PUBLIC FORUM JUST JEALOUS.Re ``Atkins condition a touchy subject'' (Feb. 11): Shame on those who are jealous and angry at the success of the Atkins low-carb diet. Isn't it amazing when this really took off and people started losing weight, feeling better and becoming healthier the AMA (Automatic Message Accounting) The recording and reporting of telephone calls within a telephone system. It includes the calling and called parties and start and stop times of the call. started screaming. Of course they did, it made them look like idiots. Just think, years' worth of ``study'' to find what makes people fat and some doctor comes up with a solution instead of them, and they fight back tooth Noun 1. back tooth - a tooth situated at the back of the mouth posterior tooth - hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense and nail. Meanwhile us low-carbers are losing megapounds, our HDLs have risen and triglycerides Triglycerides Fatty compounds synthesized from carbohydrates during the process of digestion and stored in the body's adipose (fat) tissues. High levels of triglycerides in the blood are associated with insulin resistance. have fallen to a normal or below normal level. It's hard to walk away from that kind of success, so what does the AMA do? Get some serious-looking warnings out ... that doesn't work. - Robyn Avanessian 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. Get another job Re ``Grocery companies'' (Your Opinions, Feb. 11): Since when does a supermarket patron call anyone a scab let alone get tired of them? I'm getting better service from the current employees. Unions use that word to make a person who is willing to work for a company where no major education is necessary into a hideous creature. And wait until you see inflated prices if the supermarkets cave. Where are the supermarkets going to get the money to pay for these increases? From us. Medical benefits are just what it says: benefits. Where is it written that employees have to get whatever they ask for? If you don't like what your job has to offer, you don't strike ... you get another job that offers what you are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. . - Gregory Goodman 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. Public deserves better The public deserves best-effort negotiations by both labor unions and store management, not just a one-day session, as was the case in December. Irrespective of irrespective of prep. Without consideration of; regardless of. irrespective of preposition despite which party followed a miscalculated strategy, both parties must have the will to not leave the bargaining table until a resolution is reached and the UFCW UFCW United Food and Commercial Workers workers have an opportunity to vote on a contract. The grocery chains are losing business to the smaller purveyors and the big-box Wal-Mart superstores; the union members have gone without wages and health benefits, and may even lose their jobs altogether. But so far the consumer has been the biggest loser. The grocery shopping public deserves better, not missteps; and it deserves to have this dispute settled. - Maryann Maloney Los Angeles Protecting my marriage I am a happily 16-plus years married heterosexual who is deeply offended by all these Republicans falling all over themselves to ``protect'' my marriage. My marriage to my wonderful wife stands on its own without you, thank you. Frankly, I think these people are running a protection racket protection racket n → chantaje m protection racket n → racket m protection racket protect n → , with the intended payoff being political - a cynical McCarthy-like exploitation of wedge politics. I, for one, am inspired by the loyalty and devotion that I see in so many same-sex relationships, many longer than my own heterosexual one. Frankly, their inspiration and example is far better protection for my marriage than the insane proposals to mess up our Constitution that currently are being floated for plainly political purposes. - Martin Kotowski Sherman Oaks Put on a uniform Re ``Regardless of WMD WMD white muscle disease. , Iraq war Iraq War: see under Persian Gulf Wars. Iraq War or Second Persian Gulf War Brief conflict in 2003 between Iraq and a combined force of troops largely from the U.S. and Great Britain; and a subsequent U.S. was worth it'' (Their Opinions, Feb. 12): It is easy for Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930), is an American economist, political writer, and commentator. While often described as a "black conservative", he prefers not to be labeled, and considers himself more libertarian than conservative. to comment about the war in Iraq. Perhaps he should ask for comments from the families of the hundred of American soldiers killed during the war, killed after the war and continuing dying for a reason that is not quite clear to most of us. Sowell should don a uniform, go to Iraq, spend a few months as a foot soldier patrolling the country and then talk. - Dante F. Rochetti West Hills Served and died In his Feb. 11 column, Richard Cohen Several people are named Richard Cohen:
Were the men who joined the guard trying to avoid going in harm's way, as Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. points out, cowards like himself? There were thousands of guardsmen who went when called, who served and died in the service of their country, and certainly do not deserve to be denigrated by an example of a perfection of sorts, Richard Cohen. - David Mertens Granada Hills Might be illegal Re ``Bush's Guard records released but critics unswayed'' (Feb. 11): Bush now says he has authorized the release of his military payroll records. He was supposed to report for duty with an Alabama National Guard The Alabama National Guards consists of the:
• • [ unit in May 1972, but the commanding officer of that unit said that Bush never showed up. Bush was then reassigned to his Houston unit in 1973, but his commanders could not complete his rating report because ``Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of the report.'' Apart from the $1 million of taxpayer money, which it cost to train Lt. Bush before he decided to opt out, if the payroll records show that Bush was paid for this period of time, he would have been receiving pay that he had not earned. Is this not illegal? - John T. Vickers Los Angeles Courtroom cameras The judge has ruled that there will be no cameras in the courtroom in the Peterson trial. Our Constitution says that the courts will be open to everyone. Why would a judge not allow all citizens to see the proceedings? After all, he has sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States Constitution of the United States, document embodying the fundamental principles upon which the American republic is conducted. Drawn up at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, the Constitution was signed on Sept. . My guess is that he does not want any of his goofs televised and criticized. - William Turner Tujunga Beating Bush not all The GOP - with assistance from the Democrats and the media - have chosen their opponent. The media's term ``electability factor'' is misleading. John Kerry looks like a president, talks like a statesman, and promises like a politician. The question is, can he deliver? Democrats are deluding themselves if they think that John Kerry is the ideal candidate to defeat Bush. Can you imagine what Karl Rove and his political hackers have in store for this guy? The only way to defeat the Republican juggernaut is through an energized political movement based on the passion and desire to resolve the important issues. Merely beating Bush is not enough, the Democrats must also win back Congress because there is a lot of fixing to do. - Jim Caputo Valley Village Take it to the people Re ``DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection outreach'' (Their Opinions, Feb. 11): The problem is by their own admission DWP came to most neighborhood councils in December to propose a rate increase to take place in January. There is no way that can be considered a ``good faith'' effort to include neighborhood councils in the process. DWP needs to come to the table in good faith. They don't want to do that because they feel they have the votes in council to ram this through and want their pay hike, their heliport heliport, airport designed exclusively for helicopter traffic. and God only knows what else. This matter may end up just going to the voters in a referendum if our City Council doesn't listen to the cry of the people. - Jim Alger Northridge West Neighborhood Council Porter Ranch Scalia's arrogance Justice Scalia, in a speech at Amherst College, states he sees nothing wrong in socializing with Dick Cheney even though the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving the vice president. There's a difference between socializing at a public event and accepting a gift of a hunting trip and a ride on Air Force Two. Such arrogance. - Jean Strauber Encino It's a start Janet and Justin put on a pretty good show at the Super Bowl. It is a sad day in America when artists cannot express themselves without the government's criticism. Fascism started this way when artists, writers and the elite intellectuals were persecuted. - Joel Kaye Sherman Oaks |
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