Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1109 Editor's Choice: 9
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Rule #1
[Read the article: What every freelancer should know]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Never take advice from people who's introduction is they're addled and crazy they seemingly have the time to pitch an idiot list to a blog.
Rule #2 - Hire, no, better, be friends with your accountant and do what they say no matter what.
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An oldie but a goodie
[Read the article: The rubes and the elites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.urbanarchipelago.com/
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Isn't that what concentration camps are for?
[Read the article: I think my dad's too old to vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seriously, anyone of insufficient utility or worse, someone who's simply not up to snuff, we should pack off in rail cars to some 'factory' somewhere. Seems like an entirely enlightened thing to do.
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With the amount of money top programs bring in
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Schools should pay their players and forego any illusion that they're students. Of the final four this year only UNC has a graduation rate over 50%. Why do you think 4 out of 5 baseball players are recruited straight out of high school? Because minor league is minor league - it's development for players. The fact that a roomful of boosters in school sweaters with their fat guts are making millions off it doesn't make any less a business. So the NCAA can one of two ways - indentured servitude that EVERYONE agrees doens't lead to a post college career of any kind anyway, or, they can simply admit they're the minor leagues and start paying their players.
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Back when they slashed out the Constitution
[Read the article: I think my dad's too old to vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe as many as 15% of Americans had the right to vote. No women, no blacks, no Jews, no poor people, no Indians, no foreigners. Maybe we should go back to a system like that.
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I see in the upper left corner of this screen
[Read the article: House Republican blasts Obama as "that boy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!"
The irony is positively lemony.
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See the proof is in the pudding
[Read the article: Is Miss USA an Obama girl?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My initial post was scratched. You ladies need to pay attention to that. You can say whatever misogynist crap you like, even on Salon, even on BS on Salon but woe to he who dares utters the slightest thing 'racial'.
Women really ARE second class citizens in America. I hope you're ok with that especially all you Obama Groupies.
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Someone should tell Bush
[Read the article: Pope to president: Don't call me, I'll call you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That not everyone on the planet wants to scarf greasy ribs and pretend to be a cowboy. Maybe he got confused by that red cowboy looking hat the Pope prefers.
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He will part the waters
[Read the article: Would Obama investigate the Bush gang?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And drive their chariots into the divide where the walls crash down and drown paroh's army.
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My state's gasoline tax RATE climbs with the price
[Read the article: McCain-onomics: Cheap gas in every tank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not only the amount but the tax rate itself goes up with the wholesale price. A double whammy.
The most obvious side effect of this is that all law enforcement agencies blow their fuel budgets for the quarter and then go out on a ticket writing frenzy to make up the shortfall.
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have a gander
[Read the article: McCain-onomics: Cheap gas in every tank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]State taxes on sales, gasoline, cigarettes, beer, wine and spirits.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/245.html
"For the first quarter of 2008, the average state gasoline tax is 28.6 cents per gallon, plus 18.4 cents per gallon federal tax making the total 47 cents per gallon. For diesel, the average state tax is 29.2 cents per gallon plus an additional 24.4 cents per gallon federal tax making the total 53.6 cents per gallon." - source is Wiki
Note also that commercial airlines are exempt from Federal taxes on jetfuel.
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Either kick them to the curb and let them starve or make them wards of the state until age 18
[Read the article: Polygamists' progeny]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let the rednecks put their money where their mouths are. Same thing with abortion - call their bluff and outlaw it completely then turn around and make the states pay for the care and feeding of all unwanted children until age 18. You will see Bible thumpers beat a path to resurrect abortions like you've never seen. Sanctity of life is fine, we're talking the sacred holy tax dollar.
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Not unless they all got blowjobs
[Read the article: Would Obama investigate the Bush gang?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This IS America, you know.
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Obamessiah the HyperJesus will simply go back in time and do it over again.
[Read the article: Did the "bitter" flap affect the race?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No matter what, his followers here will proclaim a Great Victory against the Forces of Darkness and then they will of course call for everyone who disagrees with them to be exterminated.
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In Obama's magical pixie dust fairy land
[Read the article: I think my dad's too old to vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We won't have to vote anymore. Governance itself will be obsolete and we will be lead by the sunshine blasting forth from his ass.
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Just ship him off the Florida
[Read the article: I think my dad's too old to vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those goofy geezers couldn't run a sane election if their lives depended on it. Believe me, if he voted for a chair no one would notice.
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Banks do not want to be landlords
[Read the article: Washington Mutual's bad day ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The average workout of a foreclosure is more than $75,000 per not including the dead loss the bank incurs on the lower value. You have to be something like 6 months behind for them even to file the papers. So the financial position of the bank is not going to cause them call in loans. Why should they? If they can get a payment stream from active accounts why would they screw that up throwing people out of their homes for a loss plus extraordinary expenses.
People who are at risk of losing their home should contact an accountant and figure out what the tax benefits are to renting out the property to someone else. For any rent. Any money coming in + tax advantages is a helluva lot better than mailing your keys to the bank.
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Just move them from one concentration camp to another
[Read the article: Polygamists' progeny]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Corral them into some Uber camp somewhere run by the state. I'm sure it will all work out. Because if there's an organization that functions smoothly and with fairness compassion and equity, it's state and local government.
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We need to criminalize everything
[Read the article: Advertise anorexia, go to jail?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That way, no one can blame us when there is crime.
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Or you could happily ignore the self anointed faux marxist hippies of Salon
[Read the article: Don't blame San Francisco for Obama's "Bittergate"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not as if they represent more than the tiniest tiny sliver of anything. Zealots and fools most of them so trying to explain something to them is a waste of time. Politics is the new entertainment and whatever you do never tell people their taste is shit.
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then we need to outlaw BET
[Read the article: Advertise anorexia, go to jail?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because I'm sure the same number of 'urban youths' (relative to the number of girls who become anorexic from advertising) watch that and decide that waving guns, slapping ho's and smoking crack is the way to be.
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I have a wife for that.
[Read the article: Evernote: Software to help you remember everything, forever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She tells me about all the things I forgot, why I suck and how it's all my fault.
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In other words, any developing country
[Read the article: Criminals of the world, unite and take over]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Any poor, emerging, developing or third world country, whatever you like to call it, operates with high levels of black market economy, graft and corruption. It's not as if they don't have against this stuff. But everyone would starve to death if they followed the law. Russia is merely one example. Most of Africa is another. Peru, Venezuela, Nicaragua are others. It's not that remarkable.
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And yes yes yes I know evil white guy evil white guy
[Read the article: Criminals of the world, unite and take over]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But the practice of baksheesh in Arab countries predates your attendance at Berkeley.