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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Published Letters: 500 Editor's Choice: 9
I have never cared for Oprah. I thought that the free home makeovers and free cars were unnecessarily materialistic.
It is also easy to bash new age roll-your-own religions, where you pick one from column "a" and another from column "b" and ignore what doesn't matter to you personally.
I myself don't believe in 'one size fits all' religions - I accept anyone's choice of faith and understanding, just don't expect me to go along.
While I don't agree with the beguiling slickness of "The Secret" I tend to agree that we do attract what we resonate, we each create our own reality and generally get what we ask for.
I believe this because my personal life experience has pretty much proven it true for me.
I am not going to try to reconcile this philosophy with the Holocaust or world AIDS crisis, because neither of these things currently have any direct effect on my day to day life.
If this is doublethink, so be it. I don't care for Oprah nor do I care for Dr. Phil, the 'amazing' James Randi, Penn & Teller's "Bullshit" or Peter Birkenhead.
With the exception of this letter, I have little to say about all of the mentioned parties. Getting riled up 'a la O'Reilly' just directs mental energy in useless directions.
When you let someone get under your skin enough to piss you off, you are giving that person control, intentionally or otherwise.
It is easy to mock and criticize the beliefs of others. It seems to be harder to keep one's opinion to one's self.
The Justice Department releases DIGITAL INFORMATION in PAPER FORM so that nobody can index and search it easily.
More than 3000 emails are released as paper, though the information would easily fit on one CD-ROM.
All of this information could be created digitally in about an hour. Instead, they wait until the last minute and print it all out. Crazy, like a Fox . . .
They don't want anyone to be able to quickly index and cross reference this information. Computer data, printed on paper, scanned optically back into a computer in a form that is not easily searched or indexed. What a joke. What a travesty.
Looks like obstruction of justice to me.
or, as in the Godfather saga, 'going to the mattresses . . .'
would copromania become a trend . . . then again, look at the movies they make there. . .
. . . says she knows HTML, but her web design skills are atrocious. The site is as ugly as it is vapid . . .
there's no effect the first few times, and then . . .
not on my PC not on my Mac - if its not a video I can play - why bother?
to the term 'opens for wider release'...
...from St. Maarten. That airport has been replaced with a shiny new one, neither KLM nor Air France fly 747s into St. Maarten anymore (though charter airlines still do), and I don't live there anymore, but I well remember people hanging on the fence in the jet blast (they still do it) and removing the gravel embedded in their foreheads afterwards...
I am amazed at the difference between the money given to George H.W. Bush (mere millions), Cheney, Rumsfeld, 'W', Tenet, and our esteemed congressmen and senators...
...and the billions that the military industrialists and oil companies make. The flunkies get chump change, while the rich get richer.
You pay peanuts, you get monkeys...
Bush stole the election in 2000, and likely in 2004, yet pushes 'voter fraud' as an answer looking for a problem.
When are we going to be RID of these people once and for all??
When someone uses you for a reference, the prospective employer usually asks 'Would you rehire this person?' This is the secret HR code that avoids lawsuits and bloodshed.
When you say 'yes', that is a positive recommendation. When you say 'no', that is a negative one.
If they don't ask, and you don't want to lie, just say 'I would not rehire that person' and leave it at that.
If someone is rude enough to use you for a reference without asking, you can be factual about their qualifications for the job without directly disparaging them.
coffee shot out of my nose...!!!
. . . it did occur to me that such a level of carnage occurs every day in Iraq. Unlike the previous poster, I do believe that man is more civilized that he used to be. Like the previous poster, it seems to me we have quite a way yet to go.
Good one, Carol . . .
and I live in Virginia, but, he lost by less than 10,000 votes out of millions - this is not exactly a decisive loss.
No need being snide about his losing - it was a very close race, and his words speak for themselves . . .
neither is on the top ten busiest list? wow!
**** you are talking about...
Some things are beyond hype, SPLHCB is one of those.
The rest are like these two 'reviewers' . . . lame, lost, ignorant.
And 'Some Girls' was the best Stones album ever... period.
this is obviously a fake
All of the blogging pundit idiots like John Dvorak not having a clue...
Most of the ignorant ranting against 'the iPhone' assumes there will be only one version over the next two years, sold only to work on AT&T's network, and no revisions or upgrades.
Apple will constantly reengineer, update, upgrade, sell millions, make a tidy 25+% margin on each one, open up entirely new markets and craft a cell phone that 'doesn't suck' . . .
. . . and they will ultimately open the platform up to third party development.
As far as I am concerned, the last good cellphone was the original Motorola StarTac - it has been downhill ever since...
...so I went on the P2P networks and downloaded 'A Night In Paris' - you know - THAT video.... and watched it.
...kinda puts things in perspective.
Journey sucks...
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
