Not at all balanced
Donald Trump just tweeted, “The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!” This is unconstitutional (1st amendment). This is the type of thing dictators say.
He also made this contradictory claim; the leaks that the reporters were putting in the news are real but the reports in the news are fake news, very fake news. I am hoping that a Trump supporter will be able to translate this for me.
I also see that he has a questionnaire on his web site that asks some push questions, such as: Do you believe that the media wrongly attributes gun violence to Second Amendment rights? This implies that the media does attribute gun violence to the 2nd Amendment; Do you believe that if Republicans were obstructing Obama like Democrats are doing to President Trump … This assumes that Democrats are obstructing Trump which is not fact; On which issues does the mainstream media do the worst job of representing Republicans? (Select as many that apply.) This assumes that the media ‘is’ doing a bad job and you should pick all the ‘worst’ ones. (I will not nitpick the superlative)
President Trump thinks that only news reports that compliment him are real and that any adverse report is fake news. This is not a well balanced mind.
Kevin Bracken, Kelseyville
Wild Diamond decision not right
I take exception with Ron Rose’s assertion (RB12/31/16) or anyone else’s that the Planning Commissioners and the BOS did the right thing by approving he Wild Diamond Vineyard expansion project.
At best it’s a caviler comment considering the fact that Ron Rose does not live in Hidden Valley Lake thus having to put up with the future machinery noise, loud event music, traffic, smoke, dust, pesticide and herbicide drift and becoming a potential cancer cluster. Napa county is ranked 12th in adult cancers and 1st in childhood cancers. Sonoma county is not far behind in cancer ranking categories, especially childhood cancers. There should be no illusions that these dramatically undeniable facts are just a coincidence.
HVL has been in existence for decades and the residents there obviously moved and bought property there with reasonable expectations of living in a quiet, healthy and serene community with a pristine recreational lake as a amenity. With the approval of this large vineyard and more to come to this county, that is all in jeopardy for the sake of tax revenue and misguided, speculative notion that vineyards always bring this noble idea of prosperity and prestige to a region.
Many HVL residents and others expressed valid concerns many times including some testimony provided by professionals with technical and scientific backgrounds but seemed to not raise any concerns.
HVL residents earlier testimony was squelched by the vineyard owners slick disingenuous attorney at one of the scoping meetings with recorded transcripts conveniently and mysteriously lost, thus being denied to the public.
The biology report in he EIR was cooked which should have left credibility issues with the rest of the report, including all the assertions by the WDV lawyer hat all is above board, but not even an eyebrow was raised when tampering of the EIR was discovered.
I wonder how the vote would have gone if any of the planning commissioners or the BOS at that time during the vote lived in the HVL community.
Thomas Nickel, Lakeport
