Letters to the Editor
David L.
Published Letters: 224 Editor's Choice: 9
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Piffy catchphrases like PUMAs...
[Read the article: Why Clinton voters say they won't support Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's next?
Leopards = Hillary feminist supporters that are leaping over to the Republican side, despite the fact that doing so is against their own interests.
Besides, this EMILY's List and PUMA stuff is way overblown...Salon has just attracted a lot of Republican trolls of late. I would liken all this noise about PUMAs as the Democrats' version of Ron Paul supporters...we are just hearing a lot of guff in the party from a VERY vocal minority.
And they have a right to be pissed about losing...all I have to say is, will this group be just as vocal if Obama picks one of the well-qualified female govenors of AZ or KS? Is it really a feminist thing, or a Hillary thing?
Besides, if Hillary ran, it would bring out a level of vitrol from the Right that would be lightyears WORSE than this crybaby stuff coming from Hillary's die-hard supporters right now. Then a lot of us sensible folks would be saying "Shit, why didn't we vote for that Obama guy?"
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Wow, that's actually an interesting article...
[Read the article: The swing states of 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hulk like long discourse
Hulk like electoral debate
Hulk like Texas in play
Hulk think Missouri in play...but panelist no mention Missouri...HULK SMAAAAASSSSHHHH PANEL!!!
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Zzzzzzzzzzz
[Read the article: How gay it would be]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This might have been amusing around, say, the time that the Torch Song trilogy came out, or when Mrs. Doubtfire and The Birdcage were on the big screen...but now, it's kinda lame. It's like the theatrical version of Rent...it came out WAY too late to be relevant in this day and age when we have a whole channel dedicated to GLBT topics. And a pretty good channel at that.
I'm not going to say it's shocking either, other than being more honest about what a parent thinks of their child...but still, it's not HI-larious.
And for you folks railing against Mencia...well, you snobs can say what you want, but we are a better world thanks to the likes of Mencia, Dave Chappelle, Lewis Black, and any other comedy/satirist that doesn't play the PC game.
And we can't forget Mr. Warmth...Don Rickles.
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Worst. Govt. Agency. Ever.
[Read the article: A deluge waiting to happen]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Army Corp of Engineers used to be the public works arm of the U.S. govt. Now they are a bloated federal agency at the beck and call of Big Business.
One only has to look at the virtual collapse of the Chinook Salmon population in the Pacific NW to see how the Corp just f'ed up Mother Nature's plans by building hydro-electric dams along the Snake and Columbia Rivers...right in the middle of rivers that salmon have to travel up to spawn. So what do they do? Instead of tearing down the dams (not popular with big metal plants and mfrs. up there that need lots of cheap hydro-power), they literally have to TRUCK the salmon around these dams so they can spawn...but instead, it only makes the problem worse because the salmon get disoriented, lose their direction, and end up not reproducing in the numbers that they used to. So the Corp basically created more problems than they solved with this dam/river control system, and now they are spending BILLIONS of our tax dollars on fixing a problem that could easily be resolved if they just demolished the dams...but they won't do it...
To add to the problem, more and more of the spawn are eaten up by terns living on a sandbar island built by...you guessed it, the Army Corp of Engineers, to help rebuild one specific species of terns living in the Pacific NW. This same island is now practically a choke-point at the mouth of the Columbia River, and the terns are just feasting away on this same salmon population that the Corp is now tasked to try and protect. When they decided they needed to level the island, the National Audubon Society threw a fit (?!!). If I remember the story correctly (on ABC Nightly News), the plan was to "relocated" the terns. Whatever, the terns are going to go back where the food is located, I cannot see how they can fix this without culling out a large chunk of the tern population.
Anyway...the point here is that the Army Corp of Engineers is way out of control, and needs some kind of reigning in by the federal govt. This is a bi-partisan dilemma that both parties need to addr...because the Corp, by virtue of it's very reason for existence, is exacerbating environment problems...this story is just one of many examples.
**PS - As a foot note after seeing this story, my wife made the statement that there's just no hope for mankind at the rate we are going. I retorted that while this may be true, Republicans in the Pacific Northwest probably don't feel that way. Their reply would be: the salmon need to hire better lobbyists...
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Rather light article...I was expecting more...
[Read the article: Losing the mullet, angling for veep]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But then again, the posts I've read so far pretty much fill in the gaps that Mike Madden left out.
Still, the idea of a McCain/Pawlenty ticket is just rife for jokes. Every time I see the name "Pawlenty," I keep thinking that he's some Foghorn Leghorn speakin', Southern planation owner. Too bad he cut the mullet, I can just see him now coming up to the stand at the Republican National Convention.
"Audacity of Hope? Ah think it should be called The Audacity of Joke....It's a jo-ah-say joke, son! Lu-duh dah doo dah di dah dum...DOOOO-DAH...DOOOO-DAH"