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Published Letters: 38

  • Tony's going down and taking everyone with him

    [Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: "Is this all there is?"]
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    With the feds snooping around about the gun and the bones they dug up from a murder that Tony and Paulie did 10 years earlier, I thought that Tony would be arrested and spend the rest of his days in Federal prison like Gotti did...

    But I think the whole crew is going down in flames at once. Don't know what will happen to Carmela and A.J....stay tuned.

  • I've Always Wondered...

    [Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: "Is this all there is?"]
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    And I no doubt have missed it, but does Christopher actually know that Adriana was killed by Silvio??? or was she.....?? He loved her and talks about her now and then to Tony..

    I don't think Silvio stuck around long enough to bury her so maybe she was just wounded..

    Maybe she'll return from "the grave"..

    Tony has seen Dr. Melfi for most of the show...because of "Anxiety Attacks"...now, what brought those on??

    We'll find out on June 10 and no doubt it will be a two-hour episode...Can we stand it until then? A.J. is going down for killing Paulie's cousin. After losing Blanca, he has "no reason to go on living" and doesn't care what happens to him.

  • What of Uncle Junior???

    [Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: "Is this all there is?"]
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    Somehow, I have a feeling that Uncle Junior is going to make another dramatic appearance...we THINK he's safely in a mental hospital (for protective custody)? But does he make his escape one night soon and head for Tony's?

    Will Paulie come after Christopher for killing his nephew by throwing him out of the window?

    My God, this is like Annie Wilkes, reading the new "Misery" book that she forces Paul Sheldon to write, to bring "Misery" back from the dead!! Does Winthorn...? Does Misery....?

    Can I possibly last until June 10?

  • Uncle Junior...watch out!

    [Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: "Is this all there is?"]
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    Uncle Junior will escape from the mental facility, come to Tony's house..shoot Carmela first, then Tony, then turn the gun on himself.

    AJ will carry on the business...(when pigs fly!) The Feds will arrest everyone else..

    End of series.

  • They got whacked, all right

    [Read the article: "The Sopranos" goes dark]
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    Yes, I believe the family got whacked while sitting in the diner, eating onion rings. Several shady characters coming and going..you see a guy at the counter who goes into the men's room..shades of the Godfather!

    They're whacked when the screen goes black...guess Chase thought we'd seen enough blood and gore, so you'd just had to imagine this scene. After Phil is shot and the SUV rolls over his head, that's the last gore we're getting.

    Maybe Paulie and Janice continue to run the mob. Will Sil recover? Who will take Phil's place?

    We'll have our imagination to fall back on.

  • It's caught on big here!

    [Read the article: Will Cambodian food ever catch on in America?]
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    Cambodian food is very big here. Every donut shop in So. California is owned by Cambodians!

    Where do you think the cops eat?

  • I saw "Sicko"

    [Read the article: This Modern World]
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    I saw "Sicko" the other day and have to agree with Steve from Buffalo...I'm ashamed.

    To be sick, with no insurance, and dumped by a hospital in front of the L.A. Mission..wandering around the street in a hospital gown, with 4 broken ribs and several other injuries.

    A woman with a brain tumor, being told by her HMO that she didn't have a brain tumor..and dying in a week.

    A woman, in the hospital after a head-on-collision, having the ambulance fee being turned down..for not having it pre-approved.

    Volunteer EMT workers in NYC, working at Ground Zero for several weeks, now have severe lung diseases and no where to get help.

    A woman, who works for an HMO, testifying at a Congressional hearing, telling the committee that she turned down hundreds of applications for insurance because of pre-existing conditions. If they COULD get insurance, it was usually more than they could spend.

    A couple, losing their home because of co-payments and deductibles wiped out their savings,after his 3 heart attacks and her cancer..they had to move into their daughter's basement storage room.

    And on and on and on....

    Michael Moore takes several of these people, that wrote him horror stories about their health care, with him to Canada, the UK, France and finally, Cuba.

    Guantanamo Bay has a state-of-the-art hospital for the Al Queda prisoners housed there..they can have open heart surgery, colonoscopies, teeth, eye care or whatever else they need.

    Moore chartered 3 boats in Miami and took these people down to Cuba. He was threatened at Guantanamo, then turned away. They then went to Havana, with no questions asked..he made sure they got the exact same treatment that any Cuban would get.

    All of the people were treated for their illnesses, one man got new teeth and one of the EMT volunteers spent $120 a month on an inhaler. The cost in Cuba: 5 cents.

    In France, the doctors still make house calls and new mothers have a government-paid helper come to the house for several weeks to cook, clean, shop, etc. If you don't have a way home from the doctor's office, they give you cash to take a cab.

    If we can spend 2 Trillion dollars on this 'war' in Iraq, we certainly can scrape up the money to treat our uninsured people in this country..the richest country in the world, but 37th on the list of health care services.

    Even Third World countries have better health care than we do.

    That embarrasses me..really embarrasses me.

  • Jenna engaged..

    [Read the article: Jenna Bush -- engaged!]
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    I read that Jenna and Henry are collaborating on a children's book...It's to be entitled "My Pet Goat Grows Up".

    I wonder what suit Laura Bush will wear to the wedding? She has one suit in 45 colors..a real fashion plate. The Dragon Lady Grandmother will no doubt wear her yellowed pearls.

  • Geez, Louise!

    [Read the article: The U.S. senator and the bathroom stall]
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    Can't these Republicans keep their pants zipped in a public men's room?? Is that the kind of people in this Administration who are running this country??

    Every day it's a new headline about some Repub in a compromising position...why is it THESE kind of guys run for public office?? And why do people keep voting for these scum-bags?