Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1577 Editor's Choice: 18
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Obama smokes
[Read the article: Obama-Bloomberg '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bloomberg would love to see all smokers executed.
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Rather broad definition don't you think?
[Read the article: Taking stock of the war on terror]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seems like 'terrorism' is what they'd like it to mean on any given day. And not to put too fine a point on it, what's wrong with a little 'agitation'? It's not as if America has actually been imperiled since 2001 (or even on 9-11). We could easily absorb many low intensity terrorist attacks that were meant simply to get our opponents point across.
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I have to side with the victim here.
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Burning down a building in this case is barely a crime. It's more of a call to attention. All over the world we watch, some of us participate, in protests and demonstrations that involve this kind of direct action. And it's no big deal. If there were more of this it could only be a good thing.
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It does randomly freeze, particularly on pages with embedded PDF
[Read the article: A rocky Windows trek for Apple's Safari browser ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's also sensitive to being left running for extended amounts of time and tends to bog down. Though it is zippier than FF and it's somewhat more compatible to Acid3 test standard. On the whole I do wish that FF hadn't garnered so much attention because it's not the best out there and as a result some products like Opera or Safari tend to be better yet lag in the add-on's department.
Also please note that Secunia isn't perfect either. It reports a later version of Real Player as being not as up to date as the prior version. Which is not correct, obviously. It also has a very narrow scope of applications that it checks overall.
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Kryptik
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It shouldn't be prosecuted all. It's a ticket at best and it should be settled in civil courts. It's practically a free speech issue.
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Christopher Michael Neill
[Read the article: The return of Joementum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dead on. "They" shouldn't be allowed to be citizens. Just expel 'them'.
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Terrorism isn't always bad.
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sometimes you have to smash the machine, a little bit. Sometimes you have to fight back, it's your duty. What we in the US call "Terrorism" is little more than irritation. If we had real terrorism, real direct action, you'd see a real change. Ok so McVeigh was tad over the top and his politics were a jumbled mess, but the method is entirely sound. In Palestine, Iraq etc. "Terrorism" is used to entirely legitimate ends. It's just another tool of politics.
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The real problem is that the US has to go broke first
[Read the article: Barack Obama on the recession: "Government has a role to play"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only way the US will change is after it collapses and there is mass disruption in the economy up to and including massive depression, hunger even. The only solution is for the US to slide to second or third world status.
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Gore is not bigger than God
[Read the article: Time columnist: Gore-Obama in '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama is.
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Nothing will change until gas is 8 or 9 dollars a gallon
[Read the article: Kicking the gas-guzzling habit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because nothing in America changes until it's a crisis, a panic. And when the government needs to recall 50 or 100 troops to quell the rebellions at home then we will leave Iraq. You can ballpark that collapse at no more than 5 years from now.
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Gas has effectively doubled in price since 2001
[Read the article: Kicking the gas-guzzling habit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And no one is screaming about it hitting them in the pocketbook. But if it triples again and people can't eat then it will suddenly dawn on them. Government doesn't listen to the bottom half of society anyhow so they don't and won't care, not until that bottom half rises up and there's mass rioting.
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It's not a brain question
[Read the article: John McCain on the mortgage crisis: "Any assistance must be temporary"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's an overlord question. Dumb, smart, no difference, the lord of the manor is the lord of the manor until someone puts his head on a pike as a warning to the others.
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In the past 6 months
[Read the article: Kicking the gas-guzzling habit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]More than half of all vehicles sold nationally were trucks or SUV's. More than half. That means more than half are getting around 17-20 mpg. And those are the new vehicles. Regionally though like in the SE that ratio 75/25 in favor of trucks SUVs so Americans it seems are cutting their own throats. They're too dull to recognize it. I was flipping through Motor Trend the other day and Hummer plans on selling an even larger Hx vehicle, so large in fact it's larger than the military truck it's based on. So large it's exempt from CAFE standards. An 8500 lb family vehicle that gets as little as 10 mpg. And because of a wrinkle in the tax law, owners can get as much as $24,000 tax exemption for 'farm' vehicles. Even at $4/gal that's 60,000 miles of free driving.
No, America is screwed. And it can't happen fast enough.
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You all assume a radical black nationalist is a bad thing
[Read the article: Polls: Obama weathers Wright controversy ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is that? We've had the reverse of that long enough and it hasn't worked out. Lets try an angry exclusionist black anti white anti jewish militant movement for a change. Then after 8 years of that we'll be able to sum up whether it's entirely bad or not. It can't be any worse.
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Chris Sinnard
[Read the article: Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The enemy is the enemy. It does not matter who the enemy is. McPeak called it accurately. If that offends those people in NY and Miami then perhaps they'd be happier living somewhere else where they're wanted.
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I believe the Kingdom of Saud officially outlawed most forms of slavery in 1962 or 63
[Read the article: Modern slaves]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So it stands to reason that it would still be pervasive in that part of the world. Such is the nature of societies where 99% of the wealth is owned by 0.1% of the population.
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Strangely Enough
[Read the article: Kicking the gas-guzzling habit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Right, we should just tax it out of reach for most people. If we can't persuade people to use less we have to either force them or ration it.
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2 years ago we saw a house
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]15,000 sqft, 3 kitchens, 6 car garage. If anything was worthy of being torched, fully occupied, that was.
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20 or 30 thousand rolling heads will fix this
[Read the article: Bonfire of the Bear-Stearns vanities ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I truly believe we are near the point that the rich should be rolled up to the guillotine and decapitated by the thousands. In the big scheme of things it's a small price to pay for a great correction in society.
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Obama should be President for Life
[Read the article: Time columnist: Gore-Obama in '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At the least, perhaps we should dissolve Congress and let him rule as an absolute dictator-god. I would be ok with that. There are many countries that operate efficiently with what are effectively, modern day monarchies: Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya. Elections should be reserved for state and local roles.
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The only thing that will settle this is massive force against the occupation army
[Read the article: Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would hope that this 'civil war' which is simply resistance to the invaders, should escalate twofold, fourfold, more. Let a thousand GI's a month go home in boxes, force them from Iraq and you will see civil order return to Iraq in a year or less.