Letters to the Editor 10-02-2006
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Judging Intolerance - U.S. Debt - New Orleans - Side Effects
Judging Intolerance
Editor, Times-Union:In response to Ms. Ewell's letter who is intolerant of intolerance and judges people for judging.
Wal-Mart sits on the board of directors for the homosexual chamber of commerce. Homosexuals are sodomites and lesbians. Simple truth. If Wal-Mart is sitting on the board of directors, they are promoting the sodomite and lesbian agenda of the homosexual chamber. A plain statement of fact. Homosexuals want themselves to be known by how they have sex. That is why they label themselves as same-sex people. It's their choice, not a birthright.
God doesn't say, thou shalt not murder and create murderers. If a person is a child molester, we are to point out the sin so that they will stop and turn to God. Jesus died on the cross so that homosexuals can free themselves from their sin, if they so choose, otherwise their penalty is death. "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." Homosexuality is listed in the middle of sexual sins as with bestiality, incest, which includes sleeping with your children, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, etc. and adultery. When will we allow other sexual sins the freedom to obtain special rights and form other sex-based chambers of commerce?
John the Baptist was beheaded because he told someone that they were committing a sexual sin. How unloving, intolerant and judgmental John the Baptist was. To tolerate sin is to side against God or to be anti-Christ. God established homosexuality as sin. If you say that homosexuality is not a sin, you deceive yourself and the truth is not in you. The Bible states that "all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God." Jesus forgives the repentant sinner. Homosexuals do not repent of their sin, they start chambers of commerce and mock God by demanding everyone accept their sin or be chastised for being intolerant.
Everyone is quick to quote "judge not," yet the verse they are quoting states not to judge as a hypocrite. We are supposed to judge righteous judgment and not according to appearance. John 7:24. Homosexuals may appear nice and wonderful, but that does not supercede God's laws and how we are to judge them using the Bible. Don't you know that Christians will even judge the angels?
Steven A. Hite, via e-mail
Syracuse
U.S. Debt
Editor, Times-Union:The current debt held by our wonderful Red Chinese allies has become unserviceable. The current crime family that operates La Cesspool Grande knows this. Either the U.S will have to repudiate its debt, which it could do, or sink in the mire at a fast rate.
At the same time as massive numbers of jobs leave the country, massive numbers of a new underclass are welcomed into Warsaw and the country in general. This at a time when U.S. workers will be forced to work for less and less.
In Warsaw, Kimble Glass had a shake up and the workers were shook down. More than 100 jobs were moved to Mexico. In the Times-Union a very cryptic article appeared, "DePuy Announces Realignment For Growth." Talk about new speak!
Bottom line! More jobs are going, and most likely a lot more in the next few years.
I can expect the Republicrat Corporate stockholders to support the "Screw The Worker Methodology," but where the hell did the Democrats go?
I ran for U.S Congress one time and U.S. Senate one time in California on the Democrat ticket. My platform was: Keep the illegals out and support U.S. workers.
Now, all I see is cowardly Democrats backing down on nearly every issue that could help the U.S Citizen working class.
They are terror stricken by that present mental case in Washington that is now presiding over a bankrupt country. Billions more debt per week in a crazy war in Iraq while the infrastructure at home literally falls apart.
Hang on, you haven't seen anything yet! My grandmother used to say, "Tommy, if you don't listen, you will have to feel."
Tom Metzger, via e-mail
Warsaw
New Orleans
Editor, Times-UnionMr. Adams thinks he knows why New Orleanians haven't rebuilt yet. His answer that "some people won't do anything and they are just waiting on the government to do all the work for them" is obviously right on target. Bravo.
A few other theories of why New Orleans hasn't fully rebuilt after the most destructive natural disaster in American history:
- The number of housing units destroyed or damaged in the metro area is approximately 300,000. To put that in perspective, imagine if every home in Kosciusko, Fulton, Marshall, Wabash, Whitley, Miami, Huntington, Noble, Elkhart and St. Joseph counties was damaged simultaneously. The amount of debris from the storm is enough to fill 3.5 million dump trucks. Put in line, they would easily reach all away around the world. That kind of clean-up effort will take years.
