LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.Byline: The Register-Guard Kim made poor decisions It is very hard and sad when we lose a loved one. We look for reasons why, thinking that if we could have changed something, or tried something different, we would feel better. We also sometimes try to place blame somewhere to make it easier for us to bear. In the case of James Kim This article is about the CNET editor. For the Korean guitarist, see Kim Se Hwang. For the Korean-American physician, see Jim Kim. James Kim (August 9, 1971 – December 3/4, 2006) was an American television personality and technology analyst for the former and his family, I feel that Kim's father, Spencer Kim, is doing just that and not looking at what really happened. He wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post stating, "The government should allocate sufficient resources to regularly monitor road blocks designed to prevent access." Because Spencer Kim lives in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , he would most likely have no concept of what he is requesting concerning the cost and practicality of this size of project. There are thousands of gates all over the state of Oregon, and the blame, if you will, lies directly with his son, James. He turned off a main highway on to a back-country road not knowing where he was, past four signs between Interstate 5 and the fork where he turned on the Bureau of Land Management road warning him these roads may be blocked by snow drifts. At that point he should have made the decision to stop, turn around and go back to the highway, take the extra time and make it safely to his destination. We cannot always have the state or government being responsible or taking care of us when we make bad decisions. And in this case, it cost Kim his life. DICK WALKER Eugene Safety first, then study the arts While cultural opportunities are highly important and the arts are an incredible part of Eugene, I cannot believe what I read in a Jan. 10 guest viewpoint by Tina Rinaldi and David Kelly  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. . The city of Eugene allocated up to $250,000 for a Cultural Policy Review. Sounds as if they're living in a fairy-tale land. Seriously, that much for a review of the arts? I'm thankful our city wants to encourage enriching our lives by creating more options to be entertained. My question is this: Why can't they allocate more funding toward the jails or public safety, so that when we want to visit downtown, we don't have to plan on having our car broken into? "World's greatest city of the arts and outdoors" for a motto is fine. It could only be made better if the outdoors where we park our cars, lock our bikes and walk our dogs is safe. Otherwise, the motto might be more truthful as "The city of thieves" - not to mention our drug problems. JAKLYN LARSEN Eugene Ask the USFWS USFWS United States Fish and Wildlife Service hard questions The excellent "Choking on Geese" article (Register-Guard, Jan. 9) might stimulate local waterfowlers to join with grass seed farmers to start asking the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service some long-overdue hard questions. It has been 43 years - more than four decades - since the Alaska earthquake destroyed the Dusky goose nesting habitat on the Copper River delta A delta is a landform where the mouth of a river flows into an ocean, sea, desert, estuary, lake or another river. It builds up sediment outwards into the flat area which the river's flow encounters (as a deltaic deposit . Where is the federal accountability for lack of recovery of the dusky goose, that minority subspecies subspecies, also called race, a genetically distinct geographical subunit of a species. See also classification. that is being used as an excuse for protecting hundreds of thousands of Great Basin Great Basin, semiarid, N section of the Basin and Range province, the intermontane plateau region of W United States and N Mexico. Lying mostly in Nevada and extending into California, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah, it is bordered by the Sierra Nevada on the west, the , lesser, Taverners and cackling cack·le v. cack·led, cack·ling, cack·les v.intr. 1. To make the shrill cry characteristic of a hen after laying an egg. 2. To laugh or talk in a shrill manner. v.tr. geese? And why can't the feds find some creative way to allow controlled duck hunting on the thousands of acres of federal refuges in the mid-Willamette Valley? These refuges hold huge unhunted populations of ducks throughout the winter, working diametrically di·a·met·ri·cal also di·a·met·ric adj. 1. Of, relating to, or along a diameter. 2. Exactly opposite; contrary. di against Goal 1 of the state's Fern Ridge Wildlife Area, where hunters are welcomed. Worst case scenario
Worst Case Scenario is a reality show aired on TBS in 2002 in the U.S.. for local waterfowlers: The USFWS - demonstrably no friend to Willamette Valley The Willamette Valley (pronounced [wɪˈlæ.mɪt], with the accent on the second syllable) is the region in northwest Oregon in the United States that surrounds the Willamette River as it proceeds northward from its hunters - moves to usurp u·surp v. u·surped, u·surp·ing, u·surps v.tr. 1. To seize and hold (the power or rights of another, for example) by force and without legal authority. See Synonyms at appropriate. 2. the state license to operate the Fern Ridge Wildlife Area when the Corps of Engineers considers renewal this year. Heads up, hunters. MAX SMITH Junction City Junction City, city (1990 pop. 20,604), seat of Geary co., NE Kans., at the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers; inc. 1859. The rail, trade, and processing center of an agricultural and dairy area, it grew as the supply point for nearby Fort Riley, Change birth notice policy The Register-Guard's Jan. 8 editorial says "Hallelujah Hallelujah (hăl'əl  `yə) or Alleluia (ăl–) [Heb.,=praise the Lord], joyful expression used in Hebrew worship; cf. Pss. !" to the proposed legislation to repeal the
