Letters to the Editor
sajwan
Published Letters: 487 Editor's Choice: 13
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The question
[Read the article: What "winning" in Iraq looks like]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]..."is the glass half empty or half full" is now replaced with "The water in the glass doesn't matter. Look at the shiny glass. Doesn't it sparkle."
Afganistan. There was universal group think that invading Afganistan was a good idea. My reason for thinking invading Afganistan was a terrible dumb fuk idea was that the Russians were there for 10 years, before they said this sucks, this is useless, and just left. There's a model worth following.
The Afganistan group think spawned out of Bushes most blantantly facist declaration of his term, that any country "harboring" terrorists were enemies of the United States and would face dire consequences. Nobody really knew what "harboring" meant, so it could mean anything, and opened the door to all kinds of war "opportunities".
Yep that glass sure is shiny.
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Free Press
[Read the article: Harry Reid -- compare and contrast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But the silence to this point on the part of our favorite MSM villians has been quite complete.
-- Paul Dirks
The MSM apparently views their job now as kissing ass to power at every opportunity, and dumping the public service part of their job in exchange for the servitude to stock-holders part. Free press my ass.
Imagine these very appropriate Headlines.
"Telcoms seeking retroactive amnesty"
"Telcoms knowingly broke the law"
"Whitehouse urged Telecoms to break laws"
"Telcoms push for 7 years of amnesty"
Not to mention
"Free press put at risk by FCC"
"FCC promotes Media Monopolies"
"FCC undermines News diversity"
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churchspeak
[Read the article: Mike Huckabee's leap of faith]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"This is churchspeak. "Fear" in this context means "respect and honor." It doesn't mean "be scared of" and it's not incompatible with love.""
It is interesting that love is described as not necessarily incompatible with respect and honour, none the less it is still seperated out from the notion of respect and honour.
If love is combined with respect and honor, then it becomes clearer that the fear of God does not mean love, respect and honor God in any context.
Fear of God implies living under an authoritarian structure, where you do good and you get doggie treats, you do bad and you get the whip. You cannot love, respect and honour God (or anything or anyone else) if all you're doing is trying to get a doggie treat for the effort.
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The last refuge of the non virtuous
[Read the article: 9/11 Commission: Our investigation was "obstructed"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." -- Addison Whithecomb
From their worship at the altar of ignorance, the troll learns when all else fails to resort to claims of slander, to charges of being attacked, while purposefully and with great vigor ignoring that it is their message being attacked and in fact destroyed.
Claiming otherwise in blissful self-denial does not resurrect such messages from the ashes.
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Community College
[Read the article: Mike Huckabee, leftist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Minimal government and fiscal responsibility = conservative. Lots and lots and lots of government=liberal. At least it did when I was taking political science classes in college.
Must have been at Rush Limberger Community College.
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It's good for ratings
[Read the article: Andrea Mitchell's strange attack against Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]C'mon Alex- would you jump off a bridge just because all the other kids are doing it???
Haaa. No seriously, this passage is just as idiotic and revolting as some airhead on TV talking about a manufactured event. Maybe more so.
This is equivalent to a reporter seeing 10 guys jump off of a bridge, report only one, and then harp on how bad the one guy was to jump. The article did not condone Hillary’s mis-step, rather just pointed out incompetent, vapid, arrogant, and basically stupid reporting by Andrea.
Unfortunately, in our current political climate, dumb-ass lousy reporting is good for ratings.
Her husband is another piece of work - busting Clintons ass to balance the budget so he could give Bush a free rein to deficit spend like a crack head with a stash of stolen credit cards and low enough interest rates to make America debt riddled to the point banks are failing.
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Hope and Change
[Read the article: A Democratic donnybrook]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know if hope is something I need from a candidate. Hope is one of the things that certainly keeps the human race chugging along against all odds, but hope is no predicator of outcome.
When buying a car I can hope I made the right purchase, I certainly do not want the dealer telling me to have hope I've made the right choice.
I do not want the presidential candidate of hope, I want the candidate of getting the fukkin job done while aligning as closely as possible to my perception of the nations priorities.
Candidate of Change? All of the candidates are running for the highest LEADERSHIP position in the world. If they're not running to change things what the hell are they running for? The question is what the fuk they want to change and how are they going to change it.
I really do not understand elections. Couldn't we just simplify things and have the candidates butt heads like rams do in order choose leaders?