Letters to the Editor
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WERWERWERWER
"If there is anyone you should be prompting to answer questions that have been posed to them, it's Richard."
Do you know what people do when they know they have been proven wrong? They repeat themselves. I've been in enough debates to know this. I have answered your question, yet you refuse to respond to it or acknowledge it. At this point you are nothing more than a broken record. I'm through with you.
"I am an open-minded liberal."
Yet you absolutely refuse to even consider the other point of veiw. "You think i'm going to go read that?" Sure Le. Very openminded.
"just don't try to teach about god in schools -- remember that thing, the first amendment?"
I should be telling you the same thing. Evolution is simply a flawed philosophy being passed off as science. So then, just to be in keeping with the first amendment, our kids are forced to learn a LIE that in the end is just as much a religion as the alternative? You people astound me. Also, learning about alternative (and more accurate) theories of creation is not exactly what I'd call endorsement of religion. You are twisting the first amendment, and you know that this is not what our founding fathers intended when they penned this document.
"Saying i'm not open-minded because i said i'm going to believe the Supreme Court seems kind of strange considering how you people love to talk about how this country is a democracy and the constitution blah blah blah."
Never once have I made any indication that I am in agreement with every policy in this country. Just because I love my country does not mean that I have to agree with our politicians. Also, I would suggest not ending your arguements with "blah blah blah". It does not help out your arguement.
Also, just because the Supreme Court (which is made up of PEOPLE, that are capable of mistakes) said something is right does not make it so. Think for yourself. YOU do the research. As long as you are insistent on not hearing the other side of the debate, I am sticking to my statement: you are close-minded.
"it's not science."
I never said it was. But, neither is evolution, as I have explained repeatedly. But, you're not going to listen. I have resigned myself to the fact that, no matter how much I destroy the theory of Evolution right before your eyes, you are still going to ignore it. You have offered absolutely no valid response to my arguements. You just keep thinking you're dad's a monkey. After all, ignorance is bliss right?
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Military Spouse, continued,
By the way, my daughter attended the same school in Hawai'i that Sophie Brown's child attended. We're talking Ahuimanu in Kaneohe, right? It made me cringe too. The administration there was hopeless. At the same time that the kids had to do the pledge (twice!) during the day--my daughter came home on 9/11 with a note that the annual school carnival would continue that weekend with NOTHING written about what had really happened that day. Oh, and they had the kindergarteners watching live t.v. all morning, too. I was the only parent who complained--or so the principal claimed. The school carnival--that is what they called their emergency meeting on during 9/11. Way to go.
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Imike: Not Active Military
Okay, so you're not in the military, fine.
Good for you and good for our country that you protested. It's true that people like you helped to bring the Vietnam war to an end sooner rather than later.
To try and answer your questions: I think it would be better if our elected leaders at the federal level had military service, either active or not, because I do feel they are wholly out of touch with this major cluster fuck that is Iraq, and a lot of other issues as well. (Didn't Prince Harry just complete his military service? I mean, come on, talk about a privileged life. If British princes have to do it, shouldn't our federal leaders? Even if he's never in combat, which I'm sure he won't be, at least he did something for fuck's sake.) ANYWAY, I also think having military service would help our elected leaders in areas other than developing some restraint and better decision making skills, it might even help them develop a fucking work ethic, if you know what I mean. And I'm a total raging liberal and I say this about Hillary et al as well as those on the right, so it's not like I think the 'pubs have to serve but not the dems. (I'm wondering about Chelsea being willing to serve as much as I'm wondering about Jenna and Barbara being willing to serve, you know?) Mostly I think Hillary sucks. I mean, she's spectacularly brilliant, but overall she sucks.
I don't think military people should be the only ones with the right to vote.
My main argument is, and I think I have stated this several times here in this forum, is that, if you are someone who supports this war, then fighting in it seems to be the most honorable thing to do, considering many of the people who so rabidly defend this war and this president also speak so loudly of their patriotism, so it would seem to me that these same people need to walk the walk, instead of just talking the talk. I'm just really sick and tired of hearing so much *false* patriotism from the right, I'm so sick of the right trashing the left as being commies, unpatriotic, criticizing us because we speak out against the war, telling lies about how we don't support the troops, and about how we don't love our country, etc, all the bullshit, on and on and on. So all I'm saying is, if the Dick Cheney types are so fucking patriotic, then show us and make the ultimate sacrifice if you have to. I mean, why is it someone else's problem to serve and die? Why do people who support this war, who are able to serve, not enlist? Just doesn't seem fair if you ask me.
It's slightly infuriating to me that the majority of the people who are so war hungry and who shout the loudest would never, NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS, volunteer to fight in it. It is my personal opinion that this is tragic and wrong on pretty much every level. What makes their lives so much more valuable than the troops that are currently serving?
If a person thinks what the U.S. is doing in Iraq is the right thing to do, and willing to sustain American casualties in order to do it, then these same people should be willing to die for that same cause.
Thanks, that's all I've got. You may disagree with most or all of it, but it's past ten where I'm at and I have to be up early so I'm going to bed.