What’s so bad about kids’ drawings?
I would like to address the letter from Wayne Strache of SanMarcos(March 1). What is his problem? The item he mentions, “AChild’s View of the Weather” is a way not only for children toexpress themselves, but allows the readers to remember when theywere children and alleviate some of the daily stress we all feel. Iguess he doesn’t have kids or else he would identify with thissentiment.
If the rest of the North County Times is so bad, then why doeshe buy it? The Fry’s ad is in the Union Tribune, too, so he shouldbuy it and then he can see a really trashy paper.
Vernon Jaworski
San Marcos
Are they trying to bankrupt us on purpose?
America, wake up! Call your congressmen, call the president.They have to be stopped. We used to spend billions a year on abudget; now the new number is in the trillions. We the Americanpeople have to pay for this. The government is borrowing 50 centson the dollar. We couldn’t run our households like this; thegovernment can’t either.
John Adams said, “There are two ways to conquer and enslave anation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.” Think aboutlast year’s budget and this year’s. … Are they spending us intobankruptcy on purpose, to destroy our nation?
Obama said he was going to “fundamentally change” America. Isthis the change we want, to be in debt and maybe bankrupted? Calltoday, stop the madness in Washington. No more spending, no to thetrillion-dollar budget and no more sharing our wealth.
Linda Maddox
Carlsbad
Domestic partnership should replacemarriage
I am amazed that in this time of “political correctness” andwith the clarion call of “separation of church and state” thatmarriage is the law of the land.
Marriage is and has always been a vow that you share with eachother in front of our Holy God.
Instead of fighting to get married and for that marriage to berecognized by our government officials, our hom*osexual citizensshould be fighting for marriage to be removed as the law of theland and for domestic partnership to replace it.
All couples should first be joined in front of the justice ofthe peace and then take their vows in front of God if they sodesire.
Ron Payne
Oceanside
Melrose extension will be vital
This is in reply to Mr. Ed Towers, in reference to theintersection of Melrose and Highway 76(“Poorly planned traffic,” Community Voices, March 2).Apparently he is unaware that Jeffries Ranch Road is going to bepermanently closed off from the 76. Cal Trans informs me this willcommence sometime between April 1 and July 1 of this year.
This road has been where most people exit to the east on the 76from Jeffries Ranch homes. Consequently, Melrose will be the onlyentrance/exit from this entire area, which involves hundreds ofhomes. This is the reason that the Melrose extension to North SantaFe will be vital. When the high school opens, the Melroseintersection will become a real traffic jam without the previousJeffries Ranch Road exit.
Joseph Kraatz
Oceanside
The truth about Dick Cheney
This letter is to inform Bob Fisher(Community Voices, Feb. 22)about the truth of Vice PresidentDick Cheney.
Cheney did not avoid the draft. Every college student was givendeferments to finish school. He evidently did not finish hisschooling until the need for men was acquired. We put his stock ina trust by law and the Supreme Court did not appoint him to thevice presidency. … Also, every intelligence agency in the worldsaid Iraq had WMDs. The administration did not lie. And in everywar, there is collateral damage. There was great effort to find binLaden, but Pakistan is very difficult. Been there?
Haliburton got a no-bid contract because no other company in theU.S. provided the same services. … The Iraqis are a democracytoday with the people having freedom. …
Had Dan Rather been telling the truth, the liberal media wouldnot have been so silent.
I don’t know what planet Bob Fisher has been on, but it mighthelp if he came to earth and learned the truth, like watching FoxNews.
Dick Cheney is every inch a gentleman. He has no ego problems.He is dependable and does not leak information. He does not stoopto mean name-calling, which is beyond the liberalunderstanding.
Bettie Heldring
Escondido
Why isn’t food being distributed?
When an earth-shattering disaster happens like the quake inChile, why can’t the police set up tables or barriers at the localmarkets and hand out whatever food and water the people want? Theyare hungry, tired and desperately thirsty. The food is going to rotor be out of date anyway and the owner of the market will getinsurance, if they have insurance protection.
I think that handing out the food would be better than havinglooters or having to arrest people. Where are they going to takethem anyway in a situation like Chile? The town jail is probablyoff its foundation also.
Sylvia Clark
Escondido
A win-win letter on the environment
Kudos to Ms. Doll from Vista(Community Voices, March 2). Although I am guessing we probablyagree on nothing else across the political spectrum, she stumbledacross the best, logical, argument in favor of environmentalstewardship. Proponents of controlling pollution, preserving ourgreen space and saving our oceans live on both sides of theaisle.
Unfortunately, the left has tried to use questionable methodsand science to predict various global catastrophes in order toforce people, corporations and the government to care. Illogicaland extreme arguments that would put the United States at acompetitive disadvantage globally, or worse, reduce us to apre-industrial age quality of life just aren’t going to fly….
Real personal and corporate social responsibility is not goingto occur through regulation and force, but instead throughcommon-sense arguments like Ms. Doll’s. She may think she’sridiculing those on the right, but she makes a case that preservingand conserving our natural resources builds long-term value forcorporations and security for the nation.
Finally, a point of view that reasonable folks can work with.Humans may not be causing global climate change, but we still oweit to our children to strive to provide clean oceans, air, waterand energy — for the right reasons.
Dan Goodwin
San Marcos
A one-strike law for sex offenders
Enough is enough. When are we going to stop allowing thesemonsters to live among us? When are the politicians going to wakeup and write a law to really protect our children?
