Letters to the Editor
rupert_c
Published Letters: 1221 Editor's Choice: 12
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Oliver North? Jeb and George didn't end up in jail either.
[Read the article: Just another "accountability moment"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When you get set up to bust a cocaine trafikkers airplane coming in with a shipment you really don't expect to see the vice president's sons hop out of the aircraft, do you?
What do you do when THAT happens?
Barry Seal got cowboyed.
Yeah, and no one is going to jail for the DC-9 with 5.5 tons of cocaine on it busted in MEixco last year and the Gulftstream II with 3.7 tons of cocaine on it that crashed this year in the Yucatan - both planes painted up to look like US government airplanes (because they were) and no one in the mainstream media is even going to mention it.
Immunity, it's priceless.
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Political animal - not human
[Read the article: The politics of hope]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Hillary hopes that she is the first woman president and the first to invade Iran and the first one to use nukes this century. She also hopes the guy in the white house doens't beat her to the punch.
With the exception of the two odd men out, the whole crew is the same worthless and shameful bunch who either got us into this mess or just went along because they had no character, ethics or morals which is evidently a requirement to be a member in good standing with either party.
There is a town in Arkansas called Hope, it isn't nearly as important as Mena.
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Buffalonian
[Read the article: Just another "accountability moment"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lacuna is the new paradigm.
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Avoid Therapists and Therapy
[Read the article: If Britney Spears shouldn't be naked in front of her kids, what about me?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What would happen if the LW followed Cary's advice and spoke to a therapist?
How about her having her kids taken away for sexual abuse?
Some people construe being naked in the same room with a child as sexual abuse and they are required by law to report it to law enforcement and social services. That would result in the kids being put into foster care (where they are likely to be abused) and the whole rigamarole of jumping through hoops and proving that you are a fit parent to get them back. Meanwhile, she will have fun explaining the newspaper and tv news stories about her to her coworkers, friends and family.
What happens to the LW and her kids is of less concern to Cary than promoting the therapy industry.
Dr. Phil is at the top of that food chain. Any questions?
Jerry Springer isn't that different, just not evil.
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Times are changed
[Read the article: My girlfriend's daughter is dressing like a stripper for Halloween!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When I was young there were no slut costumes on Halloween, the closest being a french maids outfit. The lack of sexually oriented costumes was no problem and Halloween was a kid's holiday.
Children are now sexualized at an early age by the media and the culture. If you think that the sexualization of young people is ok then there is no problem. After all, being a slut is one of the roles being promoted heavily by our culture, or lack thereof, for young women.
The question I pose is are their no better roles and no better fantasies than those ramped up by an adult entertainment industry which increasingly directs attention towards young people in movies, television, fashion and music that, while ostensibly are being created for young people, are in fact crafted by dirty old men.
Kids are taught this and they think it is appropriate and the behavior is rewarded in the media and promoted as the path to celebrity.
How soon before the current Disney product turns into another Britney Spears?
The problem is that people really are not product. When you turn people into product, you do not end up with people, but something far less.
Low self-esteem is good for business because you have to buy stuff to feel good about yourself and you probably will need therapy and pills to deal with it. Every one profits except the victims and it's their fault, isn't it?
Children become what they are taught to become.
The problem is that these "choices" are made by industry and media, not some child's fantasies. The Halloween stores that I have seen are not appropriate for children. Halloween used to be for the children. It has been stolen. Adults should have masquerades. balls and carnival and leave the ghosts, goblins, witches and trick or treat to kids.
Costumes are always best if you make them rather than buy them, especially if you are a kid. No profit in that.
Now if some adult dressed as a giant penis starts following one or more of these girls dressed as sluts around, it's the girls fault for dressing that way, right?
Cary, you should see the jackasses that come out on Halloween. Being prudent doesn't mean that you are a prude.
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Rubbernecking
[Read the article: "It's Britney, bitch"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If it wasn't for the train wreck, would anyone have any reason to pay attention.
It is a splendid trainwreck, but not nearly as impressive as Mr. Bush and the whole damn country.
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@David Sugarman
[Read the article: Hitlers, Hitlers and more Hitlers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most everyone I know loves them.
They are a very likeable folk.
What's there not to like?
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Blinded by science
[Read the article: We're prejudiced, now what?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some blowhards are just blowhards and other blowhards have fancy impressive titles and strict and formal ways of blowing hard.
Anyone familiar with the history of science is well aware that scientists, as a group, have a very high percentage of blowhards, who will blowhard until someone blows even harder than they with a better crafted piece of science, which is only accepted into the canon after much blowing by blowhards who are imprinted with newer nostrums, memes, facts and wheedlers.
I know how to tell time with an astrolabe so don't mess with me, fool.
Well, I used to know.
Light the torches, get the pitchforks and let's head for the castle keep. The scientists are at it again.
It's just behavioralism and programming but if we can con people into making it an organic problem or condition maybe we can sell a pill for it and get even richer.