Letters to the Editor
heyjude
Published Letters: 397 Editor's Choice: 42
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Beyond contempt
[Read the article: Blackwater? Hey, look, it's MoveOn!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These people are beyond contempt. How stupid do they think we are? Pay attention to the agenda, Republicans, and participate in the hearing you are attending. MoveOn's ad is old news. Blackwater is today's subject. The two have nothing whatsoever to do with each other, nothing, nothing, nothing, and I can't imagine there are very many Americans, in either party, who can intellectually conflate a private Mercenary army with our troops who are paid much less to do much more under much less favorable circumstances, and who are accountable for what they do, not above and beyond the law.
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You got it wrong
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, sir. There's a party in Congress that likes to think that the average American can make a decent living and that the average American's tax money will not be wasted on war profiteers and political hacks.
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just keep shopping
[Read the article: Larry King interviews Jenna Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is exactly what's going wrong in our country.
People who SHOULD care, the generation who will ultimately pay for this war and car for the wounded and live with the aftermath, is just, well, you know, preoccupied with other things and can't be bothered to be informed. Besides, it's complicated. Like it hurts your brain to have to figure it out. It's better to just leave it to the experts.
It's like some movie playing far away, and, you know, it's hard to get to see everything and, besides, you know, violence is just kind of, you know, yucky and not too pleasant to think about.
So, let's just keep shopping.
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No child left behind ...
[Read the article: What would Jesus veto?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No child left behind, unless leaving that child behind gives me a chance to stick it to the Democrats. Heh-heh-heh.
The hypocrisy of this group is amazing. They want to end abortion and prohibit stem cell research, but as soon as those babies turn 18 and are eligible to register for the military, they're happy to send them off to be maimed and die in a bogus war.
They want to help the poor, so they give tax cuts to the rich and then shut "not quite poor enough" children out of health care and doom their families to desperate financial struggle.
"Well," Bush says, "no one is really prohibited from health care because they can always go to an emergency room." That's the point, Mr. President, by the time it's an EMERGENCY, the person is really sick and is going to cost the system a lot of money. If we took care of them routinely, they wouldn't HAVE to go to the emergency room for anything but an actual emergency, such as an accident. People are lined up now in emergency rooms with chronic coughs and stomach pains and rashes and all kinds of things that could be treated effectively and efficiently by a family clinic at much less cost, and often prevented by routine health care.
Oh, the stupidity!
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know-nothingness
[Read the article: Fred Thompson: Rush is right]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fred Thompson doesn't seem to know anything about the issues, so I guess this was just a great opportunity to show of expertise in something. Why not be an expert in hypocrisy? It's such a widespread phenomenon.
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Need more proof?
[Read the article: Number of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What more proof do the sheep who are calling themselves the Democratic majority representing change in the Congress and Senate need that the people they claim to represent are REALLY SERIOUS about REALLY CHANGING the direction this country is going in Iraq?
Hello, out there? Is anybody who has actually been elected to office actually alive?
Ron Paul has a lot of weirdly unsupportable ideas, but he has been very clear about the war. And people like that.
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Impeach
[Read the article: The other torture memo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What high crimes and misdemeanors would it take to impeach these people? What do they have to do to get Congress to notice that they are working AGAINST everything this proud nation once stood FOR?
Do you think it would help if a group of interns committed the ultimate sacrifice for their country and gave Cheney a blow job?
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Fred Zen
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Uh, Fred -
That's the sound of one hand clapping.
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Dittoheads
[Read the article: Don't accuse them of being "fair and balanced"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I KNEW there was a reason they're called "Dittoheads."
God forbid they might ever have their tiny brains exposed to an alternate point of view. But, they're in the same group that keeps protesters far, far away from Republican rallies and labels anyone with a mind of his/her own a terrorist.
I guess we all forgot the Star-Bellied Sneetches lesson we learned at the feet of Dr. Seuss.
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But will Fox run it?
[Read the article: Killing him with kindness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe Fox news won't run that ad for fear of upsetting the viewers who prefer the Fox perspective on things and tune in only for that...
You can see where this all leads: People hearing exactly what they want to hear, and nothing that would upset their safe little world view, on either side. And then a country eternally split 50-50 between competing extreme ideologies.
And Civil Discourse taught as a quaint device of "early Democracy" in carefully screened History classes, which meet right after the Science classes read the Bible to learn about the geophysics of Earth and the development of species. And the word "debate" in its original meaning removed from the dictionary as "not politically correct" and possibly upsetting to the public.
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Common sense
[Read the article: Judge to Craig: You're stuck with your plea]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank goodness there are still judges left with the common sense to know that a person who says he has sufficient intelligence to be a U.S. Senator OUGHT to have sufficient intelligence to decide if he wants to enter a guilty plea to something or not.
There are no do-overs in these situations. I had second thoughts about paying a speeding ticket one time when I found out it was going to affect my insurance rates -- maybe I could have taken the time to go fight it and hope the trooper didn't show up or something. But I didn't. And I knew better than to go to court and whine about it and try to take it all back.
I would expect those in Congress to have at least as much ability to know what they're doing as the average citizen. But maybe I'm just a dreamer ...
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Video gone
[Read the article: The expression "stuck pig" comes to mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The video has disappeared. Did you scare them into taking it down?