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On Your Mind is the Herald/Review’s telephone opinion line and is intended as a public forum for our readers. Comments represent the opinions of callers and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the newspaper or any specific knowledge that we have. Readers may share their opinions by calling 458-0332, or by e-mail to svhoym@transedge.com or regular mail at 102 Fab Ave., Sierra Vista AZ 85635. Please keep comments less than 90 seconds. Comments are edited.
Jan. 16
I agree with the OYM caller about the mayor being a paint, but I also disagree with Chief (Dennis) Gray being “the guy”. He’s unprofessional and inept. In any other town in America he would be fired or not even hired.
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I don’t know what’s up with the Sierra Vista Farmer’s Market. It should be more convenient than the hours noon to 4 p.m. every Thursday. No people with jobs can go there.
Jan. 17
I want to thank Susan Ostrander for her logical and convincing letter to the editor, “There are reasons for the Electoral College.” Without the Electoral College in a presidential election, it becomes apparent to me that the Democratic Party would permanently control the White House. Major/large cities usually gravitate toward the Democrat presidential nominee. These major/large cities would inevitably swing the popular vote in that direction. We would be left with a one-party system in a national election. A death blow to democracy as we know it in America! Furthermore, with the influx of 20 million illegal immigrants, it becomes equally apparent that massive fraudulent voting cannot be ignored. Illegal immigrants gravitate to major/large cities to work. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that the Democratic Party becomes the gracious recipient of illegal immigrant fraudulent voting.
Why don’t our legislatures have lawyers for hire on their staff? Every time they write a new law or submit a new bill it gets challenged in court. The latest one is the employee sanction bill. The judge says he has to rely on the wording of the law and not what the legislators intend. How he’s hung up on the word “employ”. What does it mean? It’s “exquisitely ambiguous” the judge says. If we had lawyers on staff we wouldn’t have these problems.
Recently President (Pervez) Musharraf of Pakistan issued a warning to foreign countries that he will not allow any troops to invade his country including the mountain region where (Osama) bin Laden is being protected. I’m glad to see that “president” Obama would not be afraid to send in troops even though he would be invading a Muslim nation. Also, that he would not be the kind of president that Clinton was. I hope he will change the ruinous trade policies with China that Clinton initiated and President Bush never revised. We are being bankrupted and China is our banker. I hope you will find these items useful in this campaign.
I recently read some critical comments about Bill Clinton’s years in office. OK, he did not take out bin Laden because no one thought at the time that he would ever perpetrate the deeds he was later responsible for. Sure, he was a womanizer. He ran an “animal house” staffed with young potheads and borrowed items from the White House he had to later return. But he also threatened to release 3 million barrels of oil from our strategic reserve. One right can’t compensate for 10 wrongs. But at least he did that with the right result for our benefit.
To the person who didn’t like the funnies that Phil Vega put in the newspaper, I hope this person has read Vega on the 16th. It says the person who has no sense of humor probably doesn’t have any sense at all.
Jan. 18
To the person who called concerning the Huachuca City council voting on building a subdivision in Whetstone, your facts are not correct. Mustang Heights is located out in Whetstone, but the Mustang area they were talking about is in lower Huachuca City across from the Crisis Center. Huachuca City has jurisdiction there. They are not putting anything in Whetstone because they have no jurisdiction in Whetstone.
This is unbelievable. It’s getting out of hand. Now the Department of Homeland Security is going to seize private land owner’s land to build the fence on. So much for “land of the free.”
I’ve had it. There are two maintenance workers who come by our school cafeteria every day and sit down and have breakfast. I know they’re being paid to have breakfast. I don’t understand how their supervisors let them get away with this. I don’t like my tax money spent this way.
Thank God Tim Bee will be our next Republican candidate for Congress. We will now have a very moderate Republican that we can support. Randy Graf, Gail Griffin, Mary Ann Black and other extremists have nearly destroyed our party.
I totally disagree with the OYM comment supporting the Electoral College. It’s a system set up in the colonial days, which is no longer needed. We have informed people in the world now who don’t need to have others vote for them. We should vote for ourselves and that vote should count.
I saw in today’s newspaper where the mayor’s house was robbed and where he actually admits there is crime in this city. It’s about time. It’s about time this newspaper and everyone else knew how much crime there is instead of getting it from the Tucson TV stations.
