This cartoon by Gary Markstein has sure gotten a lot of flack. Robert from E. Peoria says the guy is either without feelings for the men and women of our armed forces and their families or is just plain stupid.
I disagree, I think he absolutely has feelings about the soldiers and they are most likely deeper than his disagreeing peanut gallery. I'm sure he wants those people in particular to check themselves.
Remember when the Bush administration tried to shield the public from seeing pictures of the coffins of fallen soldiers. Well, soon enough we got to see them on the news. For those of you who were offended, it's good to see that your using your eyes now. What is it about this government and manipulating the news of what's really going on? Democracy is better with informed citizens.
death is the worst outcome, if you have to resort to that then you are at the edge of all human emotian, why would someone want to live so much that he would want someone else to just die.
Personally, i want all death row inmates that are guilty to suffer, before they take all me taxes.
Maybe this is the first that you have looked at the opinion page, but always at the top of the page there is an opinionated cartoon, almost exclusively on one side of politics or the other. I am amazed that someone would write in on this exept unless there was a month of right wing, the dumb bitch got used to them and then some fuck snuck in a left wing cartoon for human rights, that fucker...
Monday, January 17, 2005
Friday, January 14, 2005
practice selective censorship
I loved this write-in from Don in Pekin - Liberals like to practice selective censorship. It basically says that for four years they have been listening to liberals cry about Bush. The Libs are defended by free speech. Then when Kerry went against Bush, the Libs cried foul when the Cons played dirty politics.
Wow, Don, were you born four years ago? I've been alive longer than four years and I seem to remember that this is Politics as Usual. Both parties do it. If you are going to concern yourself with the party rather than the issue, then you are going to be blinded by the slogan "we are better". Please, put down the pen, and stop teaching children to be stupid.
Ava from Washington writes in to lambaste J. Klein's intelligent design theory article.
First off, she wants an explanation why a columnist isn't committed to the truth even when it isn't to thier liking. At the top of the page it is written in, however, it reads, (in the biggest letters of the page and at top), OPINION.
She says, "Evolution is not just a theory but an explanation that has been confirmed by observation and experiments that knowledgeable experts accept as fact."
I believe that evolution is a much better explanation to what is rather than intelligent design. Actually, I think that intelligent design was designed to explain nothing. However, who observed Evolution? What are these confirmed experiments that (it must be all experts to be a fact) knowledgeable experts accept as fact.
Hypocrisy: Republicans eleven years ago made a rule that when a leader of a faction, such as a chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is indicted, that he should step down from the post. This rule has worked in thier favor before. Now, they want to change their rule to allow House Majority Leader Tom Delay to keep his post. Even he concedes that Rep.s changed the rules so that Dem.s cannot "use our rules against us".
Wow, Don, were you born four years ago? I've been alive longer than four years and I seem to remember that this is Politics as Usual. Both parties do it. If you are going to concern yourself with the party rather than the issue, then you are going to be blinded by the slogan "we are better". Please, put down the pen, and stop teaching children to be stupid.
Ava from Washington writes in to lambaste J. Klein's intelligent design theory article.
First off, she wants an explanation why a columnist isn't committed to the truth even when it isn't to thier liking. At the top of the page it is written in, however, it reads, (in the biggest letters of the page and at top), OPINION.
She says, "Evolution is not just a theory but an explanation that has been confirmed by observation and experiments that knowledgeable experts accept as fact."
I believe that evolution is a much better explanation to what is rather than intelligent design. Actually, I think that intelligent design was designed to explain nothing. However, who observed Evolution? What are these confirmed experiments that (it must be all experts to be a fact) knowledgeable experts accept as fact.
Hypocrisy: Republicans eleven years ago made a rule that when a leader of a faction, such as a chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is indicted, that he should step down from the post. This rule has worked in thier favor before. Now, they want to change their rule to allow House Majority Leader Tom Delay to keep his post. Even he concedes that Rep.s changed the rules so that Dem.s cannot "use our rules against us".
liberals should take
Marlene Noll says that she would be happy to help liberals pack up and leave the country.
