Letters to the Editor
jmklein
Published Letters: 36 Editor's Choice: 3
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Obama is as much White as Black
[Read the article: High standards at the Washington Post Op-Ed page]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh no, did I utter a heresy?
I dunno what all this diversity garbage is about, I think it invites more racism than it solves. But regardless what really disturbs me is the one drop rule people constantly apply to Obama, as if we just absolutely must use the Jim Crow system of racial classification when talking about Obama.
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They are liberal, they just don't have balls
[Read the article: Scott McClellan on the "liberal media"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Poll usually indicate around 90% of journalists are self identified liberals. This says nothing of their willingness to stand up to power. We have more troops in Iraq now then when the Democrats took power in 2006.
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Regulation and Subsidies Cause High Cost, Not Technology
[Read the article: Nuclear bomb]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps the hundreds of millions of dollars required to get a nuclear power permit is part of it? Perhaps the decades it takes to get approval is part of it?
It cracks me up that liberals made thousands of regulations to make nuclear power unaffordable but now are screaming the technology is to expensive!
And have you noticed anything in common about heavily subsidized commodities? They are all more expensive than natural market price:
Food
Education
Health Care
Has every increasing government subsidies inflation or deflated the price of these items?
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Ad Hominem? Anyone?
[Read the article: Big Tobacco and the war on science]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Call me old fashioned but I believe the scientific method demands we examine scientific matters as things-of-themselves instead of by the merits of the person presenting the science.
And yes, Rachel Carson is responsible for the deaths of millions of starving Africans.
DDT is effective for indoor use, as is demonstrated in numerous studies. When used indoors in combination with the elimination of wetlands it produces massive malaria suppression.
Eradicating malaria involves destroying a lot of ecosystem, after all, your trying to get rid of a while insect. Your either on the humans side, or Gaia, and I for one am on the human's side. Rachel Carson, on the other hand, had no problem dooming millions to their death to save some birds.
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DDT Was Cheap and Available
[Read the article: Big Tobacco and the war on science]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One more thing. People miss the point when they say there were alternatives. The important notion is that DDT was right there, right then, and cheap enough for mass deployment to effect eradication.
So what if a few thousand people die from DDT induced cancer?
50,000,000 people, many times more than the Holocaust, have died of Malaria since DDT was cut off by aid groups.
So what is it? A handful of speculative deaths and some dead wildlife versus FIFTY MILLION PEOPLE!
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88% Might Also Say They Want a Nice Guy
[Read the article: Your fuel efficiency is so hot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most woman you ask on the street say they want a nice, sensitive man driving a modest car. They might also say that size doesn't matter...
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What about high performance electric?
[Read the article: How high gas prices could make the world a safer place]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your proposition is based on poor performance electric vehicles, however, electric vehicles could be built for large power loads and could in the future be powerful enough to execute all manner of obnoxious maneuvers.
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Nothing like LSD
[Read the article: Confessions of a salvia eater]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you had half a clue what an acid trip was like you would never compare it so salvia.
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Inflation is more than about oil
[Read the article: Why $140-a-barrel oil is no surprise]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not only is the price of oil rising, but that of all commodities including gold and copper. Inflation is caused by expanding the volume of money, in this case the expansion was undertaken to bolster mortgage banks, to fund the war and to pay the deficit.
What you are seeing is not oil getting more expensive, per se, but rather the dollar getting cheaper and being able to buy less oil than before.
What you are seeing is the long awaiting refutation of the Keynesian garbage that got us into this mess, this being the third iteration of the stagflation cycle intrinsic in Keynesian policy (1930's, 1970's, the 00's).
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The Carter Inheritance
[Read the article: Consumer confidence: "The economy really sucks"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reagan took power 1981. What happened in 1980?
The end of the Carter stagflation and the peak of the Keynesian madness. In the midst of this, our third stagflation cycle, are we still all Keynesians now?
Just sayin...
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The Satellite Temp Readings
[Read the article: Anti-science conservatives must be stopped]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/uah_may_08.png
None of Al Gore's graphs looked anything like that.
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Iran Bad & And Their Nukes Are NOT Bad
[Read the article: Who are you calling a "coot"? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your article ignores a crucial viewpoint, that Iran is a terrible anti delluvian reactionary nation yet its nuclear program still poses no threat to the world.
For all the tying-panties-into-knots and drunken belligerance of the neocons I still have no rational explanation about what exactly is so threatening about their nuclear program.
I mean, what, are they gonnna nuke us? We'd blow them all back to Allah and they know that.
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The Majority WIll Still Want War
[Read the article: No, let sleeping "Blue Dogs" lie]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem is the blue dogs will ally with the republicans to push for the war to continue. What will Obama do with this hostile majority?
That has been the problem all along. The Democrats achieved no majority when they won in 2006 and when will not get one in 2008 so long as the blue dogs infest the party with the groveling to the neocons.
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The Same Was Said About Books
[Read the article: Are you losing your memory thanks to the Internet?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Many scholars were enraged by the rising popularity of books because they detracted from the extraordinary memory one would develope memorizing your texts.
For me its like saying that the calculator makes people worse at math. What it really does is automate a lower order task to allow the human to use more mental energy on the higher ones.
Similarly the internet automates the process of retrieving text and other media, freeing the human to use more energy analyzing it.
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Wealthy Times are Decadent Times
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Generally speaking, times of great human prosperity are known for their decadence and fun times. Dark ages are generally known for austerity and religious fanaticism.
I just don't understand the liberal fetish with us going into decline. The end of a guilded age would not leed to more morality, but less.