military's "dumb and offensively discriminatory"
Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy that required service members to
keep their sexual orientation sexual orientationn. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. camouflaged. The editorial quoted former Clinton administration Secretary of Defense William Cohen's analysis that, "We're becoming a much more open, tolerant society for diverse opinions and orientations" and concluded with, "Now, more than ever, the nation needs the services of every courageous, qualified, patriotic American." What this nation also needs are strong families raising happy, healthy children who are confident in themselves and their place in this world. If The Register-Guard really stands by its own editorial, it's time the newspaper followed its words with action and changes its dumb and offensively discriminatory policy of refusing to print birth announcements from gay and lesbian parents. VICTORIA SMITHWEILAND Eugene Mental health facility needed Turning a deaf ear toward the need for a major mental health facility in our community - all in the name of questioning urban growth and sprawl by Lane County Commissioner Bill Dwyer - is just another indicator of some people's ignorance. Our community should embrace ideas and growth dedicated to improving our quality of life. Lack of mental health care is overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. jails, taxing the legal system, increasing hospital emergency room and urgent care center costs and endangering our children. Patients suffering from mental illness need day-to-day care, monitoring of medications, generalized medical care and to be taken off the streets. An emergency room or jail cell is only a temporary solution. Temporary solutions have created a community saturated with human cardboard billboards saying "anything helps." Look beyond and try to see through the eyes of a clouded mind with nowhere to go. DEBORAH CATER Eugene Ruling protects youth privacy Community Alliance of Lane County applauds the New York Civil Liberties Union The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) is one of the nation's foremost defenders of civil liberties and civil rights. Founded in 1951 as the New York affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, it is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan organization with six chapters and nearly for its recent successful suit against the Pentagon that protects youth privacy. The Pentagon still has a massive database on 30 million youths, age 16 and up, containing name, gender, race, address, phone, e-mail, schools attended, grades, college intent, etc. But now it can no longer share information with law enforcement or intelligence agencies and can no longer gather Social Security numbers. The data can be used only for military recruiting and the database has an ending time: three years following a release for military recruiting purposes. Young people can opt out of having their private information used to contact them by writing to JAMRS, Attention: Opt Out, 4040 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22203-1613. Those seeking to opt out must give a full name, birthdate and address and ask that all data regarding them be removed. A parent must sign the letter for those younger than 18. The suit tried to have data on race and ethnicity removed, but failed. While this suit brings significant improvement, it will not stop aggressive recruiting tactics, especially focused on youth of color and from low-income families. For more information, check the NYCLU NYCLU New York Civil Liberties Union Web site or call CALC (tool, mathematics) Calc - An extensible, advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in Emacs Lisp by Dave Gillespie <daveg@synaptics.com>. Calc runs as part of GNU Emacs. at 485-1755. CAROL VAN HOUTEN Eugene Gay marriage an economic issue Those darn gays! If they would just learn to be nice and not make trouble they might make more progress! It doesn't surprise anyone that The Register-Guard would editorially advocate for local gays not to make a fuss about the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration's national speaker being publicly against gay marriage. The Register-Guard still refuses to print marriage notifications of same-sex couples. Gay marriage is an economic issue of equity. While middle class gays may be secure enough to risk publicly advocating for the right to marry, working class gays, less safe in the workplace or in retaining custody of their children, are not so visible. It is ordinary men and women who gain most from the benefits of marriage: access to Social Security, retirement and health insurance benefits, ability to file joint tax returns, etc. Black activists have been telling well-meaning white folks for years that whites need to educate themselves about civil rights for all people. In the black community now, those people who have understanding and sensitivity about this issue need to speak up and talk with one another and their allies of color. It is their job to educate the Rev. Walter Fauntroy and to be kind to the gay people of color Noun 1. people of color - a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) people of colour, colour, color race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important who are suffering the most during this debacle. Had someone wanted to drive a divisive wedge in the peace and justice community, the recent emotional turmoil regarding the MLK MLK Martin Luther King MLK Milk MLK Medialess License Kit Celebration speaker was a good way to do it. The FBI must be envious. LAURIE McCLAIN Eugene |
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