Letters to the Editor
Tom in Central Illinois
Published Letters: 205 Editor's Choice: 13
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Can a Muslim be a good American?
[Read the article: Debunking anti-Obama e-mails]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Back in the 1920's and again in 1960, the question was 'can a Catholic be a good American'? John F Kennedy demonstrated to the racist twits out there that they had no cause to fear a takeover of the country by the Pope. [Of course, in 2004, the smear campaign stated that John Kerry was unsuitable to be President because he would not permit a takeover of the country by the Pope]
I intend to vote for Obama in November, there is no other choice. If Obama is not elected, then I will act as though the office of President is vacant.
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actually, this is not a new concept
[Read the article: "Death Race"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]back in the 1980's, Steve Jackson Games produced a board game of a demolition derby on steroids called "Car Wars", in which the object was to outfit your vehicle (be it motorcycle, sports car, minivan, pickup truck or school bus) with all the weapons and all the armor that the suspension could hold and then roar off in the arena to blast apart other competitors' cars while hoping your vehicle (including you) survived. Survivors recieved cash awards with which to upgrade/repair their vehicles for another day of combat while those who did not survive were given a quick burial with the remains of their vehicles being salvaged for spare parts. I never played the game myself; I was much more fascinated with another game, something called Advanced Dungeons and Dragons and a spell called "Fireball".
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MTV and VH1 used to run the little video by David Lee Roth
[Read the article: The right and men who live off their second wives' inherited wealth]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm such a gigolo, and everywhere I go, people know the part that I'm playing,....
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Alaska has other problems
[Read the article: Will Hurricane Gustav crash the Republican convention?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the shoreline of northern Alaska is rather fragile and as the Arctic icesheet continues to shrink, the waves of the Arctic Ocean are slowly but steadily dissolving the Alaskan shoreline; the permafrost that underlies a significant chunk of the Alaskan interior is also melting away and leaving large chasms and gullies in its wake
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Reagan Did Not Win The Cold War.......
[Read the article: Warnings to Russia from Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the inadequacies and deficiencies of the Soviet economic system were blatantly evident long before Reagan was wheeled into the Oval Office. back in the 1960's, the Soviet Union was routinely paying hard currency for surplus U.S. grain even though the farms in the Ukraine were producing at full capacity. if Gorbachev had not ended the Soviet Union when he did, it would probably have fallen apart of its own dead weight very soon after (and the US economy is imploding from a misplaced faith in pure capitalism).
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She Is A Woman, Period!
[Read the article: Second hottest girl in NYC a transsexual?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a post-operative male-to-female transsexual, the only real difference between Jamie Clayton and a genetic woman is that a genetic woman can conceive and bear a child. Other than that one difference, a post-op male-to-female transsexual is a woman, who can (and will) be treated (or ignored) as a sex object bu the rest of humanity.
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How about the Republicans do not hold a convention?
[Read the article: Republicans reportedly considering delaying convention]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No convention, no official candidate;
No official candidate, no need for a formal election;
No formal election as we simply acclaim Obama's entrance into the Presidency;
Just as George Bush was selected by the Supreme Court to be President, perhaps it will be fitting to have Barack Obama acclaimed as President;
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note from one of many "tornado alleys"
[Read the article: New Orleans worried about levees ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to poster labeled as "tregibbs":
Not everyone in the "tornado alleys" lives in a mobile home; tornadoes will shred any kind of building, both mobile and immobile; in March 2006, a tornado cut a grim path of destruction through Springfield Illinois that has since been repaired
there was no need for you to become upset and disrespectful
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and we have this load of crap instead of.................
[Read the article: A comedy tonight? Good luck! ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]replaying 'Babylon 5' on network TV, where it should have been all along!
"The Heinlein Movie of the Month", a weekly two-hour episode of the film adaptation of one of the Great Master's epic works.....except that 'Stranger In A Strange Land' is still too controversial for most people, except that 'The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress' is too violent for most, except that 'Starship Troopers' is full of thought-provoking soliloquies that will bore half of the dullards who watch TV, except that 'I Will Fear No Evil' would be condemned by every conservative on Earth
on second thought, TV is a wasteland; except for the occasional viewing of The Weather Channel, turn it off and read a book!
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but after the sexual reassignment operation.......
[Read the article: Wanna be on top?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Isis will be just another beuatiful woman.... and no longer as newsworthy
it is all about the hype, folks, all about the hype
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What Is the Worst That Could Happen?
[Read the article: Hurricane Ike and Ronald Reagan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A major U.S. city disappears beneath the waves.
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If you want to help your slightly sociopathic neighbors to the south......
[Read the article: America is scaring the hell out of us Canadians!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]build several desalination plants around Hudson Bay, with pipelines to carry the potable water down to the Lower 48;
legions of American soldiers are not poised to swoop into Canada because (1) all available U.S. soldiers, irregardless of branch or specialty, are doing combat patrols in Iraq and Afghanistan and there is literally no spare cash to hire more soldiers (2) the bulk of the combat vehicles are rotting and corroding away in the Iraqi and Afghani deserts (3) the neocons in the U.S. government have never read about Napoleon's disastrous winter in Russia or about the equally disastrous German winters in Russia and thus they can not imagine anything like that happening to U.S. soldiers (I am not saying that Canadian winters are worse than Russian winters but since winters in Minnesota and North Dakota are fearsome events and since Canada is north of both of these states, I suspect that winter in Canada may well be equally fearsome)
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Let me see, the last time that any state seriously tried to secede from the Union.....
[Read the article: Freedom fighter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]it was ultimately squashed flat by the government in Washington, D.C.!
It must be the constant subzero temperatures in The Far North that encourage fantasies of secession: the higher level reasoning areas of the brain freeze solid, leaving the unreasoning emotional areas to run wild.
Also, the last time that any state tried to secede, the Union was preserved through the efforts of a man from Illinois....