Letters to the Editor
Xanthro
Published Letters: 522 Editor's Choice: 47
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reverence for the Prophet is non-negotiable.
[Read the article: Back to the Dark Ages]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem is reverence for the Prophet is non-negotiable.
Non-negotiable means direct conflict.
Islamics are allowed to insult the Pope, insult Christ (to most Christians by disavowing his divinity or that he was crucified) yet, anything seen by them as insulting excuses murder.
Over and over we are seeing comics or speeches about Islamic violence produce Islamic violence.
Then we have people in the West excusing such behavior. It's inexcusable.
Murdering a anyone because of what someone else said cannot be excused.
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Please stop referring that Hitler was Jewish
[Read the article: George Allen and the "aspersion" of Judaism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There was of course another well-known politician who got really angry about his Jewish heritage. His first name was Adolph.
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Because he wasn't, and it's insulting to the Jewish faith to assume he was.
His policies weren't driven by some self loathing, and it doesn't take a Jew to try and exterminate Jews.
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Natural Lee and Common Sense
[Read the article: Virtually dead in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Next time you declare, “I'm gonna try some common sense on you here…” at least try to ensure it makes sense, even if it isn’t common. Everything you wrote is nothing but a poorly written diatribe.
Even your subject line protrays your cluelessness. Courage is pulling your buddy back to safety under fire"...or out of the war entirely, possibly? Who said anything about war? I gave three examples, only one of which is about the war, and that example didn’t even involve fighting. Plenty of people are pulled to safety under fire in times other than war.
“Courage is pulling your buddy back to safety under fire, courage is treating Iraqis with respect when you have no whether they are enemies or not, courage is going into the South during Jim Crow and risking your life to register black voters.”
It’s obvious you don’t care about our soldiers, and it’s inconceivable for you to reconcile that people can oppose the war and not oppose our soldiers.
As to “who do you think gives more of a damn about the soldiers as living, breathing people---the so-called 'Lefties' who think those poor folks should be spared the indignity of being maimed and killed in Iraq, or TV-tanned burger-butt Hawks like YOU who love the catch-phrases” Perhaps when arguing against the use of catch phrases you shouldn’t resort to juvenile rhetoric phrases such as burger-butt or TV-Tanned, and even Dumbass Lifetime Achievement Certificate.
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Burger-Butt?
[Read the article: Virtually dead in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]“It's almost a sport, watching you asshole/idiots in your lame ad hominem rebuttals”
Odd that you resort to Ad hominem abusive personam, while accusing others of Ad hominem rebuttas.
“You have yet to refute any of my actual points, burger-butt! “
You haven’t made any actual points yet. All you’ve done is some name calling and set up straw man arguments.
Your posts are hollow and lack any substance to refute.
Post something substantial and perhaps, if people disagree with you then you’ll have a rebuttal, but when you set up false straw man positions, that’s not an actual point.
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NL
[Read the article: Virtually dead in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]“the phrase 'support the soldiers' is Orwellian double-speak considering the fact that your idea of 'supporting' them is an absolute willingness to oblige them to suffer and possibly die fighting a pointless war you're too bloody credulous to see through”
That is your straw man argument, because you and only you are making the argument. It doesn’t reflect anyone else’s point of view, because supporting our soldiers has nothing to do with supporting the war, or obliging them to suffer or die.
You try to play rhetorical games to disguise your contempt for your soldiers. I’ve supported them in peacetime, and I’ll support them during war, whether I agree with that war or how it is fought.
You may now post and get the last word in, because I tire of you.
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Learn the Constitution
[Read the article: You have no right to vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If this were presented as a High School paper I'd fail it for lack of research.
Your main point is irrelevent, because you have a Constitutional right to vote, it's even supported by Court Cases.
What you don't have is the specific right to vote for Electors. That's because in this case the Constitution specfically grants to States the ability to chose how the Electors are chosen. The State can have a vote, a lottery, have their Governor pick, it doesn't matter.
In all cases outside Presidential elections you have a Constitutional right to vote for Federal offices and have for a hundred years. Voting for the Senate used to not be a Constitutional right.
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Horse is tasty
[Read the article: I am your elder]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We don't eat it much here in the US, but it's still eaten in Europe.
Horses are livestock, no different than cows, sheep, or pigs.
Any animal slaughter appears barbaric to those that don't hunt or haven't personally killed and eaten animals.
We shoot horses when they over populate, or they break a leg. We feed the meat to zoo animals.
Now, you'll just have horses that have less commercial value and will be treated worse than they are now.
Plus, where in the Constitution is the Federal government granted authority to regulate what we eat?