Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1577 Editor's Choice: 18
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As long as Obama's VP
[Read the article: Committee votes to accept Michigan compromise]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is a lesbian ex Muslim circus midget the Dems will be happy that everyone has been included and they can proceed to the obligatory failure.
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So in the year 2008
[Read the article: Big weekend news]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One man, half a vote. That's not even 3/5ths. Awesome.
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Superdelegates aren't enough
[Read the article: The new math in Florida and Michigan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We need superduperdelegates, who can force the superdelegates to do our bidding.
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Obama is the last digit of Pi
[Read the article: Big weekend news]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He is The HyperChrist.
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Well thank the Lord Bama those people can't really vote
[Read the article: Puerto Rico turnout expected to be low]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This play voting is fine but we can't tolerate those disloyal to the One True God.
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Obama could form his own church
[Read the article: Big weekend news]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The First Apostolic Convention of the Obama.
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Mindless Obama Lemmings
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rebel to be just like everyone else.
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It's the perfect storm of Democratic party aspirations
[Read the article: The new math in Florida and Michigan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Make themselves so utterly imploded and irrelevant they can't win a school board seat in Boston. Then they get to whine for the next 40 years that everyone else is wrong and they're right.
The problem with aspiring to be socialists is that you get elected like socialists.
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Compare that to useless endless phone calls
[Read the article: U still up?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]wazzup
nothin chillin
chillin
you chillin later?
yeah prob
straight I'll hit you up
aight
Whereas for $10/month my family can send unlimited text messages that convey no more no less info. If those were minutes they'd cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars a month.
Last month my phone bill had over 4600 text messages on it (5 phones). And I'm only using 1800 out of 2100 minutes a month, max.
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Is Obama even campaigning anymore
[Read the article: Clinton: "The people... have chosen [their] candidate"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or is he so confident it's over that he figures they don't even need a convention anymore? I hope that smugness doesn't carry over to the end of the Presidential campaign which, if this is any measure, will end in September sometime.
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Picko
[Read the article: Puerto Rico turnout expected to be low]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have you ever lived in a country ruled by a cult of personality? I have. It's not pretty.
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We must cleanse the party of those who's loyalty is suspect
[Read the article: Clinton: "The people... have chosen [their] candidate"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I recommend Camp Obama Freedom, digging oil shale by hand. Two birds with one stone, as it were.
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what I don't understand
[Read the article: Nuclear bomb]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is that you believe that the ecological risks of nuclear outweigh the ecological risks of carbon and neither of them is preferable to living in the 19th Century.
I'm pretty sure not all 3 of those things are going to happen.
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If you live in Queens you probably work in Queens, if you bike.
[Read the article: Where have all the bicycles gone?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you ride a bike you really can only get to Manhattan via the 59th st bridge which is only slightly more terrifying than landing a flaming jet on a carrier at night in bad weather. And to get to Brooklyn you'd have to take side streets. Similarly if you live in the Bronx I think the only bike legal bridges is the one at the tip of Manhattan. If you live in Staten Island you're screwed anyway and you take the ferry which means you weren't driving to begin with. And if you live in Manhattan you probably don't own a car. It's only Brooklyn that has semi-usable conduits to Manhattan via the middle channel of the Brooklyn bridge.
Point being that durable affordable bikes have ALWAYS sold in NYC but it has little if anything to do with gas since so many people can't or won't drive to begin with. The exception is the people who live and work in the SAME outer borough.
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Consider the humble Bajaj Chetak
[Read the article: Where have all the bicycles gone?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bajaj makes a retro scooter, the Chetak with a 150cc engine which means it can be licensed for any road including the highway. What Bajaj does is full retro with a manual 4-sp transmission foregoing the CVT for the sake of control and mileage. This gives the Chetak a 100-120mpg performance optimally. That's about the best static mileage you will get out of a 150cc 9hp vehicle capable of 55mph and 320lbs load carrying.
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According to the DOT
[Read the article: Where have all the bicycles gone?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]According to the DOT I live in the city with the worst traffic for its size, roughly the same traffic as Philadelphia which is 7x the size in population. We also write as many tickets as Houston, about 3.5x larger in population. We also have the top 10-15 worst air qualities every year since 1992. Of course, every street has hundreds of cars getting zero MPG as they sit there.
Either the traffic will kill you or the pollution will. And if it doesn't, we're the sprawliest of the sprawls so getting to anywhere will take forever by car, bike, skateboard or whatever. If the rednecks don't try to kill you then the oldsters and soccermoms and shitheads will do it accidentally.
The solution is to just run down or shoot everyone in front of you. Just kill everyone.
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Yes and no
[Read the article: Mortgaging our credit card debt]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most people took out lines of credit on their homes to buy lifestyle with or without credit card debt. They bought boats and cars and vacations and new clothes. So they have nothing of any enduring value to show for it.
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Who's running the world?
[Read the article: Why political candidates should be sucking up to women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is Salon so it must be the Jews.
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I'm at the point where I hope everyone does nothing
[Read the article: Nuclear bomb]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's let it all unwind back to the early 19th Century. I don't care anymore. No cars no roads no medicine no electricity. To hell with it all.
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melthough
[Read the article: Where have all the bicycles gone?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Raleigh, NC.
And no matter what Forbes magazine tells you, please PLEASE don't move here. We have enough.
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For what it's worth
[Read the article: AIPAC conference reignites fight between McCain and Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even the IAEA, for the past 11 days has been publically announcing that it may have been seriously and dangerously wrong about Iran's atomic program. el Baradi has said that they are quote 'seriously concerned' that Iran may have embarked on a covert nuclear arms program.
At what point are liberals and Obama followers going to see the light? When it's a bright flash over a city?
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What three people
[Read the article: Is Wii Fit the new striptease?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A sheepdog, 2 gallons of olive oil, some heat shrink tubing and a hair dryer do behind closed doors is their business.
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Uruguay my child, Uruguay
[Read the article: What should we do with our $3 million?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Second highest standard of living in south America. Urban, 88% white European ancestry. Halfway between Buenos Aires and Rio. Capitalist/Socialist hybrid economy. Hasn't been in a war since about 1860.
After that, I'd go for Portugal then Morocco (unless you're Jewish), then Capetown (or Port Elizabeth), then Windhoek.
Seriously, emigrate.