Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1577 Editor's Choice: 18
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Again though to the question at hand
[Read the article: John McCain's Arab-American problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What specific issue is Dr. Cole trying to address? It's not so much that McCain (or anyone else for that matter) has an Arab American problem is that's Dr. Cole's Arab Americans aren't really sufficiently organized in a way that addresses their unique issues.
True, and if it's as Dr. Cole asserts merely a lot of hot air about those goddamn Zionists, then yeah, I guess Arab Americans have a problem; not just with McCain but with the majority of Americans. After all even St. Obama hasn't declared world peace and an end to all American armies everywhere, yet. Or if the issue is first and foremost Arab-o-phobia then that too is bigger than any candidate. I suppose the rest of us who have been here a generation or two or 9 can appreciate the whole "No Dogs No Irish" sentiment of it, but that's what it is and every immigrant group has had to put up with it along the way. I don't think a candidate is going to remediate that for them.
So given that, what problem is it Dr. Cole believes is something that can be addressed by a candidate? Or is it something else? Is Dr. Cole merely saying that McCain will lose BECAUSE there are a lot of Arabs in Michigan? I would say Dearborn has bigger problems now, like the auto industry.
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Most of the Hog owners near me
[Read the article: Playing soldier]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are white collar high tech bureaucrat types, age 45-55 (who else can afford a toy that expensive?).
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You say suicide bomber like it's a bad thing
[Read the article: Al-Qaida's female warrior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Odds are she kills maybe one or two other people not including herself. At least she'd shut up at that point. And there's a high probability that the people she killed were 'those' people that Salon half wants to see anyway. It's a win win
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Like it's a bad thing
[Read the article: Al-Qaida's female warrior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone who sets out to murder white people, westerners, men and/or Jews is a hero or heroine as it were. Huzzah ! Huzzah ! I ululate ferociously at you!
PS, does this suicide belt make my ass look fat?
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Obama is from the future
[Read the article: Will the youth vote win it for Obama this fall?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's already President and this is all just a dream in Barack's Blessed be he head.
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kuhnigget
[Read the article: Why gas is so expensive]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But that's a silly argument. In EU nations the price of gas is driven by enormous taxes. For which people ostensibly get something back. Even in Norway which is itself a huge oil producer and exporter the state charges high taxes on gas specifically to underwrite their social welfare programs. The taxes on gas in the US are much much lower and even that, go to god knows what. Typically waste or the 'general fund' or keeping more coffee cup clasping shovel leaners employed 'fixing' the very roads you're indirectly being charged to drive on.
For instance my state gas tax is almost 30 cents a gallon. The end result of which is that there basically zero roads that are not under construction or repair, forever.
PS this has the added benefit of creating tens of thousands of 'work zones' for which traffic violations are 2, 3, 10x higher fines thereby creating the single largest revenue stream in the state.
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Well that and
[Read the article: Soap opera social engineering]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The fact that the Brazilian government has a tradition of trading free abortions for votes. And also as the Brazilian economy grows their middle class people tend to want fewer children anyhow.
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sounds like an oppotunity for blackmail
[Read the article: Should I confront my father about his affair?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is there something you need? Make a list!
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But what if it wasn't fake
[Read the article: Today in "Ugh": The perfect woman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What if it was outwardly utterly indistinguishable from a living person? What then? It would be the perfect liberal sentient being. Synthetic free will and no soul.
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senorplaid
[Read the article: Will the youth vote win it for Obama this fall?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes he cured the sick made the lame to walk the blind to see.
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That's the only way to deal with a control freak
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And it's fun to watch them explode when you hand a control freak actual control. Because that's the last thing they really want.
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It's about power and control
[Read the article: Older women: Sexy or scary?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]for both the men and the women, no one their own age will put up with their shit.
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I'm a robot and she's never at the meetings
[Read the article: Today in "Ugh": The perfect woman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Domo Arigato, Me.
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I didn't know divine immortal beings had to worry about their health
[Read the article: Doc says Obama's in "excellent health"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama is the Messiah. I'm sure his health is not a problem.
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It's all lies
[Read the article: Does Obama have a lobbyist problem too?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and when the Messiahbama comes, you will all pay.
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Your problem is not all Americans
[Read the article: Still waiting for Madam President ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just your fellow democrats who will ALWAYS find a reason to slot some other oppressed subclass ahead of women for their turn at the Presidency. Hey I don't make the rules, I just listen to NPR.
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There's a good joke in there
[Read the article: Older women: Sexy or scary?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But it's unprintable.
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gezelligtexas
[Read the article: Does Obama have a lobbyist problem too?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's only because his minions response to any and every criticism is a cry that we're all racist reactionary untrustworthy so and so's. The personality cult of Obama permits no discussion no dissent.
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marktgarten is right
[Read the article: Does Obama have a lobbyist problem too?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Be very care of which gloppy mop you daub everyone with:
Unions, a lobby
AARP, a lobby
Teachers, a lobby
and so on....If they're all eeeeevul then you have to abandon all of it and everything all of them want.
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One would think that with an opportunity to make that much cash
[Read the article: Why gas is so expensive]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Iraqis could stop carbombing each other for a few months. I guess not. I guess mayhem is too fun.
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If I were 20 and someone wanted to "keep" me, I go for that too
[Read the article: Older women: Sexy or scary?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Beats punching a clock.
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I still think you should blackmail him
[Read the article: Should I confront my father about his affair?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Times are tough, get some free stuff.
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Of course Obamanauts will blame them
[Read the article: Blow-back from Clinton supporters hurting Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And if they lose in Nov woe is he and she who were not One with the Obama.
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As opposed to the emtire State Department
[Read the article: Former high-ranking Bush officials enjoy war profits]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who eventually wind up as 'consultants' for Arab dictators.
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It will never happen.
[Read the article: Still waiting for Madam President ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's the democrats themselves who object the loudest. They will always find a reason for saying 'some better qualified candidate will be found." To the Obama liberals, there's always a good reason to exclude women from the big table. Women are fine as govs, or keynote speakers or the occasional Senator but President? Nope. It will never happen with the current DNC leadership and the general tenor of the voters who support them.
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bigguns
[Read the article: Why gas is so expensive]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But that's really besides the point at hand. For example Iran the holy sainted peaceful country that all Salon comrades want to move to, produces only 20% of its own gasoline even though it's one of the largest oil exporters in the world and their claims about peaceful nuclear power fall flat because by their own admission those nuke plants have no visible means to generate electricity at all. So it would seem that logic and self interest contravene ideology.
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Cast ye the first advance
[Read the article: In defense of Scott McClellan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who among you would not sell out for a big payday especially if it was entirely popular to bash the group who happens to be his former employer?