Letters to the Editor
Mister Buck
Published Letters: 86 Editor's Choice: 3
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A double Standard?
[Read the article: The crazy uncles in Obama's attic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell BOTH blamed Americans for the attacks of 9/11 - and both were still welcomed in the White House - in fact, lawyers from Falwell's Liberty Law School have been hired by the Bush administration.
Political commentators like Pat Buchanan and Don Imus are gainfully employed by the media, and Imus - in particular, was shielded from his comments by many of the same people calling for Obama's head!
It just seems there's a double standard for blacks who speak out about American injustice!
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Joan Missed it too...
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...to Wright, a public figure who's built his career around a particularly divisive analysis of American racial politics. It is easily the most tin-eared thing I've ever heard Obama say."
Obama directly addressed that in his speech:
"Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask? Why not join another church? And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television and You Tube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators [like Joan], there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way...,"
Obama goes on to describe the man behind the lazy descriptions we find in the media - a guy who's been out in his community (for more than 30 years), working to help the poor and disadvantaged - who heads a church of 8000 hard working African Americans from one of our great cities - who are now being smeared as implicit racist Anti-Americans - all because lazy journalists are measuring the black experience through the prism of their own fears and ignorance. Can YOU blame a black man born in the 40's for singing God Damn America?
I can't. (I sing it all the time, and I'm white.)
Anyway, Joan - Obama takes issue with your description of Wright - and so do I. And I think a lot of other people will as well.
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RE: There are women who don't tailor their lifestyle or wardrobe to impress men
[Read the article: Are urbane tomboys truer feminists?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't put that on men! Every married woman i know still wears makeup, heels and hose - so unless they're trolling for a fresh catch, i'd suggest they're dressing for OTHER WOMEN.
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re: It is not our place to campaign for Chinese people to cease eating dogs and cats.
[Read the article: An Olympic disgrace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe not YOURS - it's CERTAINLY not YOUR place telling anyone what THEIR place is...
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And the scary part?
[Read the article: John McCain's plan to ignore the economy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think McCain will take the White House...
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They tried Adopt Your Own Feminist, first
[Read the article: A new form of BYOB]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but no one bought it...
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re: But the act wasn't directed at an otherwise uninvolved civilian population with the intent of inducing panic and swaying public opinion.
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A university is a public institution - the research is often paid for with tax dollars. This was no act against corporat frankenfood - this was pure terrorism - plain and simple. Protest is done with words and bodies and responsibility- not sneaky arson in the dead of night...
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re: I don't know what country you live in, but in mine, causing inconvenience is not (yet) a crime.
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]next time someone burns down an abortion clinic or a church or...
get back to us on that...
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re: The next time an abortion clinic arsonist gets extra sentencing for inconveniencing the people whose appointments had to be canceled, you let me know.
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It took firefighters two hours to put out the flames. By that time the office where the fire had started had burned down to the studs, and the central hall and several botany labs were damaged. Damages were estimated at $2.5 million."
I like your definition of inconvenience - to me burning down a research lab is FAR from inconvenient...
except maybe to the criminal who's gonna rot behind bars...
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re: how can it be terrorism if you aren't terrified?
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What makes you think the target of this action - the researchers - aren't terrified?
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re: So all one needs to be doing is pursuing a political agenda, and any crime becomes terrorism?
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This was a a criminal act of political intimidation - to the researchers as well as the institution. Add to that that some enviromental activists have ramped up the violence and injured people when mere vandalism fails - and this amounts to terrorism.
But whatever - this is not your ox being gored so you're flip...
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re: First of all, violence is only directed at someone else. Property is merely damaged or destroyed.
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So burning a cross in someone's yard is just vandalism - while destroying someone's work is not directed at them - it's just a pile of papers?
Keep trying...
I like your efforts...
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re: Neither is terrorism, which is what we're talking about. Or are you, also, resorting to trolling?
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When I resort to trolling, you'll know...
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re: I'm not eager to see Levy's vision become a reality too quickly. Thoughts?
[Read the article: Your girlfriend seems so fake]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, my blender agreed with your points, but my clock radio says: fuck 'em!
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You didn't meet online...
[Read the article: I'm embarrassed to admit I met my guy online]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You met where ever your first date took place. Tell folks you met on a blind date - that's what we used to call meeting someone you never met in person...
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Pre-War Iraq?
[Read the article: "Petroleum perpetuates patriarchy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When Iraq was secular, women were granted more rights (http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=32693) than they now enjoy under a encroaching fundamental Islamic movement. I don't know if that's covered in this report. It does seem that women in non-oil Islamic states - such as Indonesia - fare less well as fundamental Islam gains in power (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/world/asia/27indo.html) - but this also may be covered in the report.
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re: the GI Bill was instrumental in helping send a generation of U.S. veterans...
[Read the article: McCain's bizarre reluctance on the new GI Bill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not black vets - many were cheated out of their rightful due...
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What Nonsense...
[Read the article: Why Jeremiah Wright is so wrong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wright is right that 9/11 was blowback - but just don't talk about it...
Wright is right that America has inflicted great harm the world over - for many years - but 9/11 is somehow "indefensible," as if the millions we slaughtered in Vietnam can be explained rationally...
Wright is right that black Americans were given the short end of the stick - but expressing that anger - even in over-the-top rhetoric is SO Wrong....
Go vote Republican - after all John McCain never uttered a bad word about America - he just dropped bombs on Vietnemese peasants!
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re: Rev. Wright is Obama's de facto adoptive father
[Read the article: What should Obama do about Rev. Jeremiah Wright?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And he should disavow his father? is that how Republicans work? Blame the son for the sins of the father?
disgraceful...
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re: he's clearly trying to hurt Barack Obama
[Read the article: I was wrong about Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No Joan - it's idiots like you in the media who seem to forget that we're at war with a tanking economy - it's YOU who keeps this alive, it's YOU who brought him to the press club, it's YOU who seem to think that there's importance in what Wright has to say...
You're the poison.
You're the illhness...
You and your brethern continue to ask stupid questions of little relevence.