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June 9
When I am telling my visitors-guests how to get to my house, I tell them to go east on Arizona Route 90 past Fry’s. I tell them they will know they are on the right road if they begin seeing old trees, shrubs and trash on or along the highway. If anyone from the state or county reads this, please don’t take any corrective action. That would make it harder for my guests to find my place.
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Some of our service members who serve/served in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from severe stress, sleeplessness and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The macho climate of our warriors (our sons and daughters) often frowns upon complaints on these issues. Those who complain may fear criticism or fear being passed over for promotion. This results in further problems. Those who complain (seek help) are probably given drugs to numb the mind to the offending stressors. Rather than treating the symptoms, the Robert Scott Bell radio show (Sunday morning, 1420 AM), rsbell.com, suggests the daily use (for all service members) of omega 3 DHA/EPS fish oil as a pre-emptive/preventive measure to possibly head off these problems (stress, suicide, PTSD, etc.), as well as promoting general good health. Sounds like an inexpensive means of promoting better health to me.
Since 1868, the then newly formed American Dental Association (ADA) decided that mercury amalgam dental filings were the way to go. This despite a group that preceded them that determined that mercury was dangerous. A dentist told me that amalgam is so easy to work with and use versus other options. Legal action has now determined that mercury in fillings is dangerous to patient health, especially when putting in or taking it out. Mercury is a neurotoxin that is being installed in your mouth by a “health care professional” several inches from your brain. Children and expectant mothers are said to be most vulnerable. Who knows what diseases or dementia may have resulted from the mercury our dental professionals have visited upon us for 140 years. If a dentist were to have spoken out against the use of mercury, he would have been thrown out of the union (ADA) and his license to practice revoked.
Huachuca City still has not opened its city pool. Maybe Mr. Nerhan, the honorable mayor, should go into the pool management business instead of his used and abandoned car lots.
I’d like to compliment Stephanie Koppenhafer for a great letter on how President Bush should atone for his actions and how he should have been impeached. There are a lot more devious and sinister things that she could have included. But the real blame also stands on the American people who fail to do absolutely anything even to the present day. For too long politicians have gone back to Washington repeatedly getting re-elected. Mr. Kolbe is an example. The more time they spend in Washington in office the more corruption and influence by lobbyists and all it has done for the last so many years is harm this great nation and a great people. What we have to do is try to put a limit at least on the politicians who should serve no more than two terms in office. Because once they serve for a lifetime, a cancer seems to set in.
It appears that Laura Bush is on a global mission going to foreign countries around the world trying to present situations and conditions in other countries. And yet here in our own country she is rarely seen and we have so many problems with people on Social Security, education, massive natural devastation, etc. We still have people hurting from Katrina, and people on the West Coast from fires and so forth. There is so much that she could promote here in our own country rather than go abroad and try to remedy other peoples’ heartaches. Charity begins at home. It appears she’s no better than her husband is as far as what they’ve done to this country. I just thank God we’re having an upcoming election soon and he will be replaced no matter what.
I think if you check the Hollywood archives, “The Sheriff of Cochise County” ran probably on CBS for quite some time, I think in the 1960s. It had very good footage of Cochise County and it had a good story line. I imagine they could find something that they could use to advertise this area. We watched it all the time, never dreaming we’d live in Cochise County one day.
June 10
If you get a recall notice for your vehicle for free repairs and you call the dealership to make an appointment, insist during the call that they check their stock for the necessary parts to complete the recall work. I live close to Douglas and have to travel to Sierra Vista for dealer recall service. Three times, twice at one dealer and once at another, I have had to make multiple trips, needlessly consuming many gallons of gasoline and taking time I could not really spare to get to the dealer, wait for hours for them to inspect and have them tell me that I will have to come back at some point in the future because they do not have the parts necessary in stock. One of those times they called to say the parts came in and when I got there they said they were the wrong parts. Forget getting reimbursed for the wasted fuel.
