Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1107 Editor's Choice: 9
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wouldn't export restrictions cause the domestic price to fall not rise?
[Read the article: The rice paradox]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The major rice producers that are also the major rice exporters should only see domestic warehousing of overstock as a result. This would tend, in the very short run to cause some periodic hoarding, driving up the price but then the price tends to fall to work off the inventories and the costs that warehouses have to bear to keep the product in inventory. Unless you genuinely believe that there's going to be a famine or a prolonged production crash soon.
The real issue is the economic dynamics of a CASH crop in those markets. 30 years ago, those were subsistence farmers who ate their own product. When prices were high or low it didn't matter as long as there was enough to eat. With cash crops the farmers have to rely on stable increasing prices in order to get paid enough to pay to bring the crop in and have enough left over to buy all the goods he needs to live. And because cash cropping is about efficiency, the farmer has layout crop rents for fertilizer, pesticides and equipment. If the price and or the yield doesn't cover that, the farmer goes broke AND hungry.
So, clearly some engine of subsidies is required. One to bolster the return to the farmer and One to stabilize the price to the consumer.
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Jooooz run the world
[Read the article: John McCain's serious foreign policy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They own and operate your very souls. Everyone knows that. Joooooooozzzz Joooooooozzzz
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All TV is this
[Read the article: Nothing says "hip" like the Oxygen channel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Reality" crap, z-list celebutard has-beens. All TV is this. Except of course for Salon's sexual servicing of whatever's on Showtime, The Wire, or BSG. And the occasional paid placement for "Lost". I don't see why O should be any different. I know why people watch Tyra Banks. They watch her and then imagine smashing her face in with a roofing hammer. I know I do. If O wants to be real bleeding edge they should have a game show that tosses contestants in a shark tank. They don't have to do anything but not get eaten. Because all other TV is heading in this direction anyway, they might as well get ahead of that wave.
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Does BS object to those new Cadillac ads aimed at women?
[Read the article: The upside of a recession ... sort of]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I mean how many women can afford one? And the ones that can, aren't they somehow suspect of something? I'm just trying to figure out where BS's watermark for acceptable vs unacceptable consumption is?
Would a women only Green Tourist vacation in the Honduran rainforest be ok?
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I hope Obama wins and this guy swears him in
[Read the article: The return of the Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And does his whole Florida A&M shuck and jive routine. I'd also like to see Rev Wright given a new cabinet post - Secretary of Racial Affairs or something like that. It would be worth it just to see Al Sharpton's head explode with envy.
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Be careful what you wish for
[Read the article: The rice paradox]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Centrally planned economies don't have a terrific track record. I mean they're kind of ok once you ignore the famines and mass death, pogroms, gulags, cultural revolutions and such.
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and yet in the UK where ownership is quite a bit different
[Read the article: Howard Kurtz on why media outlets ignore the "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For instance the Guardian is structured as a public trust not a corporation, their coverage isn't any different in that it's any less agendized then anyone else's here or there. You know what the Times is going to say, you know what the Guardian is going to say and so on and so forth. Likewise, the Beeb openly stakes its reputation on being UNbalanced, it's openly and proudly leftist and dares anyone to question that. And the Beeb is in part owned by the government. So I'm not convinced what changing ownership rules accomplishes.
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The wiser idiot theory of everything
[Read the article: The Gilded Age, past and present]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No one cares because everyone universally believes that everyone else is a fool and deserves it. It's the same reason why union bashing is so popular now. Even the people who are kicked out of their houses, lose their jobs are screaming about the evils of unions because they delude themselves they are special, exceptional, unique, while everyone else is a slacker and a moron. Sure, everyone 'hates' the plutocrats but in their hearts they secretly think they have a good chance of becoming one.
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In so called 'emerging' countries
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where the only requisite for a vote is having a purple thumb, they elect whomever screams at them the loudest and promises them either the biggest bag of free goodies and/or flaming meat cleaver death to their enemies. And that's if they bother to vote at all. Salon's favorite madman, the President of Iran, won his previous election, for the mayor of Tehran with a whopping 6% voter turnout. Clearly no one believes this moron except for his tools in the liberal west.
NOT being an elite doesn't necessarily serve the interests of democracy and enlightened freedom either. I'd say it's a mixture of filthy rabble and brie munching aesthetes.
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Derbig Mooser
[Read the article: Howard Kurtz on why media outlets ignore the "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you for being the tool we know you to be. thank you. Now, as to the specifics, howso, specifically does changing the ownership rules, using other countries as an experimental model suggested actually change anything? Any idea? Or are you waiting for someone to tell you?
While we're (Well I am, you're pretending to be autistic, I think) on the subject, what's entirely wrong with that anyway? Why should news be 'balanced'? Balance is for opinions and bullshit, not information. Facts aren't balanced, it's either raining or it's not. The stockmarket is either up or it's down. Do you want someone to tell you what to think based on your brand affinity?
Oh wait this is Salon, of course you do.
Now, moose I was sorry to interrupt the voices in your pointed little head. Please go back to whatever novel your were writing with your own excrement.
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It's only a problem where all elections are ties
[Read the article: How much voter fraud is there, really?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And most of our national elections recently have been ties. If there is zero consensus on where the country should go then perhaps it matters less overall who gets to claim victory anyway. Dems won Congress 2 years ago. They might as well had themselves frozen with Walt Disney's head for all the good it did. If some Dem manages to scrape together a victory in Nov it will still mean that Congress and useless and deadlocked. Nothing will get done, 2010 will see a GOP victory in Congress leading to more angry insipid do-nothingism.