- It is, and was, the government's responsibility to maintain the levees - who would rebuild without knowing that they're going to be secure from another hurricane a few years down the road? Residents were assured by the Army Corps of Engineers that the levees would withstand flooding from Category 3 storms; Katrina was at most a Category 3, perhaps just a strong Category 2, when it destroyed New Orleans. The government should fix what it was supposed to protect.
- City services aren't working in vast swaths of the area. About 40 percent of homes are still without power in New Orleans; one-fifth of public transportation is functional. Pipes are so busted that most pumped water leaks into the ground before it reaches homes or businesses.
- Basic institutions are gone. Less than one-third of the schools in New Orleans are open; 110 of 126 public schools suffered damage. Hospitals sit empty and unusable. Most day-care centers are closed, as are most restaurants, grocery and convenience stores. Sounds great, right?
- And let's not forget the lack of jobs and housing. Unemployment is far above the national average, and rents for the dwellings not destroyed have increased by nearly 40 percent. Less than half of New Orleanians owned their home, so even if they did want to come back, they would have to wait for repairs. Add in the fact that insurance companies are paying pennies on the dollar, or not at all, for a disturbingly large number of claims and one can see the cycle of despair. Ê
Perhaps, if Mr. Adams were to educate himself on the subject, he would see that the issues of rebuilding are many, varied and full of roadblocks. For example, I researched this letter using nola.com (the online version of The Times-Picayune, which won two Pulitzers for its Katrina coverage), the Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Census Bureau, PBS and McClatchy-Tribune information graphics, among others. What was Mr. Adams' effort?
Sure, it took time to research before I sent in a letter, but I'd rather spend hours and be factually correct than 10 minutes and look as foolish as Mr. Adams.
Matt Perry
San Diego, Calif.
(formerly of Mentone and New Orleans)
Side Effects
Editor, Times-Union:I am "sick to death" of hearing people tell me to go to my family doctor to see what to do about the side effects I am experiencing due to the statins in the cholesterol medicines. The doctors don't know what to do either. I am beginning to find out this is true for the simple reason that all these people I hear about with the same problem I am having with the statins are not yelling long enough, or loud enough or not telling the world at large in any way that they are suffering all these side effects from their cholesterol pills.
If the pharmaceutical companies knew of the huge amount of people having side effects from their cholesterol pills, they might dig up a way to use a substitute for the statins in the wonderful pills they are making for all of us!
I even heard a little about it on a discussion on TV - the media we all settle for since we now just read our local newspapers for the local news and obituaries. But the media, as we all know, are very fond of "sound bites," and if anyone tried to be interviewed as to their problems, it would end up just like I just stated: "sound bites," and the interviewer invariably does more of the talking than the person they are interviewing.
My problem is phlegm, which gets progressively worse the longer I take my current cholesterol pill (which does better to clear my veins than any I have tried before) and my cholesterol number was down to around 170 usually with hdl high and l dl low and the same thing with triglycerides. So far most of the side effects I have dug out of other sufferers are muscular - either pain or weakness - and I think I would prefer their problems to mine since I know my problem with the phlegm will just get worse and worse until I will start vomiting wherever I am! This can be very inconvenient and embarrassing and even caused my husband to stay home with me and miss his sister's funeral. It was to the point at the time that I would feel sick all over, and that time I was in a room full of people and had to tell my stepson to "get me out of there," and my husband saw the problem and between the two of them, we made it.
I know there is nothing wrong with my stomach since I just had the doctor, who goes from hospital to hospital all over Indiana, and he found my stomach to be completely clear as well as the first section of my small bowel and I had had a colonoscopy recently and it too was clear!
Please join with me in spreading the word of whatever bad effects you are having with the cholesterol pills you are on because the statins are in all of the newer and better medicines on the market.
