More mailbag!
With the loss of our print edition and the addition of comment sections for our articles and blog posts, there’s one print feature we don’t have a simple place for: letters to the editor that don’t concern particular topics of ETS! articles. So from time to time we’ll post them as “Mailbag” entries in our blog. More from recent days:
Obama’s Visit
ETS!,
“SENIORS, people with disabilities and many more of the state’s most vulnerable citizens will be harmed due to the massive budget crisis here in the state of Washington. That much is assured, given the governor’s order to cut 6.3 percent of state expenditures in this biennium, which runs through June 30. The Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) faced many tough choices in meeting this request; virtually nothing was spared a devastating cut.” (Seattle Times – October 22, 2010)
So, why then, O’Bummer are you giving your puppets in Pakistan seven billion dollars, your puppets in Afghanistan and Iraq, untold billions, your puppets in Colombia and Egypt, untold billions, your other puppets around the globe endless billions that you don’t really have, thanks to China?
Why are you stiffing the poorest, sickest Social Security recipients, the most feeble and vulnerable elderly, in favor of your rich, corrupt overseas “friends,” with their vacation estates in France?
O’Bummer, what have you given, or done for America’s poorest youngsters, but jobs in the military?
But, thanks for the 12 cents an hour increase in the minimum wage (Courtesy of Lady Gregoire).
O’Bummer, how cynical can you be with your bullcrap that “America is on the right path!”
Of which “America” do you speak, O’Bummer? The Wall Street, NASDAQ, corporate one? Or the other one?
One last question, if I may, since you’re in Seattle: WHY DID YOU ACCEPT THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE?!
–Bob Miller, Seattle
Geov Parrish comments: note that today there’s also a hysterical (in both senses of the term) front page New York Times article wailing that an aide to fraudulently elected Afghan president (and “former” CIA asset) Hamid Karzai is taking “cash by the bagful” from Iran. Given that Karzai and his cronies have gotten literally billions from the Americans, it’s hard to see what they think the problem is, exactly.
The NFL Would Play Football on Friday
Eat the State!:
Dear Letters Editor:
I have been spending a great deal of time studying American history since my stroke. I came up with a question I couldn’t answer; and I am wondering what others will think.
What if the “Pilgrims” were Muslim instead of Christian?
What would this wonderful country be like?
I don’t have an answer.
Respectfully,
–Larry J. Kluth (Lt. Col. USAF, Ret.), Mesa AZ
G.P. again: Given how intolerant the Pilgrims were of other religions, even other branches of Christianity, and given the zeal with which they slaughtered the local (Native American) heathens, burned their own women at the stake as witches, and banished their dissidents, I’d say the similarities would be striking.