Letters to the Editor
jared2
Published Letters: 223 Editor's Choice: 16
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Re:Re: re: Citizenship Isn't That Easy
[Read the article: Northern exposure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill, you are just confirming my point. There is little difference between being a Canadian "landed immigrant" and a citizen, just as there is very little practical difference between being a US citizen and having a green card. The difference is primarly a legal category. I'm sure that a man marrying a Canadian woman, provided it is a genuine marriage, will become a Canadian citizen. My main point referred to the difference in treatment between refugees in Canada and the US. In Canada, a refugee is given money, an apartment and free language training. In the US, a refugee is thrown into jail. In Canada, a permanent resident who is not yet a citizen has the same health care as a Canadian citizen. In the US, even citizens have no right to health care.
In general, the US is cursed by being a superpower and by being run by an oligarchy that is profit-mad and out of control. This distorts all discourse in this country. In Canada, the media is talking about daycare benefits; here it is about which country should be bombed next.
I am probably in a good position to discuss these matters as a dual Canadian/US citizen who has lived many years in both countries. And, for David Sugerman, I am not as thin-skinned as you may think - I'm a New Yorker too, and you don't last a New York minute here with a thin skin.
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Interesting
[Read the article: Ask the Pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I "do" like your column, Patrick and I will read it at this time.
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Re: Shea Expressway
[Read the article: Ask the Pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I drive on the Van Wycke most days past Shea and almost always see planes on final approach. Patrick would know more precisely, but I would guess they are only about 500 feet at that point, just 10 seconds prior to landing.
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Re: Deplanning
[Read the article: Ask the Pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Could be worse. "This is the Captain. When we come to a full stop, please egress from the aircraft in an orderly fashion".
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Re: The Military-Industrial complex gains while the people loose ( and it's still going on)
[Read the article: "Brothers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Queeniev
I agree. The basic question to ask about any crime is "who benefits?" Who benefited from the crime of 9/11? Not the arabs, not Bin Laden. Who was able to pass an already-prepared Patriot Act within weeks that gave the President dictatorial powers? What govenment department, facing redundancy at the end of the cold war was able to secure trillions in funding the new "war on terror? How much have banks made in profit by financing the newly-created government deficit, which had been a surplus under Clinton? When you see who benefited, you see who did the crime.
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Re: JFk
[Read the article: "Brothers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"the press releases pertaining to the assination hit the other side of the world before, um , the event actually occured."
Very interesting. The same thing happened on 9/11. A BBC reporter reported the "collapse" of WTC building 7 before it happened.
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What?
[Read the article: Northern exposure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]David Sugerman,
You have lost me - I really don't know what you're on about. Anyway, no hard feelings from one New Yorker to another!
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Re: DC Regan
[Read the article: Ask the Pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It usually makes me wish I was on a plane going somewhere"
I still get a feeling of joy when the plane accelerates down the runway. I like the power, the sound, the vibration. The amazing human accomplishment of this technology. Above all, I like the fact that I am going somewhere, free to travel the globe (and damn carbon footprints) Wherever I am going in the world, the runway roll is when the trip really starts.
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Re: Slight Correction
[Read the article: "Brothers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's interesting. And New Zealand just happens to be a part of echelon, along with Australia, Canada and Britain. So information on Osward was circulating in echelon prior to the actual assination.
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Re: Channel 9
[Read the article: Ask the Pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have never had the good fortune to experience channel 9, but I know that I would much rather know what was going on than be in the dark. Ignorance is not bliss.
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Queens is the real New York
[Read the article: Northern exposure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Manhattan thinks it is New York, but it has become the home of overfed trust fund babies. Queens is the real New York - where most immigrants find a footing. Where over a hundred languages are spoken, and where there are more immigrants than natives.
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Poet Pilots
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]What happened to the romance of flying?
It's not for lack of Pat's trying
I'll spend my airtime
With a pilot who rhymes
Not one who's obsessed with complying
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Prose
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]What! That's all, there's no more?
I'm hungover, my head is sore
And what is this - poetry?
It's kind of a mystery
More prose please, not stuff we abhor
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Mixed metaphors
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Every time I hear "tarmac" my eyeballs bleed"
And my ears see red.
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Leonard Cohen
[Read the article: The winners of our giveaway contest]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Leonard Cohen? Loved his songs in the seventies. But face it, that was 40 years ago. Mozart lives forever, but Cohen?
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Absurd
[Read the article: Tinky Winky says bye-bye to Jerry Falwell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That adult notions of sexuality intruded upon a show meant for 3 year olds is absurd. My 3 year old loved it. At seven, he's gone on to other things. Too bad Falwell didn't show the same maturity.
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Bye Bye!
[Read the article: Tinky Winky says bye-bye to Jerry Falwell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The sun is setting in the sky
Jerry Falwell says goodbye
Bye bye Jerry!
Bye bye George!
Bye bye Paul!
Bye bye Dick!
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Corporate Colonies
[Read the article: The corporate takeover of U.S. intelligence]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All countries of the world have become colonies of global capitalism - the U.S., China, Russia. Most wealth and power has already become concentrated in a small elite that is home anywhere in the world and is able to shelter its wealth from taxes. The combined wealth of the world's riches 200 people was 1 trillion in 1999, while half the world's people live on less than $2.00 per day. The eggregious injustice of this speaks for itself.
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"My" Life
[Read the article: I'm younger than that now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At fifty where's my life?
Laughing, he invents another game
I am glad to watch
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How old I've become
[Read the article: I'm younger than that now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The older I become
The less I care about
How old I've become
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Re: football
[Read the article: I'm younger than that now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"what is the most important thing?" Hint, it's not football ;-)
Right. It's hockey.
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Accepting mortality
[Read the article: I'm younger than that now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I can't help but wonder what a different world this would be if Americans TRULY accepted their own mortality at 10, or 20...rather than waiting until 50 to struggle with a notion incongruent to their culture."
I suspect that if Americans could truly accept their own mortality and, as important, that of others, they would be far less likely to instigate wars and drop bombs on people around the world.