Letters to the Editor
jared2
Published Letters: 222 Editor's Choice: 16
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Re: It's just fucking coffee. Drink it or don't.
[Read the article: Is this the end of organic coffee?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I see. You think it is vile,therefore, by ad hominum argument, it must be vile. May I suggest that for many, it is the exlixir of life, the main reason for getting up in the morning, wonderful not only in taste, but in the mental effect. Bach cantatas have been written about it; literary movements founded on it. Much creative thought would be impossible without it. And yes, there is a big difference in quality, ranging from putrid to mediocre to wonderful. Your profanity indicates frustration; a cup of coffee would improve your mood immeasurably.
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Re: Regulating the airlines
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Regarding compensating airline passengers for cancellations and delays much discussed in previous articles, in 2005 the European Commission passed a regulation that:
"lays down minimum standards of compensation and assistance in the event of overbooking, cancellations, delays and involuntary downgrading.
Depending on the circumstances, it requires airlines to:
* Provide passengers with assistance such as accommodation, refreshments, meals and telephone calls
* Offer re-routing and/or a refund
* Pay compensation of up to 600 euros per passenger
* Inform passengers about their rights"
The same can be done here, given the political will.
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Imus
[Read the article: Firing Imus was the right thing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Chinese have a saying:
"Disaster comes from the mouth".
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Meat-flavored ice-cream
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a Japanese man, I must object to your characterization of us as eating meat-flavored ice-cream, playing sudoku, and carrying women's panties in our wallets. I have never eaten meat-flavored ice-cream or played sudocku.
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Guns
[Read the article: I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"However, there is also a huge, albeit nearly invisible, sect that has healthy attitudes toward guns and treats them with the appropriate level of respect."
A hammer is a tool for driving nails, a saw for cutting wood, and a gun is a tool for killing people. Wanting to kill people is insane. Wanting to own a tool for killing people is insane. To believe that you need a gun for protection is to already acquiece in the failure of American civilization and to descend into a Hobbsian world. I choose not to live that way. The only healthy attitude toward guns is to despise them.
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Interesting column
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks, Patrick, and thanks Sam Chui. At sixteen you were going to airports and writing down plane registration numbers? I thought I was geeky for listening to Mozart at that age. (I still do, but it's ok after 50) Loved the pictures. Some of them are worth 10,000 words. I now know where to go on the internet to fritter away even more time.
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How things have changed
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the 1970's, my brother and his friend would go to Toronto International Airport to look at planes. Not only would they get onto the tarmac, they actually got into the flight deck of an airliner. Times were so innocent then. People were more than cattle. Let's go back!
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Plane spotting subversives
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Plane enthusiasts were the ones who tracked and recorded the Bush Administration's ferrying of men to secret prisons to be tortured. Many took photos. Because of their work, no government, especially "ours", could deny the existance of these criminal, secret, flights."
That would explain the crackdown on plane spotters. Who knew?
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Re: Oswald Acted alone
[Read the article: "Brothers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you for pointing out the link between the conspiracy that killed JFK and 9/11. It is the same group of neo-fascist oligarchs.
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Conspiracy Theorists
[Read the article: "Brothers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love wacky consiracy theorists. They live in a fantasy world. They believe in crazy things, like Oswald acted alone and some Arabs with box cutters did 9/11. They make my day.
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The 9/11 Truth Movement
[Read the article: "Brothers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is an interesting article about a pivotal event in US and world history. When is Salon going to write about the much more recent conspiracy of 9/11? Is the 9'/11 truth movement to be marginalized, even by so-called liberal media outlets?
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Re: Ted Kennedy
[Read the article: "Brothers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"if there were something, wouldn't Ted Kennedy have have brought it to light?"
Everyone wants to go on living, don't they?
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Re: Canada is just the 51st state of the US
[Read the article: Northern exposure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is it any wonder that people all over the world hate Americans when so many have these arrogant attitudes? I ony wish that the US was the 11th province of Canada. We would then have universal health care, good universites with $5,000 per year tuition, paid maternity/paternity leave, sane drug laws, a strong union movement, a more efficient parliamentary government where the head of the largest party can actually get legislation passed without fear of a presidential veto (such as universal health care), and a government that is not perpetually at war to enrich a oligarchical elite. A rich country in which people have to worry about losing their house if their children get sick, while health insurance executives are paid million dollar bonuses to deny claims cannot claim to be a civilized country.
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Re: Canadian Identity
[Read the article: Northern exposure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Canada has a distinct identiy: It is the sane, progressive, tolerant, peaceful and humane country that the US could have been and should aspire to.
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Re: See What I mean
[Read the article: Northern exposure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"sane, progressive, tolerant, peaceful, humane" - who could worked up enough to root for that?
You mean you would rather root for an insane PNAC policy of world domination, an intolerant govenment that sends innocent people to secret CIA camps to be tortured, a government that practices continuous warfare to keep up the profits of the military-industrial complex and an inhumane society that enriches the pharmaceautical and health insurance companies while letting people die for lack of health care? I think sane, progressive, tolerant, peaceful, humane and compassionate sounds pretty good right about now.
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Re: Citizenship isn't that easy
[Read the article: Northern exposure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Technically, you are correct, Bill. In fact, once accepted as a landed immigrant (like the green card), a person can work and travel freely in Canada. Not only that, but you have full health care as a landed immigrant even before you become a citizen. I will repeat that for the sake of American citizens who lack health care - prospective Canadian immigrants have full health care befifits even before becoming citizens. Because Canadians think it would be uncivilized to welcome people to their country and not give them health care. That is the difference between Canada and the US.
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Sermon for today
[Read the article: Northern exposure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My sermon for today is this
David, when he gets pissed
Turns away from the facts
And goes on the attack
(His bombast is easily dismissed)