Letters to the Editor
Jill S
Published Letters: 73 Editor's Choice: 3
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I know I should be sad
[Read the article: Subpoenas for the White House, Cheney's office]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to think that in our United States it has come to subpoenaing the Executive Branch-- that's a dark day in our history.
And yet, I feel like dancing! The birds are singing, the sun is shining, subpoenas are flying, everything feels warm and wonderful and I've got a big fat crush on Pat Leahy!
I'm conflicted about this, but you know what? I'm going to embrace feeling good, because I'm so worn out from feeling bad about this cabal and their systematic destruction of everything we hold dear. We deserve a happy day for once, so I say, dance!
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I saw a W quote
[Read the article: Cheney vs. the fish: Guess who won?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that said, "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." I had no idea what he was talking about; apparently he was trying for detente in the ongoing Cold Water War after Cheney had decimated their forces. You are either with us or against us, Fish, and all that swimming upstream tells us which way you've chosen. I support Cheney-- let's fight them over there in their streams so I don't have to fight one on my dinner table! I know the Pres was trying to ease public opinion, but the Fish don't have hearts and minds to ease! We should not negotiate with terrorist Fish! And all that public spawning, it's disgusting and immoral, not to mention the evolving they keep doing, not waiting for God's intervention or anything. Freakin' fish... So slap a fish-ist bumper sticker on your car next to your W sticker, grab your assault rifle (that you only use for hunting, after all), swipe a plate of frozen Freedom Sticks and sing along, "Oh, I'm proud to be an Americaaaan..."
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oh, he'll change his tune
[Read the article: Ann Coulter: Almost a "great American"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If/when she ever turns on him, he'll be crying like Trent Lott over conservative talk radio.
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A friend years ago
[Read the article: Mom's a pothead]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]was in this position, and she carefully explained that "there are some people who think smoking pot is fine, and some people who think that it's bad. When it came time to make the rules, they argued about it and the people who thought it was bad won and made it against the law. But the people who still thought it was fine kept right on doing it, and Mommy is one of those people. Mommy is careful not to get caught by the other people, but Mommy understands that there is nothing wrong with pot even though other people are afraid of it." And she went on to discuss what false scary "facts" her kid's DARE program fed them and answer all their questions. She also said that like drinking, it's important not to smoke pot until you're an adult (21+), and that she still was not going to let them smoke or drink until then (on that point she was strict).
Cary was right on the money here. The kid wants his mom back. And when he confronts her about the pot, she acts guilty and runs and hides, thereby abandoning him again. She seems to carry a lot of guilt, perhaps about this or because of depression or other issues, and the boy is picking up on it like a shark with blood. He thinks he's on to something, that he must be right. Instead of cowering and acting guilty, she needed to sit down with him and explain age limits, civil disobedience, and the proper way not to draw the attention of the police (as a nice police officer once did for me!).
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Honey, I've never cheated on you
[Read the article: Did Gonzales lie to Congress?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]in the context of last Tuesday.
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I'm with you, Irsigman
[Read the article: Senate panel votes to strip $4.8 million from Cheney's office]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What if they're willing to forgo the money in order to get more power in some other way?
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I take it she spent her break
[Read the article: This time, Taylor answers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]with someone smarter than she who told her exactly how to answer.
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And besides all that
[Read the article: Shot across the bow]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought that the primary job of the Pentagon was to create and drill contingency plans for every concievable circumstance that might require a military response. This is how we originally got the Powell Doctrine and Petraeus' counter-insurgency protocols. So, besides all this about political appointees and the Pentagon overreaching into politics...
She asked them to do their actual job and they said no.
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Here's something I don't know
[Read the article: House says no to salaried spouses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are candidates themselves ever paid by their campaigns? Especially before they win a seat? (If you take two years to run full time, how do you eat?-- other than being independently wealthy, of course.) Not allowing the candidate to draw a stipend from campaign money seems to again reinforce that only rich people can run.
Just curious. If they are paid a salary or stipend, then it seems a little unfair to not pay the wife (or husband) if she(he) is working on the campaign full time as well.
Having said that, being a Texan, I'm sure that nothing honest was happening with DeLay. Wrong bug got sprayed, there.
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I tell myself, it's not racist, it's rap
[Read the article: I've got a stupid racist ditty playing in my head]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And now, thanks to all this, my own personal head-sticking ditty is back!
I ain't saying she's a gold digger
But she ain't messin' with no broke n---
I'm sorry if this is bad, but the first time I heard that rhyme, I laughed my butt off, and it still gets me! It's such a great play on the rhyme, and I love the gossipy nature of the way he's talking about this girl, and I love the tune. I don't know the rest of it, but I'll find myself singing what I know under my breath-- and for a white suburban housewife, that's perhaps not such a good thing in the local supermarket. I know that I'm not racist, but strangers may not.
Personally, I save it for home. When my son's asleep or out of earshot, I just belt it out a few times until it's out of my system. He comes back in just in time for the laughing.
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Perhaps one night
[Read the article: Newt goes off message]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]he was visted by the ghosts of Elections Past, Present, and Future.