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Leslie M..... - March 13, 2009

You have got to be bipolar. How can the rant you first left not be interpreted as any thing else but hate. And what a load of contradiction your second post is. I sincerely hope no one in your family is gay, no one needs to deal with your hatred on a daily basis.

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Don - March 13, 2009

Wow!! Sounds like someone has anger issues and it's not me. Just because I disagree with someone's lifestyle, doesn't mean I hate them. In fact, the Bible teaches very clearly that we are all sinners and are no better than anyone else. I do believe homosexuality is a sin, but so is hatred. There are those who give Christianity a bad name and go overboard by attacking the people. I am merely expressing my disgust with the lifestyle and our nation's acceptance of it. I never said you couldn't be happy as a homosexual, but to have true peace and joy is far greater than temporary happiness. And just because a person is a homosexual doesn't mean they'll go to hell. It is only because of God's mercy that I will not go there when I die. Lastly, I am only stating my opinion on the subject of homosexual marriages (which is my right), I'm not personally attacking anyone. I'm sorry if you took it personal.

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Johnathon..... - March 13, 2009

I used the term see you in hell because it is obvious that Leslie only worships the fire and brimstone part of the bible, therefore I ended my comment with something she would understand. For anyone to think that someone would choose to be queer and deal with idiots like her is way off. If we had a choice don't you think we would choose to fit in?

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Don - March 13, 2009

How would you see Leslie in hell if you don't believe in God? Although, I don't really agree with most of what Leslie says, arguments can be made for just about anything. HOWEVER, I would completely disagree with her statement "if one believes we evolved from apes and there is no Creator, then I can see how he/she could believe that we are accountable to no one and therefore can live however we please", because its pretty obvious how evolution works. Evolution would never have been successful with two dude apes or two chick apes going at it. Just a thought.

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Leslie M...... - March 13, 2009

I am very happy, and gay, that I do not believe in a God or participate in a cult as you do. People like you call yourself a christian and preach nothing but hate. See you in hell.....

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Homosexual Marriage - March 13, 2009

I am so very disgusted when I hear someone compare the gay marriage ban to the civil rights days. There is no comparison. Black folks are born that way, homosexuals are not! Say what you will, but the homosexual lifestyle is a choice. It is a perversion of all that God set up as sacred and holy. After all, He IS the Creator of all living things, and His perfect design was one man and one woman. Their purpose was to replenish the earth. That's a little difficult to do with a man and a man, or a woman and a woman... and you don't have to be a "rocket scientist" to figure that one out. Now, if one believes we evolved from apes and there is no Creator, then I can see how he/she could believe that we are accountable to no one and therefore can live however we please. I do believe in the rights of the citizen, and I believe our government steps in places they don't belong; however, I believe homosexuality infringes on my rights as a citizen. Because of their sexual practices, they can carry and spread diseases. But instead of isolating the ones that have that disease, we give them a ribbon and raise tons of money to "help" them. What in the world!!! Remember... they chose to do what they do, and they know the consequences. God never condoned homosexuality or homosexual marriage, and I don't believe we should either.

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all of those policemen - January 22, 2009

.....and all of that money to hotels and small businesses in the region....and.....black people were not the one's who created the 'black' label. If you look black - then you're black to some - ask my mixed race children

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mixed - January 22, 2009

to kevin obama on national tv call his self a mutt i think he was saying he is mix raced its the media who protray him as black. i do how ever agree he won't be black for long

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President Obama - January 19, 2009

Sorry for my spelling earliar, however how much is this inauguration costing and do we as tax payers have to pay for it. As if we don't pay enough over spending as it is. Obama should have stood up for the people and said "Stop" "I don't need to spend your money like this. This inauguration has become a circus of wasted spending. I, as your president will show you that wasteful spending of your money is not what I'm going to do". But, he spends like all the rest. Maybe we are looking at what the future is going to bring us and this wasteful spending of an elabrate inauguration is just the beginning. What did I hear last, 10,000 police, countless toilets, national guards, other military, air planes, helicopters, fire and rescue and MUCH MUCH MORE! How about feeding the poor with that Money or helping out the jobless people. What about your promises Obama. GREAT START ! ! !

