Letters to the Editor
Tom in Central Illinois
Published Letters: 205 Editor's Choice: 13
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actually, I do use the term "Nazi" when I speak of Republicans
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]for me, a 55 year old white male, with an ethnic German surname, "Nazi" (short for National Socialist) is the worst insult that I know of and I use it when discussing the asinine attempts of the Republican party to mold American society into some strange perverted white male hunting preserve
I am a liberal and I am angry
I do not use the term "nanny", I use the term "spoiled conservative brat who needs a long, hard spanking" and I am
strengthening my hand to do the job
Drop your pants, neocons! It is time for your punishment!
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it would have been better if Romney had said
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that one of his sons was a fire fighter, a paramedic or a cop
as it is, Romney is beginning to sound like a lightweight version of George W. Bush
And That Is Not A Compliment!
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does little Bush even know about........
[Read the article: The Bush-league economy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]overdrawing his checking account?
or, late fees on his credit cards?
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actually to get the Republicans to jump off a cliff,
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you need to throw a bag full of hundred dollar bills off the cliff first
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the next journey for George W Bush and his trusty sidekick Karl Rove?
[Read the article: Leahy to Rove: It's not over]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]straight into Hell!
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the calculus argument
[Read the article: Who invented calculus?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]this is an old argument, about whether Newton or Leibniz conceived the mathematical tool known as calculus first; Newton was a secretive, maniacal genius who had a penchant for waiting until someone else announced a new discovery and then responding with a suitably dusty set of papers that demonstrated that Newton was the originator of the new feat and that the new "discovery" had somehow been stolen from Newton's private papers; actually Leibniz's notation for the calculus is more useful in equations than is Newton's
who actually invented calculus? the point is what you do with the calculus after you have it
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in truth, there is no perfect source of energy
[Read the article: In coal blood]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]as long as safety standards are maintained, nuclear power creates no air pollution nor any water pollution but there is that nasty stuff known as the spent reactor fuel rod; solar energy and wind energy are held up by the fact that we lack large scale, heavy duty capacitor/battery mechanisms to store such energy for use at night or on calm, windless days; oil and natural gas have pollution concerns as well as the fact that you have to indulge in MidEast politics in order to retrieve such energy sources; Illinois coal is condemned because it has a high sulfur content, which must be removed during the combustion process before the smoke is released to the open air; space enthusiasts have long clamored for solar collector satellites parked in geosynchronous orbit above the Earth, which would beam the collected solar energy by microwave beam down to the Earth's surface: unfortunately, you would need a collection antenna array the size of Kansas to receive that beam
as for those trapped miners, where is Mother Jones when we need her the most?
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as a resident of the Land of Lincoln................
[Read the article: Fantasy island]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]George W Bush is by no means a reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln! To pretend otherwise is an insult to the memory of Lincoln.
But then again, the mere existence of George W Bush is an insult to all supposedly sentient beings.
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actually, plastic bags are not THAT invulnerable
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]put two (2) 2-liter soda pop bottles into one of these bags,
lug the bag in your hand for about 5 to 10 minutes and then watch the bottom of the bag slowly split open
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Reagan claimed that he was a friend of American business and the working man
[Read the article: How Bush betrays Reagan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but his rhetoric about the Soviet Union as "The Evil Empire" helped to kill a dying American-based manufacturing company.
From 1900 through 1980, the Milwaukee, Wisconsin based firm of Allis-Chalmers produced a wide variety of machinery for both the farm as well as general earth moving. In particular, the Allis-Chalmers plant in Springfield, Illinois produced a variety of high quality earth moving equipment and it was a direct competitor to Caterpillar, Komatsu and other firms. During the late 1970's, the senior execuatives of Allis-Chalmers sold the Springfield plant along with the rest of the earth-moving equipment division to Fiat.
At first, the Fiat-Allis corporation enjoyed growth with increased sales overseas. Around 1984 or so, both the domestic market and the overseas market for earth moving equipment began to fall apart. The only country that was buying large amounts of earth moving equipment was the Soviet Union, and to export earth moving equipment to the Soviet Union you needed a special export license and this export license needed the okey-dokey of the Reagan White House.
If the Great Blithering Idiot (aka Ronnie) had okayed that license, the Fiat-Allis plants (two in Illinois, two in Michigan and one in Wisconsin) might have stayed open, they might have continued to provide good paying jobs for people.
If the Great Blithering Fool (aka Ronnie) had ignored his "Evil Empire" crap, maybe my father (a brilliant executive and machinist) might have ended his working days with honor and dignity. Unfortunately, the Great Republican Patriot killed the license, the board of Fiat killed the Fiat-Allis corporation and those ancient Rust Belt factories are now simply memories.
I despise Reagan. I despise the Shrub. And I have no love in my heart for anything Republican.
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he keeps on proclaiming that he is The War President
[Read the article: The Bush plan for Iraq: Wait, then say it's too late]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]after he leaves office in 2009, will he and little Dickie Cheney don combat fatigues, body armor, lock and load their M-16s and walk a patrol or two in Baghdad so as to give a couple weary regular soldiers some extra time in bed?
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let me see.........
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt, Michael Ledeen and the "bomb Iran crazies"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hitler bombed London and other British cities during the early years of World War II, yet the British refused to surrender;
the USA and Britain bombed Germany, both night and day, yet it was only after the Soviet armies rolled into Berlin, that the Germans yielded;
the USA roasted Japanese cities (and did far more damage than the atomic bombs ever did) yet it was only after the Japanese emperor saw the American fleets camped on his doorstep that he called a halt to the fighting;
in Vietnam, we dropped more aerial high explosives than we used in all of World War II but the North Vietnamese refused to yield
does anyone see a pattern here?
therefore, why does anyone think that Iran will capitulate after being bombed?
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I have a 10 year old minivan
[Read the article: Chris Dodd pushes the energy envelope]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Will there be a federal subsidized program that will give me a no-interest loan so that I can send my minivan to the scrap heap when I buy a 60 mpg "green" car?