PUBLIC FORUM DISSING DEMOCRATS.It was with great dismay that I read press coverage of the 12 Eagle Scouts who were booed by members of the California Delegation to the Democratic National Convention. The delegates were making a statement about the Supreme Court decision upholding the Boy Scout organization's ban on openly gay individuals being Scout leaders. Unfortunately, the delegates chose to voice their opinion to Scouts who were 15 to 18 years of age, children who had nothing whatsoever to do with that Supreme Court decision. It was a great honor to these boys to be part of this historic event. It was probably going to be one of the highlights of their young lives. The adult delegates' behavior was at best, misguided; at worst, it was the act of bullies and, as such, shameful. I am a lifelong Democrat, but if any of the delegates who participated in this disgraceful display are elected officials, I will be contributing money to and supporting their opponents. In addition, the Democratic National Committee should strongly reprimand REPRIMAND, punishment. The censure which in some cases a public office pronounces against an offender. 2. This species of punishment is used by legislative bodies to punish their members or others who have been guilty of some impropriety of conduct towards them. the delegates for this unconscionable Unusually harsh and shocking to the conscience; that which is so grossly unfair that a court will proscribe it. When a court uses the word unconscionable to describe conduct, it means that the conduct does not conform to the dictates of conscience. behavior. - Ted Elrick West Hills Zap Edison What's so different about 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, Edison's monopoly, except Edison abuses its much more than Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. did. I strongly suspect that if Edison were hit by a fine that was only a small fraction of the one imposed on Gates, that it would repair its outages in hours, instead of days. And it would listen to its customers' complaints, instead of playing a recording telling them how how to save electricity and never a word about how to prevent lightning from knocking out our service. I think that a fine of about $50 million just as a warning might help. Anything is worth a try. - Cleo A. Ritchey Mojave Foster visionary Beth Barrett's article (``Foster finds political soul mate,''' Daily News, Aug. 21) on Ezola Foster was the hatchet hatchet: see tomahawk. job I knew would come. Skewed skewed curve of a usually unimodal distribution with one tail drawn out more than the other and the median will lie above or below the mean. skewed Epidemiology adjective Referring to an asymmetrical distribution of a population or of data with attacks, half-truths and written in a negative tone, Beth must be your princess of ``diversity'' as long as you are not a good American and especially not a Christian. How does this trash make the front page, or is that where your op-ed pieces go now? Her ``sown with divisiveness'' for Ezola while citing Maxine Waters' ``impeccable liberal credentials'' is just more propaganda. Does Beth remember Waters' ``no justice, no peace'' during Rodney King Rodney Glen King (born April 9, 1965 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an African-American taxicab driver who was beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers (Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno and Sargent Stacey Koon) after being chased for speeding. ? She still has that blood on her hands and that is not impeccable in my dictionary. If anyone would look past their 401(k)s and take the time to educate themselves about what is really going on in this country, they would line up behind people like Ezola Foster as a visionary. - John K. Taylor Woodland Hills Fishy fish·y adj. fish·i·er, fish·i·est 1. Resembling or suggestive of fish, as in taste or odor. 2. Cold or expressionless: a fishy stare. 3. supes Seems like a real conspiracy by the supervisors to keep this fellow Christopher Skinnell from putting term limits for the L.A. County supervisors on the ballot. Seems fishy how the verification process threw his efforts out. I was especially insulted by Registrar Recorder/County Clerk Conny McCormack's attitude that she could not do a thing about putting the issue on the ballot after they erred in their voter verification process, spending 250,000 of our tax dollars. My question to her and the supervisors is: Does she or they have any accountability for her actions? - James Crowley James Crowley (died 21 January, 1946) was an Irish nationalist and politician. He was born in County Kerry. He was a member of the Irish Volunteers. He was elected in the 1918 Westminster Election as a Sinn Féin MP for the constituency of Kerry North. Saugus Oh, yeah? In response to Don Malvin's criticism of my letter (Public Forum, Aug. 22) concerning the trustworthiness of atheists: First, people of faith must admit they're not perfect. We're all sinful, and must seek redemption. Second, I won't deny that nonbelievers can, out of a sense of ``social responsibility without fear of divine retribution'' conduct themselves as good citizens. However, given a choice between relying upon those who ``do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with their God'' and those who aver that ``God is dead, therefore everything is permitted'' I