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President Obama - January 19, 2009

(I once wrote a comment stating that I disagreed with most people trying to change history to fit their needs or wants. I believe history should be written correctly and honestly. Most people are pushing and writing that we have our first Black President. I say write history correctly. Obama's mother was white and his father was Black. Why does so many people call him our next Black President. He is just as much White as he is Black. Just because he looks more Black then White, doesn't make him anymore Black. He is our first mixed President and I think that the Black people out there should not short cut themselves. I believe that when the time comes that a True Black person becomes President, the Black people should Truly Celebrate History Correctly and be proud. As for President Obama, I believe that all the mixed race people have something to be proud of. We have Black People, White People, Mixed People and so on and so on. Lets keep history as correct as possible. I do believe that the Black race has their first Black First Lady and they should be proud of that and the history record books should state that. I see all these Celebrities and people at the inaugurauguration jumping up and down about our first Black President. What happened to Obama for ALL PEOPLE ! I Like Obama. I hope he does well, however I think he promised more then he can deliver ! Don't They All ! I've noticed the back sliding already ! GOD HELP US ! -- Today, the people that believe him to be black will be calling him a mixed race president when or if he screws things up while he's in office. Watch how quick he'll be abandoned by the people playing the Black Race Card Today ! He should have made sure that he clearly portrayed his race properly, however he kept avoiding it for the votes.

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President Obama - January 19, 2009

Who's paying for this HUGE Money Wasting inaugurauguration ?

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Most commented ? - January 4, 2009

While reading todays hometown annapolis, the story on the Police veteran asked to resign is listed as 8 comments. Unless my math is seriously off, I count 18. Any reason?

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Maryland Budget /Taxes - December 18, 2008

Why in the world should Federal Tax dollars be used to shore up States like Maryland and California who advocate and spend Maryland taxpayer dollars on illegal immigration, health care for 100,000 people and then when out of money,resort to cutting critical State jobs, and begging the Feds for a bailout money? Where are Maryland's priorities? Where is the accountability?

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SOUTH COUNTY FARM STAND - September 29, 2008

I read, in total disbelief, about the complaint against Dick and Jane's farm stand. I want to know where I can file a complaint against the person who filed that complaint? Barring no answer on that, I only can address that person with the following comment: Go the hell back to PG county or DC and leave Anne Arundel traditions alone. If you don't like it, get the hell out! -Mad As Hell, Edgewater, MD

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Win At Bridge - August 20, 2008

The WIN AT BRIDGE column by Phillip Alder is now missing from The Capital. We have thoroughly enjoyed this column and we are disappointed with its removal from the Newspapaer. Is it's removal Permanent?

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Olympics Coverage - August 14, 2008

I thought your coverage of the Olympic womens gymnastics was negative and thoughtless. The headlines calls their performance a flop?? You should have congratulated the girls for a job well done, for winning a silver medal and for the determination and dedication it took to get to the Olympics in the first place. Then, on top of the bad copy, you use a picture of Alicia Sacramone falling off the high beam? I guess tabloid style writing and imagery sells huh? Well you have lost my subscription.

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Energy and issues - June 8, 2008

In a Pop-cultural sub theory, in a movie, in a rhetoric: As the United States, do we invest in oil stock within the judicial infrastructure? If we are to import oil, do we want to buy from a religion based organization that is in lawlessness or outside of the judicial infrastructure? If we do this, we help our foreign policy protect democracy by ?missionary? approach? i.e. To connect with the unrecognized populations? Our import would benefit if we had a cooperative? Israel would buy from a new ?peace? and additionally, a EU member, lets say Italy, would buy from Israel? We would want the client (we buy oil from them, and we want them to convert to democracy?) to buy something that would help our stock investments? We would then buy more non-embargos from a Middle Eastern group like Armenia or Turkey and then become a NAFTA with items to Export? At some point, the new Client and the Judicial Infrastructure develop a Policy in a movie??.. we are to then adjust for any trade deficit numbers? I feel that our government believes in Liberty and that commitment gets lost in the political media. If there are populations outside of our known intelligence, I feel it normal to want to help our country help us secure our inalienable rights as Americans. I hope we find bipartisan spirit not as an active critic or otherwise; but for the outright understanding that our NEWS is a body of intelligence that is alarming. Soldiers risk their lives in harms way to protect our borders, that isn?t diluted I believe when they are on the frontline.

