Public Comment
Letters to the Editor
It is High Time to Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell; Don't Ask;
Silence of the Press: US media turns blind eye to RT crew arrest;
Black Friday; Black Friday; Nuclear Madness
It is High Time to Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell
n civilan life it is an accepted fact today that anyone can change his/her sexual orientation at any time.. Let us then move on and do the same in military life. Let us put an end to the policy "Don't Ask, Don't Tell.. It is, in fact, a question of justice to let all people enter the armed forces out of his/her patriotic desire to serve our country. . If the Pentagon study has set the foundation for the repeal of DADT and highly recommends it,then congress should swiftly move ahead to repeal it. If more than 70% of the American people support the repeal, Congress should indeed listen to the majority voice of the Nation and act accordingly.
Barbara Leconte
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Don't Ask
Congress needs to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell now. In years ahead most people will look back on this policy and wonder what all the fuss was about in the same way most people look back on racial segregation in the military. Recent polls show the majority of active service members and 70% of the general public support repeal. There is no longer any excuse for this shameful discrimination. America is supposed to be a civilized, first world country. Let's put our words into action and offer all Americans the opportunity to serve their country without the need to hide our basic identity. Now.
Robert Kelly-Thomas
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Silence of the Press: US media turns blind eye to RT crew arrest
What does the New York Times have to say about this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Jonah Minkoff-Zern
J.D Candidate, 2011
Golden Gate Law School
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Black Friday
If I hear "Black Friday" mentioned one more time, I swear to the Almighty that I will regurgitate -- or to put it more bluntly, throw up! I am really curious to know which high-powered advertising agency came up with that unlikely and totally inappropriate metaphor. In my opinion, they should all be lined up before a firing squad!
Granted that retailers are anxious to boost their sales in this slow buying season, why in heaven's name use the word "Black", which for most of us has a somber, funereal ring to it? I must confess that I'm utterly repelled by television images of shoppers camping out all night in freezing weather, waiting for stores to open at 4 a.m. Pity the poor sales people starting their day at that unholy hour! Then, once the doors opened, there was a rush of people, much like Cox's Army, storming the stores and filing their carts with expensive merchandise they probably don't need and certainly can't afford.<
No, my friends, this was not "Black Friday." Let's call it for what it was -- "Greedy Friday!"
Dorothy Snodgrass
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Black Friday
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see.And I beheld, and to a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny; and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine (Revelation 6:5-6 KJV.).
This black horse’s rider with the pair of balances in his hand symbolizes the rich capitalists who have a major impact on world conditions through their manipulation of national economies. Only one other verse in the Bible pictures a man with balances or scales: The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud (Hosea 12:7 NIV).
Another prophet, Amos, also said the merchants the wealthy capitalists of his day who were robbing the poor instead of helping them set forth wheat, making the ephah [unit of measure] small, and the shekel [price] great and falsifying the balances by deceit.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Nuclear Madness
One "lone wolf" Republican senator is holding the planet and its 6
billion people hostage.
One senator, "point man" for the Republicans, is putting the country andits national security at risk.
One Republican from Arizona, Jon Kyle, is blocking the NEW START pact,
nuclear reduction treaty, from being ratified in the Senate.
One Republican senator is keeping the world on edge, from being a safer
place, because Russian nukes are no longer being verified.
One Republican senator, by blocking the NEW START treaty, is allowing
"loose nukes" in Russia to remain untethered.
This is a crazy upside-down world where one rogue politician can put
billions at risk because of, "Lord only knows why."
Ron Lowe
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