Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1113 Editor's Choice: 9
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Told ya
[Read the article: Clinton, Obama pick up new superdelegate support]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Other than Chapel Hill and part of Charlotte and perhaps Asheville/Boone, Obama will lose in NC badly.
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So Zod
[Read the article: Howard Kurtz on why media outlets ignore the "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You prefer 100% predigested (and largely agreeable) analysis to news, then. Well I almost pity you. This is what American has plummeted to. The land of the bland and home of the lame. Don't make me conclude anything, it rattles me skulls. Please massa Newsman spout your pearls of insight to me. Conclusions are hard, like Math!!!
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Insert obligatory anti black racist comment here
[Read the article: John McCain's bid for American Jewish votes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because according to the moose it's ok to spout antisemitic stereotypes but woe to he who talks like a rapper. We're Salon, we embrace tolerance, and like shit.
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In central NC new permits are down 41% this year
[Read the article: Overbuilt America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But wait for it, wait for it
- prices are UP 8%.
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I'll admit I don't know if it hurts Obama in fact or if it does it is intentional
[Read the article: I was wrong about Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But Ms. Walsh is clearly right when she says that Wright really does have an overbearing messiah complex, almost paranoia. His response to fairly straightforward criticism is thinly disguised rage masked as intentionally parodying the very behavior and words he was criticized for in the first place.
Again though I don't if this hurts Obama, clearly his supporters agree more with the words of Wright than disagree so probably he doesn't suffer along that axis. In terms of the general election, I don't know. I don't know what the mass of stupid American 'undecideds' are undecided about. But all I can think is that if Wright is in the spotlight much more he's going to have a very public meltdown
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Skunkeye
[Read the article: How much voter fraud is there, really?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lots of people don't have driver's licenses. Lots of people used to have driver's licenses and then had them revoked and surrendered. Getting a non-driver's license isn't all that hard, but it is something you have get off your ass, scratch a ride from someone over the DMV then battle with them using your original birth certificate that's often disallowed anyway.
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I'll tell ya what this geezer objects to
[Read the article: So how about those Miley Cyrus photos?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's the recent rash of remaking every famous glamour shot from the 1950's and '60's. From Jessica Simpson's shaving cover to Lindsay Lohan's neo-Marilyn shots, I feel like everyone has officially run out of new ideas. Hannah Bo-Banna's shots look like Sophia Loren shots and trust me, Sophia Loren is 100x the woman The Spawn of Billy Ray will ever be.
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But Hillary drinks the brain fluid of the unborn
[Read the article: What will McCain, Obama, and Clinton look like in four years?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To stay immortal. Everyone at Salon.vampire.com knows that.
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Does it have any actual positions on anything
[Read the article: Taking back the debate over Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Apart from Hamas inspired liberation theology, Gary? One would think that a journalistic article about a lobbying group would include some literal explanation of their policy planks. So, what are their positions, other than "We're not those other evil fucking Jews who are destroying the planet." $1.5million and 4 or 5 staffers should be enough to crank out a position paper. After all they're a lobbying group - they have to be lobbying about something, don't they?
Anyway when you find that intel, can you write about it here? I'd like it if you bounced the reactions in the Arab world off those positions here too. Just for 'balance' sake. Here is the Hamas Charter for reference in case you were wondering where J Street intersects with the freethinking broadminded liberals of the Hamas:
http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm
Mideast Web is not a particularly left or right leaning organization. I'm sure the people here will argue that anything to the right of Mashaal is some kind of zionazi plot, but there it is.
Also, Gary, Kudos on tag teaming Glenn this week. You guys always work in units of 3 articles. Nice to see you're not just writing about pine trees in the high sierra
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bearpaw1
[Read the article: Taking back the debate over Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is that a guess or an assertion? I would imagine the 400,000 Israeli Jews living in Yesha are not high on the idea of western liberal goyishe advocating they be thrown from their homes for the privilege of being bombed and rocketed. But I could be wrong, Maybe where you live people like that kind of thing.
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lampshade2
[Read the article: Taking back the debate over Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So for the 19 years 1948-67 there were zero Jews in Yesha, and for the 10 years following there were zero Jews permanently living in Yesha the cause of this anger was.......?
And for the several hundred thousand Palestinians living in Syria & Lebanon since 1949 and not given any citizenship there (Jordan is the exception) the root of their anger is......?
By the way 40% of the Jewish population of the Jewish quarter of Jersalem were killed in the 1948 war. Thousands of Jews were expelled from Hevron in the 1929 pogrom that left several hundred Jews dead. All of a sudden no talk of reparations?
Exceptionalism? In 1948 the official party line of the Arab states was "We will exterminate the Jews" Which they learned from the Grand Mufti, long time ally of the Third Reich. Similarly in 1949 when the war for independence was concluded, is was Israel who petitioned for peace and who even offered to return all captured lands to the arab states (who incidentally were illegally occupying Gaza and the West Bank under UN181 which was supposed to use those lands for a free Palestinian state), their offer was rejected since that would require them to recognize the state of Israel.
I could go on with actual factual history but what would be the point. Joooz bad, berry berry bad.
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Bklyn260
[Read the article: Taking back the debate over Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why do you think so called "liberal Jews" didn't do what you suggested '20 years ago'?
Well I'll tell you. It never mattered all that much to them. The reason it does now is because people like you would prefer to shame everyone with the same brush for their very existence. And they don't like that. They want to have the same friends at the Unitarian fellowship they had before. They're tired of being assaulted over things that really don't matter to them. So they form this lobbying group to hold up like a sign, and shout "See? See? We're the GOOD Jews, we're not like those horrible yidlich. We're friends with the Hamas!"
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Brazil levels hundreds if not thousands of acres of rainforest a day to......
[Read the article: Eating the Amazon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wait for it.....
Plant sugarbeets/sugarcane for Ethanol.
That is irony with a citric piquant aftertaste.