Donna Butche
Syracuse
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- Judging Intolerance - U.S. Debt - New Orleans - Side Effects
Judging Intolerance
Editor, Times-Union:In response to Ms. Ewell's letter who is intolerant of intolerance and judges people for judging.
Wal-Mart sits on the board of directors for the homosexual chamber of commerce. Homosexuals are sodomites and lesbians. Simple truth. If Wal-Mart is sitting on the board of directors, they are promoting the sodomite and lesbian agenda of the homosexual chamber. A plain statement of fact. Homosexuals want themselves to be known by how they have sex. That is why they label themselves as same-sex people. It's their choice, not a birthright.
God doesn't say, thou shalt not murder and create murderers. If a person is a child molester, we are to point out the sin so that they will stop and turn to God. Jesus died on the cross so that homosexuals can free themselves from their sin, if they so choose, otherwise their penalty is death. "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." Homosexuality is listed in the middle of sexual sins as with bestiality, incest, which includes sleeping with your children, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, etc. and adultery. When will we allow other sexual sins the freedom to obtain special rights and form other sex-based chambers of commerce?
John the Baptist was beheaded because he told someone that they were committing a sexual sin. How unloving, intolerant and judgmental John the Baptist was. To tolerate sin is to side against God or to be anti-Christ. God established homosexuality as sin. If you say that homosexuality is not a sin, you deceive yourself and the truth is not in you. The Bible states that "all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God." Jesus forgives the repentant sinner. Homosexuals do not repent of their sin, they start chambers of commerce and mock God by demanding everyone accept their sin or be chastised for being intolerant.
Everyone is quick to quote "judge not," yet the verse they are quoting states not to judge as a hypocrite. We are supposed to judge righteous judgment and not according to appearance. John 7:24. Homosexuals may appear nice and wonderful, but that does not supercede God's laws and how we are to judge them using the Bible. Don't you know that Christians will even judge the angels?
Steven A. Hite, via e-mail
Syracuse
U.S. Debt
Editor, Times-Union:The current debt held by our wonderful Red Chinese allies has become unserviceable. The current crime family that operates La Cesspool Grande knows this. Either the U.S will have to repudiate its debt, which it could do, or sink in the mire at a fast rate.
At the same time as massive numbers of jobs leave the country, massive numbers of a new underclass are welcomed into Warsaw and the country in general. This at a time when U.S. workers will be forced to work for less and less.
In Warsaw, Kimble Glass had a shake up and the workers were shook down. More than 100 jobs were moved to Mexico. In the Times-Union a very cryptic article appeared, "DePuy Announces Realignment For Growth." Talk about new speak!
Bottom line! More jobs are going, and most likely a lot more in the next few years.
I can expect the Republicrat Corporate stockholders to support the "Screw The Worker Methodology," but where the hell did the Democrats go?
I ran for U.S Congress one time and U.S. Senate one time in California on the Democrat ticket. My platform was: Keep the illegals out and support U.S. workers.
Now, all I see is cowardly Democrats backing down on nearly every issue that could help the U.S Citizen working class.
They are terror stricken by that present mental case in Washington that is now presiding over a bankrupt country. Billions more debt per week in a crazy war in Iraq while the infrastructure at home literally falls apart.
Hang on, you haven't seen anything yet! My grandmother used to say, "Tommy, if you don't listen, you will have to feel."
Tom Metzger, via e-mail
Warsaw
New Orleans
Editor, Times-UnionMr. Adams thinks he knows why New Orleanians haven't rebuilt yet. His answer that "some people won't do anything and they are just waiting on the government to do all the work for them" is obviously right on target. Bravo.
A few other theories of why New Orleans hasn't fully rebuilt after the most destructive natural disaster in American history:
- The number of housing units destroyed or damaged in the metro area is approximately 300,000. To put that in perspective, imagine if every home in Kosciusko, Fulton, Marshall, Wabash, Whitley, Miami, Huntington, Noble, Elkhart and St. Joseph counties was damaged simultaneously. The amount of debris from the storm is enough to fill 3.5 million dump trucks. Put in line, they would easily reach all away around the world. That kind of clean-up effort will take years.
