PUBLIC FORUM.Quality of choices Re ``Who can you trust?'' (March 29): After watching the debate for mayor, it's no wonder that we get a 20-30 percent voter turnout. This time around, I think I will join that crowd. I would bet a bundle that if you could pass a bill that allows a little box on top of the ballot that reads ``none of the below,'' that we could get at least a 90 percent turnout. - Eugene E. Bliley Northridge Dynamic leadership Re ``Who can you trust?'' (March 29): We have an incompetent mayor whose brain has yet to spawn a fresh original idea, hiring people (that we pay) to do his thinking. Then we have a past president of ACLU ACLU: see American Civil Liberties Union. who will further emasculate e·mas·cu·late tr.v. e·mas·cu·lat·ed, e·mas·cu·lat·ing, e·mas·cu·lates 1. To castrate. 2. To deprive of strength or vigor; weaken. adj. Deprived of virility, strength, or vigor. the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. first chance he gets. And you want to know why I don't vote? - Cellestine Hannemann North Hills Governor Moonbeam Re ``Oakland mayor Jerry Brown For the whistleblower, see . Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (born April 7, 1938), is the Attorney General for the state of California. Brown has had a lengthy political career spanning terms on the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees (1969-1971), as California and girlfriend to wed'' (NewsLight, March 30): The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. reports, ``Brown ... his 'quirky politics' earned him the moniker (1) A name, title or alias. See alias. (2) A COM object that is used to create instances of other objects. Monikers save programmers time when coding various types of COM-based functions such as linking one document to another (OLE). See COM and OLE. 'Governor Moonbeam.''' To set the record straight, then-Gov. Brown wanted to have the state of California own a space satellite for renting out as well as for gathering information pertaining to California, thus, Governor Moonbeam. Now, California has to spend money (instead of making money) to get its information from the owners of a satellite when we need to know the best farming locations, forestry concerns, ocean currents, weather, communications, etc. So, now who are the quirky ones? - Jerry Piro Sun Valley Society's fabric Re ``The life and death of Terri Schiavo'' (April 1): The metaphor ``fabric of society'' lends itself well to the passions expressed on whether Terri Schiavo Theresa Marie "Terri" Schiavo (December 3, 1963 – March 31, 2005), from St. Petersburg, Florida, United States was a woman who suffered brain damage and became dependent on a feeding tube. should be starved and dehydrated de·hy·drate v. de·hy·drat·ed, de·hy·drat·ing, de·hy·drates v.tr. 1. To remove water from; make anhydrous. 2. To preserve by removing water from (vegetables, for example). or have a feeding tube feeding tube n. A flexible tube that is inserted through the pharynx and into the esophagus and stomach and through which liquid food is passed. reinserted. Like a woven fabric composed of warps and woofs which intersect each other from opposite positions, so went the bevy bevy a flock of birds. of arguments for or against either option. But as we view through the glass, darkly, that little patch of fabric that once was Terri Schiavo, we become aware that the arguments surrounding her, now that she is dead, have now become academic. And if the travail TRAVAIL. The act of child-bearing. 2. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence until her delivery. 5 Pick. 63; 6 Greenl. R. 460. 3. of Terri Schiavo's existence and the anguish of those who loved her put anything into perspective, it is that we must take pre-emptive pre·emp·tive or pre-emp·tive adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of preemption. 2. Having or granted by the right of preemption. 3. a. charge of our life concerning such matters through legal documentation in which our wishes are made indisputably clear. - Stephen Pettine Canoga Park Judgment Re ``The life and death of Terri Schiavo'' (April 1): Matthew 25: 41-42, ``Then shall He say to them also, that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry, and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me not to drink ...'' - William H. Link Northridge Finally free Terri Schiavo died today. Wrong. Terri Schiavo died 15 years ago when she had that heart attack and massive brain damage. Only her body was kept alive - not by ``God's will'' but through artificial means. She was not ``disabled'' or ``retarded.'' She was gone. The body she left behind could not swallow or chew or hear or read or hug or experience anything at all. But her parents could not let their child go so they kept her body going and vilified her husband for his battle to put