Call for residents to battle giants
Did they meet in Paris? Kind of unlikely for that romantic place to produce such offspring. But Red Ronin met Eiffel Tower somewhere and their son is coming to the local area soon. How will he look? Menacing and tall — up to 200 feet with huge steel arms jutting out like samurai shoulder armor — and making sounds worse than Ronin’s pulsating shield.
You will see him from far off as his clones march through Battle Ground and Clark County. But really, what is this, a joke? No.
Bonneville Power Administration has several versions of these monsters known outside comic books as 500kv towers, and they are scaring people from Castle Rock to Camas. Even if they don’t destroy private residences, their presence may be a health hazard. They also repel real estate warriors who want to help sell homes.
Who can match these giants? Groups of residents are formed to redirect this horde of towers eastward into unpopulated areas where power transfer can expand to satisfy California’s hearty appetite. The groups face a task like the 300 Greeks against the Persian armies. Other residents should support this effort. Or they may one day wake to an unnatural swath across these beautiful neighborhoods.
George T. Dill
Battle Ground
Attack ads quick to air
Now that the primary is over, it took one day for the attacks on Denny Heck to begin. Americans for Prosperity launched one of the first TV ads.
Americans for Prosperity is misnamed. It should be named Americans for Wall Street Prosperity or Americans for Big Corporation Prosperity. If you check their website you will find what they stand for. Google Americans for Prosperity and read it for yourself.
The real meaning of their program is to reduce taxes on Wall Street, corporations and those making hundreds of thousands of dollars. Privatizing Medicare and privatizing Social Security are their unstated goals. Repeal of “Wall Street Reform” would allow Wall Street to continue to loot the financial system. The current recession is evidence of the unwillingness of the previous administration to exercise any regulation or control on Wall Street and corporations. Now they want to take us back to the “good old days” of the Bush administration where Wall Street was king.
Hugh Shuford
Vancouver
Vacationing becoming a career
Our “Vacationer in Chief” is at it again. This is the fifth vacation for POTUS and/or the first lady since July. Maybe you can, but there is no way I could afford, or take, five vacations in that time period. In the midst of the worst economy since the Great Depression and millions out of work, we have a president that lets the rest of us “eat cake.”
You may scream that he helped pay for part of them, but remember who pays for the airplanes, security, extras, and his time away. We do — the American taxpayer.
And this is from the same president who golfed his way through the Gulf crisis and makes Eisenhower look like a hack when it comes to hitting the links. Can you say “Elitist”?
This is demonstrative of how out of touch the entire Democratic Party is with the mainstream. They support Unionistas with billion-dollar bribes and try and tell us it is “for the children” or our own safety. It is the veiled threat of losing education, law enforcement or fire protection in states that are in trouble because of Democrat tax and spend policies.
Let’s give them all a vacation for good.
Lee Hemen
Vancouver
Easiest to critique party in power
In his Aug. 17 letter, “Wasteful trip sign of one-term leader,” Glenn Alan Pierce was upset that Michelle Obama took a trip to Spain.
He claimed he would make the same criticism of a Republican president’s wife.
When I hear that from a so-called conservative it is like hearing “once upon a time” or “this is no bull” preceding a fairy tale or a sea story.
A little research disclosed 77 presidential vacation days during the first year of the George W. Bush presidency, three times more than any Democratic president. A cross check disclosed no letters to the editor from the “I would say the same thing” writer that I could find.
Laura Bush and numerous friends took a lavish vacation to Paris, Budapest and Prague in May of 2002, followed by a one-month African safari.
A careful search reveals no criticism from this correspondent or any other so-called conservative that I could find.
Obviously, the concerns for protecting the treasury and balancing the budget that suddenly emerged from the right after the last election is prospective in application only and does not apply during Republican administrations.
You might fool yourself into believing that you are not applying a double standard but you don’t fool anyone else.
William D. Robison
Ridgefield
Don’t pick and choose on Constitution
In an Aug. 18 letter, “Constitution under attack,” Vivian E. van Dijk complains about the government trampling our rights under the Constitution then complains that the Republican Party wants us to wear guns. Re-read the Constitution and its amendments, particularly the Second Amendment. It was put there to protect the other rights from government usurpation. And it’s the Democrats that don’t recognize the rights to self-protection given to us by our creator and protected (not “given”) by the Second Amendment. Thomas Jefferson said: “No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story said in 1833, “The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.”
You don’t have the right to pick and choose which part of the Constitution and its amendments you follow. They are there for all, whether you agree with them or not.
Deen Adolphe
Vancouver
Conserve on hiking rates
Isn’t it nice that the Clark Public Utilities touts that we must save energy, turn off your electronics when not in use, and turn off your water heater when going on vacation.
So who gets it in the pocketbook? Those of us who own the utility.
I think its management should have their pay docked every time the utility doesn’t make a profit. Maybe they would rethink their conservation policies. Don’t get me wrong, I am all about conservation except when I have to pay for it with more money that I don’t have.
Colynn Wright Nelson
Vancouver
