Just look at all the Libs the Hearld Journal attracts! Let all the crazy statements below stay on the record. These people think that they can get away with it. They won't! Everything from Anti Fireworks to Socialism style Recycling to equating President Bush with the USSR to extreme environMENTAL policies. You name it, they got it! All of these letters appear in the Sunday 6/26/06 edition of the Hearld Journal. When extreme statements such as these 4 letters are made, I will call them on it. Here, they will remain on the record in order to answer for their liberal propaganda!
"To the editor:
Is there any limit to how far Republicans can play the religion card in politics? I hope so, and I hope this limit is somewhere short of America becoming a Christian version of Iran.
Is it faith or is it delusion that is propelling our politics today? If we could look ahead a hundred years from now, that might provide some indication. If a hundred years from now we’ve left a world in worse shape than today, then I guess it was delusion, greed, and ego thinly disguised as faith that was ruling us. If we’ve left our world better than how we found it, then it was genuine faith. I promise you I’m rooting for genuine faith, the kind that helps us survive.
Let’s be about decency. There’s a value that ties us together across the political spectrum and across religious beliefs, decency. A nation that is about decency does not continue to do nothing while the life support system of this planet heads for Chapter 11, with 20 percent of the world’s corral reefs already dead. What say we get about doing the right thing here and addressing this?
It is a bit of a stretch to ask you to take global warming seriously. Yes, the effects of it are already here in the form of earlier and more rapid spring runoffs on our water sheds. Still, it’s a beautiful day today. Birds are chirping. Squirrels are dashing about. What’s to worry?
I have to ask you to put just a little trust in science here, not absolute faith, just a little trust. Science is telling us that bad stuff will happen if this continues unchecked; and, if we wait until the evidence is in front of our faces, by then it will be too late to prevent loss of life and not billions, not hundreds of billions, but hundreds of trillions of dollars of damage. And hasn’t science worked quite well so far?
On another topic but also on the subject of decency, what say we lend a helping hand to Utah’s “lost boys,” or I prefer to refer to them as graduates from the FLDS. They’ve been discarded from their families and communities, with little to no education, few skills, no support. How can people discard their children in the name of faith? If I live to be a thousand, this will never make a lick of sense to me. Fortunately, there are some excellent organizations addressing this. One of the best is the Hope Organization, to which you can send tax deductible contributions, P.O. Box 461 St. George, Utah, 84771. http://childbrides.org/
Charles Ashurst
Logan
To the editor:
If it weren’t for Lily, I wouldn’t be writing this letter. Fireworks merely irritate me. They terrify Lily. So I’m writing on behalf of our little Jack Russell Terrified.
State law makes the use of any fireworks illegal except on the 4th and 24th of July and on the three days before and after those holidays. So when our neighbors across the canal set off a salvo of skyrockets at midnight on June 1st this year, sending Lily into a seizure of uncontrollable trembling that would last until after 1:30, I decided to call the North Park Police. I didn’t have the address of the culprits that night; I’ve learned it since and am keeping it handy.
Even on the “legal” days for fireworks, certain fireworks are still illegal fireworks that explode and/or shoot into the air, the sort of fireworks you cannot buy legally in this state, the sort that reduce our dog and many other dogs to abject terror. (And it isn’t just little dogs. We once had a 115-pound German shepherd who climbed our chain-link fence in terror one July 24th and was lost for hours, with us actively searching for him.)
A final observation: Most of my wonderful Hyde Park family are LDS, and it is my understanding that in order to participate in temple ceremonies they have to swear that they uphold and obey the laws of the land. I find it wonderfully ironic that a holiday set aside to honor the coming of the Saints to Utah, an event that one would think would inspire reverence and quiet introspection among the faithful, has turned into a day when so many of them break the law exploding banned fireworks smuggled into Utah illegally.
Will Pitkin
Hyde Park
To the editor:
There has been much debate over the issue of the recycling program being introduced to the valley’s Waste Management Program. I feel the need to speak up and voice an opinion in the hopes of possibly raising awareness among those who are loudly speaking out against this program. I am dismayed at the lack of maturity in the arguments posed against the recycling program. All arguments that I have heard have been based upon emotion and not fact. Citizens are claiming that their “agency” is being taken away, and are refusing to participate. It is a selfish action on their parts. They are, in essence, saying that $60 a year is more important than preserving the Cache Valley. They are saying that $60 is a violation of their right. I’m sorry that I disagree. I would like to preserve as much of the valley as possible. I would like my children and grandchildren to have the same memories of the natural beauty of this area. I have lived many years outside of the valley and have seen what can happen to areas where responsibility is not taken. Unfortunately, the residents of this valley have had years to choose to take on this responsibility, and have not cared enough to bother. There are now those of us who do care. There is no easy balance to this situation. However, no one is going to be standing in your kitchen watching you throw away your trash. It is time to get over the childish attitudes of being “forced” and step up to the plate and take care of what is ours to take care of. If those of you still feel that your agency is being infringed upon, please allow me to remind you that you also “have to” use Logan Power and Light, Qwest Communications, the city for water and sewer, register your car with the state, pay taxes, send your children to school, drive at certain speeds in certain areas. You are also not allowed to burn fires in your backyard, fish without a license, or hunt freely in any areas of the valley. Let’s refocus our perspective a bit and realize that while we may not like it, it is not necessarily a bad thing or a bad idea.
Sarah Tveter
Smithfield
To the editor:
The Bush administration’s use of slogans rivals anything leaders of the U.S.S.R. could come up with in over 70 years of pushing their communist ideology backward.
“Cut and run” has such a nice ring to it. “Cutting and running” says it all. This is propaganda at its best.
During the recent Senate debate on the Iraq war, one Republican speaker after the other climaxed his/her oration with a crescendo, assailing the “cutters and runners” of the opposition while they themselves “stayed the course.”
In all fairness to the Democrats and maybe to level the playing field a bit, how about giving John Kerry some credit for his “lie and die?”
Actually I don’t mind my own “stay and pay.”
Lynn R. Eliason
River Heights" |