Letters: On obesity, seafood availability, Bubba's English, crossover voting

Published: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 5:20 AM

Pass the pizza and

go take a walk

I am fed up with people blaming pizza for obesity in schoolchildren. For the love of pizza, folks, it’s not the pizza. Let me guide you down the path to fat.

You sit in a recliner with a television remote in your hand and refuse to get up and change the channel if you lose the remote. You drive through a car wash instead of washing your vehicle yourself.

You are the twentysomething I saw use your grandmother’s handicap parking pass just to get the front parking space at Walmart. You’d rather drive up to a window than walk in a store, bank or restaurant.

You bought a little round robot to vacuum your floors for you. You paid someone to rake your yard and trim the shrubs. Your housekeeper does all your laundry and cleaning.

You sit in a pew at church and hope they don’t ask you to stand to sing the next hymn. Your sprinkler system waters the flowers and lawn for you. You take the elevator at work or when shopping. You take the shuttle in the parking lot. You drive the car up the driveway to get the newspaper.

You use an automatic feeder for the pets. Some fast-lube business changes the oil in the car.

Come on, folks. Why are we really fat? We always like to blame someone or something, but it’s not the pizza.

Remember, children will mimic their parents. So get out and walk and be active. Stop blaminng pizza for the problem. Notonly will children lose weight, they’ll be happier.

I could go on and on with this discussion, but the pizza delivery guy is at the door.





Some seafood is

rather scarce

People are jumping to the conclusion that there seems to be a rebound of sea life due to the restricted fishing during the prime fishing season. It does seem logical even to me.

However, I would like to know why there is absolutely no ground mullet to be found. I would also like to know why the white shrimp seem to have tapered off. The abundance I am seeing around Bayou La Batre is pogies and popeye mullet.




Writer objects

to Bubba and LSU

This is in reference to Gene Owens’ Bubba’s English in the Nov. 21 paper (“Why the car tag reads ‘alumni’ not ‘alumnus’”). He states that an alumnus or an alumna would not have to be embarrassed driving each other’s car with an LSU tag on it.

Remember that this is LA (Lower Alabama), and an LSU tag is reason enough in itself to be embarrassed.

In LA, LSU is a three-letter word.



Crossover rules

need to be changed

As a political science major, I was intrigued by the Alabama 2010 gubernatorial race. The average voter seemed to be oblivious to tactics used by Democratic Party affiliated organizations.

The Alabama Education Association succeeded in electioneering Dr. Robert Bentley’s campaign by stoking the grass-roots effort for write-in candidates, exploiting the crossover voting rules and by masquerading as a Republican PAC against Bradley Byrne.

The AEA worked to at least help elect a candidate who would be more sympathetic to its ideology. These efforts were successful in creating a runoff election by drawing votes away from Byrne in the primary election.

Although Dr. Bentley denies lobbying the AEA for its support, it is highly unlikely that he would have won the runoff election without its financial backing and campaigning efforts. Oddly enough, the Republican Party seemed cheerful yet clueless as to why its party had finally gained a majority in the state Legislature for the first time since 1874. Republicans need only to look at the election laws.

The citizens of Alabama have been hoodwinked yet again. The Republican Party needs to educate the voters and equally enforce the crossover rule. Citizens should make more of an effort to be informed before they cast their ballots.



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