Letters to the Editor
Old VMSer
Published Letters: 10 Editor's Choice: 1
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Wow, BushCo is getting close to 100%!
[Read the article: The killing of Jamie Dean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]sometimes the Army wouldn't provide shelter for his team, and they'd have to force villagers to let them sleep in their homes.
Considering all the other parts of the Constitution violated by BushCo (starting chronologically with the 12th Adm.), I'd have thought that they'd have left the poor little obscure 3rd Adm. alone. Guess not.
Amendment III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Is there any part of the constitution left unraped by Bush & crew?
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more that Franklin *should* be famous for
[Read the article: True confessions]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Franklin invented bifocal glasses, an amazingly simple and useful invention, that is still in widespread use today.
Franklin was the one that defined "postive" and "negative" charges, and which was which. The electron is negative, because of Franklin's definition, so very long ago.
Franklin is responsible for the US having decimal currency. It was his idea, and he pushed it through.
Franklin founded the University of Pennsylvania.
Franklin created the first fire companies.
I'm afraid that limiting the "correct" answers to just a handful shows the ignorance of the test-makers much more clearly than that of the test-takers.
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about SITE and the bid Laden tape, and Perino
[Read the article: Perino watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]from what SITE said, any URL they sent to the WH was a URL to their own host, not to the original source. Remember that they said that they started getting hits from US agencies over the next few hours, that sounds like something that they'd only know (or tell) if it was their own host, where they'd certainly have access to the logs.
If SITE did have access to the logs of an AQ host, then blowing their cover was really, REALLY *R*E*A*L*L*Y* bad;
that's the kind of access the CIA would kill for, probably literally. So I doubt that it happened that way; my bet is that the video was in a publically-accessable but not obviously linked part of an AQ public site.
Someone needs to see if they can catch Perino off guard:
"The bin Laden video that was leaked to Fox news. Did the leak come from the Vice President's Office?"
Her reaction might be informative.
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who to ask about this?
[Read the article: America's water war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the "who to ask about the implications of persistent drought" is the question, let me make a very simple suggestion:
Ask Jared Diamond.
there may be others that have examined the effects of climate, drought and circumstances on human civilization, but I'd bet that Jared knows them well (both the subject, and the people who know the subject).
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they need one more...
[Read the article: Party of two: Lieberman and McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, they need to get Jesse Ventura on board.
Onward with the Monster Raving Looney Party!
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Hillary is only part of the story
[Read the article: How bashing Hillary backfired]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, the media tried to bash Hillary, using her "emotional moment". And (good on them) the NH voters didn't stand for it.
But take a look: the media also tried to get "gotcha" reactions from Obama and Edwards. Obama didn't play along, and Edwards made some generic comment that got blown up by the media into a huge slam on Hillary. It wasn't.
And I'm afraid that our liberal feminist commentators, while they saw through the Hillary-bashing, fell hook line and sinker for the "Edwards is a meany" framing.
Look at the ACTUAL statement by Edwards, and then look at all the unsupported media hype of that statement. And yes, I'm looking at you, Salon pundits. You should know better.
Our MSM was trying for a two-fer: bash Hillary as weak, and bash Edwards as mean. They only got one, but it's a warning to us all.
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a smear with no author
[Read the article: The Headless McCain Smear]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...no doubt the reason that the persons responsible for the smear are left out is so that later it can be blamed on liberals and democrats.
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there's some upsides to it...
[Read the article: Red State Update: Mixed feelings on the Confederate flag]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]there's some upside to having the confederate flag around. Those who insist on wrapping themselves in the emblem of slavery and treason are easily identified as whackjobs, for example.
But what I'd *really* like to see is more "confederate flag burning".
It's a flag of treason. It deserves to be burned, stomped on, used as toilet paper. I don't care if there are people that consider it "part of their heritage". You could make the exact same argument about the Nazi flag, and what they both stood for is repugnant.
William Tecumseh Sherman, where are you now that we really need you?
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show trials, here we come!
[Read the article: Why copy the communists?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure that the "goal" of eliciting false confessions will go over just so well when Gitmo confessions are offered in evidence at the war-crimes trials of prisoners.
Even Bush-appointed judges are going to slap this misadministration silly.
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open season!
[Read the article: Gingrich: Palin could sue "SNL" for slander]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Newt has just declared himself "fair game" for all and sundry on the inter-tubes to post satires of Newt, in an outhouse, with whoever, doing whatever.
But please, think of the burned out retinas, and spare the photoshops.