Sorry, Marlene, but the liberals aren't promising to leave, but to take half of their country.
People don't complain about politics because they hate their country, they complain because they somehow heard that America is the best. They have ideas that they think could allow that to be true. True Americans believe in a thing called progression. Others, such as Miss Noll, believe in ignorance and shutting people up. Do me and several others a favor, stop reading the Newspaper.
Bob Alley says that "God-hating athiests should either shut up or get out". This was another forum write-in from a blind religious Charlatan. He states that this country was founded on Christian principals and certainly not on secularist malarky or pseudo science of evolution. I for one was unaware that somebody thought this country was founded on evolution, never heard anyone speak of that.
Freedom
Didn't many of the first to partake in the voyage across the Atlantic leave England to escape the government views on religion.
I hardly ever hear an athiest's viewpoint on anything. I do, however, hear much coming from agnostics. But to me the intolerance is being spewed by Christians like Mr. Alley.
Leonard from E. Peoria tells us that liberals have succeeded in brainwashing the public into believing that the Constitution calls for the separation of church and state.
Sir, our forefathers and almost all politicians since call for the separation of church and state, and as aforementioned, many left England for that right.
"Some liberals also believe in unlimited immagration, amnesty for illegals and surrendering our sovereignty to the United Nations."
Sir, Bush believes in amnesty for illegals, and I guarantee no liberal is willing to give up our nation to the United Nations.
"They are also supporters of gun control and against our Second Amendment right to bear arms ..."
Sir, it is impossible to support gun control and against the right to bear arms.
I hope for the day without titles. No more liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans,...
Mr. Alley even offended an Army veteran, go figure. Bob is even telling our veterans to shut up or get out. Robin from Peoria Heights reminds us that this country was founded on freedom. Freedom regardless of religion, believing or disbelief. Shut up or get out is a belief of the terrorists we are fighting. Shouldn't Christians be more tolerant and less judgemental. "And people like me fought to make sure he is able to keep the right to spout off such dribble."
Sorry, Marlene, but the liberals aren't promising to leave, but to take half of their country.
People don't complain about politics because they hate their country, they complain because they somehow heard that America is the best. They have ideas that they think could allow that to be true. True Americans believe in a thing called progression. Others, such as Miss Noll, believe in ignorance and shutting people up. Do me and several others a favor, stop reading the Newspaper.
Bob Alley says that "God-hating athiests should either shut up or get out". This was another forum write-in from a blind religious Charlatan. He states that this country was founded on Christian principals and certainly not on secularist malarky or pseudo science of evolution. I for one was unaware that somebody thought this country was founded on evolution, never heard anyone speak of that.
Freedom
Didn't many of the first to partake in the voyage across the Atlantic leave England to escape the government views on religion.
I hardly ever hear an athiest's viewpoint on anything. I do, however, hear much coming from agnostics. But to me the intolerance is being spewed by Christians like Mr. Alley.
Leonard from E. Peoria tells us that liberals have succeeded in brainwashing the public into believing that the Constitution calls for the separation of church and state.
Sir, our forefathers and almost all politicians since call for the separation of church and state, and as aforementioned, many left England for that right.
"Some liberals also believe in unlimited immagration, amnesty for illegals and surrendering our sovereignty to the United Nations."
Sir, Bush believes in amnesty for illegals, and I guarantee no liberal is willing to give up our nation to the United Nations.
"They are also supporters of gun control and against our Second Amendment right to bear arms ..."
Sir, it is impossible to support gun control and against the right to bear arms.
I hope for the day without titles. No more liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans,...
Mr. Alley even offended an Army veteran, go figure. Bob is even telling our veterans to shut up or get out. Robin from Peoria Heights reminds us that this country was founded on freedom. Freedom regardless of religion, believing or disbelief. Shut up or get out is a belief of the terrorists we are fighting. Shouldn't Christians be more tolerant and less judgemental. "And people like me fought to make sure he is able to keep the right to spout off such dribble."
