Letters to the editor for Sunday, Feb. 10


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Play ball!

I would like to acknowledge and thank the Bonita Springs City Council and the parks department for their interest and involvement in renourishing the baseball/softball fields in preparation for the Bonita Springs Little League season. Without naming names, those who assisted the league know who they are.

It is also very encouraging to see all the new faces both on the fields and on the board. As parents of three girls, we were always involved in their activities from Spring Creek Elementary to Estero High School and beyond. It is very gratifying to see our children now support their children and their friends’ children.

It’s a great day at Bonita Springs Little League. Come join them and have some fun.

Robert Harrell, Bonita Springs

Walkway needs art

As five-year veteran snowbirds from the Philadelphia area, we investigate various walkways in the Naples area. Recently, we walked the pedestrian underpass for U.S. 41 between Tin City and the Bayfront Hotel. The underpass walkway is in dire need of color, ceramic art, and/or signage.

It's clean but bare and very NOT Naples. It's so like a subway walk in Philadelphia or NYC.

Washington, D.C., metro stations are the perfect example of art entering the pedestrian walkways. May I suggest a competition among high school/college art students for designs? Perhaps, a changing display?

Naples is a cultural and artistic gemstone in Southwest Florida. If you beautify it, they will come.

Karen Capie, Naples

Why so glum?

I prefer not to say how many State of the Union addresses I’ve heard, but I thought that President Trump’s on Feb. 5 was one of the best.

I have a few questions about Congress’ responses, demonstrated by the amount of applause or lack of it that Democrats and Republicans gave to some of his statements.

Why aren’t Democrats as happy as Republicans that unemployment is so low? Why aren’t Democrats as happy as Republicans that black and Hispanic unemployment is at an all-time historic low?

Why aren’t Democrats as happy as Republicans that economic growth is above 3 percent, a level that was two years ago declared impossible?

Why aren’t Democrats as happy as Republicans that manufacturing jobs are coming back to our country? Why aren’t Democrats as happy as Republicans that wages are rising?

Why aren’t Democrats as happy as Republicans that inflation is stable? Why aren’t Democrats as happy as Republicans that the cost of prescription drugs decreased for the first time in 46 years?

Why aren’t Democrats as happy as Republicans that we have made significant progress in negotiations with North Korea and China? Why aren’t Democrats as happy as Republicans that ISIS is reduced to almost nothing?

I can’t speak for the Democrats, so I shouldn’t presume to know their answers to the above questions. But what I do know is that all of the above things that have happened under the Trump administration are definitely good for America.

Lowell Wrucke, Naples

Wearing white but looking grumpy

The Democrat female representatives in white at the State of the Union speech by President Trump made these impressions:

They appeared, unfortunately, to look like the Ku Klux Klan, which dresses in white also.

The Democrat ladies looked grumpy and unhappy with the Trump success message, like children who do not want to eat their oatmeal for breakfast. They might not understand what makes America work to achieve greatness.

President Trump’s message was very clear to me.

Frank Jamerson, Bonita Springs

Trump’s future address                            

My fellow great Americans,

It has been a big honor to be your leader.   As wonderful and successful as this ride has been, it is my considered judgment that the time has come to hand over the government to Mr. Pence.

The attacks on my remarkable leadership, unfair as they are, have been wearing on me and my superb family. As a faithful and dedicated family man, I will not submit my wives and children to any more scurrilous and defamatory insults. The ignorant critics have demonstrated wanton disregard for the truth, while I have always been forthright, frank, honorable and considerate.

Space does not permit listing my incredible achievements. I have directed the most productive administration in history.  In addition, there is Trump University, which will be reborn as an equal member of the Ivy League.  And Wharton’s plans for my statue at the corner of Hyperbole Street and Fantasy Boulevard, are well underway.

As for Mount Rushmore, my consultants have finally decided there is no room for a fifth president, but their plan to remake Teddy Roosevelt’s face remains a possibility.   If that won’t work, we can chisel my remarkable face onto El Capitan or Half Dome, as a major upgrade to our treasured Yosemite National Park.  A spectacular sound and light show will add to the awesome effect. 

So, I bid adieu, with hopes that the republic can continue its great accomplishments in spite of the departure of its superb, glorious and unequaled leader.  Effective March 1, 2019, I resign as your president, returning as the Founding Fathers anticipated to a quiet and humble civilian life.  God bless you, la de da.     

Bob Graham, Naples

Against nature and common sense

If a woman decides to kill her baby after giving birth, isn’t that murder? Once you are born you are a citizen who is protected by the Constitution and the laws of the state, and the federal government.

The doctor should be charged with second-degree murder; and the mother with accessory before and after. That would put a stop to this practice.

Furthermore, if the mother decides to kill a healthy baby because she changed her mind after nine months of carrying him or her, that’s an irrational decision. I would say “temporary insanity.” Thus, the request should be denied.

Will the clinic provide an attorney for the baby at birth to protect the child’s rights? After all, you can’t kill someone without a trial. And what would be the crime the baby committed? Does the clinic and doctor see lawsuits in the future from the mother? “I wasn’t in the right frame of mind to make such a decision, I just gave birth!”

Whether you believe in God or not, this is against nature and common sense. It is disgusting. Where is the outrage from decent women across the country? Fifty million abortions are not enough? (How many good people did we lose?) 

Now some states want to make it easier. Shame on the politicians who voted for this and then cheered.

Jim Adduci, Naples and Boston