Letters to the Editor
skyeman
Published Letters: 85 Editor's Choice: 6
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That Does Not Happen
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"-- even though "some researchers believe that the trans fat that occurs naturally in butter, meat, milk and cheese might actually be healthy."
Transfat (short for trans-substantiated fat) does NOT occur naturally.
It is the result of an industrial process involving heating in the presence of lead (hydrogenation). This changes the molecular structure of the fat into a substance that passes into our bodies unchanged by digestion. Likes to fill up coronary arteries all taffy-like. Snack on!
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I remember a hometown reporter...
[Read the article: Fox News' John Gibson exposes Joe Wilson]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a Sacramento resident, I was used to seeing this pleasant, cheerful local reporter on Channel 3 KCRA.....who has somehow morphed into this nationwide cancer on rationality. What happens to these guys?
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Pyrian ain't right
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not talking saturated fat, I'm talking about the stuff that goes into most storebought baked goods, candy bars margarines - made from, wait for it, partially hydrogenated oils; created via a manufacturing process designed to create longer shelf life for food products. These substances do not appear in untreated food in any stretch, and are not found in nature, period. But, you know, way to use that power of positive denial, Buddy!
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Terms defined
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]To put a finer point on it - I see in a couple of source articles that the term transfat is considered to be short for trans fatty acids - which are naturally occurring as you say, in small concentrations. When I first began reading about this topic in the '70s, the term transfat, at that time, was a shortening (pardon the pun) of trans-substantiated fat, a synonym for partially hydrogenated oil. That is the substance harmful to humans, non-naturally occurring, needing to be banned from the food supply. Are you OK with that?
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I have decided, and shall now decree....
[Read the article: To the worker ants of science]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Been dipping a lot into the letters sections for reader response to articles of interest, hoping for deeper analysis and articulation.
Have found that this particular "public square" has, I think due to the safety of anonymity, become the trumpet of such provocative, hateful and abusive communication as to warrant imposition of actual rules.
Craigslist allows readers to flag/remove posts for fraudulent, illegal, abusive content - of course the yahoos can post again, but meanwhile an air of civility does persist. Unlike the current venue, ugh!
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Eye wood, but...
[Read the article: To the worker ants of science]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]..someone in this crowd would tell me to
shove my big 'I' up my little 'o'.
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Both right...
[Read the article: "Not at this time"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From: C-SPAN Congressional Glossary
Term: Pocket Veto
A Pocket Veto is when the President fails to sign a bill within the 10 days allowed by the Constitution.
Congress must be in adjournment in order for a pocket veto to take effect.
If Congress is in session and the president fails to sign the bill, it becomes law without his signature.
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There was no avoidance of consequence
[Read the article: Spin, Alberto, spin!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From Mother Jones 1998 Article:
"Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.) was indicted in 1994 on 17 felony charges, including the embezzlement of $695,000 in taxpayer and campaign funds. The longtime House Ways and Means chairman plea-bargained his way down to two counts of mail fraud and served 17 months in a Wisconsin minimum-security prison."
No interruption of legal proceedings became apparent against this presidential 'crony'. So, nah, not like that at all.
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Polly Pocket, too
[Read the article: Spin, Alberto, spin!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...so, the fact that he had to go through a plea bargain process, followed by an actual prison term somehow means to you that justice was not served. Take your strawman home and serve him tea with your Barbies, pal.
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Knock down continues...
[Read the article: Spin, Alberto, spin!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since you can't let go of this rag, for emphasis HE WAS INDICTED, entered a plea and served time. Not a peep from Congress? They were not the triers of fact, and were probably not inclined to stir the water against a fellow party member while his case was undecided. Sort of like the Republican mainstream not piling on DeLay since his indictment in Texas.
Perhaps what you have a problem with here, and I won't type slower - yah just gonna have ta catch up - is your apparent insistence on having some verifiable basis of wrongdoing upon which any inquiry must proceed. Though you may have the attention span and intellectual capability of a gnat, you may recall the activities of one Kenneth Starr. He found no basis to proceed from the original scope of his inquiry, and thus grabbed at any scrap of innuendo to conflate into charges that might stick. He finally got traction on the basis of a lie told to spare sexual embarrassment. A single lie was all it took to try the sitting President in Congress.
To the present, Congressional oversight of governmental operations is a responsibility long deferred. It appears that the AG may be an habitual liar; even in this limited context he has characterized his participation in three separate versions. Not all three can be true, ergo, he too has lied on record. The Congress must fulfill its responsibility and examine the facts. Certainly this will entail some grandstanding and public humiliation of the respondent, probably with some sense of payback. No one in this arena can be counted on for motivational purity. But what stirs this first and last is the definite desire to uncover the deeds the lies are intended to cover. The inquiry is going forward, I am fine with it, so I guess it is you who needs to get over it.
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A Little Respect, Please
[Read the article: Gonzales gets more time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can we please not refer to the AG as "Speedy"? It is a denigration to the legacy of the time-honored and plucky Warner Bros. character.