Letters to the Editor
chris49068
Published Letters: 205 Editor's Choice: 16
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FYI -- Those Cancer Causing Toxins Do More Than Just Change Climate!
[Read the article: Bush's cold view of climate change]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This issue is far from settled. Just because a bunch of left wing media types buy into it, does not mean it's science. A few short years ago, the same ones who are now crying global warming were predicting an ice age!
Dont'cha just love it?
It's okay for that factory farm to dump 25 metric tons of cow shit into your drinking water -- because Al Gore "made up" global warming!
It's perfectly alright for PG&E to dump as much cancer causing toxins as they want into your families drinking water -- because Al Gore is lying about global warming!
Point 1: exactly how does this international cabal of Freemasons, Illuminati and Communists work? Doesn't it seem just a little (who do I put this diplomatically?) silly to suggest that the climate change is really just a international "hoax" perpetrated by a super secret cabal of evil doers who (wait for it...) plan to destroy America by making our water, air and food less toxic? Can one of the die hard Al Gore haters explain exactly how those evil commies are going to "destroy" America simply by requiring poorly run and inefficient companies to adopt superior pollution controls? Just not clear on how that plan is going to work.
Point 2: Even if the cancer causing industrial pollution doesn't contribute to climate change then don't we still have the problem of, you know, it causes cancer?
It just boggles my mind how some people can be so violently opposed (opposed!) to reducing cancer causing industrial pollution in their air, water and food.
Al Gore wants to make upgrading pollution control for industrial sites mandatory instead of just (shrug) voluntary.
And the Republicans go nuts!
They start screaming that to require a coal plant or an industrial site to meet the highest pollution standard possible is...is...a million times worse than Hitler.
What really baffles me is how lowering standards so that even the most inefficient and poorly run business can still be in compliance improves the market. How does protecting stupidity make sense? Wouldn't it make more sense to raise standards?
What happens when you raise standards? The dumb CEO's (cough*Bush*cough) are forced out of the market because they can't adapt -- newer, stronger, more intelligently run businesses move in and take over -- and everyone wins. Just not clear on how lower standards and protecting weak, inefficient companies makes sense. You wouldn't graduate a high schooler that couldn't read, so why coddle a CEO that can't (or won't) upgrade to the highest pollution controls that are technologically possible?
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Only Two Types Of People Dislike Hillary....
[Read the article: Edwards to accept public funds: Taking a stand or falling down?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Democrats and Republicans.
Why in God's name are people giving her money???
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The Bush Two Step
[Read the article: Bush's cold view of climate change]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Step One: Swear to be fully committed to evironmental awareness. Pledge $1 BILLION in new pollution initatives.
Step Two: Later (when the TV cameras have re-focused back on Britney Spears and no one is paying attention) revise that budget down to $1 million dollars – and spend every penny on PR about how you love the environment (without ever actually spending money on changing anything whatsoever).
This is a PR President who is obsessed with how he appears. No, he’s never going to do anything. He doesn’t care and/or doesn’t really think industrial pollution is a problem. But he is deeply concerned with how he will be viewed by history. So instead of making improvements, he makes commercials and speeches.
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The New Zunes Are Definite iPod-Killers....
[Read the article: Zune 2.0: Microsoft's new line of music players]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]....if this were actually 2003 instead of 2007.
Sorry Microsoft!
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Cheatsheet For Bush's Worldview:
[Read the article: The Decider has decided]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you obey Bush = you're bi-partisan, logical and saintly.
If you disobey Bush = you hate America, capitalism and Jesus
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Too complicated?
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Quick Question: Who Pays The Hospitals If The Patient Defaults On Their Bill?
[Read the article: The Republicans vs. the injured child]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I want to beat Republicans over the head with this question!
If the kid got no assistance and continued to get worse and worse until he was at death's door --- and then treated at the ER -- and the family defaulted on the bill, then how did the hospital get paid?
Who paid the x-ray tech?
Who paid the nurses?
Who paid the ER doctors that preformed life saving surgery?
Who paid?
This insane idea Republicans have that somehow if they just leave it all up to private insurance companies then magically everyone somehow gets "paid" is BS.
There is no free lunch.
The hospitals are required by law and medical ethics to treat everyone in an emergency situation -- regardless of ability to pay!
So what happens when a hospital spends $75,000 saving a child life and the broke family can never pay the bill?
Who pays?
How does the hospital get enough money to keep paying the surgeons and nurses?
Simple, they raise your rates for health services to compensate!
That's why a sprained pinky finger costs $1,900 to treat.
(Why are Republicans so bad at math and basic economics?)
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So If Gore Isn't A Monk -- Then He's A Power Mad Ego Maniac? Is That How It Works
[Read the article: Gore in '08, or why it won't happen]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fair to say he has promoted himself and the environment in the last 7 years? Yes. That he has selflessly put world interests before his own advancement? Don't make me laugh.
We all hear this arguement a lot.
"Sure Gore's done some good, I guess. But he only does it because he wants attention or money!"
Riiiiight.
Makes sense.
Because nothing is sexier or gets more chicks hot or makes more cash than.....giving a Power Point slide shows about how it might be in our best interests to curb industrial pollution and switch to lower energy light bulbs.
Big Pimpin'playa!
Watch out 50 Cent! That ego maniac is gonna get all the money and all the ladies with his crazy mad super sexy....slide show on reducing industrial pollution?
What an ego!
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