Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 1114 Editor's Choice: 9
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A perfect letter for Salon
[Read the article: We want a kid but don't think it's right to have one]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I highly recommend you slap on your Crocs and shlep over to an adopt a highway program and pickup trash by the side of the road instead of having a child to love.
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Yes I understand we're supposed to imagine that our lives hang in the balance
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But seriously, on any flight of less than 90 minutes you could easily stand or lean against the seat or just sit on the floor on a beanbag chair or air mattress. I often wonder when someone will state the obvious and tear out the cattle car class seats. On longer flights, I have no suggestions other than not flying or instead, selling crack to make some quick cash to afford business class. There's really no solution in hell, that's why they call it hell.
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But we don't want you apologies
[Read the article: The pope, the Jews and repentance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Less still your explanations. I understand fully the human urge to elevate the survivors you can't look in the eye. But we're not really waiting for it and we don't care. And in 20-30 years the entire Shoah generation will be dead.
This isn't meant as a sardonic comment. It's meant as a bald statement of fact. Jews aren't all that interested in whether or not or when or how or if Catholics come to terms with the history of their Church. A history that goes back more than a thousand years of persecutions, pogroms, exterminations, relocations, forced conversions, torture, the taking of children from their parents and such.
That the Pope couldn't find but a single Jewish camp survivor doesn't shock. How many do you think there are? Eastern European Jewry was 'solutioned' to the tune of 85% in Poland to upwards of nearly 100% in places like Lithuania. And was on the heels as it were, of a mass migration of more than 3 million Jews who fled Europe from 1881-1910. Not including England and France, there are today about 50-70,000 Jews in all of Europe, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. England is home to about 300,000 and France about twice that give or take.
So trust me when I say we're not worried how you feel about that. But to the Christians credit, the total reduction in the population of Jews in Europe, on a percentage basis is quite a bit less severe than what occurred in North Africa, the mideast, west Asia and Persia in the period from 1945-54. Those 9 years saw the reduction of their own Jewish population to near zero. With the exception of Tunisia (5000), Morocco (5000) and Iran (25000) there are, essentially zero Jews in the Mideast, the Maghreb and Mizrahi, outside of Israel. Zero. So at least the Christians in Europe can hang on to that. Sure most of the Ashkenaz died but you didn't cleanse the land of us to the extent the Arabs and Persians did.
I almost feel sorry for Europeans and Christians who feel a need for atonement and salvation. We're not the people who should hear it. The people who should, are, unfortunately all dead.
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A dog perhaps instead of a child?
[Read the article: We want a kid but don't think it's right to have one]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These small mammal-ish creatures are all largely the same.
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Not eating so much processed food is good for you
[Read the article: How I learned to stop worrying and love the recession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]More work and somewhat more bland to some extent but it's better for you than heavily processed or gourmet food. I don't what to suggest about $70 handcream. Perhaps Ahava at only $16 is a the way to go.
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Yeah, but no.
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All of these suggestions already exist and if you demanded them for Birkenau class seating, the Airline would tell you it increases the price of the seat by 12,540%. Remember these are the people who removed olives from the salad to cut down on weight.
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Dear Salon
[Read the article: How I learned to stop worrying and love the recession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dingos ate my baby.
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She's the Super Devil
[Read the article: "She's not as bad as you think"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Vatican scientists have announced that the devil is not the greatest threat to salvation due to the recent discovery of the Super Devil. The Super Devil is at least six inches taller than the Devil, rides a flying motorcycle, and carries a jar of marmalade which is believed to cause adultery.
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Too bad he didn't call all Jews "Nazis"
[Read the article: Duking it out to be London's head honcho]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like Red Ken famously did. At that would have been acceptable.
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Oh ok then
[Read the article: The pope, the Jews and repentance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]50,000 makes all the difference when 6 million were killed. Thank you for playing David Irving today.
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But in the big scheme of things
[Read the article: "She's not as bad as you think"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A Lord President Obama-Ra who accomplishes little if anything but makes you feel really good about feeling really bad yourself is probably the kind of President that America wants & needs. He'll be the anti-Reagan. More fluff and stuff and tone and sound bytes than accomplishment much the way St. Ronnie was. And come 2012 you'll be the first ones to point thy blogging claw at someone else to blame.
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When I was a kid
[Read the article: We want a kid but don't think it's right to have one]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Our favorite day of the year was mom's birthday. She was too drunk to beat us.
Where's my 15 minutes of fame on NPR?
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Portlander
[Read the article: The pope, the Jews and repentance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How wonderful for you. Shades of Bernard Goetz then.
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Point being
[Read the article: The pope, the Jews and repentance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr Sugarman is only half right. I'm fine with letting bygones be bygones. After all, it's not as if "Never Again" has any meaning anyway. I'm second generation and I have recovered some of the letters sent back home to Oscweiz, Bialystock, Koindonov and such practically begging those laggards to come over to the new world. But they knew better. They were nitpickers too.
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concerntroll
[Read the article: How not to prepare for peak oil]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Years ago ELF Aquitaine determined that Iran's failure to invest a dime in their own oil infracstructure would quickly grind it to a halt. Moreover Iran ALREADY imports more than 80% of their gasoline, which they regularly ration. They have oil, but they refine very little of it. Too busy with other projects like nuclear 'power plants' that don't have electrical turbine systems attached to them I guess.
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Doesn't matter, people will lose interest
[Read the article: Rove willing to testify -- except when he's not]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everything is going according to plan.
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My semen
[Read the article: The evil future is now: Semen detection kits]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is a corrosive molecular acid, like the alien in well... Alien. Get some on ya it's gonna burn.
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18.4 cents a gallon Federal tax
[Read the article: Gas taxes and head games]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is a great idea. 18.4 cents a gallon is difference between wealth and penury. Yeah that 5% discount is gonna be great.
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What rules?
[Read the article: Obama, get ready for the "Clinton rules"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Coverage of Obama consists of pundits and bloggers talking about Obama.