Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 442 Editor's Choice: 48
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A Right WIng Blog, hidden deep inside Salon, that's NEWS!
[Read the article: Rep. Kucinich introduces articles of impeachment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The impeachment of President Clinton did the Republicans little good politically (They just won eight years in the White House with a subnormal candidate)
...and impeaching Bush now might very well diminish the substantial advantage Democrats currently have with voters.
(Don't start counting that Democratic advantage too soon, there is a big split among women who think Hillary got the shaft)
Some liberals in the blogosphere are complaining about the dearth of coverage of Kucinich's resolution.
I have to disagree -- as I've pointed out before, when discussing complaints of liberal bias from the right, the media is in the business of covering news.
(I turned off NBC last night when they opened their program with weather,weather,weather. It's summer time, and they don't do substantive reporting during the summer, yada yada. Since when did the MSM ever do its job, since 2001?)
This barely qualifies; if it deserves mention in the mainstream media at all (judgemental, badly judgemental on your part)
but the action of a lone congressman who's widely considered something of a laughingstock (He ran for President, and received consideration. Is Ron Paul a laughing stock, Ross Perot?? Prejudicial and judgemental.
Take a vacation Alex, you don't do news during the summer. Everyone knows that.
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CounterPunch on Security Deal
[Read the article: Debate over contractor immunity hampers Iraq-U.S. deal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This about a lot more than immunity for contractors, this about long term bases in the Middle East. Go to http://www.counterpunch.com/leupp06062008.html
Just to keep that earlier thread alive here's a quote " But aside from [Laughingstock] Rep. Dennis Kucinich, few in Congress have made issues of the security treat, hydorcarbon law, or plans for a strike against Iran.. The mainstream media is for the most part unquestioning, subdued, as the Bush administration continues to subject the Muslim world to incredible provocations."
Separately the Kurds and the Malaki government agreed to some of the benchmarks for U.S. withdrawal, which according to the article is the plunder of Iraq oil reserves, while the Kurds have their own oil fields (one would like to see the details of that agreement to see what the Kurds are giving up, since they are on the Bush administrations official enemies list, even while Turkey and Iran coordinate attacks on Kurdish rebels).
Ah, international black mail. Is it news yet?
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We don't like the Bushes either
[Read the article: Does OPEC want Obama to win? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]since the Arab embargo in the 70's OPEC has been a moderating force in the world economy. For thirty years they have been the good guys. Chavez is a problem, but everyone thinks OPEC, Saudis. Do the Saudis like the American occupation, the saber rattling with Iran, not a bit. They want a more stable Middle East, and to that end they hope Bush and anyone like him is not allowed to run American Foreign policy, there is some chance of that. Point one.
What can the Saudis do with all that money? They can't buy the military hardware they want. They can't give money to Islamic organizations that help with poverty and schools because the Bush people will label them terrorists, and freeze their assets. I can understand why the Saudi's don't want Republican foreign policy.
Only 25% of the American people approve of the President, the Congress won't Impeach him, and his surrogate is running on the same platform. Bring it on.
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ah come on Robot3
[Read the article: Does OPEC want Obama to win? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]who do you think we share military techonology with, the Saudis or the Israelis? Does the house of Saud have nukes? State of the art ECM that allowed them to penetrate presumptively state of the art Soviet Air Defense technology? As the Israelis did in Syria in that raid on what was or wasn't a nuclear reactor? Whatever it was it breached some socalled state of the art defense systems, and is one reason the Israelis can boast about taking out Iran.
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Consumers can hedge also
[Read the article: Oil executives: "What do they know?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder if any of the eco-sensitive types who are your readers ever considered a futures contract? Futures contracts are for everybody. Lets say you have a small trucking firm and you want to hedge your fuel costs, you can buy a futures contract and lock in the price. Better yet if you have your own storage tank, you can accept delivery. What I wonder is would it be possible for a group of individuals to pool their energy needs, and buy a contract to hedge their needs. Simply subscribe a number of friends and relatives, and let them buy a share of the contract on something like natural gas, or gasoline. Many exchanges now have mini-contracts, which are smaller quantities. Once you over, or underinvest your projected needs, you are no longer hedging. There are also ETFs which are weighted at multiples of the market price, which mimic the moves in these natural resources. The only problem of course is that you might lock in a high price, and find the price at the close of the contract is lower. For people who are on the edge of their mortgage payments, preventing budgetary shock would outweigh the disadvantages probably.
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The Popcorn Eaters
[Read the article: Clint vs. Spike: WWII racial grudge match!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lee could have never made White Hunter, Black Heart, and done that film justice. When Eastwood as Huston pontificates about letting the 'popcorn eaters' tell you how to make your films, that was classic Eastwood. Same goes for you Lee.
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Bicycling, Beer Drinking, Curmugeon: Andrew for President!
[Read the article: The king of beer mergers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But you are going to lose the Hispanic vote if you take on Budweiser.
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Walmart and the profit motive?
[Read the article: Obama's new pro Wal-Mart economist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From a purely economic point of view you have to consider Walmart anti-capitalism. Add Amazon and few others I suppose, and there goes the profit motive, which is keystone one, and why we should consider Walmart a trojan horse inside the Capitalist economic system. (The other is Bernanke who would commoditize paper money down its cost of production, paper and ink. Hey Central Bankers, you are supposed to create added value to your fiat currency). At least Walmart doesn't run it's stock price up by laying off workers, but the notion that government should bail out underpaid workers rubs me the wrong way.