PUBLIC FORUM COMPARISON IS APT.Re ``Mafia remark inflames Mahony-Keating feud'' (June 14): What is shameful is not that Frank Keating Francis Anthony "Frank" Keating (February 10, 1944) is an American politician from Oklahoma. Keating served as the 25th Governor of Oklahoma. His first term began in 1995 and ended in 1999. Keating won reelection to a second term, which ended in 2003. compared the actions of some Catholic hierarchy to the Mafia's code of silence, but that the comparison is so apt. Young men and women were abused first by the clergy and again by the leadership who shielded their abusers leaving them free to offend again. As an American of German extraction, Cardinal Mahony will want an apology from me next: I think letting Mahony and his ilk choose the investigators is like letting the Nazis choose the Nuremberg prosecutors. The cardinal and other like-minded clergy should read the Bible more, worry less about the mote (reMOTE) A wireless receiver/transmitter that is typically combined with a sensor of some type to create a remote sensor. Some motes are designed to be incredibly small so that they can be deployed by the hundreds or even thousands for various applications (see smart dust). in Keating's eye and worry more about the millstone millstone Either of two flat, round stones used for grinding grain to make flour. The stationary bottom stone is carved with shallow grooved channels that radiate from the centre. The upper stone rotates horizontally, and has a central hole through which grain is poured. around their necks. - John Kurt Reseda Knew him well Re ``Romer fires LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) general counsel'' (June 10): How would you like to make $1,000 a day every day - Christmas, Thanksgiving, weekends - for two-and-a-half years? All you have to do is know Roy Romer Roy R. Romer (born October 31, 1928 in Garden City, Kansas, United States) was the 39th governor of Colorado and served as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2001 to 2006. . Hal Kwalwasser knew him well. He was the campaign manager for Romer's successful governor election in Colorado. And besides that, I guess no Californian could do this job? He gets $228,375 a year for two-and-a-half years. That's $570,935, plus $342,000 (severance package A severance package is pay and benefits an employee receives when they leave employment at a company. In addition to the employee's remaining regular pay, it may include some of the following:
At $20 an hour it would take me over 19 years to make that, plus the better benefits that most people only dream of. He was fired for the good of the institution. And remember, it's for the kids. - Stephen Aldridge Sun Valley Fit the community Re ``Neighbors stand up against school plans'' (June 17): Strange things also happen within the city bureaucracy when it comes to approval of private schools. They almost always get approved. Schools are needed, but they must fit the community both in size and level of activity. Hillcrest School proposes a 3-story (with an additional story embedded in the ground), 75,000-square-foot building, school expansion on a hilly 5.5-acre parcel. The proposal is in a residential neighborhood zoned for very low density, 1-2 story single-family residential homes that can also accommodate horses. Their original proposal was recommended for denial, and 16 months later the new and worse proposal is recommended for approval. The city hopes to attach 120 conditions to make it ``fit.'' - Joy Ming Granada Hills Expensive shenanigans shenanigans Noun, pl Informal 1. mischief or nonsense 2. trickery or deception [origin unknown] Re ``Fiery romance turns into proposal'' (NewsLite, June 19: A hook and ladder Hook and ladder can refer to:
The mayor is telling me we need to bite the bullet to hire more police and firefighters. For what, to deliver flowers in the middle of Ventura Boulevard Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. in the middle of the day and probably tie up a little traffic at the same time? In the middle of a budget crisis these shenanigans fly in the face of Verb 1. fly in the face of - go against; "This action flies in the face of the agreement" fly in the teeth of go against, violate, break - fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; "This sentence violates the rules of syntax" reality. How can they ask us for more taxes when this is an example of how these guys spend their time? - Ron Metz Van Nuys We are losers Gov. Gray Davis finally got something right when he called us a bunch of losers. We have gone from a $12 billion surplus to a $39 billion deficit. We are seeing huge cuts across the board including education and law enforcement. And from Department of Motor Vehicles In the United States of America, Department of Motor Vehicles (or DMV) is a commonly used name of the government agency of a U.S. state which