Letters to the Editor
Serai1
Published Letters: 503 Editor's Choice: 32
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Electro, Gengis
[Read the article: How to stop illegal Canadian immigration]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and all you flag-pin-wearing fence lovers, answer me this:
When your lovely fence is all built and staffed, and the gummint has done its work and rounded up all the evil immigrants and punted them back to wherever they came from, tell me, who will do their jobs? You know, the jobs that nobody else wants?
Are you going to pick strawberries for $3 an hour? Clean toilets? Blow leaves off rich people's lawns? Electro, will you be happy doing laundry for some Beverly Hills richie for $20 a day? Gengis, wanna try making it selling lemonade from a push-cart? How many days will you be willing to stand around a Home Depot parking lot hoping some sleazy construction honcho will let you lay pipe on his latest project for half wages paid under the table? You okay with your daughters making $5 an hour 12 hours a day in a garment district sweatshop? We won't get into the slaughterhouse jobs - go rent Fast Food Nation to get yourself educated on those wonderful career opportunities.
I'm always amused by people who go on about the dirty illegals and how they steal from us, when half the US economy is propped up by the fact that those "illegals" are willing to do all the jobs that the precious snowflake gringoes wouldn't deign to soil themselves with. They blame the people desperate for work and a decent life, instead of the corporations and bosses who'll happily throw over American workers in favor of the savings to be had through using the very people demonized by the politicians they buy and pay for.
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@jedimaster
[Read the article: Wal-Mart's "Faded Glory"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And that ain't no way to live in the US.
Really? Ask the Judds. I'm sure they'd tell you all about it. We're basically cycling back to the way things were here circa 1930 or so, albeit in a glossy, high-tech style. Things will continue to get worse and worse, until the point of ultimate suckage. Then the folks will get mad enough to vote in an administration that actually WILL change things. (I have no hope that Obama, for all his high-minded ideals will be able to do so.) As in tell the rich folks to go fuck themselves, raise their taxes to a fair level, re-invigorate the regulatory and government service departments, get us the fuck OUT of all these stupid wars, and use our money to start national projects that will put people back to work.
Maybe, MAYBE, if we're unbelievably lucky, we might get some of our domestic and global traction back. We'll never be America the Golden again, but with a little luck, we might find a way to make our people reasonably comfortable (that's reasonably, as in don't expect a four-bedroom house and all the toys you can eat anymore). I have my doubts that our karma will bring it about, but I have my hopes also. But it definitely involves us hitting bottom (which we haven't even neared yet), and then having the willpower and the backbone to do what will be required to pull this country out of the sinkhole.
Keep your fingers crossed.
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*spits*
[Read the article: Another day, another honor killing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, well. Stomping a teenage girl to death, how very honorable. Fucking cowards. Calling that piece of shit an animal would be an insult to jackals, slugs and vampire bats everywhere.
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Link not working
[Read the article: "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The link to this review is not working. I tried from both the headers on the home page, as well as the link here on the letters page. All of them came up 404 Page Not Found (Salon notification, not the standard internet one). Please look into this and fix it.
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@mandyhih
[Read the article: MoveOn ad: correction]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, that just flew right over your head, didn't it? Alex didn't post the link to show people how "horrid it is". He posted the link to show people how FUNNY it is. It's called satire. Try a dictionary; they're really useful!
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@creepo
[Read the article: Another day, another honor killing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the link. I think.
So much for the idea that a scarcity of women would make them somehow precious, eh?
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*eyeroll*
[Read the article: Purity balls keep dads faithful?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Still sneering, Tracy? Is there no end of things you can find to curl your lip at? I guess the best thing would be for dads to just ignore their daughters, except to throw an occasional $20 at them whenever they head out the door to that week's kegger?
Myself, I think these purity balls are just silly wastes of time. Clearly they have no effect on morality, either the daughters' or the fathers'. They're mostly just a chance to show off an artificial sense of moral righteousness, which will undoubtedly be overthrown PDQ. But as horrible abuses go, they rank pretty damn low. Basically just the Christian Right version of Princess birthday bashes and quinceaneras. Hardly anything to get all het up about.
Oh, and speaking for myself, I've just about topped out on hearing the word "creepy" used for any damn thing you don't approve of. How the hell did that term come to mean so much? And what kind of boogy monster spooked you as a kid to get you so easily creeped out by social phenomena? Have you always been like this? Because I'm thinking if you find any and everything having to do with sex you don't indulge in yourself "creepy", maybe you should seek a little help.