PUBLIC FORUM LAME LEGISLATORS.Re ``Eat your heart out, House tells litigants'' (March 11): I see that our legislators in Washington were able to approve the hamburger bill. This will protect the food industry from frivolous lawsuits. They stated that it was all about personal responsibility and not allowing the lawyers to go around finding someone to blame for being overweight. Too bad they were too lame to pass a clean bill protecting firearms manufacturers against frivolous lawsuits. It is the person who has the cheeseburger or pistol in his hand that is responsible. Not the person who made it. It is all personal responsibility. I wish the legislators had more. - Tom Suter La Crescenta One-way taxes Re ``Congress must address upsurge in gangs'' (Their Opinions, March 10): Californians are sending far too much money to Washington. We get back much less federal money than we send. This is clearly a local issue. - Ernie Jessup Woodland Hills Deteriorating missions Re ``White House not backing bill to repair ailing missions'' (March 10): Way to go, Bush administration. Now our future fourth-graders won't need to build those sugar cube sugar cube Drug slang A popular street term for LSD, named for a common delivery “device”, a sugar cube and toothpick toothpick, n a wood sliver used to cleanse the interdental space. toothpick, balsa wood, n a triangular wedge of balsa wood used to clean the teeth interproximally and stimulate the interdental gingival tissues. missions any more. I'm sure you feel it would be better that they build something they are more familiar with with those sugar cubes Sugar cubes may refer to one of the following:
- Dave Gersuk Porter Ranch Affirmative running The powers that be of the L.A. Marathon decided to give the women runners a 20-minute head start. The women won, but the male runner from Kenya actually did the run in less time than the women. So how come the woman won even though she came in first with a 20-minute head start while she still took more time and she got the $50,000 plus the car? I think there is no doubt that this is discrimination. I thought women wanted to be equal to men. Big joke. - Joseph A. McMillin West Hills Strike that failed While most people are happy with the supermarket strike results, I am not. I will continue boycotting those stores until late July; after then I will limit my shopping to loss leaders. There is little difference between those stores and the Wal-Mart stores. The unions that conducted this farce played with the public's sense of fairness and then weren't willing to finish the job. Now there are much worse conditions for new hires. Other employers will have less inhibitions in taking away benefits. More people will be without health insurance or be underinsured un·der·in·sure tr.v. un·der·in·sured, un·der·in·sur·ing, un·der·in·sures To insure under a policy that provides inadequate benefits: Be certain that you are not underinsured against catastrophic illness. . National health insurance may be voted in. It will have one of two outcomes: it will either bankrupt the country or health care will become inadequate for all but the millionaires that can pay cash. - John Sax (Simple API for XML) A programming interface (API) for accessing the contents of an XML document. SAX does not provide a random access lookup to the document's contents. It scans the document sequentially and presents each item to the application only one time. Glendale Responses to the strike We have just endured a very sad and unnecessary time in the history of the middle-class worker. However, we did not do it alone. I wouldn't be able to ever thank individually each one of you who also made sacrifices and endured tremendous inconveniences due to this strike. I just wanted to let you know my heart and gratitude goes out to you all. Your honks, waves, kind words, doughnuts, bagels, coffee, water, pizza, Mexican food, back rubs, free tax preparations, money, hugs and laughs meant so much. I can't say it enough, but from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Also, those of you who flipped me off, yelled obscenities, threw firecrackers, mooned us and just in general were rude, remember, what goes around comes around. - Jody Bourgeois West Hills No sense at all Just a couple of things I've noticed that make no sense at all: A woman bakes two small children to death in her car and gets six months in jail. So, that's three months per child. Where are all the folks who storm to abortion clinics because they love life so much? Aren't they outraged at this? Aren't these children's lives worth anything more than three months? Strange. The other thing is if you have a few tickets, your insurance rates go up; if you smoke, your insurance rates are higher; but you can be obese and you pay the same rates as the thin people do? Why do thin people have to subsidize sub·si·dize tr.v. sub·si·dized, sub·si·diz·ing, sub·si·diz·es 1. To assist or support with a subsidy. 