Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 469 Editor's Choice: 8
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@ondolette
[Read the article: Signs of life from House Democratic leaders]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Side note to Adams: Thank you, I guess, but could you please find a new heroine of the week? I'm not that good at cross-dressing. Ondelette is French for 'wavelet' - 'little wave'.
Heh. I had also long thought you to be female as "French for 'wavelet'" is also a somewhat uncommon female's name. However, in one of your posts today I caught your use of a self-referential in the form of "he" and knew then that you were not the intelligent bombshell of my fantasies, but more likely just another ugly, hairy, sweaty, smelly guy.
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@prunes
[Read the article: Signs of life from House Democratic leaders]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To further skew the data, I share the cards with as many people as possible. :-)
This last bit is the key. Simply signing up for one with nonsense information doesn't help if you are then using it to purchase items with a credit card or debit card. That particular CVS card would then be associated with a particular credit card (and thus the person that holds it) or limited set of cards (yours and a spouse/regular partner). Spreading it wide helps but the CVS card still is tied to certain credit cards on certain days for certain purchases.
In theory.
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@Paul Dirks
[Read the article: Signs of life from House Democratic leaders]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You heard it here first.
That's an ugly and disastrous thought. Nice going. The ONLY thing left, at that point, WOULD be impeachment but impeachment is, and ever shall be, off the table so long as the Dems are in control. It simply becomes a common parliamentary trick whenever the GOP is in control and the Prez is a non-GOPer.
One would hope that there would be SOME act by Bush that was enough for even Pelosi to lift impeachment back to the center of the table where it belongs.
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Spitzer...bah!
[Read the article: Signs of life from House Democratic leaders]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GG has another thread up about Spitzer.
Bah! I say. I am just not interested in the whole googaw. Just another politician caught with his pants down. At least in this case, it not being a GOPer, it wasn't in a filthy public bathroom stall or with an underaged partner.
The only value to come from the Spitzer googaw is that it brought to light the all-seeing eye of Big Brother on the banking system. Here I was operating under the illusion that so long as I didn't move around $10,000 or more over a short period of time I was under the radar. Now I know better. There IS no "under the radar" with banking any longer.
I'm seriously trying to think of a way to anonymize my bank transactions to a great degree (Cayman Island account and trusted middlemen) just to spit in Big Brother's eye in another way...but it would be so much damn trouble.
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@GG
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, I have no sympathy for Spitzer personally given how aggressively he prosecuted multiple prostitution cases and how guilty he is of rank hypocrisy and overzealous prosecutions.
I was all set to make a set of points, the most important of which being the one above, when GG went ahead and made them.
No, prostitution should not be illegal, but rather, well regulated. Drugs should largely be decriminalized except for the most dangerous and damaging (meth, for instance) but the "punishment" shouldn't be a long prison term unless violence was involved, but treatment.
Spitzer gets no sympathy for going down (so to speak) on this exactly for the reason I quoted Glenn on above. I hate self-righteous hypocrisy even more than plain, run-of-the-mill hypocrisy and Spitzer is guilty guilty guilty in spades. What a shithead moron he is.
The warrant crap needs to be investigated. This is also a case of Nixonian/Cheneyite/Rovian dirty trick nonsense, top-to-bottom. Just another example of the politicization of the "Justice" Department. As a matter of fact, this episode should be rolled into the forthcoming hearings on the AG firing nonsense. It's all of a piece.
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Stunning
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Awright, hands UP! (If you clicked through...
...on Glenn's link to the pic of the alleged escort.
I did.
And, naturally, so did I. Even with the blurry bits she is clearly stunning...but no one is stunning enough to pay $4000-$5000 a pop for a little "zug-zug".
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@Thereishope
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Hell you say!
We - all of us humans - have a strong personal interest in denying, to ourselves, the fact that we are going to die.
I assure you that I have no intention of dying and if you say that again I'll deck you. Pussy death lover!
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What weed?
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]> Under which clause of the Constitution is it a federal crime if a certain weed happens to be growing on my property? Can you answer it without looking it up?
Are you referring to Salvia divinorum? A traditional herb of Mexico shamans with a mild, no-apparent-side-effects, hallucinagenic quality? Totally legal in most states but I many would take issue with calling it a "weed".
Or are you referring to the very benign Cannabis (which grew like a friggin' weed all over one of my uncle's farm, and all of it natural, non-cultured, and on its own? THAT is the one to which you refer, I'll bet.
Can be used to make textiles too.
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Does this apply
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To the subset of high-priced (generally) call girls (they tend to be several classes above street hooker) that entirely voluntarily do it to pay their way very comfortably through college, for instance?
"WHISPER, a Minneapolis-based organization of women who have both survived and who are coming out of prostitution, and who are committed to ending prostitution as a form of violence against women, found it difficult to identify job skills gained in prostitution which would advance anyone’s career (Gamache, 1991, p.4).
Not all of those that are in the broad class of prostitute are coerced or without control. The street-level set are very likely so, but the "high class" set...not so much.