Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 344 Editor's Choice: 70
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Here's The McCain War Record That Matters to Me
[Read the article: John McCain's real war record]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He volunteered to go bomb people who'd never done a goddamned thing to him. People who lived thousands of miles from America, people who did not have the ability to harm John McCain in any way if he had not decided it was ok to go bomb the living shit out of them and their children and their farms and their rice paddies.
Then he got caught. He got captured by the people he was bombing. Suck it up, dude. In many countries, you would not have survived for 5 years in a POW camp because the people you were smashing into bloody bits from thousands of feet in the air would have slit your throat and beheaded you on the very spot of your capture.
There was no sane reason for John McCain to have been bombing the people of Vietnam. They never harmed him. They never harmed America. They were minding their own business in their own civil war when the Yankees decided the 'gooks' needed to be bombed back to the Stone Age.
Gee, I wonder what redblooded American men would have done if a more technologically advanced country thousands of miles away had entered the American Civil War and decided to take the US back to the Stone Age?
I hope they would have fought long and hard against such an invader.
Vietnam -- that's the John McCain war record that matters to me.
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I Gotta Say It
[Read the article: Punch-drunk Rudy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>>Moving along to Miami's Latin Builders Association later on Friday, he joked about how much better his wife Judith's Spanish is than his.>>
His wife is Judi, not Judith. Unless she's gone to court to have her name legally changed from Judi Ann to Judith.
(Whose brilliant idea was it to have her call him during that speech? His or hers? That's what started his free fall.)
Aside from that, I am one of those New Yorkers who can't stomach Rudy or Judi. I lived for eight years under his reign. The drop in crime during his administration was due to many things -- William Bratton's ComStat for one thing; the legalization of abortion in the 1970s and NY's decision to allow Medicaid to pay for abortions is another reason, but you're not allowed to talk about that abortion thingy. It squicks out both the left and the right.
One of the letterwriters said that Giuliani was despised in five boroughs, but that's not true. Staten Island loved Rudy and gave him his second term. They still love him there. There are pockets of Brooklyn and Queens where he is popular, but Staten Island is a bastion of RudyLove. Lawn Guylanders love Rudy too -- I had to move here a few years ago and have been continually amazed at the extent of Lawn Guyland Rudy worship. Who knows, maybe he could have taken a close second in New York.
I wholeheartedly agree that McCain is the man to beat in this election.
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Only If Mike Myers
[Read the article: "Semi-Pro"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]stops mining the 60s...
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If You Really Believe....
[Read the article: Former high-ranking Bush officials enjoy war profits]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that there was an "accidental disclosure to conservative columnist Robert Novak that Valerie Plame, the wife of Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson, was working undercover for the Central Intelligence Agency" by Richard Armitage, there is not only a large bridge in NYC I'd like to sell you, I'll even throw in a couple of twin towers as a bonus.
Neither "accidental disclosure" nor "Richard Armitage" were involved in that little poison pen piece.
Which is why Armitage is now being so handsomely rewarded for his "confession" to his fictitious gaffe.
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I Stopped Watching Olbermann Months Ago
[Read the article: Keith Olbermann: Then and now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His blatant shilling for Obama wasn't as bad as his castigation of Hillary Clinton. Clinton was nothing more, nothing less than a political candidate for office. Olbermann repeatedly attacked her as if she were some insane off-the-street headcase who wandered into the public eye.
My feeling was that I was going to vote Democrat no matter who won the primary, but I'd like to hear both candidates. But Olbermann was behaving like a spoiled kid whose friend might lose the homeroom monitor position. I stopped watching. I could get Democrat bashing from Faux and CNN, why watch MSNBC for that garbage?
I see I made the correct decision.
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Of Course Bruce Wayne is Mad
[Read the article: A thousand and one knights]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's a billionaire. If he wanted to be in charge of fighting crime in his city, he'd become the mayor. That's what billionaires do. Then he could go on to buy the governorship, a senate seat and ultimately the White House.
No need for all the melodrama of caves and capes and leggings and little bat ears. Just buy power. That's all it takes. No angst-y secret identities. All you need is cash.
He could campaign on Oprah, telling the sad story of his parents' demise and his heroic rise above it all, his calling to civic duty in order to help others. He'd be elected in a landslide ... unless he campaigned against someone who hired Karl Rove. Then he'd be smeared as someone who probably could have saved his parents' lives but was too cowardly to do so.
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I Wear Swimwear Designed To Prevent Skin Cancer
[Read the article: Why I hate summer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have big boobs and really ugly legs. So I get a bathing suit which will support my boobs, then I cover it with Coolibar swimwear. They sell swimming shirts (long-sleeves and short sleeves), swim capris, leggings, shorts, skirts, men's swimwear, kids swimwear, etc. It looks like a cross between gymwear and a wetsuit. It's lightweight, it dries quickly and it is not skintight. It has something like 50 SPF. I had a skin cancer removed from my back, so it is the perfect excuse for wearing it.
Kids wear rashguards nowadays, so it's no big deal to cover up. You can choose long sleeves or short sleeves and swim shorts, swim capris or swim pants depending on how much leg you want visible. Just say "Skin cancer. I have to be careful now. Isn't it a great idea so that people like me can go swimming without having to worry about sunscreen all the time?"
Check out coolibar's website. It's a solution for those of us who don't want to let it all hang out.