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Voice of the People

Benjamin Grimm May 05 2014 05:03 PM

Raymond Colasurdo wrote: Forest Hills: To Voicer Jan Finney, who says “your personality, ideas, opinions, feelings and thoughts die when the brain dies”: Take Adolf Hitler, possibly the most evil person who ever lived. Do you really believe that when he died, that was the end of it? That his life was like a leaf that falls from a tree or an insect that crawls on the ground? This is a man who began a war that killed 50 million people and caused unimaginable suffering to even more and was never held accountable in life for these heinous crimes. We humans are the highest form of life on this planet, with the capacity of rational thought and the ability to distinguish right from wrong. For these reasons, we are held to higher standard than those that apply to other forms of life, and when we behave badly we must suffer the consequences — in this life or the next. Lynbrook, L.I.: My cable went out. I called Verizon and was told my main box was unrepairable. I ask when a technician would come, and was told they are too expensive to send. They would send me a box in two or three days. I would have to install it myself. What kind of company is that? Whiting, N.J.: Putting Derek Jeter’s girlfriend, Hannah Davis, on the front cover of your newspaper is disgusting and distasteful. What kind of a role model can this trash possibly be for young children? At the age of 40 and with all the money he has, instead of carousing with model girlfriends, he should have settled down long ago and now be supporting a family, like so many other ball players. I personally never liked him. I think he is a spoiled, self-centered brat, and I will be very glad when he is done and gone. No doubt he is a great ball player, but I just can’t see so much made of a person who leads his kind of life.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 05 2014 07:05 PM Re: Voice of the People

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Edgy MD May 05 2014 08:51 PM Re: Voice of the People

Edgy MD, Baltimore wrote: Derek Jeter is the highest form of life on this planet, with the capacity of rational thought and the ability to distinguish right from wrong. For these reasons, he is held to higher standard than those that apply to other forms of life, and when he behaves badly he must suffer the consequences — in this life or the next.

Benjamin Grimm May 27 2014 06:23 AM Re: Voice of the People

Stanley Rosenberg wrote: Bronx: Put four normal-size adults in any of the Central Park carriages, and I would be able to pull them. I am 90 years old. And if there are any skeptics: Try me. I am here.

Edgy MD May 27 2014 06:58 AM Re: Voice of the People

You don't need a dateline to know Stanley's from the Bronx.

Frayed Knot May 27 2014 07:01 AM Re: Voice of the People

Not sure that Stanley is up to speed on what passes for a "normal-size adult" these days.

Benjamin Grimm May 29 2014 10:27 AM Re: Voice of the People

Manhattan: The only reason white America is going crazy over Kim Kardashian’s butt and body is that they supposedly look like black women’s matchless butts and bodies. Black women’s butts are big, beautiful, really round, sexy and shapely. Kim’s butt does not look like black women’s gorgeous behinds, because it’s flabby and giggles, whereas black women’s butts are firm; they do not shake and wobble all over the place. In addition, black women’s hips are perfectly circular. Kim’s hips are wide and square. In Kim’s case, duplication looks nothing like origination. Her butt giggles? Wow! Brooklyn: Now that the weather is getting warmer, please put lids on your garbage pails. Bensonhurst used to be so nice to walk around; now it looks like a slum and smells like one, too. What are you gonna do — move to Rotten Island, where it always stinks?

Edgy MD May 29 2014 10:31 AM Re: Voice of the People

Manhattan: The only reason white America is going crazy over Kim Kardashian’s butt and body is that they supposedly look like black women’s matchless butts and bodies. Black women’s butts are big, beautiful, really round, sexy and shapely. Kim’s butt does not look like black women’s gorgeous behinds, because it’s flabby and giggles, whereas black women’s butts are firm; they do not shake and wobble all over the place. In addition, black women’s hips are perfectly circular. Kim’s hips are wide and square. In Kim’s case, duplication looks nothing like origination. Her butt giggles? Wow! They printed my letter!!

Benjamin Grimm Jun 02 2014 05:13 PM Re: Voice of the People

Diane R. Pagen wrote: Brooklyn: Most of us learned that we shouldn’t talk with food in our mouths, so why do I have to sit in my local Italian joint (Frank’s Pizza on Avenue P) every Friday and watch customers talking and chewing their pizza at the same time? My fellow New Yorkers, the person on the phone can’t see you talking with your mouth full, but the customers around you can. Do everyone a favor, including yourselves: Hang up and eat your pizza.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 17 2014 06:10 AM Re: Voice of the People

Elsie M. Olsen wrote: Utica, N.Y.: I was born on Staten Island and raised there until age 14. I am now 74 and a good tap dancer. But you need permission to dance on the Broadway sidewalk unless you are famous or commit a crime. There is a lot of red tape to go through in order to have a chance to be seen. Children can have a wish if they are dying. But I am healthy and could be a free inspiration to older tap dancers.