Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 222 Editor's Choice: 6
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nothing is indeliberate
[Read the article: Bush's missing bin Laden plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nothing would make the neocons happier than another strike by OBL in the US.
They would round up all the dissidents in the name of fighting terror and declare martial law.
After all, they didn't lift a finger to stop September 11th, did they? And they did benefit greatly from September 11th - at the expense of hundreds of innocent human beings in the Middle East and USA.
Like Bush said, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me - can't get fooled again."
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typo
[Read the article: Bush's missing bin Laden plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"hundreds of thousands"
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suggestion: teach airline employees not to lie to us
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nothing pisses me off more than knowing I am being lied to by a stressed-out airline employee.
I know airline passengers can be real asswipes, but it's amazing what a positive approach can do to turn around a situation. Just don't be patronizing when delivering bad news.
How about some stress management and situation management training for air and ground staff?
Also, a suggestion for cabin stewards and stewardesses: don't make disparaging comments about your customers within earshot of other customers.
I was flying on United not long ago, seated in the rear of the aircraft, and endured a twenty-minute litany of grousing and criticism of specific passengers which emanated from the rear galley.
I was tempted to make a list of their names and write a letter to United's CEO. If you hate your customers and/or job THAT much, get a job at Best Buy.
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Chapter One
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Its Discovery" - or "It's Discovery"
Hope it's not it's... :)
See this comic icon for the reason why:
http://www.angryflower.com/itsits.gif
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Sad to say, it's probably more than 15%
[Read the article: The painful task of measuring racism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]America has come a long way, but has a long way to go. Being a white male, I am aware of racist attitudes both overt and covert among many of my contemporaries. Many others find such attitudes reprehensible.
It's a very subtle, understated thing. I voted for Obama in the Virginia Democratic primary, and this is in a state that had separate water fountains in my lifetime.
Like I've said in my posts @ Salon and other places: Obama is taking a chance in assuming that a majority of Americans are intelligent, independently thinking human beings.
If he's right, he'll be our next president. If not, well, God help us all...
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If she wins the election, I hope she runs the country's finances . . .
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's bionic quest continues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]. . . better than she runs her campaign's finances.
Then again, who better to manage deficit spending than a deadbeat? It seems to be working for Wall Street and Congress.
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Which is more troubling for the Democrats?
[Read the article: Obama can't close the deal ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]False straw man logic from the left like this article, or pseudo-issue B.S. from the right like we see in the mainstream media?
We're not selling used cars here. Leave the sales metaphors to GloxNews . . .
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Salon.com is lacking in many ways...
[Read the article: Brian Williams' "response" to the military analyst story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... but Mr. Greenwald's column more than makes up for any shortcomings elsewhere on this site.
This is the one column that keeps me visiting Salon.com when much of this site is nothing but annoying.
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Canada also has entry restrictions
[Read the article: So long, Canada]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone with a simple drug possession or drunk driving conviction, no matter how minor, can and will be turned back at the Canadian border.
"DUI charges or drug convictions (anytime in recent or ancient history) could mean you will be denied entry into Canada. Your records in the US can be accessed by our Customs & Immigration officers through co-operative agreements between the US and Canada."
http://www.baldface.net/customs-and-canadian-border
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please, all you pundits and columnists and bloggers, just STFU...
[Read the article: George Bush is John McCain's Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...about the upcoming election. This goes for polling too - last time I checked, they weren't polling cellphones, so it's also a load of bulls**t as far as I am concerned.
I am just so DONE with the whole thing. Just give me the final candidates so I can decide if I am going to participate in the charade of voting or not.
The only time I watch TV is at the YMCA in the gym because it is unavoidable - I have to look at wooly Wolf Blizzard and looney Lou Dobbs because that's what's on CNN at the time I work out, but at least the sound is down and if I don't wear my glasses I cannot read the closed captioning - - - closed captured audience is more like it.
We don't have a TV at home and I do NOT care what all the pundits and columnists are writing about this week. Just STFU and get out of my face.
Thanks, Hillary, for sticking around like a decomposing vampire zombie that won't DIE DIE DIE. If your narcissistic husband had shown the good taste and judgement to RESIGN after being caught LYING UNDER OATH, we'd have had Al Gore in the White House prior to the 2000 elections and would have been spared the idiocy of the Bush / Cheney administration.
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a serial with a thickening plot
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]SO much more satisfying than kansas o'whachacallit . . . how soon we forget!
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I am doubtful . . .
[Read the article: What happened to the D.C. Madam?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Strange that she has been quoted by other reporters as saying if she was found dead as a suicide, it would be murder, and that she feared for her life.
I was fortunate to correspond with her briefly last summer, and the full list of phone calls has yet to be indexed, because they had been scanned from the original paper phone bills, but not converted into text files for cross referencing.
She seemed overwhelmed by the whole affair, and did not deserve this fate, whatever the truth about her demise is.
Personally, I am doubtful about her reported means of passing, and I hope there will be more than a cursory investigation, but it IS Florida, after all…