Letters to the Editor
LT Bohica
Published Letters: 284 Editor's Choice: 4
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Women don't need courage and grandeur?
[Read the article: A walk on the ice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I usually like Keillor, but at times what he writes seems sexist. Is ice walking reserved only for men? Are the women of Minnesota doomed to an iceless whiny existence? :-(
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Reality Check
[Read the article: Fallen hero -- or freight?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How do you think bodies get moved around? I'm all for criticizing Bush's regime -- but it has to be for legitimate reasons.
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Get over it, already....
[Read the article: Female arms race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Abe Lincoln may have freed all men, but Sam Colt made them equal."
The above is especially true for women. We are usually smaller and so at a disadvantage in a physical confrontation with a man. The trained use of a fire arm can level the playing field.
Doubt me?
Wander over to Woman's Outlook, the NRA publication for women, and at least get an education before mouthing off about how "alarming" it is that women are finally learning to protect themselves.
http://www.nrapublications.org/woman%27s%20outlook/index.asp
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Micro-lending is addictive
[Read the article: Hell for the holidays]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That kiva.org site sure is nifty.
I've enjoyed it today and am now invested in everything from pigs to peanut butter.
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No future in politics!
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure Havrilesky is greatly saddened that any plans of working for a campaign she might have entertained are now dead due to the public airing of her less than reverent conversations with god.
No self-respecting, Catholic League fearing candidate could possibly be associated with her now.
Horrors.
:-)
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This sucks.... but do something about it.
[Read the article: The Army is ordering injured troops to go to Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All well and good to post a comment here at Salon where most of us readers are in agreement. We must be more proactive.
Now is the time to call and/or write your elected Representatives and let them know how you feel about this latest outrage. Don't let them dither any longer. Hold their feet to the fire. Squeak like a wheel that hasn't been greased for decades.
Online access to http://www.house.gov/writerep makes the process take only minutes. Calling is even simpler.
Further -- please consider taking the time to support the folks on the ground and making their burden a little easier even as you do your part to get them out of Iraq:
www.anysailor.com
www.anysoldier.com
www.anymarine.com
www.anyairman.com
www.anycoastguard.com
It is not their fault they are there and you can make a difference.
Besides, when you're attacked for wanting our forces out of Iraq and someone equates your anti-war stance with treasonous failure to support our troops, you'll be able to fire back with concrete efforts - not the average pro-war efforts entailing those lame yellow ribbon stickers and cocktail party platitudes. That ought to shame any chicken hawk into silence.
BohicaBabe
USNA '92
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Thank you Kristjan Wager
[Read the article: Army pledges to investigate injured troop charge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I appreciate your posting the Hartford Current link to the article on the deployment of mentally unfit soldiers.
I sent a copy to both of my senators and my congressman.
Maybe something will happen to fix this shameful, shameful situation.
If we don't complain, there will be no redress.
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Thank you
[Read the article: Salon's new letters registration policy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]About time.
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Economic reality
[Read the article: Life-changing sanitary pads?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Moon cups and Keepers are great alternatives to pads, but retail for about $35 US.
A quick Google provided this factoid: Kenyan per capita GNP is $385.
Sadly, I don't think many teenage Kenyans can afford cups anymore readily than they can afford maxi pads.
Perhaps a lower price can be negotiated to help these young ladies get an education. Friedman has certainly raised the profile of this problem a thousand fold with his column.
Just as when NY Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof established a fund for Pakistan's Mukhtar Mai, gang rape victim turned educator/activist, if/when Friedman gets the information out for where/how to send money -- I'll happily chip in to help.
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I, Tipster -- www.myspace.com/FREE_THE_CHILDREN
[Read the article: Kiddie prisons]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hello,
I am Bohica.
Thank you Salon, Broadsheet, and Carol Lloyd for your willingness to speak out on this issue.
Please come to the new as of Sunday myspace for FREE THE CHILDREN (www.myspace.com/FREE_THE_CHILDREN), the very loose knit all volunteer "negative" profit grassroots group who has coalesced around Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr in the past seven months and is working to expose this issue to public scrutiny and close Hutto.
FTC is using myspace as an aggregation site for news and information about Hutto as well as a means to issue action alerts to those who are unwilling to see the United States encourage, aid and allow CCA and individual politicians to profit/gain from the stolen childhoods of refugee children -- many of whom are US Citizens.
What ever happened to Habeas Corpus?
Please read the page.
Please write/call your representative.
That Secretary Chertoff would even consider barring UN Human Rights Inspector, Jorge Bustamante, from seeing the conditions these children experience at Hutto is profoundly disturbing, but then not much about T. Don Hutto isn't.
Please help spread the word.
It continuously amazes me how few people know about this evil in the heart of Texas!
Please make a difference.
These are TODDLERS, NOT TERRORISTS!
NO CHILD SHOULD BE LEFT BEHIND BARS!
KEEP KIDS IN SCHOOL, NOT IN CELLS
I served my country in the US Navy having received a commission from Annapolis. I feel we have fouled our anchor and besmirched our honor. This goes too far. We must correct our moral compass as a nation and chart a new course that does not violate the Constitution, but instead adheres to all of its articles and the Bill of Rights that I swore to honor and uphold.
Please help these children.
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Dear anonymous....
[Read the article: Kiddie prisons]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please research this issue before posting a comment rife with false information.
The women and children incarcerated at Hutto are not charged with any crime and are not criminals.
They are making claims of asylum.
They are political refugees.
They are not "illegal."
One attorney who has represented over 100 of the Hutto prisoners, has had all but seven granted asylum.
Good references with facts to back them can be found at the blog located at www.myspace.com/FREE_THE_CHILDREN