Letters to the Editor
AnnieW
Published Letters: 655 Editor's Choice: 29
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Regarding Clinton
[Read the article: The upfront back channel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's a big difference with what Clinton's admin. did on this issue.
The R's were screaming about politics, not policy, being done on the government dime. Someone had made a phone call or two regarding campaigns and/or donations from the White House and thus another huge Clinton "scandal" was born. Clinton's team then had cell phones and computers separate for these kind of functions, I believe they left the building, too, if calls were to be made. There were no email accounts and department to department communications were NOT done this way.
The Bush administration, seems to be approaching this issue in a different way.
From the document dump we've seen, the Dept. of Justice and Rove have contacted each other regarding official business on RNC accounts. This prevents their emails from being official records.
I see a big difference here. And since when is Clinton the end all, be all ethical bar for Republicans?
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Jobs in which there is nothing to do
[Read the article: I still have a job, but I've completely stopped working!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This sure brings back memories. I would look around and see if others are in your predicament.
I once had a very good paying job as an engineering student, the only trouble was I had nothing to do. I needed the money and it was flexible with my hours, so moving on wasn't an option.
Eventually I ended up with arbitrary "stuff" to track at our plant. Some of it was legitimate, some of it bordering on silly . I made up a booklet with charts showing trends and distributed it to all the department heads. This could be done in it's entirety by me in a couple of hours, a couple of days a week. My boss (also lacking anything substantial to do) took notice and started supervising my charts. Important things, like picking colors and fonts, and having me redo the entire finished booklet with his new suggestions. This was fine, since it managed to stretch out my workload to almost a few hours a day.
I eventually moved on, and now there is an entire department dedicated to that made up, in house report...though it does "look" much more professional now, especially with the graphic artist they employed.
Even if you are depressed, it could be in part caused by the painful boredom of having nothing to do and the guilt you feel about that.
The next job I had was very menial, but I was a ton happier being busy and feeling I earned my pay.
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Simple is usually better
[Read the article: Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If China, North Korea or Russia wanted the "terrorists" or terrorist sponsoring states in the Middle East to have nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, all they'd have to do is sell them to them. If they wanted to be really "tricky", they would spend a little time and money masking the origin of the weapons.
Russia, China or North Korea would not have to be involved in some wild scheme to transport, hide and relocate any unused old weapons that the good ole' USA sold to Saddam prior to the first Gulf War that may or may not still even be viable.
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One current name for you
[Read the article: The attorney general's secret memo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Elephantman, I'm not going to be your research monkey, but the latest example of a name you can google for yourself is "Carl J. Marlinga", a former County prosecutor who was running as a Democrat for Congress in Michigan and what he endured before having his bogus case against him dismissed.
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Correction
[Read the article: The attorney general's secret memo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First off, Iglesias stated that he believed he was fired for refusing to prosecute Dems on flimsy evidence...and was being pressured to do so by Wilson-R and Domenici-R. Oh wait the Justice Department stated that he was fired for being in the Navy Reserves (the reason he missed 42 days of work)...that is so much a better reason.
As for Carl J. Marlinga, he was aquitted, his case was not dismissed.
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It will be destroyed
[Read the article: Will the Wall Street Journal become another Fox News?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Murdoch sayed the editorial pages would be left alone...yeah, because they are to the right of even Fox.
He's quoted as thinking the Journal's articles are "too long" and he's not a fan of "gotcha" journalism. I guess Enron should have been left uncovered another year or two, so even more money could have been lost by regular stockholders (who trusted the company as stable and strong) and the execs could have taken more $$$ home.
This is an awful idea.
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Caution
[Read the article: Ask the Pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I laughed when reading this.
My husband was the Captain of a 747 that had an "incident" that made the international news.
He and the rest of the crew were very cautious when dealing with the press and kept saying "no comment" to all questions. One reporter kept implying in a question (that the reporter kept shouting repeatedly) that the government (not U.S.) had forced the plane to return. My very annoyed husband finally said, "No they didn't."
It was amazing/shocking how that comment got reported and twisted by a few of the reporters.
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Thank goodness I eloped
[Read the article: The marriage industrial complex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree 100%.
Way too many of my normally smart friends have sucked in, and one even spent well over $50,000 on a wedding that was mostly just hassle...though it was "pretty". She barely remembers any of it, she was too stressed and busy.
Having gone to Vegas myself, I was shocked at how many of my friends & family were a little put off that I didn't tell them of my plans. My cousin had made that mistake and her elopement became 44 people in a chapel in Vegas.
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Maureen Dowd
[Read the article: Michelle Obama's sacrifice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maureen Dowd superficially tears down & mocks everyone (even better if liberal)...it makes her feel so superior.
She's hardly the ideal "white liberal feminist".