Letters to the Editor
debaser
Published Letters: 656 Editor's Choice: 11
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well no wonder!
[Read the article: Who would Antonin Scalia torture?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"On returning, I found my stockbroker business had decayed dramatically, wasn't up to re-building"
Well no wonder it decayed, you mean to tell me you left your clients high and dry for a few years while you went to relive the glories of youth? Or did you sell your book to another broker? If so, I guess your "stockbroker business" (a turn of phrase no self-respecting broker would ever use btw) really would decay dramatically, what with you having no more clients left. Because surely you aren't trying to tell me you ran a small brokerage firm - because if you were a broker you'd know that those don't exist, they require MASSIVE amounts of capital, not to mention the licensing with the SEC and the numerous other regulatory bodies. Or are you implying that you were a day trader? Making trades on your own through sites like Ameritrade? That can hardly be called a "stockbroker business", more like a hobby, a potentially lucrative one, but a hobby nonetheless. Or maybe you meant that you were an Institutional Trader, but then no Head Trader I've ever met would leave a seat warm for someone to take a two or three year sabbatical, that would be suicide. No broker I know (and yes, I know many - what with working at the largest independent brokerage firm in Canada) would ever up and leave his clients in a pique of patriotic duty, and if he did he'd CERTAINLY sell his book, because there is simply NO WAY a client would be there for you to represent when you returned.
Methinks we've caught our friend in yet another lie...
see, you should heed the words of one Mr. Morrissey:
"there's alweays someone, somewhere
with a big nose, who knows
and who trips you up and laughs
when you fall"
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hmm
[Read the article: Boobs to cure cancer?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I dunno, I haven't gone to the site (i'm still at work, and they're still breasts after all...I don't know if I really feel like getting into a discussion about the deeper implications of the site should a superior walk by ;). But it seems to me that a large part of the appeal is simple playfulness.
Which is, you know, okay.
So many illness awareness campaigns are so damn serious all the time. Don't get me wrong, cancer is obviously serious, but who's to say you can't raise awareness about self-exams AND have a laugh at the same time?
A few years back a friend's band was part of a benefit concert for breast cancer awareness called..."Rockers for Knockers", which just killed me (and proved to be a very successful night if I recall.)
anyways...
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a modest proposal
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wouldn't it be great if the NFL instituted a new rule that in the fourth quarter the clock stops after every run?
think about it, no more interminable "running down the clock" where one first down can kill 5 minutes?
Not that the NFL doesn't often have exciting finishes...but wouldn't it be great if damn near EVERY game went down to the wire?
just thinkin'....
p.s. GB scored TDs on what, six straight possessions? That's gotta be some kind of record for the postseason, doesn't it? History buffs, am I incorrect?
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nope
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you're wrong on this one WES. She isn't innocent, she used a shockingly poor choice of words, and should be punished for that. Someone who makes a living by speaking should know better.
I mean think if she had said a Jewish athlete should be sent to Auschwitz? Or that a Native one should be scalped? (Actually, sadly enough, I could totally imagine someone saying that - then telling the world to "get over it"...sigh). I'll never understand why people can't or refuse to display a little cultural sensitivity...it's really, REALLY not that hard folks, just think for a *tick* before you open your big dumb mouth.
but why isn't this a big story? Prolly because it's golf, and prolly because Tiger is kind of a prick (although I still love watching the prick play - only six more til he beats that even bigger prick Nicklaus' records!)
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WES
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that's Immaterial.
Only a nerd would ask that ;)
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Breaking News
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Selig gets a three year extension.
sigh...
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kind of missing the point
[Read the article: Spanking isn't harassment when everyone's included!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Am I the only person that is shocked that she sued for ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
Really? Suing for ONE MILLION DOLLARS?? For some asinine game at a stupid work picnic? Does this not seem frivolous beyond belief?
I never have, and never will, understand The United States of America.
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A sincere question
[Read the article: The knives come out in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Could someone please explain to me the gist of the three candidate's healthcare platform? This Canadian is having trouble following.
From what I could glean last night is Clinton and Edwards are in favour of mandating that everyone be covered (which appears to me like they are simply legislating that everyone be covered - expenses be damned and garnishing wages if necessary.) Obama is in favour of lowering the costs of healthcare, and subsidizing where necessary so people can afford coverage.
None of them are advocating state run healthcare (like we have here) and none of them are proposing to abolish the stanglehold that the insurance companies hold over everyone.
is that it in a nutshell?