Letters to the Editor
geminiprop
Published Letters: 32 Editor's Choice: 3
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Reason pilots and flight attendants are searched
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear Patrick:
The reason you and your crew are searched along with the passengers is to continue the spread of fear by this government. Frankly, I'm happy you are frisked and searched as well. Why? Because you have unions that you can go to and complain to and the airlines might listen to. We passengers? Especially us frequent fliers who are subjected to this constantly, what voice to we have? If we complain to the airlines, our emails and letters are sent to the Homeland security and we get tagged thereby delaying us and missing our flights. How dare we even speak out loud to these people as they search through our bags.
Flying internationally, when I return, I'm always - that's 100% of the time - sent through the red line of customs even though I never have anything to declare. It's because I (one time really tired after a long flight and had a short connection time for my domestic flight) told the immigration officer that I filled out my form and it contained all the information she needed and she had no more right to ask me other questions - which is true they don't have the right to demand answers to private affairs. Immigration officers are the same as TSA employees. The United States is the worst place to fly into and fly out from. At a time when the dollar is lowest it's been for over 40 years, we should have tourists from everywhere flocking to see our beautiful country, but they avoid it because who wants to be treated worse than cattle?
Keep up your tirades on the insanity of TSA check points and checking and rechecking your bags after international flights. You are our voice. Let's just hope they still treat you the like they do passengers so that we don't loose our mouthpiece.
Pete Thelen
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Don't count on it, in fact bet your house against this ever happening.
[Read the article: Exposing Bush's historic abuse of power]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) This can't happen with this congress, it would have to be done by the next congress.
2) Bush will give a blanket pardon - including for himself.
3) The democratic leaders are in on all of this, and have been for decades, there's no way they would allow this investigation to go through - remember these notes are from "aides" to the leaders - not from the leaders - it's just an exercise to give the "aides" something to do.
4) The FISA bill would never have passed if this type of investigation could ever happen. A new president Obama will have nothing to do with pursuing past wrong doings - he'll follow the advice of his pundit advisors and move forward rather than go after felonies committed by previous members of the government elite. - See Glenn Greenwald's articles this week and statements from Cass Susstein this past weekend.
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Will Ferrell is anything but funny
[Read the article: "Step Brothers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How anyone can say that Will Ferrell is anything but annoying is beyond me. He is a horrible actor - there is never the suspension of belief - he's always "acting" and way over the top for film and television. He's always Will Ferrell in anything he does and, honestly Will Ferrell is never funny. He's pathetic.
Who is he related to to get him where he is? Who did he screw to get there?
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If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck...
[Read the article: No, let sleeping "Blue Dogs" lie]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem here is those blue dems (and really the leadership too) are acting and voting like republicans. Why would anyone donate money to a party that acts like the other party? It's time to show the door to all politicians who are more beholden to lobbyists than to their constituents no matter what side of the aisle they're on.
Really it boils down to this: if you've been in office for more than two terms - you're out - you've been corrupted beyond repair. Throw all of em out, I say.
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Religion - answers found! - Science keeps on searching and keeps finding new answers
[Read the article: What's wrong with science as religion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I don't think science is omniscient and I am not convinced that science will ever know everything. I am not convinced that science is even capable of knowing everything. That we can know as much as we do seems rather miraculous, in fact. Is it so dangerous to believe that there is a bit more to the world than meets the scientific eye, that behind the blackboard filled with equations there is a rational, creative and even caring mind breathing fire into those equations?
science and religion are searching for the same thing...how and why we got here. One takes a spiritual approach, the other a natural approach. My guess is that they are both probably right.
The difference between science and religion is that science allows for new discoveries. Religions do not. They have written word "direct from god" that is unchangeable. How can religion based on the "word of god" (with seemingly countless contradictions within those writings) ever "change"? The second quotation cited above from an editor's choice letter has it wrong: Science is constantly searching for the answer to how and why we got here; Religion searched and has already discovered how and why we got here and by so doing, is unacceptable to new findings.