Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1115 Editor's Choice: 9
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C'mon these are Democrats we're talking about
[Read the article: Obama Veepstakes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Any half Asian handicapped lesbian midget ex jihadi will do. If you're gonna implode, implode all the way.
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No, what is deceptive and exploitive
[Read the article: Addicted to "Intervention" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is the behavior of addicts. Which is partly why they are addicts. I come from a long line of addicts, depressives, manic-depressives and other exploitive compulsive types so I know of what I speak.
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Cmon you're not trying
[Read the article: Clinton Veepstakes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary's running mate has to be Satan. On crack, raping a puppy.
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Lynx
[Read the article: The general election and the economy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or my Democratic gov and county and state legislatures which tripled the property taxes, increased the sales tax, the gas tax, the water bill rate, the garbage collection fee, 4 different taxes attached to phone bills, automobile licenses, car registrations and the state insurance commission just allowed property and casualty insurance premiums to float upwards 20%.
Taxation is a non partisan activity I'm afraid.
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I'm in the B2B side of the economy
[Read the article: Are we in a recession or not?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not the consumer end, and capital spending and capital budgeting is down for this quarter.
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Optimus Prime
[Read the article: Obama Veepstakes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]why limit yourselves to fleshies.
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She wants to eat human braaaaaaiiiinnnnss
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read it on Salon.
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I blame the Eternal Jew and want to see them all nuked
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There, now we can eliminate 65 of the last 85 letters. Good work Glenn. Keep up the fight.
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FredBizzl lets review that
[Read the article: The general election and the economy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"All those state and local fee increases are likely due to budget shortfalls caused by the decrease in federal funding"
Which ones? Please cite examples, Our Federal funding overall has gone up not down the last 6 years. Including an additional 600 million in Federal funding for highways we didn't ask for. You see we have a peculiar tax structure for roads. We pay a sales tax AND a property tax on vehicles, plus a road use tax, registration and inspection fees and a license fee. The DOT has NEVER in modern times shown a deficit against their budget.
"Your property taxes shot up because of the rampant speculation in the housing market"
And I thought it was that my state is fastest growing community for illegal aliens in the nation, and the population of the county has doubled since 1998. See our property values haven't gone down, they've gone up 8% since the beginning of 2008. And yet the tax RATE has been increased 75% at the same time.
"Those insurance rates? Well, when the insurance company sees the repeated strong storms over the last few years"
That has no bearing on car insurance rates, but thanks for ranting. Actually the largest driver towards insurance premiums has to do with lobbying toward the insurance commission. For instance it's ILLEGAL to sue your insurance company in my state. (I'm a former actuary)
"the reassurances of the global warming deniers are small consolation-- they feel better with higher premiums."
Actually we're coming out of long deep drought so insurance claims on homes have been at an historical low.
Thank you talking out of your ass, with utter certainty.
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What do you mean there's no Islamic Bomb?
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pakistan, that model of stability has quite a few. Of course if were Iran, what with high inflation, a need to import 80% of their refined oil products, 10%+ illiteracy, and surrounded by the following nuclear armed states: Russia, China, Pakistan and India, I would weigh carefully the advantages of deflecting internal dissatisfaction away to "Those Evil Joooz" (or any other foreigner for if nothing else Iranians are a proud, nationalistic and vaguely xenophobic group) against the downside of threatening to start an atomic war in the region, what with all those other countries who already have them.
See contrary to Salon's rabid antisemitic ignorance, it really is a very tough neighborhood all around. For example, when the IRGC says "We can absorb 80 nuclear strikes and survive" they should consider that India, China and Russia actually could and it's not rhetoric. On the other hand if you're going to play brinksmanship games with super powers you'd better be prepared to go all in. Maybe that will work for them.
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It's only a matter of time
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Before the consensus at Salon is that Hillary is clearly and obviously a far far far far far far far far right wing mole sent to the Democrats to stew dissent and force the peaceful peaceloving bloggers of peace to fight the powers of Darkness. And they have proof, proof I say!
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you take the bad with the good
[Read the article: A salute to Anacharsis Cloots]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Napolean worked hard to free many oppressed groups from tyranny and to give them equal citizenship in the nation states he conquered. Of course he to conquer them first and that tended to get bloody. But on the upside you can look at the stellar success of the CCCP and pan-confederalist collection of borderless nation states under one peaceful prosperous umbrella.
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That is correct, they are not outcomes based
[Read the article: The general election and the economy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In other words it has nothing at all to with global warming or anything else. Other than the money they give to the state. See underwriters aren't that dumb. For areas that actually show some probability of having to pay out, they just drop all coverage altogether. For everyone else, their rates go up to make up for those premium losses in redlined zones (or whatever legal term they get away with) since redlining is illegal).
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Clinton didn't change, the electorate did
[Read the article: What did Clinton do wrong?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Up until the beginning of this year, all the Dem candidates were scrambling for a theme. For some the election was 1 billion percent about Iraq for others it was immigration for some it was just 'anyone but Bush'. The economy I think took many by surprise, politically which left them with not a lot of options. Given Obama's campaign is largely vacuous and based on little more than feelings he was in the best position to be flexible in that shifting context. His unassailable platitudes work well with any problem "Corruption is Bad!" "We need to change!" "No more same old same old!" Who can argue with that? So as the electorate's priorities shifted, Clinton was unable or unwilling to shift with it. That was the key mistake - being overly specific with concrete plans and policies that were outmoded too quickly. The electorate has a very low threshold for information overload so Clinton, always having a ready command of the FACTS at every turn actually turned people off, more so as the topics she discussed were not the same ones people were interested in.