Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 158 Editor's Choice: 40
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People who acknowledge voting against their own self-interests are the imbeciles
[Read the article: Why Democrats dumped gun control]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LXGuy -- Thanks for the fact-free response, bozo. And thanks for having the point of the article fly completely over your head. If you move fast, maybe you can shoot it!!
Democrats have not "insulted" gun owners. And by that, I mean no Democratic officeseeker has -- and that is what the article was talking about. Just to explain -- I'll try to do this s-l-o-w-l-y -- the article was talking about Democrats RUNNING FOR OFFICE. Not people who may or may not be Democrats expressing their opinions on websites.
Second, people who vote against their own self-interests -- a club to which you confess that you belong -- are simply too dim to insult.
Not all gun owners are like that -- I come from a gun-owning family that is intellgent enough to see through the "They're gonna take away yer guns!" crap -- but the ones that are like that clearly are beyond reasoning with.
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It's a question of supply and demand...
[Read the article: GOP candidates mum on immigration]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Illegal (and yes, that's what they are -- we don't just "call them illegal") aliens come here because there is a demand for their cheap labor. Penalize the employers who hire them by enforcing financial penalties that far outweigh the money saved by hiring that cheap labor -- ie, cut off the demand for the cheap labor -- and the supply will diminish.
And it's not that Americans "won't do" these jobs -- they just won't do them for the wages that the illegal aliens are undercutting them for.
The Democrats need to hold the "law and order" Republicans' feet to the fire about why they refuse to penalize companies who are breaking the law every bit as much as the illegal aliens are.
And the American people need to start putting their money where their mouths are -- if you don't like illegal immigration, then get used to ponying up a few more bucks at the cash register when businesses are forced to start paying minimum wage to American workers who will then happily take those jobs. And that also goes for the people who do your yard work, housepainting, etc.
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Guiliani needs to adjust his medication
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Dancing With the Stars"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't watch the debate, as I was out with friends, toasting Jerry Falwell's hot new berth in hell.
But how did Rudy so egregiously misinterpret Paul's remarks about al Qaida's objections to our presence in the Middle East being partly responsible for 9/11? Did he really suggest that Paul meant we were attacked on 9/11 as a response to our invasion of Iraq? He knows that 9/11 came first, right? I assume Paul was referring to bin Laden's vocal hatred of the U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia. And no, of course that's not a justification for 9/11, but man, Rudy's response made literally no sense at all.
Simply because he has not yet imploded into a puddle of his own bile, I assume that Giuliani is heavily medicated. But whatever he's taking is lessening his already-tenuous grip on reality.
And why didn't John McCain point out the only thing that may have made this hot-for-torture crowd cool down a bit -- that it doesn't work?
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If Giuliani can't make an ass of himself at Yankee games...
[Read the article: After 9/11, Rudy wasn't a rescue worker -- he was a Yankee]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...then the terrorists have already won.
Check out the look on Joe Torre's and on Giuliani's faces in the photo accompanying the story. Giuliani looks like he's about to wet himself with excitement, and Joe Torre is like, oh, great, this guy again.
Also, can we cut the crap about how Giuliani brought the city back from the brink? Giuliani hired an extremely effective police commissioner, I'll give him that much -- then he forced him out when he was getting the credit he deserved for bringing down crime rates. As for the economy, two words: Bill Clinton. Giuliani, like mayors across the country, benefited from the longest economic expansion in modern history. And New York got an extra boost from the booming stock market in the 1990s.
Look at it this way. The Yankees won four World Series on Rudy's watch. Why not give him credit for that too? The fact is, regarding both the Yankees' and the city's success, Giuliani was in the right place at the right time.
His record on terrorism, meanwhile, was an unqualified disaster, including, among other things, insisting that the city's emergency services center be placed in the WTC -- the only complex that had already been bombed -- against the advice of security experts. Oh, and he appointed his pimp/chauffer Bernie Kerik as police commissioner, and then recommended him as Director of Homeland Security, despite knowing that the guy was mobbed up to the gills. And let's not forget how both he and Bernie used their post-9/11 accommodations as adulterous lovenests.
As for Midwestern guy who claimed that they aren't rubes for falling for Rudy, since we're the ones who elected him: Yes, we're guilty as charged for putting him into office twice. Maybe we can be forgiven for the first time, since Dinkins was a horrendous mayor and even Zippy the Pinhead might have looked good by comparison. His re-election is down to us, though.
Still, we had had grown to hate him before 9/11 -- his approval ratings were such that people were gathering with torches and pitchforks. But anyone who supports him now that the facts are out there -- and more are being uncovered constantly -- is truly a rube.