Maybe it is time to have a one-strike law for sex offenders. Nomore laws named for dead children. Commit a sex act of any kindagainst a child, and you go to prison for the rest of your life ––final. End of story. No psychological evaluation needed.
Karen Birch
Escondido
Some thoughts
Could California sub-lease Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and send all ourhigh-risk prisoners there? Cuba would like the economic stimulus ofthe many nonunion prison jobs that would open up.
Should KFC (Kern, Feller and Chavez) be billed for the cost ofthe election for their secret Oceanside charter ballot measure inthe event the electorate turns it down?
Should Kern and Feller be billed for not filling the vacantcouncilmember seat with Charles “Chuck” Lowery (the highvote-getter at the recall election) and forcing an unneeded andfiscally irresponsible election in June just to fill the seat untilthe November election?
Just thinking.
David Freeman
Oceanside
Unregulated capitalism doesn’t work
Socialism! Socialism! The sky is falling! Clearly, socialism isnot what we want for our government because it doesn’t work. Thesame statement also applies to capitalism. It doesn’t work either.Neither economic-political system works by itself, but capitalismregulated by government (is that socialism?) works quite well.
We are currently recovering from the disaster of unregulatedcapitalism — a condition that we also experienced in 1929. That wasalso after an extended Republican stretch of laissez-faire. From1932 until the early 1980s, capitalism regulated by the governmentworked well. Then Reaganomics set in. Its primary tenets were 1)reduce government spending, 2) reduce income and capital gainsmarginal tax rates, 3) reduce government regulation of the economy,4)control the money supply to reduce inflation. This also meantignoring the anti-trust laws. Subsequent presidents of both partiesfailed to reinstitute the regulations that were deleted at thattime, and we’ve been reaping the rewards.
The right-wingers are screaming “socialism” about the healthcare bill. Would you want the government between you and yourhealth care? It seems that they prefer the profit-making insurancecompanies in between. I cannot imagine a more blatant conflict ofinterest.
Morris Shechet
Oceanside
Rants and raves
I have rants and raves.
Rant one: Tiger Woods and his peccadilloes.
Rant two: Women who throw themselves at Tiger for braggingrights, money or curiosity.
Rant three: Shopping carts left in cross-hatched “No Parking”areas. Those spaces are needed for the handicapped who use vanswith lifts.
Rant four: Pharmaceutical ads that advise readers to ask adoctor for their product. If I have to ask, I’ll get a newdoctor.
Rant five: Ads that urge sildenafil citrate users who areexperiencing a four-hour-or-longer erection to see their doctors.All right. Forwaaard; march! Hup; one, two.
Rant six: Toasters that take five minutes or more to make toastand/or non-hot coffee from a coffee maker.
Rant seven: Holier-than-thou religious nuts against a woman’sright to choose.
Now raves.
Rave one: Government-sponsored health care. I spent eight hoursin surgery and recovery. Cost: $12,471.00; medications $1,049.08.My government-type insurance paid the bill. Would yours do thesame? If not, demand that your congressional representatives passbills that give you their same type of coverage.
Rave two: My country. Right or wrong. My country.
Harry Titus
Oceanside
The wrath of the Marines
With reference to the letter I wrote as published by NorthCounty Times onFeb. 18concerning my views on what I consider the destructivefolly of both Rush Limbaugh and ditzy flash-in-the pan Sarah Palin,I seemed to have incurred the wrath of a retired Marine Corps major(Community Voices, Feb. 25). He not only was offended by myviews — he’s entitled — but also an added offense as I mentionedthat I was a former Marine as if to infer, quoting the major, I was”trying to fly on (my) supposed Marine Corps connection.”
I take no pride in having served in two terrible wars – 3 1/2years in World War II and 1 1/2 years in the Korean debacle asmandated by the commandant of the Marines. Those events were hardlysuppositions. I chose to serve in a time of war to honor mypatriotic duty as a citizen, not as a career. The major chose tospend 21 years of his life as a Marine warrior. His choice. Isalute his efforts. Will he return the salute?
Cal Cohen
Fallbrook
No more tolerance for intolerance
In his fortnightly anti-hom*osexual screed(Community Voices, Feb. 24), Frank Lancelotti says: ” … myfacts have nothing to do with religion.” That may be; theycertainly have nothing to do with science, either. He cites SB 777as part of a vast hom*osexual conspiracy to indoctrinate our youthin the hom*osexual lifestyle, whatever that is.
The actuality: SB 777 modified the California Education Code’santi-discrimination policy, adding sexual orientation to the listof specific bases for which discrimination is prohibited. And thefundamentalist right went ballistic and hyperbolic.
Catholics for the Common Good called SB 777: “This anti-marriageand anti-family indoctrination bill.” “SB 777 will result inreverse discrimination against students with religious andtraditional family values,” and “‘Mom and Dad’ as well as ‘husbandand wife’ effectively have been banned from California schools …” said a Web site called WorldNetDaily.
SB 777 was enacted back in October 2007, and the above claimsand assertions have since proved to be baseless. But aftercenturies of being able to discriminate against hom*osexuals withimpunity, the fundamentalist right must feel that this assumedfundamental right of theirs has been infringed upon. Regardless,it’s high time to stop tolerating their intolerance.
John Terrell
Fallbrook
