Letters to the Editor
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Gas tax holiday be damned
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's big, brass ... fortitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know why European nations by large margins reduce carbon emissions compared to the US? Because a gallon of gas costs $8 or more.
We don't need a break from spending less than any industrial nation on petroleum products, we need to use less petroleum.
Gas tax holiday is a stupid idea, and Clinton running to the right is not earning her any points in my book.
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@aka
[Read the article: Wright's theology not "new or radical"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the link is missing..
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@aka
[Read the article: Wright's theology not "new or radical"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the link.
I feel sorry for Chelsea (and I think insinuating that she was being "pimped out" by her parents in this campaign was a terrible choice of words, even if that is effectively what is happening, IMO), but she is an adult -- as far as I can tell, an exceptionally intelligent and talented adult (Clinton 2028!).
As for Sugarman, well, if he's the only thing you're worried about, then I wouldn't lose sleep. Even when David and I are on the same side of an argument, I would hardly say this his views represent mine nor for that matter a majority of salon.com subscribers (Hi David!).
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@david
[Read the article: Wright's theology not "new or radical"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good night to you David, look forward to scrapping (or ${DIETY} forbid, agreeing) with you in the near future.
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Jingoe Bells
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's big, brass ... fortitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Really?
We've skewed so far right as a nation that even entertaining the idea of, you know, sitting down with Hamas or, Gods forbid, an actual legitimate state like Iran to -- wait for it -- hash out our differences is seen as a flaw?..
Last I checked, a great many of my friends of all stripes were weary of any further military adventures in the Middle-East or Central-Asia.
So we throw Iran or Palestine or Syria a friggen bone? Anyone heard of catching more flies with honey? And what's the risk? Treat adversaries like humans and the next thing you know American children will be forced to attend madrasas? Maybe if we aren't seen as the all-powerful bully of the Middle East by those who, you know, actually have to live there, maybe this crazy idea of "spreading democracy" will have a better chance of gaining a real foothold.
Besides, the last real hostile thing Iran ever did to us was to say no to our illegally backed, illegally placed puppet ruler, the Shah. Maybe there are some legitimate gripes Iran and others in the region have a right to air.
Thanks for listening, I'm going to jump back into my bin Laden loving, America hating, kill-all-the-white-folks cave of dissent.
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Lip Service is all I ever get from you
[Read the article: Wright's theology not "new or radical"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Liberation theology? That's like jumbo shrimp, and I'm allergic to oxymorons.
Jeremiah Wright is a movement leader. People follow him because he tells them what they want to hear. Know your audience. Lead a group of African Americans for 40 years and you will have to let slip a dig on whitey now and again. Do it too often, and you lose credibility. In the final analysis, I don't know how divisive Wright is.. 50% of the time? 10? 70? 5? 1? Last weekend was as close to a fist-raised "KILL WHITEY" cartoon as a public figure could get, but is it representative? I doubt someone with Obama's skills would let anyone he suspected of being a ticking political time bomb any where near what, like him or not, everyone must agree is a serious bid for president.
Now, I don't know what kind of fucking moron you have to be to feel okay about sitting on your fat asses and criticizing a community leader about telling the victims of a centuries long race war that the perpetrators of said race war are sometimes not nice people. Let's make fun of the funny nigger who thinks the CIA gave the black man AIDS! Go fuck yourself, Fox/CNN/Joan/whoever, in the famous words of Dick Cheney. I don't know who or what created AIDS, neither does Wright, neither does Bill O'Reilly. I wouldn't put it past some government malfeasance, but I have no evidence that it was anything more than dumb luck. The siphallis thing happened. We did that, to our own people.
Every day, "The Wire" happens, in DC, in Cleveland, in Baltimore, in Hunter's Point, Western Addition, Harlem, Newark, Youngstown, Chi-town. Every day, a child left behind. An army of sociopathic corner kids with guns and cash and no future. What's stopping every corner yo and White Nigger from coming into the suburbs and taking whatever they want? Maybe the only thing standing in the way is people like Reverend Wright. That's the failure of our cake and eat it too society. I'm talking to you, in the button down, in the McMansion. See what your lifestyle has wrought? "I got mine, fuck you." There's a riot coming.
"Yeah, yer mobile phone got no soul, yer rolling stone got no soul. Yer music scene got no soul, yer answering machine got no soul. Yer microdrive, yer toilet slave, you corporate swine, yer bullshit line. Hey, you on the payroll! Hey you on the J train! Hey you on the TV news! Hey you in the 3-piece suit!"
Obama sees the good, I can see the ugly. I do. When we elect John McCain, this country's fate will be sealed. And Wright will have been right all along.
This rant has been brought to you by: hangover.
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Question..
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do they still hang people at the Hague? In public, preferably.
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Hellbent for leather
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Careful with your S&M toys, someone could get hurt.
Well put, Paul Dirks.
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Balls
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's big, brass ... fortitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only balls Hillary has are George Walker Bush's, which she earned when she and the rest of the coward traitors in Congress in the Democratic Party collectively tea-bagged our President after 9/11.
How's that for sexist, Joan? Don't worry, I mean Reid and the rest of those wussy scumbags too. Its not about where Hillary's sex organs are, its about where George Bush's are (Chris Matthews can tell you, he keeps tabs).
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@prof
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's big, brass ... fortitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Word of advice, arguing about race issues with Mr Sugarman, while temporarily entertaining, can become exhaustingly circular and frustrating in the long term. Caveat emptor.