Letters to the Editor
IndigoSwash
Published Letters: 101 Editor's Choice: 5
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So, you wanna off Camille, eh?
[Read the article: Real inconvenient truths]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's what ya do.
1) You don't read her writing. You know it sucks. Why raise your blood pressure? Why let the crap filter into your brain?
2) You don't write 43 pages of letters about her.
Basically, you IGNORE THE TRASH HEAP.
Pretend it's getting slowly rotting, buried under yesterday's coffee grounds. Or buried under the disdain of anyone with intellectual honesty.
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Nothing to see here folks, nothing at all...
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RE: Not gonna be quiet about this
[Read the article: Real inconvenient truths]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Self-righteous preening? Ok, flame on, brother, flame on.
>> ...I pay my Salon premium membership (rather than stealing someone else's login)...
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Criminy.
[Read the article: Real inconvenient truths]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Apparently double right brackets cut off letters. Le sigh.
RE: Not gonna be quiet about this - Joseph Quote:
...I pay my Salon premium membership (rather than stealing someone else's login)...
Moi? Or the scheming nameless hackers in the shadows?
I'm not really a Premium Member. I just play one on TV. Oh, I used to be one, but then I flushed my membership after pleading uselessly with Salon to improve their hired guns/writers. Not too shockingly, their code updates lag behind their bookkeeping. Go figure.
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(Ignore/Test)
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Running a little bracket test per Salon's request...
>> ... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... <<
Testing...
Random haiku:
down into
where all the stems join
a little frog
~brent patridge
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The video in question
[Read the article: Fondling Stephen Colbert]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For your viewing pleasure -- or squicking -- as the case may be:
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=86577
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One floor does not equal a club.
[Read the article: The new girls club]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey, sounds like a great idea to me. And the rest of the floors can be a co-ed mix. Where's the negative? Except for the $30 extra a night for a "jewelry holder" and special hair dryers anyway. I'd say that $30 should go towards premium chocolate on the pillow and primo toiletries instead ;-)
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Building and creating?
[Read the article: "Sicko"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tiberius: "The gitmo example... is a perfect analogy for why we don't want socialized medicine. To get that you have to give something up. al queda gives up their freedom and the other countries give up their ability to build and create due to taxation and useless burocracy."
Ah, like we are building and creating in Iraq?
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Data from the Center for American Progress:
$100.8 bil.: Annual cost of the war in Iraq, according to current monthly spending of 8.4 bil. per month
$463 bil.: Cumulative estimated cost of the Iraq war as of 2007
$5.6 bil.: Estimated cost of the escalation, according to Bush administration
Up to $27 bil.: Estimated cost of the escalation, according to the CBO
$633 bil.: Projected cumulative cost of the Iraq war come 2008, figuring in the cost of the escalation
21: Percentage of the FY 2007 National Security Budget spent on Iraq
8: Percentage of the budget spent on homeland security
0.07: Percentage of the budget being spent on international broadcasting and educational cultural exchanges to win the war of ideas with terrorist groups
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So, we're not giving anything up? I suppose that $8.4 BILLION a month is earmarked for war, and that's all well and good, a sign of how high-functioning we are.
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Cary shoots...
[Read the article: I know my co-worker's evil secrets -- because I was his therapist!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and scores! (Riotous applause in the background)
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Please no glue traps!
[Read the article: How do I get rid of mice? Plus: Testimonials needed!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They are just heinous.
Much better to just thwack them with the traditional trap. Yes, peanut butter is better than cheese. But not chunky, because they just pull off the protruding nuts very carefully. (Yes I had some darn careful mice.)
But please, no glue traps! Terrible cruel things, imho.
p.s. Kinda odd that Cary is getting questions an exterminator should be getting asked. I wonder what other weird ones have gone unanswered that we remain unaware of. (ie, My cat pees on the Oriental rug without fail... My car's left rear tire makes a rumbling noise... I hear radio stations from my fillings...)
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Ok, here is the "Why" regarding the plea for no glue traps
[Read the article: How do I get rid of mice? Plus: Testimonials needed!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You just want the mice gone, right? Or dead and gone if you want a definite solution.
But you don't need to torture them to death, unless you're of the heartless mind "That's just nature" like another poster here. Why inflict unnecessary pain? It might just be a mouse, but it's your karma, way-of-the-wild poster.
Here's the nasty result of glue traps. (Sensitive readers, feel free to stop reading.)
From About.com:
A 1983 test that evaluated the effectiveness of glue traps found that trapped mice struggling to free themselves would pull out their own hair, exposing bare, raw areas of skin. The mice broke or even bit off their own legs, and the glue caused their eyes to become badly irritated and scarred. After three to five hours in the glue traps, the mice defecated and urinated heavily because of their severe stress and fear, and quickly became covered with their own excrement. Animals whose faces become stuck in the glue slowly suffocate, and all trapped animals are subject to starvation and dehydration. It takes anywhere from three to five days for the mouse to finally die. This is nothing less than torture.
Plus for you, the trap tender, mice feces are very unsanitary. The less you have to clean up, the better.
p.s. If you have neighbors who use glue traps, and you are of the mind to save & relocate a live mouse on one, what works quickly and safely: put a small amount of cooking or baby oil onto the places where the mouse is stuck and gently work it into the glue with a Q-tip. Make sure you are outside when you do this to avoid mess and set the mouse free.
But I would not recommend using glue traps with the thought that you can get to the mice in time and oil them off with no damage to the mouse.
If you are not going to get no-kill traps, just use the cheap and fast traditional spring traps is my advice.