Are voters stupid
A write-in to the J.S. brought up debate #3.
What would you say to a person who has lost a job to outsourcing?
Bush: I would tell them to go to school and get an education. Our schools have not taught the students how to read write or add.
If we aren't stupid, we are at least blind and lazy.
Some people still think there are WMD's in Iraq, even though we have stopped looking for them.
Some people still associate the Iraq war with the war in Afgahnistan.
Some people think to protest a war is to not care about the soldiers.
Is it the blind leading the deaf here, or vice versa. I can't decide.
Another writer, Don from Peoria, says that Illinois is out of step, that John Kerry's showing here is a negative event. He contends that it shows the rest of Americans that we are out of step with them. We are in the minority view of who and what are most important to America's future.
55% of Illinois voted for Kerry, 45% voted for Bush. 51% of Americans voted for Bush, 48% voted for Kerry.
I don't think that's too far out of touch. I think it's ludicrus that more of us don't vote for the other party's candidates. But, ofcourse, I know that everyone wants to vote for somebody known that actually has a chance.
What would you say to a person who has lost a job to outsourcing?
Bush: I would tell them to go to school and get an education. Our schools have not taught the students how to read write or add.
If we aren't stupid, we are at least blind and lazy.
Some people still think there are WMD's in Iraq, even though we have stopped looking for them.
Some people still associate the Iraq war with the war in Afgahnistan.
Some people think to protest a war is to not care about the soldiers.
Is it the blind leading the deaf here, or vice versa. I can't decide.
Another writer, Don from Peoria, says that Illinois is out of step, that John Kerry's showing here is a negative event. He contends that it shows the rest of Americans that we are out of step with them. We are in the minority view of who and what are most important to America's future.
55% of Illinois voted for Kerry, 45% voted for Bush. 51% of Americans voted for Bush, 48% voted for Kerry.
I don't think that's too far out of touch. I think it's ludicrus that more of us don't vote for the other party's candidates. But, ofcourse, I know that everyone wants to vote for somebody known that actually has a chance.
Friday, January 07, 2005
Dr. John A. Williams
This is a good write-in by aforementioned Dr. Williams. The Journal Star's editorial page sees a lot of logomachy: Reps vs. Dems, Libs vs. Cons, Religion vs. Secular, &c. However, this write-in means exactly the opposite of what it says.
Let's all just shut up
Blue states, shut up. City dwellers, shut up. Europeans and their friends, shut up. Liberals, shut up. Intellectuals, shut up. Hollywood, shut up. Moore, shut up. Springsteen, shut up. Democratic senators, shut up. Critics of the Iraq war, shut up. Secular thinkers, shut up. Pro-choice advocates, shut up. Poor people, shut up. Gays, shut up.
Democracy, shut up.
The key to everybody shutting up would be everybody being able to live with one another's decisions. And that is not the case. So until that happens we have to live with hearing everyone else's sassholes. The more civilized we treat each other, the more we can learn from each other. No one is going to shut up because you told them to. If you don't like what point someone is talking about then you should be able to come up with a counter-point so intelligent that they shall reverse their thought and agree with you, or ignore it.
Let's all just shut up
Blue states, shut up. City dwellers, shut up. Europeans and their friends, shut up. Liberals, shut up. Intellectuals, shut up. Hollywood, shut up. Moore, shut up. Springsteen, shut up. Democratic senators, shut up. Critics of the Iraq war, shut up. Secular thinkers, shut up. Pro-choice advocates, shut up. Poor people, shut up. Gays, shut up.
Democracy, shut up.
The key to everybody shutting up would be everybody being able to live with one another's decisions. And that is not the case. So until that happens we have to live with hearing everyone else's sassholes. The more civilized we treat each other, the more we can learn from each other. No one is going to shut up because you told them to. If you don't like what point someone is talking about then you should be able to come up with a counter-point so intelligent that they shall reverse their thought and agree with you, or ignore it.
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