Letters to the Editor
AnOptomist
Published Letters: 54 Editor's Choice: 1
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Hillary, please sit down
[Read the article: Will the real Hillary please stand up?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Contrary to what this article purports and the far left would love you to believe, there is much to be learned by reading the truth about Hillary Rodham Clinton. My advice, read both books. I have read one already and plan to read the other. At least spend fifteen minutes in a bookstore browsing them... fifteen minutes is more than Hillary gave consideration to the full war briefing that she avoided talking about in last night's debate.
Read and learn that Hillary will say anything to get you to love her... don't vote in ignorance, that's what gave us GWB- ignorance and faith.
I have no problem with Hillary's gender or pedigree- it's her, personally and professionaly that I have grave doubts about...
Last night, as a defence of her brain-dead stance on Iraq and the "war on terror and other emotions" she said we are safer today than we were before 9-11... Every informed intelligence officer and report says otherwise. We are in a more dangerous world today not just because of GWB, but because of HRC.
Hillary Clinton, really, is a shrill, mean, calculating weather vane... go read what A. Huffington has to say about Hillary and these books. Hillary's ilk would LIKE you to believe this is "tired, old rhetoric." It is not. It is riviting, dispiriting, factual news.
Don't buy the Salon hype on this one. Go read the books and decide for yourself.
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I'd love to vote for a women for President- Trouble is, Hilary isn't
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton always comes prepared]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hilary Rodham Clinton may be many things, including studious, hard-working and earnest.
What she isn't is sexy.
The harsh, inescapable fact about politics today is that it is sold, like corn-flakes, to idiots.
The idiots in Iowa decide. Not you and me who happen to read and think.
And the idiots in Iowa (and Nebraska, and Kansas and Idaho) vote, time and time again, with their gonads.
They elected GWB the first time because they thought he had some, they voted for him the second time because they were afraid they's lose theirs...
They're interested in Obama, and Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney because, frankly, they exude some sex appeal.
Hilary Clinton has the sex appeal of a - what? I don't know an analogy that is less sexy.
She is, technically, female. Okay.
But a woman? No.
End of story. Bye bye.
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God is in the details
[Read the article: We are meant to be here]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First, thank you thank you thank you Salon for this article... it is a sign of balance in your reporting that is welcome.
The truth is, of course, that God is in the details. Smart people are currently dedicating their lives, in droves, to the pursuit of somehow, some way, explaining the direct evidence (the ordered universe around us) of God away.
Unfortunately, as Paul Davies and the entire history of modern science shows, you can not get the perfectly running Rolex of a universe we live in by throwing random parts in the air.
A few other tidbits to consider:
- Entropy, that basic law of physics that breaks down elements that have been combined and strips away extraneous bits from DNA, is completely counter to the unproven (and unprovable) theory of evolution
- Large dinasaur bones "magically" extend vertically through the fictionally "old" layers of earth
- The moon, rather than being covered in billions of years of cosmic dust (which is why the lunar lander had large dishes on its legs) is actually quite devoid of dust- other than what would reasonable land on it in a few thousand years...
But, please, by all means, in your rage against the perfect machine that is the universe you live in and ordered by obvious intelligence, why not spew and foam your fiction about how randomness begat you and the world you refuse to acknowledge the order of.
Go ahead, be random. Randomness is your God, isn't He/She or It?
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Amen!
[Read the article: Leave the Muslim world alone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've read the Bible, the Torah and the Koran front to back. Anyone fool enough to either say "these religions are all the same" is just that, a fool.
Fact is, you either cleave to a specific religion (I'm a Christian, for example) or make up your own religion. Everyone has one... (believing their is no God or doesn't matter is, in fact, a definition of what your religion is).
So, yes and amen, we can not just pound any group of people into believing whatever... in fact, the opposite has always been true. The more you kill, the more "they" believe.
Personally, I do all I can to befriend Muslims, and other folks who don't believe as I do. Not to "convert" them, that's pointless, doesn't work. No, just to be a living example of a Believer who isn't a jerk, or worse.
If we took a fraction of the cash we spend on bombs and instead, bought books and food and sent that, gratis, we'd do so much more for humanity in general and safety specifically than the idiot's way of hammering on folk.
History will harshly judge us. If there is much history left.
So, if any of you out there are Muslim, I say, from the bottom of my heart, God Bless You, Allah be praised for your happiness.
We can not come to agreement on religion. I don't care. Let's not even try. Let's just share food and music and love and art and all that. Starting today.