Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1577 Editor's Choice: 18
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Iran executed about 300,000 people ex judicio in 1979
[Read the article: Tom Friedman's latest declaration of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well you know you got to break a few oeufs to make a scromblette, dontchya.
In the Great Depression, unemployment was about 25% or roughly what it is today in Iran where only on Salon would that be cheered as a great and revolutionary success. Sometimes you have to wonder just who pays Glenn Greenwald. my bet is 5 to 3 it's Iran.
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Because Congress has been so forceful thusfar
[Read the article: Republicans worried after Mississippi defeat ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can hardly wait for the excuses why Lady Congress can't get shit done, now. Is it because they don't have a zillion percent hypersupermega majority?
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you got to love the holier than thou ethos here.
[Read the article: Have we fallen behind our parents?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem is clearly everyone else. It's that imaginary bulk of other people who consume too much of all the wrong things that's the problem. It's never anything you can point to, it's simply that vague demographic of people we didn't like in the first place. Yes let's blame them.
Fact is, 'all those people' could disappear from the face of the earth tomorrow, you'd still be screwed. You'd still be on the hook for one of your kid's college tuition bills, your car insurance, your health insurance, $4/gal gas etc etc.
I live a pretty frugal life. I think all of YOU people are wastrels. So who are you to talk?
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A few years ago in Italy there were national strikes
[Read the article: Have we fallen behind our parents?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a result of the government proposing to dial back on lavish retirement plans it could no longer afford. The strikers didn't get any benefits restored.
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ELYDOG
[Read the article: Have we fallen behind our parents?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You should try knowing what of you speak, at least once in a while. The problem in Italy is, at it's core, a population pyramid inversion problem. Too many old people, too few people underneath to support them. It's axiomatic that the old people aren't going to win against the government in such a circumstance.
Please try better to slam me next time.
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There is no Ho
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Neo
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I guess the point is
[Read the article: Bush seems to attack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That you can talk until your liberal brie munching head explodes. It won't make any difference to an avowed enemy who not only isn't interested, but isn't reliable and openly refuses to comply.
Why limit yourselves to Salon's somewhat uncomfortable relationship with Nazi world view when you can bang the drum for Darfur? What exactly has all our appeasement and well wishing done for those miserables?
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bearpaw1
[Read the article: Bush seems to attack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because you need a concrete set of goals, an agenda and a course of action. Just proposing to yakity yak offers nothing. You know Iran has a clear purpose in mind so why would the US stumble around unprepared and blind for the sake of 'playing nice'?
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So an article by a left wing columnist
[Read the article: On armies, war and an aging Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Talking to other left wingers, pro Palestinian NGO staffers and the odd feminist here and there. Yeah I'd call that balanced. Of course for Salon, that constitutes right wing hegemony unless you interview convicted mass murderers/Hamas soldiers in jail too.
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This is the crux of the problem
[Read the article: Hoping for magic from Americans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In Arabic there's a saying. "What women want is roasted ice". This is what you're confronted with. You want to be gone from Iraq and not gone. You want to not be responsible and totally at fault, at the same time. You want to leave them to their own destiny and micromanage them as helpless children, forever.
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shellouise
[Read the article: Have we fallen behind our parents?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So in conclusion what you're saying is that it's not only a noble thing, but it's inherently necessary to act against your own interests. Well I would suggest you do that first. Feel free. Clearly we need to sacrifice everything for the generation just ahead of our own in order to saddle ourselves with crushing debt, especially after that generation voted itself the biggest bag of free stuff in the history of people, ever.
What you don't understand is that your parents generation made itself an entire generation of middle-upper middle class people at YOUR expense. Knowingly. So when you're their age and you're eating Alpo, let's hope that Liberal well wishing keeps you warm through the winter. Good luck with that. Because for shit-sure your kids won't be able to take care of you.
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JClarkd
[Read the article: How to stop illegal Canadian immigration]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, with a well conceived thought out assertion like that, you're a natural to be hired by Salon. Are you sure you're not Winston Churchill or William Faulkner or something?
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Ok you deleted two of my posts.
[Read the article: On armies, war and an aging Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You need to start limiting posts to people who pay for the privilege then. Or at least have a banner somewhere that states once and for all "Salon reserves the right to echo one and only one officially blessed point of view, for the sake of our Arab financial backers and others invested in the Mel Gibson mythology of an evil world wide Jewish conspiracy. Anything that deviates from that will be erased so we can pretend that our particular flavor of 'journalism' is the expression of every single person on the face of the earth and so no real discussion other than long copywrite violating paste ups by our favorite professional Palestinian agitblogger, aka aVulcan are permitted. We hope you understand and up the chimney, thank you."
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bignose
[Read the article: Bush seems to attack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You what's really kind of funny in a sad tragic slacker way? You never actually say anything of any material substance whatsoever to anyone. You're Waldorf the Muppet up in the balcony. The sad part is you think it's valuable and insightful. But it's not. It's just blitherblather.
Don't worry, I'm sure you'll tap out a whole two or three sentences back at me, insulting me or something equally useful, informative and fact based. But in the end, your ignorance is what it is. So do me a favor, do us all a favor. If you can't thread a coherent thought together, then don't try.
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wow the ignorance here is astounding
[Read the article: On armies, war and an aging Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]racism asserting it is fact and lies and ignorance trumpted as history.
You folks are beyond hope. You, Gary Kamiya, Glenn G and the rest all deserve one another. Keep bloggin doods.
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there's got to be a way to blame this on Israel
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Otherwise what would be the point of Glenn writing about it? I know, I'll start a blog that blames everything in the world on Gays then let's see what Glenn has to say.