PUBLIC FORUM ALL CONSTITUENTS.Re ``Pedestrian bridge affects two neighborhoods'' (Nov. 5): The homeowners on one side of a pedestrian bridge in Sherman Oaks are complaining about increased foot traffic and people gathering on the bridge. Was the bridge there when they moved in? If so, then they really have no basis for complaints. People should not move into a neighborhood, knowing what is there, and then expect to change the neighborhood to their liking. Wendy Greuel Wendy Greuel is President Pro Tempore of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 2nd District. Greuel was elected in 2002 to fill the remainder of the term of Councilman Joel Wachs. She was elected in her own right in 2003 and reelected in 2007. seems to think she only represents homeowners in her district and isn't considering the apartment dwellers. If it is about parking, then issue parking permits for those affected streets. If it is about crime, form a neighborhood crime watch. I don't see why the criminals should be confined to one side of a bridge that may have existed for decades. - Jack Saslavsky Sherman Oaks Not a good idea Re ``Sounding the smog horn'' (Nov. 8): Busing was never a good idea. It produces smog, is costly, and wastes the study time for our kids. It is time for our kids to be assigned to smaller schools in their own neighborhoods and to stop this farce. - Walter Hall Walter Hall may refer to:
Stevenson Ranch Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. Waste of money Re ``City to study urban landfills'' (Nov. 4): I have lived in Granada Hills for 37 years and BFI BFI - brute force and ignorance and the City Council continuously ignore the demands of the Bee Canyon neighborhood. BFI does anything it can to get its way. Greig Smith Greig Smith is a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 12th District, which includes Granada Hills, Northridge and other parts of the Western San Fernando Valley. Smith is also a reserve officer for the Los Angeles Police Department. and City Council, next time you take your trash out, tell yourself you just dumped it in your neighbor's back yard. Do you even care? - Kris Baader Valencia We're losers? Re ``Arnold says state Dems are losers'' (Nov. 5): So the governor thinks Democrats are ``losers.'' Well, a lot of those losers must have voted for the governor for him to have gotten into office (including, probably, his own wife). If we're such losers, we must have made a mistake. Well, we won't make that mistake again. - Sheila Cooley Van Nuys Mean cartoon Re ``View From the Valley'' (Nov. 5): It's always open season for Patrick O'Connor Patrick J. O'Connor is a long-serving alderman in Chicago's City Council. O'Connor represents the 40th Ward on the North Side. Like the majority of the members of the City Council, he is a member of the Democratic Party. to disparage dis·par·age tr.v. dis·par·aged, dis·par·ag·ing, dis·par·ag·es 1. To speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way; belittle. See Synonyms at decry. 2. To reduce in esteem or rank. and detest de·test tr.v. de·test·ed, de·test·ing, de·tests To dislike intensely; abhor. [French détester, from Latin d Christians who actually read the Bible, go to church, and (shudder) vote their convictions. O'Connor draws a tight-fisted menace of scary Protestants and Catholics (and a token Pilgrim; yeah, I get it). O'Connor depicts Christians as an intolerant, humorless mob simply because they voted for Bush. But O'Connor is selective. He doesn't show any Jews, blacks or Hispanics. They voted for Bush in increased numbers over 2000. Too hard to draw or just not in his constituency of prejudice? - Thomas Clement West Hills Constitutional right Re ``Man's Bush protest turns small town upside down'' (Nov. 6): Three cheers for Ford Greene Aylsworth Crawford Greene III (born December 21, 1952) is an American attorney from San Anselmo specializing in litigation against cults. Education Ford Greene began studying law at the New College of California Law School in 1978. of San Anselmo who hung his flag upside down the day after the presidential election. He only did what we all do every day - he exercised his constitutional right to freedom of expression. Too bad the people who complained didn't realize they were complaining about their country being in trouble, as is indicated by the display of an upside-down flag. If they had really understood, they wouldn't have voted for the guy who's really to blame for the display of an upside-down flag. - Char De Graeve Glendale Name calling Re ``If France won't heel'' (Their Opinions, Nov. 5): Holy cow. I've never heard so much hypocritical whining in all my life. Maureen Dowd spends nearly every word name calling and demanding that anyone (in this case the majority of the nation) with an opinion different than hers be locked away so she won't hear it. Ah, the party of tolerance. One different network won't destroy all others. Religious people aren't all that evil. It's really OK if we're powerful enough to scare the bad guys. Maureen, you lost. Get a hobby and do something useful with your time. - Malcolm Gee Van Nuys Moral calculus Re ```Moral values' helped turn the election tide'' (Nov. 4): Are we to infer that, in the mind of the ``moral values'' voter, the Prince of Peace has no problem with the occasional pre-emptive pre·emp·tive or pre-emp·tive adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of preemption. 