Letters to the Editor
AnnieW
Published Letters: 1177 Editor's Choice: 31
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Goats & stuff
[Read the article: John Yoo: Spearhead or scapegoat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Okay, the goat references are cracking me up...though a baby goat once broke my nose by charging me and then trying to suckle my nose. Even though it hurt, it still made me laugh. They are total chaos.
I guess I shouldn't be a liberal, I'm a decent rider (though no, GC, not so good with a gun and no pigtails...though pigtails would make my mop more manageable, hmmm) and I like goats and goat milk.
Here's the definition in question:
proletariat (n) lowest class of community, working class
I agree that working class (blue collar if you will) people would be better served by being liberals, but it's often not the case.
I'd say the working class is pretty divided, just like the so-called "middle class" and the wealthy.
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@horsehunter
[Read the article: John Yoo: Spearhead or scapegoat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My terminal crash was on an 18 warm blood cross.
I don't know what that means. But then again, a friend that's an adventure racer uses terms I don't know either. I'm embarassed that I had to ask her what "hitting the wall" meant. D'oh.
I started riding Tennessee walkers, followed by riding Hunt seat...though I don't say that, I just say I rode English, and that I jumped. My mother used to exercise race horses where she grew up in Maryland as a teenager. I bring up my mother so that up so you won't think the choice is too elitist (g).
Now, the whole family has switched to riding Western trail horses. I don't own horses, but my little sister & her husband have 3 quarter horses and a couple of paints.
The only time I ride now is when I'm visiting her or as a favor to a friend that sometimes trains horses. I've been the guinea pig for horses that are "problems" and she wants to see how they'll react to a new rider, me. Someone that won't freak if thrown. I'm no expert, she is, she's amazing. I'm just okay/decent and unafraid to look stupid and/or land on my butt.
BTW, working with your hands is honorable in my book. My coworkers (not a liberal in the bunch) think real jobs involve real estate sales, mortgage deals, investment schemes, etc. That problem isn't confined to liberals vs. conservatives either.
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@cheesemonkey
[Read the article: John Yoo: Spearhead or scapegoat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Which is worse - ordering torture from the WH or having sex in it?
I think it's obvious, no matter what is done, it's okay if you're a Republican.
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Worse off than Yoo
[Read the article: John Yoo: Spearhead or scapegoat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here is a link for your story Mona...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/washington/13gonzales.html?hp
Funnier still, Krugman has on the top of his blog a post entitled "The end of welfare as we know it?". I can't imagine that one of the wingnut welfare groups hasn't scooped AG up.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
Maybe the times are a changing.
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@Nequals1
[Read the article: John Yoo: Spearhead or scapegoat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks, I got the 18 part, figured it meant 18 hands, I just didn't get "terminal crash" and what "warm blood cross" meant. Interesting stuff and thanks for the info.
I imagine horsehunter has/had a pretty bad ass horse and I say that in a complimentary way. I saw a Belgium war horse and rider perform once as a teen at a fair and was absolutely awestruck.
Nequals1, your previous story cracked me up, especially about the possums. You and your whacky liberal chicken, horse and bunny loving theories....
Now, back to why torture and the people that sponsor it totally suck and should be shunned in any decent society...
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Ayn Rand
[Read the article: Dick Cheney was never a "grown-up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm beginning to see a pattern of why the neocons and many on the Right love Ayn Rand.
They feel rejected. They are disgruntled intellectuals that didn't get the recognition they "deserved". So it had to be a cabal of liberals keeping their ideas and papers down, no matter how "brilliant" they were.
Well, maybe their ideas were rejected because they were bad in the first palce.
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Maybe that's the goal
[Read the article: McCain-onomics: Cheap gas in every tank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder if McCain realizes that the gas tax is earmarked for the highway trust fund and that the fund is projected to be bankrupt in the next couple of years.
I doubt if McCain sees that as a problem.
Who needs public highways when you can privatize those, too, and have toll roads? Toll roads that are patrolled by taxpayer supported police, kept clear by taxpayer supported work crews, etc.
Come to Southern CA or for that matter Mexico, if you want to see the best routes being available only for a fee, and what traffic is like on the "free" route.
To drive from Nogales, AZ to Puerto Vallarta, MX, a distance of about 1200 miles, I paid about $200 US in tolls.
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What's to prevent the gas from going up anyway?
[Read the article: McCain-onomics: Cheap gas in every tank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Over at TPMCafe, Jared Bernstein points out that if you cut the gas tax, what's to prevent the oil companies from raising the cost of their product?
I have to agree, the gas companies already see that we can still afford this price, there hasn't been huge reductions in driving (yet), if you reduce the tax, the gas price can go back to where it is now and people will still buy it.
Just like that, your highway $$$ transferred directly to the oil companies... Then when it's time for the tax to resume, their will be a huge outcry.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/04/15/more_reasons_to_worry_about_mc/
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@Sol
[Read the article: McCain sides with Bush, opposes new GI Bill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, if not knowing all the details was the reason to oppose the bill (and why couldn't he be bothered, it's his frigging job AND he has a competent staff), why didn't he oppose the Patriot Act, which he also failed to read, along with most other Congress Critters?