting like a spoiled 5 year old and you'll save money!
Tell you what, you can smoke near me when I can spritz you with skunk. I don't mind that smell much and it is far less toxic than the crap you want to spew. What do you say, deal?
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Taliesan
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When smoking was banned on planes the air quality on those planes went down
And how are you jumping to that conclusion?
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zzz05
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You make poor assumptions. Solar airplanes will likely be feasable in the future, electric cars need not be "feeble", heating the home with "wood chips" is just silly and who cares if the electricity in your house is solar?
Next time, save time and just post "DOOOOM!!" You'll still be wrong, but you'll have the advantage of being succinct.
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Why no trains?
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Several people have mentioned how we had a great train system once, but don't now and don't understand why. The why is because the car companies, oil companies and airlines persuaded congress that rail shouldn't be given subsidies, despite all three of them getting enormous subsidies. Listen to Republicans railing against rail and that's what it usually boils down to. Want a better rail system? Vote Progressive and then lobby your congresspeople. High speed rail needs subsidies and advocates, loud advocates. Show them the latest technology, convince them of the benefits and vote them into office and it'll happen.
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haggismold
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK, now figure the cost from scratch of building a highway along that same route. Or building an airport in Chicago and one in Minneapolis. Those are already government projects and the highway has the added burden of police, cleaning crews, accidents, traffic, etc...
I think you'll find $4 billion isn't that much at all. And it is currently being used to fund what, 1 week of the war?
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Tariffs
[Read the article: GE to Ohio: Turn off your light-bulb factories]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So why isn't there a high tariff on Chinese-made CFLs in this country? It'd either keep production here or, more likely, raise large sums of $ for US coffers?
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Existentialist?
[Read the article: "No Country for Old Men"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Existentialist to the max, he tosses a coin to determine whether or not he'll spare the life of the owner of a small convenience store.
Existentialist? No, that's comic book. Two-Face, a Batman villain, has been doing this for 50 years.
And if you ever find a suitcase full of cash, the very first thing you do, always, is move the cash to a different container and ditch the suitcase where it'll never be retreived. Burn it if possible. Someone would only carry it around with them when that's what the original owner can recognize if a bad plot device were needed.