will, like John Locke, choose the former over the latter. - Gary Inbinder Woodland Hills Here's to you Hats off to the Daily News for publishing Susan Shelly's op-ed piece (Opinions, Aug. 22) regarding the SAG/AFTRA commercials strike. Newspaper coverage by your competitor is as rare as finding a Democrat in Orange County. Thank you. - Clive Rosengren Sunland Up to code This letter is written in response to your article of Aug. 3 and your subsequent editorial Aug. 7, regarding perceived problems with the Systematic Code Enforcement Code Enforcement is the act of enforcing a set of s, principles, or laws (especially written ones) and insuring observance of a system of norms or customs. An authority usually enforces a civil code, a set of rules, or a body of laws and compel those subject to their authority to Program (SCEP SCEP Student Career Experience Program SCEP Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (Cisco) SCEP Syndicat Canadien des Communications, de l'Énergie et du Papier (Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union) ) of the city Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . SCEP is responsible for inspecting all rental units in the city for properties with two or more units on a lot. Your editorial makes the assessment that there is ``no coherent system for cracking down on violators'' based on a report provided by Professor Gary Blasi of UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . The Los Angeles Housing Department has met with Professor Blasi regarding his report and has indicated to him that his data is dated and erroneous. The Daily News has never contacted the Los Angeles Housing Department to discuss the data in Professor Blasi's report. Had the Daily News asked for more recent information, it would have discovered a systematic program well within the parameters of the ordinance governing code enforcement activity. Instead of a lack of coherency co·her·en·cy n. pl. co·her·en·cies Coherence. Noun 1. coherency - the state of cohering or sticking together coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness in the program, it would have discovered a program in which violators comply with correction orders at the rate of 96 percent. Considering the thousands of apartments inspected each month, that compliance rate demonstrates a very successful program in dealing with violators. - Garry W. Pinney General Manager Los Angeles Housing Department Whose code is it? The apartment that my wife and I have been renting for more than three years was inspected approximately four months ago under the Systematic Code Enforcement Program. The inspector found and was directed to numerous code violations. To this day, we have heard nothing regarding the repair of these violations. Two weeks ago, we were given notification of an increase in our monthly rent. The increase equates to 25 percent. The increase to some would seem minuscule. However, to me it represents half of a week's disability pay, which is a whole helluva hell·uv·a adj. Slang Used as an intensive: He's a helluva great guy. [Alteration of hell of a.] lot. My wife and I are in a bit of a dilemma because of a 22-year-old law that states that any multiunit dwelling built after 1979 does not fall under rent control and rent increases are at the whim of the owner. The dilemma? If we stay, it's three square meals of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches "PB&J" redirects here. PB&J may also refer to Peter Bjorn and John. The peanut butter and jelly sandwich, also known as a peanut butter and jam sandwich in the UK, is a sandwich that includes a layer of peanut butter and either jelly or jam between two slices of bread. . If we go . . ., we can't afford to go. - Thomas Nave Tarzana Mandated response I've got news for Harlan Campbell (Public Forum, Aug. 22). Despite his assertions that I had made some ``ever-so-pious invocation invocation, n a prayer requesting and inviting the presence of God. of morality'' and his references to religious motivations, my opposition to abortion was made without appeal to religion. For Campbell's information, I am an agnostic. I will still, however, stand up against the ``right'' to kill innocent and helpless individuals because those individuals are inconvenient. I have no desire to mandate that anyone accept any faith, only that we protect individual human lives as demonstrated through biological fact. - David Holland Northridge More rebuttal rebuttal n. evidence introduced to counter, disprove or contradict the opposition's evidence or a presumption, or responsive legal argument. Harlan Campbell (Public Forum, Aug. 22) thinks he has news for me concerning government intrusion regarding abortion. Mr. Campbell, you have no news for me, and I doubt you ever will. Tell yourself the truth, see abortion for what it is, and then if you find abortion OK, that's your informed decision and the government has no business butting in on your business. Harlan, the truth shall make you whole. Let's see Let's See was a Canadian television series broadcast on CBC Television between September 6, 1952 to July 4, 1953. The segment, which had a running time of 15 minutes, was a puppet show with a character named Uncle Chichimus (voice of John Conway), which presented each if you can handle the truth. - Michael Hannin Newbury Park |
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