Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1104 Editor's Choice: 9
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Except that according the UN the term diaspora as applied to Palestinians has a very distinct meaning
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It means every self defined Palestinian everywhere on the planet forever unto infinity. Literally yes it does. 10 x 10 generations from now, anyone can claim they are a Palestinian refugee, even if their grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents went to Canada became citizens, lost their Arab name, forgot their ancestry, didn't know jack from squat.
Would that I could reclaim my Belarussia, Italian, Irish, Polish and German homeland. Would that the hillbillies in NC could go back to Scotland and declare themselves long lost Scotts. Would that all the Russians could declare themselves ancient Mongols entitled to the Mongolian homeland.
In the UN there are two different, parallel and separate refugee organizations. UNWRA - for the Palestinians and another agency, for everyone else in the world. UNWRA was established specifically and only for the Palestinians. Moreover their definition of who even is a Palestinian constitutes anyone who can or wishes to demonstrate with little or no documentation, that their family lived generally in the area of the British Mandate in 2 of the 3 years 1947-49. And once that is granted then every single descendant unto the day the sun explodes, forever and forever on is deemed a 'refugee'. Any Palestinian American in the US today, for perhaps 4 generations could, if they wanted to, apply to the UN for refugee status and get their names added to the roster of people the UN wants to see forcibly repatriated to Israel.
So the notion of diaspora takes on a different meaning for Palestinians than it does for anyone else. Check your law books next time. Or just call me names, that works too.
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Isn't that what informed consent IS?
[Read the article: McCain, Obama, Clinton push dangerous vaccine-autism myth]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So OPT OUT. And stop yelling at me to do the same.
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Prisoners in the US pull this stuff too
[Read the article: Iraqi sues U.S. military contractors]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But they're Americans and therefore unworthy of Salon's screechy naynaying.
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This is not about sex
[Read the article: Death and the D.C. Madam ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is about embarrassing the powerful.
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Arne
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you ordered me to STFU. sorry, no comment.
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I've said for years the ED drugs were not about sex
[Read the article: He's just not that into (sex with) you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They're about avoiding the legal grounds of constructive abandonment in divorce court. In most states if you no longer hop on the beast she can leave you with grounds. And grounds cost a lot more. Swallow your pill, close your eyes and avoid a costly settlement.
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paulpsd7
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Show me the merest scintilla of evidence anywhere that I supported any Republican, ever.
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So when Obama abolishes science it's being judicious
[Read the article: McCain, Obama, Clinton push dangerous vaccine-autism myth]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]when anyone else does, it's being a retarded psychochristian no shoes wearing cousin fucking sociopath.
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But are they 'refugees'?
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Refugees? really. I am a refugee. Interesting. Well why don't the liberals love me, I'm a victim. Why don't the liberals fight to re establish my rights in Poland? Why don't the liberals fight to reestablish Jewish rights in Arab countries?
Why is that? Do you have a feeling about that or just a URL?
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When Iraqis spend all day blowing each other up
[Read the article: Back to Baghdad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's precious little time to collect the trash.
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Watching you people tear out your own guts in a vain effort to prove you're not bigots
[Read the article: How Hillary Clinton botched the black vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Amuses me. Politics is politics, it isn't something else. And liberals are bigots just like everyone else. But like Fight Club, Rule #1 is no one talks about bigotry. Well flaming shit, Jebediah!, at least neither of the candidates is a Jew, else the racist screams and tortured bigotry here would reach to Marx himself in Heaven and you'd be yelling at how some of your friends are Jews, you know, the good kind, the ones who are a credit to their race. Face it Salon, you're a bunch of bigots but you're too noble and arrogant to admit it.
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Right
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I figured, I guess the dinner bell rang.
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So why again am I not an eternal refugee?
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cmon Paul, man up and answer a question one time instead of hurling insults.
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I guess this one has the zealots here stumped
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the Teamsters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gee it can't possibly be that my candidate Blessed be He/Her is a craven hack, can it? Anyway, you people shock me and disappoint me. I was expecting a torrent of letters about how the real warcriminals are Wall St.
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Then why didn't everyone elect Charles Lindbergh in 1940
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He just got a medal from Hitler. He wasn't Hitler. Really, the idea that people should held to account for their own beliefs is simply unfair, unfair I tell you.
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Generally a good rule of thumb
[Read the article: A pivotal day for the Democrats?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is that whomever Salon guarantees will absotively win by a crushing of the eeeeevull infidels....go the other way. Otherwise we'd be living in a bizarro universe where war with Iran has been going on for 5 years already and co-Presidents Ned Lamont and Ron Paul would be the prophets of eternal peace.
BTW, in NC when the news interviews supporters of both Clinton and Obama, the Clinton supporter always manages to state why in one or two or three sentences they support her. The Obama supporter is always a mumbling 20 something who says the he like inspires people and stuff. So maybe Obama will win, but in the end, we all lose.
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I can hardly wait for the no longer latent racism of Salon to boil out now.
[Read the article: Hospital, USA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Orthodox Jews, medical care, multiculturalism.....and so the Salonpogrom continues. Even the writer of the article is starting to suffer from it.
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Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord Obama in vain, Joan
[Read the article: Obama is wrong about the gas tax]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He probably doesn't care, but his acolytes are a pretty insane bunch of foaming crazies. I will call this article the official demarc past which Salon readers stopped pretending to latch on to sanity and reason or even demonstrate a grasp of facts. It is now just a snarling pile of partisans high on their own blood lust. But the sad thing, the really sad thing is that the day Obama wins his followers will become the craven pussies they always were. We'll read endless boring explanations why inaction, failure and inertia are good and strategic and not their fault.
This by the way is how you wind up with dictators, not by dictators directly but through weaklings who can't stand up to them, who appease and dawdle and stab each other for a place on the dais.
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Tell her BF she's a skank ho
[Read the article: Our friend got drunk and went to a hotel room with a bunch of Marines]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Which she is. Then he can dump her skunk ass in gutter where it belongs.
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No honey I love you
[Read the article: Our friend got drunk and went to a hotel room with a bunch of Marines]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those 12 guys I blew in the public toilet didn't mean nothin to me. I swear
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manos99
[Read the article: Obama is wrong about the gas tax]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You make my point for me, thank you. thank you. thank you.