Letters to the Editor
A Billion Angry Bees
Published Letters: 476 Editor's Choice: 13
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Tertium Quid
[Read the article: The iPod economy's sad song]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am sorry I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.
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Xrandadu Hutman
[Read the article: Women and Clinton: Damned if they vote, damned if they don't?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As if there were a magic ingredient. There is not. In fact and in this day and age, anyone in the wider group of potential candidates is equally suited to be President. The first Republican, the first paraplegic, the first Catholic, the first divorcee, the first ....... The President is a set of interlocking job responsibilities, not a person, prophet or king (or queen). There are no particularly rare and quintessential qualities. So perhaps President Hillary won't be one of the 5 best Presidents ever. Or even one of the better female Presidents. So what, it's a start. Black men had a 52 year head start, theoretically, in being able to vote, compared to women. I say it's time to switch gears and focus on giving due, where it is due.
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Sometimes you just have to vote in favor of your own interests even if you think it's stupid
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey there's lots about the Dems I think is inane and yet I will in fact vote for a dead horseshoe crab before I vote Republican. Sometimes you just have to do that. This is what I don't understand about the issues swirling about Hillary. Why WOULDN'T you (women) vote for her? Long run there's got to be more upside to you if you do and voting against your OWN interests now isn't going to buy you any brownie points in Liberal Heaven either.
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Xrandadu Hutman
[Read the article: The cold price of hot blood]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have you been to prison?
Then why do you pay for it?
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I think the key points are
[Read the article: Do not go gentle into that Eileen Fisher]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lose the weight
Dress like you don't own 4 cats
Make a damn effort
Nothing ages a woman (or man) more than apathy & crazy
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We would paste up pictures of dead kids
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But the cops already hand them out to the press like trophies.
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Will he dye his hair when he gets that MNF gig
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that's the only relevant question.
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I must be hard to discover
[Read the article: Obama insists losses change nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that contrary to the obsequious screaming of the hypnotized mob, you are indeed mortal. Say what you will about Hillary, she handles disappointment, frustration and defeat.
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Mexican wages have dropped 6-11% since NAFTA
[Read the article: Exit polling suggests Texan voters are anti-trade]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know the misfortunes of NON Americans is something the Salonocrats can get riled up over. Screw the US, there's brown people far away to save.
Actually someone should look in L1B (not H1B) visas since that's when foreign companies, e.g. Indian firms bring their own workers HERE to work radically below market rates to do the jobs that were reverse offshored by an American firm. It's not bad enough that American jobs go overseas, but to have the actual chair now occupied by a foreign national at 1/5th the wage they paid the American worker because of an odd wrinkle in the law, well it's just obscene.
BTW more than 80% of all Federal agencies offshore at least PART of their call center operations to India. Ain't that a kick in the head.
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Obamanauts
[Read the article: "Yes, she will"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now's your chance to hint at some dark conspiracy.
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I tend to discount the Salon opinion of it all
[Read the article: No Texas-size victory for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Engaged zealots are still zealots. Mod-er-ates are expressing Mod-er-a-tion, that is, centrism. It's a political stance not an ideological one. That distinction if often lost on zealots.
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Is there less violence in places where violence is common or is there more?
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think there's a tipping point that comes by pretty quick. Unless you're talking about advertising violence to the people who don't know of it or are touched by it already.
Back in the old country we got pretty used to seeing dead people everywhere. Soon enough you don't care, it's just part of the scenery. Though I will give you the initial shock value quotient.
But the more basic problem is that we're talking about people and this is America. People are more likely to demand retribution or action if someone abuses a golden retriever than if someone burns their own kid with a crackpipe.
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A good rule of thumb is
[Read the article: It ain't over yet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the general sense at Salondotcom is "A", go with "B". Let to their own devices we're all living in a parallel dimension where the president is actually a clone hybrid of Ned Lamont and Ron Paul, cars run on bongwater and dogs can vote.
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This is the kind of stuff that conspiracy theorist malcontents love
[Read the article: The "Rezko" game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look, every elected or potentially elected official from School Board Member to President is going to have to deflect smears. Get over yourselves and stop thinking of Obama as the Lamb of God, already. Suck it up, loons.
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Quoting anonymous bloggers now are we?
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know who should drop out? Joan Walsh and Alex Koppleman.
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Obamanomics
[Read the article: Obama insists losses change nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Losing is winning, less is more, 2 + 2 = Green
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And what was the response to that?
[Read the article: Steamship globalization and Ohio's manufacturing jobs]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Localized industrialization. Steel mills, car factories, hyrdroelectric damns. It's an old story that when things become commodities, which is really what you're addressing, the fact that transport costs can turn special goods into commodities and thereby cause the producer to lose all price control, that the most effective response is to develop industries where shipping has no advantage or is not possible. Like the development of Irish shipyards, British steel, machining and tools, steam engines and such.
Now take a top down look, what happened? Urbanization, and rural flight. The transformation of a rural agricultural population to an urban industrialized one.
PS: only half the orange juice product in the US comes from Brazil and Israel. The other half, in the form of whole fruit, is domestic. Why? Domestic oranges are prettier so they're sold as whole fruit.
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So waddabout McCain, Chris?
[Read the article: "Pennsylvania prefers a beefier sort than either of these people"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]3rd generation Annapolis, short, wiry, prickly, flies off the handle, lives in Phoenix for god's sake. His great great grandfather was a Mississippi plantation slaveowner who died as a CSA officer in the Civil War. John McCain even claims royal decent from Robert Bruce.
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Sylvain
[Read the article: Steamship globalization and Ohio's manufacturing jobs]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Except that Mexican wages are fixed by the government and have actually fallen 6-11% under NAFTA. In other words they don't float and are artificially pushed down. This is why American companies stay clear of trying dictate labor terms to these companies, because they'd have to intervene with the Mexican government and no one wants to do that.
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If anyone wants a Clinton victory its Chris Matthews
[Read the article: "Pennsylvania prefers a beefier sort than either of these people"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because unless his brain or prostate explodes on air, his pathological hatred of all things Clinton is sure to guarantee him millions and millions of dollars. And if Obama wins, Chris will suddenly become another 'Independent' cough cough, handjobbing Republican shill.
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I will be chuckling at the next famine
[Read the article: Give us your poor, your tired, your genetic modification experiments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because that's all natural.
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First off no one gives a shit about the process or its fairness
[Read the article: Should Florida and Michigan vote again? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All they care about is whether it will benefit their candidate or not. So let's drop the ethereal rationale of justice bullshit, shall we?