Letters to the Editor
mysticmom
Published Letters: 77 Editor's Choice: 8
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You want nightmares? Here are some nightmares.
[Read the article: An Olympic disgrace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of the commenters said they'd have nightmares about this column. I find that absurd. There are many things going on which are the stuff of nightmares:
Young girls being raped and murdered around the world. Young boys being turned into cold-blooded killers in the Congo. Car bombs shattering a peaceful market scene in Baghdad, creating instead a bloody scene full of charred bodies and sobbing survivors. Children slowly starving to death (because they don't have any DOGS to eat) all over the world. Children being beaten so they'll work faster to make those computer chips you're using now. Young girls being led, unknowing, into a "ceremony" where their genitals are cut off.
And that's just a taster of the things going on TODAY. I was going to go into detailed descriptions of the horrible things that happened in the Nazi concentration camps, but the descriptions were so horrifying I felt they were overboard. Nevertheless, I would encourage those who find eating dogs so terrible to do a little research about what happened to people in the Holocaust: people sent into incinerators, poison gas showers, babies murdered because the mother failed to quiet them, and many, many other terrible things.
Seriously, nightmares about a dead dog? You people need to stop knee-jerking and THINK for a second how ridiculous your argument really is. There are many disgraces occurring in the world today, one of which is the murderous way China crushes political dissent in Tibet. Eating dogs, however, is NOT one of them.
(This is my mother's account, and this post reflects my own views, which are not necessarily her own.)
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And as a post script...
[Read the article: An Olympic disgrace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You people who own dogs and cats should also consider the deplorable treatment they receive in the pet shops YOU patronize when you buy them. You could easily have rescued a dog or cat from an animal shelter, but you chose to patronize the pet shops that mistreat them instead. And another dog or cat was euthanized because of your apathy and/or ignorance. Glass houses and all...
(And by the way, my family owns a retired racing greyhound and a cat from a shelter.)
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This is off-topic, but...
[Read the article: Tactics of the right-wing noise machine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, you may have already seen this, but if you haven't, you should (in fact, so should everyone):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/opinion/26gabler.html?hp
An article analyzing that ever-so-irritating pro-McCain bias in the media.
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German scientists exposed rats to constant fluorescent light for 4 weeks.
[Read the article: The light-bulb wars switch on again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After 4 weeks, the rats were blind.
I use incandescents, and I'm looking forward to GE's new higher-efficiency incandescent bulbs.
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DemoChristian:
[Read the article: Tactics of the right-wing noise machine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If people were happy with the way this country was run, only a fraction of the political press corps today would have jobs.
Self-interest trumps national interest every time.
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Is there any escape?
[Read the article: Search commercial break: Google tests video ads]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone know of a lesser-known but ad-free search engine? I'll need it when I start seeing ads on Google.
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Am I the Only One Here...
[Read the article: The Federal Reserve's "socialist" agenda]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...who admires the Senator for sticking to his principles? I think they're flawed, yes, but frankly, at least he sticks by them through thick and thin. I'm sure he fully understands that the economy would have tanked if the invisible hand had been allowed to smack Bear Stearns, but he cares about his free-market principles enough to stick to them anyway. I applaud that kind of moral courage, even though I disagree with him on principle. Every other free-marketer thinks the bailout was just great, which puts this guy a cut above the rest, in my view, because you know those other free-marketers are just hoping to make this recession go away so they can keep doing what they've been doing.