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website structure - March 15, 2008

I have been trying to find online the political events calendar that you publish weekly in the paper. Is it available on the website? If so, under what heading?

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Illegal aliens editorial - March 6, 2008

Good editorial today.

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superdelegates - March 5, 2008

I support the letter written by Richard Zipper in your letters column on March 3, 2008 and I wish to add to the list of complaints with our electoral system. We suffer with machines which can be easily hacked and are generally unreliable. Manipulations in the number of available machines, the locations of the polling places, and available hours too often prevent minorities fair voting. The electoral college further compromises the voting process. And now we belatedly realize a system put in place in 1982 was instituted to give power to the Democratic party major players to over ride the votes of ordinary voters. Well, if the choice of the voters is changed by these superdelegates, I for one, will join with the disillusioned and will refuse to vote for the anointed candidate. The reality is that the Democratic party will self destruct if it pursues this over ride.

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Global warming? - March 2, 2008

I agree with MR. Sowell's article about the 'global warming' hysteria being concocted by certain politicians in order to get media exposure. Reputable scientists (not the Al Gore kind) have no conclusive data, yet the alarmists hysterically scream that the sky is falling. Naive people will believe whatever they see in the press, but smart people look to the peer-reviewed scientific journal articles for the real truth. And the real truth is, they are just making it up. And no, Al Gore did not invent the internet, and his global warming claims are just as ridiculous as his 'I invented the internet' claims.

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Black Men Rally ... - February 23, 2008

Dear Editor: On 2/17/08 you published an article entitled Black Men Rally Against Drugs, Violence. Who was the man that did the re-enactment of the crime scene? and Why wasn't his name mentioned in the article? Wasn't he just as viable a part of the event as the other gentlemen mentioned in the article? You named everyone involved, except him. You might consider redoing the article, and include his name. Respectfully yours, R. Smith - Baltimore, MD

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Ice Storm - February 16, 2008

Having lived in Chicago for 10 years before moving to Maryland in 1989 I have to correct a reference to Mayor Byrne in one readers letter to the editor. It was not Mayor Byrne who lost an election due to a blizzard, it was Mayor Bilandic. At the end of his administration, a blizzard struck Chicago and almost completely closed down the city. The city's slow response was blamed on Bilandic's inaction and he lost the primary election to Jane Byrne, who went on to succeed Bilandic. With the combination of rain and quickly dropping temps on Tuesday there were bound to be delays in rush hour traffic. I think we should thank the police and highway workers who try to keep things moving in the congestion the development has created in our little town!

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Help Wanted Ads - February 14, 2008

Why isn't it possible to sort your help wanted ads (or any ads for that matter) in chronological order? I would like to be able to locate the jobs just posted rather than have to read through the entire section every day. There must be many people who are searching for jobs but don't have the time or patience to re-read ads they are not interested in. It's possible I could have overlooked a sorting mechanism but I tried everything. I know you can search on specific words but that still doesn't narrow it down enough.

