Letters to the Editor
Rambling Rose 22
Published Letters: 964 Editor's Choice: 8
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Where's Nagin?
[Read the article: Band on the run in New Orleans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where's Mayor Nagin who was talking "chocolate city" to get his sorry ass re-elected last year in all this? It seems to me that selected enforcement of the law is running rampant in this country, from the White House right down to our neighborhood precincts.
New Orleans cannot have it both ways: It can't put out the tourist ads touting a culture that no longer exists, like the rest of us don't see through this connived scene of the black dude blowing his horn for the amusement of the white faces getting blitzed on Bourbon Street.
Gentrification ruins heritage and local culture. Preserving those little details around a window in a house, or the house itself, doesn't necessarily preserve the culture of the area. The old-time residents of Treme have a point about the realtors selling off their neighborhood.
It seems to an outsider that no one is in charge in New Orleans. Then again, Republican-turned-Democrat-for-political-opportunism Nagin probably prefers it that way. He hasn't restored law and order. He's just making it up as he goes along using the oldest trick in the book when it blows up in his face: Grab a bullhorn and demand that someone be blamed for the mess that he contributed to with his own ineptness.
Come to think of it, have we ever seen a Republican who knows how to run government? I had to laugh when I heard that Nagin was thinking of running for higher office. He's done such a good job playing politics with N.O., I guess he needs to go screw up something else!
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It Figures.
[Read the article: Who needs a Prius anyway?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It figures that anything the auto manufacturers would do for the environment would be half-assed anyway. I guess when Americans get sick and tired of killing, and being killed, for the oil, they will demand Congress get off it's butt and start the business of a really serious energy policy for our country. Or maybe when Florida runs out of water the light will go off in most of the in-denial minds in this country. But, hey, there's a new cell phone out next week.
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Pass the Mustard
[Read the article: Jim Webb as V.P. candidate?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was loading up a hot dog with all the great stuff when I started reading about Jim Webb and the new spin on his victory in Virginia. I only have one thing to say: Where's the mustard?
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You're Invited....
[Read the article: May we congratulate you on your divorce]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was married twice and divorced twice. Came close to a 3rd time, but he screwed up and said something completely uncomplimentary about my sister. Fool.
I didn't have parties for the divorces. The first one was just sad. The second one was a necessity as he was physically abusive. I left after 18 months.
I spent quite a bit of time reliving the situation with every telling to yet another friend or family member. We didn't have email back then.
Today, I still cannot accept that a divorce is not some kind of failure. Maybe not the worst kind, but surely a major disappointment for those who were married, and those who care about them. IF nothing else, it's been a major waste of time and energy.
I'm appalled by people today who have divorce parties. It just validates the fact they have poor judgment - once again.
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Whine and Cheese-y.
[Read the article: Another election fiasco in Florida?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh yeah, Florida Dems, break the party rules, cry "foul" and threaten us with yet another Presidential mess in your state. We're still trying to recover from the crap that you couldn't seem to control in your own backyards in 2000. Now you want to dictate to the National Party? Get real.
Hell, you can't even read the ballot anyway in Broward County so no great loss if you defect to the fence-sitters' section of the democracy game: that vast 3 hot-button-issues, fickle, nonideological, nondescript land called Independentsville.
Go there if you must, but know this: One monkey don't stop the show and democracy is not a one-monkey show. We'll pick up those sit-on-your-hands-and-pout votes someplace else.
You want to punish somebody for this mess, look at your own party hacks. The only thing they "blew up" is your pride. We don't believe that you can deliver Florida for us next year anyway.
If you want to change the process, do it in a way that reflects postively on the rest of us in the Party. Where's your sense of pride and self-respect? Oh yeah, I forgot...it's all about you...you, you, you.
The DNC is correct to level these consequences at you. It's called Tough Love: "We love ya - that's tough!"
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Oh Help Us!
[Read the article: A bizarre, unsolicited e-mail from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, we see the problem. We are not surprised by anything the military, or other facets of government, does or does not do under this Administration. Given the high numbers of Americans who remain convinced that Iraq is a mess, wasn't worth it, and we need to leave, it seems the military's efforts to "win friends and influence others" through favored bloggers and right wing and swinging reporters is a dismal failure - just like Iraq.
While we can't put it as succinctly as you do, the fact that the military has allowed itself to be compromised by Bush and other GOP right-wingers means we are obviously more threatened by facist Republican right-wingism than we are to Islamic facism.