UnionForever, This country has large rural regions that have many people without internet access. They still use the USPS for what others do on line. While times have changed and the USPS needs to change with them, don't assume what is common in your life to be universal.
candystriper, While those are good ideas, the reality is that the cost to change an extremely large infrastructure to handle physical delivery to electronic would be an astronomical cost that would take years to implement. They should start with it, but it would be a long, long time before they would see any cost benefit.
retiredfella, Inflicting insults does nothing to bolster a weak argument based only on an emotional reaction.
JimmyB, You are clueless as to what a Ponzi scheme actually is.
commyliberal, Excellent points. Since I agree with you I will probably also be labeled as a liberal, even though I'm a conservative, just not a Republican conservative. The GPO really ruined that word.
The educational system seems to have failed for the majority of the commentators here.
If you are able to spell and use grammar, you can communicate using the written word, whether its typed, printed (block letters) or done in cursive.
Yes, anothermike, it's always been known as cursive. Handwriting is HANDWRITING, writing with the hand, be it printing or cursive. Penmanship is the use of an instrument for handwriting, be it printing or cursive.
Cursive was actually first called informal writing. It was used only to be able to write at a faster pace. Even when extremely well done, cursive is still not as easy to read as block letters. If it was, the typewriter would of been made in cursive letters instead.
Things change over time. People who didn't grow up with computers, smart phones, and all the technology that has changed the way we communicate get upset because they feel what they learned is the only right way to do something.
Language is dynamic and always changing. Compare how we write and converse now to how it was done 100 years ago, and then compare that to 100 years prior. How people communicate changes and it always will.
The "electric toys", are actually tools. If you say or write something that allows another person to understand you, it;s communicating. The "where R U" may not be "formal" English, but the person reading it understands.what is being conveyed.
Anyone who thinks we shouldn't teach math because calculators are used and they give everyone the answer has a very limited knowledge of mathematics.
I see a bunch of scared people who feel the life they know threatened. It's not.
I agree that the lack of respect is because it was not taught and now it's too easy to blame it on lack of respect for the government. However, the flag doesn't represent the government. It represents the Constitution and the rights it gives us. The rights that many in this world would love to have.
It's not shallow symbolism. That illusion is created by the "patriotic" that spew hate to anyone that doesn't think like they do. The irony is that a country based on freedom has so many "patriots" wanting to eliminate it.
That's what the flag represents to me. Freedom. That I'm lucky to be a citizen of a country founded on the ideal that all of its citizens should be free. Too many people today take that freedom and their rights given to them by the constitution for granted.
It's not about jurors being compassionate. It's about jurors doing there job and following the letter of the law in doing so.
I understand your stance on the death penalty. Anyone who can murder or rape cannot be a functioning member of a lawful society. That's my opinion. Personally I'd rather have them shipped off to a remote island and left to "survive" and deal with each other. Death is an easy way out. I'd rather see them actually suffer and while suffering in the struggle to stay alive think everyday why they are there.
Stan, you talk not in facts but only in polarizing events. Your ignorance would be interesting if it wasn't so close to being a fascist like mikeymike. And yes, jews can be fascists too.
Both sides have done and will continue to do wrong. She was only stating the wrong on one side that doesn't get reported.
To act like there is only good and evil and everything can be simply put into either category is ignorance to the extreme.
Did anyone think that maybe that strip is a "development strip" of land, shortened to devel strip and eventually replaced with "devil strip" due to misunderstanding?
Follow the party line politics is boring. It used to be entertaining watching idiots make an ass out of themselves. It's gotten old.
How you can blame someone in office for not even two months yet is beyond asinine.
Facts, um, no one really seems to care.
Reagan and W did destroy the federal budget but the elder Bush actually started the process that Clinton continued in bringing down the deficit.
But republicans will continue to blame the democrats for everything and the democrats will blame the republicans for everything and that lets too many jerks who will use their elected office for their own benefit because you idiots follow party line rhetoric.
Residents, lawmakers oppose turnpike plan
Privatizing government assets results in the same thing as deregulation. Lower service, higher prices and loss of jobs.
