Letters to the Editor
IaintBacchus
Published Letters: 222 Editor's Choice: 36
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Religion before Country
[Read the article: The ADL purports to respond again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm 100% sure I'm going to be branded an "anti-semite" for saying this. I don't care. Anti-semitism is nothing but a whip used by groups like the ADL to flog anyone who isn't acting in the best interests of Isreal.
I am not an Isreali. I am not a Jew. I am an American. I spent 12 years in the Marine Corps defending America. I say this in all sincerity: The ADL is just one more right wing reactionary group that is in the buisness of putting the interests of it's co-religionists ahead of the interests of it's country. I have no doubt that Mr. Foxman carries dual Isreali-American citizenship, so I cannot call him a traitor to his country because he is acting in the best interests of at least one of them. But he and every other Israeli-fauxAmerican traitor to the US should be required to choose which of his/her two countries he IS loyal to and stop pretending to support the other. YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS.
The same goes for dispensationalist Christians who put Isreal's interests ahead of that of their country. You obviously want to bring about the end of the world and the fall of the United States government along with it. All you are really doing is ensuring that your country will be hated by every Musilm in the world for facilitating Isreals fascist (and yes that IS the right word, look it up) positions toward it's own religious minority. You are selling your country out for your religious fantasies and causing Isreal to become what it professes to hate.
It is 30 years past time for the US to addopt a middle east policy that is based upon rational thought and national self interest as opposed to the religious fantasies of a few religious fanatics.
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What about India
[Read the article: America's dirty rotten scoundrel enemies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I notice that Bush left out India, who does have a habit of stealing our technology, and IS an industrial competitor, but did include Iran who is about 30 years behind us in everything and will never be able to compete with our industrial base.
Ulterior motive?
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Buy local
[Read the article: How green is your bottle of red?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I make a habit of never buying anything not made on the west coast and reusing the bottles for my own wine. Buying locally may be a less atractive option in other parts of the country. But almost everywhere has a particularly cheap, common fruit that makes a good wine. Up here it's blackberries. Well, OK and Chardonnay grapes...and Pinots...and Cabernets...
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Let's use his reasoning...
[Read the article: Romney's not-so-clarifying clarification]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK, based on demographics and Romney's own quota system the next president should, demographically, be a white female from a mainstream Protestant Christian sect and probably a Democrat.
Sound familiar?..Anyone?..Anyone?
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Home ownership
[Read the article: The case against homeownership]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure I'm not the first one to say it, but this looks like nothing more or less than a bit to limit home ownership to the lesure classes.
I've lived in neighborhoods where most people owned their own homes and in others where most people were renting. There is no comparison. High ownership areas have lower crime rates, better schools and more community involvement. Even in those "suburbian bedroom communities" that I'm sure someone has complained about.
Those tax credits that the author wants to do away with are about the only way that many young people can afford to buy a home and as such they have a direct effect on the quality of life in communities all over the country that would otherwise be slowly sliding into high crime, mostly rental neighborhoods.
Rootless cosmopolitans, my ass. Buy a home, put down some roots and build up your community. That's how civilizations get created. Rootlessness is for outlaw bikers, professional soldiers and traveling salesmen. Even hunter-gatherering cultures are territorial.
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Jenn's weight.
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We may live in the only time and culture in human history where Jennifer Love Hewitt's body would be called "over weight". I just looked at that picture. My only complaint was that there wasn't one of her from the back. She looks HOT!
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Tobin
[Read the article: Are you there, God? It's me, Rudy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Arch bishop Tobin's Archdiocies should be stripped of it's tax exempt status immedeately. As should every church organization who tries to use his/her church position it influence an elected officials, or candidates political position.
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I'm with the judge
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We live in a relatively safe culture. Sometimes we appear to go over board to take the risk out of everything. But there is no way to protect everyone from every harmful situation.
Getting in a car with a strange man, particularly if you're a child or a young woman is plain stupid and every child in North America has been warned against it consantly for the last 40 years that I know of.
That being said, the judge was probably piling on. I doubt the young woman needed to be reminded that it was a mistake to get in that car.
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The right kind of Christian
[Read the article: Huckabee and criminals: It's worse than just Wayne DuMond]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And this is the guy who is apearantly the GOP front runner over Mitt Romney. Who was a very sucessful governor and didn't release anybody from prison who then raped and killed someone else. And all because Huckabee is the right kind of Christian and Romney isn't.
Anybody who votes on that basis deserves exactly the kind of leadership they're voting for. The problem is, the rest of us don't.
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No, we aren't.
[Read the article: "We're all fascists now"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This clowns whole argument seems to boil down to "Fascism is anything I don't agree with and I don't agree with liberalism, so liberals must be fascists."
This book is proof positive that any crackpot can find a publisher.
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Chris Rock said it, too.
[Read the article: Our first black president?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Chris Rock also called Clinton the "first black president" in his act back in the late 90s and in exactly the same context.
He also pointed out, not entirely in jest, that the only two black people who voted for Bush (Condi and Colin) were already working for him. Bush's apointments of the first two black Secretaties of State don't seem quite so historic in that context.
And I'm sure everyone remembers what Harry Belefonte referred to those two as.