PUBLIC FORUM WRONG REASON.I find your Dec. 26 front-page headline highly offensive. The soldiers did not lose their lives for me; they lost their lives for a self-righteous president and the agenda of a lunatic administration. - Stuart Schaller Valley Village Irrelevant evidence IRRELEVANT EVIDENCE. That which does not support the issue, and which) of course, must be excluded. See Relevant. Re ``They gave their lives for you'' (Dec. 26): The times bode well for the Flat Earth Society, and it will be only a matter of time before the elitists of academia reflect a more common-sense notion of celestial shapes. After all, if a significant portion of the public can persist in Verb 1. persist in - do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop; "We continued our research into the cause of the illness"; "The landlord persists in asking us to move" continue the heart-of-hearts (and government-fed) feeling that Iraq had 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 and collaborative complicity with al-Qaida, then actual evidence has become quite irrelevant. Similarly, if the administration reports Iraqi casualties as minimal ``collateral damage collateral damage Surgery A popular term for any undesired but unavoidable co-morbidity associated with a therapy–eg, chemotherapy-induced CD to the BM and GI tract as a side effect of destroying tumor cells ,'' why should we be concerned that the respected British medical journal The British Medical Journal, or BMJ, is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world.[2] It is published by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (owned by the British Medical Association), whose other The Lancet places the death toll of Iraqis at more like 200,000. - Alan Benson Newbury Park Died in vain Re ``They gave their lives for you'' (Dec. 26): I take exception to the Dec. 26 headline of the Daily News. The Iraqi war has done nothing to further the security or the interests of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The sad truth is, the people who died in it died for nothing. - Josh Rivetz Northridge Rumsfeld upheld Re ``Rumsfeld must go'' (Editorial, Dec. 27): Taking this drastic measure would require that you substantiate the truth that ``most Americans'' agree with you. Over the holidays, you must have missed the positive, heart-warming heart·warm·ing or heart-warm·ing adj. 1. Causing gladness and pleasure. 2. Eliciting sympathy and tender feelings: a heartwarming tale. visit of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to Iraq (or else you watched a medium other than the Fox News Channel). These fighting warriors gave him their vote of confidence. I appeal to you to lay aside your liberal bias at such a crucial time, take up the mental frame of our president, and manifest confidence as he does in Secretary Rumsfeld, who, by the way, serves our country without salary. - Kenneth Grissom La Crescenta Bring them home Re Patrick Weir's ``We can't win'' (Your Opinions, Dec, 26): Unfortunately, it is correct. Our soldiers are heroes in every sense of the word. The problem is that too many of the Iraqis do not have the same view of the world held by most Americans. The president has offered a continuing list of reasons for our soldiers to be in Iraq, but the reality is that the Iraqis don't want us in their country. They probably don't understand western democracy, and they don't appear to want to learn how it functions. Weir is correct when he says ``they do not deserve the freedom'' that we are willing to die for. It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to bring our heroes home. - Don Evans Canoga Park Now's the time Re ``Planning director to quit in 2005'' (Dec. 23): What a thoughtful and wonderful Christmas, oops, holiday, present City Planning city planning, process of planning for the improvement of urban centers in order to provide healthy and safe living conditions, efficient transport and communication, adequate public facilities, and aesthetic surroundings. Director Con Howe has given 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. with his retirement announcement. It's also time for some of the old guard in the Planning Department to consider joining him, especially those who have fought the concept of neighborhood-development specific plans and neighborhood council empowerment for neighborhood land-use decision making. Along with selecting a replacement, the issue of neighborhood council land-use planning and land-use decision-making empowerment should go on the City Council table. Given this news, and with upcoming Los Angeles city elections, the time and the opportunity to pursue real neighborhood empowerment may never be better. - Tom Paterson Tom Paterson is a Scottish comic artist who drew characters for Fleetway in 1973-1990, and D.C Thomson from 1986-onwards. He is famous for drawing comics such as: Fleetway