administers the registration of automobiles (e.g., by issuing license plates), and/or the licensing of drivers (e.g. refunds, to doubling fees. You are certainly right, sir. We lost the day you were elected. - Dave Tulk Northridge He was trespassing Re ``Tree-sitter faces trial'' (June 15): I find it ironic that John Quigley John B. Quigley is a professor of law at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University, where he is the Presidents' Club Professor of Law. In 1995 he was recipient of The Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award. is claiming ``... like they are trying to stifle free speech,'' when he was paid to sit there. It was private property and he was trespassing - period, end of discussion. How would Quigley like it if John Laing For John Laing, the 15th century bishop of Glasgow, see John Laing (bishop) John Laing plc is a British developer and operator of privately financed, public sector infrastructure projects such as roads, railways, hospitals and schools through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and Homes paid me to sit on his front doorstep? I am kind of short on money, so if Laing wants to hire me, I will be happy to oblige. - Clayton Meyer Santa Clarita History repeats itself Gen. Colin Powell justified the deaths of a million Vietnamese and thousands of Americans during the Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. . Twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. later, in his autobiography, he said that all the destruction brought down by the United States war was based on uneducated, enormously costly policy that he and other military leaders had known to be ``bankrupt,'' but duty required that they not tell the public. Well, Powell, history does repeat itself, because here you are again lying to the American people regarding the weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or . Bush and Lyndon Johnson will always be linked as presidents who went to war on a lie. - Jerry Pennington Van Nuys Greedy goes too far Re ``Tell me the truth'' (Your Opinions, June 16): I enjoyed Frank Carlisi's ``opinion.'' I question his choices of adjectives, but as a registered Democrat I don't mind being called a ``sniveling sniv·el intr.v. sniv·eled or sniv·elled, sniv·el·ing or sniv·el·ling, sniv·els 1. To sniffle. 2. To complain or whine tearfully. 3. To run at the nose. n. 1. liberal'' as long as it implies that I never voted for our president. However, ``greedy left-wing agenda'' is going too far. Greedy? Who broke their necks to get to the polls when George W. Bush promised a tax cut? Look at the deficit today. We ``don't give a damn Verb 1. give a damn - show no concern or interest; always used in the negative; "I don't give a hoot"; "She doesn't give a damn about her job" care a hang, give a hang, give a hoot about America''? Really? - Tarleton X. Garton Lancaster No protections Re ``Taxing middle class'' (Your Opinions, June 16): The author's socialist mentality is clear in his assertion that ``we need to raise taxes and most of them should be paid by the most prosperous people in our society.'' As if the top 5 percent of earners don't already pay over half the federal taxes and the top 10 percent pay over 70 percent. His complete misunderstanding of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is in the assertion that, ``In a real democracy, the majority should dictate what is fair.'' Really? No protections for the rights of the minority? If the majority think it fair to take all the property of the minority, that would, apparently, be just fine with him. - Michael G. Miller Los Angeles Who trained Saddam? Re ``Rain drops of truth'' (Your Opinions, June 18): I did not forget Saddam gassed a small number of his own people. What I failed to mention was the fact that he was trained and given the means to rain terror on his own people by our leaders. We even trained his chopper pilots on how to spray the gases in none other than The Sunshine State of Florida back in the '80s. Let's see now, that means that our umbrella of evil may even include Reagan, Bush 41, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, etc. My, my, some of the same men who are in power now. What a coincidence. I'm just calling a spade a spade. And as for ``justice starting to seep through.'' That won't happen until Bush is taken out. - Dick Denne Toluca Lake Last free-flowing river Re ``Daily News stumbles in 'hypocrisy' piece'' (Their Opinions, June 9): I have one question: where is the Santa Clara River Santa Clara River may refer to:
The Newhall Ranch project is not ``smart growth.'' If the project goes ahead as planned, Southern California will lose the last free-flowing river of its kind and the whole natural ecosystem that goes with it. However you want to define it, that's sprawl. - Lisa Fimiani Los Angeles |
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