Calling the President a ‘Bitch’ Is a Celebration of Freedom!
Ms. Vaughn and Ms. Moodie (Mailbag, Aug. 18): Referring to the president as someone’s “bitch,” burning the flag and making up new and disgusting meanings for a public representative’s last name (e.g., “Santorum”) are celebrations of the freedom we still have in this country. Not being able to say or do those things would mean all really is lost. Imagine a world where you couldn’t refer to ex-President Bush as “Cheney’s bitch.”
Satch Sanders
The Ridiculous Letter of the Month!
Jim Hightower’s hate for Glenn Beck blinded him to a good story (Aug. 18). Glenn Beck is one of many who are fleeing the state of New York. The absurdly high taxes have forced a mass exodus. The same thing is occurring in other liberal-run states.
Beck gets a large amount of death threats. He and his daughter were attacked at a park a few months ago. He lives in “secluded and secure luxury” out of necessity. Glenn can’t simply rent a Dallas apartment. Liberals aren’t opposed to violent rhetoric against people they dislike. Glenn has to protect himself from the pot-smoking, flag-burning, crazy liberals like Jared Loughner. We “little man” fans of Beck understand why he does what he does.
Bryan Smith
Tucson Needs to Look to Other Cities
You should run more articles like “Turning for the Better” (Aug. 25) and solicit more opinions.
In spite of having been dealt “four aces,” Tucson is perceived as one of the least-business-friendly cities in America. Every city and state in America will be competing for whatever businesses and jobs that become available. That means Tucson will be a big loser.
Maybe Mr. Rothschild will be able to change that perception when he becomes mayor. It won’t be easy. He should follow a suggestion that has already appeared in these pages, and visit a few cities that are successfully reviving their own economies.
The motto shouldn’t be “bigger is better”; it should be “smarter is better.”
Bob Snyder
This article appears in Sep 8-14, 2011.
The ridiculous letter of the month is pretty accurate.
People are leaving high tax states……………….true
Beck gets death threats and needs security……true
Liberals aren’t opposed to violent talk against opponents……..true (see Jimmy Hoffa)
The facts said that Loughner was a crazy liberal who like flag burning videos…..true
Where’s the “ridiculous” part? You just don’t like inconvenient facts?
Yes, Mike, facts are such troublesome things for some people.
“The facts said that Loughner was “
The “facts said”. The facts spoke to you ?? Hmmm..what ya been smokin’ ?
You can read facts, hear facts, be told facts, but the “facts” can’t talk to you.
Tucson does NOT need to “look to other cities” unless those cities are beginning to walk the path to a sustainable future. Most cities (and countries) are scrambling for the last crumbs of a dying system. We should NOT emulate their behavior.
Tucson’s problem is that this town is corporate-friendly and war-friendly but NOT “business” friendly. It’s not a friendly place for the real driver of the economy; vital small businesses and working people.
Neither Rothschild nor Grinnell would make things better since they both agree that more corporate welfare and pandering to the outsized needs of big business is the “solution”.
There’s plenty of good Work available in this town creating a sustainable future for the region and there are plenty of good people available to do the work. But the current government and economic system of, by and for the corporations (especially the war profiteers) cannot put those people together with right livelihood at a living wage.
The types of “jobs” that this “economy” values are NOT those that would provide us with a sustainable future worth living in. It’s time to consider electing leaders who can help organize for that decent future.
Well, the government kind of NEEDS taxes so that they can do things like, oh, I don’t know, perhaps EDUCATING THE CHILDREN, REPAIRING THE ROADS, and other stuff like that.
I think letter writer Bryan Smith is actually “Pupito” in the other comments sections. There’s just no conceivable way that TWO people can call Jared Loughner a liberal and claim that liberals somehow act like Loughner. Viciously stupid statements find comfortable homes in the comments sections of news websites, but this is just too much coincidence for me.
ChetDud, you are right on all counts. Let Dallas try to lure tax-dodging scumbags like Beck into town to create jobs if they want to. Tucson should focus on vocations that contribute to the health and welfare of citizens who have something to contribute to Tucson.
In the days and weeks after Jan. 8, I was curious as to what Jared Loughner was about, and went looking for info. What lucid ideas he had, (there were precious few, and I doubt he would have made a distinction either way) sounded to me like things I’ve heard from Ron Paul. The really crazy stuff sounded like Perry & Bachmann. Nothing I could attribute to a liberal.
I think the problem may lie in your interpretation of the word “fact”. For future reference, facts are NOT what those little voices in your head keep telling you.
Loughner absolutely was a liberal before he was crazy. That’s indisputable. That was a big part of the controvery of Sheriff Dupnik’s rant. Once the FACTS came out, it was shown that Loughner was a liberal. ALL of his former friends said that he was a liberal.
I didn’t read anywhere where anyone said that liberals “like” Loughner (I know….stop with the facts already). If you look at the facts of Loughner’s life, it’s indisputable that he was a liberal. That already makes 3 people on this far-left newspapers’ website (Bryan, Pupito, and Mike). I guess we’re all the same person in delusional pot-smoking liberal fantasy world. How else could three different people all have examined the evidence in the Loughner case instead of taking Dupnik’s “right-wing rhetoric rant” at face value? lol.
Everything’s a vast right-wing conspriracy in liberal world. You’d think that the Nov 2010 elections would have woken them up to the fact that most people don’t think like them. Most people look at the facts.
Here’s an interesting story that made me come back to this thread. Obama has outlawed guns for pot smokers:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/o…
(then again, maybe lupito and the Washington Times are the same person…LOL)
LOL. That’s too funny. Someone told me that my letter was on here. I got the phone call asking for permission, but I missed the issue. Holy crap…..they SEVERELY edited my letter. You understand how important context is when it’s taken away. It’s an honor to be called crazy by an liberal rag. If Hugo Chavez calls you a bad human being, that’s a good thing. You don’t want those people on your side.
This is how liberals argue. Rather than an honest debate of the facts, they prefer to engage in smears, name calling, and personal attacks. It’s much easier to call someone crazy, then actually debate them. You see this all over the place these days.
Pinhead liberals say:
1. “FoxNews lies”, but when you press them for one lie, they can’t come up with one. I actually saw a REALLY funny segment on Foxnews where they talked to people claiming Fox lies and not one of them could name one lie. FoxNews is a serious news outlet that gladly corrects any factually incorrect information, but it’s easier for people to say that they lie than actually debate them.
2. “Glenn Beck is crazy”. It’s easier to call him crazy than point out where he’s wrong. I’m honored to be called crazy like the communists do with Glenn.
3. “Rush Limbaugh is a racist”; yet they can’t come up with any evidence. It’s easier for liberals to try to smear someone than debate them; especially when it’s someone with superior intelligence like Rush.
Everyone in Arizona knows how liberals approach the illegal immigration debate. If you’re not in favor of mass amnesty, you must be a racist. This is how liberals debate and argue. You can’t blame them. Liberals rarely have facts on their side. How else are they going to try to convince people of their point of view if they can’t call them liars, racists, and crazy people. They sure can’t simply speak the facts because the facts always prove the conservative point of view.
Now that I think about it, I’m a little disappointed that I was only the crazy letter of the month. Next time, I’ll shoot for the craziest letter of the year. That would be an accomplishment.