Valley Village Not dream; nightmare Re ``College gives immigrant a dream'' (Mariel Garza column, Dec. 25): This is the story of an illegal alien who is going to college at the expense of taxpayers. The article gives the first and last names of the family, along with the geographic location. One hopes immigration authorities immigration authorities npl → servicio sg de inmigración immigration authorities npl → service m de l'immigration will read the article. - Caroline K Caroline K. Walters (b.1957), collaborator with UK-based Nocturnal Emissions experimental/industrial music group in the 1980's. Released solo LP "Now Wait for Last Year" in 1987 (the first release on the Earthly Delights label). . Malloy Reseda No exceptions Re ``Mexico, U.S. ignore illegal immigration'' (Viewpoint, Dec. 26): Congratulations to Jill Stewart Jill Stewart is a print, radio, Internet, and television political commentator. From 1984 through 1991, she was a metro reporter with the Los Angeles Times. From 1997 through 2003, she authored a weekly commentary column on Los Angeles, southern California, and Sacramento politics on her excellent piece exposing the irresponsibility of both the U.S. and Mexican governments regarding the high cost imposed upon California taxpayers for the imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. here of 28,672 foreign law-breakers, an estimated half of whom are Mexican illegal aliens. The solution to this problem is a simple one: For any existing diplomatic agency here, or before any new foreign consulate is established in any city of this country, mandatory prisoner exchange policies must be in place to return convicted foreigners to their country of origin within 30 days of conviction. For those countries that choose not to participate: adios, sayonara, etc. - no exceptions. - Stephen A. Downs Valley Village Must prove it Re ``Jackson persecuted'' (Your Opinions, Dec. 26): Philip Wilt thinks Michael Jackson Noun 1. Michael Jackson - United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958) Michael Joe Jackson, Jackson is persecuted with unprecedented search warrants. It appears to me that these people are facing a man who seems to have unlimited funds to fight the legal system. To the world, he seems to be a Peter Pan who has helped many children and provided an amazing playground for unfortunate children to recover from deadly diseases. If this was his only agenda, then he would be held in high esteem. But there are serious accusations against him at present - too many coming from too many children. If Michael Jackson is innocent, as he claims, then his passel of high-priced lawyers will prove it. - Carol Sinclair Newhall And pretty tasty Re ``A gentle Christmas'' (Your Opinions, Dec. 23): As long as the vegetarian point of view is printed, let me offer this. Early man didn't have soy-based deli slices or any other mad scientist's soy concoction. What early people did have was fire and tools to make food with. It's fine if there are individuals who utilize today's technology to alter their lifestyles, but that doesn't mean that eating turkey is unnatural. Not only do we eat animals because that is how nature intended, but our taste buds taste buds taste npl → Geschmacksknospen pl also share one common opinion: Animals are delicious. Have a happy new year. - Malcolm Gee Van Nuys Get it right Re ``Parks & flex'' (Your Opinions, Dec. 26): Could we please get our adages right before we use them to make a point? Police Protective League President Bob Baker talks about the flex program and how it's working. He says, ``The proof is in the pudding on this one.'' What proof? What pudding? Here's the true saying: ``The proof of the pudding proof of the pudding n. Informal The ultimate evidence attesting the true nature of something: The proof of the pudding is in the election results, not the polling. is in the eating.'' Now, we see how the adage helps to make his point when he says, ``Flexible scheduling has increased officer morale and significantly improved retention and recruitment. We are hard-pressed to understand how this can be seen as anything except a successful program.'' I have seen this saying misused by more than one person when being quoted in your pages. I hope that they will take note. - Gene Walinski Chatsworth You shouldn't have Guess what our community gave to me (and five of my neighbors living between the middle and high schools) on Christmas night? A smashed car window. That never happened when the homeless people lived up the street. - Robin Supak Canyon Country Instruction needed Re ``Bills kept ringing up despite warning'' (Dec. 19): It is difficult to understand why the two city workers who incurred high personal-use cell-phone bills could not be fired for cause. The excuse is that they were not instructed that city phones were not for personal use. I hope that they have also been instructed that they cannot carpool car·pool n. also car pool 1. An arrangement whereby several participants or their children travel together in one vehicle, the participants sharing the costs and often taking turns as the driver. 2. children to school in the trash trucks! - Harry N. Hirschensohn Sherman Oaks |
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