2. Having or granted by the right of preemption. 3. a. war that slaughters 100,000 or so (mostly women and children so far) Iraqis, but that he definitely draws the line at gay marriage? That ain't the Lord Jesus I know and love. It sounds more like the tortured, inscrutably convoluted, jihad-justifying moral calculus we've come to expect from al-Qaida and the Taliban. - Grant Gullickson Northridge Charade will resume Re ``Arafat in coma, fighting for life'' (Nov. 5): Seeing as how Yasser Arafat has served so long as the ersatz er·satz adj. Being an imitation or a substitute, usually an inferior one; artificial: ersatz coffee made mostly of chicory. See Synonyms at artificial. garment of validity for Palestine, it will be interesting to see what transpires when he finally shuffles off this mortal coil For other uses, see Mortal coil (disambiguation). This Mortal Coil was a musical dream pop project of Ivo Watts-Russell, founder of the British 4AD Records label. The project brought together key 4AD artists, as well as others not signed to the label, under an umbrella name: . Then, as in the fairy tale, the world will find it so much harder to do what it has always done - see a nation that doesn't really exist - so that after the installation of a successor from no doubt hundreds of candidates it will breathe such a huge sigh of relief to see the charade resume. - Kathryn Durfee Agoura Long, hard slog I just want to say two things about the recent election. I want to congratulate President Bush and his supporters on their victory. To those who supported the senator, just remember two things: First, John Kerry is still in the United States Senate. And second, although we may have lost the battle we have by no means lost the war. - Harold Longanecker Reseda Real agenda Does anyone think that President Bush would have been re-elected on the agenda he espoused Nov. 3 if he discussed it Nov. 1? - Jesse Albert Los Angeles Obsequious ob·se·qui·ous adj. Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning. [Middle English, from Latin obsequi devotion Re ``Mandate'' (Nov. 3): Bush did not get a mandate. It was the Los Angeles Daily News The Daily News of Los Angeles, also known as the Los Angeles Daily News, is the second largest circulating daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California. It is published by the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which owns eight other Southern California newspapers that got a mandate to continue your obsequious devotion to the worst and most radical bunch of crooks to ever run our country. - Robert Meltzer Burbank Cup of reality Now that the election is over (and uncontested), here's one tiny bit of advice to Hollywood and its narcissistic nar·cis·sism also nar·cism n. 1. Excessive love or admiration of oneself. See Synonyms at conceit. 2. A psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in , elitist e·lit·ism or é·lit·ism n. 1. The belief that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups deserve favored treatment by virtue of their perceived superiority, as in intellect, social status, or financial resources. , overpaid o·ver·pay v. o·ver·paid , o·ver·pay·ing, o·ver·pays v.tr. 1. To pay (a party) too much. 2. To pay an amount in excess of (a sum due). v.intr. To pay too much. , out-of-the-mainstream ilk who come out of the woodwork every four years to ``connect'' with middle America: Pour yourself a nice hot cup of reality latte and shut up. It's obvious 3.5 million Americans think you can take your ``endorsements'' and, as Teresa Heinz Kerry so eloquently put it, well, you know the rest. - Keenan C. Warner Valencia Regression We start a war in which more than 1,000 American servicemen and -women have been killed, 28,000-plus more are severely injured or maimed maim tr.v. maimed, maim·ing, maims 1. To disable or disfigure, usually by depriving of the use of a limb or other part of the body. See Synonyms at batter1. 2. , 100,000 (mostly civilian) Iraqis killed and their country nearly destroyed and in chaos, yet we elect the same president who made this happen for another four years because of ``moral values?'' Civilization has just regressed 100 years. - Patricia Miller Woodland Hills Bush's fault? Why is it always President Bush's fault that this country is divided? What about the other half of this equation? Could they possibly be at fault, too? Wake up, America ... two wrongs will never make this country right. - Joyce Peyton Los Angeles |
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