Letters to the Editor
ELYDOG
Published Letters: 498 Editor's Choice: 43
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Even Steven
[Read the article: Keeping men out of the kitchen?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We all shared cooking in the kitchen this Thanksgiving. I, a man, made three dishes, and the women made two. We bought one and we all cleaned up. Although it might help because I am throughly bored with football. Watching sports is the curse of the male sex.
Funny, most of the women I know don't like to cook, or don't mind who's in the kitchen with them. Who the hell ARE these women you write about?
However, what I've noticed is that while heterosexual women don't mind men who cook, clean, wash, take care of children, garden etc., when they are asked to lift or work physically hard, read maps, handle a screwdriver, steer a boat, figure out software, get dirty, etc. they blanch. Gender sterotypes seem to only go one way with many - you get rid of yours, I'll keep mine.
I don't really think women are as 'liberated' as they think.
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Google got it right
[Read the article: Google's "strange" quest for cheap renewable power]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Juliebird is right. The WSJ does not want venture capital going into power conservation or alternative energy in any way, shape of form. They are coal/oil/nuclear boys.
Mother Jones or the Nation had a story yesterday about how venture capital first started leaning towards alternative energy, and has now jumped into security in a bigger way - you know, cops, dogs, high tech IDs, etc. Where the real money is. WSJ is pushing that too. Blackwater II is the best investment for the future...get your gated world ready.
Bush/WSJ think the 'market' will solve the environment? May these people rot in hell, or better yet, lose money.
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Laid?
[Read the article: Keeping men out of the kitchen?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It may help. I learned to cook because I was a single father and have children. Grow up.
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Not about Paul
[Read the article: Ron Paul is a baby elephant]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the interesting thing is not the specific full ideology of Ron Paul, which is uber-libertarian (see letter below on pollution.) It is that the right is now worrying about personal liberties from their own Republican Party, and they hate the same war the rest of the population hates, and they suspect Wall Street like the rest of us. I.e. great...
It signifies that the crapulent 'center' (Clinton on one side and Bush on the other) is loosening it's ideological hold. A strong left-wing alternative would be able to galvanize people. Where is it? Kucinich took our Minneapolis southside wards in 2004, but what is that in the scale of things? Mike Gravel? Ah. Edwards voted for the 'bankruptcy' bill, which raises questions about his populism.
Only a separate, long lasting, alternative, in the form of a party, can remake American politics. Neither Paul nor Kucinich can do it...unless they create that party, or those two parties. Are they going to? Not now. I'm voting Green or for Ms. McKinney.
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Unfortunately, this is real money
[Read the article: Complexity requires government action, says Hank Paulson]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is just that the banks have so much of it, it doesn't seem that way. The subprime mortgage/credit crush has liquidated by some estimates, 700 billion world-wide. Do you think they can take a hit like that? No, which is why Bernake is lowering interest rates. The Federal Reserve is a purely PRIVATE organization run by the biggest banks in the country. We, the taxpayers, allow these posh cretins to print and control our money supply.
Now that investing and banking are one, the Federal Reserve is running to the aid of Wall Street. Abu Dabai is running to the aid of Wall Street. They are bailing out our banking system, which was periously close to serious damage, and may still be.
So, with 'catastrophe' loans, do you think they will accurately reflect risk? (Think back to what they just did...) And what happens if there are more catastrophe's than the bonds can handle? This is another stop gap method by monopoly capital to make a 'market' of everything on earth. And it is based on nature playing along. This would be funny if it weren't so sad.
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Bought Time ...
[Read the article: If the first date isn't great, why go out with him again? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... Cary told a reader to get off. Very funny.
I've gone on internet dates, no chemistry, and you say, I'll think about it, and you don't.
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Ignorance Surge
[Read the article: Why Bush's troop surge won't save Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks to Mr. Cole for fighting the 'ignorance' surge. The fact that people like John Murtha think the surge is 'working' is testimony to the incomplete knowledge and understanding of what is actually going on in Iraq.
1. The improvement in Anbar province is due to Sunni tribal groups deciding to fight the homicidal religious fanatics of the Al Quada-type groups, not because of a troop surge. They are going to take U.S. guns and money, bide their time, and perhaps leverage the U.S. against the Shia fundamentalists in Baghdad. Kind of like what Hussein did... This is only a pause in the fighting - like any conflict.
2. The U.S. actually presided over several years of ethnic cleansing, which has already purged neighborhoods of the 'other' ethnicity. This process is closer to completion now, so this tends to lessen warfare. And if the refugees come back to find their houses occupied by strangers of another ethnicity or religious background? Ah...
3. Occupying another country if it does not threaten you is still against international law. The occupation of Iraq is illegal. Nothing can change this. Occupations in this area based on ostensible 'humanitarian' reasons were justified by the English for years, now we have the 'holier than thou' Americans taking their place. The only thing that stays the same is the oil.
4. Bush waiting until this year - 7 years into his presidency - to make any kind of even 'fake' attempt to solve the Palestinian/Israeli issue. Astounding! I swear the U.S. wanted to duplicate what the Israeli's were doing to the Palestinians. They have succeeded. Now we get to be at the center of an endless war against religious and nationalist forces just like Israel.