Letters to the Editor
VGalea
Published Letters: 3 Editor's Choice: 1
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Geography
[Read the article: Ask the Pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"A pilot friend of mine worked for a time in Azerbaijan, which is nowhere near Kazakhstan, though it sounds like it should be."
Well,maybe you haven't spent much time in southwest Asia, I know I haven't. I do have that nifty little icon for Google Earth on my desktop, however, and quick reference there seems to show that Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, two former Soviet republics, are less than 150 miles apart across the Caspian Sea. That's a good bit closer than Flint to Harbor Springs in Michigan, which is where I'm driving tomorrow morning.
By the way, are Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan anywhere near Azkaban? Just wondered.
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Bill Cunningham's whining
[Read the article: Obama should be proud to be named Hussein]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I saw an interview wherein Bill Cunningham complained that he had been "thrown under the bus" by John McCain over the incident of repeatedly referring to Senator Obama as Barack Hussein Obama. He claimed that he only did that to identify the specific person referred to, and that, in the same manner that he always refers to Hillary Rodham Clinton and William Jefferson Clinton. The funny thing is that he did not once refer to John Sidney McCain, III, by his full name. No, according to himself, he is totally blameless and innocent. Yeah, right.
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Poor Levi
[Read the article: Conservative reaction to Palin pregnancy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Am I the only one who is concerned that the father of Sarah Palin's grandchild to be has been subjected to some, probably highly intense, degree of pressure to set aside any plans he has for himself and his own future to "make an honest woman" of the governor's/Repugnant VP Candidate's daughter? I keep picturing a shotgun wedding, with the wronged father in overalls and battered double barreled replaced by six grim looking but very fit men wearing suits and earplugs and carrying Uzis.
Of course, poor Levi and his family will be kept as far from the press as possible, so we may never know whether he is willingly sacrificing his liberty to have a normal youth at the altar of prim and proper right wing expediency. I also suspect that his new family will be funded for life by the Right to Life whackos who need to show, since they are determined to eliminate choice, that Bristol made the right choice and won't have to pay the price that any other young lady in the same situation would have to pay. How genuine it all is.