PUBLIC FORUM THEY CALL IT JUSTICE.Re ``Conviction in teen's death reduced for young athlete'' (March 1): I cannot begin to describe the disgust I feel for Judge Thomas White Thomas White can refer to:
My son is an average kid. He's not a football jock 1. jock - A programmer who is characterised by large and somewhat brute-force programs. 2. jock - When modified by another noun, describes a specialist in some particular computing area. or a star runner, but he's a good kid who wants to go to college. Now I know that some day he can be at a party and be beaten to death by a gang of football players and all they will get is a slap on the wrist. I feel so bad for the O'Leary family. They will be haunted by the death of their son forever, while Woods gets to enjoy his life. And they call it a justice system. - Greg Naster Lancaster Made his choice Re ``Celebrity cop'' (Editorial, March 4): Do we not get it? Chief Bratton has made his choice. It's a celebrity life for him and his wife. What a great job he has - just click your heels twice and off to another eat, drink and be merry meeting. I say, click your heels twice and go back to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of with your wife. We need a stay-at-home police chief. - Anita Penniman Van Nuys It's a sign Like mushrooms, campaign signs mysteriously and suddenly appear overnight on the day of the election. Candidates really must think voters are stupid, that we vote merely because we see more and more signs. Who knows, maybe the candidates are right and voters will again elect the candidate with the most signs. (Let's be sure the same candidates remove those illegal signs after they get your precious vote.) For the sake of the run-off, remember, people, it's not the signs that will represent you. Get to know your candidate. In fact, the more signs you see illegally posted (at freeway entrance-exit ramps, public parkways, MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. fences), the more you should ignore that candidate. They are breaking the law. - Joy Ming Granada Hills East Valley dumping The Daily News printed, in Feb. 23 Viewpoint, side-by-side columns on Bradley Landfill and Hansen Dam Hansen Dam in Los Angeles County, California was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District in 1939 and 1940. The project is located near the northern edge of the San Fernando Valley on Tujunga Wash, about one mile below the confluence of the Big Tujunga Wash . Downtown L.A. has definitely returned to dumping on the East Valley. Residents are once again told to bear the brunt of dumping in our front yards as well as in back. Waste Management promises us their plans include parkland at their dump. Meanwhile, the city's Recreation and Parks Department is still postponing cleaning out last year's dumping in Hansen Dam park. Recent rains have turned the little lake into something that smells and looks like an overflowed toilet. Is Waste Management one of the special-interest groups Recreation and Parks has hand-picked for the new and improved Hansen Dam Advisory Board? - Mary Benson Sun Valley Van Nuys Airport Van Nuys Airport (IATA: VNY, ICAO: KVNY, FAA LID: VNY) is a public airport located in Van Nuys, California in the San Fernando Valley, within the Los Angeles city limits. Re ``Night flights leave ringing in Hahn's ear'' (March 3): All aircraft operations at Van Nuys Airport are tracked utilizing the same radar technology used by the Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control . Each call to the airport's 24-hour Community Response Line is investigated and logged on a monthly summary report distributed at public meetings of the Van Nuys Airport Citizens Advisory Council. Residents receive personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. letters with information and data on the specific incident reported or, when requested, are directly contacted by noise management staff. Van Nuys Airport operations are regulated by a noise abatement A reduction, a decrease, or a diminution. The suspension or cessation, in whole or in part, of a continuing charge, such as rent. With respect to estates, an abatement is a proportional diminution or reduction of the monetary legacies, a disposition of property by will, when and curfew ordinance that contains a partial curfew restricting certain jet operations during late night hours The Night Hours are the fixed times of prayer in the Divine Office of the Roman Catholic Church, that take place after sunset and before sunrise. In the Latin Rite, the main Office is traditionally Matins, said in the early hours of the morning, and which is joined to the office of . The original ordinance was amended to restrict the addition of any new Stage 2 aircraft from being permanently based at VNY VNY Vision New York . Van Nuys Airport successfully completed and submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration a Part 150 Noise Compatibility Study to gain federal funding for various noise control measures. Last month, the Board of Airport Commissioners also approved moving forward with a federal Part 161 Study that will consider additional noise control measures identified as requiring more study. - Selena B. Birk Manager Van Nuys Airport This war is wrong Re Bill Fulkerson's letter (Your Opinion, March 2): I am not a ``perennial Hollywood whiner'' - I am a simple woman living on a small, fixed income. I agree with the anti-war sentiments being expressed by celebrities in this particular cause. I have supported our troops all my life and will not stop now, but this war is wrong. It is naked aggression Naked Aggression is an anarcho-punk band which was formed in Madison, Wisconsin in late 1990. Naked Aggression appeared in the Rockumentary The Decline of Western Civilization III. , and all it will accomplish is to make all the Islamic nations who already hate us, hate us even more and attempt more terror attacks terror attack n → atentado (terrorista) terror attack n → attentato terroristico on our country and our people - wherever in the world they might be. Is this what you want? I am currently supporting our troops with donations to them and to veterans groups and have already sent messages to the troops overseas. Have you? - Kathleen A. Pitt Canyon Country Unfuzzy math The U.S. military wants to use Turkey as a diving A DIV Associate of Divinity board into Iraq. This is possible because Dubya is offering the Turks $16 billion in baksheesh to gain their cooperation. Just for comparison, imagine if those 16 billion smackers were spent in the U.S. for homeland security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Department of Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States instead of going to the beloved Turks. Sixteen billion taxpayer dollars could fund 640,000 additional cops, at $50,000 per officer, for five years. That would give the 50 largest U.S. cities 12,800 additional police officers, per city. We'd have more than half a million new jobs, $16 billion into the U.S. economy, and more homeland security forces than we'd know what to do with. I'd say Dubya, as usual, is spending our money in the wrong country. - Brian Wilson Glendale Sans mustache What would you call the leader of a country whose economy is based on oil, who was not elected by its people, will not obey the U.N. resolutions, will not listen to the will of his own people or the world, imprisons people without due process, and possesses unrevealed 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 , not dismissing them as a means to his goal - a dictator? A tyrant tyrant, in ancient history, ruler who gained power by usurping the legal authority. The word is perhaps of Lydian origin and carried with it no connotation of moral censure. ? A despot? President George W. (for ``war'') Bush? The first World War was promoted to be ``won quickly'' and to ``end all wars.'' That really worked, didn't it? Is it mandatory for a dictator to have a mustache? - Gary Henrickson North Hollywood Fixing gas prices Frank Jacobs (``Taking advantage'' Your Opinion, Feb. 26) complains about the increase in gas prices and correctly mentions the added cost of other items that must be factored in. He wants Washington to take action. The necessary action would be to drill in Alaska Wildlife Nature Reserve, in the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east and off the California coast, and to increase our use of nuclear power (the cheapest and cleanest form of power generation). If Jacobs supports all these activities, his complaint has some validity, but somehow I sense that he would be against taking these positive steps to solve the problem since he only mentions price controls (which history has shown us would only exacerbate the shortage problem). - Bob Cranor Panorama City Not before A nation of truly free citizens would never mandate that their people recite an allegiance to a god, an individual, or even an idea. The U.S. government - or any government for that matter - can insist on my giving mouth service to an imagined deity, Santa Clause, or Bigfoot if they get enough thugs to enforce it. But the fact is, no one can make me believe in such things whether it's on the money, in the Pledge, or tattooed on my forehead. I'll swear allegiance to the Tooth Fairy if you can prove it's there, but not a moment before. - James Underdown 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. |
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