Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 50 Editor's Choice: 3
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Joan's tin ear.
[Read the article: Obama's faith in the reasoning abilities of the American public]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It is easily the most tin-eared thing I've ever heard Obama say."
The only tin ear in this statement is that of the speaker. I can't think of a single person that does not have the same experience with older generation relatives and their sometimes shocking statements.
I think Obama hit a nerve with this analogy. He aimed, fired and hit square the nerve that we are all racists. Then he went on to tell us how to get over it.
Great speech. I wish the entire country could watch it with their grandparents, parents and children. He lays a clear path to a better future.
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Anything But Class
[Read the article: The worst, sleaziest press corps possible]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"What the hell happened to them?"
-DCLaw1
I used to work for a ABC affiliate and the network news crews that came through usually referred to their employer as Anything But Class. It wasn't a joke.
Back then we didn't report bomb scares or print suicide notes, much has changed but ABC still manages to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
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"At press time, she was surging in the polls."
[Read the article: The rubes and the elites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some surge...
www.pollster.com/08-PA-Dem-Pres-Primary.php
www.pollster.com/08-NC-Dem-Pres-Primary.php
I get SO tired of this crap. This whole "bitter" talking point is custom made to fill the 24x7 void for the chattering class that currently substitutes for news.
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Manual backup is not the problem
[Read the article: How the White House lost 5 million e-mails]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Automatic backups fail with annoying regularity for many reasons. Since they are automatic nobody ever checks them to be sure they are working properly.
I support quite a few networks and one of my first tasks at a new client is to determine who will be responsible for the backups. It tends to be the accountant type person who has the most work to loose in case of system failure.
By making a PERSON responsible I have never had a case of a unusable disk or tape that has been in the machine for 2 years causing a problem with data recovery.
It all has to do with setting up a system that works. Time and again BushCo deliberately set up systems that don't work to facilitate their lying, cheating and looting of our government.
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There IS a difference.
[Read the article: Obama is wrong about the gas tax]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]State sales taxes are collected at the point of sale. This makes the "tax holiday" scheme much more likely to work. The Federal gas tax is a manufacturer's excise tax collected during production. Reduction of this sort of tax is unlikely to be passed on to the consumer at anywhere near the lousy 60% found in the cited Illinois study.
If $50 over 3 months is a big deal to you your lifestyle and or transportation choices are incorrect. You can barely replace a battery or tire on your car for $50.
Obama is RIGHT about THIS gas tax.
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I guess we will see lots of this...
[Read the article: Eight Belles' last run]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People who don't know squat about horses or racing making BIG statements. That "PETA called on Kentucky racing officials to suspend Saez for whipping the filly in the stretch" demonstrates that they have NO idea how a jockey communicates with a horse to guide it through the maze that is the field in a race.
"In one case, groundskeepers brought a screen onto the track, and held it in front of an injured horse while a veterinarian administered a fatal shot. The carcass was winched into a van and carted off." WOW, HOW DRAMATIC! That describes the SOP for removing a massively injured horse from any racetrack anytime. What alternative is there? Dismemberment?
Polytrack may be an improvement but it has not been in use long enough to give sufficient data to justify an immediate change. Using Turfway Park as an example is not completely accurate since their track needed major work anyway.
Horse racing is a beautiful primal sport that is at least as safe as other forms of racing that will attract a big audience.