Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 838 Editor's Choice: 10
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On sincere repentence
[Read the article: Matthew Dowd's not-so-miraculous conversion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Dowd is employing a time honored Southern tradition that gives everyone, even vapid liars, a second chance. As I was raised in a Southern Baptist tradition, and many of Salon's readers haven't a clue what that means, let me fill you in.
OK, he repented. A part of repentence is punishment. Mr. Dowd wants to go from sinner and corrupt liar to forgiven without the punishment step. I for one will have none of this repugnant crap. He is a total creep, and I don't give a crap if his dad feels bad. Dads of murderers feel bad for their kids, but the murder was committed, and the dad's bad feelings have NOTHING to do with justice.
Justice for Matt Dowd involves punishment for his many, many, many lies and wrongs. Until we have punishment, we will not have any forgiveness. For me, I totally dislike this useless piece of shit Matt Dowd, and he can say "mea culpa" for the rest of his life without my opinion changing.
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Comment about rape
[Read the article: Dusting off 17th century rape laws]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The comment seems incredibly accurate to me. The point about sexual relations between adults is that there is almost always a difference of opinion about exactly what is going on. In most cases, it isn't important. But if the woman believes that she is being coerced, while the man believes that he is just being a little pushy in an otherwise totally permissive situation, you have the situation described in the quote. And this happens ALL the time, IMHO, when the two involved are not well-acquainted.
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This piece of SHIT Dowd is LYING on NPR
[Read the article: Matthew Dowd's not-so-miraculous conversion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He is saying that in 2004, he did not understand that al Qaeda and Saddaam were not related. What a scumbag!! What an incredible piece of CRAPOLA!
I wish him a TERRIBLE DISEASE! I curse his name!
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I agree
[Read the article: Dusting off 17th century rape laws]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm a feminist, and an attorney, and I don't find the quote, or this attorney's particular use of it, objectionable.
This statement is true.
In today's world, the onus on the man has just been raised thru the roof. When you are convicted of a sex crime, you are a sexual predator. You cannot live where you wish, you cannot associate with persons without their knowledge, you must register with the police.
The laws, at this time, conflate innocent sex between 17 yr olds (statutory rape) with predatory acts and violent conduct. It's ridiculous.
As a father of a 17 year old, I occasionally discuss the current climate with him. It is anti-man, totally. Women are preyed upon, no doubt. But the consequences of a false accusation, based on a difference of opinion, are today quite serious against men, in a very unfair and unequal manner.
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Main Street
[Read the article: I'm a small-town girl dreaming of the big-city lights]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Small-town minds, small-town sensibilities, small-town concepts will never change.
If you read, you will NEVER fit into a small town. Get your ass out of there. As a midwesterner who spent 8 years in Chapel Hill, NC, I would NEVER under ANY circumstances return to anything below the M-D line, because the sight of the stars and bars just drives me crazy.
Go to a larger city, join a unitarian church (for companionship without theological overtones) and try to make a life.
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Religious nuts
[Read the article: Something to believe in]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]have a terrible problem.
Why does God do bad things to good people?
Being an atheist, I have solved that problem. God does not exist, and shit happens.
Have a nice day, and don't drive while intoxicated.
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What total shit
[Read the article: Something to believe in]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My moral sense does not depend on your ability to believe in the tooth fairy. Bad things are things that hurt people, and no, I am not Raskalnikov and all that relativistic shit is not important.
Read "The Moral Sense". It explains, in clear terms, why morality has everything to do with evolution, and nothing to do with gawd, or the tooth fairy or the cosmic muffin or any of that crap.
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Religious nuts CAUSE most of the world's problems
[Read the article: Something to believe in]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Without religion, we would have many fewer problems. The vast majority of atrocities, terrible crimes, horrible murders and so forth are caused by religious wackos either trying to convert other religious wackos to their nutty beliefs (christianity, wicca, mithras, whatever).
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Totally clear now
[Read the article: Who funds and runs the Politico?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Politico is a slanted, biased, totally toady little hit site for the Repukeliscum, and very biased against Dems. It is the Faux news of websites.
Thanks for this. I will now stop ready this little scummy site, and put it into the Drudge category.
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Koolaid
[Read the article: Who funds and runs the Politico?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not entirely sure I see the issue here - even assuming that ownership/funding is indicative of a editorial bias, don't most media outlets have their particular slant? It seems naive to think that there are any sources of news and journalism that a reader shouldn't consider such factors. No one source should be considered "Truth" with a capital T.
A koolaid drinker, for certain. The ownership matters. A lot. Because a hidden hand can PRETEND to be objective, while serving up slanted copy.
The NYT is not slanted. They present the news.
The NYP is extremely slanted, and presents opinion with a little news on the side. Everyone knows this, and accepts it.
If you don't know it, you can get confused. But, you appear to be confused already.
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Spread the word
[Read the article: Who funds and runs the Politico?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have been booted from dKos, so cannot diary there. Would someone post a piece on dKos about the Politico?
I will post on myDD and BoomanTrib, as well as several others.
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sammis: koolaid drinker
[Read the article: Who funds and runs the Politico?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please understand that I'm not defending Politico or the MSM, I'm simply a proponent of reading different takes, both journalistic as well as opinion oriented, on important issues.
You are a koolaid drinker, and probably a staffer from the Politico. The Politico is a slanted, and deliberately biased publication, and you are saying that we should PRETEND that it is not biased. That's stupid. And, no, you are wrong about bias. Not every publication is biased. This old "they all do it" is the standard, crapular excuse offered up by Fox, the New York Post,the Washington Times, and all of the other crapular, slanted , Repukeliscum house organs to defend their slant.