Letters to the Editor
3reddogs
Published Letters: 186 Editor's Choice: 43
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I Did (Let Him Know :-)
[Read the article: I support the troops, but the police chief is an "idiot"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since I don't have access to a fax machine, I just sent the following email to Congressman Twit (Bill.Young@mail.house.gov):
Dear Congressman Young,
I share your outrage at what happened to your wife on Tuesday evening. Shame shame indeed.
What a pity, though, that your outrage doesn't extend to Cindy Sheehan, who, unlike your wife, wound up in handcuffs and in jail. Since you've stated publicly that you "disagree with everything she stands for" I have to conclude that you're against freedom of speech and freedom of expression. I, on the other hand, think Mrs. Sheehan has just as much right to express her opinion as your wife does. I would have thought a congressman sworn to uphold the constitution would feel the same way even if a person's opinion doesn't happen to agree with yours.
Shame shame indeed!
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Hmmm
[Read the article: Maybe they should ask Katherine Harris to help]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]According to Raw Story, "The first ballot to replace former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) was invalidated after the vote tally included more congressmembers than were eligible to vote." I'll bet the fools were using Diebold equipment.
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INTELLIGENCE Committee ???
[Read the article: GOP senator on spying: If you don't have anything nice to say ...]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush and Cheney have been saying for years that anyone who disagrees with just about anything they say or do is aiding and abetting the enemy. I'm sure parrotting their words was a whole lot easier for Sen. Chambliss than having to formulate an indpendent thought or two and then have to articulate it. Saxby want a cracker?
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Just Another Photo-Op
[Read the article: Conservatives and the King funeral: Who's "classless" now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]George Bush was at Coretta Scott-King's funeral for the same reason that he paid his "respects" to Rosa Parks. It was a photo-op, nothing more, nothing less. If he thought he was going to be in one of his "immune from criticism" zones because it was a funeral, then he obviously doesn't know a thing about Baptist funerals. When I'm not outraged at some of the racist posts I've seen from the Bushies who are up in arms about Rev. Lowery's remarks, I'm amused at their complete indignation. Hey, those of us who watched the State of the Union address had to listen to 60 minutes of George Bush telling one lie after another. What's so terrible about George Bush having to listen to about 60 seconds of truth from Rev. Lowery?
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Then and Now
[Read the article: What would King have said?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Under the Bush administration, words like that delivered from the pulpit would probably result in your getting a letter from the IRS threatening to take your tax-exempt status away.
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Money Laundering + Bribery = Appropriations Committee
[Read the article: Tom DeLay and Justice: Fox, meet henhouse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just when I thought there was nothing they could do that would surprise me anymore, they go and put Tom DeLay on the House committee in charge of handing out (and laundering?) money and the committee that's overseeing the Justice Department's investigation of a bribery scandal that he's knee-deep in. Isn't it good to know that the Republicans' commitment to Congressional reform is as phony as everything else they say or do.
I guess it could have been worse - they could have also found him a seat on the Ethics Committee. Oh wait, I don't think they even meet anymore. Well, you gotta hand it to the Republicans, they just raised hubris to a new level. (Or maybe the Republican leadership figures they'd better start making nice with Mr. DeLay or he'll implicate them when his Abramoff indictment finally arrives.)
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Shoe Bombs?
[Read the article: The attack on Los Angeles, again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not only did Bush get the name of the building wrong (back then it was the Library Tower, not Liberty Tower) but he also stated that the planning for this thwarted "terror plot" began in October 2001 and involved shoe bombs that would have been used to blow the cockpit door(s) open. 'Scuse me, but at the time this alleged plot was foiled a good swift kick would have opened a cockpit door because the airlines hadn't even started reinforcing them yet. Next he'll be telling us the shoe bombs were going to be used to blow everybody's feet off so they couldn't run away.
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And now the tables will start spinning
[Read the article: Brownie turns the tables]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the unlikely event someone can get Bush to comment about Brown's testimony, he'll probably mumble something about how unfortunate it is that he wouldn't admit to his own incompetence and then he'll no doubt accuse poor Brownie of aiding and abetting hurricanes.
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Quayle Hunting?
[Read the article: Cheney shoots a man in Texas, but you don't need to know]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm such a pathetic human being that I actually laughed out loud when I heard the first mention of this on TV last night. If that's not bad enough, when they said it happened while they were quail hunting, I couldn't get the picture of Dan Quayle out of my head.
Anything and everything that's negative is a big secret in this administration so no one should be surprised that the White House sat on this story until a Texas newspaper reported it. It wouldn't surprise me if all the rabid neocon loyalists out there found a way to blame Bill Clinton for this.
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My Name Is 3reddogs And I'm An Idiot
[Read the article: Cheney's old hunting partner fires away at "idiots"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've always been under the impression that "homosexual sodomy" has been around for just as long as heterosexual sex yet according to Scalia it wasn't a fundamental right when the constitution was written. So we have two things that have been around for a lot longer than this country's been around but only one gets the coveted status of "fundamental right". I thought the Constitution was supposed to preserve freedom, not take it away. Scalia's narrow-mindedness is almost breathtaking and knowing Alito will likely be just as disrespectful of individual rights should be profoundly unsettling to all of us idiots who think that the Founding Fathers never intended the Constitution to be cast in concrete.