UPDATED: Latest Dallas Morning News Letter to the Editor
I don’t know if it will make the print edition, but it’s available online here.
From: http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/01/thanks-for-tell.html
Drug dealers and drug users did not create the dangerous black market in which they do business. Politicians did. Drinkers didn’t make Al Capone a dangerous and rich man. Prohibition did. In much the same way drug users aren’t at fault for Senior Cpl. Norman Smith’s death — it’s the market in which they are forced to do business.
If our politicians refuse to take control of the illicit drug market by taxing and regulating these substances, other brave men will die in the name of letting criminals control the drug market.
We took control of tobacco, and now teen tobacco use is at its lowest level since the ’90s.
Who do you really want controlling the supply of these drugs, legitimate businesses or criminals?
Dutchman, and 
Matt 2:37 am on January 20, 2009 Permalink |
UPDATE: Published Sunday January 9, 2009. Points (Section P) Page 2P.
Dutchman 4:13 pm on February 25, 2009 Permalink |
The New York Post might exonerate itself if it published a cartoon depicting a floppy-eared, bony, rabid , wide-eyed cow wallowing knee-deep in the muddy streets of New Orleans (preferably outside a shuttered hospital), all the while defecating on bags of federal aid $$$!
They don’t even have to mention anything about “slumdog” governor. Just wouldn’t be fair!
Dutchman 4:15 pm on February 25, 2009 Permalink |
All the overpaid pompous wags running our industry and financial institutions should have their mental skills reviewed on the TV program called “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?”.
We’ve all seen teachers with high degrees ask the kids for help and still lose. High school and college honor students have failed. This program should be made the national compulsory standard for all CEOs and the bankers of Wall St. Those who fail, and most will, should then be forced to resign and apply for a real job! Politicians will oppose my idea, because they will fear they may also have to take a “fifth grade” exam.