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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. Due to the volume of submissions, comments will be limited to 150 words or fewer. Comments are edited.
Aug. 27
We are all very sorry for the loss of the teens a year ago. However, highlighting it on the front page and continuing to give publicity to kids for things such as doing graffiti to honor these kids’ memory is just not right. Let’s move on. Let’s honor the dead, but let’s start looking at the kids out there who are living and start focusing on some of the things they are doing. Just highlighting the kids who committed suicide or died is keeping people in a depressive past state. It’s time to move on with life.
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There were comments from a caller in today’s OYM that Jerome Corsi’s book, “Obama Nation” is filled with lies and deceptions. The caller offers his opinion without any supporting facts or statements. The book contains 34 pages of fully annotated footnotes most from sources other than Corsi. Maybe the caller can furnish us with the same amount of documents to support his statements.
For the four teenagers who were killed, I feel truly sorry. But has anyone ever investigated who gave these children alcohol to start with? Think about it, parents. See what your children are doing. It’s going to be blamed on you, too, you know. They had to get that alcohol from somewhere.
A recent poll has revealed that Americans are 60 percent conservative and 36 percent liberal. But some liberals don’t want to admit they are so they call themselves progressives.
Since your newspaper has already stated that the column by Maria Salinas is primarily for the Hispanic readers I highly suggest that the column be printed in Spanish rather than English.
EDITOR’S NOTE: We have not stated the Salinas column is for “Hispanic readers.”
The city has said it wants people to clean up their yards of weeds and that sort of thing. I’m wondering what the city is going to do about the house on the corner of Andrea and Lenzner. The weeds on the left side of that house are as tall as the house. They cut the weeds down some on the side next to Lenzner but otherwise the weeds are as tall as can be and they keep growing and multiplying. Why doesn’t the city do something about it like a citation or a warning? It’s a disgrace to the area.
It is interesting to read that many callers have concerns about the budget override. Last time around most of us were totally misinformed and deceived. Again you can be sure that every means possible means will be used to get it passed. The first time around it was proven to be unnecessary while causing many of us financial woes. So this time and every time in the future please vote “no” on the budget override.
An Aug. 25 an OYM caller who questions global warming stated, “It would be so nice if those 200 scientists would explain to me why the ice in the Arctic has been freezing over more this year than it did in 2007.” A news release from The AP today stated the Arctic Sea ice melt could end up breaking the prior record set in September 2007. To quote portions of the National Snow & Ice Center in Boulder, Colo. statement: “Scientists wondered if last year’s melt was an unusual event or the start of a new and disturbing trend. This year’s results suggest the latter because the ice had recovered a bit more than usual thanks to a somewhat cooler winter. Then this month when the melting rate usually slows, it sped up the melt and sea ice has kicked in another effect long predicted called ‘arctic amplification.’ ” To summarize the long article, it is getting worse and fast.
Aug. 28
Last night I had dinner at the Bright Spot in Palominas and was privileged to sit at a table across from a very charming family. Father black, mother white, three adorable children. I saw love, a love strong enough to transcend the pain of bigotry, and beauty, as children are always beautiful. I dream of a day when we will all only see each other as souls, who have no color, because as children of God we all look alike to our father.
To the ignorant drivers out there who think by relinquishing your right of way when it’s really your turn to go through an intersection that you’re being polite, you are holding up traffic. It confuses the issue. Find out what the rules of the road are and follow them. You are holding everyone else up. And another thing — pay attention. Tell the person on the cell phone that you are going to be quiet for a few seconds. Think you can do that?
I follow the On Your Mind comments quite regularly and I can’t say that I was shocked to see the correspondence received by the Herald to continue Ms. West’s column. I, like most Americans, agree that the importance of this topic cannot be overlooked. To me there seemed to be another agenda. It seems we have forgotten about EO 9066, which sent Japanese Americans to internment camps in 1942, or the civil rights problems in the 1960s. Have we forgotten the rhetoric of those journalists who pointed out the differences instead of commonalties, came to the American population under the guise of “informers” instead of “racists”, and who use the same “fear up” tactics West and others use today against Islam? People who kill, or use force, or threaten another people are terrorists and they come from everywhere, and they speak more than just Arabic. It is unfortunate these scare tactics are working in Small Town, USA.
According to my newspaper’s TV schedule there was advertised on a Spanish language channel a notice which in English announced “Without breasts there is no heaven.” If that had been in English for a program on ABC, CBS, NBC or any other major network the outcry would have been nation wide. I guess you can do anything in a foreign language on television.
Moe Ron wrote on Sep 21, 2008 10:30 PM: