Letters to the Editor
Nita Martin
Published Letters: 271 Editor's Choice: 62
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Slicing and dicing the "Catholic" vote is simplistic in its complexity
[Read the article: Are you there, God? It's me, Rudy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Quoting a Bishop does not feel the pulse of the general Catholic population.
Talking about a growing number of lapsed Catholics as a trend is about 40 years behind the times.
Taking the word of polling subjects on how often they attend church is like asking a six-year-old if he brushed his teeth. They lie, and that is an established and tested fact when it comes to perceived issues of character or taste. One study got responsdents who "subscribed" to Arch. Digest and National Geo., however their actual subscription data was Good Housekeeping.
Other posters are right. There is no Catholic vote.
When asked, I say I am Catholic. Because that's what I am. However, I haven't been to church in 30 years and will probably never go back. I take issue with nearly every item of the church's dogma, including their stance on birth control in the face of overwhelming overpopulation and poverty in their most rapidly growing geographic areas.
And I'm really not happy that in the early days of the church, women were declared to not have souls.
Rabid evangelicals will vote blindly for anyone who spouts off about Jesus. Jews will support those who openly support them. Mormons...well let's just say that if you want a job in a Romney administration, you'd better be a card-carrying member of the biggest religious union in the world. (It's no surprise that Romney's Mexican gardner was a member of his church.)
Catholics, however, we think outside the Bible. And outside the pulpit. There is no Catholic vote. There never will be. And the handful of those remaining who blindly follow an outdated Vatican aren't enough to elect anyone.
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What a big steaming pile of....
[Read the article: "Come here, Barney. Yeah, you come here"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Presidential crap.
I especially like the circa 1952 cartoonish Christmas music and the infomercial delivery of the head spokesmoron.
And it's so nice to have a break from all that icky war stuff, isn't it?
Maybe we could send Barney to Bahgdad and set some holiday scenes there to the same music.
Kind of like the "roaming gnome."
Merry Christmas...from Rockie and Dolly (my dogs), to Barney and Dufus.
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Smug and smarmy...
[Read the article: Clinton strategist: Sorry about -- cough, cocaine! -- that Obama drug story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is how Mark Penn comes off. My second thought after watching this ridiculous slappy fest was.....You would think Hillary's camp could do better than be represented by this obnoxious fat-faced creep. Maybe he is a good "strategist", but for crying out loud, keep him in the back room.
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Opinionopus
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't care if it makes sense. I don't care if it's shop worn. I don't care if it has deeper meaning.
As long as there is a big-nosed puffin in a shower cap, on a meadow under a tree, under the stars, in a skimmer, he will make me smile. No other raison d'etre required.
The smile has been ripped from my face almost permanently by the deplorable state of nearly everything. But just the sight of Opus makes me smile. And has for decades. It's good to look out through a brain dead simpleton's eyes once in a while and enjoy the pure act of unencumbered subtle amusement without the burning need for soul-searing "meaning". The hit-or-miss of pithy political commentary is a welcome but totally unnecessary bonus for me.
Everybody should be allowed to suck their thumb and twirl their hair once in a while. If that's what Opus has become for some of you who don't want any rage downtime, then for God's sake, turn away. But leave the rest of us in peace to be quietly amused or gently pissed.
If Opus can inspire raging debate and anger, we are all in need of the world's largest cocktail. Pass the bourbon eggnog, please.
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Gary
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm just sayin'... I am left with few simple pleasures and a lot of rage, which is why I just love your opinionated self to bits. So I have to defend my fluffy indulgence. My comments weren't about you. Sometimes it's about me. :-)
Let my puffins go.
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Ooops....typo....GARRY with two r's.....
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Happy Holidays, and a better New Year. (and a Democratic Pres. in my stocking, please)
Best,
Nita
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@anonymous...those that can, do...
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]those that can't, criticize. And they don't even do that particularly well.
That old saw seems to have reached its zenith when it comes to the topic of military service. Shame on you.
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Garry
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"He never spoke of it to me. I had to learn it all from the After Action Reports and the Daily Journals with their hour by hour radio logs I got from the National Archives. I understood too late, because he had passed away, the reasons why he was they way he was, sometimes violently angry, sometimes depressed, almost always carrying something inside him that could not be shared with anyone. The acronym PTSD had not been coined back then. It was very hard on us kids. We never knew. We thought we had displeased him and his behavior was our fault."
Holy crap!! Me too. My father was in the Pacific. Never talked to anyone about it, but came home a depressed and violent alcoholic, and according to family friends, a completely altered person. Died of it at the age of 54, fighting demons no one else understood, until the end.
And here we go again.
Maybe you've seen this...but anyone who wants a real look at what our troops are going through should read this and think about it as the people who are fueling this absurdity go Christmas shopping as usual. It makes you really wonder how any of the people who constructed this war can claim they sleep at night.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121407I.shtml
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Nothing could "cause Democrats to despise Lieberman"...
[Read the article: McCain: I've got Lieberman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]because they already do. The opportunistic little weasel duped the voters in Connecticut into sending him back to Washington. He's a liar and a cheat. And now the McCain endorsement is just one more public finger in the eye of the people Joe Lieberman despises....the people he was elected to represent.
Joe Lieberman and Clarence Thomas should take a cruise together and celebrate with their favorite whine...how everybody "done them wrong" and how sweet revenge is. Ha! Take that, people.
Small men. Big damage.