PUBLIC FORUM.Still want more Re ``LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) studies funding options'' (Feb. 2): How many different ways can 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. get money? Now they want homeowners, people like me and you, to pay a parcel tax so that they can waste more money. They need to learn to live within their budget and stop trying to get more money. LAUSD has more money than they know what to do with and still want more. They must be stopped. LAUSD has close to 90,000 employees and in some instances no one knows what these people do, or if they are even doing anything. Let them really look at where the money is going. Running away in fear is not the way to act. Let Laura Chick audit the books and let the general public see where all the money is going. No more money, no more taxes on homeowners, no more anything until LAUSD comes clean. - Stephanie Schwartz Canyon Country Female teachers Re ``Are schools cheating young boys?'' (Jan. 30): Rich Lowry Rich Lowry (born 1968 in Arlington, Virginia) is editor of the conservative biweekly magazine, National Review. Lowry regularly appears on the Fox News Channel, including on The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity and Colmes seems to actually believe that female teachers have chosen that difficult occupation because they wish to make young boys suffer simply because they are young boys. I would remind Rich Lowry of the fact that since women have been given the freedom to have an occupation outside of the home, more women have become teachers than men, even at a time when very few women were being educated at all. Why does Lowry not discuss those women who taught young boys 70 years ago? How can he possibly feel that women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and , which were long overdue in our democracy, are somehow responsible for the lagging behind of young boys in our schools? - Shoshana Rubin Sylmar Overruling o·ver·rule tr.v. o·ver·ruled, o·ver·rul·ing, o·ver·rules 1. a. To disallow the action or arguments of, especially by virtue of higher authority: the chief Re ``Commission says cop wrong to shoot teen'' (Feb.1): What a shame that John Mack's police commission has ruled the shooting of Devin Brown Devin Brown (born December 30, 1978 in Salt Lake City, Utah[1]) is an American National Basketball Association player currently with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Brown was raised in San Antonio, Texas. out of policy. They did so in the face of the district attorney and the police chief both determining, after lengthy investigations, that the officer acted within policy. What a shame that a past president of the Urban League is allowed to overrule The refusal by a judge to sustain an objection set forth by an attorney during a trial, such as an objection to a particular question posed to a witness. To make void, annul, supersede, or reject through a subsequent decision or action. these experts in criminal behavior and police policy. William Bratton's credentials are without question and beyond compare. Yet his opinion means nothing as long as four people who have never worn a uniform decide he is wrong. I hope your readers now understand why. Shameful rulings like this are why our city is collapsing under the crushing weight of gang violence. - Steve Lurie Redondo Beach 'Mini pay to play' Re ``Sidewalks of shame'' (Jan. 29): For those who can't play the big ``pay to play'' game, like those who get multimillion-dollar contracts with the city, (Councilwoman) Wendy Gruel gruel a mixture made of ground feed mixed with water. started her own version, a ``mini pay to play,'' where residents give the city $1,200 to put them at the head of the list to get their sidewalks fixed. For the people who could not come up with a thousand- plus dollars to bribe the city, they might have to wait up to 80 years to get their sidewalks fixed. What next? ``Mini pay to play'' to be put at the head of the line for police, fire and ambulance service? Why we keep electing these greedy clowns over and over to public offices is beyond me. - John R. Schlank Granada Hills Applauding 'promises' Re ``Bush vows to end 'addiction to oil''' (Feb. 1): If all of those people standing and applauding all of those ``promises'' were to be put into the Social Security program instead of ``Pay for Life,'' the Social Security program would be fixed in a heartbeat immediately. See also: heartbeat and we would get more money to live above the poverty level. But that will never happen. - Ron Cartier Sylmar Just say no I'm just a little confused. Why is George Bush the oiloholic and why is everyone blaming Bush for ``their'' addiction to oil? To all the whiners writing to the Daily News, here is my suggestion: If you don't like the high price of oil and want the price to come down, don't move to Victorville and drive to