Every day we read the newspaper we find more violent crimes are committed by illegal aliens. I know all Mexican people are not of their ilk but when is it going to end? The animosity created is being suffered by all. Mexico had no death penalty. Therefore the most vile and violent criminals will go unpunished. The innocent here must stop their defense of their undeserving countrymen. You will never be accepted here as long as you defend them. There are ways to stop them. 1. Take no prisoners. 2. Stay home in Mexico and vote out the corrupt ones in power. Then start government projects to employ people like President Roosevelt did here in this country to end the Depression. 3. Use oil money to finance jobs in your country and educate your countrymen to perform them. Please help us to find a solution soon. We will welcome you and your cooperation greatly.
I agree with (Homeland Security) Secretary (Michael) Chertoff’s comments about the American public needing to grow up about the security of this country. The American public is too spoiled, too set in our ways and we refuse to give anything up like SUVs. We won’t get upset until gas is $5 per gallon. We need to tighten our belts and do the things we need to do to protect this country.
Jan. 19
I’m reading about how President Bush is planning on giving everyone some tax money back. Why doesn’t he take that money and apply it to the national debt? I think it’s ridiculous to give it back. I’d rather see my money go toward the national debt. It would show that his heart is in the right place. I think he’s trying to make points for himself before he leaves office.
I’ve called the Sierra Vista police about El Camino Real since the city did that inadequate striping there and the ridiculous bike lane on the north and south side. The police told me to call the city engineer. So I did. He has not returned my call. I’m asking they put stripes in the bike lane so people know they’re not supposed to drive in the bike lane and use it to turn.
Isn’t it amazing we see and read so little in the mainstream media about the scientific breakthrough by James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin and Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto, who discovered a way to produce embryonic stem cells directly from adult cells? No embryos are destroyed. There seems to be general agreement that this is possibly one of the most important scientific advances of the past quarter century. Many commentators have heaved a sigh of relief that the stem cell wars are over. Science can accommodate itself to moral principle after all. Could it be that President Bush and proponents of adult stem cell research were right to oppose embryonic stem cell research on moral and ethical grounds? Could it be that the pro-life people were right? Is that why the mainstream media seems to be relatively quiet on the subject?
Jan. 20
I read about the so-called solutions that Gabrielle Giffords claims for herself in the Jan. 20 Herald. What she doesn’t mention is her solution for , voting for the retreat and defeat of our troops while they are fighting al-Qaida there. Giffords appears to have forgotten the is at war with al-Qaida. Giffords voted, along with her Democrat colleagues, to sabotage Gen. David Petraeus’ surge, which has been successfully pacifying . It was only President Bush’s veto that forced Giffords to reverse her vote. The truth is Giffords has served as a faithful foot solider for left-wing liberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who leads a do-nothing Congress. Giffords serves as foot soldier in a Democrat-controlled Congress that has the lowest public approval rating in the past 50 years. Close scrutiny of her voting record shows she votes her party line which is soft on terrorism.
I liked the coverage of both Tim Bee and Gabrielle Giffords in the Jan. 20 Herald. I noticed Giffords appreciated the past pro-immigration reform efforts of Sen. John McCain and Sen. Jon Kyl. Is she aware both senators have retracted their previous positions and call now for strict border security before reform can even be considered? That includes a border fence. I wonder if Giffords would agree. If so, I then find it hypocritical of her to vote to tie up the fence in the courts as she did. Also, Giffords earlier voted in favor of the comprehensive immigration reform bill which we all know was a smokescreen for amnesty. Does she still favor amnesty? If not, I wish her voting record didn’t show otherwise.
Political columnist Cal Thomas wrote a powerful column (“The cost of Roe at 35”) in the Jan. 21 Herald. This salient statement by Thomas generates fuel for thought: “Depending on how one counts the number of abortions per year since 1973, more than 50 million people who might have been are not. These were people who, regardless of the circumstances of the women who carried them, had the potential to contribute to the country and to the world. But now they cannot, because they are not.” Baby boomers are now retiring and many more will follow. Experts are telling us there won’t be enough workers to pay their Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid bills in the very near future — not to mention ditto bills for present retirees. Will we think back on the 50 million aborted babies, most of whom would be living adult workers today, able to pay for the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid bills of tomorrow? Did the baby boomer generation shoot themselves in the foot?
Betty doesn't read wrote on Feb 1, 2008 9:39 AM: