Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 49 Editor's Choice: 3
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@pageiger
[Read the article: Thompson proposes a new gay marriage amendment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These paragraphs guarantee that all US citizens have the same rights and privileges and responsibilities no matter which state they are in at the moment. This is why your car is yours in New York or Oregon and why your driver's license is good in Montana and South Carolina. It's why your adopted children remain yours when you cross state lines.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court has already ruled that Article 4 doesn't apply to marriage.
It seems that a little over a hundred years ago, some people had the heinous notion that the races, that "God had intended to remain separate", could inter-marry and even ::gasp:: have sexual relations.
They put a stop to that, so that a mixed race couple married in heathen New York State wouldn't remain married in, say, South Carolina (and they could be arreted there to boot!).
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"I'd check with my lawyer".
[Read the article: What about political progress, Gen. Petraeus?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let me save you the trouble, you sycophantic gutless toady...
The oath you took mentions the Constitution twice, and the President... zero times.
"I, _____ (SSAN), having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God."
You swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and to "bear true faith and allegiance to the same".
Anything else makes you a mere thug in the employ of a warlord, not a soldier.
Dumb-ass.
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Wow, Serai1, such anger!
[Read the article: Can Amazon's Kindle remake e-books?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The world is choking on pollution and trash...
...and here we have another paean to yet another unnecessary, energy-hogging bit of technogeek stupidity.
Of course, if it weren't for technogeeks, you wouldn't be able to rant on an online forum. :) Besides, if these books caught on, wouldn't that help the enviroment by letting us cut down fewer trees for paper (especially newspaper).
Give me a break. You're going to have to explain to me just WHY anyone would ever spend four hundred dollars on something this superfluous, because I don't get it.
Yeah, the (alleged and unofficial) price of $400 is a bit steep for me too, but that's the way of electronics. The first hard drives, cell phones, walkmans, and pocket radios were hideously expensive at first, then the price came down enormously over time. Early adopters pay that much because they can afford it and/or the device fills an immediate need/want.
See, that's the ultimate rub with all these store-everything-in-one-gizmo schemes. If you lose the gizmo, you also lose all those "books" stored in it - potentially a loss of thousands of dollars. Whereas with a real BOOK, it's only the loss of one volume. As usual, a distinction that only someone who DOESN'T have lots of money to fritter away on toys could appreciate.
Ever back up your data? If I lost my electronic reader, I just reload my new one with my backup CD/hardrive, etc. If I lose a physical book, I'm out of luck... Borders or Amazon are not going to give me a new copy.
It'll fail. Of course it'll fail. Because it's a DUMB IDEA. When will computer designers ever get it through their thick heads that some functions just aren't right for high tech? A concept Amazon will discover when this latest notion falls off a cliff with the rest of them. Good riddance.
Will it fail? Maybe.::shrug:: All this talk is theoretical until the actual announcement. The success of this will hinge on how much the e-books cost, how horrible the DRM is, and if the reader will accept file formats other than Amazon's.
Speaking of e-books, I'd like to plug my favorite publisher, Baen Books. Not only do they have a large sleection of online electronic books available for download, they also offer them for free. Many of these are only a couple of years old. Also, the last couple of hard back I've bought from them not only include a large portion of that library on a CD (in several different file formats), it also included the full text of the book I just bought.
http://baen.com/
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Well,, that's a plus...
[Read the article: Does Mitt Romney love Ronald Reagan enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not loving Reagan 110% is the best thing I've heard about Romney yet...
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Whatever happened to proof readers? Or proper English?
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]-- Former Sen. Rick Santorum, in his column for the Philadelphia Inquirer, wondering whether John McCain is a true conservative or whether he'll bring the U.S. to the same ignominious end as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, "only slower."
Somewhere an English teacher weeps...
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I'm shocked! Shocked I say...
[Read the article: Crist would support Florida Dem primary do-over]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A Republican endorsing a solution where people don't have to live with the consequences of their actions? What else is new....
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Here's a far better song by Bob Rivers...
[Read the article: Hallelujah, it's raining McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Recycled from the last Presidential election.
Funny thing is, I've never been able to figure out if -this- one is meant to be positive or negative either...
"I hear McCain A-Coming"
http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=17994
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@melthough
[Read the article: Gas taxes and head games]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You hit it exactly on the head. The sad thing is, more pot holes (due to less revenue to pay for them) is exactly what many in the Republican party want.
More potholes and collapsing transportation infrastructure would "prove" their point that government doesn't work, and the only "solution" is to sell the roads and bridges to the "civic-minded" private enterprises that they coincidently have ties to.
Only a Republican would try to destroy a nation and make a buck off its destruction at the same time (see also "Blackwater").