2. To secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy. the obese when it comes to medical care? And in the article it said it amounts to billions of dollars. - Barbara Johnson Barbara Johnson (b. 1947) is an American literary critic and translator. She is currently a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. Canyon Country No apartheid in Israel In ``Where is dignity?'' (Your Opinions, March 7), Brandon Avery refers to Israel as a ``brutal apartheid regime.'' Having been to South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. prior to the end of apartheid, I recall with horror the signs of ``whites only,'' and recall that blacks were not allowed the vote, and did not have freedom of movement or residence. In Israel, Arab citizens not only have always had the vote, but have decided several elections. There are Arab members of the Israeli parliament. Arab citizens are allowed freedom of religion, movement and can legally live wherever they choose. While I can't account for the personal views of every Israeli, there is no apartheid-like government-sanctioned discrimination in Israel. - Maryanne Tracy Van Nuys Foundation and standards Americans have been hornswoggled by the ACLU ACLU: see American Civil Liberties Union. and others who want todestroy this nation as they use the ruse Ruse (r  `sĕ), city (1993 pop. 170,209), NE Bulgaria, on the Danube River bordering Romania. The chief river port of Bulgaria, it is also an industrial and communications center. of ``separation of church
andstate'' to remove the foundation and standards from the
public arena. Religion seems to be mentioned in one place in the law,
and that is theFirst Amendment: ``Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof.''
How clear can it be? The Ten Commandments Ten Commandments or Decalogue [Gr.,=ten words], in the Bible, the summary of divine law given by God to Moses on Mt. Sinai. They have a paramount place in the ethical system in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. on a stone are not an establishment of religion, nor is the Boy Scout oath, the Bible or prayer. Having a Bible on the desk of a teacher or blessing one's food at lunchtime is also not an ``establishment of religion.'' Having ``The Church of the Righteous Minority'' as the state church that all must join - now that would be a political problem. - Bob Sharp Arleta Working pretty good 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 . We're a week before the war began a year ago. The interim constitution has been signed, schools are open, teachers' salaries up, hospitals open, oil being pumped beyond prewar pre·war adj. Existing or occurring before a war. prewar Adjective relating to the period before a war, esp. before World War I or II Adj. 1. levels (thank you, Halliburton), business is being conducted, even Boy and Girl Scout troops are being started (don't tell Jackie Goldberg Jackie Goldberg (born June 16, 1937) is an American politician and teacher, and a member of the Democratic Party. She is a former member of the California State Assembly. ). For an administration accused of no postwar plan, it seems to be working out to be a pretty good no-plan plan. - Roger Olsen Burbank All aspects of war Re ``No pleasing the left'' (Your Opinions, March 11): It is unfortunate that some people to the extreme right do not understand the need of the people of this country to see all aspects of war, including the flag-draped coffins of our true American heroes. What happened to President Bush's promise not to politically capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. 9-11? - Daryl Smith Daryl Smith (born April 14, 1982 in Albany, Georgia) is an American football player who currently plays linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars. College Career Smith attended Georgia Tech. Chatsworth Counter to JFK's view Re ``Bush bears burden,'' and ``Earned the right'' (Your Opinions, March 10): Yes, JFK did say, ``The U.S. would bear any burden to extend freedom across the globe.'' However, ``extend'' does not necessarily mean impose, force or takeover. That position is exactly what the current administration is doing and it is the direct opposite of what JFK meant in the face of a real communist threat. For example: We were in South Vietnam South Vietnam: see Vietnam. (a war that I opposed) to deter North Vietnam North Vietnam: see Vietnam. , not to impose our ideology on the North Vietnamese North Vietnam A former country of southeast Asia. It existed from 1954, after the fall of the French at Dien Bien Phu, to 1975, when the South Vietnamese government collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War. It is now part of the country of Vietnam. . On what grounds does President Bush deserve credit for a leadership role after 9-11? The plan to attack Afghanistan was already on the Pentagon table. He had no hand in developing it. The action would have been initiated regardless of who was in office. - Jim Caputo Valley Village |
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