Letters to the Editor
Josiah Bartlett
Published Letters: 5 Editor's Choice: 1
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I'll join the chorus
[Read the article: Midlife crisis: I could have been a singer!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you want to sing, start singing at home. Sing to your 1 yr. old. Sing your baby to sleep or to calm her down or just to entertain. Sing your favorite songs and sing them with love and make them your own, make an impression on your baby's heart.
You may succeed beyond your wildest dreams or maybe you won't. Years down the road when you're not around your baby may be listening to the radio (or whatever they'll listen to then) and hear a song you sang to her and she'll feel a little tingle and think about you.
I know, my Daddy used to sing to me.
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Three Stooges? Good analogy.
[Read the article: The three stooges]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the committees investigating these bozos need to have a better response when they claim executive privlege or that they don't recall some event that people with normal brain cell counts would surely recall.
Bushie: Senator, that information falls under Executive Privelige.
Senator: Let the record show that the subject has excersided his alleged right to claim executive privelige to avoid self incrimnation but is willing to expose him/herself to charges of contempt of congress and obstruction of justice.
Bushie: Senator, I'm sorry but I don't recall.
Senator: Let the record show that the subject has claimed that he cannot recall to avoid self incrimination but is willing to expose him/herself to charges of contempt of congress and obstruction of justice.
They need to impress upon these people the seriousness of their refusal to answer.
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There's things goin' on you don't know...
[Read the article: Another election fiasco in Florida?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My personal belief is that this is something aided and abeted by the republic majority that has ruled this state for years now. The republic leaders are full of "devious plans" to rule the way they want regardless of what the voters say.
But when I try to see through all the smoke this is generating, I'm worried that there's something else going on that we haven't yet recognized. For years, there has been debate about how the primary system was a mess and some small states had all the power and some larger states were irrelevant when their primaries came around. I'm wondering why there is this sudden seismic shift and so many states are racing to be first or in some first group.
It all sounds so nice but...
I have become so suspicious about the dirty tricks and the cheating ways of the republic party and the people so determined to keep it in power that I have to wonder how we are being played. What unintended consequences will we discover after all the primaries have raced past? What advantage do the republics have hidden?
How are we, the people, going to get screwed again?
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I received such a book 30 years ago
[Read the article: Five books to help you become a chef by New Year's!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When I was married to my first wife, one wedding present that was lovingly used and studied was a copy of James Beard's "Theory and Practive of Cooking". This book even instructed you on the correct way to boil an egg. Recipes were included only to illustrate or practice a technique but these simple recipes had a simple elegance and were delicious foundations for wonderful meals.
The first wife is long gone but I still have and use that wonderful book. I hope it is still in print.
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The two bush* recessions
[Read the article: Republican nightmare: An election-year recession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This will be two recessions under the bush* maladministration.
The first was the one they wanted and they so badly wanted it to start under Clinton. They were talking about it, declaring it in speeches and jumping up and down throwing tantrums to get it. Unfortunately for them the official start was March, 2001, clearly after young bush* had taken power so that the records will show that it was another bush* recession.
This second one is the one they don't want but are going to get anyway. The irony is that it is because of the actions they took to avoid/recover from their first one. Because the deflationary nature of the tax cuts they pushed through to recover from their first recession forced their randian lapdog Greenspan to push rates to zero to keep the country from totally crashing and get bush* reelected. We are now experiencing the wonders of the popping of a housing bubble enhanced by the predatory lending that only unregulated free market capitalism can bring. Such bountiful results from the wonders of the free market capitalism under Mr. bush* and the incredible monetary skills of Mr. Greenspan.
When we have elections and a new administration takes over we will all look back in wonder at the incredible experience we had when bush* was president.