Letters to the Editor
dropthedh
Published Letters: 6
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Some tough guy
[Read the article: GOP senator blames Democrats for troop deaths]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jim DeMint calls other lawmakers wimps, yet I see no information on his website as to how he might be the tough guy he wants to portray.
No military record, no background in law enforcement, not even a won-loss record in the local tough-man contest.
Maybe he is falling back on his rough and tumble years as a marketing executive.
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We shared the decision…
[Read the article: It's my abortion, too!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That is how I would describe what transpired for my then girlfriend, now wife. I guess some men may feel somewhat empty from not having their child, but to project what life would be like with what is now a terminated pregnancy is asking for emotional baggage.
I have had some thoughts of what might have been with our potential first-born, but I have also tempered those thoughts with what would have been. A real possibility that we would have spiraled into a broken family with only one of us working and at a low-paying job at that and not even living in the same city.
We were not emotionally or fiscally able to support this life. We could have brought the fetus to term and given the baby away, but having had two children afterward, I can say that would not have been an option. We would have kept the child and tried our best to make do. It is very possible that the two children we have now would not have been born or the very least only one would have. We looked at this decision with a great deal of anquish, but as things have gone, we are sure that our decision was the best for us and the health of our relationship as a family.
I cringe at the idea that we would have had to make an even harder decision if the laws concerning abortion were not as they are today.
I think these men are being done a disservice by making them relive or imagine their lives with what might have been instead of what will be.
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Full overhead Bins
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I find my overhead full when I get to my seat, no problem.
Ask anyone in my row if their stuff is in the bin. If they say no, then I remove offending baggage and throw it into a seat.
Then the fool who placed the bags there can come get them when the flight attendent makes an announcement that the bags are in the way of the seat ticket holder.
Or better yet, upon arrival, take the bags with me and drop them off in the concourse and let the person explain to the security people why the bags were left unattended.
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Where the hot air comes sweeping down the plain
[Read the article: Your fetus has fingernails ... and we're going to show them to you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just another reason I no longer live in Oklahoma.
Tornadoes can do no more damage than the stupidity of the Oklahoma government.
One question: Who pays for the ultrasound? The woman's insurance? I don't think so, not in today's declining coverage for medically unnecessary procedures.
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Gingrich, the enabler
[Read the article: Newt Gingrich, supreme fear-monger]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It seems to me, that if Newt Gingrich has his way, there will be more, not less, terroristic threats. Those coming from otherwise normal citizens who have come to a point where they feel their liberties have been taken away from them and they have little recourse but to turn to violence to recoup said liberties.
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Airport security
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have a nice way to deter the invasive searches…
just don't shower for several days before traveling and make sure you eat as much garlic and add to it some helpings of refried beans.
Any unwanted advances near the lower extremities would be met with some rather offensive aromas and voila, you may be on your way quicker than anybody else.