Letters to the Editor
sajwan
Published Letters: 487 Editor's Choice: 13
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Holy Toledo
[Read the article: So long, John -- gas is $4 a gallon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Looked at that graph mentioned in the article, the inflation adjusted price of gas stayed flat or gone down slightly from 1979 to 2000. In the last 7 years since GWB took office, gas has risen 60%.
The "Holy Toledo" in the subject refers to the exclaimations of Oil friends of Bush who were looking at their soaring profits.
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Thats news
[Read the article: N.Y. Gov. Spitzer linked to prostitution ring]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Guys like to copulate for sport, fun and pleasure.
Never knew that, I guess that's what the media is there for, to keep us informed.
All right not a great defense, partaking in prostition services is illegal as well as the prostitution itself. And you can't be enforcing the law while breaking the law yourself and supporting those who break the law.
But dang another hero bites the dust.
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Wish...
[Read the article: The expertise of Dick Morris]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... I could say something more constructive than Dick Morris is an imbecile.
Maybe a better wish is that people ignore him and he just goes away.
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Alex did
[Read the article: More on Clinton camp infighting]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did all the Clinton fans crying media bias miss the front page of the NY Times yesterday?
No, Alex did.
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@dm8877 must have been in diapers during the Whitewater days when Ken Starr came down upon Arkanasas and anyone remotely related to Clinton as an the Avenging Angel of the TRUTH, destroying everyone and everything in his path. Excessive hyperbole I know, but not that inaccurate. $70 millio dollars and an freakin' impeachment later, we end up with some sperm on a dress. If it did not take a right wing conspirancy to do that then at the very least it took right wing vengeful, sick and twisted lunacy.
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2 items needed to end the Iraqi Occupation not available
[Read the article: How the press failed on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There were a two things that ended the Vietnam war;
- The draft
- The Press broadcasting what the war was really like on a human visceral level. The John Wayne Hollywood crap was put in the shitter where it belonged, not in the press coverage. Now, for Gods Sake, the press is afraid to show flag draped caskets.
Wish I could say real and continuing coverage of the ravages of warfare is enough by itself to end the Iraq occupation, but I am doubtful. You want people to move, put their ass on the line.
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Its the culture stupid
[Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think there often is a victim In prostitution: the prostitute. ...The whole business is about as nasty and sleazy as anything can be...-- Bibblesnæð
It's because culturally we need the "act" to be nasty and sleazy. I don't know why, but unfortunately it seems a good part of the allure is that it is naughty, it is dirty. It doesn't have to be, but culturally it is. Looking at porn on the net, most of it is ugly, misogonistic, at least 180 degrees removed from erotic and at worse bereft of anything resembling any kind of humanity. Look at the boob tube, the innuendo is all about being naughty or "forbidden". I am not saying there are not balanced individuals out there with healthy sex lives, but overall as a culture it is pretty sick. Hence most prostitution falls in line with the greater culture and is also sick.
As far as how he was caught. Glenns article suggests he may have been targeted, but more worrisome and more likely is that we all have the same level of monitoring on our transactions and our banks and other financial institutions work hand and hand with big brother.
I fear privacy will be a word that drops from our lexicon, as it continues towards having no meaning.
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Kitchen Sink
[Read the article: Obama says Clinton ad "straight out of the Republican playbook"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's this, Obamas version of the flip-flops the lunatic GOPers wore on their lapels during their convention. Will Obama be creating Kitchen sink buttons for his supporters?
Personally if Obama mentions "kitchen sink" one more time, I will pray to all the Gods that they they throw all kitchen sinks ever created since the dawn of mankind onto Obamas head.
Before I was uneasy with Obama, now I am completely clear that Obama is in fact a liar and a hypocrite. "Leaking photos of me" is a lie and actually if Obama was not a liar, hypocrite, and coward he would challenge any negative perception of the photo. Clue to Obama campaign - there is nothing wrong with that photo. The people who see something wrong in that photo are what's wrong. What a pathetic set of ethics coming from a campaign allegedly based on ethics.
And here's another clue, it is important to know we are electing the person who does have to answer the phone when there is a crisis. Clinton at least has the confidence to come out and say, "I will answer that phone and handle it!" and instead Obama deflects. For Christs sake, Obamas two serious opponents in Illinois self-destructed, any imbecile could have won that race. And that was it, his biggest crisis in political life?
Real change my ass. New lows in being a politician more like it.
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Lying sack of ....
[Read the article: Obama camp targets Clinton experience claims]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama voted against the withdrawal of troops and only proposed a drawdown after he was running for president and polls showed voters favoring it.
I don't know if Obama would have voted for or against the Iraq Resoution, however he has stated himself, in a rare instance of honesty, that he did not know how he would have voted if he was in the Senate at the time.
That he thinks giving a speech on the war 5 years ago gives him credibility while doing not even one teeny, tiny, little, thing concerning Iraq in the time since, indeed makes him as delusional about himself as his fans are. Hell, Bush believes his own lies, Obama must be cut from the same cloth.