Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 617 Editor's Choice: 9
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Hmm maybe it's 85% don't know
[Read the article: Dollars from deadbeats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What I know is that hospitals would rather keep an active account on their books than have to write it all off. what few people seem to explore is any sort of payment plan. I would guess that if you sent them something even a token amount every month that medical providers wouldn't come after you.
In the US 80-90% of your total consumption of health care dollars occurs in the last year of life.
The most expensive group from total dollars expended point of view is women of child bearing age.
We spend 10x more per capita on seniors than children.
The most expensive cases are not cancer or AIDS, they are MS. Premature births are right in the top 3-5 ranked as well. A 2lb birthweigh baby will consume about 3-4 million dollars of health care in the first year of life.
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Call the British Army please
[Read the article: Obama and the general]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They managed to occupy Iraq for 37 years. That sounds about right to me. So unless you're willing to spend another 33 years there I suggest you plan to bolt.
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the real lesson of 911
[Read the article: The real lessons of 9/11]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is that if you elect assholes and hope for the best you're discounting the effect of external events completely beyond anyone's control and once that happens you are deep in the shit. Next time America vote like your fucking lives depended on it.
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As if
[Read the article: Bush gets no surge from Petraeus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is no plan. There never has been. The administration even thinks of themselves as crisis managers more than 'planners'. There is no policy. It's just Brownian movement and always has been. Breathe that in instead of bong juice and conspiracy theories.
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In other words the 6 month surge
[Read the article: A double hedge on reducing troop levels]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Goes for 18 months.
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25 is the new 12
[Read the article: Hit her, baby, one more time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes we shouldn't scratch our heads and wonder if a 25 year old mother of two can or should be vaguely responsible for their own life or the lives of her dependents. Why would we do that?
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I'm sorry but this is new how again?
[Read the article: Women are the new men on TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everybody Loves Raymond? When he's a doormat. Bumbling stupid clueless husband/father guy? Wow never saw that before. I think Rebecca needs to pull herself away from watching 'serious' HBO 'drama' 60/60/24/7/365 exclusively 100% of the time.
For those of us who have been paying attention, there haven't been any positive male roles on TV for years and years. Even the 'heroes' are emotional basket cases that need their more evolved women leaders to gently yet firmly guide them with a scolding cluck through life.
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they should frisk and humiliate the staff
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the same way they frisk and humiliate the paying customers.
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The plural of fear is not data
[Read the article: Transgenic public relations: Why is it so hard? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Other than skepticism and fear what actual data do the nay sayers point to? And given that, what actual reassurance would they accept?
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Reset does not equal homeless and default
[Read the article: Season of the ARM reset]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wish these gloomy headlines would quantify what they're talking about. They want to portray a view that every single ARM is going to reset and throw widows, orphans and golden lab puppies out in the street. Because unless it does the mere fact that variable rate mortgages are in fact, variable doesn't tell me anything about the necessity of government intervention and public policy. Are we at that point yet? Are we seriously proposing that we should eliminate the existence of ARMs?
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Those seven died
[Read the article: The war claims the lives of two critics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When their truck suffered a tire blow out. The reason for all the casualties is their truck, a 5 ton unit, fell 30 feet over the side of a raised highway when the tire blew out. There was no shooting no IED. This was reported by the local news in the town where Ft. Bragg is located.
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Who will the fat kids blame when they are fat adults?
[Read the article: Plus size, minus a few years]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I mean that's what this is about isn't it? We 'force kids to swim through a sea of hotpockets...?' Maybe we should just have classes in passive aggressive behavior and blame shifting. That way, if it's not your fault it's not your problem and no one need worry about a cure. Somehow I think that self esteem issues should probably take a back seat to health issues. If it's that 'big' a problem then maybe we should reconsider the Hawtness of being obese perhaps it's time to say no this is not acceptable.
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I think the NFL just likes being hysterical about something
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If it's not sharpies in the socks or Chad's trenchcoat it's something else. They run the league like they're the parent coaches in a Pop Warner league. Not because it's good but because they can. What good is power if you can't abuse it.
But - just like Boxing is getting pimp slapped by MMA/UFC nowadays, the NFL should be very careful of soccermommying their sport lest they find themselves crowded out by AFL or something else. At the end of the day people pay to be entertained not scolded, micromanaged, insulted or nagged.
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I doubt OPEC sees an advantage
[Read the article: The oil price paradox]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In driving us into recession.
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I think we can agree that
[Read the article: Plus size, minus a few years]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With that old Arabic saying; "Women want roasted ice".
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I'd love to see her ex in 5 years
[Read the article: Hit her, baby, one more time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As the conservator of those kids estates, which is what all of this is about. In 5 years you can bet baby needs a new Ferrari and nightly lapdances to say nothing of a 'record company business' that only hires K-Feds homies.
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We should change the name of UC Davis
[Read the article: Selective defenders of free expression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To al Quds al Aqsa. And I see nothing at all wrong with that. Isn't the elevation of every single PoV no matter how angry violent or extreme a foundational principle of post modernism liberalism? Seems that freedom of speech in no way promises freedom from being offended even to the point of being shouted down or even threatened. That's what the OTHER street corner soapbox is for.
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Of course the white chubby born again soccer moms
[Read the article: Selective defenders of free expression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have an exceedingly low probability of committing arson in the name of peaceful tolerance too. I think anyone who says that violence or threats of violence or the perception of threats of violence hasn't created an undue level of self censorship when it comes to our friends the Mullahs, Ayatollahs and Imams is just whistling past the graveyard. Oh sure we have our Sinead O'Connor and all those condemnations and such that's in another league from Danish and Dutch Muslim groups calling for mass lynchings and and the wholesale extermination of people who disagree with them, backed up by a torch wielding riot.
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But in Americans worship dogs above people
[Read the article: Women are the new men on TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So maybe women are the new dogs. Just sayin.
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We're always changing the benchmark
[Read the article: Plus size, minus a few years]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As people get fatter we tend to redefine the limit by which we call people fat. Soon 5'3" 215 lbs will labeled normal and anything over that will be 'unhealthful'.