Los Angeles to work. - Eric Dresser Burbank The economy The president keeps talking about how strong and great the economy is. What country is he the president of anyway? Hasn't he heard about General Motors laying off thousands of workers and closing plants? Hasn't he heard about Ford Motors laying off 30,000 workers? Those layoffs will ripple out into the smaller businesses that supply Ford and GM and will probably translate into a quarter-million jobs lost. This is aside from the other unrelated industries who are laying off hundreds. I know of three machine shops that are laying off all but a couple of people who are barely keeping the doors of the businesses open. Maybe Wall Street's economy is strong, but down here on Main Street, it ain't looking so good. - Gary L. Helm Lancaster A lot of laughs Re ``Bush vows to end 'addiction to oil''' (Feb. 1): I turned on W's speech on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. and thought it was Comedy Central. The idea that we are addicted to oil, did W think of that by himself? Funny! How about the double entendre? (Many of his cronies are addicted to ``grease''). I don't get how the W gang can be against abortion, yet favor covering up the truth. Usually, when someone has an abortion, it's kept secret, kind like when someone doesn't want people to know who their friends are. Is Abramoff spelled correctly here? Are Bush supporters just the greedy, religious right and the children left behind? - Joel Gossman Hollywood Hills Mayday Why was Cindy Sheehan ejected from the House chamber and arrested for sporting an antiwar an·ti·war adj. Opposed to war or to a particular war: antiwar protests; an antiwar candidate. T-shirt, while Rep. Bill Young's wife was not? Once again, it's all in who you know. Furthermore, it appears First Amendment terrorists are resolute about dismantling the Bill of Rights. Fellow Americans, we're in deep trouble - Mayday! Mayday! - Louisa B. Cauicia Montrose Fashion police strike Peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq, was arrested at the State of the Union address “State of the Union” redirects here. For other uses, see State of the Union (disambiguation). The State of the Union is an annual address in which the President of the United States reports on the status of the country, normally to a joint session of Congress (the for sporting a T-shirt that said ``2,245 dead. How many more?'' a reference to the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq. And we thought ``fashion police'' was a joke. Silly us. - Sandy Sand West Hills Either lead or retire Had government encouraged the major automakers to invest billions of dollars toward building a bigger and better freeway system instead of forcing them to waste billions of dollars on building smaller and inferior cars, we wouldn't have the traffic problems that exist today. Moreover, we'd have less pollution and more fuel because cars would be moving forward instead of sitting idle, wasting gasoline. Consequently, all we have to show for this government boondoggle boon·dog·gle Informal n. 1. An unnecessary or wasteful project or activity. 2. a. A braided leather cord worn as a decoration especially by Boy Scouts. b. is unnecessary waste, enormous loss of time and money and unbearable gridlock Gridlock A government, business or institution's inability to function at a normal level due either to complex or conflicting procedures within the administrative framework or to impending change in the business. with no relief in sight. It's time to retire these failed, backward-thinking politicians of the 20th century and vote in forward-thinking leaders who can efficiently move our citizenry into the 21st century. - Robert L. Rosebrock Brentwood Eavesdropping Secretly gaining unauthorized access to confidential communications. Examples include listening to radio transmissions or using laser interferometers to reconstitute conversations by reflecting laser beams off windows that are vibrating in synchrony to the sound in the room. Re ``Afraid to ask'' (Your Opinions, Jan. 26): I have an answer for Ted Barricklow, who wants to know why George Bush didn't get the required permission to eavesdrop eaves·drop intr.v. eaves·dropped, eaves·drop·ping, eaves·drops To listen secretly to the private conversation of others. on Americans using the established FISA Noun 1. FISA - an act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; intended to increase United States counterintelligence; process: Because the administration realized that a large percentage of the cases sent to the NSA NSA abbr. National Security Agency Noun 1. NSA - the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign would be thrown out as having no merit as terror subjects, and were selected merely because they disagreed with Bush policies. - Jennifer Rabuchin Burbank |
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