October 20, 2011 at 9:32 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Ryan: Change pension law for future USPS retirees
UnionForever, This country has large rural regions that have many people without internet access. They still use the USPS for what others do on line. While times have changed and the USPS needs to change with them, don't assume what is common in your life to be universal.
candystriper, While those are good ideas, the reality is that the cost to change an extremely large infrastructure to handle physical delivery to electronic would be an astronomical cost that would take years to implement. They should start with it, but it would be a long, long time before they would see any cost benefit.
retiredfella, Inflicting insults does nothing to bolster a weak argument based only on an emotional reaction.
JimmyB, You are clueless as to what a Ponzi scheme actually is.
commyliberal, Excellent points. Since I agree with you I will probably also be labeled as a liberal, even though I'm a conservative, just not a Republican conservative. The GPO really ruined that word.
September 21, 2011 at 11:50 a.m. permalink suggest removal
As youth write off script, educators defend it
The educational system seems to have failed for the majority of the commentators here.
If you are able to spell and use grammar, you can communicate using the written word, whether its typed, printed (block letters) or done in cursive.
Yes, anothermike, it's always been known as cursive. Handwriting is HANDWRITING, writing with the hand, be it printing or cursive. Penmanship is the use of an instrument for handwriting, be it printing or cursive.
Cursive was actually first called informal writing. It was used only to be able to write at a faster pace. Even when extremely well done, cursive is still not as easy to read as block letters. If it was, the typewriter would of been made in cursive letters instead.
Things change over time. People who didn't grow up with computers, smart phones, and all the technology that has changed the way we communicate get upset because they feel what they learned is the only right way to do something.
Language is dynamic and always changing. Compare how we write and converse now to how it was done 100 years ago, and then compare that to 100 years prior. How people communicate changes and it always will.
The "electric toys", are actually tools. If you say or write something that allows another person to understand you, it;s communicating. The "where R U" may not be "formal" English, but the person reading it understands.what is being conveyed.
Anyone who thinks we shouldn't teach math because calculators are used and they give everyone the answer has a very limited knowledge of mathematics.
I see a bunch of scared people who feel the life they know threatened. It's not.
August 8, 2011 at 11:49 a.m. permalink suggest removal
As Flag Day nears, some lament loss of respect for Old Glory
I agree that the lack of respect is because it was not taught and now it's too easy to blame it on lack of respect for the government. However, the flag doesn't represent the government. It represents the Constitution and the rights it gives us. The rights that many in this world would love to have.
It's not shallow symbolism. That illusion is created by the "patriotic" that spew hate to anyone that doesn't think like they do. The irony is that a country based on freedom has so many "patriots" wanting to eliminate it.
That's what the flag represents to me. Freedom. That I'm lucky to be a citizen of a country founded on the ideal that all of its citizens should be free. Too many people today take that freedom and their rights given to them by the constitution for granted.
June 14, 2010 at 1:35 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Man gets the max: 40 years in prison
Stan,
It's not about jurors being compassionate. It's about jurors doing there job and following the letter of the law in doing so.
I understand your stance on the death penalty. Anyone who can murder or rape cannot be a functioning member of a lawful society. That's my opinion. Personally I'd rather have them shipped off to a remote island and left to "survive" and deal with each other. Death is an easy way out. I'd rather see them actually suffer and while suffering in the struggle to stay alive think everyday why they are there.
September 29, 2009 at 10:52 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Speaker: Israel uses aid for attacks
Stan, you talk not in facts but only in polarizing events. Your ignorance would be interesting if it wasn't so close to being a fascist like mikeymike. And yes, jews can be fascists too.
Both sides have done and will continue to do wrong. She was only stating the wrong on one side that doesn't get reported.
To act like there is only good and evil and everything can be simply put into either category is ignorance to the extreme.
September 22, 2009 at 10:02 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Devil strip trees downed for waterline
Did anyone think that maybe that strip is a "development strip" of land, shortened to devel strip and eventually replaced with "devil strip" due to misunderstanding?
September 17, 2009 at 2:31 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Valley's jobless put picture on grim statistics
Follow the party line politics is boring. It used to be entertaining watching idiots make an ass out of themselves. It's gotten old.
How you can blame someone in office for not even two months yet is beyond asinine.
Facts, um, no one really seems to care.
Reagan and W did destroy the federal budget but the elder Bush actually started the process that Clinton continued in bringing down the deficit.
But republicans will continue to blame the democrats for everything and the democrats will blame the republicans for everything and that lets too many jerks who will use their elected office for their own benefit because you idiots follow party line rhetoric.
March 4, 2009 at 8:44 p.m. permalink suggest removal