Hate speech?
After a long and deserved vacation, I had to come home to this?
I have never seen such a display of public defecation as was published in the Record Bee 3-17-16. Between Jim Hall, Gene Lyons, and the Opinion Column, all you would need to do is add a Cynthia Tucker column with it and you would have turned the whole paper brown. This is why the political waters are poisoned and more and more people are gravitating towards Trump. So keep it up Jim and you will single handedly give the election to Trump.
Typical Liberal, take a meadow muffin, throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks. Two things I will not do with the edition of the newspaper (3-17-16), I will not recycle or compost it for fear of polluting the environment. So this edition will be double bagged and tagged for the next hazardous waste pick up.
After all of this about Trump, you want us to believe that Hillary Clinton is the answer with all of her lying, deceptions and baggage. Who is really brain dead?
And then this. A black teenager was shot to death while burglarizing a home (do not personally condone this), and his Aunt laments by saying “how else is a kid in the hood get his food and clothing for school?” So lets see, if the Dems can’t give you enough free stuff you now have a right to steal it? Is this what we have come to under liberal Democrat leadership?
And Harry Reid gets out in front of the Supreme Court and says, “it’s time the Republicans do their job and appoint this Justice to the SCOTUS“. No Harry, they are doing their jobs and you were the one who taught them how to do it (i.e.: The Joe Biden Rule, i.e.: Newton, “for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction.”
Mac McKay, Lakeport
We do have a problem
“The biggest change, in my judgment, is that family structure has come apart all over the North Atlantic world — and has occurred in an historical instant” — Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Brent Pomeroy, Lakeport
First impressions
Vista Point Shopping Center is an eyesore. I do not normally go for eminent domain, but it would be better as a courthouse location than a derelict building. The owner wants $3 million [according to a county official], for a building, with a fallen roof? A news story stated that the land is only worth $800,000.
The owner is holding us hostage. He is perpetuating this eyesore, at our expense. Since the roof fell, the building and the center as a whole, has taken on a dilapidated and deserted look, which gives visitors the impression that our town is frumpy and poor and needs rehabilitation.
We are not Detroit, we are not in decay, and our buildings are improving. Lakeport is working hard and at great expense to bring up the looks of our town, to encourage tourism. It is a shame that the first impression for visitors is an eyesore, when they need to feel invited to see the improving downtown.
Dave Gebhard, Lakeport
The nature of democracy
The conditions of earthly nature has made necessary the existence of a single governing factor of every form of life and has limited that factor to power short of the destruction of the governed. Under this system of government alone can life exist on earth. A governing power with the power of life and death over the governed would soon be destroying those with whom he differed, and difference of opinion is necessary for the survival of intelligent life, because it effects the proposal of multiple solutions to critical problems.
Therefore a muscle, if overtaxed, will stop responding to a cortical impulse short of serious injury; a political constituency will rebel short of total destruction; and even a rebelling mob requires an impromptu leader.
Hence there has never been a democratic government. Democracy has been feigned under cover of a confusion of government agencies, different ways of putting the government in power, and short terms of office; so that every type of government calls itself a democracy. Every people believes its government is a democracy, but harks to a law promulgated and enforced by a single unit of government as a guide to action.
Dean Sparks, Lucerne.
