PUBLIC FORUM NOT CONVINCING.If secession was such a great idea, why did only 50.7 percent agree with you? I was strongly opposed to the idea from the start, but do you really feel that the swing voters Noun 1. swing voter - a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other floating voter elector, voter - a citizen who has a legal right to vote were so dumb as to be susceptible to the ad campaign of the anti-secession camp? I think not. A plurality The opinion of an appellate court in which more justices join than in any concurring opinion. The excess of votes cast for one candidate over those votes cast for any other candidate. Appellate panels are made up of three or more justices. of under 4,000 among the 264,000 votes cast in just the Valley is far from convincing or decisive. A majority for sure, but this issue should be held to a higher standard, as our precious Proposition 13 demands: two-thirds majority. Notice that that is the majority against secession throughout the rest of the city. Time to move on, and work together (without the whining, please) to make this city work for us all. - Arnie Moore Sherman Oaks I don't think so I agree with the person who wrote in calling for a state investigation into the anti-secession movement's use of city employees to fight secession. Mayor James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California admitted that he spent months working on this campaign. City Council President Alex Padilla Alex Padilla is a politician in California. He was elected as the State Senator for the 20th District of California in November 2006 and was inaugurated in early December. In order to enter the Senate he had to resign as Councilman for the 7th District on the Los Angeles City also stated that he and his staff spent months going door-to-door to fight secession. Who paid for this? Are we to believe that Padilla and his staff went knocking door-to-door in Pacoima after work? That I would like to see. I'm sure that Padilla and Hahn collected a few paychecks from the city during this same time period. - Gary O'Dell West Hills Beyond a doubt The Nov. 5 election proved one thing beyond any doubt: It's not the voters, stupid; it's the stupid voters. - Zachary Charles Burbank Iraqi acceptance The eight-page Iraqi acceptance of Resolution 1441 says only what we already know. Deceit Deceit Aimwell pretends to be titled to wed into wealth. [Br. Lit.: The Beaux’ Stratagem] Ananias lies about amount of money received for land. [N.T.: Acts 5:1–6] Ananias Club all its members are liars. [Am. , evasion EVASION. A subtle device to set aside the truth, or escape the punishment of the law; as if a man should tempt another to strike him first, in order that he might have an opportunity of returning the blow with impunity. and the background for same. The inspectors will be wasting time to the advantage of Saddam. Clever fellow, isn't he? Will the ``ill-intentioned'' inspectors be the reason to close off areas or sites? Who determines who is ``ill-intentioned?'' One guess should do it. - Louis Innerarity 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. Old refrain Re ``Education board gives ultimatum'' (Nov. 12): The Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. board is claiming to be upset with Superintendent Romer
A Romer or Roamer is a simple device for accurately plotting a grid reference on a map. and his practice of awarding large unapproved un·ap·proved adj. Not approved or sanctioned: an unapproved vaccine; an unapproved protest march. contracts. They claim that this is the ``last time'' they will approve of such a thing. Right. Just as soon as John Q. Public turns around again, the thieves will once again resume their clandestine CLANDESTINE. That which is done in secret and contrary to law. 2.Generally a clandestine act in case of the limitation of actions will prevent the act from running. practices of deception. When they once again get caught, they will replay the same recording of ``This will be the last time.'' We, as the public, are absolute fools for condoning this continued disregard of rules and regulations. The fact of the matter is that as long as we avoid saying no and putting an end to this deception, it will continue. - Carolyn Whitehead whitehead /white·head/ (hwit´hed) 1. milium. 2. closed comedo. white·head n. 1. Canyon Country Airport was there Regarding your Nov. 13 editorial about the failure to enlarge the Burbank Airport terminal, I fail to understand why airports have so much trouble from surrounding homes and apartments. I should think that whoever was there first should be able to have priority consideration. The airport existed long before any of the homeowners were there. Whoever bought, or rented, a home in the area around the airport did so knowing that the airport was there ... and that planes have a tendency to make noise. When airports are built, they're always located in open areas. The law should recognize that an airport by definition should have a sphere of protection surrounding both the airport and flight paths. - Arthur Carden California City Self-policing I'm still laughing after reading an article in the Nov. 9 Business section about what Harvey Pitt thinks about Wall Street. First he suggests they should clean up their own act. Yeah, that's going to happen. But the real laughing matter laughing matter laugh n this is no laughing matter → das ist nicht zum Lachen is what he says after, and I quote: ``So even if your employees don't want to do the right thing for the right reason, they should still do the right thing because it's good for business.'' 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't do the right thing because it's the right moral thing to do then maybe you can do it for much more shallow reasons, like not committing fraud, not destroying people's lives and not going to jail. Is this guy for real? I do have to give him some credit for doing one right thing: quitting as chairman of the SEC. - David Ward David Ward may refer to:
Reseda More enforcement Re ``More speed limits may increase'' (Nov. 7): I read in the Daily News that the city of Glendale's thinking of raising the speed limit on 35 mph thoroughfares. I drive a truck for a living, and Glendale is my main route. I can't believe how fast people are driving. To raise the speed limit is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. If murder was up 50 percent, would they make it legal? I feel like every day I'm taking my life into my own hands by driving in Glendale. These law-breakers who can't obey the law and drive the speed limit should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Why can't you use radar? If these people get enough tickets and their insurance goes up, they will slow down or lose their right to drive. - Terry Ann Dodge Tujunga Unprovoked murder Re ``5 die in Palestinian attack'' (Nov. 11): Palestinians continue their campaign of unprovoked murder against the population of Israel. This time, as in most of these horrible attacks, the dead included unarmed women and children. We read of demonstrations against Israel. But where is the outrage and moral indignation against the slaughter of innocent Israeli civilians? Have we lost our ability to discern between right and wrong? - Marie Weiss West Hills Mideast solution When people have languished in the desert for 54 years and have been under the leadership of Arafat for 40 years and they have little to show for their loyalty, wouldn't you think that offering them a country if they embraced democracy would work? Wouldn't you think that giving full employment, education opportunities, judicial equalities and the four freedoms, that the Palestinians would overwhelmingly vote for a democracy? The U.S. has been looking in the wrong direction and spending much too much time finding ways to have American soldiers committed to war and spending $200 billion to bully Saddam. Converting the Palestinians to a democracy could be the prototype government to finally overthrow dictators like Saddam or kings in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. . - Harvey Dunn Harvey T. Dunn (March 8, 1884 - October 29, 1952) was a famous American painter. He is best known for his prairie-intimate masterpiece, The Prairie is My Garden. In this painting, a mother and her son and daughter are out gathering flowers from the quintessential prairie Woodland Hills Just the facts James Glass' Nov. 8 response to my critique of the recent election is typical of someone without an argument. He resorts to name calling. (He forgot ``pinko''). Now let's think of a name for those who support clear cutting, overfishing Overfishing occurs when fishing activities reduce fish stocks below an acceptable level. This can occur in any body of water from a pond to the oceans. More precise biological and bioeconomic terms define 'acceptable level'. (both industries are threatened), energy manipulation (Kenny Boy's no Democrat), relaxing pollution controls, organizations that discriminate (Augusta says no women, and the Boy Scouts say you better start believing), M-16 knockoffs with scopes and trickle-down (it failed in the 1980s and still doesn't work). Should I continue? Nah, it's too easy. People who believe in all this call themselves conservatives. I'll call them ... well, I'll stick to facts, not name calling. - Chuck Heinold West Hills |
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