Letters to the Editor
Tyler_Mason
Published Letters: 443 Editor's Choice: 39
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Healthy Growth?!
[Read the article: How greed will save the world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]607 Billion to 836 billion in 9 years. That is horrible growth. Do the math. It's around 3.6% per year. That's a horrible return. There are very many options with higher yield and lower risk. By risk, I mean the greed based risk to capital, not environmental risk.
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Here she comes again
[Read the article: Let's have a revolution! Does July 14 work for you?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Great. Lamott is has returned from the wilderness to preach. She must have another book release coming and needs to agitate her fan base.
Revolt in November instead. Go vote.
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Not a lie
[Read the article: "Saddam chose to deny inspectors"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush meant that the inspectors were not let into the sites they wanted to inspect. AThat appears true. I'm a conservative republican who often argues with the neocon idiots. I read Conason's whole damn article looking for a way to shoot down that "locked out the inspectors" argument. Nothing.
Hey Joe, you gotta throw your stones the right direction. Or are you just preaching to the choir?
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talk about dumb
[Read the article: A resolute attitude toward peak oil]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, A. Leonard thinks "big" issues need tackled at the federal or international level. Brilliant. We'd better get an international police force to do some enforcing too.
He wants the government to save us with a big solution. The bigger the government the bigger the solution. The idea of individual people taking responsibility for their own actions and their own future is just so --- wrong!
Historically, we've had lots of big issues that were handled at the state level long before the feds stepped in. Take slavery for example. Sometimes, the people, speaking in a million voices, bring about big solutions that the government won't address. For example, the fall of the Berlin Wall. There was no government mandate, just a huge demonstration and party that couldn't be shut down.
San Francisco is doing the right thing. So what if they pay the price and other people benefit. Someone has to step up first. We tend to call those people role models.
As for A. Leonard - don't expect much. Is he the guy who works at home, whose wife works at home, and whose child needs day care because the parents lack the will and fortitude to raise him? I guess the solution there is government child rearing. Preferably federal.
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slavery
[Read the article: A resolute attitude toward peak oil]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was illegal in quite a few states before the civil war. The federal mandate made it illegal in the rebel states first and in the union slave states later.
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Tone down?
[Read the article: Ginsburg: GOP plan for judges sounds like a "Soviet" deal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Somehow, I don't believe the proposed judicial oversight will pass judicial review.
What I do find interesting is the suggestion that "Republican politicians like John Cornyn and Tom DeLay could tone down their vitriolic, anti-judge rhetoric".
Umm, Grieve doesn't like the message hence the messengers should shut up? Does he think he's the president?
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Murderous straying house cats
[Read the article: Can I kill a cat if it poops in my yard?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When I was a kid I had a pidgeon coop. I built it strong because the neighborhood cats wanted to get into it. I complained to the owners that their pets were coming into my yard and trying to kill my pets. They didn't care.
One day, a cat got into the coop and killed my birds. I saw which cat it was. I took my dead birds to the owner's house and showed her what her cat had done. I was in tears. She explained to me that cats are meant to be free and that I had lured her cat into my yard.
I left and buried my birds. I made little crosses with their names on them.
I'm grown up now. I like cats. I never let them stray (meaning leave the house). My cats are happy.
The coyotes have moved into the neighborhood. The stray cat owners are horrified. Their pets are in the food chain.
I'm happy.
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electable??
[Read the article: The Democrats and Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These comments bring cheer to my republican heart because we need to have democrats in charge of the house or senate and hopefully both - but no more than that.
Two years of democrat control will take the steam out of the executive. Maybe even impeach him. Then it's time for complete republican control to return.
I was ready to vote democrat in 2004 until you put Kerry on the ticket. You didn't put him there because he was any good. You put him there because he's "a serious candidate" and because he's "electable". He also voted for the patriot act and the iraqi adventure. He betrayed us all on some very important issues, but you put him on the ticket.
Now, I hear democrats repeating the same talking points. You'll lose again. I worried/hoped that a democrat with passion and core values might make it to the big show. Nope, not this time.
I'll vote for Cheney over another apparatchik democrat.
Just remember - If you put Kerry on the ticket, you share the blame.
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both
[Read the article: Bernanke: Straight shooter or reckless wild man?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Buy calls and puts. When the herd stampedes one direction, you'll make money. Then they'll stampede the other and you'll make more.
It is your civic duty to make money off the skittish herd. You must slowly bleed them as they run stupidly about being frightened by tumbleweed and clouds.
Money is power - too dangerous in the hands of fools.
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stolen from africa?
[Read the article: Who are you?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nice story, but you claim that "African-Americans want to know which part of the mother continent their people were stolen from." Did you get this from advertising material or personal bias? Sadly, most people, of any race, who were enslaved were sold by family members, not stolen.
I know, I know. Not very PC. Flame on.