Letters to the editor for Feb. 2, 2014

Last Modified: Friday, January 31, 2014 at 5:20 p.m.

If politics was sport

Politicians should be limited to two terms — one in office and one in prison! Diapers need to be changed often and for the same reason.

President Barack Obama constantly denigrates Congress and conservatives. His State of the Union speech was the equivalent to the aftermath of a bull’s breakfast.

Though Obama complains about Fox News, Fox is the network that will be carrying the Super Bowl. You can bet your life there will be bipartisanship tonight.

Isn’t it interesting that in America’s most important issues we are miles apart, but over a game, we become united?

Alan McCartney


Perlman’s past

Thank you for the wonderful biography of violinist Itzhak Perlman.

He was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv, which at that time was part of the British Mandate known as Palestine. The Perlman family, like a very large number of Jews living in Tel Aviv at the time, were Jewish Palestinians. When the state of Israel was declared on May 14, 1948, the Jewish Palestinians became Israeli citizens. Thousands of non-Jewish Palestinians who remained in Israel chose to become citizens of Israel as well.

It is interesting to note the planned state of Palestine has declared that no Jews will be allowed to live, become citizens, own a business, or own or sell land in Palestine.

Bob Poris


Research gone awry

In response to Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal to increase cancer research funds, I suggest he and the medical establishment look at the abysmal record of past successful protocols that were suppressed from as far back as the early 1900s.

Everyone should read “Outsmart Your Cancer” by Tanya Harter Pierce, and see if you can suppress your anger from the criminal, legal and personal mistreatments afforded Drs. Max Gerson, Johanna Budwig, Kanematsu Sugiura, and Harry Hoxsey, Neal Deoul, Jim Sheridan and a multitude of others who have successfully discovered alternative treatments for cancer that work.

The public has been egregiously uninformed and misled regarding cancer treatment. Cuts, burns and poisons are not cures but, rather, usually only delaying tactics.

Some successful alternative treatments already are in use.

Let’s get over the financial issues, and start using already successful research so we don’t have to go to foreign countries for cures as did Ronald Reagan, among many others.

Since the doctors’ credo is “do no harm,” why should knowledge do us harm?

John R. Butt


Anatomy of a GOP letter

Here is an outline of suggestions for Republican letters to the editor:

1. Express disdain for personal attacks on Republicans by Democrats.

2. Personally attack all Democrats. Call them all “liberals.”

3. Mention the country going to hell because of President Barack Obama (do not supply examples).

4. Mention the four Fox talking points:

a. IRS singling out conservative groups

b. Benghazi

c. Fast and Furious

d. NSA spying

5. Diagram how the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game ties everything to Obama.

6. Bloviate on the socialistic policies that will ruin the world while collecting your Social Security check and Medicare benefits.

7. Deride Democrats for predicting “what could be” while imagining Obama seizing all your guns.

8. Note that Obama’s “Hope and Change” hasn’t amounted to anything.

9. Don’t mention that Congress’s only priorities are making sure Obama passes nothing, and repealing Obamacare.

10. Avoid like the plague mentioning the recovering economy.

11. Don’t compare Obama to former President George W. Bush (especially concerning the deficit, economy or number of flags needed to cover soldier’s caskets).

12. Justify cuts in food stamp programs by pointing out how lazy poor people are.

13. Justify tax cuts for the rich because they create jobs (no need to explain where those jobs are).

14. Mention the progress Republicans are making in being able to speak publicly without actually saying what they really think (the truth proved disastrous last time).

15. If you are a poor Republican, explain why you vote against your best interests just to show them Democrats, dang ’em!

Gary E. Lasby


A job vs. job security

Years ago as a high school student, I made my way out to the wheat harvest in Oklahoma. I wanted to earn some money during the summer.

My first job was with a farmer plowing his wheat field. When I first met him he asked me right off, “Son, do you want a job, or do you want to work?”

He demonstrated what he wanted done and how he wanted his wheat field treated. I took the job plowing his wheat, and, in fact, I became good at it.

When the plowing job played out, the man was impressed enough to offer me year-round work on his wheat farm. It was real work with a chance to learn the business.

I could not stay, but I learned the difference between having just a job and the long-term rewards, satisfaction and security in doing lasting work — and there is a world of difference between the two.

Now, if the governor, business leaders, local politicians and the pool of willing labor could only cipher that out, we might be in better shape regarding progress and the economy.

Harold T. Sansing



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