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The few of us who exercise restraint in our consumption resent being asked to pay for others'
My Aunt who is in her 60's has worked since she was 14.
She lives (or lived) in a house she got in 1984.
She has insurance and was unfortunately diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
She had to sell her house in order to pay her medical bills.
I don't recall getting your check in the mail to help pay for her medical bills or house payment. Could you provide the check # of your payment and I'll contact the bank to see if it was applied to a different account by mistake?
Waitaminute....I don't think you were asked to pay any of your money to help out my aunt.
Not sure why you feel resentful.
Hillary zombines refuse to ackowledge reality.
Name one other female politicans with only one freaking term as Senator that would have made it this far?
No one, that's who.
Hillary rode Bill's coattails all the way to the end and had the delusion that she was doing it all herself. Without Bill, she would be nothing.
Hillary ONLY made it this far because she was married to former President Bill Clinton.
"Oh! But Hillary is a genius! Hillary has the most experience!"
Bullshit.
Plain and simple bullshit and I'll probably have a heart attack if even a single Hillary zombie will even partially admit that 99 percent of her "success" was because everyone loved BILL and were voting to get him back in office. And her so-called experience? As what? First Lady of Arkansas? What kind of bullshit "experience" is that supposed to be?
Obama smoked her ass even when no one had any idea who he was and everyone -- everyone! -- recognized her name on the ballot and knew exactly who she was.
How do the zombies explain away that fact?
"We were going do it June 9th," Jesus told Vanity Fair. "But there is so much hype with the iPhone that we did not want to even try to compete. We may try again in a few months. We'll see."
Leave it to Apple.
It almost seems as though companies just sit around and wait for Apple to make something and then the programmers/engineers of these other companies groan a huge sigh of annoyance and say, "Shit. Well, guess we're going to have to upgrade our models as well. Damn. That sounds like a lot of effort."
If Apple didn't come out with a touch screen, would anyone else really bother? I doubt it. We'd be looking at another 10 years (at least) of tiny Blackberry keyboard and using web-lite apps that are like surfing the internet....but only if that internet was circa 1996.
Apple may not come up with an idea sometimes -- but it sure seems like no one else wants to get off their ass and implement these ideas until after makes millions doing it first.
God bless you Steve Jobs.
He's dragging US tech companies into the 21st century kicking and screaming.
There aint much difference between the major policy positions of Hillary and Obama.
Remember how the "debates" devolved into Hillary trying to find some kind of controversy and lambasting Obama for not "rejecting AND denouncing" Rev. Wrights comments? "Simply denouncing them isn't enough!" Hillary screamed. To which Obama famously shrugged and said, "Okay. Clam down. I both denounce and reject Rev. Wright's comments. Can we talk about the Iraq War now?" Also remember her grasping at straws and insisting that Obama's offhand comment that he would meet with foreign leaders without pre-conditions must clearly mean that Obama was a dangerous, psychotic maniac that will get us all killed???
She didn't have any major differences to hammer him on. They are basically on the same page on all issues. It's not like Obama is a climate change denier and Pro-life!
So they are essentially identical on all major issues.
It's like choosing between a Red Delicious Apple (Obama) or a Granny Smith apple (more tart, Clinton). John McCain is a steaming shit sandwhich.
So the Clinton-zombines, er, I mean the Clinton supporters are making the claim that since they can't have the type of apple they perfer, well then, they will eat a shit sandwhich instead.
These poor people think eating a shit sandwhich is a logical alternative to eating an apple!
Wow.
So these are the people who supported Hillary, eh?
Again....wow!
I can just seem them now, faces covered with feces as McCain puts 3 more ultraconservative judges on the Supreme Court and extends the Iraq war for another 4 years -- the Clintonistas will be laughing and laughing saying, "See! I told you'd I'd never vote for Obama! I think I proved me point."
And then they take another bit of their shit sandwhich....