A credibility problem
A prestigious poll did a survey and they asked people what word describes Hillary Clinton? Number one was, drum roll please, ta da: Liar! Number two was dishonest! Number three was untrustworthy! Just like the current president!
The news came out three days ago and I am still laughing. You call me “the master of misinformation,” that honor was bestowed on President Obama and the Democrat Party a long, long time ago. But that was before he evolved, whatever that means? He can’t even write a book before people fact checked it and found 32 lies, or as you Dems like to call it, misinformation. And if elected, Hillary Clinton will fit right in his shoes, if she doesn’t go to jail first. Then it will be non-stop laughter. And clown car, you Dems hold the monopoly on that. For you Dems famous last line “Houston I think we have a problem” is an understatement It seems that credibility is number one.
If foreign governments have hacked Hillary’s private server she could be blackmailed if elected president. We are talking China, Russia, Iran, N. Korea, etc., that do not like us and would love to topple the USA! Are you willing to take that chance? Are you willing to flush 240 years of independence down the toilet? You take away the rule of law you will destroy us, the USA, and that is what Hillary has done! Nobody on either side wants to prosecute her but that doesn’t make it right! Rudy Giuliani cited 12 laws she has violated but nobody on either side has the guts to prosecute! What the heck is going on here?
This is not fantasy world. This is not Dem vs Rep. This is if we will win or lose as a nation! Are you willing to take us over the edge for one person who does not give a damn about you? Hillary has shown us it’s all about me, me, me! Fact check me! I rest my case!!
Mac McKay, Lakeport
It’s not fair
I would like to know why stores, magazines and catalog companies are prejudice to people who are old, alone and don’t do things online. There are a lot of people who don’t want to buy things in large amounts they have no place to store it. Like the other day I wanted a pound of ground beef. It cost me $4.29 a pound because I couldn’t use 10 pounds. It would have cost me only $2.99 a pound, but I had no place to put the other 9 pounds.
They never put small amounts on sale. Why?
Then you have the magazine that will give you a subscription for $19.99 a year, but if you go online you can get it for $9.99 a year. They won’t get my subscription again. There are also the stores that advertise a job, but you can’t get it anywhere but online.
Things like this don’t make sense to me. Not everyone has a credit card, laptop or smartphone to do these things, so I don’t think it is fair. I don’t think I’m alone in this.
Bertha Davis, Kelseyville
Words to learn
Many are not aware that learning the meaning and pronunciation of words is an easy way not only to increase one’s knowledge in general, but to develop a useful en rapport with a wider selection of words (if you can’t say it, you can’t think it). Also to gain usable knowledge and to increase one’s intelligence (one’s ability to learn); all this because words are the very substance of knowledge, and vocabulary is the tool one must wield to formulate intelligence.
One should not resent the use by others of words one does not understand, as I often have, but should consider the incident an opportunity to improve one’s vocabulary. Words carry meaning and meaning is the very substance of intelligence.
In truth the words that carry the meaning of which learning consists must by instinctive knowledge be the very quintessence of what one must learn in order to become learned. Vocabulary is the tool one must wield to become learned, and vocabulary is one of the easiest subjects to learn. Any dictionary can be one’s text.
Before quitting this subject of words vis-à-vis learning we should consider a great and generally unrecognized stymie apropos of education that lies incognito in the fact that one’s intellectual reformulation occurs so evenly as one becomes more learned throughout one’s self-concept that one has very little change in one’s ego structure to notice. This is the principal reason one’s progress in education lacks the feeling of accomplishment that so encourages one in other more noticeable progressions that show more radical intrapersonal (inside the person instead of between persons) changes.
This lack could be supplied by giving frequent tests to make progress of learning more noticeable, a most unlikely adjustment in view of the too much freedom allowed the modern-day student, to whom a test is a disturbing challenge.
Dean Sparks, Lucerne
Reality check
Have you noticed that if you oppose Obama’s policies, you are a racist, bigot or just plain stupid?
Brent Pomeroy, Lakeport