- It is, and was, the government's responsibility to maintain the levees - who would rebuild without knowing that they're going to be secure from another hurricane a few years down the road? Residents were assured by the Army Corps of Engineers that the levees would withstand flooding from Category 3 storms; Katrina was at most a Category 3, perhaps just a strong Category 2, when it destroyed New Orleans. The government should fix what it was supposed to protect.
- City services aren't working in vast swaths of the area. About 40 percent of homes are still without power in New Orleans; one-fifth of public transportation is functional. Pipes are so busted that most pumped water leaks into the ground before it reaches homes or businesses.
- Basic institutions are gone. Less than one-third of the schools in New Orleans are open; 110 of 126 public schools suffered damage. Hospitals sit empty and unusable. Most day-care centers are closed, as are most restaurants, grocery and convenience stores. Sounds great, right?
- And let's not forget the lack of jobs and housing. Unemployment is far above the national average, and rents for the dwellings not destroyed have increased by nearly 40 percent. Less than half of New Orleanians owned their home, so even if they did want to come back, they would have to wait for repairs. Add in the fact that insurance companies are paying pennies on the dollar, or not at all, for a disturbingly large number of claims and one can see the cycle of despair. Ê
Perhaps, if Mr. Adams were to educate himself on the subject, he would see that the issues of rebuilding are many, varied and full of roadblocks. For example, I researched this letter using nola.com (the online version of The Times-Picayune, which won two Pulitzers for its Katrina coverage), the Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Census Bureau, PBS and McClatchy-Tribune information graphics, among others. What was Mr. Adams' effort?
Sure, it took time to research before I sent in a letter, but I'd rather spend hours and be factually correct than 10 minutes and look as foolish as Mr. Adams.
Matt Perry
San Diego, Calif.
(formerly of Mentone and New Orleans)
Side Effects
Editor, Times-Union:I am "sick to death" of hearing people tell me to go to my family doctor to see what to do about the side effects I am experiencing due to the statins in the cholesterol medicines. The doctors don't know what to do either. I am beginning to find out this is true for the simple reason that all these people I hear about with the same problem I am having with the statins are not yelling long enough, or loud enough or not telling the world at large in any way that they are suffering all these side effects from their cholesterol pills.
If the pharmaceutical companies knew of the huge amount of people having side effects from their cholesterol pills, they might dig up a way to use a substitute for the statins in the wonderful pills they are making for all of us!
I even heard a little about it on a discussion on TV - the media we all settle for since we now just read our local newspapers for the local news and obituaries. But the media, as we all know, are very fond of "sound bites," and if anyone tried to be interviewed as to their problems, it would end up just like I just stated: "sound bites," and the interviewer invariably does more of the talking than the person they are interviewing.
My problem is phlegm, which gets progressively worse the longer I take my current cholesterol pill (which does better to clear my veins than any I have tried before) and my cholesterol number was down to around 170 usually with hdl high and l dl low and the same thing with triglycerides. So far most of the side effects I have dug out of other sufferers are muscular - either pain or weakness - and I think I would prefer their problems to mine since I know my problem with the phlegm will just get worse and worse until I will start vomiting wherever I am! This can be very inconvenient and embarrassing and even caused my husband to stay home with me and miss his sister's funeral. It was to the point at the time that I would feel sick all over, and that time I was in a room full of people and had to tell my stepson to "get me out of there," and my husband saw the problem and between the two of them, we made it.
I know there is nothing wrong with my stomach since I just had the doctor, who goes from hospital to hospital all over Indiana, and he found my stomach to be completely clear as well as the first section of my small bowel and I had had a colonoscopy recently and it too was clear!
Please join with me in spreading the word of whatever bad effects you are having with the cholesterol pills you are on because the statins are in all of the newer and better medicines on the market.
Donna Butche
Syracuse
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