Letters to the Editor Wednesday

Posted: November 14, 2012 - 12:25am

I am absolutely stunned that we have three county commissioners who have proposed the most inhumane, ignorant and barbaric “solution” to the feral cat problem.

There seems to be a lot of fear mongering going on — from rabies to ringworms, hookworms and other Zoonotic diseases.

There seems to be no end from these commissioners to alarm the public.

Humans protect themselves from these diseases with good hygiene and not allowing children to play in the dirt or eat the dirt.

The transmittance of these diseases from feral cats, however, is actually rare.

The Milton Project practices trapping, spaying/neutering and releasing feral cats back into the wild. In this program, the cats are also vaccinated against rabies when brought to area vets. This is considered the best way to deal with the feral cat population across the country and is sanctioned by the ASPCA.

Petey is my precious cat that I rescued a few years back.

He is vaccinated against rabies and other diseases and neutered and loves the outdoors.

God forbid someone at the direction of Pat, Helen and Tabitha should think he is wild and scoop him up and eliminate him.

Tabitha thinks that if it’s not endangered, then its right to life is not protected. There are plenty of species, humans included, that are not endangered that can and do pose far worse threats to our society.



Maybe conservatives should have own party

The election is over, and the pundits are having a field day with their analyses.

One of the earliest conclusions on all sides is that the United States demographic has shifted dramatically in the last few years due to an ever-expanding minority population. In fact, we have become a majority minority nation. This is a “real “fact, not alterable by the desire of any group of people to believe otherwise.

The new reality provides a wake-up call for the Republican Party.

Their appeal to the aging, white male population will not allow them much leeway to win in future elections where the “aging” part of that demographic will limit their reach.

Many of the gurus on the right, however, suggest that Mitt Romney was just not conservative enough to win this election. If they feel justified in that opinion, why not create their own Conservative Party and sever all ties to the present-day GOP?

Then, all the “true” conservatives out there can nominate and try to elect one of their own and not have to deal with the moderates in the Republican tent or those pesky Independents. That solves all their problems and will show them exactly how many “true believers” are actually out there.

If you think you can win by appealing to your base alone, test reality.

Give it a try and see how that works out for you.



No justice in Arizona shootings

Here is another case where justice does not prevail. Jared Loughner was given “life” sentences rather than a death penalty.

A sick person kills six people, inflicts a life-long injury on a U.S. congresswoman and now the government has to spend millions of dollars until he dies rather than spending $3 on electricity to end this obvious episode of “no gun control” life in the U.S.



Veteran election watcher calls 2012 shameful

It was a shanda. That’s my version of a Hebrew name for shameful, and shameful the 2012 national election of the United States of America was.

In 1936, I listened on the radio in my fraternity house at the university of North Carolina to my first election.

I was 19 years old, and the soothing velvet and assuring words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave hope to me and all my frat brothers that, yes, America will survive this terrible depression, that, yes, the USA will emerge still the shining light atop of all the nations on the planet.

I have listened and watched on TV ‘til early morning hours for 20 elections.

I have been thrilled, excited, bored and non-committed to all except one, the 1948 election rivalry between scruffy President Harry Truman and the proper mustachioed District Attorney Thomas Dewey, often referred to as the little groom on top of a wedding cake.

I can still hear the booming voice of H. V. Kalterborn announcing the stunning victory of Tom Dewey, and everybody went to bed only to awaken in the morning to hear President Harry Truman laughing at the world.

So this 94-year-old geezer will never have to go through another one of these tortures, but still knowing this one was a shanda.



U.S. still best among certain countries

They’re at it again. A vacuous speech by the president and an idiotic reaction from the AP.

Mr. Obama gave a flowery speech on the country’s fiscal problems with vague promises to compromise with House Republicans and a promise for a “balanced” approach. The AP responded by asserting that Mr. Obama “threw down the gauntlet.”

In the president’s speech, there was nothing specific, nothing in writing and nothing new.

The Republicans, on the other hand, have submitted specific proposals that make reasonable attempts to balance revenues with spending.

No response from the president or his party. Of course, that would require real work, something apparently not favored by the president or his supporters. But why work and offer real solutions when demagoguery works better?

People had their chance to vote for an honest man, but they chose to vote otherwise. It will be their loss. But of all the single party, bankrupt, third-world countries that are led by autocrats, we are still the best.



Comments (7) Add comment
Phun 11/14/12 - 06:01 am
Commissioner's Solution

Perhaps they could extend this solution to crime in the county? Seems to be a bigger threat for all of us or at least pay equal amount of attention. However, they did a good job of taking care of the wild beef cow's roaming in the pasture last year!

newsworm 11/14/12 - 06:09 am
what's your point, Mr. Wagger?

Your recollection of election years past was interesting, but you never explained why this election was "shameful."

Southern belle
Southern belle 11/14/12 - 06:37 am
That's not the way it works Mr. Shwartz

Jared Loughner accepted his sentence of life in prison because if he had gone to trial he most likely would have been given the death penalty. A trial like that would have cost the tax payers of Arizona millions. On top of that, once he is sentenced to die he automatically qualifies to appeal his sentence, and appeal, and appeal, and appeal ad nausea um, all at the tax payers expense of course. The appeals could have dragged on for years. You haven't forgotten Troy Anthony Davis so soon have you. He hung around 20+ years.

Tybeenian 11/14/12 - 09:57 am
Our government is broke....

We cannot continue to throw money at stupid waste, INCLUDING people who kill in public on camera. ( or in front of dozens of eye witnesses ) Why is the underwear bomber still alive? Burnt over most of his body, trapped in the plane he WANTED TO DIE IN,.. yet we somehow cant find stomach to remove this cancer from a civil society.

Our Government is Broke.

Minister of Silly Walks
Minister of Silly Walks 11/14/12 - 01:43 pm
The President has submitted a budget

That is the plan Mr. Edwards. He also has stated that he wants the House to pass the bill already passed by the Senate that would keep the "Bush Tax Cuts" for people earning under $250,000 for joint filers, and would raise the capital gains rate. That also is the plan. He also had previously proposed during negotiations revenue savings in Medicare and possibly Social Security. That is also the plan.

It is rather easy to repeat the bogus Republican Party talking points Mr. Edwards, and to not refer to specifics like you did in your letter, but you are being misled. Proposals have been made, a budget has been submitted and legislation has even been passed by the Senate that Obama is ready, willing and able to sign if the House gets around to passing it too.

Minister of Silly Walks
Minister of Silly Walks 11/14/12 - 01:48 pm

Mr. Wagger, I hope that you've enjoyed your long life so far, and wish you many more years! May you reach that century mark and well beyond, and may you be around for that next election.

But, I have to disagree about the election having been "shameful". It was our typical imperfect General Election, but nothing about it was "shameful".

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