Letters to the Editor
Chris Sinnard
Published Letters: 1417 Editor's Choice: 7
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There goes tempus
[Read the article: Ron Paul distortions and smears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe because it was so friggin' easy to take it from the people that were already here and using the land?
That's right Tempus, keep showing your true colors. I get it now, the entire Declaration of Independence was a scam to steal land from "poor" people, and the founding fathers were evil racists with a secret agenda to steal everything for themselves from those that looked different.
But yet, the modern government is somehow our savior and has all of the solutions?
Are you even an American? If you like smearing the history of your own country so much, and the principles it was based on, why don't you move to another one? You seem to have a hard on for big government, communitarian style command and control policies, maybe China would be a better place for you to live?
I find it amazing how you and your ilk can sit there and bad mouth "big corporations" and Made in America ideas like Private Property Rights, yet you give a pass to big government and act like it has all of your answers.
The "big corporations" are bad and corrupt, but yet "big Government" is somehow wonderful, transparent, free from corruption, and has all of the answers in the form of clever new taxes. What planet are you living on?
Paul would cut down on Carbon emissions simply by ending the occupation and drawing down the empire, and not just in Iraq, but the 700 bases in 130 countries around the world. Seems like there would be less emissions without all those bases operating... but I guess controlling our lives domestically while the empire keeps the war machines oiled up and rolling, like Hummers that get 9mpg, while "big government rulez" countries like China poison its own groundwater, make just as much sense....
All of those tanks, planes, missiles, and other killing machines, they release greenhouse gases. But to even bring up the environment when the bulk of our entire foreign policy is based on oil, and our empire is burning lots of oil to get... more oil, seems shortsighted. Talking about environmental issues while ignoring the amount of emissions we put out defending our fossil fuel empire is little more than a hypocritical game of divide and conquer.
Where were you all in 1776? The Founding Fathers could have used your wisdom when they were all gung ho about property rights. Where was the wise Will whateverhisnameis, and the wise Tempus, to tell the founding fathers that their ideas regarding property are no better than the king's ideas regarding property. You could have saved them a lot of wasted time with their "revolution", since they could have just stuck with the tyrannical, top down system they had, instead of doing it all for nothing when 200 years later it is replaced by.... a different tyrannical, top down system.
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@DCLaw
[Read the article: Ron Paul distortions and smears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am curious how vindication of private property rights will ameliorate or stop these consequences from manifesting.
And I am curious about how movie stars and politicians are going to stop these consequences on their private jets while everyone else is getting felt up by the TSA.
Or how we are going to stop these consequences with over 700 bases in 130 countries burning CO2 everyday while the people at home are "carbon taxed" for taking a shit or eating a cheesburger. Do tanks and jets and missiles run on batteries and ethanol?
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@Etheryin
[Read the article: Ron Paul distortions and smears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you sound like you are talking about Moral Capitalism.
I think green is great, it can be both highly marketable and highly profitable. Once people figure out that they can make a boatload of profits cleaning the environment up, more profits then they can make "exploiting it", they will. A lot of people already are.
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@Arne, there is a reason I said maybe
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]heh
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surprise surprise
[Read the article: The Giuliani moderation fallacy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It involves Bernard Kerik.
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That is...
[Read the article: The Giuliani moderation fallacy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Judith Regan thing.
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You know what else helps kids learn math?
[Read the article: Can "Harry Potter" math save our schools?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Learning multiplication tables. Learning how to properly carry the one and do long division help too.
"Investigate Mathemetics"? WTF are they talking about? What is there for a grade school kid to investigate? Sounds like code for "new math". Do they mean abstraction? There already is a class where you can learn abstract algebra, it is called a 300 level intro to abstract algebra class that math majors take as undergrads, not as grade school math kids.
This just sounds like more bogus fuzzy math garbage. Do the kids get to use Harry Potter calculators too, since kids today can't count or do simple arithmetic without using their fingers and toes?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Instead, they broke it and want to break it even more. No thanks. Linking math to literature? How about instead of linking it to irrelevant fields, they try linking it to fields like physics instead? You know, where it belongs.
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Nothing about Hemp?
[Read the article: Ron Paul's free, green market ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Should have asked him about hemp.
Time to put on my rain coat and watch the parade.
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So surprised
[Read the article: Ron Paul's free, green market ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, Salon publishes a Ron Paul article, and the Salon Letter Lurking True Believers come out of the woodwork to take their shots and tell lies about RP, make up shit about his positions, and make up ridiculous "scenarios" while they worship the state.
In other news, the sun came up today. Don't bother Salon, everyone here is too busy being duped by the establishment and loving it.
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A message to the True Believers who post letters/Comments on Salon
[Read the article: Ron Paul's free, green market ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nobody cares about your blog.
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Giuliani 08?
[Read the article: The NYT's Michael Cooper demonstrates what real reporting is]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Come on Glenn, everyone knows you're an unpatriotic crypto-Libertarian America hater who spends his free time smearing honest Abe Lincoln. Secretly hoping for the return of Jim Crow Laws and planning your escape to Brazil while you drown Christmas puppies that you kidnapped from the Puppies for Poor People Foundation, because you hate poor people.
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No, it's true
[Read the article: The NYT's Michael Cooper demonstrates what real reporting is]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe when LWM gets back from telling everyone at Juan Cole's blog how Ron Paul and Libertarians are antisemitic racists who hate poor people, he can put up a defense for the establishment and the status quo.
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I smell Conspiracy
[Read the article: The NYT's Michael Cooper demonstrates what real reporting is]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some jackass defiled my car with a big, obnoxious Ron Paul sticker a few nights ago. That, to me, says everything.
Maybe it was that evil Karl Rove that haunts your dreams who defiled your car.