PUBLIC FORUM A CLEAN SLATE.Today I have written a letter to Bill Clinton thanking him for the best eight years in American history. I urged him to pardon everyone under investigation by the independent counsel and put this Republican witch hunt to rest. I further ask him to pardon everyone under investigation by Judicial Watch and put this right-wing joke into the history book. If this new Bush administration is to have any degree of success and tend the needs of all Americans, it is time to wipe the slate clean. E pluribus unum E Pluribus Unum (ē pl  r`ĭbəs y `nəm) [Lat. . - Philip Wilt Van Nuys On second thought Aren't you senior citizens and baby boomers glad that the idea of putting your Social Security funds into the stock market never got off the ground? - Sol Taylor Sherman Oaks He scammed them The arrest of Rafael Perez in the Rampart Division in August of 1998 was going to blow the lid off widespread police corruption. Perez was exposing all kinds of crimes committed by police, and Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . Chief Bernard Parks was on a campaign that would make Tom Dewey look like a piker pik·er n. Slang 1. A cautious gambler. 2. A person regarded as petty or stingy. [Possibly from Piker, a poor migrant to California, after Pike . What happened? After District Attorney Gil Garcetti reluctantly brought three officers to trial and found a jury that would convict on no evidence, the judge did the only thing an honest judge could do: She reversed the verdicts. It appears that Perez has scammed Chief Parks and the district attorney. So they have egg on their faces. That's what happens when you try to make political hay on the backs of your people. - Richard F. Westfall West Hills Depraved de·praved adj. Morally corrupt; perverted. de·prav  ed·ly adv. times In her Dec. 28 letter to Public Forum, Kim Gentry expressed disbelief at the City Council's action against the Boy Scouts of America Noun 1. Boy Scouts of America - a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training that strongly smacks of bigotry and intolerance, and she admonishes Angelenos to beware the likes of Jackie Goldberg. I share those sentiments, but unfortunately Pandora's box has been once again opened to inflict its perniciousness upon the majority of Angelenos who have been morally and ethically lobotomized by trashy liberalism. O tempora! O mores! - Stephen Pettine Canoga Park No laughing matter No Laughing Matter is an episode of U.S. Acres from the series Garfield and Friends. It was the 74th episode produced for the series, although it is listed as the 71st episode on the Garfield and Friends DVD. It originally aired on October 21, 1989. Now that the next president of the United States The head of the Executive Branch, one of the three branches of the federal government. The U.S. Constitution sets relatively strict requirements about who may serve as president and for how long. is going to make educating the children of this country a top priority, maybe our questionably esteemed board of the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. could consider doing the same. But then officials in the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) would have to understand that means really making sure that the children of Los Angeles get an education, rather than allowing them just to sit through the year and then rewarding them with a social promotion or, worse, social graduation. We in Los Angeles must be the laughingstock laugh·ing·stock n. An object of jokes or ridicule; a butt. Noun 1. laughingstock - a victim of ridicule or pranks goat, stooge, butt April fool - the butt of a prank played on April 1st of the country. Have you ever seen the Jay Leno bit where he asks relatively simple questions of students and their answers are pathetic? And then the kids usually laugh, and so does the audience. What's funny about ignorance? - Walter Esser Van Nuys Four long years George W. Bush is showing his cards with his Cabinet appointments of Gale Norton and Tommy Thompson. Norton, a protege of James Watt, who believed that a good tree is a two-by-four, and Thompson, who believes that the government should control a woman's womb, are the latest examples of Bush's hollow promise to be a uniter. Four years will not go by fast enough for me. - Chuck Heinold West Hills Dalmatians I am sure that many families will enjoy the movie ``102 Dalmatians.'' Please, before anyone brings home one of these again-popular dogs, do some research on the personality of the breed. I refer to Dr. Eleanor Franklin's study of the breed, ``The Dalmatian.'' The dogs have a fundamentally nervous temperament and are very slow to forget anything that has frightened or hurt them. Also, they are quite prone to hereditary deafness, and they have an anomaly that makes them very subject to kidney stones Kidney Stones Definition Kidney stones are solid accumulations of material that form in the tubal system of the kidney. Kidney stones cause problems when they block the flow of urine through or out of the kidney. and bladder stones Bladder Stones Definition Bladder stones are crystalline masses that form from the minerals and proteins, which naturally occur in urine. These types of stones are much less common than kidney stones. . Please be fair and be sure that you know a lot about the Dalmatian before you bring this magnificent dog into your home. - Charmaine R. Posten Canyon Country Stop the tyranny Re ``Fascist agency,'' Friday's letter to Public Forum in which Celeste Celeste is a woman's first name. Celeste may also refer to: in Music
The companies, without proper guidance, are too afraid to act against the IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. . They feel threatened and coerced, even when informed of this illegal practice. When the business responds to the notice and garnishees income, the employee is denied any due process as the money is seized - really stolen - without a court order. Stop the tyranny. Educate yourself about your rights and the law. - S.E. Forbes Sylmar Legalized extortion Over the years, I have been reading in the papers and seeing on TV various incidents wherein a civil asset forfeiture has taken place. Based on available information concerning events leading up to, during and after these incidents, I have concluded that the policy and program of civil asset forfeiture is nothing more than legalized theft and legalized extortion. It is clearly outside the realm of due process and the theory of presumed innocence. - Eddie D. Byrn Moorpark Clever Among the buildings to be rechristened at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , is one to be called Nordhoff Hall. The building fronts on Nordhoff Street, you see. But it's much more ingenious than that. Nordhoff street was named for Charles Nordhoff, who wrote ``Mutiny on the Bounty Mutiny on the Bounty activities of mutineers, Captain Bligh, island wanderings (1789). [Am. Lit.: Mutiny on the Bounty] See : Rebellion .'' That work was written in collaboration with James Norman Hall James Norman Hall (April 22, 1887 – July 5, 1951) was an American author best known for the novel Mutiny on the Bounty. Biography He was born in Colfax, Iowa, where he attended the local school. . Nordhoff and Hall are both honored in Nordhoff Hall. - Richard A. Rofman Van Nuys Made me laugh Re Edgar J. Zick's letter Wednesday in Public Forum: How dare he say that Democrats should stop whining. Who is whining? We only wanted a fair count and did not receive one. He also said that Clinton was the ``leader of the most ineffectual petty administrations.'' What country has Zick been living in for the past eight years? He states that the ``Democratic fiasco didn't solve one of the major problems facing our nation.'' What a joke. Clinton balanced the budget, which wasn't done in all the years under a Republican regime. What really makes his whole letter a joke is the fact that he calls George W. Bush ``a real leader.'' I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I read that comment. - S. Perez Northridge Constant tutoring Re the letter from self-described ``conservative pig'' Frank G. Carlisi (Public Forum, Dec. 21): He and his ilk have been whining, whimpering and mewling for eight years and will continue to do so ad nausea. They will soon come to the realization, which the majority of Americans already did, that the boy they have sent to do a man's job is totally incapable of accomplishing the task without the constant tutoring of his mentors Dick Cheney and Colin Powell. America will be back in the Bush leagues quicker than you can say Tom DeLay. For the first time in this century we will have a lame-duck president being sworn in while an inordinately popular president bows out. - - - - - Zachary A. Charles Burbank |
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