Letters to the Editor
timbuktom
Published Letters: 2445 Editor's Choice: 141
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The Senate Just KIlled This Pro-Troops Proposal
[Read the article: He voted for it before he voted against it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fairly soon, will American soldiers and Marines, maybe, mutiny, if the U.S. Senate keeps on kicking their at-risk, hard-working, hard-fighting, patriotic butts?!!!!
Not such a far-out possibility! Honestly, these Republican Senators must have zero family members directly involved in Iraq! They must be in the new faux-uber-upper-class. They are not even American anymore.
Democratic Senator Webb has a son in Iraq. I have relations in Iraq. How in the world could Senator Warner and the others possibly vote against this bill? Maybe they are afraid these people will come home from Iraq and vote against them!??!!!
This is human-being versus evil-Republican time in America. Are you tuned into the real world? Do you have family in Iraq? If so, please vote these guys down. If not, who the heck are you? Please give that some thought. Maybe you ought to move away from the USA, perhaps to a Caribbean tax haven. Are you still American? Can you prove it?
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Gol-Danged Texans
[Read the article: Texans turn against Bush's war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Texas is a foreign country. Texans, in my life, mostly have been twits. Here's an example: In training for a new job for a Texas-headquartered company, the Texan trainer tried to get us Michigan trainees to pronounce the word, "eyes," as "AHS," the way Texans say it. (Up north here we say, "AIZ," as any real American should!)
Any Michigander customer who ever heard, "AHS," for "eyes" would run like Hell! (Which would be the hicky, "HAY-yull," in Texas-talk.)
I am an old guy, so I have some experience. Everbody I ever have met from Oklahoma (very near Texas), every single Oklahoman, has been an hilarious champion! And I do not care about their accent, nor they about mine. But there is something about that Texas border. Many Jerks Below!
The only okay Americans I ever have met in Texas have been Americans who were from another part of the USA. I have read great stuff by native Texans, e.g. Molly Ivins, and I have heard wonderful music by Texans, but I never have met a live non-Hispanic Texan who had any sense or any talent whatsoever. That includes thay-yut evil twee-yut a-settin in the Oval Office raht now, cowpoke!
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Maybe Texans Are Okay
[Read the article: Texans turn against Bush's war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have not had good experiences with Texans. But I will try to stop being such a Nasal Northerner, and give them a chance from now on.
Do you know how Americans relate to the rest of the world? Have you seen that many, many Americans assume that the USA is the greatest place with the greatest people, even though most Americans never have been anywhere else, and have no basis for comparison?
That is how many Texans feel about Texas versus the rest of the USA. Texas is one place, not THE place.
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Hey, King is Writing Good Racial Stuff, Thrasher...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thrasher, dear, please cool it with obvious, knee-jerk stuff. King and almost everybody else, we are on your side. We like black quarterbacks, but we are not sure about O.J.
That is all there is to it. Please do not bring other issues, your issues, into this forum.
Next spring, I am going to buy a boat. And I will invite you to join me on my tiny-yet-nifty boat on the Detroit River, and we will have a great time. And after we have had a couple great times on my nifty boat, I will invite King Kaufman to join us on my nifty boat, and you guys will become friends.
Internet Columnists and Internet Posters are people, not just conceptual targets.
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Cary Gave a Great Answer...
[Read the article: Should I tell my kids about all the drugs I used to do?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...So I skipped over the first two posters, who both said they did not read Carey's answer. Here is a little bit of extra detail in dealing with kids:
Show them some alcoholics lying sleeping on the streets, with wet pants and urine trails running to the gutter. You can find these people nearby, in New York, even if you do not have them in your own town.
Just drive by slowly. Maybe park, and take the kids out of the car to see up close. Talk to one or two awake bums, and let your kids hear how awful they sound, how barely-coherent.
Then get back into the car, and while you are driving home to your nice home, tell the kids that this is what booze and dope do to people. Or maybe, before you head home, take the kids to lunch at Maxwell's Plum (does it still exist?), and show them the alternative, i.e. lovely, happy people drinking a little wine, but still lovely and happy.
Admit nothing. If they ask direct questions, say that you knew people who had dope and booze problems, and that you are glad you yourself never got sucked into that life. Perhaps say, "There but for the grace of God..."
Then, later, when they try dope, they will have a floor. They may try, and they will feel ashamed, but they may believe they have hit bottom, and they may climb back.
Rather than trying to out-do you in dope. As another poster said, perhaps, years from now, you can be a little more honest. After your kids hit 30, if they turn into friends, then you may let on, if they ask direct questions, but maybe not even then.
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Point of Order
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]King, do you type? You said months ago that Salon gave you a voice system to use for your columns. Was that a joke, or ???
P.S. I'm rooting for the Lions! I want the white quarterback to beat the African-American quarterback! [People who have not been following King Kaufman may not get this.]
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Other States Have Done This...
[Read the article: Condors vs. the NRA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My big, outdoor, hunting state of Michigan has done away with lead ammo, and it works.
Please stop with your silliness. You do not need lead ammo. Arnold, please do not believe the NRA in this instance. Let the lead ammo go away. A year from now, none of your hunters will notice any difference in their results.