Letters to the
Editor
Dear Editor,
Re: Who Killed Jack
Robinson
I subscribe to SCR for the gratuitous violence. If I
wanted smut, I'd buy Penthouse.
Yours truly,
Anonymous
Dear
Anonymous,
Sorry to have offended your tender sensibilities. I suggest that
in the future you skip "Who Killed J.R.", and stick to
Anthroposophy.
Editor
Frank,
Re yr editorial in
last SCR, you might have added that it is not only the absence of a Kennedy as
a figure, but the increasingly high-handed US policies that make people
dislike more and more the US. Even in "our air transport" times, the US was
trying - it mostly succeeded - to impose its jurisdiction outside of its
borders.... You know, now that I am writing this, the thought comes to mind
that even though I do not believe - though it may have been so - conspiracy
theories in JFK's assassination ...I cannot help thinking now that if a JFK
minded president were to try to bring back decency or morals into public
affairs, he would not last long because today, in 2002, there WOULD be a
conspiracy !!
Galus
Frank:
The current SCR is excellent so far. Liked the Arkin lecture on
national security and war but I wish he had come to more of a point. Much more
to read - and thank you for doing this work. I run a small private literary
magazine and I wish I could get writers as good as
yours.
Admiringly,
Hannah M.G. Shapero
Frank,
this one is worth
resending!
Galus,
Buenos Aires
Subject: Brain
cramps...
Question: If you could live forever, would you and
why?
Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live
forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live
forever,"
--Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA
contest.
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"Whenever I watch TV and
see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean
I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and
stuff."
--Mariah Carey
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"Smoking
kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your
life,"
--Brooke Shields, during an interview to become Spokesperson for
federal anti-smoking
campaign.
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"I've
never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,"
--Winston
Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball
forward.
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"Outside of
the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the
country,"
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington,
DC.
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"I'm not going to have some
reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
--Hillary
Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed
documents.
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"That
lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just
the one to do it,"
--A congressional candidate in
Texas.
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"I don't feel we did wrong
in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of
people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it
for themselves."
--John Wayne
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"Half this
game is ninety percent mental."
--Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny
Ozark
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"It isn't pollution
that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that
are doing it."
--Al Gore, Vice
President
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"I love
California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
--Dan
Quayle
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" It's no
exaggeration to say that the undecided could go one way or
another"
--George Bush, US
President
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"We've
got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
--Lee
Iacocca
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"I was provided with
additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in
furthering that version."
--Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra
testimony.
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"The word
"genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman
Einstein."
--Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports
analyst.
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"We don't
necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of
people."
--Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC
Instructor.
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"If
we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
--Bill Clinton,
President
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"We
are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
--Al Gore,
VP
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"Traditionally,
most of Australia's imports come from overseas."
--Keppel
Enderbery
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"Your food stamps will be stopped
effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God
bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your
circumstances."
--Department of Social Services, Greenville, South
Carolina
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"If
somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to
bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next
morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record."
--Mark S. Fowler,
FCC
Chairman
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