Letters to the Editor
mYupa
Published Letters: 6
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Typo alert.
[Read the article: What's the opposite of coattails?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Check for an unfortunate typo in the first paragraph...
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[Read the article: What's the opposite of coattails?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Feel free to delete my previous typo comment now and this one...
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Democrats have a much bigger challenge when it comes to Supreme Court nominees
[Read the article: The next Alito, and why "more Democrats" isn't enough]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the Democrats did fail, tragically and it was avoidable, but I do have to give them credit for having a much bigger task than the Republicans.
With each new nominee that comes before the Senate, the task of the Republicans is simply to focus on the positive aspects of their personality and promote sound bytes about what a "decent" fellow they are. The perfect nominee for them would be extremely qualified, with no paper trail.
The Democrats on the other hand, have to educate a largely uninterested public in the future threat that past rulings may indicate to their rights. This is an enormous task.
The frame hanging over the entire process is that a "smart" and "decent" fellow would have to have some egregious ethical lapse or commit an enormous gaff during the hearings to not be automatically qualified to serve. Those who vote against a nominee must make their case, rather than those who vote for the nominee.
For Democrats to achieve the sort of political cover they desire to filibuster a nominee, they will need to frame the debate about what is an acceptable position for a judge to have on such issues as civil rights, abortion or the environment long before they are even nominated.
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Another unanswered question, how many BBs are lodged in Whittington?
[Read the article: "There may have been a beer or two in there"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This article, http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=401635, has a good quote:
"Blanchard estimated that Whittington had more than five but 'probably less than 150 to 200' pellets lodged in his body after the shooting..."
That's quite a range there...
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food chain and health
[Read the article: The rise of the "vegansexual"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Meat eaters aren't literally composed of all the little tortured souls of the animals they eat, but they are higher up in the food chain and probably carrying around a lot more antibiotics and mercury than the average vegan. It's pretty similar to the smoking thing on more than just the ick level. If you consider meat to be unhealthy as well as unethical, (which many vegans and vegetarians do), it follows that you would not be attracted to those you see as unhealthy.
I'm vegetarian myself, eating enough dairy products that I don't really want to think too much about what I'm made up of myself...
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I guess I shouldn't be surprised that he's back.
[Read the article: "I'm Joe the Plumber"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This Joe the Plumber thing initially looked like a blunder, (and still does to those of us who have heard the real facts about him).
However, I did just have a conversation with someone who believed Joe the plumber did make 250,000 a year, was actually named Joe, etc. etc. So the facts haven't reached that 25% of the population that only gets their news from the fair and balanced network.