Off the highway
Do you bristle at the sight of people staring into electronic devices in places where they once socialized (parks, restaurants, sidewalks, etc.)?
Do you read and write words on paper such as letters and books?
Do you find it tricky to communicate with devotees of the electronic world (e-world)?
Are you tired of hemorrhaging time and money trying and failing to join e-world?
Do you feel like roadkill on the information super highway?
Cave Persons Unite (CPU). Join us.
Jacquelyn Harwell, Lakeport
Save the lake
What we love, we usually care for, so if we love our lake and our beautiful Clear Lake Basin:
-we will stop the spread of hydrilla
-we will preserve the remaining wetlands around the lake
-we will find ways to add to this circle of protection
-we will plant tulle
-we will let the wetlands be a nursery for lake life
-we will protect it from run-off from agricultural lands
-we will manage to limit motorized pollution in the lake
-we will place garbage (plastic containers, bottles, cans, etc.) in refuse containers away from the lake
-we will preserve shoreline for mink, otter, muskrat and all other native wildlife species
-we will study the history of what is probably the oldest lake in North America
-we will work with the elements that have maintained Clear Lake since its birth 2.5 million years ago.
Loving our lake may seem a bit simplistic, but if each landowner, tenant, developer and visitor respects the beauty of the lake and the surrounding area, perhaps our lake can be spared from the tragic demise as has happened to other great lakes and the economy of Lake County will also be protected.
Leona Butts, Clearlake Oaks
The placebo effect
One reason the placebo shows an incredible conformity with successful treatment of disease is that the disease and the placebo have to register a certain number of false results that match in any test involving numerous examples. However, the most efficient reason for the unsolicited medical efficacy of the placebo is that the sincerity of the patient’s belief in the efficacy of the placebo evokes the assistance of the brain, whose capacity for effective cooperation was discovered via computed tomography in the 19th century, though the neuroscientists didn’t know they had discovered this servo side of the brain. I think they have still to learn of it. I learned of it just reading of what they have done.
Dean Sparks, Lucerne
Double standard
I’ve had it. Kevin Bracken wants you to believe Benghazi never happened. Hillary was not involved and Trey Goudy is some hick ambulance chasing lawyer. Lots of luck. How about going to see the “13 Hours” movie produced by the men on the ground during those long 13 hours and then explain to me and the American People where President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were during those 13 hours? They were directly responsible for what happened before, during, and after those 13 hours.
You bash Trey Goudy for nothing but your pure political rhetoric when he has not received the full information due to this Administration withholding information (i.e. the excruciating slow release of Hillary’s emails, done on purpose to hide the truth.) If this was done by a Republican President, you would be screaming, like a stuck hog, for prosecution. If Hillary was a Republican you would be screaming like a stuck hog for her prosecution. So don’t go there with me because if Hillary was a Republican I would be screaming for her prosecution! Don’t give me your Liberal double standard!
You on the Left have had the lame stream media in your pocket, to do your bidding, for so long you expect a free ride of your double standards. So how about giving me a website I can go to, to exonerate Hillary Clinton, (i.e. Produced and directed by the Bill Clinton foundation) and finally if Hillary was a Republican, she would be indicted for her email scandal. But seeing how she is a Democrat, she gets a free ride (compliments of the Attorney General and the Administration)! Explain that double standard? Oh no, just brush it off and go on.
I am waiting for an explanation! And so is Trey Goudy. And who told the Rapid Response Team, ready to go out of Italy, to stand down? (i.e.: just released Clinton emails, long, long hours later and while you are at it where is Susan Wrights explanation about the so called videos that caused the Benghazi incident?)
Mac McKay, Lakeport
