Letters to the Editor
sajwan
Published Letters: 487 Editor's Choice: 13
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More of the "Be afraid, very afraid" defense
[Read the article: It's the network]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The company said it does not determine the requests' legality or necessity because to do so would slow efforts to save lives in criminal investigations. -- Verizon
The fear mongering here is over the top.
We have to allow illegal, unconstitutional access to our prvate records so one of us or one of our loved ones are not killed. Ok... and go fuk yourself, you panty waisted Verizon assholes. There is maybe a rare situation but probably no situation except on dumbass shows like 24 where there is a pressing need that cannot be handled legally.
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Oh well
[Read the article: The Weekly Standard mentality and the Senate Intelligence Committee]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...while we stumble along blindly diminishing the role of rule of law and all that, I have some questions.
Protecting the Homeland, isn't that the mantra Hitler used to consolidate power? Is this any different than what the Weekly Standard advocates?
Are laws quaint when it comes to protecting National Security?
Is the term National Security been so wildly interpreted and amorphously used to have become devoid of meaning?
What the hell is National Security?
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Everything changes
[Read the article: Huckabee: "I'll stick with God"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Always.
Including not only our interpretation of who/what God is but God also changes. When a conscious entity stops changing, it's because it's dead. In the Christian tradition, wasn't the birth of Christ a change for God? For me God is not dead, even though I interpret the concept of God Huckabee entertains as being dead.
Whether we came from monkeys is a stupid ass question. We are animals, we poop, pee, eat, mate, have miscellaneous desirable and undesirable bodily fluids, breath, and die and decay like any another mammal. What seperates us more then high IQ from the rest of mammals, is our self awareness. A cat eating a mouse does not think. "Look I am eating a mouse, I think I am doing a good thing with this mouse, but what about the mouses feelings? Actually, why am I eating a mouse, should I eat a Chipmunk instead? I'm a killer and gosh darn I am ok with that or maybe I'm not. What does God think? Good bye little mouse. Sorry about you being my lunch and all".
This self-awareness makes us so unique on the planet that to the faithful or spiritual only God could grant such a gift. So while self-awareness allows us to contemplate God, it does not preclude us from being of the animal family and evolving from it.
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False-Pride
[Read the article: Pam Spaulding for Glenn Greenwald: Obama zapped by the third rail of black homophobia]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]-- just like the murderer, just like the one full of pride, just like the prostitute -- everybody needs God. ... So, that's why our music is about giving and God, not to condone the lifestyle or to say, Oh it's okay, but not to bash -- but just to give them God.
It's up to them to condone or not condone other people? They get to feel good about themselves because they don't bash when they say they know gays need God just like murderers and prostitutes do? Holy numb nuts, and it's up to them to give God?
Who the fuk are these people?
The self-important, self-aggrandizing, self-annointed of the false-pride holy numb nuts club?
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Sex. Control. Power.
[Read the article: Pam Spaulding for Glenn Greenwald: "For the Bible Tells Me So"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, but also Religion. Control. Power. That works too.
Many of the Christians I have met do not even know Jesus was a Jew, and are fairly ignorant of their religion. So maybe it should not be startling as to how easily people can be lead under the auspice of religion.
"Every formalized belief system but your own ~~~"
Might want to look up up the word tolerance and intolerance and then compare.
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You know it when you see it
[Read the article: Anonymous Liberal for Glenn Greenwald: Giuliani on torture]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The foundational horror of torture requires the person knowing they are in a place that is outside the laws of any nation as well as any basic laws of humanity.
If you do not think so, imagine being kidnapped and put in a solitary cell with no light, no ability to speak with anyone, not even your captors, no idea why you were kidnapped or who your captors represent, given some moldy bread and water once a day, and no idea if you will ever be let go or be killed at any moment. At no point is physical violence used against you. Put yourself in that place and then imagine how you would feel. Imagine what you would call that treatment.
Torture is like porn. You know it when you see it or read about it. Don't need despicable asses like Rudy to try to rationalize or "define" torture.
Just when I think Rudy could not be a bigger political asshole than he is, he does something like this to prove me wrong.
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Counter Weight
[Read the article: Go ask Alice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's annoying that someone can become a celebrity by promoting healthy/simple cooking that behind the rhetoric is represented by $85 entree's supporting farmers who wear gucci loafers. It smells elitist, upperclass, snobbish and celebrity goofy.
This is not to say the message is bad. Growing your own garden and eating the produce from it is quite satisfying and supporting local farmers if available is also satisfying. People like myself and my parents and grandparents have been doing this way before Alice became cause celebre promoting it. My grand-parents even had their own chickens, hence their own egg supply, but their neighbors were not too happy about the chickens. The reality is that not everyone has the time, resources or temperment to attend to a garden or raise chickens or have local farmers available, and even myself who does, could never depend on that to provide all of my family food needs.
Having said all that and even though to me Alice is more promoting herself than a reasonable/realistic approach to actually feeding people, maybe she is a necessary philosophical counter-weight to the onslaught of processed corporate food products.