Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 222 Editor's Choice: 6
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I remember seeing Eisenhower's Farewell Address . . .
[Read the article: Bush's blank check]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]. . . many years after he had given it. I was born in 1959, and I first saw it in the 1980s during a PBS documentary:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
Truer words were never spoken . . .
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Cyril E King in St Thomas, Virgin Islands . . .
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]was really cool when it was a 1940s Navy hangar. It went through Hurricane Hugo without a scratch in 1989.
When they tore down the hangar and replaced it in the 90's, the air conditioning had to be torn out and replaced when it was discovered that tropical environments would breed Legionnaire's Disease in the tower-cooling air conditioning system. STT's airport still sucks.
And I HATE HATE HATE Miami International, especially as an international arrival - the surliest, nastiest immigration and customs officers in all of homeland security, along with some of the smelliest, rudest air travelers you will ever wait in line with.
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i thought it was funny
[Read the article: What, was "Mandy" already taken?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]lighten up!
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you go, psycho mom
[Read the article: My 13-year-old singer wants to quit piano lessons]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I suspect a lot of people are going to say, back off, let her be a kid. I mean, she dislocated her knee from being pushed to dance, and now you're pushing her to sing and play keyboards?
Get a life, and give hers back to her...
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Keith, you called that one
[Read the article: "Even Richard Nixon knew it was time to resign"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but, he'll never do it...
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that was rude!
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but damn funny...
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intellectual . . .
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but funny! (and stays crispy in milk!)
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You are in violation of the DMCA!
[Read the article: The full, final "Harry Potter" -- leaked online!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have provided a circumvention of copyright protection, and therefore have exposed salon.com to legal liability by providing this information....
OUCH!
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hate to burst your bubble
[Read the article: The full, final "Harry Potter" -- leaked online!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but all of the Deathly Hallows on the P2P networks are fakes . . .
nothing to see, move along...
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Obama just got my vote
[Read the article: How the Democrats differ on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He says, let's get out. Hillary says, let's see. My mind's made up.
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You should have to sign in to post
[Read the article: Who are you, Anonymous?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Besides, if you want to post badly enough, you can set up a faux signin, and discard it afterward.
Non-anonymous posting discourages the hotheads
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Carol's "real life comix"...
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...are always the best ones... the Klingons would only have stopped to frag his ass...
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Why they capitulated...
[Read the article: Is the White House lying about spying again?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is what I suspect has happened:
Since the NSA started monitoring domestic email and phone calls of 'terrorists', they quite likely also have been monitoring domestic email and phone calls of politicians and reporters.
Imagine if, just before a vote on a bill important to the administration, 'anonymous' emails arrive in the in-boxes of the opposition party, as well as in those of reporters covering the story.
Imagine that these contain things like lists of porn sites visited by said representative, or embarrassing snippets from past email correspondence to non-spousal girlfriends, boyfriends, etc.
Or imagine that they contain audio clips of embarrassing phone calls. Or digital photographs of embarrassing encounters.
Given the NSA's prodigious talents, there would not even be a return address on these messages. The source of the message would be perfectly clear.
Tin foil hat paranoia? Perhaps. Possible? Certainly, given this administration's 'win at all costs' approach.
To me, this is the only explanation as to why the media and the Democrats have rolled over and played dead so many times.
Why would you fold a winning hand, unless the other guy is pointing a gun at you under the table?
In any case, without external review of who and what are being watched, it is technically possible. This is why the FISA court oversight was so important.
There was no reason not to mandate review of NSA monitoring after the fact. The administration has no logical reason to resist this - it would slow down nothing, yet protect us from abuse.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely...
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best Rove send-off yet!
[Read the article: No wonder they called him Turd Blossom]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...so let's flush T.B. and be done with him - I won't even check the bowl beforehand...
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everytime I am at Circuit City...
[Read the article: How "Guitar Hero" saved guitar music]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...someone is playing this game. It looks like fun. I enjoy watching people play almost as much as they enjoy playing...
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once in a while, I read this column
[Read the article: My new girlfriend makes dolphin noises in bed! Make her stop! Please!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but the frequency of fake letters and lame replies is discouraging me from continuing to read it
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IRAQ: Love it or leave It
[Read the article: War Room contest: Pick the Democrats' bumper sticker]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]2008 GOP: Fool me twice, don't get fooled again
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another irritating Cary Tennis answer...
[Read the article: My girlfriend tried cocaine at a party! She was drunk! Oh my God!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]really, Salon needs to hire Carolyn Hax from the Washington Post. She's consistently sensible and far more qualified than Tennis to do this kind of thing.
Readers who are tired of Cary's childish 'answers' can check her column out Sunday, Wednesday and Friday at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/columns/tellmeaboutit/
I'm done reading this annoying and trite crap...
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How to 'contact' Larry Craig...
[Read the article: The U.S. senator and the bathroom stall]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His official website mentions all of the various ways to contact Sen. Craig:
http://craig.senate.gov/contact.cfm
to which I add;
just tap your foot under the stall to your right!
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congratulations on a great article
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and on your return to the friendly skies - you make it sound almost... pedestrian!
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yes, stop whining
[Read the article: Please stop whining, iPhone early adopters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](from my FSJ post):
c'mon folks, you were willing to pay $600 for a freakin' phone and now you're upset?
first all of you were in our faces showing off your shiny new iPhone gadget while trying to act like you WEREN'T.
then you whine when the giant sucking sound of $200 in value reduction emanates like a ringtone from your phone. boo-hoo-hoo...
it's Moore's Law of technology pricing - get used to it. more important - it's APPLE technology value adjustment - get MORE used to it.
iPhone was already the #1 selling smartphone, and they'll sell even more at these new price points.
this is about more than price cuts - it's about THROAT cuts - bubye RIM... sayonara, Palm.
here's a lesson for the whiners: REFURBS - never buy anything new from Apple - always buy refurbs.
by the time there ARE refurbs, the price is coming down, and you get the same warranty as a shiny new one...
if you really are drinking the kool-aid and basking in the RDF, you'll smash your pretty gadget, dash it to the concrete pavement right now, and then go right out and buy TWO MORE (at the new price)...