Letters to the Editor
Rambling Rose 22
Published Letters: 757 Editor's Choice: 6
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WANT SOME CHEESE WITH
[Read the article: I quit being a musician because I couldn't play without drinking]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that WHINE? Getting caught in the "gifted and talented" child thing can be a hassle for sure. But, hey, you're 30 now, not 3, and should not need anyone to continue to applaud your taking a shit and cleaning yourself afterwards.
Get off the pot and alcohol so you can think clearly. There isn't anything worse than trying to help someone who is drugged and drunk everyday about their dramatic, damaged life.
Here's my 6 step program for very smart adults who were so adored as intellectually capable children:
1. There is a higher authority and it's called "the bills." You need employment to pay "the bills" so stop acting like employment is just supposed to solely be a trip to freakin' Mecca or something. Get some work, preferably something physical and completely outside your norm.
2. Start accepting your family for who they are - and not in the context of who you should/would/could/ be/become/aspire.(pick one).
3. If you want to play music, then play music for crissakes! What or who is stopping you? It sounds like you have yet another excuse for not growing up. You say you stopped playing because you couldn't play without drugs or alcohol, but you also say you get drunk and high every day. So, obviously the music is NOT making you high or drunk - YOU are making you high and drunk. Duh!
4. Start worrying about somebody other than yourself for a change. Fear is your biggest enemy and the reason why you stay drugged up. But you have to be clear to see your way through life - sorry, but that's how it is for all of us and when it ocmes to that one, no one is exempt.
5. Go see a career counselor and figure out what you're really best suited for. Maybe music really isn't your bag, or teaching, or whatever else you've done. Wouldn't it be interesting to find out? Your family, by now, just wants to see you "happy."
Of course they expected you to "do something." You are smart, capable, probably had more opportunities than most for better education, etc. The other half to the gifted child thing is this: The world is too much with us - and you - so, find something meaningful to do that actually benefits someone, learn to laugh, and enjoy life to it's fullest.
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[Read the article: Those Delta blues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]only someone named "Garrison" would end up penning a story that would include the mentioning of having a house that was previously owned by someone or another, but always famous, who's name he could coincidently drop in the middle of any conversation with no regard as to whether or not it actually added anything to the event.
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WHY NOT?
[Read the article: Advertise anorexia, go to jail?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know, it IS the government's job sometimes to protect and defend. And when others, under the guise of free speech, want to prevent government from protecting and defending, then it should be given more consideration than simply, hey, "I'm a libertarian."
The internet is not some kind of Holy shrine that is "hands off" at all times, regardless of what kinds of crap we can find there. It is NOT okay for young adults and kids to easily find websites that tell them how to kill themselves. Is it okay to put up websites that tell someone, or suggest to someone, to kill an entire city with a dirty bomb? Is is "anything goes" on the internet?
I, for one, think the internet will not suffer one iota if websites that incite, invite, encourage, or whatever kids to do something immoral, illegal, or deadly to themselves are taken down. You cannot ask children to understand things in the light of all things politics, libertarian.
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PULL MY THUMB
[Read the article: McCain-onomics: Cheap gas in every tank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]John Pull-My-Thumb McCain needs to explain to the American people how the federal government makes up this shrinking revenue stream while we pay for troop for another 100 years in Iraq - and then be sent for further observation for trying to make "short sellers" out of the rest of us who demand responsible government.
Talk about a gimmick! And what happens when the greedy oil companies rush in and jack up the prices to soak up the difference? What? He didn't think of that? Oh, my!
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ANSWER IS "NO"
[Read the article: Would Obama investigate the Bush gang?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since Obama won't give you an answer, I'll give it to you: No, he won't prosecute Bush even if all the evidence needed was staring him in the face the day he walked into the White House!
Obama has conveniently. for himself, and less so for the American people, boxed his "uniter" self into a bad corner and now will not be able to spend time delving into the corrupt Bush administraton or else his political enemies will use it against him. (Oh, yeah, and somebody tell Obama he has political enemies because he's under the wrong assumption that only "hope haters" are out to get him - or the Clintons).
Barack Obama would make a sorry President: One who will not bring the past Adminisration to justice for wrongs against the American people because he's so fixated with "turning the page" that he's willing to turn a blind eye - and a failed Democrat who will cost us seats by the mid-term congressional elections and set the party back 40 years.
"All that glitters is not gold." Especially today.
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GET READY ...
[Read the article: House Republican blasts Obama as "that boy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]for more the same from the GOP. Of course, we all recognize that the use of the words "that boy," especially by Southern folk has, historically, referred to black Americans. However, in rural areas, the use of the words "that boy" does not necessarily refer to one's race.
"That boy ain't right," comes to mind. "That boy isn't playing with a full deck." "That boy couldn't find his ass with both hands."
Touchy, touchy, touchy! If Obama becomes President, will we all have to act like he's not black? Or McCain doesn't have that lump on the side of his face no matter what angle the camera takes. Or Hillary Clinton isn't wearing earrings?
For God's sake, and our own, shut up already!