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Homosexuality - February 8, 2008

In a recent post by Vera Mae Harris in a letter to the editor, she wrote the following: Unlike Roger Leonard, who professes not to have sufficient knowledge of the intricacies of the same-sex marriage, homosexuality issue to form an opinion either pro or con, I have all the information that I will ever need thanks to my well-worn King James Bible. I would ask Ms. Vera to kindly read the original language of Paul's letters, Greek, in which the words of condemnation she speaks of do not exist. What exists are words which condemn rapists and gigolos, a very different concept. If one abuses others for power or uses sex for buying positions, one has every reason to think that G-d might be annoyed and lead translators to accuse King James's courtiers of being rapists and court "effeminates" buying court positions through sexual favors. King James' translators were brave, let us all be as brave. As a gay man, I am neither a rapist or a gigolo, and I love my partner deeply. That, I believe, is not covered in the passages you quote. Charles Butler

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Education Protest - February 7, 2008

Read and saw your coverage of the protest downtown of Baltimore students concerned with future education funding. We here would rather see you refer to 'Government House' as that and not O'Malley's mansion. It is our house and with any luck someone else will live there soon.

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Flip Flopper Obama - February 7, 2008

I'm just wondering why you guys are giving Barack Obama a free ride? He claims (and you have reported) that he doesn't take money from lobbyists. However, it's now clear from at least two sources: Public Citizen-Jan29th report on Bundlers/Lobbyists and LA Times "An Asterisk to Obama's Policy on Donations"---that he does (including $160,000 from Exelon--the nation's largest nuclear producer--NYT 2/04/08). He has claimed repeatedly his health plan covers all Americans-- which he then acknowledges well, actually it doesn't--until the next time he repeats that it does. When non-partisan groups have estimated it leaves an est. 15 million Americans without insurance. He told voters out in Idaho he believes they have a right to bear arms--but has voted (and spoken) consistently of the need for gun control (AP-2/03/08) He's touted his success in getting legislation to help union workers--except it turns out he didn't, it doesn't and the unions not all that pleased about it (Chicago Tribune 2/04/08 Maytag/Obama) You guys need to investigate and REPORT the truth before our primary. Let every Marylander make a choice; but let us make an informed choice based on facts not rhetoric. Thanks, Paulie Abeles

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Langston Hughes Article - February 1, 2008

That was a lovely article by Janice Hayes-Williams on Langston Hughes, a favorite author of mine since my highschool days. I really like her two excerpts "I've Known Rivers" and "What Happens to a Dream Deferred?". I wish there had been space for a few exerpts from the down-to-earth philosophies of everyday issues heard through the voice of Langston's character, Jesse B Semple. Langston did not live with his father in New Mexico, however. It was actually Mexico, and he wrote some captivating stories about his time with his father there. Thanks for a great article. Ben Spence - Edgewater

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Letters to the Editor - January 24, 2008

Why would you keep the printed letters off your web site. For the life of me I cannot understand that. This is 2008, I don't read newspapers, I get 100% of my news through my computer. If this is a technical problem, I would be happy to come in and help you solve it.

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Our Bay: Stormwater - December 8, 2007

Anne Pearson misses an important point in her ?Our Bay? article. She is not ?reviled as an ?environmentalist?? She is feared as a zealot with tunnel vision. As in her Dec 8 article, she is willing to use any particle of data that seems to support her view and ignore any other that refutes it. There is ample objective evidence that our waterways are in trouble, some of which she has documented. But in her article and much of the testimony presented to the County Council there were many anecdotes of harm to individuals but little or no objective evidence of cause and effect. Hard facts are necessary to support legislation that would affect every resident in the county. Reviled? No. Seen as objective? No. Admired for her tenacity? Yes. I live in a water-privileged community that has suffered significant damage from inadequate storm water management by the county and the state. I favor an all-payer system for addressing these problems, but I saw no assurance in the bill recently defeated in the County Council that they would be addressed. I know that almost all legislation requires compromise between different priorities and interests. I hope that a bill will come out of the promised collaboration of the Council and the Executive that will be fair, efficient and effective.

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Letters to the editor? - December 1, 2007

Your site prominently features the Letters to the Editor that are *not* published in the Capital. But for the life of me I can't find the ones that *are* published in the Capital. Please make such a link/location more prominent on the site .

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B. Griswold - Annapolis, MD - Karma: Bad