Regarding the May 29 comment about bicyclists. I ride the bike path along Highway 92, but I understand why some people do not. The bike path is set so far back from the road that cars aren’t paying attention to the traffic on the bike path. Say you are traveling from the mall area to Food City along Highway 92. If you are on the shoulder, cars will see you and shouldn’t make right turns until the bike is clear. If the bike is on the bike path however it is just at the edge of the driver’s field of vision. I have had a lot of close calls riding the bike path. Drivers need to be more considerate to the bicyclists. Some are just out for the exercise. Others like me are trying to lessen the demand for gasoline, which is good for everyone.
I hope the person who removed the grill and two coolers from Veterans’ Memorial Park on May 10 after Relay for Life is enjoying them. If they would like to return them to the soldiers who must pay for them, they may leave the items at the Main Post Chapel on Fort Huachuca, no questions asked. They were left by mistake, and when I returned to get them, they were gone.
If you lost a wheel cover around the week of June 8 near mile 322.5, go back ASAP to get it. It’s on the south edge of the outer lane of Arizona State Route 90, a few feet east of Avenida del Sol where that southerly avenue intersects with northerly Giulio Caesare Avenue. If you don’t go get your wheel cover, there’s a good chance that some enterprising dude will be glad to sell it to you at the flea market some Saturday.
Dear young sports writing and “want to be” philosopher. Please contemplate the fact that all wars (metaphorical or otherwise) and all sporting events and most competitions that involve two or more parties in opposition are simply the sad and blatant proof of man’s personal insecurities. Why do you suppose the person who only challenges and competes with himself to become a better person is the confident one? He has nothing to prove to anyone — only himself. He’s not battling for acceptance, popularity, fame, money, power or property from his rival; just proof from himself to himself that he is a good man. He wins honor from himself. Imagine a world where everyone is engaged in contests only to see if they can outdo the record of their past personal achievements in events such as honest, fair play and respect. Victory. Everyone wins.
Friday morning, May 16, I called the Sierra Vista hotline to report fresh graffiti at the Garden Canyon Wash bridge on Saint Andrews. By that evening the graffiti was painted over. With that kind of rapid response we can win the graffiti war. The city will cover any graffiti on public property within the city limits within 72 hours, however they have to know about it. If you see graffiti, call the hotline at 452-7017. Don’t assume someone else has called it in. Satisfaction for the vandals comes from their criminal scrawls being admired by their peers. Wipe it out fast and repeatedly and hopefully the culprits will eventually be caught.
I’m watching the funeral of Officer Erik Hite on TV. They are saying all kinds of titles of police agencies from different cities and states, New Mexico, California, everywhere. I don’t see or recognize anyone from Fort Huachuca. I don’t see any Fort Huachuca MPs. I don’t see any civilian cops from Fort Huachuca. Do they feel separate? Do they feel like they are by themselves, that they don’t have to do part of this? If they’re cops, they’re cops. Somebody should be there. Hopefully they are. If they’re not, that’s a disgrace to the uniform they’re wearing as a cop and they should just give it up.
I would like to sincerely thank Channel 4 of Tucson TV for its great coverage of the farewell ceremony for police officer Erik Hite who was killed by a gunman. There are not enough words to express the emotions that were revealed on the program. The entire Tucson police department should be extremely proud to have had a man like police officer Erik Hite, as should the city of Tucson and the state of Arizona, and for his military service, the entire country. Truly, Erik Hite was a son of God for the American people.
June 11
This is pertaining to the OYM comment about the senior nutritional program at the Ethel Berger Center inviting seniors to their hot lunch program. Ha! The so-called hot lunch is a frozen TV dinner. The only thing different about it now is “they empty all the frozen TV dinners into big pans to look like they are home made.” Seniors don’t be fooled. The food still tastes like crap, and it’s still a frozen dinner. I stopped going and so did three of my friends. We socialize by eating lunch at each other’s house four days a week and going to a cheap restaurant on Friday. And we eat home cooked food, not TV dinners.
To Kens cc wrote on Jun 24, 2008 6:07 PM: