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Here's to Youth

8.25.08 @ 12:01AM

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Now if you really want to do something constructive, why don't you write an in depth piece on Mr. Russell, who is challenging Haditha Jack Murtha in Penn. He is a great candidate, and actually stands a chance of knocking off that vile old reprobate ex-Marine. (Yes, I know there are only "former" Marines, but there are a handful that are so vile that those of us that have had a connection to the USMC do consider them "ex-Marines.")
-- Ken Shreve
New England

COMPLEX SIMPLICITY
Re: Lawrence Henry's Old Ironsides Redux:

Please know that there are many out here who are feeling a part what you are suffering these days. We are hoping and praying that your transplant happens soon, and that you are brought back to good health.

Your writing has a powerful simplicity, and when I go to the AmSpec web page I always look for your name first in the list of columns for the week. If I don't find it, I am disappointed. When I read your work I am always amazed that such simple phrasing can evoke such complex emotions.

I'm sure there are many who would be poorer without what you give to us. So please keep up the fight and remember that we are pulling for you, even if some of that is for selfish reasons.
-- Randy Westfall

WHOSE ESTIMATES?
Re: Nicole Russell's Green with Hypocrisy:

So you can calculate how many tons of CO2 are in your carbon foot print. Where is the calculator that says how many new trees have to be in your Carbon Offset? Who figures that, the guy selling the offset? That's a setup ripe for scamming Carbon Offset purchasers. After we pay for the offset, how do we know the trees will be planted or whether they are the correct type of trees? The whole idea of purchasing Carbon Offsets seems very much like purchasing indulgences in atonement for sin.
-- John Manguso
San Antonio, Texas

GET IT?
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Dreams from My Brother:

I am not usually the type to write an editor about an article, but this one posted by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. contains one of the most ridiculous assertions I have ever read. To actually believe that because Barack Obama's half brother lives in poverty in Africa that this will somehow make Obama appear more "Green" is not only ridiculous but shows the complete bias towards Obama by the author. In effect, the revelation that he has a half brother living in such destitute, to the point of where George says he is ashamed, can only have negative results for him. Whether or not George asked Barack for help is inconsequential. The people who are not blinded by the Obama persona are going to see that he has a brother living in poverty and with Barack's situation in life it would appear that he hasn't helped him because he very easily can. It also throws a shadow over Obama's quoting of Matthew at the religious forum last Saturday "that whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me."

It is just so obvious of the spin the author is attempting to put on this story.
-- Justin

KENT HATE
Re: Various letters in Reader Mail's Memorable Reunions:

Mr. Dantes, I hope that it in calling the murdered Kent State students of 1970 "martyrs to any cause any left wingnut deems important" that you are not maligning the students themselves. We may or may not agree with what those students did, or why they chose to protest, or the manner of their protest. For the record, I do not. But to have United States soldiers fire into a group of unarmed children was an absolute disgrace, a total abuse of government power, and absolutely made those kids martyrs to this wonderful country. To suggest anything else is to make this country less than what it is.

Mr. Nelson, I have no doubts that things are going to get worse. But there's a major difference between your average Brit and your average Yank. We Americans are citizens, the British are subjects. The Federal government is a limited, specific government. The British parliament is an unlimited, general government. Sooner are later, Americans will remember this. And things will change. Though, that's not suggest it might not get bad before then.

Mr. Greene: Oh, ye of little faith. While much of what you say is true, let me reassure. I'm 28, one of those "young" voters. I know a lot people my age and younger who are just as scared of Obama as you um... more experienced voters. Have faith that Americans, on the whole, are a lot smarter than our government thinks we are. And we're a whole heck of a lot smarter than the liberal elite such as the Obamessiah gives us credit for. We can see through the lies and the PC bull, and we're coming out of it. Again, things might get bad before they get better, but we'll survive.

Okay. I'm starting to sound the optimist, time to sign off.
-- Charles Campbell
Austin, Texas

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