Letters to the Editor
Baldie McEagle
Published Letters: 992 Editor's Choice: 3
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"Winter heat"?
[Read the article: "Actual journalists" as government spokespeople]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's he talkin bout?
Cuba's north of the equator. It's hot in summer.
???
The passage about cave-wear is fascinating. Klein genuinely believes these people are animals. "Hey, at least they're not eating garbage and living on the street. They get a nice room and 3 squares a day until we send them to the slaughterhouse and put the bolt gun to their heads. What's inhumane?"
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Zionism/racism
[Read the article: "Actual journalists" as government spokespeople]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Personally, I don't see Zionism as necessarily racist, any more than Americans' oblivious Americanism. All it is is a nationalism under perpetual assault, as Rowan notes.
And when nationalism is said to be, or believed to be, under assault, the line between it and genocidal racism can blur and break. And otherwise normal people, who simply believe Jews have a right and duty to live in Israel as Jews, can get sucked into the nightmares envisioned and rhetorically deployed by the racists---how the Arabs will out-breed them, and steal their water, and subvert their democracy, and only understand force, etc.
But it takes a peculiar kind of person to feed off those nightmares---to justify Israel's atrocities and denounce the Palestinians'; to decry Jewish suffering and deny the Arabs'.
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@kufir77
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The real question here, as always, is, why aren't you out in the pasture with the sheep?
There's nothing more "traditional" than that.
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Something to do
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]with Big Amy?
I think I knew her in high school ...
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!!!
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]oof!!!
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I must be confused too
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sympathetic to your position, and very happy about today's news, but I do think that kind of argument is facile and a bit disingenuous.
A Constitution is an argument?
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I see
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So when scoot likes a decision, he giggles about it, and when he doesn't like it, he cries?
Sounds like a judicial activist to me.
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@modenastradale
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Briefly: When you quoted Glenn explaining how constitutions and supreme courts interpret and analyze laws, you referred to the quote as an "argument." I say, It's not an argument---it's a Constitution.
Please see Glenn's explanations for reasons why it might be a bit fatuous to question how state constitutions work and then say, I do think that kind of argument is facile and a bit disingenuous.
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Now THAT is a chuckler
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]PS, how many of your long-ish term relationships have failed in the past? You have a real problem with not being the center of attention.
Sez the little boy who lobs stinkbombs into the room.
Please stop. You're disrupting a meeting of Jew Haters Anonymous. We're trying to get better, really.
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People
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you all do realize that the polygamy motif was brought up by a troll, don't you? And that said topic is one of the Sacred Talking Points that are always brought up when the real possibility of actual gay marriage looms in the middle distance?
Just sayin'.
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er
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]not that it hasn't been an interesting discussion, since the trolls left.
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@William
[Read the article: Joe Galloway blasts Pentagon and Larry Di Rita on "military analyst" claims]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's a major yet often overlooked point you're making. Not only will Iran be forced, in any prolonged conflict, hot or cold, to devise new tactics, but on the American side, the only need that exists, as far as the eye can see, is the need for new and competitive ways to suck up federal dollars. This need is far stronger and more persistent than any need for "victory" anywhere outside the Americas and Europe. It's probably stronger than the need for oil.
If only body armor, Humvee armor, and courier ponies cost billions to produce. Our forces would be awash in them.
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Pedinska
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I had a heated discussion about same-sex marriage with a woman I know who is a knee-jerk RWA. She brought that garbage up, "Well, then why can't I marry my dog, Boomer?" (yes, Boomer)
You don't live in Maryland, do you? Because those admittedly minimal facts fit a woman I used to live up the block from. That would be a helluva kwinkydink, to be sure.
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Kwinkydinks---NOT
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, glad we cleared that up.
"Boomer" is apparently slang for a missile sub, and the nickname of a football player. So yes---big things that go boom must appeal to a certain kind of mind. It occurs to me the Boomer I knew is no longer with us---but he was a big dog.
Didn't someone way upthread mention that there wasn't anything more traditional than visiting the grazing fields? That one really cracked me up.
Actually, that was me. ;)
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A right-wing canard
[Read the article: McCain's amazing Iraq somersault]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]decades of tyranny and centuries of sectarian tension
And somehow nearly all those centuries have been packed into 5 years of American occupation. It sure seems like centuries, don't it?
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2013 is quite logical
[Read the article: McCain's amazing Iraq somersault]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It took us 5 years to get here. McCain reasonably assumes it will take us 5 years to get out. Conventional wisdom and all that.
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Who says Iran isn't a real threat?
[Read the article: Ronald Reagan: Chamberlainian appeaser of the 1980s]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.brumbaer.de/Wm/Ancients/Persia.html
Iran has had terror weapons for 3000 years. It says so right there on the right-hand page: Elephants cause terror.
If we cede Iraq to Iran, we will be succumbing to terror!
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Blue Dogs are a liability
[Read the article: Major new ad campaign -- aimed at Blue Dog Rep. Chris Carney -- begins]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All they are is a lesser branch of the imperial faction.
When the Dems need to make an important vote, they count as Repugs, and when the Rovians need to discredit the Dems' ability to get things done, they count as Dems.
Who needs a dog that lets burglars into the house?
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Hey Scoot
[Read the article: Major new ad campaign -- aimed at Blue Dog Rep. Chris Carney -- begins]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What happened to polygamy? I know, so last week, right, but Hamsher's gaffe was, like, 3 years ago. Who remembers?
So hey, how 'bout that California judicial activism?
Pretty soon we'll all be marrying pigs!
Muslim ones!
Black Muslim ones!
Whole harems of them!
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The ad itself is pathetic
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't believe the ad producers were even IN San Francisco---or if they were, that they ever left the studio. Perhaps they were afraid to go outside.
I didn't see a "West Coast" lifestyle. I saw a young black man dancing with two hot hippie chicks, one of them "ethnic." Sounds like a beer commercial to me. And what's more mainstream American than that?
Party on, supposedly gay dude with 2 hot chicks! Kay Whatsername has my vote!
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Maybe I'm just paranoid, though.
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, you're not.