her body to rest. He's the real hero in the piece. Because of him, Terri is finally free. - Penny Antine North Hollywood Government is backward Some Third World countries get hammered by earthquakes and tsunamis and we send food and water to them, even though they hate us. We deny an American woman the same effort and let her die. OPEC OPEC: see Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. OPEC in full Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries Multinational organization established in 1960 to coordinate the petroleum production and export policies of its raises the cost of oil 3,000 percent in five years so they can get richer, and we drop the cost of wheat and corn to those same countries, and American farmers go hungry. Just what in the world is going on here? Our government is all backward in its priorities. We need to take care of America first America First may refer to:
- Greg Beckman Sr. North Hollywood Cost of retrieval Re ``Wasn't even a kitten'' (Your Opinions, March 29): I was surprised when I read about the fire department coming out to retrieve a toy airplane from a tree at the taxpayers' expense. I was trapped in an elevator for a half an hour in my seniors-only building. Someone called the fire department - they came and finally got me out, for which I was grateful. A week later, I was billed $100, which I was required to pay. What is it about this that I don't understand? - Virginia Patterson Verdugo City Unnecessary waste Re ``Not even a kitten'' (Your Opinions, March 29): I live in a elder retirement community. There are a lot of sick people here. Many calls for 911 assistance, who shows up? An ambulance, a small firetruck and an 18-wheeler firetruck with full crew. These condos are single story so the threat of having to break down doors etc., does not exist. We have at least eight calls a month. This is overkill overkill Vox populi An excess of anything and an unnecessary waste of time, manpower and the taxpayers' money. In Newhall at least, they get to test out their equipment, and new techniques, however ... the firemen do not move out of their firetrucks they just wait until the ambulance takes away a patient or gives aid, then leaves. If our governor is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to cut the budget, he might start here. This goes on all over the city. - Carol Sinclair Newhall Reporting potholes Why is it my job to call 311 and report potholes? Don't we already overpay o·ver·pay v. o·ver·paid , o·ver·pay·ing, o·ver·pays v.tr. 1. To pay (a party) too much. 2. To pay an amount in excess of (a sum due). v.intr. To pay too much. an army of foremen and supervisors on these road crews to look around as they are driving to and from each job in their city-paid cars and trucks? It must be nice to sit and wait for a phone call before you feel obligated ob·li·gate tr.v. ob·li·gat·ed, ob·li·gat·ing, ob·li·gates 1. To bind, compel, or constrain by a social, legal, or moral tie. See Synonyms at force. 2. To cause to be grateful or indebted; oblige. to do your job. Maybe they could take a look out the window now and then as they drive from the 7-Eleven store to the doughnut shop and the bank on city time? - Jim Rowe Chatsworth Voucher enthusiast Re ``Phony dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human rates a scandal for schools'' (Their Opinions, March 29): This article is clever and lacks integrity. Alan Bonsteel is president of California Parents for Educational Choice, an organization actively seeking to destroy public education with the voucher system, which will reimburse presently enrolled private school students' parents. - Judy Lewis Valley Village Public transportation Re ``Bush needs strategy for 'geo-green''' (Their Opinions, March 29): Just because Europeans do something does not mean that Americans should do the same thing. That is not a justification for any action. Thomas Friedman's attitude of ``If you don't do what I say is best for you, I'll tax you until you have to do it'' is patently undemocratic. If we are to get people out of their cars, the solution will be to create a decent public transportation system and promote it to the youths of the country, who are not yet set in their ways. It will be to make it more profitable to develop alternative energy sources, rather than punishing people for using current sources. Taxes just make the populace angry. - Joseph Benson Simi Valley Knew when to quit President George W. Bush is using Social Security reform as a diversion, marking time while the killing war in Iraq is continuing the indiscriminate death and destruction. His father knew when to quit. George W. should have pulled out after we reached Baghdad and let them alone, which we will be doing anyway. - Jack Botwin Sylmar |
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