Letters to the Editor
Jeffrey P. Harrison
Published Letters: 464 Editor's Choice: 44
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Hmmm... I dunno
[Read the article: McCain's big running-mate rollout]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Considering that she demanded the resignations of the police chief and the librarian among others when she became mayor of a little town of 9,000 as a test of loyalty to her and she wanted to censor which books would be in the town library, the claim that she's no Darth Cheney is questionable. The other thing is that Cheney's unique vice presidency is due in large part to Shrub. Most presidents don't want competing power centers in their government and keep the VP on a short leash. So Cheney's ascendancy tells you at least as much about Shrub as it does about Cheney since I couldn't see, for example, Dan Quayle pulling some of Cheney's stunts had he been left to run amok as Cheney has.
I'm actually waiting for the Democrats to jump on that community organizer with responsibilities crack. The observation is, in many respects, accurate but the question is how well did she discharge those responsibilities? Given that she started with a town that was in the black and was $22 million in the hole when she left, I would say that she discharged them very poorly.
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I feel for you
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I retired from the Boeing Company's Training and Support systems where my group designed and built the visual systems for our trainers (our visual databases were obviously better than yours since aside from the satellite imagery and aerial photography, they included ground photography - it really did look like the real thing). I've seen experienced F-15 jockeys come out of the sims dripping with sweat after a mission (this was simulated combat, where the sadist at the IOC wasn't turning your engines on and off but throwing more aircraft, SAMs etc at you.) They would say that it was so real it was real.
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Y'know
[Read the article: Mean Old Party]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It'd be good if somebody finally broke the code that what you look like and what you do at home typically are not good indicators of what you do professionally. On the other hand, what you do professionally usually is a good indicator of what you will continue to do professionally. In Ms. Palin's case, she managed to run a town of 9,000 $22M in the hole all by herself. Fiscal irresponsibility.... not a good thing. She demanded the resignations of most of the staff of this little town to prove their loyalty to her... sounds like Shrub/Darth/Monica Goodling. Political litmus tests have no place in a bureaucracy. Based on her past performances, she's likely to spend other people's money like water and further politicize what should be a professional bureaucracy (indeed, that politicization is what has made it so incompetent).
So leave her personal life out of it and just focus on her rather thin record at work.
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I just gotta say this
[Read the article: "Ugh" of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure you (and most everybody else on the planet) has seen some version of the e-mail joke about the chemistry test wherein the professor asks if Hell is endothermic or exothermic. One of the lines is that virtually all religions claim that you're going to Hell in a handbasket on a freight train headed south if you're not a member of that religion and since nobody is a member of all religions, everybody is going to Hell.
I long ago ceased to worry about the rantings of the very religious. After all, they're going to Hell.
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I dunno, Gary
[Read the article: The dominatrix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They reelected Shrub in 2004, didn't they? A more colossal example of collective stupidity is hard to imagine. And I don't think they've gotten any smarter. When 62% of the respondents say that Shrub's performance is either poor, very poor, or the worst in American history, you shouldn't be having a neck and neck race with Shrub II. But there you have it.
So I have a bad feeling about this....
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Well, Glenn, look at it this way
[Read the article: Do journalists have any obligations beyond their self-interest?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's a scene in one of the Star Wars where Han Solo is trying to beguile Princess Leaha and she gets really irritated. At which point, Solo says: "See, I must have gotten pretty close to the point there to get her all riled up like that."
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Yeah, let's not call it a bailout
[Read the article: Brother, can you spare $50 billion?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's not do it at all. It's not as if they would disappear. Somebody would buy the profitable bits. They need to pay the price for their lack of vision and, besides, all those furriners who have been buying all that dollar debt that your government buddies have been pedaling need to spend it on something here.